{"product":{"product_id":"0374531501","title":"The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy","price":"16.39","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51ujbbqeS2L._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374531501"},"comments":[{"body":"lol jesus fucking christ, everyone understands that aipac is shorthand for a constellation of pro-israel lobbying groups and donors. go read [the israel lobby](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501) if you're seriously this dense","subreddit_name":"stupidpol","author":"thebloodisfoul"},{"body":"\u0026gt;AIPAC doesnt spend that much money compared to other lobby groups\r\n\r\nThey are one of the most powerful lobbying groups in this country and by FAR the most powerful with regards to foreign policy.\r\n\r\n[Read this book](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501). \r\n\r\nA little about the author:\r\n\r\n\"John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He then started graduate school in political science at Cornell University in 1975. He received his Ph.D. in 1980. He spent the 1979-1980 academic year as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs from 1980 to 1982. During the 1998-1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.\"\r\n\r\nHe's a brilliant writer and this book in particular lays a very solid groundwork for understanding just how much Israel has us on puppet strings. Oman may been an actual anti-semite, but the points she's making are not anti-semitic. ","subreddit_name":"conspiracy","author":"dank-nuggetz"},{"body":"This is known as hasbara; Israel's incessant propaganda campaign to censor the truth about its criminality. Reddit is particularly bad because the administation is sympathetic to the pro-Israel agenda. Thus, major subs, like /r/worldnews, are allowed to be hasbara moderated and brigading is permitted. \r\n\r\n[If you really want to know how disgustingly deep this goes, read *The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy*](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501)","subreddit_name":"conspiracy","author":"BanMikePantsNow"},{"body":"It 100% affects you in the US.\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501\r\n\r\nNo country has co-opted American policy making like Israel has.\r\n\r\nI’m pretty supportive of Israeli interests. I am 100% against Zionist influence of American policy posture and aid the us gives. \r\n\r\nIsrael should pursue its interests as it sees fit but the US should not help.","subreddit_name":"ABCDesis","author":"labormarket"},{"body":"The United States has developed a vested interest in Israel for a lot of reasons. It's important to the US to have a stalwart, democratic, military ally in the region that will permit them access to the heart of the Middle East for their varied missions. (I won't address the United States' interests in the region since that is a different topic.)\r\n\r\nThe United States is also interested in Israel because of a [substantial foreign policy lobby](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501) that continually lobbies the US government on Israel's behalf.\r\n\r\nThe US has also brokered peace agreements between Israel, Palestine, and other Arab nations. Seeing those agreements work in perpetuity is a priority for America because it demonstrates her power as a broker of peace and beneficial hegemon.\r\n\r\nThere are also religious, economic, and more diplomatic ties that keep the United States tethered to Israel.\r\n\r\nAlso recognize that people can be interested in both things: I can have strong views about the Arab-Israeli-Palestinian conflict and *also* have important insights and opinions on COVID-19, my livelihood, etc. Just because Americans tend to have strong opinions on Israel and Palestine does not mean we are ignoring other priorities or disregarding our own welfare.","subreddit_name":"Ask_Politics","author":"brohica"},{"body":"\u0026gt;how the heck do they have so much influence.\r\n\r\nIt's two things: (1) Most Americans don't care that much about foreign policy (which means that well-organized special interest groups can often get their way in American politics on issues of foreign policy), and (2) Israel has a very extensive and well-organized lobbying apparatus in the United States. It used to be taboo to discuss the influence of the Israel Lobby in American politics but things have changed ever since Walt \u0026amp; Mearsheimer wrote [The Israel Lobby \u0026amp; US Foreign Policy](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BUDLNR9KE4SP\u0026amp;keywords=the+israel+lobby+and+u.s.