[Peace-discuss] Re: [Peace] Talk on Israel & US policy

[Karen Medina]

Dr. Carl Estabrook, 

How did your talk go? What were your major points? Did you get good questions? 

Would you like to give it again, for those of us who could not make it last night? 

AWARE ears have probably heard parts of it before, but singing to the choir helps the choir develop cool harmonies and counter melodies. 

Why is the Jewish lobby so strong (in a Christian nation to boot), why does the US set aside issues of security to advance those of Israel, and why the U.S. follows the policies that it does in the Middle East? 

-karen medina 

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>[I'm giving a talk this evening at St. Mary's Church, 612 E Park St, Champaign. Here's the flyer from the church. --CGE] 
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>Does the Israel Lobby Deform U.S. Policy in the Middle East? 
>Carl Estabrook 
>Tuesday, March 27, 7:30 P.M. 
>Oscar Romero Parish Center 
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>Last year John Mearsheimer, a political science professor at the University of Chicago, and Stephen Walt, Dean of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, wrote a paper claiming that the United States government has been willing to set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of Israel, and that U.S. Middle East policy is driven primarily by an Israel Lobby (a "loose coalition of individuals and organizations who actively work to steer U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction"), although "not all Jewish Americans are part of the Lobby". This talk will consider why the U.S. follows the policies that it does in the Middle East. 
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>Carl G. Estabrook received his AB, AM, and PhD from Harvard University in history and religion and has taught at Notre Dame, Brown, Rochester, and in the departments of history, religious studies, and sociology at UIUC. Dr. Estabrook retired as a visiting professor at UIUC in 2006. A writer on politics, theology, and theatre; an actor in productions in Boston and C-U; host of radio programs on politics ("News from Neptune" Saturdays 10-11am) and poetry ("From Bard to Verse: A Program of the Spoken Arts" Saturdays noon-1pm) on WEFT 90.1 FM; and the Green Party candidate for Congress in Illinois' 15th Congressional District in 2002. 
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