Here is the National Jewish Democratic Council attack on Walt and Mearsheimer. It includes the NJDC’s head, Ira Forman, arguing in the Jewish Week, that a group of neoconservatives could never have bullied Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, et al into…
According to the JTA (my favorite wire service), the National Jewish Democratic Council has said that Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas are “irresponsible” and “downright dangerous.” The Council, which is affiliated with the Democratic Party, made the accusations in response to…
The Nation has scooped the N.Y. Times and Washington Post with a fine piece of reporting on the great Israeli daily, Ha’aretz. Here is the most important paragraph: Gideon Levy says he is less constrained in his punditry than most…
A friend passes along the following account of Walt and Mearsheimer’s event at Northwest D.C.’s most influential book store, last night: Went to Politics and Prose in Washington, DC last night. Place was like a sauna. A man passed out…
In the latest Commentary, Hillel Halkin, a New York-born columnist for the Forward who made aliyah after the 6-Day War and who I have pointed out before sees the Bible as a deed to the land of Israel for the…
Kudos to Fresh Air host Terry Gross; she did a very fair interview with Stephen Walt yesterday, though she was careful to handle the subject with steel tongs. She kept repeating the thought that the book is “controversial.” And she…
Walt and Mearsheimer’s book on the Israel Lobby is being published today. I finished it last night. I said before that it was historic, but I did not realize quite what it was till I put it down: a great…
A sharp reader has pointed out that another scholar holds the patent on an idea I found so exciting in Walt and Mearsheimer’s book. This is the idea that after the cold war–a period in which Israel was our invaluable…
Everyone in my community (opponents of the Iraq war who seek a more balanced American policy toward the Palestinians) has only one question about Walt and Mearsheimer’s forthcoming book: Will it be ignored? For instance, James Morris, who I believe…