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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 clarify the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully clarified 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 Eastin Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflictand 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 vital allies and increases dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror.
Writing in The New York Review of Books, Michael Massing confirmed, Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations?’ in 1993 has an literary 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.
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 Fantastic 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 literary dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the leader of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, among additional books.
Stephen M. Walt is the Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and was literary dean of the Kennedy School from 2002 to 2006. He is the leader of Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, among additional books.
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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 clarify the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel and argues that this support cannot be fully clarified 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 Eastin Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, and toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflictand 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 vital allies and increases dangers that all states face from global jihadist terror.
Writing in The New York Review of Books, Michael Massing confirmed, Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington’s The Clash of Civilizations?’ in 1993 has an literary 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.
“Political theorists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt show how the right to the pursuit of happiness presently enables foreign governments to wield adverse influence over foreign-policy questions of war and peace simply by coordinating the expression of private citizens’ ostensible self-interest. Public-choice scholars and additional curious individuals will relish the analysis and insights open in The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.”James A. Montanye, The Independent Review
“Political theorists John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt show how the right to the pursuit of happiness presently enables foreign governments to wield adverse influence over foreign-policy questions of war and peace simply by coordinating the expression of private citizens’ ostensible self-interest. Public-choice scholars and additional curious individuals will relish the analysis and insights open in The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy . . . The book has three parts plus an additional 106 pages of detailed endnotes. The authors start by documenting the ‘innocent and uncompromising relationship’ that the United States has with Israel and the extraordinary amount of financial and military aid it provides to Israel . . . The book’s second part comprises case studies that document the lobby’s influence over U.S. policy toward individual Middle East nations and populations. The book’s third and concluding section fittingly questions, ‘What is to be done?’ The disappointing conclusion is that very small appears to be possible at this juncture.”James A. Montanye, The Independent Review
“[In] an extended, more fully argued version of the London Review article . . . slowly, deliberately and analytically Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt lay out the case for a ruthlessly realistic Middle East policy that would make Israel nothing more than one of many countries in the region . . . Coolly, not to say coldly, Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt mount a prosecutorial brief against Israel’s foreign policy and domestic policies, and against the state Israel itself . . . It is a small odd that so cold a book should generate such heat. Most of Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt’s opinion are familiar ones, and it is hardly inflammatory to point out that the major Jewish organizations tend to take a much tougher line on, say, a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem, the Iraq war or settlements in the West Bank, than most American Jews favor. The writers stand on eminently defensible ground when they argue for a more constructive, creative American role in peace talks.”William Grimes, The New York Times
“Mearsheimer and Walt were previously known as hard-core ‘realists’ who minimized the importance of studying domestic politics and culture to understanding foreign policy. They seem to have abandoned such ’structural realism’ for what might be called ‘political realism’: the view that the beliefs, values, and interests of various domestic actors shape their perception of the national interest and that the interaction between these domestic forces and international conditions holds the key to understanding policy. This political realism is a significantly richer and more fruitful (if more intellectually demanding and methodologically complex) approach than the structural realism that Mearsheimer, especially, advocated in the past. One must also commend the two authors for their choice to focus on an vital topic that has not received the attention it merits. The politics of U.S. policy in the Middle East is a theme that is not well understood . . . Mearsheimer and Walt have commendably and courageously helped to start a much-needed conversation on a controversial and explosive topic. There should be no taboos among students of U.S. foreign policyno questions that should not be questioned, no issues that should be considered too hot to handle, no relationships or alliances, but deep or enduring, that should not be regularly and searchingly reviewed. Walt and Mearsheimer’s belief that the United States needs to find ways to bridge the gap between its current policies and the national aspirations of Palestinians and additional Arabs is right . . . Domestic politics, geopolitics: next is cultural politicsand especially the question of anti-Semitism. There have already been public charges of anti-Semitism, and more will come. Let me be unambiguously clear: persons charges go too far. Mearsheimer and Walt state very clearly that they are not anti-Semites, and nothing in this book proves them incorrect.”Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs
After reading The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, I remain impressed with Mearsheimer and Walt’s bravery. I also do agree with their main argument . . . An vital service in pointing out how hard it is to produce pragmatic decisions based on national interest in an area as vital to the United States as the Middle East.”Dimitri K. Simes, The National Interest
“[In] an extended, more fully argued version of the London Review article . . . slowly, deliberately and analytically Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt lay out the case for a ruthlessly realistic Middle East policy that would make Israel nothing more than one of many countries in the region . . . Coolly, not to say coldly, Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt mount a prosecutorial brief against Israel’s foreign policy and domestic policies, and against the state Israel itself . . . It is a small odd that so cold a book should generate such heat. Most of Mr. Mearsheimer and Mr. Walt’s opinion are familiar ones, and it is hardly inflammatory to point out that the major Jewish organizations tend to take a much tougher line on, say, a two-state solution to the Palestinian problem, the Iraq war or settlements in the West Bank, than most American Jews favor. The writers stand on eminently defensible ground when they argue for a more constructive, creative American role in peace talks.”William Grimes, The New York Times
