Comments on: Israel Lobby Paper Wins David Duke’s Praise

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:47:57 +0000

Poisoned ivies updates...

Crossing the Rubicon2 has assembled an excellent roundup of the early blogospheric response to "The Lobby." She adds her own useful comments. And as a bonus she links to Best of the Web Today where James Taranto has an excellent......

By: Armed Liberal

Armed Liberal — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:47:04 +0000

I believe that you are strongly understating the case when you say that

"Totten also makes the excellent point that domestic political considerationsâ??i.e., energy pricesâ??have had an even stronger influence on our relationship with the rest of the Middle East, especially Saudi Arabia, than with Israel."

Steve Emerson's "American House of Saud" and Bob Baer's "Sleeping With The Devil" immediately come to mind as documents on the deep and powerful influence the oil sheiks have had an continue to have. And, as Lee Smith pointed out at Michael Totten's, we'll just ignore the minor influence the oil companies have had on US politics for the last 70 years or so... ...there is certainly a powerful pro-Israel lobby in this country. But to suggest that it operates in a field free of opposing interests is ludicrous, and you give the authors far too much credit for scholarship for this reason alone. A.L.

By: Stevely

Stevely — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:36:20 +0000

Walt and Mearsheimer don't sound very patriotic.

By: RJN

RJN — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 21:32:49 +0000

I saw the essay, and was surprised that anything so true to the facts would come out of the "new feminist" Harvard. Perhaps all is not lost.

By: DC Loser

DC Loser — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:46:15 +0000

Notice it was two NY Dem Senators who took the lead to bash the DPW ports deal. No doubt they were trolling for the very large pro-Israel vote in NY. Oops, I must be an anti-semite to notice that.