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Originally Posted by Baltar  I'd have to read up about all the history that leads to US support for Israel to really answer your question. |
i suggest you do that here is a good place to start (not the smearing and name calling that comes from the Pro Israel groups - their only response) Walt and Measheimer were the two most respected profs in the US - one had to give up his chair at harvard for this - self evident proof of 'the lobby':
LRB | John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt : The Israel Lobby
The Israel lobby debate
In March the London Review of Books published John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's essay 'The Israel Lobby'. The response to the article prompted the LRB to hold a debate under the heading 'The Israel lobby: does it have too much influence on American foreign policy?'.
The New York Review of Books: The Storm over the Israel Lobby
Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington's "The Clash of Civilizations?" in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force as "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy," by professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Published in the March 23, 2006, issue of the London Review of Books and posted as a "working paper" on the Kennedy School's Web site, the report has been debated in the coffeehouses of Cairo and in the editorial offices of Haaretz. It's been called "smelly" (Christopher Hitchens), "nutty" (Max Boot), "conspiratorial" (the Anti-Defamation League), "oddly amateurish" (the Forward), and "brave" (Philip Weiss in The Nation). It's prompted intense speculation over why The New York Times has given it so little attention and why The Atlantic Monthly, which originally commissioned the essay, rejected it.