“Mearsheimer and Walt were previously known as hard-core ‘realists’ who minimized the importance of studying domestic politics and culture to understanding foreign policy. They seem to have abandoned such ’structural realism’ for what might be called ‘political realism’: the view that the beliefs, values, and interests of various domestic actors shape their perception of the national interest and that the interaction between these domestic forces and international conditions holds the key to understanding policy. This political realism is a significantly richer and more fruitful (if more intellectually demanding and methodologically complex) approach than the structural realism that Mearsheimer, especially, advocated in the past. One must also commend the two authors for their choice to focus on an vital topic that has not received the attention it merits. The politics of U.S. policy in the Middle East is a theme that is not well understood . . . Mearsheimer and Walt have commendably and courageously helped to start a much-needed conversation on a controversial and explosive topic. There should be no taboos among students of U.S. foreign policyno questions that should not be questioned, no issues that should be considered too hot to handle, no relationships or alliances, but deep or enduring, that should not be regularly and searchingly reviewed. Walt and Mearsheimer’s belief that the United States needs to find ways to bridge the gap between its current policies and the national aspirations of Palestinians and additional Arabs is right . . . Domestic politics, geopolitics: next is cultural politicsand especially the question of anti-Semitism. There have already been public charges of anti-Semitism, and more will come. Let me be unambiguously clear: persons charges go too far. Mearsheimer and Walt state very clearly that they are not anti-Semites, and nothing in this book proves them incorrect.”Walter Russell Mead, Foreign Affairs
After reading The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, I remain impressed with Mearsheimer and Walt’s bravery. I also do agree with their main argument . . . An vital service in pointing out how hard it is to produce pragmatic decisions based on national interest in an area as vital to the United States as the Middle East.”Dimitri K. Simes, The National Interest
The book raises vital issues for American foreign policy that must be addressed and debated.”Geoffr…
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Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome, To THe W and M show of the re-establish of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. Jews, Jews Jewish Lobby, Jews, Israel, Jews, Iraq, Jews, Iran, Jews, Palestine, Jews, all the problems due to the Jews. Their book should have been funded by Henry Ford, or The Thrid Reich. Even Norman Finkelstein, a staunch hater of the Israeli State, establish flaws in this sad excuse for a book. I marvel if anyone is going to write a book about the Italian Lobby, how Italian Americans, and their “clannish” instincts (their words, not mine) connect them to Italy. Or how the Arabs, have establish a sudden jingoism in the Ottoman Empire of Palesine. Give me a break, Anti Semites are just anti Semites, and these guys go out looking like Himmler and his ilk. Reading this book reminds me of the Wannassee Talks. Creepy, and getting to real for comfort.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book is plagued with factual misrepresentations & distortions. The leader’s scholastic credentials serve merely as a pulpit to present their anti-semitic and anti-Israel sentiments.
The authors forget context and fall fleeting of providing a balanced view.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Another terrible 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 terrible 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.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is nothing but a rehash of the same ancient tired antisemitism that makes up books like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Antisemitism is the oldest, deepest, and most irrational of all forms of bigotry, but it is so deeply entrenched in Western gentile society that it manages to never stop rearing its hideous head in one thin disguise after another.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Mearsheimer and Walt (M&W), two so-called scholars, have done nothing but smear Israel in this so-called “scholarly” book. This is clear in the many statements that they make throughout their publication.
1) They aver that there are organizations, institutes and universities that deny them forums. Yet they do not even produce the name of one of these alleged institutions. The allegation is shown for what it is – just that.
2)M&W aver that the “neo-cons” had a disproportionate influence in bringing about the Iraq war and that they were acting on behalf of Israel’s “desire” for such a war. This aver has a number of holes in it. First of all, there was (and is) no evidence that Israel ever wanted the U.S. to invade Iraq. The second is that no evidence is open by the authors to substantiate the aver that the neo-cons had such influence in the current administration. This remains nothing more than a myth, sorry to say also propogated by the well loved press. Then, worse, M&W intent that “Jews” made up a substantial proportion of this neo-con groups. Ignoring the rascist implications of this view(and unfounded charges of double loyalty) the authors once again provide no evidence.
3)M&W state that the money U.S. provides to Israel can be “better” spent on aid to third world states. This ignores the paramount importance that Israel plays in U.S. military strategy, a role far greater than any of the third world nations that M&W want to give the money to as a replacement for provide. In addition, Israel is a democratic state (the only in the Middle East) and none of these countries has provided the U.S. with anywhere close to the Juedeo-Christian cultural traditions that the Jewish people have. None. Last and not least we should not forget the obligation that Americans owe to Israel for not more to stop the Holocaust during WWII. The U.S. airforce could have chosen to bomb railroad infrastructure going into the death camps but as a replacement for did absolutely nothing.
4) M&W repeatedly make the accusation that Israel runs espionage networks in the U.S. With the exception of Jonathan Pollard, but, they provide no evidence whatsoever for this. And even Pollard, as Alan Dershowitz has shown (see his introduction to the book “The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case”), there is no evidence that this is was nothing more than an operation by rogue Mossad agents. They provide no evidence that there is widespread espionage by the Mossad in the U.S.
M&W’s book is filled with mischaracterizations (if not outright lies) like the ones mentioned above. To take a more unbiased and scholarly perspective on the Israel and the Israel-U.S. nexus professor Alan Dershowitz’s publications “The Case for Israel”, “Alan Dershowitz and Natan Sharansky on Peace in the Middle East”, “The Hunting Horse: The Truth Behind the Jonathan Pollard Spy Case”, “The Israel-Hezbollah War” and “What Israel Means to Me”) and Abraham Foxman’s “The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control” need to be consulted. The last one especially needs to be addressed as it provides a counter balance to the propaganda spewed out by M&W.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5