{"id":410,"date":"2007-09-15T12:36:15","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T11:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2007\/09\/15\/israel_lobby_book_is_out"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:38:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:38:54","slug":"israel_lobby_book_is_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2007\/09\/15\/israel_lobby_book_is_out","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Israel lobby&#8221; book is out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=blogistan-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=1846140072&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;margin-left:5px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/iframe>The book version of Mearsheimer &amp; Walt&#39;s <em>The Israel Lobby<\/em> is now out in the UK (I got it for \u00a322 in Blackwell&#39;s in Charing Cross Road; Borders didn&#39;t have it at all, several days after I found it (full price, \u00a325) in Foyles.  Amazon are doing an even bigger discount, so if you&#39;re in the UK you can buy it from the link on the right and make me some money, <em>insha Allah<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>There have been a few articles about it in the British press as you might expect &#8211; it was on the front page of the New Statesman, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/200709130044\">this article<\/a> by Andrew Stephen, their usual US correspondent, which backs up most of what the book says and offers a couple of examples of his own, such as that of his friend who was branded an anti-Semite for suggesting that the US offer Israel American fighter planes rather than fund the development of Israeli ones.  He makes a passing reference to &quot;the deranged letter-writers and threat-merchants&quot;, which exist in this country as well, but those are the people who cause the most difficulty for ordinary supporters of the Palestinian Arabs&#39; rights to their own country.  I looked in the book&#39;s index and, for example, there was no listing for Front Page Magazine or the likes of David Horowitz or Joe Kaufman, for example.<\/p>\n<p>Also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,2169775,00.html\">this article<\/a> by Ed Pilkington in today&#39;s <em>Guardian<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book version of Mearsheimer &amp; Walt&#39;s The Israel Lobby is now out in the UK (I got it for \u00a322 in Blackwell&#39;s in Charing Cross Road; Borders didn&#39;t have it at all, several&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3792,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-6C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41976,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410\/revisions\/41976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}