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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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Tagged Israel, Israel lobby, Jews, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt
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Chronologically-challenged Professor Walt
Stephen Walt has a scoop! Tony Blair says Israel was in on the Iraq war plan from the get-go! Martin Kramer hates to disappoint, but… Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Iraq war, Israel lobby, Stephen Walt, Tony Blair
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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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Tagged George Bush, Iraq war, Israel, Israel lobby, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Walt
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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
