MORE ON THAT WACKY HARVARD PAPER

Former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold responds to the Walt-Mearsheimer anti-Israel piece:

The Basis of the U.S.-Israel Alliance: An Israeli Response to the Mearsheimer-Walt Assault.
Does Israel have supporters in the U.S. that back a strong relationship between the two countries? Clearly, networks of such support exist, as they do for U.S. ties with Britain, Greece, Turkey, and India. There are also states like Saudi Arabia that have tried to tilt U.S. policy using a vast array of powerful PR firms, former diplomats, and well-connected officials. The results of those efforts have America still overly dependent on Middle Eastern oil with few energy alternatives. Given the ultimate destination of those petrodollars in recent years (the global propagation of Islamic extremism and terrorism), a serious investigation of those lobbying efforts appears to be far more appropriate than focusing on relations between the U.S. and Israel.

The Man Who Knew Too Little (LGF)
Last Thursday Martin Kramer noted a very telling piece of information about University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, co-author with Stephen Walt of “The Israel Lobby”—he signed a bizarre document in 2003 that urged the world community to condemn Israel in advance for ethnically cleansing Palestinians under cover of the Iraq War: John Mearsheimer: the man who knew too little.

This overheated accusation was wrong, of course. But wacademics like Mearsheimer are rarely held to account for being wrong in their wild predictions.

The web site that hosted the petition (professorsofconscience.org) is now offline, but thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine you can still see Mearsheimer’s signature affixed to this ludicrous document: Internet Archive Wayback Machine: http://www.professorsofconscience.org.