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Sisyphus Press -- P.O. Box 10495 State College, Pa. 16805-0495 The Power of Israel in the United States by James Petras For Orders in U.S. only $13.99 plus $12.99 for S&H. AIR MAIL: For Canadian + International Orders (U.S. checks, money orders, or currency only - no Canadian checks, money orders, or currency) |
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Overview of POWER OF ISRAEL IN THE UNITED STATES 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. REVIEWS "A provocative analysis of a serious problem that should be discussed and debated widely among the U.S. public, academics, and the policy establishment, this book succeeds in exposing in great detail the enormous power and influence of Israel and the Jewish Lobby in shaping U.S. policy toward the Middle East." Berch Berberoglu, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, University of Nevada, Reno Author of TURMOIL IN THE MIDDLE EAST. "Once again James Petras takes us on a fearless truth trip-with lucid style, tough factual blows, commanding research, and compelling analysis. This is an eye-opening, must-read book for every advocate of democracy and every opponent of imperialism." -Michael Parenti, author of The Culture Struggle and Superpatriotism "An outstanding analysis of the political machinery responsible for so much suffering in the Middle East: the social science equivalent of John Adam´s opera "Klinghoffer". Brilliant and substantive". John Saxe-Fernandez, Professor and Senior Researcher, Faculty of Political Science National Autonomous University of Mexico and leading world authority on US foreign policy and the oil industry "Jim Petras has been one of the few courageous individuals, in or outside of academia, to take a critical view of the pro-Israel lobby and its influence over US Middle East policy and to challenge the "conventional wisdom" on the part of the Left that Israel acts as a "cop on the beat" and is simply serving America's imperial interests." Jeff Blankfort, A leading Jewish authority, writer and critic in the US on the pro-Israel Lobby "Jim Petras is one of the best informed political scientists of his generation, not given to avoiding difficult issues. Here he addresses one such, which he tackles in a characteristically challenging way." Tom Brass, Editor The Journal of Peasant Studies "Jim Petras, a man with vast expertise assembled in Latin America, takes the Leftist anti-imperialist discourse one step further, beyond safe condemnation of American imperialism.He begins where Chomsky and Zunes stop. In this book, Petras turns to the Middle East, where he discovers, through the haze of anti-Muslim polemics, assassinations and tortures, the identity of the decisive factor: that of "Jewish power shaping US policy in the Middle East against the interest of Big Oil". Petras' critique of "soft Left" with its fear to alienate wealthy and influential Jewish supporters is a breath of fresh air; this critique has to be internalised if the Left wills to regain its place in society." Israel Shamir, Jaffa Leading Russian-Israeli intellectual, writer, translator and journalist ========================= INTRODUCTION / 11 PART I: ZIONIST POWER IN AMERICA Chapter 1. WHO FABRICATED THE IRAQ WAR THREAT? / 19 The Jewish Lobby, Not Big Oil /21 Chapter 2. THE US-IRAQ-ISRAEL-ZIONIST CONNECTION / 27 Who Benefited from the Iraq War? / 27 Unanswered Question: September 11 and the Israelis / 35 Theoretical Issues / 36 Who Finances the State of Israel? / 39 Support for Israel from the US Government / 41 Israel Bonds / 43 Accomplices to Genocide / 45 The Zionist Power Configuration in the United States / 46 The ZPC in Action: The Iraq War / 48 Israel and the Right of Free Speech / 54 Chapter 3. THE LIBBY AFFAIRE AND THE INTERNAL WAR / 61 Chapter 4. EXPOSING THE EXPOSÉ: SEYMOUR HERSH AND THE MISSING ZIONIST-ISRAELI CONNECTION / 65 The Zionists and Torture in Iraq / 67 A Close Look at Hersh’s Method / 67 Conclusion / 71 Chapter 5. THE SPY TRIAL: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL / 73 AIPAC On Trial / 76 PART II. ISRAEL AND MIDDLE EAST WARFARE Chapter 6. THE HOUSE OF HORRORS: TORTURE, ASSASSINATIONS AND GENOCIDE / 82 Empire Building / 82 Imperial Consolidation / 83 Targeted Assassinations / 84 Destruction of Civilian and Military Infrastructure / 86 Conclusion / 90 Chapter 7. ISRAEL’S FINAL SOLUTION: THE ASSAULT ON GAZA / 93 Introduction / 94 From the Present to the Past / 95 The Final Destruction of Six Myths about the Jewish State and the Lobby / 96 1.Israel and Democracy / 97 2.Israel and Peace / 97 3.Israel and the Possibility of a Two-State Solution / 99 4.Israel and Terror / 99 5.The Jewish Lobby: The Central Issue / 100 6.Israel and Prisoner Exchanges: The Record / 102 Mass Media Propaganda at the Service of Ethnic Cleansing / 104 Epilogue / 107 Chapter 8. "MAD DOGS"* RAVAGE LEBANON / 110 Epilogue / 117 Chapter 9. ISRAEL’S WAR WITH IRAN: THE COMING MIDEAST CONFLAGRATION / 121 Introduction / 121 Israel’s War Preparations / 121 Israel’s War Deadline / 122 US-Israeli Disagreements on an Iran War / 123 Fabrication of Iran’s Nuclear Threat / 128 Conclusion / 131 Chapter 10. THE CARICATURES IN MIDDLE EAST POLITICS / 135 Denmark: Center of Mossad Activity / 137 Flemming (or Flaming) Rose: Journalist with a Cause / 138 Provoking Conflict Between Muslims and the West / 138 Sayanim—Defenders of Western Civilization / 140 Mossad War Propaganda and the “Cartoon Controversy” / 140 Beyond Religious Blasphemy / 142 Epilogue / 144 PART III. EXPERTS ON TERROR OR TERRORIST EXPERTS? Chapter 11. EXPERTS ON TERROR: LOOKING IN THE MIRROR / 146 The Terror Expert Genre / 147 Interrogation: Questions for the Terror Experts / 149 Bibliography / 156 Chapter 12. SUICIDE BOMBERS: THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE / 157 Introduction / 157 Total War: Content and Consequences / 158 Total War and the Resistance / 159 Degradation: The Logic of Total War / 159 The Technique of Degradation: The Larger Meaning / 160 Political Consequences of Defiling the Sacred / 161 Suicide Bombers: A Response to the Desecraters / 162 Conclusion / 163 PART IV: DEBATES Chapter 13. NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE PRO-ISRAEL LOBBY: FIFTEEN ERRONEOUS THESES / 166 Introduction / 166 Chomsky’s Fifteen Theses / 168 Conclusion / 178 Chapter 14. CONFRONTING ZIONISM AND RECLAIMING AMERICAN MIDDLE EAST POLICY / 180 INDEX / 186 |
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