I blew the post on Daniel Pipes yesterday. The point here is a simple one: Pipes says that the Oslo process is “appeasement.” Israel must defeat its enemies. “There is not a single active leading politician in Israel who talks…
A number of thoughtful people were shocked by the lengthy hazing Columbia President Lee Bollinger administered to Iran’s Ahmadinejad Monday in introducing him at the school. Chris Matthews said, “Who is this guy?” then laughed at the length of the…
Give the devil his due, the true star of the Philadelphia synagogue event I went to a week ago was Daniel Pipes. Pipes was the most physically impressive of the speakers, at about 6-6 it would seem, and true to…
On Huffpo the other day, David Bromwich gave Walt and Mearsheimer a laudatory read and expressed shock at the quote they offer from Bush’s Mideast policy guru Elliot Abrams: How mad is Elliott Abrams? If one passage cited by Mearsheimer-Walt…
The other day on “Meet the Press,” Senator Clinton told Tim Russert that there is no military solution in Iraq, that the war requires a political solution, presumably a just division of power and resources (as Ambassador Crocker said to…
–Bollinger shot down an invitation from leading school officials to Ahmadinejad a year ago, censoring a point of view that scholars wanted to hear. He has nobly reversed that judgment. –Ahmadinejad will be traveling to the heart of the Jewish…
Let us celebrate the moment. Today the great publishing house Farrar, Straus & Giroux has bought a full-page ad for Walt & Mearsheimer in the New York Times. Two years after The Atlantic refused to publish their work and they…
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…