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Tag Archives: John Mearsheimer
Do we need a pro-Israel lobby?
US support for Israel is hardwired: Israel’s power makes it a valuable strategic asset. So what’s the point of the pro-Israel lobby? It sustains Jewish peoplehood. Continue reading
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Kicking footnotes of ‘The Israel Lobby’
The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has 106 pages of footnotes over 1,200 footnotes in total. The book’s boosters like to cite this fact as somehow proving the scholarly virtue of the authors. “Mearsheimer and Walt have … Continue reading
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Mearsheimer, Walt, and “cold feet”
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt appear at Princeton University tonight, to promote their book The Israel Lobby. I’ve held back while other critics have had their say, and many of them have done a splendid job. But I don’t think … Continue reading
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The American Interest
Martin Kramer, “The American Interest,” Azure, no. 26 (Fall 2006), pp. 21-33. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. The question of whether Israel is or is not an asset to the United States is one we rarely bother to ask ourselves. Time … Continue reading
Mearsheimer and Walt in retreat
“Israel Lobby” authors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have published a rejoinder to their critics in the current issue of the London Review of Books. The careful reader will detect tactical retreats in nearly every paragraph. On the two points … Continue reading
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