"Then in 2006, along with his co-author Stephen Walt, [John Mearsheimer] wrote 'The Israel Lobby', which examined the complex of organisations that sought to encourage the US to provide material aid to Israel, often against American strategic interests. It was subsequently published as a book in 2007, and the argument saw Mearsheimer and Walt labelled as anti-Semitic, liars and bigots."
#GavinJacobson, September 2023
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09/tragedy-john-mearsheimer
That sounds familiar.
"... Mearsheimer’s theory is based on five assumptions: the international system is anarchic (there is no supreme authority or nightwatchman that can limit the behaviour of states); all great powers possess offensive military capability; states can never be certain about other states’ intentions; survival is a state’s paramount goal; and states are rational actors that think about how they can survive in a time of anarchy."
#GavinJacobson, 2023
https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2023/09/tragedy-john-mearsheimer
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