The Pro Israel Lobby (IAPAC) - DOHA Debates

John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago political science professor, and Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University's Kennedy School, said the U.S. government's unstinting   more...support for Israel's recent war in Lebanon once again placed the agenda of what they call the Israel lobby ahead of U.S. strategic interests.

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

http://lukeford.net/blog/?p=3123 In recent decades U.S. Middle East policy has been strongly influenced by the political activities of the "Israel lobby," a loose coalition of groups and individuals   more...that works openly to encourage the "special relationship" between the United States and Israel. This talk will identify the main features of this special interest group, explain how it works to shape U.S. policy, and suggest that its influence has been unintentionally harmful to Israel itself.  less

John Mearsheimer, a University of Chicago political science professor, and Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University's Kennedy School, said the U.S. government's unstinting   more...support for Israel's recent war in Lebanon once again placed the agenda of what they call the Israel lobby ahead of U.S. strategic interests.

Thanks to:
http://www.youtube.com/user/upsidedowns1

<a href="http://www.livevideo.com/video/NewMindZ/5B0FADF5BA7D45C2A80CE3F83ACEAE9A/aipac-pro-israel-lobby-has-wa.aspx"><strong>Click here for part 2/2</strong></a>

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THE ISRAEL LOBBY (AIPAC) - A DANGER TO THE WORLD The suppressed number ONE blockbuster of Google's 'Movers and Shakers' list. (see ... all http://xrl.us/wajr) Americans, the stringpullers of the NWO   more...don't want you to see this documentary!

This originally Dutch tv production features the Israel lobby (particularly AIPAC) in the USA. It contains interviews with John Mearsheimer, geo-strategist Lawrence Wilkerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy.

(The footage of Mahathir Mohamad and some other things in the introduction are additions)

--RELATED INFORMATION--

http://xrl.us/vqa3 -pdf- Harvard report 'THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY'

http://xrl.us/vnzw Jewish newspaper Ynetnews article 'Stalin's Jews - We mustn't forget that some of greatest murderers of modern times were Jewish'

http://xrl.us/vp2w -video- Zionist behind Dixie chicks film says he never had so much fun since producing Fahrenheit 911

http://xrl.us/vp2r -video- Bush: "A free Iraq will help secure Israel"

http://xrl.us/vqa2 -video- The war in Iraq and the zionists behind it

http://xrl.us/2jt7 -audio- The revealing 2002 BBC radio reportage 'A lobby to deal with'

http://xrl.us/vsbe -audio- At this link you can download the very revealing recording 'Red (zionist-Trotskyite) stars over Hollywood', recorded in 1967 by Myron Fagan, who was Jewish himself b.t.w. This recording is essential to understand what so-called "neoconservatives" are and what the modus operandi of 'Gods chosen people' is.

http://xrl.us/vp2s -video- Israel deliberately attacked the US naval intelligence gathering ship 'USS Liberty'; 34 Americans killed,171 wounded

http://www.amazon.com/Red-Mafiya-Robert-I-Friedman/dp/0425186873 Read these two books to understand how Russian zionist jews managed to get complete control over the USA. http://www.amazon.com/Supermob-Criminal-Associates-Americas-Powerbrokers/dp/1582343896

http://www.mikepiperreport.com http://xrl.us/vp2v

For download, please visit: http://www.archive.org/details/TheIsraelLobbyADangerToTheWorld  less

Is the united states responsible for keeping israel afloat?

Jim Lobe: The origin of the Zionist, Neocon, Christian Right alliance (1 of 2)

Jim Lobe of IPS on the role of AIPAC (2 of 2)

He sounds hawkish on Hamas and Iran but he's open to negotiations

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.

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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">Debate Transcript</a></b>

Panelists:

- 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.

Moderator:

- 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.

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Paul Findley served on Capitol Hill for 22 years. During this time, he had many encounters with Israel's lobby, which exhibited considerable control over Congressional decisions with respect to Israel   more...and the Mid-East. He speaks of treachery and treason among the highest seats of the land, and how many Congressmen put Israel's interests ahead that of America's.  less

A future scenario for The Place of Judgment, the Middle East.
Are we on course to a doom scenario? What are the scenarios for the Near East in the forseeable future? Tension in the Middle East is mounting   more...again, as political decisions in both the United States and Iran are now being taken by neoconservatives. 'Both places have idiots in charge', states colonel Lawrence Wilkerson. And the weapon of mass destruction scenario has been dug up again, this time for Iran. PLans of attack are being made and pre-emptive strikes are being considered. Backlight presents an ominous future view on the Middle East, the Place of Judgment. For 'Endgame', director Marije Meerman has gathered opinions and attitudes from the US, Israel and Iran concerning Israel's near future. Could the possible US withdrawal from Iraq herald the destruction of Israel? And will the pro-Israel stances of the presidential candidates affect their chances? How will any rethinking of American foreign policy impact on the region?
Backlight spoke to: Martin van Creveld (Israeli military historian), Tony Judt (British historian), Brigitte Gabriel (Christian Lebanese emigre), Lawrence Wilkerson (former chief of staff to Colin Powell), Etgar Keret (Israeli writer), Anoush Ehteshami (British-Iranian political scientist) and Richard Perle (American neoconservative). This episode also features Ahmadinejad, pastor John Hagee and Barack Obama in an attempt to illustrate the frontlines of a possible Third World War. Could the increasing tension regarding the escalation of the conflict lead to a self-fulfulling prophesy?

Research: William de Bruijn
Director: Marije Meerman

VPRO Backlight 2007 49'

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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>

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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.

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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>

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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>

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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.

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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 Representativ