Transforming America’s Israel Lobby: The Limits of Its Power and the Potential for Change

The war on terror, the war in Iraq and the Palestine problem are among the most daunting foreign policy dilemmas of our time, and they are interrelated in a complex web of ideology, myth and fact. When it comes to who influences American foreign policy on these issues, the Israel lobby seems to have an inordinate amount of power in Washington. This book presents the first detailed explanation of why the ‘hawks’ inside the American Jewish community usually win and the ‘doves’ usually lose battles to influence US policy. The author is a media affairs consultant based in New York City. He is in a unique position to answer these questions, being an American Jewish activist who advocates a dovish pro-Israel alternative to the right-wing lobby - a policy that will help both Palestinians and Israelis waken from their shared nightmare.