John Mearsheimer

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Free Congressional Trips to Israel: Learning to Embrace Your Narrative

by James M. Wall March 28, 2011

These dominating elites first develop the myths, and then control each succeeding generation through internal education that constantly reinforces the myth of the nation’s founding. If you want to make it safely through the Tel Aviv airport, leave your BDS buttons at home. There will be buttons available when you reach your destination.

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What Obama Hasn’t Changed About the Mid East Peace Process

by Maggie Sager October 6, 2010

The Present: In the midst of Operation Cast Lead, which killed more than 1,400 Palestinians and lead to accusations of war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Goldstone Report, on January 16th, 2009, Congressed signed a Memorandum of Understanding essentially endorsing the operation and pledging unconditional support for the State of Israel. While vocal on a number of policy issues before his inauguration, Obama said nothing of this development, and has yet to negatively address the MOU.

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Overcoming AIPAC is not enough

by Lawrence Davidson October 2, 2010

By Lawrence Davidson* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Two stories have recently appeared, each discussing a different approach to overcoming the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the pro-Israel lobby that presently has enough clout to substitute its own parochial interests for the national interest. As John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s 2007 [...]

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Prof. John J. Mearsheimer – The Future of Palestine: Righteous Jews vs. the New Afrikaners

by Haitham Sabbah April 30, 2010

Two-State Solution Dead Professor John J. Mearsheimer* delivered the Hisham B. Sharabi Memorial Lecture at the Palestine Center yesterday. Undoubtedly the most extensive talk on this issue ever made by the renowned scholar and bestselling author (The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy), Mearsheimer discusses the inevitability of full-fledged apartheid in Israel-Palestine. A brief excerpt [...]

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End Israel Lobbies Pervasive and Damaging Influence in US Politics

by Debbie Menon April 24, 2010

Support for Israel is not only tragic and immoral, it is also extremely damaging to Americans. By Debbie Menon* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz Mark Perry in his recent article in Foreign Policy journal “Petraeus wasn’t the First,” describes succinctly, the opposition to U.S. support for Israel, the rationale for it, and the cover-up on [...]

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The Israel Lobby [Video]

by Haitham Sabbah January 16, 2010

A documentary which AIPAC and the Zionists don’t want you to see: For many years now the American foreign policy has been characterized by the strong tie between the United States and Israel. Does the United States in fact keep Israel on its feet? And how long will it continue to do so? Is one [...]

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John Mearsheimer – Invoking the Holocaust to Defend the Occupation

by SR Editor December 10, 2008

By John Mearsheimer For American readers, the great virtue of Avraham Burg’s important new book is that he says things about Israel and the Jewish people that are hardly ever heard in mainstream discourse in the United States. It is hard to believe how stunted and biased the coverage of Israel is in the American [...]

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Breaking the Taboo: Why We Took On the Israel Lobby

by Haitham Sabbah October 20, 2007

If you think that the “War on Terror” has come about because Islamic extremists “hate your freedoms,” you are wrong. It is because of the unbalanced and deeply flawed foreign policy chosen my US politicians in the Middle East, which generated much of the anti-American sentiment found in the Arab world. If you ask, Why? [...]

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Podcast: AIPAC & US Foreign Policy – Debate between James Petras & Norman Finkelstein

by Haitham Sabbah April 23, 2007

What is the power and influence of “The Lobby” (a.k.a. AIPAC) on US Foreign Policy? The explanation for the support is to be found in the activities of the Israel Lobby, also known as the Jewish Lobby, or as AIPAC (the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee), which uses its formidable influence to shape American foreign policy [...]

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John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt: pro-Israel Lobby influence over U.S. foreign policy on the recent Israel-Lebanon war

by Haitham Sabbah September 2, 2006

The two scholars who created a controversy earlier this year when they wrote that the pro-Israel lobby exerted too much influence over U.S. foreign policy (I’ve talked about it earlier this year here) said Monday that the recent Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon was yet another example of what they view as a dangerous tendency. The [...]

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The Israel Lobby – Unparalleled Influence

by Haitham Sabbah March 18, 2006

Example: Pro-Israel activists block travel reform By Ori Nir, The Forward, March 17, 2006 Jewish organizations played a leading role in defeating the effort, launched in response to the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal, to ban privately funded trips for members of Congress…[Complete article] “What is this?” you are asking. Ok, bear with me a little [...]

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