> Then in 2006, along with his co-author Stephen Walt, he wrote “The Israel Lobby”, which examined the complex of organisations that sought to encourage the US

> Then in 2006, along with his co-author Stephen Walt, he 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. "An anti-Semite used to be a person who disliked Jews. Now it is a person who Jews dislike."—Hajo Meyer, Holocaust survivor. The Ukraine war exposes the worst of what the media can be like during times of conflicts. There are calls for the West to wage war on Russia, but what is more alarming is dismissal of such calls are met with fervent diatribes. Such attacks are nothing new of course: La Follete warned us from more than 100 years ago.[0] While the situation continues to escalate, the Western elites is unapologetically happy to be able to bleed Russia without spilling their own bloods, sacrificing only the people of another nation.[1] [0]: https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/336lafollette.html https://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/336lafollette.h... [1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/opinion/russia-ukraine-war-america.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/opinion/russia-ukraine-wa...