On this morning’s McLaughlin Group, U.S. World & News Report editor Mortimer Zuckerman said that the legislation to recognize the Armenian genocide of 1915-19 poses a foreign policy “disaster” for the United States and is the result of a well-heeled…
Giuliani adviser Daniel Pipes (writing in Jerusalem) and I are in complete agreement: Zionism is in crisis. Zionism suited the spirit of its times. Zionism arose from real conditions in Europe and spoke to the soul of American Eastern-European Jewry)….
The latest negative review of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book was particularly baroque: Samuel G. Freedman in the Washington Post writing about the Christian concept of original sin and saying that W/M have that view of Israel (and nary a word…
My friend Dan Fleshler, who opposed the Iraq war, exonerates Jewish neocons of the charge of dual loyalty (to the U.S. and Israel) in a post on Huffpo. Interesting, but I think his argument is weak. First off, Fleshler says…
I wish I could be in Chicago this Friday. A murderer’s row of intellectuals, from Noam Chomsky to Tony Judt to Neve Gordon to Akeel Bilgrami, will be speaking at a forum on academic freedom in a church at the…
I’m sure I’ve mischaracterized Steve Walt somewhat in earlier posts. The other night at Columbia, I noticed that he’s a leftwinger at heart. When Mearsheimer said that we would not have invaded Iraq if Al Gore had been elected president,…
Walt and Mearsheimer’s appearance at Columbia U. Monday night had an odd energy. I kept wondering what the event’s true character was. Ahmadinejad had come to Columbia just ten days ago; and I expected to find the two armies massed…
At an appearance at Columbia University tonight, Stephen Walt, a Harvard professor and former dean, said that he and University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer were slated to speak at Google headquarters recently to discuss their bestselling book The Israel…
The Israeli journalist Uri Avnery shares my view that Walt and Mearsheimer’s book is historic. He compares it to Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Avnery joins a group of progressive Jews, including Michael Lerner, who welcome this book as a way out…