Lobby or No Lobby, That is the Question, I guess

From the Weekly Standard

No point in feeding these gentlemen's paranoia.

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From the Christian Science Monitor

by Tom Regan

Coverage of the debate over the recent paper by professors Stephen Walt of Harvard and John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago that examines the influence of Israel and its supporters in Washington over US foreign policy has been, mostly, absent from US media. But the paper generated vigorous debate in the British and international media and on the Internet. Since the working paper's release, there have been several more attacks on it, but also more support for the professors' position on the need to look hard at the US-Israel relationship.

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From World View

The report's authors say the lobby is so powerful it often convinces the US to put Israel's interests before its own.

PHillip Wilcox was the United States' consul general to Jerusalem between 1988 and 1991, giving him a close insight into US-Israeli relations.

Now the president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace, in Washington, he told Nic Perpitch he thinks the report has merit.

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