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Over time, the Israel lobby has come to play a very influential role in American politics-and has had a pretty dramatic effect on what the United States does in the Middle East
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Stephen Walt:
Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University. He previously taught at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, where he served as Master of the Social Science Collegiate Division and Deputy Dean of Social Sciences.
He has been a Resident Associate of the Carnegie Endowment for Peace and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution, and he has also served as a consultant for the Institute of Defense Analyses, the Center for Naval Analyses, and the National Defense University. He presently serves on the editorial boards of Foreign Policy, Security Studies, International Relations, and Journal of Cold War Studies, and he also serves as Co-Editor of the Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, published by Cornell University Press. Additionally, he was elected as a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in May 2005.
Professor Walt is the author of The Origins of Alliances (1987), which received the 1988 Edgar S. Furniss National Security Book Award. He is also the author of Revolution and War (1996), Taming American Power: The Global Response to U.S. Primacy (2005), and, with co-author J.J. Mearsheimer, The Israel Lobby (2007).
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Question: Why did you decide to write about the Israel lobby?
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Stephen Walt: Well, I had done work on Middle East politics previously. My first book and dissertation was about the Middle East from the perspective of alliances. And I'd actually written about the Israel lobby in that book, although not in as much detail and not with as much of a critical eye, I think is one way to put it. We decided to write on this for two reasons. First, after September 11th, like many other Americans, and indeed like lots of other people around the world, we realized that something had gone badly off the rails in American Middle East policy-just understanding why the United States was so unpopular there; why a group like Al Qaeda could organize and decide to attack the United States. So we started... John and I both started thinking a lot more about this, and I actually wrote an article or two about the specific problem of what American foreign policy should be. Second, the more we thought about it, the more we realized there was an aspect of American Middle East policy that was very important and very influential. It was the role of different pro-Israel groups in the United States, but it was a topic that not very many people wanted to talk about. It was a real third rail question, because anybody who did try to bring it up usually got attacked and often got smeared in various ways. And we decided that we were in sufficiently secure and prominent positions that we could try to bring this up. And one of our purposes was to simply break the taboo and make this a subject that one could actually talk about the same way you would talk about the farm lobby, or the oil lobby, or the, you know . . . National Rifle Association, or the American Association of Retired Persons. These are all important public . . . important interest groups, and they get talked about all the time; but the Israel lobby is one that nobody wanted to debate, and we decided that wasn't a good idea. So we wrote a book.
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Question: What is the central conclusion of your book?
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Stephen Walt: The basic argument is that there is a loose coalition of groups that don't agree on every issue; that are not all predominantly Jewish American, but are all committed to trying to maintain a special relationship between the United States and Israel. And that over time these groups have become more influential; that what they were doing was entirely legitimate; just good old-fashioned interest group politics. But like some other interest groups, they'd gotten to be quite . . .
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Hard to believe this is eleven years old, it’s so timely now. Why didn’t we listen.
This should be seen by every American. The conservatives will still not believe it bc they’re loyal to a foreign government but every other normal person will appreciate it
I am an Independent voter leaning to the right/conservative and I am VERY interested in this “special relationship” and exactly what does that mean 🤷♀️
I am inclined to believe it is another laundromat like Ukraine 🤷♀️
Agree 👍
@@jacqquelinetackaberry5450 That's exactly what it is. Military contractors and paid politicians are the ones who benefit, both in America and Israel. Americans foot the bill, and the Gazans pay the ultimate price.
@@AlexS-vz7od I am a MAGA for GAZA in the Bay Area California!!
I was raised by an Israeli stepmother born in 1948 and I am WELL familiar with their HATRED for the ARABS 😕!!!!
Thank you 🙏 for validating that I am NOT crazy ✌🏼
@@jacqquelinetackaberry5450it is, the aid packages the US sends constantly are just sent back into their “investments” pockets which are our paid corrupt politicians
Watching this in 2023, during an ongoing war against Gaza :(
(10k Palestinian children killed by the Israeli in less than 3 weeks)!
Thank you for the video and the book!
Over 130 days after 10/7 and it’s still happening. When will it end?
AIPAC needs to take their organization to Israel and keep their money.
Right on
How will they gain international support for their killing and occupation of the Palestinians?
UK isn’t much different
This information needs to be known by the masses
306 views ??? our generation is doomed
Arun Thomas Share all over social media!
Big Brother They’ve been doing that for many years. The US government allows Israel to spy on Americans and censor our speech.
This is definitely shadow banned
300 in 6 years wow I’m seeing this after 11 years and it’s only 10k
@@henryleonardo3544The algorithm suppresses information like this.
You still think some people in a far distance land in some caves came here and did 911 . Lmao
This is very eye opening, where we are today.
