Israeli influence on US Middle Eastern policy

by CHRISTOPHER VASILLOPULOS
Christopher Vasillopulos, Ph.D., is a professor of international relations at Eastern Connecticut State University.

A few years ago a former Jordanian foreign minister asked me, "Why doesn't the US make Israel the 51st state and be done with it?"
"Because," I replied humorlessly ( Read more... )

Walt & Mearsheimer Edge Into the Mainstream Filed under Israeli politics, Jewish diaspora, Opinion Editorials, AIPAC, USA foreign policy, Israeli Personalities, Lobby Groups, Neo-Cons, J Street - on Monday, July 07, 2008 - By: Weiss, Philip
Ezra Klein reflects the growing consensus that Walt and Mearsheimer were ( Read more... )

June 21 / 22, 2008

By LINDA MAMOUN

Tel Aviv -like all of Israel- is a stridently nationalist place. Israeli flags loom everywhere: over buildings and roads, city parks and beaches. They're mounted on cars and motorcycles. In residential areas, on the city's narrow tree-lined streets, you see them draped over balconies, painted on ledges, growing ( Read more... )

The New Israel and the Old: Why Gentile Americans Back the Jewish State 

In its July/August 2008 edition, Walter Russel Mead, a Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, published an article titled “The New Israel and the Old.” The article is a thinly veiled order to America’s political establishment to support the Zionist entity, complete with ‘Sprachregelung’ how to ( Read more... )

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

By Silverstein, Richard

Rupa Shah forwarded me a link to the first TV documentary I’ve ever seen which focussed on Walt-Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby and a general exposition of the role the lobby plays in American politics. Unfortunately, you can’t see it on American TV because it was made for Dutch TV. But thanks to the ( Read more... )

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Rachel Shabi in Tel Aviv

* The Guardian,
* Monday June 9 2008

The American professors whose bestselling book, The Israel Lobby, provoked a media storm are bracing themselves for a hostile reception when they speak this week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and in Tel Aviv.

Professors Stephen Walt and ( Read more... )

Monday, May 19, 2008

Free speech is not without consequence. In the United States, for example, criticism of Israel is tantamount to heresy. Former US President Jimmy Carter felt a societal backlash last year after the release of his book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, which condemned Israel’s apartheid-style policies in the occupied Palestinian ( Read more... )