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This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of Israel via the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It raises serious questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the United States. The extraordinary extent of US political, economic, military and diplomatic support for the state of Israel is explored, along with the means whereby such support is generated and consolidated. Contending that Zionist power in America ensured unconditional US 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. It demonstrates and condemns US imitation of Israeli practice as it relates to conduct of the war on terrorism and torture. It sheds light on the AIPAC spying scandal and other Israeli espionage against America; the fraudulent and complicit role of America’s academic “terrorist experts” in furthering criminal government policies, and the orchestration of the Danish cartoons to foment antipathy between Muslims and the West. It questions the inability in America to sustain or even formulate a discourse related to the subject of Israeli influence on the United States. It calls for a review of American Mid East policy with a view to reclaiming US independence of action based upon enlightened self-interest and progressive principles.
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"Jim Petras is one of the best informed political scientists of his generation." -- Tom Brass, Editor The Journal of Peasant Studies

"This is an eye-opening, must-read book for every advocate of democracy and every opponent of imperialism" -- Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle and Superpatriotism

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Publication of "The Israeli Lobby" in The London Review by two distinguished American academics, Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Walt (former dean, John F. Kennedy School of Government,Harvard), opened the door to discussion of the extent of Israeli influence upon American decision-making, and the means and processes whereby this occurs. The catastrophic Israeli assault on Lebanon, the war in Iraq, and threat of deepening US descent into the quagmire by an attack on Iran--with all that this portends for the well being of Americans and the American infrastructure--has heightened public interest in US Middle East policy, and readiness to question received norms. A CBS poll finds that 80 percent of Democrats believe the United States should have stayed out of Iraq, and more than 60 percent want US troops home as soon as possible. As for Lebanon, there is a widening consensus that Israel has blundered. The time is ripe for a re-assessment of American Middle East policy.

Despite academic awareness of the influence of Israel and the "Jewish" lobby (so-designated by Israeli politicians) in America, there are surprisingly few scholarly works addressing this particular topic. This book is highly documented and rigorously argued. The author has eminent standing in the progressive/left community, with long involvement in social justice struggles in Latin America. He is among the few American academics who enjoy an iconic status among progressives similar to that of Noam Chomsky. Petras challenges Noam Chomsky concerning his treatment and interpretation of Israel's influence in the U.S. This will spark a major debate among progressives, given the stature of both parties.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0932863515
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clarity Press, Inc. (September 26, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 191 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1552662152
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1552662151
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 10.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.44 x 9 inches
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The book that first alerted me to those FOX News reports from December 2001...about Israeli involvement on 9/11, & Israeli spies
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The book that first alerted me to those FOX News reports from December 2001...about Israeli involvement on 9/11, & Israeli spies
This is the book that first alerted me to those FOX News reports from December 2001... Carl Cameron & Brit Hume talking about Israeli involvement on 9/11, and Israeli espionage in America... James Petras is reliable.-Pastor Matt Furse (author of "Who is Israel?")
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Mark P. Green
5.0 out of 5 stars Petras Pulls No Punches
Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2007
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Any reader interested in surveying the landscape of analysis about the unique and "special" relationship between Israel and the U.S. must read this penetrating and scholarly book.

Author James Petras unmasks the concocted basis for America's unconditional support for the Jewish State. Petras exposes the duplicity among Leftist intellectuals (author and Prof. Noam Chomsky is his primary target) who would have Americans believe that Israel is a pawn of the U.S., that America's military interventions in the Middle East are all about oil, and that the pro-Israel Lobby is like many others operating in Washington. Indeed, both liberal and neo-conservative collusion with Zionist 'values' in America has produced a moral mailaise in official Washington where, for instance, racism is universally decried--except in Israel.

Still worse, the acquisition of 'weapons of mass destruction' and the option of employing pre-emptive military strikes are invaribaly acceptable to our nation's ruling elites whenever Israeli interests are concerned.

Why is America so hated? Petras makes it perfectly clear, only you won't find these salient conclusions noted on the evening news.

