Editing Stephen Walt (section)

===Israel===
Walt has been a critic, along with his co-author [[John Mearsheimer]] of the offensive neorealism school of international relations, of the [[Israel lobby in the United States]] and the influence he says that it has on [[Foreign policy of the United States|its foreign policy]]. He wrote that [[Barack Obama]] erred by breaking with the principles in his Cairo speech by allowing continued [[Israeli settlement]] and by participating in a "well-coordinated assault" against the [[United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict|Goldstone Report]].<ref name=fora/>

Walt suggested in 2010 that State Department diplomat [[Dennis Ross]]'s alleged partiality toward Israel might make him give Obama advice that was against US interests.<ref>Walt, Stephen. "[https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/04/02/on-dual-loyalty/ On Dual Loyalty] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308115426/http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/04/02/on-dual-loyalty/|date=2017-03-08}}", ''[[Foreign Affairs (magazine)|Foreign Affairs]]'' (April 2, 2010).</ref> [[Robert Satloff]], executive director of the [[Washington Institute for Near East Policy]] (WINEP), defended Ross and criticized Walt in a piece published by ''[[Foreign Affairs (magazine)|Foreign Affairs]]'', which had published Walt's piece a few days earlier.<ref name=seat>{{cite magazine|title=Defending Dennis Ross|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/04/08/defending-dennis-ross-2/|magazine=Foreign Policy|date=8 April 2010|author=Satloff, Robert|access-date=27 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518081109/http://foreignpolicy.com/2010/04/08/defending-dennis-ross-2/|archive-date=2015-05-18|url-status=live}} A copy of the Satloff piece is available [https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/robert-satloff-responds-to-dual-loyalty-attack-on-ross-washington-institute here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518095145/https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/robert-satloff-responds-to-dual-loyalty-attack-on-ross-washington-institute |date=2015-05-18}} on the website of WINEP.</ref> Satloff wrote that Ross's connection to WINEP is innocuous (Ross was a distinguished fellow at WINEP throughout George W. Bush's administration, and Mearsheimer and Walt's book described WINEP as "part of the core" of the Israel lobby in the United States) and that Walt mistakenly believes that the US cannot simultaneously "advance strategic partnership both with Israel and with friendly Arab and Muslim states."<ref name=seat/>

After the [[Itamar attack]], in which a Jewish family was killed on the [[West Bank]] in March 2011, Walt condemned the murderers but added that "while we are at it, we should not spare the other parties who have helped create and perpetuate the circumstances." He listed "every Israeli government since 1967, for actively promoting the illegal effort to colonize these lands," "Palestinian leaders who have glorified violence," and "the settlers themselves, some of whom routinely use violence to intimidate the Palestinians who live in the lands they covet."<ref name=murders>{{cite magazine|last=Walt|first=Stephen M.|title=On the murders at Itamar|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/13/on_the_murders_at_itamar|magazine=Foreign Policy|access-date=31 December 2013|date=13 March 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114134925/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/03/13/on_the_murders_at_itamar|archive-date=2014-01-14|url-status=live}}</ref>

Walt criticized the US for voting against a Security Council resolution condemning Israel's West Bank settlements and called the vote a "foolish step" because "the resolution was in fact consistent with the official policy of every president since [[Lyndon Johnson]]."<ref>{{cite web | last=Walt | first=Stephen M. | title=A false friend in the White House | website=Foreign Policy | date=2011-02-20 | url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2011/02/20/a-false-friend-in-the-white-house/ | access-date=2022-02-08}}</ref>