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...arguments about the lobby’s domination of public discourse bear striking similarities to conspiratorial claims that Jews “control the media.” The two are careful to point out, however, that the Israel lobby is not a “cabal?? of powerful individuals that connives in secret, but rather “just another interest group engaged in legitimate political activities.”It is a particularly powerful interest group, however, and the authors are convinced that it has frequently used its considerable power to bring about results that...
...used in the article. Many critics of the original essay had taken issue with Walt and Mearsheimer’s use of a capital “L,” saying that it made the lobby seem like a unified, monolithic “cabal?? without internal disagreements...
...Standard deemed it “politically silly,” and even The New Republic, typically left-leaning, described “Embedded Live!” as “poisonous, a production-length conspiracy, guilty of the very sins it attributes to the ‘cabal?? that it claims to expose.”But Robbins believes that national surveys showing American disdain for the war to be at a high point signify that the public is increasingly on his side. “The American people have been lied to, and they know...
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