Some time in the next few days the website israellobbybook.com will be activated–right now it’s a blank–and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, will be published by FSG. This is a…
In a remarkably-fair piece about Walt and Mearsheimer in the latest New Yorker, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, summarizes part of the scholars’ argument: Israel and its lobby bear outsized responsibility for persuading the Bush Administration to invade Iraq and,…
With Walt and Mearsheimer’s Israel Lobby book about to burst onto the scene, the poverty of the existing debate over the Israel interest in American politics is demonstrated by the coverage of Freedom’s Watch, the new rightwing group spending millions…
Last night Ari Fleischer was on Hardball speaking up for Freedom’s Watch, a new organization that is buying ads to support George Bush’s war “plans” in Iraq. Fleischer warns that if we don’t stay the course, the whole region will…
Yesterday’s Times had a front-page piece on a telephoned threat to N.Y. Gov. Spitzer’s father, and the Republican consultant who’s accused of making it. Sadly, no one in the mainstream press has gone after the vicious anti-Arab telephone calls and…
Commenters on my favorite channel (ESPN) keep saying that Michael Vick may never play football again. Why? Because he committed heinous acts? It sure looks like he is going to be punished for them, and that he will apologize. I’m…
The true fascination of the ADL’s shifting line on the Armenian genocide of 90 years ago has little to do with Turkey or Armenians. It is about the Nakba, Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948. The issues surrounding Armenian genocide…
Today’s Chicago Tribune finally covers the censorship of Walt and Mearsheimer at the Global Affairs Council and highlights the shocking fact that Abe Foxman–the denier of Armenian genocide out of concern for the state of Israel– was consulted by the…
In an ad in the Boston Globe, the Anti-Defamation League says the controversy over its nonrecognition of the Armenian genocide in Turkey in ’15-’18 has “nothing to do” with its program of fighting hatred and bigotry. Huh. It goes on…