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What is Israeli lobby's influence on US foreign policy? [multiple video clips]

In March this year, the London Review of Books published John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's essay"The Israel Lobby". The response to the article prompted the LRB to hold a debate under the heading 'The Israel lobby: Does it have too much influence on American foreign policy?'. The debate took place in New York on 28 September in the Great Hall of the Cooper Union. The panellists were Shlomo Ben-Ami, Martin Indyk, Tony Judt, Rashid Khalidi, John Mearsheimer and Dennis Ross, and the moderator was Anne-Marie Slaughter. The event was greatly oversubscribed, so LRB are delighted to announce that a video of the event, produced by ScribeMedia, is now available to view online.
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