[Peace] Talk on Israel & US policy

[C. G. Estabrook]

[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]


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

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.

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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