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…
Some time in the next few days the website israellobbybook.com will be activated–right now it’s a blank–and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, will be published by FSG. This is a…
In a remarkably-fair piece about Walt and Mearsheimer in the latest New Yorker, the magazine’s editor, David Remnick, summarizes part of the scholars’ argument: Israel and its lobby bear outsized responsibility for persuading the Bush Administration to invade Iraq and,…
With Walt and Mearsheimer’s Israel Lobby book about to burst onto the scene, the poverty of the existing debate over the Israel interest in American politics is demonstrated by the coverage of Freedom’s Watch, the new rightwing group spending millions…
Yesterday’s Times had a front-page piece on a telephoned threat to N.Y. Gov. Spitzer’s father, and the Republican consultant who’s accused of making it. Sadly, no one in the mainstream press has gone after the vicious anti-Arab telephone calls and…
The true fascination of the ADL’s shifting line on the Armenian genocide of 90 years ago has little to do with Turkey or Armenians. It is about the Nakba, Israel’s expulsion of Palestinians in 1948. The issues surrounding Armenian genocide…
Today’s Chicago Tribune finally covers the censorship of Walt and Mearsheimer at the Global Affairs Council and highlights the shocking fact that Abe Foxman–the denier of Armenian genocide out of concern for the state of Israel– was consulted by the…
Alan Dershowitz has a nice piece in The Boston Globe telling the truth about Armenian genocide in 1915 (I said WWI in an earlier post; my bad). It would have been better if he had lit into the ADL for…
When I was in Syria last year I tried to have a conversation in a restaurant with an Arab friend, a woman, about women’s rights in the Arab world and she held up her hand. “Let’s have this discussion back…