Who Knows This Video has Probably Have Millions of views But Google Don't show Us...
only Jesus knows
And christian zionists too knows
A majority of U.S politicians have their two seeds firmly gripped in the palm of a foreign lobby! The grip tightens or loosens depending on how much one is detestful or complacent to israeli crimes against humanity!
bingo
Why a jewish government or a jewish person should be treated as above the law?
Thanks for this courageous work. I, definitely, will buy your books.
Because the holocaust. You know, that thing that totally happened
@@-Swamp_Donkey- White guilt. Arabs are paying the price for European war crimes.
@@-Swamp_Donkey- where's the African American state? why aren't they treated above the law?
@@akram9744 because they’re not God’s chosen people. Only Jews are. Back of the line, lowly gentile.
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Why is the world paying the price for the Holocaust? Hitler is already dead
These days AIPAC can’t let US gov to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza
AIPAC controlls US ....Wow !!!
Share this to social media. People need to know they are being fooled.
They will label you as an anti-semite. They have no shame and will do this to suppress opinion.
I disagree with so many things that the Saudi government does throughout the whole world and their influence on America oh my God I am islamophobic. wait I'm a Muslim am I still islamophobic ?
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Except Saudi Arabia doesn't influence the US.
Elton Anderson search up American Saudi lobby
@@PeerKristijan It's ridiculous to compare the influence of AIPAC to any other lobby
Perhaps the only Big Think video with very low views.
Crazy, Zionist mind control!
Very informative thank you for this video!
The first time I see a BigThink's video that actually makes sense
If this is legal, change the law!
Yes it is legal. This is why everyone in Washington needs to server just 2-4 years maximum so these Special Interest Groups will not have more influence than you and me.
AIpac must gets his hand out of American politics. All our official as persistent to done they are servant of AIpac.
Exactly
Fast forward 11 years and they're more powerful than ever.
Thank you illhan omar for waking me up
🤔 This talk had *FAR* more views + likes 3-4 mths ago. SoOo, JewTube is playing their games.... _AGAIN_
Forreal, channel has almost 3m subs and this vid has 7k views lol
This is so much more profound now. Than it was 12 years ago.
Excellent presentation by Mr Walt, clearly focused and organized. Sorry I didn’t come upon this sooner.
I’m especially glad that Jimmy Carter was part of the discussion. His book, “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” caused quite a ruckus, even though he made it clear that “apartheid” applied to the occupied territories, not Israel proper. Of course, this didn’t stop the “anti-Israel” and “anti-Semite” missiles from heading Carter’s way, many of them fired by AIPAC. It cost him friendships, as well.
AIPAC was among the groups that undermined Carter’s re-election bid, as well. If Carter got a second term, the fable went, he would lessen Israel’s security by giving more land to the Palestinians. As Mr Walt pointed out, this was directed against the man responsible for the Camp David Accords! In this case, unfortunately, the fable won out!
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AIPAC must gets his hand out of American politics. All our official as persistent to done they are servant of AIPAC.
The Policy of Ambiguity - The position of US and Isreal was same but us chose to play the policy of ambiguity,
This is so relevant and should be watched by everyone!
THANK YOU CONGRESSWOMAN ILHAN OMAR !
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AIPAC be kind to humanity and respect historical relics, and communities. Humanity and humility is a lifestyle that is not that hard. WE THE PEOPLE want ✌ peace.
6:00 smearing
We need to ask broader questions in addition to AIPEC. Why is the entire media complicit in the on-going genocide in Gaza? Why is the culture and business establishment also complicit, not just in the USA but the UK, Germany, France, etc? Where does this ideological bias come from and is it good for our countries?
"Discrimination happens from time to time" in USA????? WTF?
Say: "If the land of the Hereafter in the sight of Allah (heaven) is not for other people, but for you, and you are truthful, let us hope for death!"
You must be joking.....
Who funded AIPAC
Prophet Ilhan Omar, peace be upon her
Miranda Elaine stupid thing to say
Mario Kart wanna elaborate, pussy?
Hahahahah Peace be upon her
אָמַר: "אם ארץ העולם הבא למראה אללה (גן עדן) אינה מיועדת לאנשים אחרים, אלא עבורך ואתה האמת, בוא נקווה למוות!"
Save Palestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸
This is anti semitic.
In 1960, John Kennedy himself received a financial aid offer from the Israeli lobby for his presidential campaign. He decoded Abraham Feinberg’s proposal for his journalist friend Charles Bartlett in the following terms: "We know your campaign is in trouble. We’re willing to pay your bills if you’ll let us have control of your Middle East policy." Bartlett recalls Kennedy’s promise that "if he ever did get to be President, he was going to do something about it [4]." Between 1962 and 1963, he submitted seven campaign finance reform bills but all were defeated by the influential groups they sought to restrain.