John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt break down the Israel lobby.
The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy is a book by John Mearsheimer, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Professor of International Relations at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, published in late August 2007. It was a New York Times Best Seller.
The Israel lobby (at times called the Zionist lobby) are individuals and groups seeking to influence the United States government to better serve Israel's interests.
Lobbying is an important lever for a productive government. Without it, governments would struggle to sort out the many, many competing interests of their citizens. Fortunately, lobbying provides access to government legislators, acts as an educational tool, and allows individual interests to gain power in numbers.
Tensions are often high between Israel and Palestinians living in East Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank
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