Posted on 03/03/2013 2:28:51 PM PST by Nachum
A controversial author and longtime critic of the U.S.-Israel alliance lectured at the State Department Friday on the eve of the AIPAC policy conference, Washingtons largest annual pro-Israel gathering.
Stephen Walt, coauthor of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy and professor of international affairs at Harvard University, was the featured speaker at the Secretarys Open Forum on Friday afternoon. His topic: Top reasons American foreign policy fails, according to a copy of the event flyer posted in the hallways of Foggy Bottom.
It is unclear how high the U.S.-Israel relationship ranked on Walts list.
One State Department insider provided the announcement flyer to the Free Beacon and expressed concern that the Department would host such a divisive figure.
Walts speech, which took place as Secretary of State John Kerry traveled overseas on his first diplomatic tour, came days after the Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense on a sharply divided vote of 58-41. Walt emerged as a strong supporter of Hagels nomination, defending the former Nebraska GOP senators remarks that the Jewish lobby intimidates elected officials on Capitol Hill.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
Walt celebrated Hagels confirmation in an item posted on his Foreign Policy magazine blog two days before his State Department remarks...
The list, Ping
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Bet Walt could be an undersecretary if he wanted.
Stephen Walt, coauthor of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy and professor of international affairs at Harvard University, was the featured speaker at the Secretarys Open Forum on Friday afternoon. His topic: Top reasons American foreign policy fails, ...came days after the Senate confirmed Chuck Hagel as secretary of Defense on a sharply divided vote of 58-41. Walt emerged as a strong supporter of Hagels nomination [as did Rand Paul], defending the former Nebraska GOP senators remarks that the ''Jewish lobby" ''intimidates elected officials on Capitol Hill.
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