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LRB | John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt : The Israel Lobby
Topic: Society 10:30 am EDT, Apr  2, 2006

This paper has been getting a lot of buzz in the press. Camera says it has errors, and Harvard has removed its logo from the paper.

For the past several decades, and especially since the Six-Day War in 1967, the centrepiece of US Middle Eastern policy has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering support for Israel and the related effort to spread ‘democracy’ throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardised not only US security but that of much of the rest of the world. This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the US been willing to set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond between the two countries was based on shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, but neither explanation can account for the remarkable level of material and diplomatic support that the US provides.

Instead, the thrust of US policy in the region derives almost entirely from domestic politics, and especially the activities of the ‘Israel Lobby’. Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the other country – in this case, Israel – are essentially identical.

An earlier version is available as a KSG working paper. Also, check out "The Paranoid Style in American Politics", a classic Harper's essay cited in Max Boot's latest column.

LRB | John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt : The Israel Lobby



 
 
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