{"id":5009,"date":"2006-03-16T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-14T19:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T17:14:38","slug":"epalestine-israel-lobby-must-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2006\/03\/epalestine-israel-lobby-must-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The Israel Lobby – A MUST READ!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear friends,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Please read this outstanding report then sit down this weekend and write (and lobby to get published) a letter to the editor in your local papers and\/or your government representative.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Poor 1st world citizens,<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

Sam<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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London Review of Books<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The Israel Lobby<\/strong><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

LRB |  Vol. 28 No. 6 dated 23 March 2006<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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ABSTRACT<\/u><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

The centerpiece of U.S. Middle East policy is its intimate relationship with Israel. Though often justified as reflecting shared strategic interests or compelling moral imperatives, the U.S. commitment to Israel is due primarily to the activities of the “Israel Lobby.” This paper describes the various activities that pro-Israel groups have undertaken in order to shift U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.  <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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"There is a moral dimension here as well. Thanks to the Lobby, the United States has become the de facto enabler of Israeli expansion in the Occupied Territories, making it complicit in the crimes perpetrated against the Palestinians. This situation undercuts Washington’s efforts to promote democracy abroad and makes it look hypocritical when it presses other states to respect human rights. US efforts to limit nuclear proliferation appear equally hypocritical given its willingness to accept Israel’s nuclear arsenal, which only encourages Iran and others to seek a similar capability."<\/em><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

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Read this full article here:  <\/span><\/font>https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/the-paper\/v28\/n06\/john-mearsheimer\/the-israel-lobby<\/a><\/p>\n

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An expanded and fully documented version of this article is available at:<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

http:\/\/ksgnotes1.harvard.edu\/Research\/wpaper.nsf\/rwp\/RWP06-011<\/span><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n

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Dear friends, Please read this outstanding report then sit down this weekend and write (and lobby to get published) a letter to the editor in your local papers and\/or your government representative. Poor 1st world citizens, Sam ——————————– London Review of Books The Israel Lobby John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt LRB |  Vol. 28 No. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9969,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions\/9969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}