U.S. Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israel Lobby; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Influence of the Lobby?; 1.2 Foreign Policy Discourse Analysis; 1.3 Book Structure; Note; 2 Talking About the Pro-Israel Lobby; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Lobby Groups; Lobby Groups and American Pluralism; Lobbying and Political Institutions; Lobbying and Public Opinion; 2.3 Mearsheimer and Walt's Israel Lobby; Criticisms of General Argument; Problems of Policymaking; The Pro-Israel Lobby, the Executive and Congress; Strategic Asset?; Christian Zionism; Public Discourse

2.4 ConclusionNotes; 3 Theory and Methodology; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Argument and Hypotheses; Defining Discourse; 3.3 Theoretical Approach; Allison's Models of Analysis; Key Signifiers
Nodal Points, Master Signifiers and Myths; Group Formation and Representation; Social Antagonism and Hegemony; Ideology: American Exceptionalism and American Foreign Policy Discourse; Exceptionalism and Identity; Exceptionalism and Foreign Policy; The Construction of Relationships in US Foreign Policy; 3.4 Methodological Approach; Discursive Practices Approach; Other Methodological Factors; 3.5 Conclusion

Note4 The Ideological Myth: American Exceptionalism, Identity and Difference; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 The Ideological Myth of American Exceptionalism; Key Signifiers of American Exceptionalism; Relationally Constructed American Identity; 4.3 The Historic Arab 'Other' and Exceptionalism; An American Abroad in the Orient; Presence of Palestine; 4.4 The Clinton Administration and American Exceptionalism; Predication; Presupposition; Subject Positioning; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 The Clinton Administration's Foreign Policy Discourse and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; 5.1 Introduction

5.2 Battles for Discursive Meaning: Defining the US RoleFinding a New Foreign Policy Framework; The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Cold War Consistency Through Change; 5.3 American Renewal and Foreign Policy; Terrorism; The Israel-Palestine Conflict and 'The Peacemaker'; 5.4 The Clinton Administration's Israel-Palestine Discourse; Predication; Presupposition; Subject Positioning; 5.5 Conclusion; Notes; 6 The Power of the Pro-Israel Lobby; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Lobbying for Israel; American Exceptionalism and Support for Israel; The Pro-Israel Lobby; Dominance and Discourse

The Pro-Israel Lobby and American Politics6.3 The Role of AIPAC: History and Lobbying the Clinton Administration; AIPAC and Policy Influence Record; Working Within Foreign Policy Discourse; AIPAC, the Clinton Administration and the Peace Process; 6.4 AIPAC's Discourse on the Peace Process; Predication; Presupposition; Subject Positioning; 6.5 Conclusion; 7 Camp David and Discursive Power in Action; 7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Explaining the Failure to Agree; Enduring Representations; Framing Negotiations; 7.3 The Clinton Administration and Final Status Negotiations; Predication; Presupposition