Time to start thinking about things from a new perspective

Pakistan, an example of failed U.S. foreign policy
Johnathan Schell on Pakistan and the nuclear bomb
Tuesday November 27th, 2007

Documentary The Israel lobby - The influence of AIPAC on US Foreign Policy

Aijaz Ahmad: Start with the question, why does the US have to be the most powerful country on earth?

84 presidential elections ad for Ronald Reagan campaign. Can't wait to see what's coming for the next election!

The most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam

Aijaz Ahmad traces the power of AIPAC to the "Reagan Revolution"

Trailer for Taxi to the Dark Side

Posted this on liveleak...a friendly response.
With Kucinich out of the race, Paul is the only candidate who voted against the "Patriot Act" and against authorizing Bush to go to war.

PROGRAMMES INSIDE IRAQ - What now for UK policy on Iraq?

Anti-war activist Lindsey German

Tony Blair's ten years as the prime minister of Britain has come to an end. Gordon Brown, Britain's new prime minister,   more...has vowed to learn from his predecessor's experience in Iraq.

Blair's alliance with the US administration brought him widespread criticism for changing the nature of Britain's Labour party and leading the British public into a highly unpopular war in Iraq.

Brown has acknowledged that mistakes have been made during the war. He has promised changes in Britain's Iraq policy along with domestic reforms aimed at reviving public confidence in the Labour party.

John Rentoul, a columnist for The Independent on Sunday and Blair biographer

Pledging to rethink Britain's Middle East policy, Brown has said future counter-terror strategy will focus on tactics other than the use of force.

Yet the incoming prime minister faces pressure to maintain Britain's close ties to the US administration, which is currently renewing offensives against alleged al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.

A change of leadership will also take place in the US next year. But could the possibility of a Democrat victory in next year's US presidential elections set in motion a new US-UK approach to Iraq?

Will Brown pull troops out of Iraq, or will he continue with the same policies?

In the wider region, will Brown's plan to accomplish a 'Mideast peace settlement' manage to take hold? And if so, how might this affect Iraq?

Joining Inside Iraq this week is anti-war activist Lindsey German and John Rentoul, a columnist for The Independent on Sunday and Blair biographer.

This episode of Inside Iraq aired from Friday 29 June 2007

UPDATED ON:
TUESDAY, JULY 03, 2007
12:30 MECCA TIME, 9:30 GMT

From:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/53B1739E-75C1-470C-BE7E-ED31D8C13CEC.htm

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/24E7B144FED14BAE8F5E0EB83F242A53/inside-iraq-uk-policy-on-ira.aspx"><strong>Click here for 1/2</strong></a>

  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> …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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/9B55130DFC234AF2A43248E68E67AD80/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for (QA by hournalists) 13/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/D8A953E8D08D4387B9E59509E653CB39/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for (Debate) 1/14</a>  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> …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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/8516771E9BA54E118B818B202A2397B0/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for (QA by hournalists) 12/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/3B7A31910BCB453BB8841023B5A141CA/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 14/14</a>  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> …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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/5E37452C5D7B4E8FBD65D066951EDC22/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 11/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/9B55130DFC234AF2A43248E68E67AD80/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for (QA by hournalists) 13/14</a>
  less

Interview w/Richard Haass of the CFR, or Council on Foreign Relations, about collapsing US foreign policy and how the American age in the Middle East is over.

Gareth Porter: Will Obama be truly post-Cold War?

Pepe Escobar: Obama's foreign policy team is Clinton's team

By now, you've likely seen The World According To Bush...
Well, right back at you... views about American and British foreign policy making from around the world

http://www.RonPaulReveres.com
Ron Paul DVD clip: A collection of Ron Paul's positions on Civil
Liberties from the Ron Paul Canvassing DVD at Ron Paul Reveres.com. Non interventionist foreign policy.   more...http://www.RonPaulReveres.com  less

http://www.RonPaulReveres.com
Ron Paul DVD clip: A collection of Ron Paul's positions on Civil
Liberties from the Ron Paul Canvassing DVD at Ron Paul Reveres.com. In this clip Ron Paul addresses Foreign   more...Policy. http://www.RonPaulReveres.com  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy, (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> 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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israels rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to Gods will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter 66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/A6740C7CA2EA42F3A3F0463FBABC8D9D/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 10/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/8516771E9BA54E118B818B202A2397B0/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for (QA by hournalists) 12/14</a>
  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy, (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> 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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israels rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to Gods will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter 66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/0169C038D71F4B909F73DD68BCD3290B/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 9/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/5E37452C5D7B4E8FBD65D066951EDC22/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 11/14</a>

  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> …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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/9417E449CF3A473496FA9230FB8C9003/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 8/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/A6740C7CA2EA42F3A3F0463FBABC8D9D/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 10/14</a>

  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

March 2006, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> …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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/3A68BB11C74B447CBB8A2983E3A9C68B/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 7/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/0169C038D71F4B909F73DD68BCD3290B/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 9/14</a>

  less

The debate took place at Cooper Union in New York City and was captured by ScribeMedia on behalf of the London Review of Books.

Last March, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt published an article in the   more...London Review of Books. Entitled “The Israel Lobby: Does it Have too Much Influence on US Foreign Policy,” (you can read about it at: www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html) it drew swift charges of anti-Semitism in the editorial pages of American newspapers.

At root are passages like the following:

<i> …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.</i>

Those attacking Mearsheimer and Walt suggest the duo outline a nefarious Jewish cabal with a stranglehold on American Mideast policy. Think smokey back rooms; think political and media domination; think subtle and sneaky manipulation of the unsuspecting, innocent gentile. Think historical stereotype.

Mearsheimer, Walt and their defenders counter that they neither suggest a cabal nor a monolithic Jewry driving the American body politic. Instead, a close alliance of disparate groups form a capital "L" Israeli Lobby that distorts US interests in the region. While this is lead by the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the Lobby includes Jews and Gentiles alike:

<i> The Lobby also includes prominent Christian evangelicals like Gary Bauer, Jerry Falwell, Ralph Reed and Pat Robertson, as well as Dick Armey and Tom DeLay, former majority leaders in the House of Representatives, all of whom believe Israel’s rebirth is the fulfilment of biblical prophecy and support its expansionist agenda; to do otherwise, they believe, would be contrary to God’s will. Neo-conservative gentiles such as John Bolton; Robert Bartley, the former Wall Street Journal editor; William Bennett, the former secretary of education; Jeane Kirkpatrick, the former UN ambassador; and the influential columnist George Will are also steadfast supporters.</i>

<b><a href="http://www.scribemedia.org/2006/10/10/transcript-israel-lobby/" target="_blank">Read Debate Transcript Here</a></b>

<b>Panelists:</b>

- John Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago.
- Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli foreign and security minister and the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy.
- Martin Indyk is Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution.
- Tony Judt is Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies and Director of the Remarque Institute at New York University.
- Rashid Khalidi is Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University.
- Dennis Ross is Counsellor and Ziegler Distinguished Fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the author of The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace.

<b>Moderator:</b>

- Anne-Marie Slaughter is Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Bert G. Kerstetter ‘66 University Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University.

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/64AC161EAE5D4466B1188F61B09D41C0/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 6/14</a>

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/9417E449CF3A473496FA9230FB8C9003/the-israel-lobby-does-it-have.aspx" >Click Here for 8/14</a>
  less