Finally finished this. I haven’t seen a convincing refutation of its thesis. It seems clear since the end of the Cold War Israel no longer acts as the USA’s “attack dog” or a traditional client state but rather has a lobby powerful enough to shape U.S. policy to its own ends Mearsheimer and Walt list numerous examples. In 2006 Israel’s invasion of Lebanon undermined a U.S. friendly color revolution government that had just been installed. They turned the Lebanese population from having a positive view to being virulently against the U.S