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The Myth of the Powerful Israel Lobby Doesn't Fit the Facts

(Jerusalem Post) Lahav Harkov - Walter Russell Mead, Wall Street Journal columnist and foreign affairs professor at Bard College, spoke with the Jerusalem Post about his new book about the U.S.-Israel relationship. "The hypothesis that the Jews or the Israel lobby are making the U.S. behave differently where Israel is concerned just doesn't fit the facts." "I don't actually think Israel's security or survival depends on its popularity in the U.S. In 1948, the U.S. might have recognized Israel, but Truman almost immediately started pressing for territorial concessions.... Israel didn't become strong because it had an American alliance, it got the American alliance because it became strong."
2022-07-11 00:00:00
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