+foreign+policy\u0026amp;qid=1667218806\u0026amp;qu=eyJxc2MiOiIxLjU3IiwicXNhIjoiMS4yMyIsInFzcCI6IjEuMjcifQ%3D%3D\u0026amp;sprefix=the+israel+lobby%2Caps%2C68\u0026amp;sr=8-1) in 2007. Now everyone who has any morsel of intellectual honesty or political awareness (including Israel's defenders in the United States) will acknowledge that the Israel Lobby is a real phenomenon, headed but by no means exclusively represented by AIPAC.","subreddit_name":"Palestine","author":"DutchApplePie75"},{"body":"Zionists own and operate American media. ALL SIDES OF IT. Do your own research, it’s indisputable. \r\n\r\nAmerica is Israel’s bitch. The Christians are blindly supporting apartheid Israel because they believe their Jesus needs a place to magically return, and the Zionist monsters that control the worlds banks and media are overtly leading the intellectually lazy right and left down a hole supporting Israel and the Zionist messianic belief that their own messiah (meshiac)also needs a state to re-emerge and control the world. Their beliefs are not a secret. The American media, people, and government are their tool. \r\n\r\nIsrael Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374531501/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_i_DPY1PCSX4QK77FPX0A6G","subreddit_name":"banned4life","author":"sativadom_404"},{"body":"Justice will never come. This system purposely keeps Americans deluded into thinking they have any influence on government policy. Only one power controls America…\r\n\r\nIsrael Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374531501/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_AW25031TVGYJ0PZB045S","subreddit_name":"politics","author":"sativadom_404"},{"body":"Brainwashed television watchers have no clue what you’re referring to. America is a corporatocracy run by self serving idiots.  Television and mass media is controlled by Zionists that believe the world will one day be ruled by their messiah who will emerge from Israel. So they control what America sees, hears, and consumes from the inside. Don’t believe me???  Read for yourself.  America is nothing but a tool for their ideals. \r\n\r\nIsrael Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374531501/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_MWPTZ80NDR2GSAKP7D1Y","subreddit_name":"NarcoFootage","author":"sativadom_404"},{"body":"Oh yes I have. \r\n\r\nHere's a great book I recommend to anyone here that would like to learn more about Israel's influence in American foreign policy. It was written in 2008, but still pertinent today:\r\n\r\nIsrael Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/dp/0374531501/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_PXMVS3VWCSVEMT0JABAD","subreddit_name":"PoliticalHumor","author":"LPinTheD"},{"body":"If you actually want to understand why the United States supports Israel, I recommend you order this book : \r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501\r\n\r\nThe authors make a very good analysis.\r\n\r\nIt's more complex than the ridiculous stuff I often hear such as *\"America always supported Israel\"* (No, they factually didn't until 1967) or *\"Israel totally controls America\"* (No they actually don't) .  Those are simplistic childish answers that don't come close to a real analysis.","subreddit_name":"islam","author":"Medium_Association"},{"body":"Again, not an article, but a book. You know the difference right? One of them is a professor of the Kennedy School at Harvard. The other teaches at the University of Chicago. What else?\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501/ref=nodl_\r\n\r\n","subreddit_name":"worldnews","author":"OneReportersOpinion"},{"body":"Are you a comedian? Israeli's almost run this country for all intent and purposes. A Mossad operative is more likely to be saying that orwelltheprophet will be dealt with. By the way, some Israeli operatives hacked my wedding photography website after I reviewed a couple books about the Mossad on Amazon. Merely a coincidence. https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1534730222\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=the+israeli+lobby\u0026amp;dpID=51ujbbqeS2L\u0026amp;preST=_SY344_BO1,204,203,200_QL70_\u0026amp;dpSrc=srch","subreddit_name":"POTUSWatch","author":"orwelltheprophet"},{"body":"\u0026gt; Israel is a satrapy of the USA\r\n\r\nAs Mearsheimer and Walt ask in [The Israel Lobby](https://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501), is all this grovelling by US politicians to Israel an attempt to cover up the fact that Israel is subordinate to the US, or is the more parsimonious explanation that it is the other way round?\r\n\r\nEDIT: I just noticed that you are referring to a video game. You're joking, right?","subreddit_name":"SargonofAkkad","author":"rodmclaughlin"},{"body":"This book should give you the answers you want\r\n\r\nhttps://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501\r\n\r\nAIPAC is the single biggest foreign lobby in the country, but it's aided by the religious right and defense contractors. However, the direct lobby of AIPAC is still the number one reason.","subreddit_name":"news","author":"cobrakai11"}]}