This is the article " The Israeli Lobby"
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Dean Attacks 'Israel Lobby'
Article co-authored by KSG's Walt stirs uproar; Dershowitz responds
Published On Tuesday, March 21, 2006 4:24 AM
By PARAS D. BHAYANI and REBECCA R. FRIEDMAN
Crimson Staff Writers
In a scathing attack on what they termed the "Israel Lobby," the Kennedy School's Stephen M. Walt and the University of
Chicago's John J. Mearsheimer argued in a recent article that supporters of Israel have seized control of U.S. foreign
policy, making it reflect Israel's interests more than those of the U.S.
The article was published last Thursday in the London Review of Books and on the Kennedy School's website as part of the
its faculty working papers series. Walt is the academic dean and a professor of international affairs at the Kennedy
School and Mearsheimer is a professor of political science.
In their piece, the authors savaged those on both the political Left and Right, calling groups as diverse as the
Brookings Institution and American Enterprise Institute, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal editorial
boards, and Sen. Hillary R. Clinton, D-N.Y., and World Bank President Paul D. Wolfowitz members of the "Israel Lobby."
"The overall thrust of the U.S. policy in the region is due almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to
the activities of the 'Israel Lobby,'" the authors wrote in their introduction. "[No] lobby has managed to divert U.S.
foreign policy as far from what the American national interest would otherwise suggest."
The authors went on to criticize U.S. foreign aid to Israel as well as the reflexive support that the U.S. Congress and
the Bush administration give to Israel. Walt and Mearsheimer also devoted a section each to what they claimed was the
disproportionate influence of the lobby on the media, think tanks, and academia. They also wrote that the lobby
demonizes Palestinians and comprised the "critical element" in launching the war in Iraq.
Because of the lobby's power, they concluded, American political leaders were likely to "remain sympathetic to Israel no
matter what it does."
Included in "the Lobby" was Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, whom the authors isolate as an "apologist"
for Israel.
The authors accused Dershowitz of advancing a narrative in which Israel "has sought peace at every turn," while the Arab
countries have "acted with great wickedness."
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