Comments on: Legendary ‘NY Review’ Hasn’t Gotten Around to Walt & Mearsheimer, Now Out for a Year

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

So what?

You know its not going to happen at this point.

What do you hope to change by this effort, re: Israel Lobby?

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Do you find anything of merit in the liberal Zionist criticism of your blog?

Or, is it all dismissal and contempt?

By: otto

otto — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

The NYRB may have received a ranting, TNR style review of Walt and Mearsheimer, and refused to publish it in order to avoid further polluting the public discussion of the book.

In fact, I wonder if the major political science journals have yet published reviews of the book?

By: Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast

Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Well Richard, I sometimes find it meritorious when you are mean to Phil, but I have only dismissal and contempt to offer for your political point of view.

By: otto

otto — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

There's little or nothing 'liberal' in Richard Witty's commentary on this blog.

By: Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast

Paul Easton, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Belly Of The Beast — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

I dont follow the NYR because of the excessive price. As with the NY Looney Tunes, when you go upmarket you need to worry about offending your readers, since losses will not be replaced.

By: Phil Weiss

Phil Weiss — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

richard sometimes they do reviews more than a year later and it still has impact. i hope they do so now.
my probelm with the liberal zionist critique of the blog, and maybe i'm not up on the chpapter and verse, is that: they play even-steven with the israeli occupation and palestinian violence, when i think, hey we're jews, let's look after our moral house first, ala herskovitz of ann arbor about whom i blogged saturday; and also that they always tend to overlook the absolute disaster of iraq,which i think flowed in good part from the pervasion if that's a word of the zionist critique of the arab world into the american foreign policy idea bank. so i think iraq alone should have precipitated a critique of zionist ideas, in the jewish communiyt, and the lib zionists aren't doing so. i guess i havent convinced em!

By: D.

D. — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

In NYRB's defense, 99.44% of potential Jewish reviewers must feel duty-bound to attack the message, and 99.44% of Gentile reviwers must feel terrified to support the message.

Basically, our society has gotten into a position where we can't conduct an adult discussion on any subject touching on Jewishness. (Unless of course it's "antisemitism.")

By: JIm Haygood

JIm Haygood — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

"pervasion if that's a word"

Prolly you meant "pervasiveness." But it's a good coinage nonetheless -- the zionist-incited perverse invasion of Iraq definitely was a "pervasion" in my book, as are their beachheads in the press (Bill Kristol et al).

By: Richard Witty

Richard Witty — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil,
You EVADED the question.

The question was "Do you find anything of merit in the liberal Zionist critique of your blog?"

You sound like Sarah Palin.