
Source: The Washington Post
These days, it's becoming downright chic to hint forebodingly that America's Jews are just too powerful. But whether it's the political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M.

I really wish it was possible to examine the relationship between Israel and the U.S., critically, without anyone deciding it's some kind of a conspiracy.

Source: BBC News
A federal judge has ordered US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other senior colleagues to testify in the trial of two pro-Israel lobbyists.

Source: The Washington Post
A federal judge yesterday issued a rare ruling that ordered Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and more than 10 other prominent current and former government officials to testify on behalf of two pro-Israel lobbyists accused of violating the Espionage Act at their upcoming crimi …

Source: Daily Kos
Scott Horton: There's this lady named Sibel Edmonds, and she lived in Iran and Turkey and moved to the US, became a US citizen and after the attacks of September 11 she heard FBI agents on TV saying 'We need translators, we need help here, we're at war against the enemy and so f …

Source: AntiWar.com
The Lobby reserves the right to censor any material that presents Israel in a more realistic light, and anyone who opposes them in their mission on behalf of a foreign power is smeared as an "anti-Semite."

Source: AntiWar.com
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is particularly important precisely because it addresses one of the third rails of American politics: unconditional support for one small, distant country largely irrespective of American national interests.

Source: The Boston Globe
AN IMPASSIONED DEBATE over the tight alliance between America and Israel is roiling political circles, sparked by a new book that accuses a powerful "Israel lobby" of distorting American policy and endangering our national security.

Source: The Baltimore Sun
The deliberate Israeli attack on the U.S. flag-flying, communications ship USS Liberty in June 1967 killed 34 Americans, wounded 171 - but it has been covered up US Navy, Admin, Dems, Repubs, Media - for Zionists?

Source: The New York Sun
There's been a lot of talk lately about what is deemed in some circles to be the disproportionate power of the 'Israel lobby.' That power pales - on an absolute and certainly on a proportionate basis - when one discusses the power of the Saudi lobby.

Source: Haaretz
Behaving in a manner befitting the standards of the Western world is far more important for Israel's long-term survival than gaining a few square miles here and there, by building the security wall through Palestinian territories, tearing apart villages, homes and schools, and ex …

Source: foreignpolicy.com
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt made waves in 2006 when they argued that a powerful "Israel lobby" distorts US policies in the Middle East. Back with a new book expanding on the same topic, these noted realist scholars sat down with FP to explain why they are speaking out.

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Source: SteveLendmanBlog
No issue is more sensitive in the US than daring to criticize Israel. It's the metaphorical "third rail" in American politics, academia and the major media. Anyone daring to touch it pays dearly as the few who tried learned.

Source: ezraklein.typepad.com
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a former National Security Advisor, a current professor of foreign policy at John Hopkins University, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a frequent contributor to Foreign Affairs.

Source: OpinionJournal.com
A crop of Israel's critics--most prominently Jimmy Carter and now Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, the authors of "The Israel Lobby and U.S.

Source: The New York Times
There is nothing underhanded or devious about this, the authors say. Like the National Rifle Association or the AARP, the Israel lobby relies on the traditional political weapons available to any special-interest group in pressing its agenda.

Source: New Yorker
In Mearsheimer and Walt's cartography, the Israel lobby is not limited to AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Source: The Huffington Post
Sheldon Drobny a Jew and founder of Air America and Nova M Radio makes a succinct and convincing argument against the tactics of AIPAC. A very worth while read.

Source: OpEdNews.Com Progressive
AIPAC has a bearing on much of the U.S.'s foreign policy. Few realize just what AIPAC is and what it does. This article details the hurt that is being put on Israel, Jews, and peace in the Middle East by AIPAC.

Source: AntiWar.com
The power of the Israel Lobby over American foreign policy is considerable.

Source: thepeoplesvoice.org
Grant F. Smith's latest book, "Foreign Agents: The American Israel Public Affairs Committee From The 1963 Fulbright Hearings to the 2005 Espionage Scandal," reveals the controversial history of the influential lobbying organization, known as "AIPAC".

Source: The Washington Post
Obama is turning focus to his independence from PACs and federal lobbyists. The article mentions HRC but not how much she gets from PACs and lobbyists in $$. USINPAC has raised $3 million for HRC; it's primary goal is to import more tech workers and outsource tech jobs to India.

Source: The Huffington Post
On July 16, I attended Christians United for Israel's annual Washington-Israel Summit. Founded by San Antonio-based megachurch pastor John Hagee, CUFI has added the grassroots muscle of the Christian right to the already potent Israel lobby.

Source: bestcyrano.org
The US is the only country in the world where the peace movement is unwilling to recognize, publicly condemn or oppose the major influential political and social institutions consistently supporting and promoting the US wars in the Middle East.