Trita Parsi: Israel’s Lobby is neither a sequel to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s groundbreaking 2007 book, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, nor simply an update of it. It does something different.
Eli and Ian provide a systematic history of the moments when, in their telling, Israel and its American supporters have worked against U.S. interests. But they also add a dimension that Mearsheimer and Walt did not explore at length: money—and, specifically, the financial machinery behind efforts to put Israel’s interests ahead of America’s.
They follow that money…