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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.
A good book indeed.
Date: 2009-01-01 Rating: 8 out of 10
I highly recommend this book to everyone interested in Midle East and the Israel problem.
You can find a lot of information althought it's not too extensive. I've read Cheryl Rubenberg's "Israel and the American National Interest" and I've found it extremely extensive sometimes. This book has more recent information too.
I've enjoyed specially the second half of the book more than the first one.
Reading this book I discovered (among other things) that Bush was really willing to create a Palestinian State just after 9/11, and were actually the jews and Sharon who were opposed to creating a viable Palestinian state, and thus who had no interest in negotiating with the Palestinians.
A must read if you want to know the truth about U.S.foreign policy in the Middle East.
and by the way...if someone thinks that Obama will be willing to create a Palestinian state or change anything there, he/she must know that it was with Democratic administrations where Israel got the highest economic and military aid that one can imagine. And you must know that Hillary Clinton has a passionate love for Israel.
I'm giving it 4 stars and not 5 because I don't agree that Israel has the right to exist as the authors say.
And I'm not anti-Semite, I'm anti-Zionist...learn the difference.
BewertungenAnother bad read book to give to Goodwill Datum 2008-12-01 Rang: 2 von 10Another bad read which should be trashed with Mein Kampf, Luther's "The Jews and Their Lies" and MOST of Henry Fords books.
Hitler said that the "International Jew" was THE THREAT to civilization and World Peace.
These two ""PROFESSORS"" (And God forbid anyone should doubt what the PROFESSORS in America say), now say that it's the ISRAEL LOBBY that's to blame for everything from 9/11 to the war in Iraq and on-and-on-and-on.
Israel "violated the laws of war" in Lebanon.
There are LAWS of war,.....like WHAT??
Did Hitler OBEY the "laws of war"?
Did Stalin?
Are the rebels in Darfur obeying the "Rules of war"?
Did Russia obey the "Rules of war" when it went in Chechnya?
But the naughty JEWS are at it again, not playing BY THE RULES!!!
Oh and get this,.. it wasn't bad British and American intelligence that caused the war in IRAQ,...it was the ISRAEL LOBBY and the naughty JEWS.
These guys should do stand up comedy, forget lecturing at Harvard.
Heck, I bet the "International Jew" and the Israel Lobby also had something to do with the Mortgage Meltdown, the Credit Crunch, the Financial collapse of banks. Probably they even caused Global warming.
The info in the book is Trash. I don't know how else to say it.
excellent!Datum 2008-11-30 Rang: 10 von 10What a great work. The authors should be commended for taking a risk and enduring all the criticisms that come with discussing such a controversial issue. A Must ReadDatum 2008-11-29 Rang: 10 von 10Every American citizen should read this book. Facts, facts, and more facts. The streets of Israel are lined with Gold thanks to the American Taxpayer. In the form of grants, yes I said grants not loans, the United States continues to support this undemocratic nation. After reading this very well documented book we the American People need to rethink our policy and question if this is really worth World War III and/or the alienation it brings to peoples of the middle east after all the Palestinians land and homes were taken from them and given to the Jewish People. If you disagree with this then you do not know the history of the land or her people's.
Americans must also realize that the Evangelical Protestants who give their support to Israel is NOT the Israel they read about in their bibles. Those prophecies have been fulfilled with the coming of Christ. What the American Taxpayers and the Evangelical Protestants are supporting is Zionism, a far cry from the Biblical Israel of two to five thousand years ago.
I must add that the author's got the title wrong. It should have been
THE ZIONIST LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.Intellectually DishonestDatum 2008-11-23 Rang: 4 von 10I got as far as page 85 but had to stop when the polemics of the book were far to much for me to bear. It is true that Israel has received far more aid and diplomatic leeway then any other country but the book doesnt put any reason into perspective, instead commenting that by a random set of occurrences they are given an endless pot of gold. They are an ally, just as South Korea was when we almost started World War III to defend them. I found it surprising that this book refused to even acknowledge even one iota that the Arabs may in fact be anti-Semitic like the most of the world. Their hatred has increased by Americans involvement, which is true, but they also have been driven by anti-Semitism and a desire to exterminate Jews as well. All of their anger was not the byproduct of Israel, it is well documented that Muslims have long resented people of the book since the inception of their religion. The Arab world provoke a Myth that the rise of Zionism crated anti-Jewish feelings, then why were Jews and Christian given the option of conversion or Death? These Dhimmis were regulated by the Pact of Umarya, a document that originated in 720ce. In America after the civil war; Northern Conquers gave blacks "equal" rights. Southern states then imposed their own mandates of separate but "equal" status for Negros. Just look at PBS they have made a living showing whites only bathrooms and blacks only drink fountains. But Islam has judged the worth of the Jew, of the Christen, of the Pagan with the same Hammer that Jim Crow saw fit to sentence blacks.
