The Israel Lobby

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, 23 March 2006

... for the United States to take a more ‘even-handed role’ in the Arab-Israeli conflict, Senator Joseph Lieberman accused him of selling Israel down the river and said his statement was ‘irresponsible’. Virtually all the top Democrats in the House signed a letter criticising Dean’s remarks, and the Chicago Jewish Star reported that ‘anonymous ...

Ever Closer Union?

Perry Anderson, 7 January 2021

... literal embodiment.‘This technical and cognitive equipment’, Vauchez writes, going on to quote Joseph Weiler,is not only the instrument that officially defines and authenticates that ‘Europe’ to which candidates are applying in phases of enlargement; it equally inserts itself into the most routine operations of the EU, turning into Europe’s ...

The Italian Disaster

Perry Anderson, 22 May 2014

... bags. One last service he performed, as he did so. On April 5, he pardoned the American colonel Joseph Romano, sentenced in absentia to seven years for his part in the kidnapping in Milan of an Egyptian cleric, who was then delivered in a US military aircraft to Cairo for months of torture at the hands of Mubarak’s police. Constitutionally, a presidential ...