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AIPAC's Complaint


(Nation) Eric Alterman - John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt recently published an essay that critically and unsentimentally examines the role of the "Israel lobby" in the making of U.S. foreign policy. For authors whose work I have long admired, their paper has surprising weaknesses. The authors offer up the lobby as virtually the only determinant of U.S. Middle East policy, as if the oil states, oil companies, and the vast wealth they represent count for bubkes. That's just silly. Why the authors treat this factor so dismissively is a mystery.
2006-04-21 00:00:00
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