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"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy"
A new 82-page report (including 40 pages of footnotes) on AIPAC and the Israel Lobby, by to top "Realist" scholars, sheds light on the neocons and the origin of the Iraq war. It has been widely criticized for assigning too much power to the Israel Lobby, and this seems accurate. Nonetheless, it brings together and documents many facts that are pertinent to the question of the lobby’s role and its relationship to the neocons and their agenda.
So pro-Israel that it hurts
by Daniel Levy, published in Haaretz - Israel News
a member of the official Israel negotiating team at the Oslo B and Taba talks
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The new John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt study of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" ... is authored by two respected academics and carries the imprimatur of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. ...
Their case is a potent one: that identification of American with Israeli interests can be principally explained via the impact of the Lobby in Washington, and in limiting the parameters of public debate, rather than by virtue of Israel being a vital strategic asset or having a uniquely compelling moral case for support (beyond, as the authors point out, the right to exist, which is anyway not in jeopardy). The study is at its most devastating when it describes how the Lobby "stifles debate by intimidation" and at its most current when it details how America's interests (and ultimately Israel's, too) are ill-served by following the Lobby's agenda. (continued)
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Some Facts from the Report
In 1997, Fortune magazine polled Congress and found AIPAC was the second most powerful lobby after AARP but ahead of the AFL-CIO and the National Rifle Association. A National Journal study in March 2005 found AIPAC tied for second with AARP.
Israel has been the largest annual recipient of foreign aid since 1976 and receives about $3 billion in direct assistance each year, roughly one-fifth of the foreign aid budget. This comes to about $500 a year for every Israeli, in spite of the fact that Israel is as well off as Spain.
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