Today's a day I feel blessed to be a Jew living right now in Jewish and world history. Because wow is there a lot going on, this is just an amazing moment in Jewish power and journalism and Jewish civ and nobody knows how it's going to turn out. First time tragedy, next time majesty, that's my bet as a quasi-assimilationist optimist. All this because Walt and Mearsheimer are in Israel, traveling around, accused of staging a carnival by the IDF spokesperson, but having debates everywhere and apparently having a little fun too.
It got feisty at Hebrew University. Here Mearsheimer is in a car going from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv and being interviewed by phone about whether he is an anti-Semite. The Chronicle of Higher Education seems to be the only ones covering them back here. This says that Uri Avnery invited them. No wait, here is Foreign Policy saying they were threatened with boycott but everything was cordial. Here is Walt being courtly at Al Quds University (we're enjoying ourselves he says) and Mearsheimer saying only Israel wants the U.S. to attack Iran. And here's the Dersh, challenging them to debate again and saying they're whining and pandering. Oh please. Let's everyone relax. They're just in Israel, talking, like some other people of the book.
