[lit-ideas] Re: 'Ferment Over 'The Israel Lobby'' from The Nation

I subscribe to the LRB and I read the article last week. It's something that could never be printed in the USA. No American politician will dare to discuss it, or even mention it.

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  Ferment Over 'The Israel Lobby'
  by Philip Weiss


Intellectuals can only dream of having the impact that John Mearsheimer
and Stephen Walt have had this spring. Within hours of their publishing
a critique of the Israel lobby in The London Review of Books for March
23, the article was zinging around the world, soon to show up on the
front pages of newspapers and stir heated discussion on cable-TV shows.
Virtually overnight, two balding professors in their 50s had become
public intellectuals, ducking hundreds of e-mails, phone messages and
challenges to debate.

Titled "The Israel Lobby," the piece argued that a wide-ranging
coalition that includes neoconservatives, Christian Zionists,
leading journalists and of course the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, or AIPAC, exerts a "stranglehold" on Middle East policy and
public debate on the issue. While supporting the moral cause for the
existence of Israel, the authors said there was neither a strategic nor
a moral interest in America's siding so strongly with post-occupation
Israel. Many Americans thought the Iraq War was about oil, but "the war
was motivated in good part by a desire to make Israel more secure."



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