Abourezk and Anti-Israel Conspiracy Theories

I received an email today from one Clarity Press (never heard of it) trying to get me to buy a book called The Power of Israel In The United States written by James Petras, who, among his other claims to fame, is the former winner of the Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association's Marxist Sociology section.  The book appears to be an argument for a conspiracy theory that the "Zionist power" controls American foreign policy, manipulating it to the benefit of Israel.  The Zionist power, apparently in league with its minions in Big Oil, forced America into Iraq and is pushing us towards war with Syria and Iran.  The blurb also claims that the Danish cartoon controversy was manufactured by the Zionist power to "foment antipathy between Muslims and the West."  The publisher's web page (linked above) contains the table of contents of the book which contains a chapter called "Unanswered Questions: September 11 and the Israelis," so it is evidently pedaling that conspiracy, too.  Endorsing the book:  former United States Senator from South Dakota James Abourezk.  I print in entirety Abourezk's endorsement (this is from the email):

The following comments from former Senator James Abourezk are reprinted here with his permission:

"I had never paid much attention to Chomsky's writings, as I had all along assumed that he was correct and proper in his position on the Arab-Israeli conflict.  But now, upon learning that his first assumption is that Israel is simply doing what the imperial leaders in the U.S. wants them to do, I concur with you that this assumption is completely wrong.  I can tell you from personal experience that, at least in the Congress, the support israel has in that body is based completely on political fear -- fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done...

Secondly, the Lobby is quite clear in its efforts to suppress any congressional dissent from the policy of complete support for Israel which might hurt annual appropriations.  Even one voice is attacked, as I was, on grounds that if Congress is completely silent on the issue, the press will have no one to quote, which effectively silences the press as well.  Any journalists or editors who step out of line are quickly brought under control by well organized economic pressure against the newspaper caught sinning...

I do not recall a single instance where any administration saw the need for Israel's military power to advance U.S. Imperial intersts.  In fact, as we saw in the Gulf
War, Israel's involvement was detrimental to what Bush, Sr. wanted to accomlish in that war.  They had, as you might remember, to suppress any Israeli assistance so that the coalition would not be destroyed by their involvement.

So far as the argument that we need to use Israel as a base for U.S. operations, I'm not aware of any U .S. bases there of any kind.  The U.S. has enough military bases and fleets in the area to be able to handle any kind of military needs without using
Israel. In fact I can't think of an instance where the U.S. would want to involve Israel militarily for fear of upsetting the current allies the U.S. has, i.e. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates."

Update: Just doing some googling of Abourezk I found this old interview about Paul Wolfowitz's assent to the World Bank and the Bolton nomination to the UN.  If you go to the main page (http://www.irib.ir/) you find that Abourezk is bashing George Bush, Wolfowitz, Bolton and Israel to the state broadcast agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

Update II:  I guess it could be said that nowhere does Abourezk explicitly endorse the book, but one assumes if he gave permission for his words to be used in conjunction with an ad campaign that he endorses this book.  Opinions to the contrary are welcome.