US support for Israel is hardwired: Israel's power makes it a valuable strategic asset. So what's the point of the pro-Israel lobby? It sustains Jewish peoplehood.
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Chronologically-challenged Professor Walt
Stephen Walt has a scoop! Tony Blair says Israel was in on the Iraq war plan from the get-go! Martin Kramer hates to disappoint, but...
Mearsheimer, Walt, and “cold feet”
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt appear at Princeton University tonight, to promote their book The Israel Lobby. I've held back while other critics have had their say, and many of them have done a splendid job. But I don't think anyone has understood the neat sleight of hand the authors performed in moving from article …
Israel, oil, and realism
Morbid fascination enticed me to accept an invitation to appear opposite John Mearsheimer at a Princeton University conference on "Energy, Security, and the Middle East" which met on Friday. This conference is an annual event, and it's always held off-the-record. The reason: oil analysts participate, and they want to be free to make predictions on …
Israel and the Iraq war
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt includes a section entitled "Israel and the Iraq War" (pp. 30-31). There they seek to establish that Israel's leaders, intelligence agencies, and public opinion enthusiastically supported a war to remove Saddam. Israel exerted "pressure" on the United States, fed Washington "alarming reports" …
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