Architects of Repression: How Israel and Its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of US Middle East Policy

"Architects of Repression offers a comprehensive, up to date, and evidence driven historical assessment of the role of the Israel lobby in US politics and foreign policy since World War II. This book puts to rest any doubt as to whether the lobby has played and continues to play a crucial role in enabling Israeli aggression, the suppression of Palestinian rights, and the failure to achieve a comprehensive Middle East peace accord. Rooted in archival evidence and an abundant secondary literature, the book shows how the lobby works by deploying propaganda, targeting campaign contributions, organizing demonstrations, and exerting political pressure to manage public opinion-and, especially, to influence the Congress. Architects of Repression thus lays bare the ways and means by which a critical branch at the epicenter of the United States government, and in control of the purse strings, became heavily influenced by a lobby representing the interests of a foreign country. The massive largesse that the United States has provided Israel-far more than allocated to any other country and dispersed on favorable terms reserved for Israel alone--is only one of many enabling benefits the small Zionist state has received over many decades from the most powerful nation in the world"--