Jon Basil Utley, Antiwar, October 31: The new, public debate about the Israel lobby is missing a major point – the lobby’s allies, the many other interests in America that want chaos in the Middle East. For example, in the Walt-Mearsheimer book there is no listing in the index for “military-industrial complex.” For all its…
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Power in a few hands always corrupts
An interesting way to view the ongoing controversy over the Mearsheimer/Walt, Zionist lobby debate. (Of course, many Jews would rather this debate didn’t happen at all.) UPDATE: Jewish blogger Phil Weiss reports on a weekend conference in New York of one of America’s leading Zionist media monitoring groups, CAMERA: The reason It’s hopeless for the…
You are being watched
Saree Makdisi, Seattle Post Intelligencer, October 16: “Academic colleagues, get used to it,” warned the pro-Israel activist Martin Kramer in March 2004. “Yes, you are being watched. Those obscure articles in campus newspapers are now available on the Internet, and they will be harvested. Your syllabi, which you’ve also posted, will be scrutinized. Your Web…
An ominous silencing
Finally, real debate about the often insidious power of the Zionist lobby is occurring in the mainstream: Collectively they have published more than a hundred books and countless articles. Four are tenured professors at elite American universities. Internet searches reveal them to be widely cited experts on international affairs and American foreign policy. In short,…
The lobby finds its match
Daniel Levy, Haaretz, October 9: Walt and Mearsheimer explain Bush Middle East policy as Israel-lobby driven. Another way to look at it would be: This is the first Republican administration since the Christian evangelical Zionists emerged as a potent force in the GOP; since the mainstream pro-Israel community, which contained a sizable and senior neocon…