A Prosecutorial Brief Against Isreal and Its Supporters by William Grimes |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 4:21 pm |
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NEW YORK TIMES9/6/07A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its SupportersWILLIAM GRIMESTHE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICYBy John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt484 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $26."The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" arrives carrying heavy baggage. John J. Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of Chicago, and Stephen M. Walt, a professor of international affairs at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, set off a furor last year by arguing, in an article that appeared in The London Review of Books, that uncritical American support for Israel, shaped by powerful lobbying organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, does grave harm to both American and Israeli interests.A bitter debate has raged ever since, with accusations of anti-Semitism leveled by, among others, Alan M. Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, and Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of the Anti-Defamation League, one of the [ Full article ] |
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