Comments on: Praise The Washington Post. It Lifts Up Walt/Mearsheimer (Then Tries to Bash Them) http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 17:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: anonymous http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75469 anonymous Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75469 <p>"It might have been better if they had gotten their facts straight," says Ross of Walt and Mearsheimer. "I don't say they're anti-Semitic, just that they're ignorant." Dennis Ross, chief Middle East peace negotiator in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.</p> "It might have been better if they had gotten their facts straight," says Ross of Walt and Mearsheimer. "I don't say they're anti-Semitic, just that they're ignorant." Dennis Ross, chief Middle East peace negotiator in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.

]]> By: Gene Machine http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75470 Gene Machine Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75470 <p><i>"It might have been better if they had gotten their facts straight," says Ross of Walt and Mearsheimer. "I don't say they're anti-Semitic, just that they're ignorant." Dennis Ross, chief Middle East peace negotiator in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.</i></p> <p>I don't say that Dennis Ross has a dual-loyalty problem but he is suprisingly ignorant of the fact that Amerian interests and Israeli interests do not always coincide.</p> "It might have been better if they had gotten their facts straight," says Ross of Walt and Mearsheimer. "I don't say they're anti-Semitic, just that they're ignorant." Dennis Ross, chief Middle East peace negotiator in the George H.W. Bush and Clinton administrations.

I don't say that Dennis Ross has a dual-loyalty problem but he is suprisingly ignorant of the fact that Amerian interests and Israeli interests do not always coincide.

]]> By: Rowan Berkeley http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75471 Rowan Berkeley Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75471 <p>I bet Frankel will be attacked for even having spoken to Paul Findley.</p> <p>On him see:<br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Findley" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Findley</a><br /> which links to his CNI group.</p> I bet Frankel will be attacked for even having spoken to Paul Findley.

On him see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Findley
which links to his CNI group.

]]> By: Rowan Berkeley http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75472 Rowan Berkeley Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75472 <p>By the way - if you were as cynical as me, you would see this as a completely phony, contrived dispute, a put up job to engage the stupid 'faith based' American public in shadow boxing about nonsense:<br /> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071501032_pf.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071501032_pf.html</a></p> By the way – if you were as cynical as me, you would see this as a completely phony, contrived dispute, a put up job to engage the stupid 'faith based' American public in shadow boxing about nonsense:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/15/AR2006071501032_pf.html

]]> By: Reader http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75473 Reader Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75473 <p>Note that the Walt/Mearsheimer paper was so sloppy that it was disowned by their own universities!</p> <p>BTW, why would Israel want a war which was so obviously against their own interests? Look who the US put into power in Iraq. Those who hate Israel should be supporting this war!</p> Note that the Walt/Mearsheimer paper was so sloppy that it was disowned by their own universities!

BTW, why would Israel want a war which was so obviously against their own interests? Look who the US put into power in Iraq. Those who hate Israel should be supporting this war!

]]> By: jimmy http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75474 jimmy Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75474 <p>It strikes me the best way(perhaps the only way, accepting the politics of criticizing Jews or Israelis as a group) to deal the Israel Lobby is to get more help from Israel. </p> <p>The problem with the Israel lobby is that it is controlled by American right wingers, or at least right wing in regards to Israel. </p> <p>In Israel, there is a greater diversity of opinion about Israel, about Palistine. Perhaps we can encourage Israelis to emigrate to America to help build a better AIPAC.</p> It strikes me the best way(perhaps the only way, accepting the politics of criticizing Jews or Israelis as a group) to deal the Israel Lobby is to get more help from Israel.

The problem with the Israel lobby is that it is controlled by American right wingers, or at least right wing in regards to Israel.

In Israel, there is a greater diversity of opinion about Israel, about Palistine. Perhaps we can encourage Israelis to emigrate to America to help build a better AIPAC.

]]> By: Rowan Berkeley http://mondoweiss.net/2006/07/praise_the_wash.html/comment-page-1#comment-75475 Rowan Berkeley Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2006/07/16/praise_the_wash.html#comment-75475 <p>Jimmy, you are assuming that Jewish political activity in the USA would reflect the demographic, but this is not true. It is already the case that, at the grassroots, American Jews, like Israeli Jews, object to being led by power-mad hyper-imperialist berserkers, but this has no effect, because Jewish politics are not 'democratic' but clientelistic (as are all politics, really).</p> Jimmy, you are assuming that Jewish political activity in the USA would reflect the demographic, but this is not true. It is already the case that, at the grassroots, American Jews, like Israeli Jews, object to being led by power-mad hyper-imperialist berserkers, but this has no effect, because Jewish politics are not 'democratic' but clientelistic (as are all politics, really).

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