In general, American political discourse isn't terribly civil. But critics of Israel's far-right government and its enablers at home aren't even allowed to throw a sharp elbow.
A popular book on US-Israel relations started a serious debate about why the US should adopt more even-handed approach towards the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.
Obama's national security adviser will keynote the inaugural conference of the moderate advocacy group J-Street, an alternative to Washington's hawkish Israel lobby.
Eric Chinski, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. October 16, 2007.
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt explain in this interview why they decided to speak out against the close relationship between the U.S. and Israel.