Volume 53, Number 10 · June 8, 2006
The Storm over the Israel Lobby
By Michael Massing
Not since Foreign Affairs magazine published Samuel Huntington's 'The Clash of Civilizations?' in 1993 has an academic essay detonated with such force as 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy,' by professors John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. Published in the March 23, 2006, issue of the London Review of Books and posted as a 'working paper' on the Kennedy School's Web site, the report has been debated in the coffeehouses of Cairo and in the editorial offices of Haaretz. It's been called 'smelly' (Christopher Hitchens), 'nutty' (Max Boot), 'conspiratorial' (the Anti-Defamation League), 'oddly amateurish' (the Forward), and 'brave' (Philip Weiss in The Nation). It's prompted intense speculation over why The New York Times has given it so little attention and why The Atlantic Monthly, which originally commissioned the essay, rejected it.
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