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NOTES

 

1. Writing at Global Research, Middle East analyst Tanya C. Hsu accurately described the significant anti-Saudi aspect of Moore's seemingly antiwar film: "The overwhelming popularity of this documentary takes the anti-Saudi message to a whole new market. It is the latest manifestation of a rationale for war that could finally execute a long-term plan to invade and occupy the Kingdom. In spite of its progressive producer and target audience, 'Fahrenheit 9/11' falls lock-step in line with the stated agenda of neoconservative hawks: rid Arabia of the House of Saud thereby granting the US and allies full access to the Middle East's biggest prize." "Who Really Wants to Invade Saudi Arabia, and Why?," July 9, 2004.

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2. Jeffrey Blankfort, "The Israel Lobby and the Left: Uneasy Questions," Left Curve, May 2003. To say that Zunes represents the mainstream Left is not to deny the existence of left-wing intellectuals such as Blankfort who recognize the power of the Israel lobby. It also should be mentioned that the Left is far more willing to criticize Israeli policies than to acknowledge that the Israel lobby influences American foreign policy.

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3. Biography: Stephen Zunes.

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4. Stephen Zunes, "The Israel Lobby: How Powerful Is It Really?", Foreign Policy in Focus, May 16, 2006.

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5. John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (very large PDF file), Faculty Research Working Papers Series, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Also see Mearsheimer and Walt, "The Israel Lobby," The London Review of Books, March 23, 2006 (shorter version of Harvard paper).

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6. See my "The second wave against Mearsheimer and Walt: A well-tempered smother-out as a new war looms," The Last Ditch, May 25, 2006.

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7. "War with Iraq Is Not in America's National Interest," reprinted at Bear-left.com from The New York Times, September 26, 2002; and Daniel W. Drezner, "The realist take on Iraq," Danieldrezner.com, September 25, 2002.

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8. Murray Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2005), p. 147.

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9. Friedman, p. 148.

The lodestar of Podhoretz's political thinking was Jewish interests, among which protecting Israel was a primary element. Gary Dorrien points out that Podhoretz "declared that the formative question for his politics would heretofore be, 'Is it good for the Jews?'" Gary Dorrien, The Neoconservative Mind: Politics, Culture, and the War of Ideology (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993), p. 166.

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10. See Harry Clark, "How It All Began: Truman and Israel," CounterPunch, June 3/4, 2006.

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11. Michael Ledeen, "Creative Destruction," National Review Online, September 20, 2001.

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12. Stephen J. Sniegoski, "The future of the global War on Terror: Next stop, Iran," The Last Ditch, October 14, 2004.

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13. Robert Dreyfuss, "Vice Squad," The American Prospect, May 2006 (Web exclusive, April 4, 2006).

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14. Quoted in George Packer, The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), p. 41.

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15. Seymour M. Hersh, "Plan B: As June 30th approaches, Israel looks to the Kurds," The New Yorker, June 30, 2004.

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16. Saleh Abdel-Jawwad, "Israel: the ultimate winner," Al-Ahram Weekly Online (issue no. 634), April 17-23, 2003.

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17. Stephen J. Sniegoski, "Israel lobbying: The attack on Mearsheimer and Walt," The Last Ditch, April 20, 2006.

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18. Mark Thompson, "The godfather of the Iraq war," Time Magazine, posted December 21, 2003.

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19. Jason Vest, "The Men From JINSA and CSP," The Nation, September 2, 2002.

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20. Blankfort writes: "That there is a meeting of the minds on this issue between supporters of Israel and the Left may help explain why the Palestine support movement within the United States has been an utter failure."

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