Harvard's intellectual culture discourages identification with Christians...

I had an exchange with rich blinne and dropped it because I seemed unable to
precent a convincing argument of my own to him.
I found a superb argument that contains everything I might have/should have
said about the
whole affair. The link is below the introduction. Paramount among the
arguments Sniegoski presents is Dershowitz's unscholarly response. Note that as of
this morning NPR has aired a segment on the controversy.

Steve Sniegoski brings the force of scholarship [Ph.D., History, U. of
Maryland] to bear on this response to the Mearsheimer and Walt essay on "The Israeli
Lobby." Critics of the essay have mainly mounted ad hominem attacks and
racialist slurs against the authors, so Sniegoski examines these critics'
credentials.

For example, "Eliot Cohen, the man who coined the term "World War IV" for the
neocon-desired American war on Islam, titled his piece condemning the
Mearsheimer-Walt essay, 'Yes, It's Anti-Semitic.'"

Sniegoski also demolishes the argument that, owing to the holocaust, no
examination of the Israeli role in determining US foreign policy is allowable.

On one point, Sniegoski missed by a day. He says that the Lobby has been
successful in blocking serious discussion of the Walt and Merisheimer paper in
the big media. But notably, this morning, April 21, National Public Radio aired
a segment on the controversy. The Walt and Meirsheimer paper is also posted
on the NPR website.... I assume this is the London Review of Books version
rather than the extensively footnoted version that appears on Harvard's Kennedy
School of Government site.

Sniegoski's essay is here:

http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/snieg_mear_walt.htm

rich faussette
Received on Fri Apr 21 13:01:12 2006