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Stephen M. Walt, professor of international relations at Harvard University,  talks about the Israel lobby in the United States and the negative effect unconditional support for Israel has had on U.S. foreign policy in the Mideast and on Israel itself. Walt is the author, along with John Mearsheimer, of The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.  Published in 2007, the book was controversial when it first came out  but many of its arguments are now widely accepted. Walt discusses the political power of the lobby and changing views of Israel in the United States since the book was written.