Category Archives: Israel

Love and Mercy

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

I’m watching this 2014 movie Love and Mercy about Brian Wilson. Half of it takes place in the 1960s and the California beaches seem so white. There’s not a Mexican in sight. Today you go to the Santa Monica beach … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Israel Lobby

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

Daniel Levy writes from Israel: I have not commented thus far on the publication of the Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer book on the Israel lobby. The reason is simple – I agreed to review the book for Haaretz and … Continue reading →

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The Israel Lobby

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

Israeli peace activist and journalist Uri Avnery writes: There are books that change people’s consciousness and change history. Some tell a story, like Harriet Beech Stowe’s 1851 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, which gave a huge impetus to the campaign for the … Continue reading →

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It’s Lobbying, but Is It Really pro-Israel?

Posted on September 26, 2015 by Luke Ford

M.J. Rosenberg wrote for Haaretz in 2007: Critics of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John J. Mearsheimer and Steven M. Walt (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), cannot be surprised that the attacks on the book prior to publication … Continue reading →

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John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt – The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Luke Ford

I was impressed by this presentation by the two political scientists. At the end, John J. Mearsheimer says: “The United States would care about Iran acquiring nuclear weapons even if there was no state of Israel. There are two reasons … Continue reading →

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