Passion, money, and smoke and mirrors : AIPAC and Congress -- American Jews and their lobbies : a guide for the perplexed -- Lamp salesmen and secretaries of state : lobbying the Executive Branch -- The silence of (most) American Jewish doves -- American Jews, Iraq, and the fetish of preemptive war -- The shared emergency -- The view from Israel -- Rhetoric (and paradigms) for the rest of us -- The far left's "Jewish problem" and why it hurts the Palestinians -- Conclusion : a lobby for the rest of us.