Two professors at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government have published a report entitled "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" which says that the US's support for Israel runs "counter to American national interests."
"The academic paper, whose authors are well-known scholars in the fields of political science and government, sets out to dispute almost every argument of the pro-Israel activists in the US," reported the Jerusalem Post Sunday.
The study "argues that supporting Israel is not in America's best interest and furthermore, that it complicates the US's international stand and its ability to fight terror.
"Israel is in fact a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states," the authors write, claiming that "the United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel." The paper also argues that the US would not be worried about Iran, Iraq and Syria, if not for its close ties with Israel."
The Harvard study "also argues that Israel is not a worthy ally for the US, [and] that it is not a true democracy."
The professors' main claim is that "the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US is the reason for a biased US foreign policy in the region that favors Israel. They point to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)'s activity in Congress and in the executive branch and talk about how it allegedly "manipulates the media" and "polices academia" in order to make sure the US maintains a pro-Israel approach. The authors add that AIPAC also uses the claim of anti-Semitism, or "the great silencer" as they refer to it, to shut off any criticism of Israel.
The paper voices the claim that pro-Israeli officials in the Bush administration, namely Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, were behind the push for war in Iraq and that the pro-Israel lobby was a driving force in encouraging the administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
An official with a pro-Israel organization in Washington said that the authors' disagreement 'is not with America's pro-Israel lobby, but with the American people, who overwhelmingly support our relationship with Israel, and with Democrats and Republicans in successive administrations and Congress, who so strongly and consistently support the special relationship between the United States and Israel.'"
There are surely millions who would agree with Professors Mearsheimer and Walt that the world can best be served by every nation, the US included, abandoning the sole fully-functioning democracy in the middle east and embracing radical Islamist states instead. We have little doubt where most of these syncophants reside: Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the remnants of Third Reich Germany, the United Nations, and the American Left--especially within the hallowed halls of academia.
"The academic paper, whose authors are well-known scholars in the fields of political science and government, sets out to dispute almost every argument of the pro-Israel activists in the US," reported the Jerusalem Post Sunday.
The study "argues that supporting Israel is not in America's best interest and furthermore, that it complicates the US's international stand and its ability to fight terror.
"Israel is in fact a liability in the war on terror and the broader effort to deal with rogue states," the authors write, claiming that "the United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel." The paper also argues that the US would not be worried about Iran, Iraq and Syria, if not for its close ties with Israel."
The Harvard study "also argues that Israel is not a worthy ally for the US, [and] that it is not a true democracy."
The professors' main claim is that "the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US is the reason for a biased US foreign policy in the region that favors Israel. They point to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)'s activity in Congress and in the executive branch and talk about how it allegedly "manipulates the media" and "polices academia" in order to make sure the US maintains a pro-Israel approach. The authors add that AIPAC also uses the claim of anti-Semitism, or "the great silencer" as they refer to it, to shut off any criticism of Israel.
The paper voices the claim that pro-Israeli officials in the Bush administration, namely Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, were behind the push for war in Iraq and that the pro-Israel lobby was a driving force in encouraging the administration to go to war against Saddam Hussein.
An official with a pro-Israel organization in Washington said that the authors' disagreement 'is not with America's pro-Israel lobby, but with the American people, who overwhelmingly support our relationship with Israel, and with Democrats and Republicans in successive administrations and Congress, who so strongly and consistently support the special relationship between the United States and Israel.'"
There are surely millions who would agree with Professors Mearsheimer and Walt that the world can best be served by every nation, the US included, abandoning the sole fully-functioning democracy in the middle east and embracing radical Islamist states instead. We have little doubt where most of these syncophants reside: Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, the remnants of Third Reich Germany, the United Nations, and the American Left--especially within the hallowed halls of academia.
1 comment:
Oh UGA! What are you teaching your students that they would continue to echo such tired talking points?
Repeat after me: Criticizing Israel does not automatically make one anti-semetic! Do you understand that? Do you understand th difference between "anti-Israeli" and anti-semetic"? Like the United States, Israel is a nation of hard-working, good people living amongst a small group of fundamentalist zealots, and led by a bunch of gangsters.
The West, led by the United States, has for the last sixty years kept the people of the Midle East in a perpetual muck of funtamentalism, corruption, and virtual occupation (or real, in the case of (Palestine).
Consider the concept of reciprocity: if the United States was 5% ruling class, 95% destitute, and occupied by a brutal foreign power....oh forget it. You people will never get it.
Ciao.
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