tulisan di majalah "foreign-policy" ini juga ditulis oleh John J. Mearsheimer, orang yang disebut-2 di dalam artikelnya Rober Fisk yang dikutip mas satrio dibawah. Di samping itu pada tautan yang saya berikan di bawah ada bbrp. artikel lain di majalah tsb. mengenai topik tsb. ( cover majalah FP edisi nomor tersebut memang bertajuk: "does Israel lobby has too much power?" ).
tingkat kemakmuran israel, dalam hal GDP/kapita saat ini lebih kurang sama dengan korea selatan ato spanyol, tetapi negara ini tetap menerima uang 'sodaqoh' rutin dari Paman Sam, $3 milyar /tahun. di banding amerika, situasi di jerman jauh lebih mendingan. pemerintah & rakyat jerman masih bisa memilah bedanya makna kata "Yahudi" dan "Israel". di sini memang mengritik atau bicara buruk mengenai Yahudi memang sebuah tabu yang besar; tetapi bersikap kritis terhadap israel nampaknya tidak masalah. ----( IM )--------------------------------------- <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php? story_id=3501&fpsrc=ealert060627> ---------------------- "Unrestricted Access" ---------------------- By John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt May/June 2006 America's relationship with Israel is difficult to discuss openly in the United States. In March, we published an article in the London Review of Books titled "The Israel Lobby," based on a working paper which we posted on the faculty Web site at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Our goal was to break the taboo and to generate a candid discussion of U.S. support for Israel, because it has farreaching consequences for Americans and others around the world. What followed was a barrage of responsessome constructive, some not. Every year, the United States gives Israel a level of support that far exceeds what it provides to other states. Although Israel is now an industrial power with a percapita GDP roughly equal to Spain's or South Korea's, it still receives about $3 billion in U.S. aid each yearthat is, roughly $500 per Israeli citizen. Israel also gets a variety of other special deals and consistent diplomatic support. We believe that this generosity cannot be fully explained on either strategic or moral grounds. Israel may have been a strategic asset during the Cold War, but it is a strategic burden in the war on terror and the broader U.S. effort to deal with rogue states. The moral rationale for unconditional U.S. support is undermined by Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and its unwillingness to offer them a viable state. We believe there is a strong moral case for Israel's existence, but that existence is not at risk. Palestinian extremists and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may dream of wiping Israel "off the map," but fortunately neither has the ability to make that dream a reality. The "special relationship" with Israel, we argue, is due largely to the activities of the Israel lobbya loose coalition... --- In [email protected], Satrio Arismunandar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The United States of Israel? > > By ROBERT FISK > > Stephen Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard > sunshine past Eliot Street, a big man who needs to be > big right now (he's one of two authors of an academic > paper on the influence of America's Jewish > lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depending on your > point of view, is of no interest to him. "John and I > have deliberately avoided the > television shows because we don't think we can discuss > these important > issues in 10 minutes. It would become 'J' and 'S', the > personalities > who wrote about the lobby - and we want to open the > way to serious > discussion about this, to encourage a broader > discussion of the forces > shaping US foreign policy in the Middle East." > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Great things are happening at Yahoo! Groups. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/TISQkA/hOaOAA/yQLSAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Reading only, http://dear.to/ppi 4. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
