The Israel Lobby and US Foreigh Policy - audio - Full text

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by Prof. John J. Mearsheimer and Prof. Stephen M. Walt What is the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy—and is it in America’s national interest? Publishers Weekly Expanding on their notorious 2006 article in the London Review of Books, the authors increase the megatonnage of their explosive claims about the malign influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the U.S. government. Mearsheimer and Walt, political scientists at the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively, survey a wide coalition of pro-Israel groups and individuals, including American Jewish organizations and political donors, Christian fundamentalists, neo-con officials in the executive branch, media pundits who smear critics of Israel as anti-Semites and the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which they characterize as having an "almost unchallenged hold on Congress." This lobby, they contend, has pressured the U.S. government into Middle East policies that are strategically and morally unjustifiable: lavish financial subsidies for Israel despite its occupation of Palestinian territories; needless American confrontations with Israel's foes Syria and Iran; uncritical support of Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon, which "violated the laws of war"; and the Iraq war, which "almost certainly would not have occurred had [the Israel lobby] been absent." The authors disavow conspiracy mongering, noting that the lobby's activities constitute legitimate, if misguided, interest-group politics, "as American as apple pie." Considering the authors' academic credentials and the careful reasoning and meticulous documentation with which they support their claims, the book is bound to rekindle the controversy. (Sept.) ---------------------------- Biography John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. He has published several books, including The Tragedy of Great Power Politics. Stephen M. Walt is the Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and was academic dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the author of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, among other books. http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/

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3arab (2009-07-31)

Thanks
Do you mean the attack on The " USS Liberty" on June 8, 1967?

 jwhitt62 (2009-12-13)

The Jews....The Jews....The Jews...blah, blah, blah. All you misanthropes are all alike...you have to find someone to blame for your miserable, unhappy, self-loathing, pathetic lives. I have an idea...drop dead.

builtforkil (2012-07-30)

I was wondering for years that why USA and its public close their eyes when Israel is doing cruelty to everyone possible and is sucking up even USA. Now its crystal clear. This lobby is the most powerful lobby in human history.
Beware Americans and people of this world !

LucyWoof (2013-02-11)

Good torrent. Many thanks!