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http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html>The Israel Lobby
by
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
London Review of Books
Vol. 28 No. 6
23 Mar 2006
This is the LRB lite version - there are links at the bottom of the article to the full unedited version.
There are also links to a video deabte, letters written to LRB etc
The actual book is even bigger, apparantly.
I haven't read the article myself - I don't really care much for the idea that there are people or lobbies around able to boss corporate America about, against its 'own interests'! In your dreams!
Posted by: joe90 | 04 September 2007 at 08:57 PM
Here is a review of W & M's book -
http://imeu.net/news/article006292.shtml>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy
Michael F. Brown
IMEU
4 Sep 2007
The book was number 62 in the US best-sellers list yesterday (Tuesday) but today it's up to number 32 -
http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177724/ref=sr_1_3/104-3512553-5967936?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1188996600&sr=8-3>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (Hardcover)
by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
Amazon USA
Here's a photo of some (illegaly Occupied) Palestinian chiselers off to school in the morning, found on the IMEU website - I thought some of the the denizens of RuT might appreciate it too -
http://imeu.net/news/article006381.shtml>Walking to school
IMEU
5 Sep 2007
all the best!
Posted by: joe90 | 05 September 2007 at 01:59 PM
Here are probably the two most famous American critics of the idea that the US 'pro-Israeli lobby' is overwheening and that it damages US interests -
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9999>The Israel Lobby?
by Noam Chomsky
ZNet - ZMag.org
28 Mar 2006
And a much longer appraisal -
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/3270>The Israel Lobby: How Powerful is it Really?
by Stephen Zunes
Foreign Policy in Focus
16 May 2006
I would also recommend anything by Gabriel Kolko, who is essential when it comes to US Foreign Policy.
Posted by: joe90 | 05 September 2007 at 07:32 PM
Call up Alan Dershowitz and scream "holocaust denial."
Posted by: DrM | 10 September 2007 at 03:50 PM