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Shared values

Peter Rodgers reviews 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy' by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
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February 2008, no. 298

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt

Allen Lane, $49.95 hb, 484 pp

Shared values

Peter Rodgers reviews 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy' by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt
by
February 2008, no. 298

The day I began writing this review, the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) news service carried three items reflecting the umbilical nature of ties between the United States and Israel. One item reported President George W. Bush as threatening to veto an intelligence bill because it would require revelations about a mysterious Israeli air attack on Syria on September 6. A second reported the Bush administration’s delaying a request to Congress for approval of an arms sale to Saudi Arabia. The sale forms part of a $20 billion deal with Arab nations, aimed at a united front against Iran, but ‘some pro-Israeli groups and Congress members say it is risky to sell offensive arms to a régime that has at times harboured militant Islamists’. The third item dealt with a bill to fully integrate the United States and Israeli missile defence systems. The bill’s congressional sponsor hailed it as ‘a symbol of our shared values and a safer 21st century’.

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