Neocons “harnessing the wealth and power of the United States in the service of Israel.”
http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=2997
Any number of prominent commentators have pointed to the power of the Israel Lobby in the United States, and to one degree or another they have noted that Jews compose the bulk of the segment of the Lobby known as http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=3275 and Kevin MacDonald the other.
Now we have the entry of an eminent American scholar who gives Buchanan a run for title of most strident anti-neoconservative: http://wvwnews.net/story.php?id=224.
James Petras is the author of the sizzling 2006 book The Power of Israel in the United States. How his approach compares to that of Carter, et al. is of some interest.
Carter, of course, has raised the hackles of many because of the arguments he makes in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. For instance, he claims that the United States exhibits “undeviating backing of Israel” and that “because of powerful political, economic, and religious forces in the United States, Israeli government decisions are rarely questioned or condemned” and “voices from Jerusalem dominate in our media.”This echoes the thesis of Mearsheimer and Walt, whose The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy has powerfully critiqued the existence and goals of what they define as “a loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction.” It also echoes much of the thinking in MacDonald’s Neoconservatism as a Jewish Movement, where he describes neoconservatism as “a complex interlocking professional and family network centered around Jewish publicists and organizers flexibly deployed to recruit the sympathies of both Jews and non-Jews in harnessing the wealth and power of the United States in the service of Israel.”
Pat Buchanan adopted a far more belligerent tone in his seminal cover story in The American Conservative back in early 2003. Entitled Whose War?, it answered that the pre-planned attack on Iraq following 9/11 was instigated by a “neoconservative clique.” Ratcheting up the rhetoric, Buchanan went on to write, “We charge that a cabal of polemicists and public officials seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America’s interests. We charge them with colluding with Israel to ignite those wars.”
http://www.theoccidentalobserver.com/authors/Connelly-Petras.html#EC-Petras