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The article discusses "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a research paper produced for Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government by Stephen Walt, an academic dean, and John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago. While the paper purports to deal with foreign policy, it neglects to examine the U.S.'s dependence on foreign oil.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Alexander Star's comments about microfilm in the article "The Paper Pusher"; Andrew Sullivan's argument for the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana in the article "Enjoy"; Yossi Klein Halevi's attack of Peace Now's campaign for a freeze on Israeli settlement construction; Ouster of the United States from the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Constitutional, procedural and political factors involved in the enfranchising of youths above 18 years old in the United States as discussed in the editorial of the May 2, 1970 issue; United States Senate's addition to the House-passed Voting Rights Act of 1970; Negotiations between Israel and the Palestine to bring peace in the Middle East as discussed in the "Russians in Egypt" article published in the May 16, 1970 issue; Reasons why the United States should support Israel.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Discussion on the poverty programs of U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity; Discussion on the article "The Hippie Business," published in the June 10, 1967 issue of the journal; View that children need people more than computer machines; Comment on the article "The Israeli Victory," published in the June 27, 1967 issue of the journal.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing the articles published in the previous issues of the journal. "France's Madonna Complex," which discussed the development of France after being reduced to shambles post the second world war; "Jerusalem Diarist," which discussed the religious establishment of Israel; Views that Israel is a society in search of its roots; "Washington Diarist," which discussed the annoyance of the people at the pledge week observes on public television in the United States; Article which presented a review of a book.

Comments on various issues related to business and foreign policy in the U.S. Imposition of drug tests on employees; Attention to the laws regarding the employment of illegal aliens; Closing of Arabic-language newspapers in Jerusalem by the Israeli High Court; Violation of the American anti-boycott law of 1977; Fact that Israel is the only nation in the Middle East that shares and upholds Western political values.

The article discusses nuclear deterrence, examining the author's writings as well as U.S. and Israeli policies towards nuclear installations in Iran. The author examines the possibility of a military strike against Iran, examining what people including Paul Pillar, Suzanne Maloney, and Fareed Zakaria have written on deterrence, diplomacy, and military action for Iran. The author says that arguments based on rationality and history may not be accurate, citing the Roman historian Tacitus.

Focuses on reasons behind poor performance of best hospitals in the U.S. Enactment of first patients' bill of rights by the world-class medical institution, Beth Israel; Factors contributing to the hospital's success; Discussion on the topic of national spending on health care and public concern about excess; Overview of hardships faced by Beth Israel; Fact that campaign to cut health care costs in the 1990s hit teaching hospitals hard; Focus on the history of the creation of Medicare.

The article comments on the stance of the U.S. towards the acts of terrorism around the world. Recently, the newspaper Boston Globe tried to present the violent acts of the Palestine Liberation Organization toward Israelis as pacifism. The American Friends Service Committee was seen pushing Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat's peace efforts, when it should be advocating the cause of imprisoned Polish writer Adam Michnik.

Presents news briefs related to various developments across the world. Refusal of the Palestinian Liberal Organization to recognize Israel; Mentality of the economic policymakers of the U.S.; Proposals for tax on unemployment benefits; Views that the administration is desperate about its deficit and needs a taxation policy; Extent of Hollywood's interference with life was suggested by the alacrity with which the studios made themselves available; Actress Elizabeth Taylor is suing a company to prevent it from making a documentary on her; Reference to a review of the motion picture "Casablanca."

Presents commentaries on local and worldwide political issues affecting the U.S., as of April 1997. Reason for the hostility towards Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., who is regarded as the most famous lawyer in the U.S.; Politics of moral grandeur as cited in the murder of seven Israeli girls by a Jordanian soldier; Government officials criticized in the book "The Coming Conflict with China," by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro.

Discusses social, political and economic conditions in the U.S. Impact of civil rights movement on legislative accomplishment; Participation of blacks in the U.S. politics; Criticism of U.S. President Jimmy Carter's jobs program for blacks by Congressional Black Caucus; Comment of civil rights leader Marion Wright Edelman on civil liberty of blacks; Decision taken by the U.S. President Jimmy Carter regarding military supplies to Nicaragua; Argument pertaining to the urban policy of Carter; Discussion about the diplomatic relationship of the U.S. with Israel.

Reports on recent socio-political events from the world. Report that the United States has been the most judicious of all governments in the world in deciding what to do about the energy crisis; Information on the plans introduced by U.S. President Jimmy Carter related to the prices of domestic oil and federal control over natural gas prices; Focus on relations in the Middle East; Information on the visit of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt to Israel; Views of President Carter on the habits of secrecy in previous administrations; View that Carter administration's initial proposals to reform the security classification system would only perpetuate the secrecy mania of the federal bureaucracy; Information on the current tussle between the White House and the Republican congressional leadership over appointments to the Federal Election Commission.

