Table of Contents.
Preface vii.
Introduction.
The United States, Israel, and the Lobby.
The Great Benefactor.
srael: Strategic Asset or Liability?
A Dwindling Moral Case.
What Is the "Israel Lobby"?
Guiding the Policy Process.
Dominating Public Discourse.
The Lobby in Action.
ntroduction to Part II.
The Lobby Versus the Palestinians.
raq and Dreams of Transforming the Middle East.
Taking Aim at Syria.
ran in the Crosshairs.
The Lobby and the Second Lebanon War.
Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
Starred Review. Expanding on their notorious 2006 article in the London Review of Books, the authors increase the megatonnage of their explosive claims about the malign influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the U.S. govement. Mearsheimer and Walt, political scientists at the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively, survey a wide coalition of pro-Israel groups and individuals, including American Jewish organizations and political donors, Christian fundamentalists, neo-con officials in the executive branch, media pundits who smear critics of Israel as anti-Semites and the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which they characterize as having an almost unchallenged hold on Congress. This lobby, they contend, has pressured the U.S. govement into Middle East policies that are strategically and morally unjustifiable: lavish financial subsidies for Israel despite its occupation of Palestinian territories; needless American confrontations with Israel's foes Syria and Iran; uncritical support of Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon, which violated the laws of war; and the Iraq war, which almost certainly would not have occurred had [the Israel lobby] been absent. The authors disavow conspiracy mongering, noting that the lobby's activities constitute legitimate, if misguided, interest-group politics, as American as apple pie. Considering the authors' academic credentials and the careful reasoning and meticulous documentation with which they support their claims, the book is bound to rekindle the controversy. (Sept. )
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hardcover: 496 pages.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (August 27, 2007).
Language: English.
ISBN-10: 0374177724.
ISBN-13: 978-0374177720.
Preface vii.
Introduction.
The United States, Israel, and the Lobby.
The Great Benefactor.
srael: Strategic Asset or Liability?
A Dwindling Moral Case.
What Is the "Israel Lobby"?
Guiding the Policy Process.
Dominating Public Discourse.
The Lobby in Action.
ntroduction to Part II.
The Lobby Versus the Palestinians.
raq and Dreams of Transforming the Middle East.
Taking Aim at Syria.
ran in the Crosshairs.
The Lobby and the Second Lebanon War.
Conclusion: What Is to Be Done?
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
Index.
Starred Review. Expanding on their notorious 2006 article in the London Review of Books, the authors increase the megatonnage of their explosive claims about the malign influence of the pro-Israel lobby on the U.S. govement. Mearsheimer and Walt, political scientists at the University of Chicago and Harvard, respectively, survey a wide coalition of pro-Israel groups and individuals, including American Jewish organizations and political donors, Christian fundamentalists, neo-con officials in the executive branch, media pundits who smear critics of Israel as anti-Semites and the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, which they characterize as having an almost unchallenged hold on Congress. This lobby, they contend, has pressured the U.S. govement into Middle East policies that are strategically and morally unjustifiable: lavish financial subsidies for Israel despite its occupation of Palestinian territories; needless American confrontations with Israel's foes Syria and Iran; uncritical support of Israel's 2006 bombing of Lebanon, which violated the laws of war; and the Iraq war, which almost certainly would not have occurred had [the Israel lobby] been absent. The authors disavow conspiracy mongering, noting that the lobby's activities constitute legitimate, if misguided, interest-group politics, as American as apple pie. Considering the authors' academic credentials and the careful reasoning and meticulous documentation with which they support their claims, the book is bound to rekindle the controversy. (Sept. )
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Hardcover: 496 pages.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st edition (August 27, 2007).
Language: English.
ISBN-10: 0374177724.
ISBN-13: 978-0374177720.