Walt & Mearshimer take on “The Lobby” in Israel
Stephen Walt, at the podium, with "Israel Lobby" co-author John Mearshimer and Israel activist Uri Avnery at a speaking engagement in Tel Aviv on June 12, 2008. Photo by Dina Kraft.
In the following podcast, JTA's Israel correspondent Dina Kraft speaks with Harvard Professor Stephen Walt, co-author of the controversial book "The Israel Lobby" who, with his co-author John Mearshimer of the University of Chicago, visited Israel last week on a speaking tour sponsored by the Israeli peace organization Gush Shalom. Walt said he welcomed the dynamic and lively debate in the Jewish State and said he hoped their book might prompt discussion about the policies of the Israel lobby among Israelis themselves. You can read Ms. Kraft's full story on the subject here.
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Jpeditor
06/25/08 08:38 AM
Your interviewer asks, “how do you feel being in Israel, “in the belly of the beast...?"”
Nice to see stockholm syndrome in the JTA - what is the next phrase you will lift from the neo-nazi haters of America and Israel? “Zionist Occupied Government”?
And can there be any more revealing image than the Tush Shalom banner?
It shows the PLO flag that represents RED PLO control over the entire land of Israel, with muslim control of Jordan & the East Bank on the right, and Israel on the left pushed into the sea.
Thank you for revealing the self-loathing suicidal aims of the jino left.