Edition #65-4/2006
April 28, 2006

Dear Friend,

This issue has a lot of interesting material. I have only included the three most informative articles under "Response to Tel-Aviv Bombing", but others reaching roughly the same conclusions appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Houston Chronicle. There has been considerable controversy about the Mearsheimer-Walt article, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy", some of which is provided here. I would encourage those who are interested in the subject to read the article itself at either http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp_06_011_walt.pdf (unedited) or http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html (published) so that they can judge for themselves. Finally, the pieces in the "Other Subjects" section contain some important new ways of looking at things and deserve your attention.

Sincerely,

Arthur S. Obermayer

Response to Tel Aviv Bombing

• Frida Ghitis, "An 'un-Sharon' response to attack", Philaldephia Inquirer, April 20, 2006
• "Hamas' suicidal answer", Chicago Tribune, April 20, 2006
• "The Face of Hamas", New York Times, April 19, 2006

Response to Mearsheimer-Walt Report

• "'The lobby': Post and ripostes...", Boston Globe, April 2, 2006
• Molly Ivins, "Can we never question America's Israel policy?", Chicago Tribune, April 27, 2006
• Eliot A. Cohen, "Yes, It's Anti-Semitic", Washington Post, April 5, 2006
• Richard Cohen, "No, It's Not Anti-Semitic", Washington Post, April 25, 2006
• Edward Peck, "'The Israel Lobby' - Of course Israel has a lobby", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 9, 2006
• James Klurfeld, "'Israeli lobby' didn't con Bush into invading Iraq", Newsday, April 7, 2006
• Bret Stephens, "The Israel Conspiracy", Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2006
• Ronald J. Young, "Jewish lobby report doesn't help achieve Middle East peace", Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 23, 2006
• G. Jefferson Price III, "Questioning U.S.-Israel ties", Baltimore Sun, 4/18/06
• Jeff Jacoby, "A nation like ours", Boston Globe, March 29, 2006
• Nicholas Goldberg, "Who's afraid of the 'Israel Lobby'?", Los Angeles Times, March 26, 2006
• Max Boot, "Policy analysis -- paranoid style", Los Angeles Times, March 29, 2006

Other Subjects

• Daniel Levy, "Visions of Israel after the conflict", Boston Globe, April 2, 2006
• Rosa Brooks, "War clouds", Los Angeles Times, April 28, 2006
• David Makovsky, "Israel's Unlikely Transformer", Washington Post, April 2, 2006
• Ray Hanania, "Israelis must seek peace, not conflict", Newsday, April 26, 2006
• Jeff Jacoby, "America takes side of Israel", Boston Globe, March 26, 2006