Summary and Compilation of Walt-MearsheimerReactions and Jimmy Carter, References and References for Various Sources

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Compiled by Michael Lewis of AIPAC- 9.7.07

ADL’s Glen Lewy and Abe Foxman oped, Jewish Standard, New Jersey “A Fragile Time for our People” CAMERA/Alex Safian – Mearsheimer’s Blunder
Another report of Politics and Prose appearance via Philip Weiss/Mondoweiss
Audio -Walt & Mearsheimer – NPR’s On Point (Dennis Ross and Aaron Miller were call-in guests.) Audio: Stephen Walt on NPR’s Fresh Air
Audio: ADL’s Abe Foxman on NPR’s Fresh Air (aftre Walt, NOT debating Walt) Lenny Ben David/National Review online – Echoing the Moans of Anti-Israel Ghosts
Do Israel’s critics have anything original to say?”
Max Hastings – London Sunday Times (9/2) Review of Mearsheimer
“Investigative Journalist” Philip Weiss/Mondo Weiss “A Hot Time in the Capital Last Night (Walt and Mearsheimer at Politics and Prose)
Philip Weiss “The Jungle, Silent Spring, Unsafe at Any Speed’ – And Now, ‘The Israel Lobby’
Phillip Weis – ‘MondoWeiss 8/20 “Serious. Cold. Stunning. Walt and Mearsheimer Arrive in Hard Covers”

U-Cal Irvine, Professor Mark Levine “No, it’s the dog that wags the tail”
Yale Professor of English David Bromwich, on Mearsheimer

Jeff Barak/Ynet Reviews Abe Foxman’s The Deadliest Lies

George Friedman, Stratfor ” The Israel Lobby in U.S. Strategy – (9/4)

Mark Silva Baltimore Sun/Chicago Tribune reports on Politics and Prose

Mariano Aguirre Le Monde Diplomatique, September 2007: Criticism of Israel anti-semitic? Shooting the messengers “

Time Magazine’s Tony Karon (9/2) re Walt Mearsheimer

The American Thinker/Rick Rehman (9/4) “Walt, Mearsheimer and the Peace Process”

Front Page Magazine’s Jacob Laskin

Attached: ACTIVITIES UPDATE – SEPTEMBER 7, 2007 (#1011)
http://www.magnetmail.net/images/clients/AIPAC_Act/attach/Update1011September7th2007.doc

HIGHLIGHTS

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy was officially published this week (even though it was available in book stores a couple of weeks ago). [ The book “is being translated into Arabic, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.” Translations ]

Mearsheimer and Walt began their speaking this week: Speaking at the Washington DC bookshop, Politics and Prose (where it was reportedly jam packed) and the Cosmos club in person and on NPR on a couple of radio interviews. Added to their speaking List is an apperance at the World Affairs Council in Washington DC, September 24.

See the attached links for the various reports, comments, reviews thus far re Walt and Mearsheimer


CURRENTLY ANNOUNCED WALT-MEARSHEIMER SPEAKING EVENTS

September 17 – World Affairs Council, Dallas/Fort Worth
September 18 – Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (UCLA) http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/calendar_full_Sep_2007.htm#day18

September 19 Cody’s (book shop) and Tikkun at First Congregational Church of Berkeley

September 20 – World Affairs Council, Northern California

September 24: World Affairs Council, DC

September 26 – City Club of Cleveland
September 27 – University Of Chicago – Center for International Studies
October 2: The Colbert Report
October 10: Columbia University
October 29: Cambridge Forum

Jimmy Carter’s New Afterword to his book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid in the paperback version is officially published next week. Reportedly he comments again re AIPAC involvement/influence

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is once again “critiquing” ADL – CAIR re ADL’s “Deceptive…ongoing Smear Campaign”

The US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Conference is being held this weekend at George Mason University in Arlington, Va

International ANSWER are commemorating Sept 15: Sabra and Shatila Anniversary

INCLUDED MATERIAL

Pages 3-4: Links re Walt-Measheimer

Page 5-6: Other Links of Interest

Page 7: Jimmy Carter new Afterword Palestine Peace Not Apartheid cites AIPAC

Page 7: Middle East Studies Association (MESA) re Mearsheimer & Walt – Chicago

Page 9: Middle East Studies Association (MESA) re Norman Finkelstein

Page 10: CAIR re ADL’s “Deceptive…ongoing Smear Campaign”

Page 12: Ex-CIA’s Michael Scheuer re US, Iran and Syria and “Israel Firsters”

Page 14: International ANSWER – Sept 15: Sabra and Shatila Anniversary

US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Conference, Swept 7-10

Page 16: US Campaign End Israeli Occupation Proposed Resolutions:
American Friends Service Committee Proposed Resolution- “Anti-Apartheid Speaking Tour: Equal Rights for All – The Struggle to End Apartheid in South Africa and Israel/Palestine

Page 18: US Campaign End Israeli Occupation Annual Report

Page 25: Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) Statement)

Page 27: Justin Raimondo re Israel

Page 29: Craig Robert “The Politics of Blind Hatred Who Are the Fanatics” |

Page 32: Christian Century’s James Wall re Arms Sale

MEARSHEIMER & WALT – LINKS OF INTEREST

Excerpts/Synopsis of Walt-Mearsheimer Book (in Last week’s Activities Update)

NY Times, William Grimes (9/6) “A Prosecutorial Brief Against Israel and Its Supporters”

Wall Street Journal oped by Jeff Robbins:Anti-Semitism and the Israel Lobby”

Jim Besser – NY Jewish Week – (9/7)Walt, Mearsheimer And The Gibson Factor

Ira Forman- NY Jewish Week – Misreading The Power Of The ‘Lobby’

Commentary Magazine’s Gabriel Schoenfeld Blog “The Peculiar Fantasies” of Mearsheimer and Walt

Wall Street Journal re Mearsheimer and Walt at a jam-packed “Politics and Prose” (September 5)

Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Letter re Mearsheimer-Walt/Chicago Talk

Los Angeles Jewish Journal – Editor in Chief, Rob Eshman “Jew-Baiting”

Summary and Compilation of Walt-MearsheimerReactions and Jimmy Carter, References and References for Various Sources

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