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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
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The Israel Lobby,” by John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, was one of the most controversial articles in recent memory. Originally published in the London Review of Books in March 2006, it provoked both howls of outrage and cheers of gratitude for challenging what had been a taboo issue in America: the impact of the Israel lobby on U.S. foreign policy. Now in a work of major importance, Mearsheimer and Walt deepen and expand their argument and confront recent developments in Lebanon and Iran. They describe the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. This exceptional relationship is due largely to the political influence of a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction. Mearsheimer and Walt provocatively contend that the lobby has a far-reaching impact on America’s posture throughout the Middle East—in Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and the policies it has encouraged are in neither America’s national interest nor Israel’s long-term interest. The lobby’s influence also affects America’s relationship with important allies and increases dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror. Writing in The New York Review of Books, Michael Massing declared, “Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s ‘The Clash of Civilizations?’ in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force.” The publication of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is certain to widen the debate and to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.
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It must be translated.Ce livre doit être traduit en plusieurs langues afin l'opinion publique sache la manière dont l'Israel s'est construite par la Guerre et non par la PAIX. Reading this book is very important for one wants to understand how the Isreal aims the WAR but not PEACE.
Very well written and as unbiased as the subject matter allows. This is a "must read" for all Americans and Israelis who love and care about their country. Extremely well documented (about 1/4 of the pages are devoted to references).
Still worth a read though because it is a useful discussion tool for US policy in the Middle East. This book is thought provoking about US foreign policy in the Middle East, but it has the tendency to sound a bit alarmist as though the Israel Lobby is pulling the puppet strings on policy within the Middle East and that politicians who don't support the agenda of the Israeli lobby risk having their career damaged. Their claims can lead the reader to beileve that the Israeli Lobby is an unstoppable monster that is harming the United States through pursuit of Israel's policy ambitions.
I did not see the bias that some readers claim this book has. This is a must read to understand the political choices of this country.
We should all be ashamed if we support such a cause. A terrible blemish on humanity. Authors present information that's been obvious for years, yet few have the courage to be branded and blacklisted as anti-semitic and write the truth. Zionism is to Palestinians what American pioneerism was to the Native Americans.
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