Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control by Abraham H. Foxman, George P. Shultz (Foreword by)
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- Pub. Date: September 2007
- 256pp
- Sales Rank: 746,995
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- Pub. Date: September 2007
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press
- Format: Hardcover, 256pp
- Sales Rank: 746,995
- ISBN-13: 9781403984920
- ISBN: 1403984921
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An urgent message from the head of the Anti-Defamation League
Publishers Weekly
In opposing the view that there is an "Israel lobby" with disproportionate influence on U.S. foreign policy (a view that Foxman says plays into "the traditional anti-Semitic narrative about 'Jewish control' "), the national director of the Anti-Defamation League focuses on the controversial 2006 paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (their book of the same title will be published in September). Foxman demolishes a number of shibboleths about the lobby's power. Much of the book's second half then takes on what Foxman sees as the biases and distortions in former president Carter's Palestine Peace or Apartheid, offering evidence, for example, that Yasser Arafat, not Ehud Barak, was the obstacle to an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement at the Taba negotiations. But Foxman never really defines what the "Israel lobby" is, paying more attention to the ADL than to that lobby's main instrument, the America Israel Public Affairs Committee. And many will find debatable his claim that Israel "has proven to be the single greatest source of stability in the region." This book succeeds far more as a rebuttal of a pernicious theory about a mythically powerful Jewish lobby than as a look at the real institutions that lobby in support of Israel or at Israel's complex role in the Middle East. (Sept.)
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Abraham H. Foxman is the national director of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and one of today's preeminent voices against hatred, discrimination, and violence across the world. He is the author of Never Again?: The Threat of the New Anti-Semitism.
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comment on anti-semitic rhetoricby Anonymous
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June 21, 2009: As an Arab/semite I will say that I find Abraham Fox lying with a straight face to the public that he writes for. Unfortunately not a lot of Americans understand who is a semite and who is an anti-semite really is. The Jews of Foxman's type are far from being semitic in any way, shape, or form. The Jews of Europe which Foxman is a descendant of belonged to different ethnic and linguistic groups than the real semites did. The Jews of Europe becamse Jews roughly 900 years ago when one of their ancestors the king of Ashkanaz of the Kingdom of Ashkanaz in the Caucasus Region converted to the Jewsih religion. They are originally Eurasian. The Tatar Nation of Central Asia attacked and destroyed that kingdom and many of its citizens fled to mainland Europe especially Russia and Eastern Europe and some to Germany. There is nothing historically here that connects them to the holy land, they have no recent memory or direct ethnic connection to Palestine. They are racially European. One of their descendants founded an organization that sought to take over Palestine for greater and more complex reasons that this review would not allow me to do. Those new Jews of Europe were called Zionists a name that is borrowed from ancient Zion that means something that is historically ancient which should be the subject of a different review. Their political, economic, cultural and military objective is to occupy the land of Palestine and recreate a fals entity called Israel which is just a name for a colony that they founded with the help of powerful individuals, groups, organizations and some Western States that would have this 'Israel' ultimately serve as a foothold for Westrn imperial, cultural, economic, and political hegemony over the region of the Middle East. The Zionist European Jews have no link to Semitism, their customs and ideology is alien to the region, they do not naturally blend into the region. They are mostly of a European blood and ethnicity, Israel thus is a colony of European converted Jews who are not originally semitic but serve and function as a spearhead for Western domination and hegemony of the region. They were basically planted there. Israel throughout time is gaining validation and acceptance in the West. Their claims are buttressed by ignorance, sympathy, lack of knowldge and understanding of world history on the part of citizens of the West who have throughout time became radical supporters of this new alien entity 'Israel'. Israel in its creation tried very hard to destroy Palestinian history and create a new false history that would convince many around the world of its claim to the land. There is absolutely no evidence of a Solomon Temple or any of this. Solomon was a real semite and not of a European ethnicity or blood or cultural background, so was Abraham, and Issac and the rest. As an Arab/semite I struggled to explain my view to many Americans who have a hard time understanding this critical point which would in my opinion make all the difference. Palestine is a stolen land by European Jews who are not originally semites. I hope that this review is published and not intentionally removed by the assessors.
Credibility problemby Anonymous
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May 20, 2008: Yesterday, I watched a CSPAN recording of the book signing event at Barnes&Noble in New York in September 2007 where Foxman introduced his new book. He made some interesting points about how historically, questioning the loyalty of jews to the country they live in has been linked to antisemitism. I was compelled by his views until during the Q&A session, Foxman claimed that Israel received $1 billion while Egypt received $2 billion from the U.S. Reviewing the budget of the USAID government agency on its web site, I could easily verify that Israel received $2.3 billion in military aid in 2007 alone. In additon, the U.S. government has guaranteed $12 billion in loans to Israel. This contradiction ruined it for me, made me question Foxman's integrity, and actually made me lean more towards the other side that suggests that the Israel lobby has something to hide.
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