This book by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt has come up 2 times across 2 different shows: Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Dave Smith, Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-11-17 and the most recent from 2024-05-21. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
What it is
Does America's pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy? This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America's relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the United States and Israel itself.Israel is an important, valued American ally, yet Mearsheimer and Walt show that, by encouraging unconditional US financial and diplomatic support for Israel and promoting the use of its power to remake the Middle East, the lobby has jeopardized America's and Israel's l…
Every time it came up
Joe Rogan Experience #2153 - Dave Smith
“it's also and I highly recommend people read uh John mimer has a a great book called The Israeli Lobby”— Dave Smith
The guest here is Dave Smith: Libertarian comedian, political commentator, and host of the 'Part of the Problem' podcast. Libertarian comedian Dave Smith and Joe Rogan rant about media distrust, COVID, the Israel-Palestine conflict, Netanyahu's Hamas strategy, and political corruption.
John Mearsheimer: Israel-Palestine, Russia-Ukraine, China, NATO, and WW3 | Lex Fridman Podcast #401
“you mentioned the Israel Lobby you wrote a book probably your most controversial book on the topic”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is John Mearsheimer: Political scientist at the University of Chicago and a founder of the 'offensive realism' school of international relations. Author of 'The Tragedy of Great Power Politics' and co-author (with Stephen Walt) of the controversial 'The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.'. Realist scholar John Mearsheimer argues great-power survival, not ideology, drives war, blaming NATO expansion for Ukraine and indicting US-Israel policy.
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