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I’m not sure why a book titled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” should have to address Turkish or Irish lobbies since it is not presented as an overview of such matters or how failure to do so means such a book posits that only Jews have dual loyalties.

I understand that there is a great deal of attention paid to the Jewish lobby within the U.S. and that within Islam and the political Left, there is little doubt of the lack of context and proportion Israel receives compared to much higher casualties in other nearby conflicts. The West receives this decontextualization itself as one has to delve past the European Crusaders to the Ottoman Crusaders to finally get to the real Crusaders, which was Islam itself so I understand the hypocrisy since Muslim whitewash history to suit their egos and agenda.

Shoddy scholarship and agendas aside, I’m not sure if it’s good to start criticizing books based on what they don’t write about unless that context is begging within the context of the book itself. One also wonders whether this book is an example of what came first, the chicken or the egg, since it’s large advance is clearly based on the said distorted interest on Israel, the type of interest a book about the Kurds would never command and so the “urban myth” continues. But news and what constitutes news in not anti-Semitism. However the unholy interest the U.N. shows in Israel IS clearly wrong since there is little sense of proportion or context in this regard though I think a stronger case can be made there for success-hatred typical of Leftist Critical Pedagogues rather than Jew-hatred.

What you have in the end is truth and truth and it is important to be clear what the issues are and not drag in other non sequiturs by pure suction.

As for regional hegemony, the “success” of the Israeli lobby mirrors the importance of Israel as an aircraft carrier in the middle east during the Cold War but above that I give you oil to explain the geographic discontinuity.