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This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis documenting the power of Israel via the pro-Zionist lobby on US Middle East policy. It explores the extraordinary extent of US political, economic, military and diplomatic support for Israel along with the means whereby such support is generated and consolidated. Contending that Zionist power in the US ensured unconditional backing for Israeli colonization of Palestine and its massive uprooting of Palestinians, it views the interests of Israel rather than those of Big Oil as the primary cause of the disastrous US wars against Iraq and threats of war against Iran and Syria.
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JAMES PETRAS, a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, is the author of 62 books published in 29 languages and over 560 articles in professional journals. His publishers have included Random House, John Wiley, Westview, Macmillan, Verso, Zed Books and Pluto. He is winner of the Career of Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association and the Robert Kenny Award for Best Book in 2002. Jim Petras has been one of the few courageous individuals....to take a critical view of the pro-Israeli lobby and its influence over US Middle East policy. Jeff Blankfort, a leading Jewish authority, writer and critic in the US on the pro-Israeli lobby. Jim Petras begins where Chomsky and Zunes stop Israel Shamir, Jaffa, leading Russian-Israeli intellectual, writer and journalist.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
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James Petras, Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, New York, has written a fine study of the pro-Israel lobby in the USA, joining John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's excellent book, The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy. The tide is turning on this matter: 59% of Europeans think that Israel is the biggest threat to Middle East, and world, peace.
Part 1 looks at the power of the pro-Israel lobby, and how it promoted the war against Iraq. Petras notes that the US-British policy of breaking Iraq into statelets follows the British precedent in setting up the Gulf States at the end of the 19th century and the EU-US scheme of destroying Yugoslavia at the end of the 20th century.
Part 2 looks at the Israeli record of torture and assassination against the Palestinians, the invasions of Gaza and Lebanon, the threat to Iran, and Israel's efforts to polarise Christians against Muslims.
Part 3 examines the role of so-called `terror experts' like Harvard's Professor Jessica Stern, who claims to `explain how violent Islamic nihilism continues to spread'. Part 4 shows the importance of the lobby, rather then Big Oil or finance capital, in shaping the USA's imperial policy. The US undercuts the interests of the oil companies, which want peace so that they can maximise their profits, in favour of Israel's interests, which wants war to increase its power in the Middle East. Petras also shows how Noam Chomsky underplays the lobby's role.
Petras concludes, "One will hear from Zionists the `relativist' argument: `Israel's crimes are no worse than many countries in the world'. However, few countries (except the US) are engaged in colonizing a neighbor, bombing adversaries with impunity (and killing massive numbers of innocent bystanders), storing nuclear warheads with an offensive doctrine, securing the largest proportion of US foreign aid including its most advanced technology, controlling US congressional voting on Mideast issues, shaping the Mideast political agenda for both Presidential candidates, routinely torturing thousands of political prisoners (and sending advisers throughout the world to teach how to do likewise), and practising the totalitarian law of collective punishment for popular resistance."
We could do with a similar study of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain, of Blair and Brown's fanatical Zionism, and of the lobby's fascistic attacks on the University and College Union.
Part 1 looks at the power of the pro-Israel lobby, and how it promoted the war against Iraq. Petras notes that the US-British policy of breaking Iraq into statelets follows the British precedent in setting up the Gulf States at the end of the 19th century and the EU-US scheme of destroying Yugoslavia at the end of the 20th century.
Part 2 looks at the Israeli record of torture and assassination against the Palestinians, the invasions of Gaza and Lebanon, the threat to Iran, and Israel's efforts to polarise Christians against Muslims.
Part 3 examines the role of so-called `terror experts' like Harvard's Professor Jessica Stern, who claims to `explain how violent Islamic nihilism continues to spread'. Part 4 shows the importance of the lobby, rather then Big Oil or finance capital, in shaping the USA's imperial policy. The US undercuts the interests of the oil companies, which want peace so that they can maximise their profits, in favour of Israel's interests, which wants war to increase its power in the Middle East. Petras also shows how Noam Chomsky underplays the lobby's role.
Petras concludes, "One will hear from Zionists the `relativist' argument: `Israel's crimes are no worse than many countries in the world'. However, few countries (except the US) are engaged in colonizing a neighbor, bombing adversaries with impunity (and killing massive numbers of innocent bystanders), storing nuclear warheads with an offensive doctrine, securing the largest proportion of US foreign aid including its most advanced technology, controlling US congressional voting on Mideast issues, shaping the Mideast political agenda for both Presidential candidates, routinely torturing thousands of political prisoners (and sending advisers throughout the world to teach how to do likewise), and practising the totalitarian law of collective punishment for popular resistance."
We could do with a similar study of the pro-Israel lobby in Britain, of Blair and Brown's fanatical Zionism, and of the lobby's fascistic attacks on the University and College Union.
70 of 76 people found the following review helpful
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James Petras is always worth reading. A passionate supporter of the underdog - whether the peasants of South America, or the Palestinians and Iraqis - typically the victims of imperialist aggression. When the kill ratio of Palestinians to Israelis so unbalanced - for instance, 122 Israeli children have been killed by Palestinians and 869 Palestinian children have been killed by Israelis since Sep 29, 2000 - where is the 'balance'? When Israel receives billions every year from the US, when a staggeringly overwhelming majority of news, media and publishing bosses are ardent Zionists, where is the balance? There can be no balance unless an artificial 'balance' is manufactured, or spun. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky (Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel) coined the term 'distortion by omission'. This is the method employed to give that 'balance', or more often a misleading impression that the Israelis are suffering at least as much - if not much more - than the Palestinians! We need more books like this from writers like Petras. There is a huge amount of disinformation out there which must be consigned to the trash-can where it belongs.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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A must read for anybody interested in World peace and a just solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict. It is an eye opener even to those who think they read it all. The facts and information provided show clearly the power of the Jewish Lobby and how they manage to manipulate the Congress and Senate for the benefit of Israel even when this does not coincide with the desires or strategic interests of the United States or conflicts with the principles of International Law.
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