According to this Amazon list, The Israel Lobby by Walt and Mearsheimer was #18 in sales for new and forthcoming books this a.m. Just a bounce from yesterday’s piece in the Times, or are things changing? Someone better get these…
My network is buzzing about Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. I can’t tell you how excited folks are. They have the feeling that it’s High Noon at last for the Israel lobby–that the issue will be mainstreamed at last. I’m getting…
Hurray for The New York Times. Today it covered Walt and Mearsheimer’s forthcoming book fairly (a piece penned by the wonderful Patricia Cohen, who broke the AJC anti-Zionism fatwa story last winter). The story is demoralizing. We learn that many…
Here’s a link to Glenn Greenwald’s brilliant defenestration of O’Hanlon and Pollack for their comments on Iraq. Read it. I have one addendum. Greenwald states the following about Pollack’s sock, the Saban Center: The above-the-political-fray Pollack is employed by the…
I now have a copy of the letter John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt sent to the board of the Chicago Global Affairs Council after it cancelled their September appearance there under political pressure. The letter follows, below. A couple of…
The great biologist and student of ants, E.O. Wilson, was on C-Span the other day, endorsing, among other ideas, Einstein’s belief that we must all become vegetarians or turn the earth to powder. There are more than 500 vegetable species…
Today’s Times performs the great service of describing the separate road system that Israel has built for Arab and Jew in the West Bank. Bless the editors, a stark 4-column photo at the top of page 1 shows us the…
Unbelievable that Walt and Mearsheimer have been banned from speaking in Chicago. Again proving the profs’ argument about the strength of the Israel lobby. Where is Alan Dershowitz? Even he ought to decry this censorship, which is only forcing the…
Congressman Thaddeus McCotter, a Michigan Republican and a sharp guy, addressed the Heritage Foundation last week and said there has to be a political solution in Iraq–Shi’ites and Sunnis both have to feel that they have a stake. Democracy is…
The other day I went to see No End in Sight, the documentary on Iraq that has gotten all kinds of critical praise. You have to hand it to independent filmmaker Charles Ferguson. The movie gives you a better idea…