Wednesday, April 05, 2006

[political-research] 'Israel Lobby' No Joke

[The era of bs on this subject is rapidly coming to an end, as a result primarily of the Iraq War.  It has become too costly not to tell the truth.  The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is owned by Richard Mellon Scaife, by the way.]
 
 
 

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

'Israel Lobby' no joke



Wednesday, April 5, 2006

Was the Trib's scathing denunciation of the research paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (by University of Chicago and Harvard University political science professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, respectively) an April Fools' Day joke ("'The Israel Lobby,'" April 1 and TribLIVE.com)?

I am not usually impressed with research papers generated by normally left-wing universities, but the Trib's slander of the authors prompted me read the 82-page paper online (ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011).

The Trib's casual dismissal of the well-documented (42 pages of keynotes) research paper by two well-respected professionals as "blatantly anti-Semitic" is a insult to not only the professors but to careful readers who have been wondering for 2 1/2 years how the United States got sucked into the Iraq disaster.

Does the Trib's knee-jerk editorial indicate that it also is a member of the Israel Lobby?

Gerald Schiller
Verona



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