{"id":4380,"date":"2008-10-04T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T19:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4380"},"modified":"2008-10-04T14:13:28","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T19:13:28","slug":"kim-petersen-the-lobby-and-the-patriot%e2%80%99s-predicament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4380","title":{"rendered":"Kim Petersen: The Lobby and the Patriot\u2019s Predicament"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kim Petersen, Dissent, 1 October 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>America\u2019s Defense Line: The Justice Department\u2019s Battle to Register the Israeli Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government<\/a>
\nby Grant F. Smith
\n(Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Washington, D.C., 2008)
\nHardcover ISBN: 0-9764437-2-4
\nPaperback ISBN: 0-9764437-5-9 (only available from Middle East Books<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Grant Smith\u2019s latest book, America\u2019s Defense Line: The Justice Department\u2019s Battle to Register the Israel Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government<\/a><\/em>, combines probing investigative journalism with newly released documents to produce a searing expose of the Israel lobby\u2019s1<\/a><\/sup> invasive osmosis into the seams of the US government. Readers of Smith\u2019s previous book Foreign Agents<\/a><\/em> (see review<\/a>) will find it segues smoothly with his new work.<\/p>\n

[Read the review<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Kim Petersen, Dissent, 1 October 2008 America\u2019s Defense Line: The Justice Department\u2019s Battle to Register the Israeli Lobby as Agents of a Foreign Government by Grant F. Smith (Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, Washington, D.C., 2008) Hardcover ISBN: … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-18E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4384,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4380\/revisions\/4384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}