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March 31, 2006       Share:    

Source: http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060410&s=peretz041006

Surveying the Israel Lobby

(New Republic) Martin Peretz - "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," a "faculty research working paper" recently produced for Harvard's Kennedy School of Government by Stephen Walt, its academic dean, and John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, weighs in at nearly 35,000 words. The word "oil," however, appears in the document exactly seven times - all of them generic or trivial. This is nonsense scholarship. "It is really the stuff," Fouad Ajami told me this week, "of easy chatter in the coffeehouses of Ramallah and Nablus, Cairo and Amman. The lurid fantasies endemic to the Arab world have been given a false but sustaining authority with the imprimatur of two great universities, Harvard in particular. The conspiracy of the Jews and their American friends against the Palestinians, and against Arabs generally, has now been demonstrated by two eminent professors. Intrigue and plot have been certified as the real engines of history."

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