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How Walt and Mearsheimer’s book got the pro-Israel lobby wrong

Questions about how Jews, Israel, the pro-Israel lobby and the U.S. government interact are critically important and beg for a little light. But \”The Israel Lobby\” is not the place to start. All Walt and Mearsheimer have achieved with their massive diversion based on unfounded accusations of overly broad Jewish influence is to help those who want to shut down that discussion.

Jew-Baiting

Five years ago, before the start of the Iraq War, I wrote an editorial titled \”The Jewish War.\” If the Iraq War is a disaster, I wrote, mainstream voices will start blaming the Jews.\n

Bush’s ‘neocons’: far from the best and the brightest

Today\’s neocons are far from the best and the brightest. They are largely amateur armchair warriors given to cheap rhetoric and bombast. They toss around \”regime change\” as if governments will fall when they snap their fingers.

Tel Aviv trauma expert assists U.S. military

An Israeli professor studying the long-term effects of war on the soldiers who fight is now sharing her knowledge with United States counterparts in an attempt to provide better therapy for American servicemen and women returning home from the battlefields of Iraq.

At Odds

Cartoon.

We must stand for victory In Iraq

It\’s gotten pretty lonely.

A convention of Democrats who still support the Iraq war could be held, if not in a phone booth, then in a medium-sized walk-in closet.

Dems win won’t hurt Israel but could impact Iran

The tone of the U.S.-Israel relationship remains the same whoever controls Congress, but Democratic pledges to stringently oversee the Iraq war could affect how the United States confronts Iran. Democrats won control of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate in Nov. 7 elections, the latter conclusively decided with Sen. George Allen\’s concession of the Virginia race on Nov. 9.Bipartisan support for Israel would be constant, Jewish and Israeli officials said, defying a pre-election barrage of Republic Jewish Coalition ads that insisted that the Democratic Party\’s support for Israel was eroding.

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