Republican Member of Congress 1961-83, author of bestseller They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby and two others on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Co-founder of the Council for the National Interest, Washington advocacy group. Resides in Jacksonville, Illinois.

Blog Entries by Paul Findley

Our Israel-centric Foreign Policy

Posted June 9, 2005 | 01:45 PM (EST)


As Condoleezza Rice once said: "We have an Israel-centric foreign policy." How true. Our forces invaded because Israel wanted us to topple Saddam. Two religious communities--one consisting of a combination of secular and ultra-Orthodox Jews and the other of misguided Christians fundamentalists--control U.S. Middle East policies. Both believe their messiahs...

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