The article discusses events related to U.S. politics. The U.S. House and Senate Armed Services Committees may investigate the involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in hindering the investigation of the break-in of the Watergate Hotel. Saudi Arabian King Faisal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud has vowed not to raise oil exports unless U.S. foreign policy toward Israel is altered. California governor Ronald Reagan has introduced a plan to rollback government expenditures.

Focuses on the political developments in Israel. Details of recent elections in Israel; Information on two major parliamentary blocs, Likud and Labor, which have amassed between them more votes than ever before, hinting at the emergence of a real two-party system, American-style; Reelection of Menachem Begin as the Prime Minister of Israel; Dependence of Begin on the religious bloc, the ultra-orthodox Agudat Israel, with four seats in parliament; View that prospects of Israel's political conditions under Begin are all grim with ever sharper clashes with the U.S. and the slow transformation of Israel's current isolation into a political and psychological quarantine. INSET: Case Dismissed..

Focuses on foreign policies of U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Speculation about his policy on the military budget; View that there is no way the Reagan administration can balance the budget, reduce taxes, and tackle inflation without putting a brake on the nuclear weapons race; Controversy over the MX missile; Information on the American security interest in access to the oil of the Persian Gulf; Plans of the Reagan team to turn Israel into an advance base of the American military power; Information on Reagan's policy with China, allies and Central America; View that just as coherent foreign policy for the U.S. is more than a spastic tremor of anti-communism, so national security is more than posturing, ultimatums, and nuclear megaliths.

The article presents commentary on various international and domestic U.S. politics as of the week of April 10, 1971. An in-depth exploration into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's activities concerning African American student unions and political groups is presented. The downsizing of the National Railroad Passenger Corporation and other transit companies is reviewed. Israeli military action in the Gulf of Aqaba is discussed.

Focuses on Americans peddling anti-Semitism to the ignorant. Exercise of Anti-Semitism at various levels in the community; Unspoken hostility to the Jews; Anti-Semitism in the middle class; Solicitation of funds to carry Anti-Semitic crusades; Demand of the Ku Klux Klan for Nordic Protestant supremacy and hostility to the Roman Catholic Church; Charges against fundamentalist preacher Gerald B. Winrod; Anti-minority prejudice of newspaper columnist Westbrook Pegler.

Comments on the plan of U.S. Secretary of State Thomas Friedman to dispatching a small group of U.S. civilian monitors to oversee any cease fire agreement between Palestine and Israel in 2002. Reaction of several U.S. legislators to the plan; Reservations expressed by Israeli and U.S. officials on the plan; Type of intervention favored by the Palestinians.

Focuses on political developments in Israel under Menahem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel. Statement that he stands on the verge of achieving all the main goals of Israeli diplomacy, a peace with Egypt, elimination of an Arab military threat against Israel, continued rich support from the U.S., isolation of Syria, reduction of the Soviet Union influence in the Middle East and retention of secure borders; View that Israel will get peace on its terms without returning to its 1967 borders Palestinian state; Information on the contribution of U.S. President Jimmy Carter in Begin's achievement; Insistence of the Carter administration on reconvening the Geneva conference to reach a comprehensive Middle East settlement threatened to give veto power to the hardest-line parties on the Arab side, Syria and the Palestinians.

Comments on the foreign policy goals outlined by U.S. President Jimmy Carter for his administration. Examination on the performance of his administration during the first-six months in office; Discussion on the meeting between President Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin; Focus of the Carter administration about the problem in the Middle East.

Focuses on the implication of results of the Israeli election on U.S.-Israeli relation. Discussion on dismal performance of Likud Party and Labor party in the Israeli election; Fear of Israeli voters that Likud's intransigent foreign policy would cause a breakdown in its relations with the U.S.; Discussion on U.S. President Jimmy Carter's policies that suggested an erosion in the U.S. dedication to Israeli security; Fear from Arabs that is prevalent in Israeli politics; Assumption on the withdrawal of Israeli armies from the territories that it occupies in the war of 1969; Plan of Carter for the withdrawal of Israel from the territories; Assumption on the success of the plan; View that the elevation of Menachem Begin, Israeli Prime minister, to national leadership severely cripples Israel's position in any political test; Assumption on the future of U.S.-Israel relation.

The article focuses on the drawbacks of the proposed arms sale by the U.S. to Jordan. The $1.9 billion deal, like many American arms transfers to the Middle East, is not strategically prudent. However, the U.S. administration argue that Jordan's King Hussein must have the military wherewithal to pursue peace in the region. The deal could prove to be a serious threat to Israel, who is America's staunchest ally.