The natives of Middle Eastern lands had to rise from their seats when Muslims wished to sit, these Christens and Jews were forbidden to ride horses and had to suffer on donkey's without saddles. This sadly was only the beginning, as Hitler wished to distinguish Jews with Gold Stars the Abbassid Caliph Al-Raschid decreed in 807ce that all Jews wear tall comical caps and the aforementioned Gold Belt of the Jew. The stunning aggregate of subjugation (of course) was met by catholic ingenuity who ejected Jews from their European lands, stole their property and at the 4th Lateran council Pope Innocent III in 1215ce awarded all good Jews the original Gold Star, leaving them open to mockery or attack.
In 1948 the Arabs were given an Arab state. There never was a Palestinian people, and instead of taking an Arab State, the Arab armies decided to kill all the Jews that survived the holocaust and take all the land for themselves. If they resented the partition plan on simple diplomatic means why did they act in the way they did? "The Arabs did not attempt to destroy Israel in anyone of those three wars [1948]"..then what did they aim to accomplish? The 6 day war isn't described in the book as yet another means for Nasser and Pan Arab power, or even once again a way to invade and slaughter the Jews but some sort of happenstance. The same with Sadat in the Yom Kippur war. To truly give some perspective I think it has to be acknowledged that the Arabs in the area engulfed in anti-Semitism before American insurgence, wanted the Jews dead, proclaimed they would kill them, and went about it, with many unsuccessful wars. They wanted the land for themselves. Israel has done things for Arabs after the War of Independence that the Arab world would never do for them. In 1949 the Israeli government, accepted 100,000 refugees, with thousands of more arabs resettled in Jewish lands. They instituted a policy of reuniting families, when the arabs left Israel to deal with their own people. Where in the most militant Arab lands is Judaism practiced peacefully, Christianity for that matter? As soon as the Palestinians got more land the 1st thing they did (besides destroy all the public works) was place rockets to fire into Israel.
To quote Ralph Bunche
The Arab states had forcefully opposed the existence of a Jewish State in Palestine in direct opposition to the wishes of two thirds of the members of the assembly. Nevertheless, their armed intervention had proved useless. The Mediators report was based solely on the fact that Arab States had no right to resort to force and that the united nations should exert its authority to prevent such a use of force.
If one believes that Israel should exist it is undeniable that the Arabs are the ones that instigated the drive to destroy it, and have for years. Peace for the Middle East, in Arab eyes is the dismantling of Israel, nothing short of that is out of the question.
Heck even the French and English escape blame in this book for the Suez Crisis, from their fear of Canal nationalization to make it look like an Israeli conquest for territory. I am an open minded person but there was just to much in this book for me to take it seriously or continue. There was no mention of the Jewish exodus from Arab lands or even acknowledgement of any type of violent atmosphere besides Israel's attempts to dismantle Arab Authority at every turn. The Arabs breaks of Harmony in the area is never mentioned. Now Israel is guilty of many ills in that area that is certain, but to say the Arabs are pawns to Jewish power and control, is almost as outlandish as the Canterbury Tales or the aforementioned Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
Produkt InformationAutor:
John J. Mearsheimer
Stephen M. Walt
Recording label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Hersteller: Farrar, Straus and GirouxEAN: 9780374531508Format: PaperbackDewey decimal number: 327ISBN: 0374531501Artikelzahl: 1Seitenzahl: 496Erscheinungsdatum: 2008-09-02Erscheinungdatum: 2008-09-02Sprache: English (Original Language)
Sprache: English (Unknown)
Sprache: English (Published)
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