The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy

In the recent study "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy", the authors of the paper, Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard University and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago, charge that the United States has willingly set aside its own security and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests of Israel. In addition the study accuses the pro-Israeli lobby, particularly AIPAC of manipulating the U.S. media, policing academia and silencing critics of Israel by labeling them as anti-Semitic.

A new article in the New York Review of Books examines the controversial report and the reaction to it. It's called "The Storm Over the Israel Lobby." It was written by media critic Michael Massing, who joins Amy Goodman for the interview. Michael is a contributing editor of the Columbia Journalism Review and frequently writes for the New York Review of Books.

You can read the transcript of the interview at: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1436205

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[TheFlexEffect]

israel is a nuclear state

israel is a terrorist state

israel is a pirate state

israel is an apartheid state

israel is an illegal state

israel is not the US' ally, it's the BOSS

israel is not a democracy it's a racial colony

the UN itself said zionism is racism

Arabs are semites, nothing is more antisemitic than zionism

[steveinusa]

Of course AIPAC is strong, how else do you get politicians to support kicking families out of their rightful homes to give it a Jewish family? How else can you get a politician to turn a blind eye to shooting children while they play soccer? Zionists are the worlds deadliest racists in the world.

[YeTenuousUmbrae]

@rachelgolem it's just as bad! lol wtf is wrong with you.. a lot of innocent people die, and you laugh?

[rachelgolem]

@TheFlexEffect

Laughing when Syrians kill each other is NOT Anti-Semitism!!!!!

[DanishCartoonist100]

P.S. Iran is basically a racial state. Palestine would be a racial state. Japan, Korea, China, Tibet, are racial states. The list goes on. The problem the lies and double standard, not the racial state itself.

[DanishCartoonist100]

I have no problem with a racial state; every race should have the right to self-preservation and you can't do that in a mixed-race state. The problem is Israel has a double standard because other people are called "racist" if they want the same right. Most of the other common criticisms of IsraHell are valid.

[shadowofears]

Burn AIPAC

[gatecomingdown]

@realstress typical fag jew stick the schmock in your mouth along with your israeli morals and suck on it

[spartacandream]

@realstress Now I know what it means, and you've been reported for vulgar language. Congradulations! Too bad rational discussion isn't interesting to you. Btw, I have no problem with jews, rather, a few of the people I admire the most were jewish.

I get my morality not from your morally bankrupt book, but from the same place Einstein got his, reason.

Reason teaches people not to think in black and white like you do. I don't hate jews, nor do I hate Israel/isrealis.

[realstress]

@spartacandream Did U know shmock (this means "short penis" in Yiddish) that the only reason the US is a nuclear power, is the work of the 100% Jewish team of outstanding scientists that worked in the Manhattan Project, at Los-Alamos in World War 2 ? That's right, shmock: Oppenheimer (the head of the Atomic Bomb Project), Leo Szilard, Feinman, Eduard Teller, Albert Einstein, etc. We (the Jews) are the ones that teach you (and your goyish kind) morality, not the other way around. U got all that ?