U.S. Interests in the Middle East & the Israel Lobby

This influence operates through several channels. ProIsrael formulators of analysis, both individuals and "think tanks," attempt to frame the discussion of U.S. interests in the Middle East in terms favorable to Israel, while seeking to discredit alternative frameworks. Through support for proIsraeli public speakers, events, and mass media portrayals, and opposition to proPalestinian speakers and media portrayals, American public opinion is molded in a proIsraeli (and generally antiArab) direction. Finally, by organized financial clout and propaganda, the Israel lobby poses a direct electoral threat to politicians who are perceived as insufficiently s

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n these jobs and the more poorlyeducated Sephardic population  not to mention putting further stresses, in terms of both settlement and employment opportunities, upon the Palestinians. In short, a massive Russian immigration into Israel will tend to increase political and social tensions all around, and will make moves towards peace no easier. All of these developments within Israeli society complicate the problem of Israeli policymakers and their American sympathesizers in the Israel lobby as they seek to develop and promote an interpretation of U.S. interests in the Middle East in terms which are favorable to Israel. Their task is further complicated by the same rapid evolution of politics and policy in the Soviet Union that has released the new influx of Russian Jews into Israel. This evolution has consequences for the development of U.S.Soviet relations which are not yet fully clear, but which tend to undercut the traditional basis for the proIsraeli interpretation of U.S. interests in the Middle East. This interpretation, which we may call the "classical" model for U.S. alignment with Israel, was founded on the following major assumptions: 1. Israel is America's only reliable ally in the Middl
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