Does Iran need an ass kicking?
Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:28 pm
Roundly ignored poll that I posted on AIPAC / The Israel Lobby:
http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15910
Noam Chomsky responds to the "Israel Lobby" article:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9999
Gabriel Ash comments on the "Israel Lobby" article:
Two academics from the Chicago University Political Science Department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University shocked the tender sensibilities of the chattering classes when they published a damning study of how and to what extent “the Israel Lobby” influences U.S. foreign policy.
The paper has been dissected and criticized, often hysterically, by both left and right, and by both the mainstream and radical media. The hysteria is in itself telling, and I hope to address it in a separate article. But first, I wish to examine the Mearsheimer and Walt (M&W) argument in its own right. My purpose is to offer an antidote to the paralysis that befalls significant portions of the U.S. left whenever the Israel Lobby is mentioned. To do so, I will criticize M&W’s paper, but also reconstruct its argument within a coherent leftist framework. The M&W thesis is that,
[T]he overall thrust of U.S. policy in the [Middle East] region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the “Israel Lobby.” . . . no lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest.
The paper summarizes the extraordinary level of monetary and diplomatic support the U.S. extended to Israel over the last few decades. M&W succinctly demolish the twin arguments that are frequently cited in order to justify and explain U.S. support for Israel, the ‘strategic ally’ argument and the moral argument. Why then does the U.S. support Israel?
Full article here:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Ash18.htm
Let us remember the words of Santayana and Pete Townshend...
From the Haaretz daily, 2-18-03
Sharon says U.S. should also disarm Iran, Libya and Syria
By Aluf Benn
"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Iran, Libya and Syria should be stripped of weapons of mass destruction after Iraq. "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve," Sharon said to a visiting delegation of American congressmen.
Sharon told the congressmen that Israel was not involved in the war with Iraq "but the American action is of vital importance."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages ... mNo=263941
From the Jerusalem Post, 3-10-06:
"The United States has until now not done enough to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a senior Defense Ministry official has told The Jerusalem Post while expressing hope that Wednesday's referral of the Iranian issue to the United Nations Security Council would prove to be effective.
"America needs to get its act together," the official said. "Until now the US administration has just been talking tough but the time has come for the Americans to begin to take tough action."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 9395573059
http://www.electrical.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=15910
Noam Chomsky responds to the "Israel Lobby" article:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9999
Gabriel Ash comments on the "Israel Lobby" article:
Two academics from the Chicago University Political Science Department and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University shocked the tender sensibilities of the chattering classes when they published a damning study of how and to what extent “the Israel Lobby” influences U.S. foreign policy.
The paper has been dissected and criticized, often hysterically, by both left and right, and by both the mainstream and radical media. The hysteria is in itself telling, and I hope to address it in a separate article. But first, I wish to examine the Mearsheimer and Walt (M&W) argument in its own right. My purpose is to offer an antidote to the paralysis that befalls significant portions of the U.S. left whenever the Israel Lobby is mentioned. To do so, I will criticize M&W’s paper, but also reconstruct its argument within a coherent leftist framework. The M&W thesis is that,
[T]he overall thrust of U.S. policy in the [Middle East] region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of the “Israel Lobby.” . . . no lobby has managed to divert U.S. foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest.
The paper summarizes the extraordinary level of monetary and diplomatic support the U.S. extended to Israel over the last few decades. M&W succinctly demolish the twin arguments that are frequently cited in order to justify and explain U.S. support for Israel, the ‘strategic ally’ argument and the moral argument. Why then does the U.S. support Israel?
Full article here:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr06/Ash18.htm
Let us remember the words of Santayana and Pete Townshend...
From the Haaretz daily, 2-18-03
Sharon says U.S. should also disarm Iran, Libya and Syria
By Aluf Benn
"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said yesterday that Iran, Libya and Syria should be stripped of weapons of mass destruction after Iraq. "These are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons mass destruction, and a successful American move in Iraq as a model will make that easier to achieve," Sharon said to a visiting delegation of American congressmen.
Sharon told the congressmen that Israel was not involved in the war with Iraq "but the American action is of vital importance."
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages ... mNo=263941
From the Jerusalem Post, 3-10-06:
"The United States has until now not done enough to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a senior Defense Ministry official has told The Jerusalem Post while expressing hope that Wednesday's referral of the Iranian issue to the United Nations Security Council would prove to be effective.
"America needs to get its act together," the official said. "Until now the US administration has just been talking tough but the time has come for the Americans to begin to take tough action."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? ... 9395573059