JEW HATERS

BUSINESS WEEK (2007) 9/29/ 87-88

THE NEW REPUBLIC (2007) 10/8 40-50

U.S NEWS & WORLD REPORT (2007) 10/8 66-68

You haven’t read much lately about Israel and so you want to know what is going over there. You are on the political spectrum, somewhere, and you have heard the Jews are causing all the trouble in the Middle East. Perhaps, you have found some thing like this, if Jews were not in the Middle East, there would be no wars.

A long comes Mersheimer and Walt’s THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY.  Perhaps, this is what you need to know. This book appears to be very inaccurate from the perspective of three periodicals. One is progressive and the other two are conservative.

Jews have been in the area now called Israel consecutively for thousands of years. However, it was during the Zionist era and Theodore Herzl who encouraged Jews to return home after the Diaspora of the 20th century... Other essays on this website will take the history further. However, Israel has been recognized by the LEAGUE OF NATIONS, the UNITED NATIONS, the UNITED STATES, and the UNITED KINGDOM. Since then hundreds of other countries have recognized this Jewish homeland. It is about the size of one third of Iowa. So it is very small.

 Before, we go any further, I am not a Jew and I want the 2 state solutions to be viable.

 Palestine has every right to exist and prosper. I see Israel as the only country to be a democracy in the future in the region. . Further, I have both Jewish and Muslim colleagues and acquaintances. I also believe that Iraq will be occupied by the USA for a long, long time. How many troops will be there I do not know. As this is being written the voters want to move out of Iraq, but only gradually. There is a minority that believes there will be success and a democracy will be established and another minority that believes every soldier should come home within 6 months to a year...

The book mentioned above is clever by half. Essentially, it implies that AIPAC is the strongest lobby in Washington. AIPAC is one of the Jewish lobbies. Yes, it is strong, but no is not any stronger than the NRA, farm corporations, corporate America, or for that fact the pharmaceutical industries. It is strong, but not that strong.

The authors also imply that Jews cause other countries to go to war. In this instance neo-cons which are roughly half Jewish and half Christian surrounded President Bush and encouraged him to go to war. So did others. Why Bush actually went to war is still speculative. Additionally there are numerous Christians and Muslims that do not see a Jewish plot behind every corner.

Israel does not necessarily need the Iraq war. In fact, many Muslim countries are now more united than ever. Bush’s policies as they indicate has united the Muslim more than anything else could. Israel receives about 3 billion every year to help support the USA and also Israel. Israel fell into line with Bush after the war started. Israel’s problems are with Syria and relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt have vastly improved. . Iraq is probably the force of  Cheney and Rumsfeld. Neither are Jews. Israel did not attack Iraq.

Time and time again. The authors of THE ISRAEL LOBBY make a bold statement followed by caveats that really inadvertently undermine their position as another sentence or two supports it. According to the sources above, this once published essay was expanded into a book. It is confusionist, twisted, and simple minded. It creates a book that recognizes Israel and then spends most pages undoing their premise. THE NEW REPUBLIC suggests that the book was probably published, because the publishers knew ahead of time that scholars along the political perspective would undo the credibility of this new publication.

THE NEW REPUBLIC review suggests the following about the authors: we as authors are sympathetic to Jews but they have caused almost every domestic and international problem known to humankind. We will also write this so it does not sound like a screed and we have plentiful amounts of footnotes.

How many read this is subject to speculation. There is other material that can indicate that this book is not the one to understand the Middle East... I have reviewed others that hopefully are more helpful. I do not claim to an authority on this subject and draw from the above sources and previous reviews that I have done.

Thus, this may or may not be my opinion, but sources come from the periodicals listed above.