The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Informationen zum Autor John J Mearsheimer,Stephen M Walt Klappentext For several decades America's foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere has operated under a single, overwhelming principle: support for Israel. What jeopardises both the United States' and Israel's national and strategic interests is not this support, but America's involvement with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of right-wing individuals and organizations that actively work to shape US foreign policy. The Middle East seems set to remain a deeply troubled arena for at least another generation: this book helps explain why this is the case and what needs to be done to encourage a lasting peace. Zusammenfassung Shows that by encouraging unconditional US financial and diplomatic support for Israel and promoting the use of its power to remake the Middle East, the pro-Israel lobby has jeopardized America's and Israel's long-term security and put other countries - including Britain - at risk.

Autorentext

John J Mearsheimer,Stephen M Walt

Klappentext

For several decades America's foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere has operated under a single, overwhelming principle: support for Israel. What jeopardises both the United States' and Israel's national and strategic interests is not this support, but America's involvement with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of right-wing individuals and organizations that actively work to shape US foreign policy. The Middle East seems set to remain a deeply troubled arena for at least another generation: this book helps explain why this is the case and what needs to be done to encourage a lasting peace.

Zusammenfassung

Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy?

This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the United States and Israel itself.

Israel is an important, valued American ally, yet Mearsheimer and Walt show that, by encouraging unconditional US financial and diplomatic support for Israel and promoting the use of its power to remake the Middle East, the lobby has jeopardized America's and Israel's long-term security and put other countries including Britain at risk.