John Mearsheimer

Two Years of "The Israel Lobby," Part 1

Jordan Michael Smith | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

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Jordan Michael Smith

Two years ago this week, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt released their essay "The Israel Lobby" and kick-started a much-overdue discussion of America's relationship with Israel - and then all hell broke loose.

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Representative Tom Lantos: "True Blue and White"

Sam Sedaei | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

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Sam Sedaei

The domestic lobbies' influence on policy process is rarely investigated by the media because of the media's own lack of impartiality. So it takes us citizens to do the job of looking at raw data and following the money.

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American Parochialism: Armenia, the Dalai Lama and the Jewish Question

Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 10.19.2007 | Politics

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Benjamin R. Barber

Middle Eastern policy is only one among a legion of others that are made on the basis of a stunted American parochialism that filters all foreign policy through a self-indulgent domestic lens.

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Jewish Neocons Are Dead Wrong, Not Disloyal

Dan Fleshler | Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics

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Dan Fleshler

Douglas Feith, Cheney aide David Wurmser and other Jewish war planners have gotten a raw deal from those who accuse them of putting Israel's interests ahead of America's.

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Small Lies, Big Lies, and the Israel Lobby (Part II)

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.05.2007 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

Criticizing the policies of the Israeli government: it is no more anti-Semitic to do so than it is anti-American to criticize the Bush administration.

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Small lies, big lies, and the Israel lobby

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

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Amitai Etzioni

Is the Israel lobby just one among a whole slew of lobbies, each pulling Washington its own way? Or can it trump all the others? What the data show is surprisingly little.

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America's Least Wanted

Eric Alterman | Posted 10.04.2007 | Politics

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Eric Alterman

Is there any group in all of human history with a greater talent for their own victimization than American neocons? On the cover of The New Republic, ...

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It's Lobbying, but is it Really Pro-Israel?

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 09.07.2007 | Politics

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MJ Rosenberg

Has "pro-Israel" advocacy consistently produced "pro-Israel" ends? At several critical moments, it most certainly has not.

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No, It's the Dog that Wags the Tail

Mark Levine | Posted 09.05.2007 | Politics

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Mark Levine

The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is being severely criticized because it seems to confirm long-held anti-Semitic beliefs about undue Jewish political power.

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