I had an emotionally-turbulent night at the neocon panel at Beth Hillel Wednesday. I was there with my liberal parents, with whom I have some disagreement over Middle East issues, and before the event, Chabad Rabbi Shraga Sherman, who wrapped…
A reader responded to my question of yesterday– Why hasn’t C-Span aired Walt & Mearsheimer’s appearance at Politics and Prose?– saying that the answer may be found in the Board of Directors of C-SPAN. http://www.c-span.org/about/company/index.asp?code=BOARD The reader noted that the…
C-Span filmed Walt and Mearsheimer’s event at Politics and Prose on September 5 and has not yet aired it. The event was so jammed, reports the WSJ (fairly), with 500 people, that people were turned away on the sidewalk. Why…
M.J. Rosenberg, of Israel Policy Forum, tried to post re the Philadelphia event I blogged about and wasn’t able to. Thank you, M.J. Here’s his comment: This is sad, actually. I read about this event in Philly and then read…
If you wanted to sense the power of Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas, there was no better place than the conservative synagogue Beth Hillel outside Philadelphia last night, a panel discussion sponsored by the rightwing Jewish Policy Center on radical Islam…
Hurray for democracy. The Dallas Morning News’ editorial board has also given a forum to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt (and apparently made up for this by reprinting Richard Cohen’s Hatikvah-humming attack on the pair from the Washington Post of…
God bless the LA Times Editorial board, it met with Walt and Mearsheimer and published the dialogue! That’s called journalism. It was a real give and take. The LA Times people were critical, at times even conservative: Nick Goldberg suggested…
I’m a big fan of former South Dakota Sen. James Abourezk, but I raised an eyebrow over his statement that he had collided with Wolf Blitzer, then of AIPAC, at the “Federal Press Club.” I didn’t know what that is/was….
The Washington Post has an attack on Congressman Jim Moran that is full of casual and dismissive invective, the suggestion that he’s an antisemite who is afraid of the bogeyman, and is a captive of the Arab lobby (when of…