I just did a piece on Zbig Brzezinski for the American Conservative, tried to get him to break loose re Israel/Palestine. The man was careful. But I say it's the Jeffrey Goldberg effect–when Goldberg all-but-embraced the Walt and Mearsheimer thesis in the May 18 Times (even as he tried to cover himself by attacking them). Goldberg has given room to Zbig. Here the Telegraph of London has Zbig letting his hair down, just a little, attacking some members of the Jewish leadership as "McCarthyite":
"They operate not by arguing but by slandering, vilifying, demonising.
They very promptly wheel out anti-Semitism. There is an element of paranoia
in this inclination to view any serious attempt at a compromised peace as
somehow directed against Israel."
(P.S. Wheeling out antisemitism and vilifying, i.e., to characterize as vile. Last year at YIVO, Goldberg repeatedly referred to Walt and Mearsheimer as antisemites. And lately he has referred to them as "the vile Walt and the vile Mearsheimer." Precisely the tactics Zbig rightly contemns.)
