Tonight Walt and Mearsheimer appeared with honor at the London School of Economics. It is reported that in the next couple days they will be speaking at the House of Lords and at Chatham House–the Royal Institute of International Affairs….
I missed last night’s event at Yivo Institute cause I felt fluish (rhymes with…). My friend Rob Buchanan, a longtime journalist who teaches journalism at the New School University, went, and had this to report: I went with the news…
For the second time in a week, the Washington Post has teed up the Jews-and-power issue in a defensive manner. Yesterday it was a long piece by Ruth Wisse saying that Jews are a historically powerless people who had to…
Esquire has printed a fine piece by John H. Richardson about former NSC analyst Flynt Leverett battling the neocons inside the White House during the runup to the Iraq war. The best moment is when Saudi Prince Abdullah meets with…
Tonight the Yivo Institute in New York is holding a discussion on Walt & Mearsheimer’s book, called “‘The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy’, A Celebration.” Wait, got that wrong– “A Critical Response.” The critical responders are authors Jeffrey Goldberg…
Last night ’60 Minutes’ did a piece on “Curveball,” the Iraqi scientist who fled to Germany in the late 90s and in 2002 provided “intelligence” that Saddam was preparing chemical and biological weapons. Curveball claimed that a dozen technicians had…
This week two Nobel Peace Prizers knelt before my people–American Jews–to ask them to acknowledge the suffering of the Palestinians. At a church in Boston, Desmond Tutu gave a speech about apartheid and Israel/Palestine. He invoked a passage from Deuteronomy…
The Foreign Affairs attack on Walt and Mearsheimer establishes a pattern. Elite opinion in the U.S. is gravely dismissive of the authors. Leslie Gelb in the New York Times. Walter Russell Mead for the Council on Foreign Relations. David Remnick…
On Charlie Rose the other day, Jeffrey Toobin said that if Hillary becomes president, she will nominate Barack Obama for the Supreme Court. I was making my lunch, but I think Toobin said he had it from a reliable source….