The Israeli Lobby
Unmasked And Exposed
Council For The National Interest Foundation
3-20-6
Two professors from Harvard University and the University of Chicago have just released an 81-page study on "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" that concludes that the "overall thrust of U.S. policy in the [Middle East] is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the 'Israel Lobby.'"
The study is currently available as a Harvard "working paper" with extensive footnotes or as a shorter version published in the London Review of Books.
The authors systematically examine the facts of the U.S.-Israel relationship, concluding that Israel is neither a strategic asset nor a "compelling moral case for sustained U.S. backing," and point a finger squarely at the Israel lobby for "[managing] to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that U.S. and Israeli interests are essentially identical."
The authors examine the entire scope of the Israel lobby's efforts, from its intimidation of the press, think tanks and academia into presenting a misleading image of Israel to its success at co-opting the Congress and the Executive Branch into implementing Israel's policy aims.
The paper is significant not just for its substance but also for the fact that it was published at all. The authors note in their section on the lobby's intimidation of the press: "Newspapers occasionally publish guest op-eds challenging Israeli policy, but the balance of opinion clearly favours the other side. It is hard to imagine any mainstream media outlet in the United States publishing a piece like this one."
Stephen Walt is Academic Dean and Professor of International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His latest book is "Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy" (W. W. Norton & Co., 2005). According to his faculty website, he has previously worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, in addition to consulting for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University.
John Mearsheimer is a Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, where he is an authority on security affairs and international politics. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force.
Both authors previously wrote "An Unnecessary War," which argued against invading Iraq, in the January/February 2003 edition of Foreign Policy magazine.
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Comment
Bob - Wyoming
3-20-6
Now here is a real shocker!!! And, you will not see this on the CBS evening news. Five years ago, who would have ever thought that control of American foreign policy had been hijacked by a foreign power, and for the purpose of advancing an alien agenda? I mean who knew?
All along I thought we were over there killing Arabs because "they hate our freedom." This was supposed to be all about the "war on terror." Whatever that means. And, then let's not forget all those scary weapons of mass destruction. (Those must be the ones we gave to Iraqis to use on the Iranians?) Now, we are told that that we have to teach the Iraqis about democracy? What's next? Well, what's behind door number three? Those darned Iranians, we are told, are building an atomic bomb. Whew!!!! You know what that means.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered, and it will be generations before this nation recovers, if ever, from this madness. Soon the bombs will be falling on Iran like a spring rain and thousands more innocents will die. More of our sons will come home in rubber bags.
And I can't help but wonder whether anyone in Washington will have the moral courage to tell the truth? Perhaps we should take a stab at it right now: "They gave their lives advancing the cause of International Zionism."
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