The reviews are in: W&M are still spreading vague charges with no evidence to back them up, and accusing Jews of controlling America. Funny, as I recall, it was American controlling Israel during the Hezbullah war (and after, and before), but hey, what do I know? I’m probably part of that nefarious lobby.
And oh yeah–W&M are accusing Israel of having lain in wait for Hezbullah to kill and kidnap her soldiers so she could start a war.
Picking up on the “attachments” lingo, Mearsheimer did mention Bolton but cited two Jews, Elliott Abrams and David Wurmser, as “the two most influential advisers on Middle East affairs in the White House. Both, he said, are ” fervent supporters of Israel.” Never mind that others in the White House, such as national security adviser Stephen Hadley, Vice President Cheney and President Bush, have been just as fervent despite the lack of “attachments.”
This line of argument could be considered a precarious one for two blue-eyed men with Germanic surnames. And, indeed, Walt seemed defensive about the charges of anti-Semitism. He cautioned that the Israel lobby “is not a cabal,” that it is “not synonymous with American Jews,” and that “there is nothing improper or illegitimate about its activities.”
But Mearsheimer made no such distinctions as he used “Jewish activists,” “major Jewish organizations” and the “Israel lobby” interchangeably. Clenching the lectern so tightly his knuckles whitened, Mearsheimer accused Israel of using the kidnapping of its soldiers by Hezbollah as a convenient excuse to attack Lebanon.
“Israel had been planning to strike at Hezbollah for months,” he asserted. “Key Israelis had briefed the administration about their intentions.”
So, where’s your proof, dude?
A questioner asked if he had any “hard evidence” for this accusation. Mearsheimer cited the “public record” and “Israeli civilian strategists,” then repeated the allegation that Israel was seeking “a cover for launching this offensive.”
Uh-huh. Now THAT’s scholarship. Wow, it’s almost like W&M are, well, bloggers. The bad kind, that is. The ones who don’t care about facts. Oh, wait. That can describe a hell of a lot of the media. But wait, it gets worse.
Before leaving for an interview with al-Jazeera, Mearsheimer accepted a button proclaiming “Walt & Mearsheimer Rock. Fight the Israel Lobby.”
“I like it,” he said, beaming.
Al Jazeera today, Stormfront tomorrow. STFU, W&M, because you crossed the line into Jew-hatred a long time ago. And now, it’s time for the Yourish.com mantra: Anti-Semites of the world, just die already.
Has anyone noticed what a high proportion of the world’s hate, and the world’s bad ideas, seem to originate with university professors?
If they weren’t university professors, they would have to get a real job. They are safer in the ivory tower than doing anything useful. Would you trust these people to fix your car? They would put Volvo parts into your BMW and then blame the Israeli lobby.
What is of note is that Dana Milbank is a reliably liberal and at times harsh critic of the Bush administration.
This piece by him in the WaPo does show him to be an honest reporter, and it shines the light on the maggots that attend CAIR-sponsored events.
Maggots very much including the two anti-Semites W&M.
They’re jerks, but their numbers are growing.
CAIR is a symptom, not the cause, nor the catalyst.
The world is so darkening as to make it impossible for the light of truth to fall upon the mind of man, the world is filling with so much moral confusion, as to be inimical to an understanding of the truth.
Thus the position of Israel, and the Jews, will only become worse, as the moral darkening gathers pace.
I’m an American, an Irish Catholic American, and what is coming fills my mind and soul with a deep unease, and an equally deep foreboding.
I sense it, it’s literally overwhelming me. And on such things, my senses are never wrong. On women, I’m wrong. About this type of stuff, I’m never wrong.
Good God, we’ve already got jihadist wannabes killing Jews in the United States. Staking out Jewish Community Centers. And Jews are living in dread in Europe.
Well, we know our duty, and we must see it out.
Dan, the world seems to be full of idiots who think the 20th Century, with its genocide, world wars, mass murders in the name of insane ideologies, mass famines in the name of those same ideologies, and continental sized impoverishment due to sheer economic stupidity, was so much fun that they want to do it all over again in the 21st Century, only this time everybody will have nuclear weapons from the start. Practically the only country resisting this trend has been the USA, with a few of its allies.
I think there was a point, from about 1990 to 1994, when we might have devised a new world order based on peaceful trade and viable law. But Bush 41 had no vision and Clinton could not be bothered. It would have taken superb diplomacy to achieve, and there we were also weak, being stuck with the State Department we have. Such a world would have had to see cooperatrion between the major powers and several secondary ones, and the UN bureaucracy acting responsibly. But none of them wanted to do that, save a couple of Anglosphere countries. The oportunity was lost, and part of the result is the terrorism we are now fighting.