Mearsheimer and Walt have written an L.A. Times op-ed rightly taking the leading presidential candidates to task for their failure of leadership and nerve on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
…The presidential candidates are no friends of Israel. They are like most U.S. politicians, who reflexively mouth pro-Israel platitudes while continuing to endorse and subsidize policies that are [...]
My blogging friend, Phil Weiss, has a good post up today about The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy:
This book is too powerful, and the ground has been prepared by Jimmy Carter’s book. So it will be passed around, it will be taught. Serious people will press it on other serious people. Political aides will [...]
Abe Foxman: ‘historical anachronism’ (Alessandra Petlin/NYT)
James Traub has written a penetrating NY Times Magazine profile of Abe Foxman awkwardly called Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem. Abe will NOT be happy. In fact, I’m sure Traub’s received calls from the Man Himself on High complaining about the ‘unfair, biased’ portrayal of him. [...]
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