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…
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…
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…
C-Span filmed Walt and Mearsheimer’s event at Politics and Prose on September 5 and has not yet aired it. The event was so jammed, reports the WSJ (fairly), with 500 people, that people were turned away on the sidewalk. Why…
M.J. Rosenberg, of Israel Policy Forum, tried to post re the Philadelphia event I blogged about and wasn’t able to. Thank you, M.J. Here’s his comment: This is sad, actually. I read about this event in Philly and then read…
If you wanted to sense the power of Walt and Mearsheimer’s ideas, there was no better place than the conservative synagogue Beth Hillel outside Philadelphia last night, a panel discussion sponsored by the rightwing Jewish Policy Center on radical Islam…