Argues that U.S. aid increases should be based on major reforms in the Israeli economy. Concept of hyperinflation; Update on the economic and fiscal conditions in Israel as of July 1985; Factors that have contributed to Israel's budget deficits; Strategy implemented by former Israeli Minister Yoram Aridor to address the economic crisis during fiscal 1981-1983.

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Comments on the review of the book "Naming Names," by Victor Navasky; Dangers of U.S. arms policy; Reaction by the Social Democrats USA to the actions of the Socialist International towards Israel.

Looks at the state of relations between Israel and the U.S., which became more authentic and uncompromising following the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the U.S. in 1996. Description of U.S. President Bill Clinton's policy toward Israel; Views of Netanyahu on modalities of peace; Reaction of the American Jews to Netanyahu's visit.

Offers a look at the impact of the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on the relationship between the U.S. and Israel. Military background of Rabin; Information on the death of Rabin; Description of Rabin as a world leader; Sentiments of Jewish Americans for Israel.

Focuses on the foreign policy of U.S. President George W. Bush. Visit of U.S. Secretary of State James Baker to Moscow, Russia; Discussion on the speech of Baker in Vienna, Austria; Deliberation on Bush's views on several political issues including arms control; Relation of the U.S. with the Soviet Union and Israel.

Focuses on the concern of the U.S. government under President George Bush regarding the peace process between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Development of an alternative Palestinian leadership in the West Bank and Gaza; Rejection of the Palestinian goal of an independent state; Suggestion for Israel to offer the Palestinians sovereignty over the occupied territories as a final step in confidence-building process; Views of high-ranking administration officials that a new environment does exist for peacemaking; Palestinian representation issue as a key obstacle to progress; Suggestion that the Bush administration should help the Palestinians get a home- and self-rule state.

Reports that Israel was upset over King Saud's insistence that the time is ripening for another bout in Palestine. Belief that the U.S. government has decided to drop Israel; Policy of the State Department; Supply of American arms, equipment, and military advice to selected Arab League states. INSET: Untitled.

Presents letters to the editor referencing topics and articles published in previous issues. Concern over the shortage of gasoline in the east U.S.; Debate over the issue of formation of a separate state of Jews in Palestine in the U.S.; Experience of a reader related to race discrimination in the U.S.; Comment regarding the possibility of monarchic regime in Italy; Comment in support of National War Fund which simplifies the work and strengthens the hands of a score of agencies one believes in and must support.

Presents brief comment pieces on U.S. and world affairs. Claim that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings' attempts to trip up Democratic presidential candidates during a debate with his supposed erudition only served to showcase his own ignorance; Claim that the recent suicide bombing in Israel by Palestinian woman Reem Salah Al Reyashi is evidence that the Palestinians are exploiting vulnerable women to further their political ends, as the bomber was allegedly forced to commit the deed by her family as penance for an extramarital affair; Claim that North Carolina African-American Republican Vernon Robinson, who is running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, tried to boost his credibility among the Christian Right by placing a Ten Commandments monument in front of the Winston-Salem City Hall on Martin Luther King Day.

Criticizes the foreign policy of United States President Jimmy Carter. Implications of President Carter's greeting of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in a first round of talks with Middle Eastern leaders; Role of American ambassadors to the United Nations; Discussion on the United States law that created ambassadors to the United Nations.

Focuses on the refusal of the U.S. government to believe intelligence report on planned Egyptian and Soviet attacks against Israel. Details of the Egyptian plan to attack Israel; Report on the arrivals and deployment of new Soviet equipment, Egyptian army movements and its accelerated training in river-crossing operations in preparation for the Suez thrust; Failure of considering a report submitted by the U.S. State Department; Efforts of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to avert the attacks; Misjudgment on the capability and intent of Arabs.

Presents news briefs on socio-political developments in the U.S. Appointment of journalist Fred Barnes as senior editor of the journal; Discussion on the book "The Economic Illusion: False Choice Between Prosperity and Social Justice," by Robert Kuttner; Information on the winning of the Poetry Society of America's 1984 William Carlos Williams Prize by the journal's poetry editor Robert Pinsky for his collection of poems "History of My Heart"; Regulations of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service on automobile business deductions; Criticisms against the establishment of a U.S.-Israel free-trade zone.

Presents several letters to the editor in reference to articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Emphasis of Michael Walzer on analysis of wars in prospects rather than retrospect; Responsibility of Israel's Labor Party for Israeli minister Ariel Sharon's disastrous campaign; Appreciation of Walzer's article; Impact of the resignation of U.S. Senator Howard Metzenbaum on members of organized labor in Ohio.

Reports that Israel, in conjunction with the U.S., has deployed a lethal weapon in west Beirut, Lebanon. Investigations carried out by U.S. Senators to track down Americans Concerned for Middle East Peace and its funding sources; Statement of Franklin Lamb, the group's organizer, that he is a member of Edward M. Kennedy's presidential campaign staff; Arrest of Lamb for failing to show up in Portland for trial on three misdemeanor counts of charging phone calls to other people's accounts.

