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イスラエル・ロビーはアメリカの中東政策を歪めているか？
イスラエル批判のタブーをあえて犯した二人の著名な学者に、シオニストの攻撃が集中している。
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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/04/18/lobby/index_np.html
Is the "Israel lobby" distorting America's Mideast policies?
Two leading academics have tried to break the taboo against criticizing Israel's powerful U.S. lobby. It's a worthy aim, but their clumsy argument may backfire.
By Michelle Goldberg
Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, political science professors at Harvard and the University of Chicago respectively, apparently hoped to break through the taboos against criticizing Israel and its American supporters with their baldly titled paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." It was published last month in the London Review of Books and, in an expanded version, on the Web site of the Kennedy School of Government, where Walt is academic dean. The article argues that the United States' close relationship with Israel is not in America's national interest -- that it is, indeed, counterproductive -- and that it is sustained largely through the work of the Israel lobby (Walt and Mearsheimer refer to it, simply and ominously, as "the Lobby.") Walt and Mearsheimer also argue that the Lobby was a major force pushing for war in Iraq, a war they vocally opposed.
The authors were immediately subject to withering attacks, including predictable charges of anti-Semitism. On one level, these attacks are examples of the very phenomenon the writers describe. Yet for anyone who hopes for a more open and critical discussion of the Israel lobby, their paper presents profound problems. This is not just a case of brave academics telling taboo truths. In taking on such a sensitive, fraught subject, one might expect such eminent scholars to make their case airtight. Instead, they've blundered forth with an article that has several factual mistakes and baffling omissions, one that seems expressly designed to elicit exactly the reaction it has received. The power of the Israel lobby is something that deserves a full and fearless airing, but this paper could make such an airing less, not more likely.
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