Is America’s ‘Passionate Attachment’ to Israel Coming to an End?
ANGLO AMERICA, 16 Dec 2013
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service
In an analysis piece entitled “Israel’s New Strategic Position,” Stratfor’s George Friedman claims that Tel Aviv has already lost its stranglehold over the U.S. political system. While Friedman doesn’t refer directly to the Israel Lobby, he provides a rare, albeit indirect, admission from an Israel partisan that Mearsheimer and Walt’s thesis was not only on the mark but may have actually understated the extent of Israeli influence over U.S. foreign policy:
The Israelis used to be able to depend on massive wellsprings of support in the U.S. public and Congress. In recent years, this support has become less passionate though it has not dried up completely. What Israel has lost is twofold. First, it has lost control of America’s regional strategy. Second, it has lost control of America’s political process. Netanyahu hates the U.S.-Iran talks not because of nuclear weapons but because of the strategic shift of the United States. But his response must remain measured because Israel has less influence in the United States than it once did.
If the founder and chairman of the global intelligence firm is more accurate about the waning of America’s “passionate attachment” to Israel than he is about Iran’s alleged threat to “wipe Israel off the map” with its most likely non-existent nuclear weapons program, I may soon have to consider renaming this blog.
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Maidhc Ó Cathail is an investigative journalist and Middle East analyst. He is also the creator and editor of The Passionate Attachment blog, which focuses primarily on the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
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