JOHN MEARSHEIMER

This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the United States and Israel itself.

Mearsheimer and Walt have finally said what has been clear to many for years: there is something deeply worrying about the Israel lobby's influence on US foreign policy. By encouraging unconditional US support for Israel and promoting the use of American power to remake the Middle East, the lobby has jeopardized America's own national interest. Preventing the United States from playing a more constructive role in the region has also undermined Israel's own long-term security and put the interests of other countries including Great Britain at risk.

Publicat per primera vegada el març de 2006 a The London Review of Books, lassaig El lobby dIsrael es convertí ben aviat en una font de controvèrsia. Els seus autors, els prestigiosos experts en polí

Basado en el polémico artículo que los profesores Mearsheimer y Walt publicaron en la London Review of Books en marzo de 2006, este libro profundiza en el que hasta ahora había sido un tema tabú: el impacto del lobby israeli en la politica exterior de Estados Unidos. Describe el extraordinario nivel de apoyo material y diplomatico que Estados Unidos proporciona a Israel y sostiene que este apoyo no puede explicarse solo desde un punto de vista estrategico o moral, sino que se debe en gran medida a la influencia politica de una coalicion flexible de individuos y organizaciones que trabajan activamente para moldear la politica exterior estadounidense en un sentido favorable a Israel.