Indeed, the legendary Israel Lobby is both better realized, and more complex, in "The Power of Israel in The United States" than in many similar books. The countless Jewish federations, "gatekeepers" and think tanks, and non-government organizations which interconnect to advance Zionist goals throughout the U.S. comprise, says Petras, a "Zionist Power Configuration", or "ZPC", which further magnify the better-known operations of Washington's formidable AIPAC (American Israel Political Action Committee). In short, there is no 'lobby' in America that comes close to exercising the kind of cultural and political influence which today's Zionist lobby now wields. This is a disturbing but important book.
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Tim Johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars America--Israel's puppet
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2007
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The question remains, "Will Petras suffer the same outcome as Professors Mearshiemer and Walt?" At least Petras is an Emeritas professor
but because I believe everything that he wrote in this extraordinarily brave, insiteful and prophetic book I fear for his safety. Yes--it is easily within the realm of possibility that bad things could mysteriously befall Petras in the next months, after the dust settles and the memory of all that he has written in this powerful book fades.

I am not one iota surprised by all that Petras has written; the enormity of the threat posed by Israel and its Lobby in the United States has been maturing for the decades that I have been a student of world affairs. There can be no question about this statement regardless of the vociferous denials spalashed on every contradictory statement that ever appears in print or on the electronic media. How can there possibly be a resonably intelligent exchange of views and opinions about the world's most malignant cancer--contemporary Middle East affairs, when one of the major players uses any form of dissuation and disinformation to minimize that debate?

The Power of Israel in the United States raises so many points germane to the current discussion about this most important area of the world. Obviously, of all that Petras writes, the expansion of Israel into what the Zionists call Greater Israel is the most important. When 9/11 happened I told Diane that America was protecting its parent state, Israel, because only the US was powerful enough to withstand the opinion firestorm that would follow an attack on Iraq. Nothing that I have read since then disaproves this original opinion. Petras agrees with the general idea in all of chapter one and speciffically on P. 25 and p. 28.

I feel bad because I still have this childish notion that countries will not drop to the depths of evil but that what looks bad is just something I do not understand--how wrong Petras has proven that I was. On page 86, Petras solves one of the most puzzling events of this murderous assault on Iraq and that was the looting of Baghdad's national archaeological museum. This destruction of one of Western civilization's premier collections of our heritage ranks as a war crime of the highest order and I could not understand how even the incompetant American army could allow it to happen. Now however, after Petras explains what the invasion was about, all the pieces fall into place. I childishly thought that only the Nazi army in Warsaw and the Soviet Union called for the total destruction of the Slavic nation's intellectual and historical infastructure. After reading chapter six, I realize this evil is open to any players and I am ashamed. Poor stupid me; I guess I had better grow up.

If you are not afraid, read this book: underline it, take notes about it but most importantly absorb it. It really is that important!
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William Peck
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read!
Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2010
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This is a great read for anyone interested in exploring the depths of Zionist influence in American politics as well as other critical areas of American existence. Somewhat scary to realize how infiltrated our society is by this group and more importantly, how highly organized they are right in our midst.

Think it's about time someone with the intelligence, not to mention courage, of Petras is able to so fully expose this vein of activity. As usual, America has been asleep letting others take over its basic functions who place themselves in critical "push button" positions or, if you wish, positions of control. It's no wonder the Zionists are now asking for a "quiet" resolution of their differences with America in the wake of the recent awakening of Americans regarding the conflicts on the Gaza strip. Not to mention the Obama administration's somewhat negative attitude towards Israel to date. It's always been their way to operate in the shadows - creating hostilities [such as in Iraq] while red blooded Americans put their lives on the line.

Also, the Zionist shield of antisemitic accusations of those who oppose anything promoted by them is slowly evaporating as Americans become more alert to their ways. Let us hope it's not too late!
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Ibrahim Oner
5.0 out of 5 stars The Power of Israel in the United States
Reviewed in Canada on January 11, 2013
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Ordinary Americans do not know much about the power of the Israel Lobby.

President Obama and all other politicians should read this book.
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J. Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars The time for balance is over.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 13, 2007
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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.
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