El lobby israeli

The Israeli Lobby Source: Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 35, No. 3 (Spring 2006), pp. 83-114 Published by: University of California Press on behalf of the Institute for Palestine Studies Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2006.35.3.83 . Accessed: 23/03/2011 13:30
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A. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, “The Israeli Lobby,” London Review of Books, 10 March 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 B. Geoffrey Wheatcroft, “Most Favored Nation,” Boston Globe, 2 April 2006 (excerpts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . 105 C. William Pfaff, “The Mearsheimer-Walt Paper on America’s Israeli Lobby,” International Herald Tribune, Paris, 4 April 2006 (excerpts). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 D. Daniel Levy, “So Pro-Israel that It Hurts,” Ha’Aretz, 25 March 2006 (excerpts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 E. Joseph Massad, “Blaming the Lobby,” al-Ahram Weekly, 23–28 March 2006 (excerpts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 F. Noam Chomsky, “The Israel Lobby?” ZNet, 28 March 2006 (excerpts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 G. Mark Mazower, “When Vigilance Undermines Freedom of Speech,” Financial Times, London, 3 April 2006 (excerpts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 In mid-March, Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government posted on its Web site, as part of its Faculty Research Working Papers series, an 81-page 34,000-word studyentitled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by political scientists John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of the Kennedy School, where he is also academic dean. The paper unleashed a storm of controversy, generating condemnations from congressmen, philanthropists, the editorial boards of leading newspapers, and other academics; threats to withdraw funding werereportedly lodged by Harvard University donors. Within days, Harvard University had removed its logo from the study (later, the Kennedy School’s Web site, which heretofore had posted comments on working papers only by its own faculty members, carried a 15,000-word response from the Law School’s Alan Dershowitz). Meanwhile, an edited (13,000-word) version of the study, prepared for and rejected by...