Just ordered book "The Israeli Lobby"

By authors Mearsheimer and Walt, and discussed in a fair and balanced way in this BBC article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7104030.stm

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The power of America's "Jewish lobby" is said to be legendary.

Commentators the world over refer to it, as though it were a well-established fact that US Jews wield far more influence than their numbers (2% of the population) would suggest.

But this presumed influence is also a delicate issue in the US, and is rarely analysed.

How does the lobby work? Is its power truly legendary, or just a legend?

Two US academics, John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard, have set out to answer those questions, and triggered a firestorm of controversy as a result.

Their book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, which builds on a 2006 article in the London Review of Books, says the reasons for US support for Israel need to be explained...

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Ha ha, I applaud them in their courage and look forward to reading their book. Trust me, I know what is said behind the scenes and it was not long before the certain folks in the Israeli lobby were saying "They better not need a Jewish doctor in their future!"

I've also worked for Israeli lobby zealots and been kicked in the teeth (on a good day, I won't tell you about the bad days) just for being "little old Christian me."