Power of Israel in the United States (2008) - James Petras [PDF]

This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of Israel via

the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It raises serious

questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the

United States. The extraordinary extent of US political, economic, military and

diplomatic support for the state of Israel is explored, along with the means whereby such

support is generated and consolidated. Contending that Zionist power in America ensured

unconditional US backing for Israeli colonization of Palestine and its massive uprooting

of Palestinians, it views the interests of Israel rather than those of Big Oil as the

primary cause of the disastrous US wars against Iraq and threats of war against Iran and

Syria. It demonstrates and condemns US imitation of Israeli practice as it relates to

conduct of the war on terrorism and torture. It sheds light on the AIPAC spying scandal

and other Israeli espionage against America; the fraudulent and complicit role of

America’s academic “terrorist experts” in furthering criminal government policies, and

the orchestration of the Danish cartoons to foment antipathy between Muslims and the

West. It questions the inability in America to sustain or even formulate a discourse

related to the subject of Israeli influence on the United States. It calls for a review

of American Mid East policy with a view to reclaiming US independence of action based

upon enlightened self-interest and progressive principles.