Reflects on several political and social developments in the world. Comment on the advertisements of the National Rifle Association against the gun control legislation in the U.S.; Instances of Muslims taking shelter in the Israeli security zone in Southern Lebanon; Objections to the appointment of Father Timothy Healy of Georgetown University as the president of the New York Public Library.

Presents information on the international relations. Discussion of the trade between Israel and South Africa; Response of New York Representative Charles Rangel to Israel's decision to bar new military sales to South Africa; View that corporate U.S. needs a rigorous restructuring to compete in the world, and that protecting all current jobs cannot be the paramount consideration.

Focuses on concerns for hostages and their families. Opinion of Americans on the steps taken by Israel to resolve the hostage situation in the previous year; Media coverage of the Iran affair; Reference to Americans held hostage in Lebanon; Accusation of U.S. President Ronald Reagan of caving in to the Iranians not out of concern for hostages, but out of hunger for votes.

Presents an update on the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Middle East. Decision of the governments of various Arabic nations regarding the confrontation with Israel. Military intervention of the U.S. and Great Britain in the confrontation; Trends in Arab policies to regain control of Arab territories from Israel; Speculations regarding the forming of compromise or peace policies between Israel and Arabs.

The section presents letters to the editor in response to articles and topics discussed in previous issues. One reader reacted to the article"Directions for Making a Genius," by Malcolm Cowley in the July 24, 1935 issue which predicted the emergence of a literary genius in the U.S. Another reader calls on U.S. Department of Interior secretary Harold I. Ickes to seize the whole Hetch Hetchy power project in San Francisco, California for violating the Raker Act. Reader Stephen G. Rich agreed with the book review article by Hans Kohn which refute the myth that the Jews of today are a separate race.

Presents letters to the editor referencing topics and articles discussed in previous issues. Comments on the article "Parochial and Private" that appeared in the March 20, 1961 issue related to secularism in public school system in the United States; Issues related to freedom of education in the United States; Views on the book "Ugly Americans" on such things as the prestige and image of Americans in foreign countries; Remarks on the editorial "Intellectual Slums" that appeared in the March 27, 1961 issue; View that the article "Songs of the Silent Generation," by Gene Bluestein that appeared in the March 13, 1961 issue is one of the finest pieces of journalism; Views on the article "Israel's Right to Try Eichmann" that appeared in the March 20, 1961 issue.

Focuses on the prophecies by witch doctor Hiram Wesley Evans and wizard James Arnold Colescott on the future turn of events in the world. Opinion of Evans on the problems of Jews whom he considers a minority; Analysis of the wizard's prophecy on the use of physical force by the U.S. on aliens; Proposal to mop-up alien influences in the U.S. by Colescott; Statements on warring aliens by Colescott.

Presents the author's views regarding several attempts to distort history that is going on in the world. View that the calculated distortions of history have been an important factor in the world's lapse into amnesia; Fresco-sized depiction of an early revolutionary Soviet at the Museum of the History of the October Revolution in Moscow; View that the Concise Oxford Dictionary attempted to tamper with the truth by changing the definition of Jerusalem; Criticism of the friendly gesture of U.S. President Jimmy Carter to Syrian President Hafez al Assad since the latter is tended to destroy Israel; Discussion on the inability to forgive that is found in Jew's psyche because of the holocaust; Discussion on capability of Gerald R. Ford, former U.S. President, to forgive anything.

Comments on issues related to politics and entertainment in the U.S. "People" magazine's publication of photographs of singer Michael Jackson with a fire victim; "The Washington Post" newspaper's comparison between Israelis and Nazis; Sloan Wilson's publication of sequel to "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit," a novel that defined the suburban ethos in 1955.

Focuses on the foreign policy of the U.S. President, Ronald Reagan. Reference to Israel's strike against the nuclear establishment of Iraq, using U.S. planes and military equipments; Demand by Reagan from the Congress to increase defense spending from 162 billion dollars in fiscal year 1981 to 343 billion dollar in fiscal year 1986; Opinion that Reagan needs to explain his plans to the U.S. public; View that the preemptive strike adds new strands to danger of nuclear weapons; Comments on Reagan's sympathetic view toward Taiwan; Discussions on proposals for defense spending.

Presents information on the socio-political condition in the United States. Citation of reasons by the author for not writing a review on the book "Naming Names," by Victor Navasky, which deals with communism in Hollywood; Discussion on Noam Chomsky, a linguist, and his epistles defending professor Robert Fourrison, in relation to the "Holocaust of European Jewry"; Deportation of two mayors from the Israeli-occupied West bank; Reference to the solidarity of Americans with Israel.