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...Shlomo Ben-Ami, the Israeli foreign minister during the time of the Camp David talks, took a more historical approach. Recounting years of the region’s history and America’s involvement in it, Ben-Ami directly rebutted Walt and Mearsheimer’s central thesis. He argued that U.S. support for Israel was strategic and historical, and not attributable to the power of the pro-Israel lobby...
Both Ross and Ben-Ami seemed more concerned with refuting Walt and Mearsheimer’s claims about the Israel lobby’s power than discrediting them by punching individual holes in their arguments. In his rebuttal, by contrast, Dershowitz had selected individual quotations that Walt and Mearsheimer had used and attempted to show how they had taken them out of context...
...always easy to listen to Senators bloviating. Yet last week Ben Bernanke, the mild-mannered economist who is approaching his six-month mark as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, looked as focused as a patient parent listening to a child. Tom Carper, a Senator from Delaware, took note of Bernanke's attentiveness. One departed Cabinet secretary, Carper said, used to appear before Congress and "sit there with papers spread all around him and read this and that." Not Bernanke. "You listen to everyone," Carper said in amazement. And so Carper couldn't help bringing up the obvious question: "What...
Gartside is the rare white pop musician who can use rap without exploiting it. When Ben Folds gets the Ivy Leaguers bumpin’ with “Bitches ain’t shit but hoes and tricks,” it’s funny only because a smiling guy with rectangular glasses is singing it. When Gartside croons “Gonna rock you honey / ready or not / gonna steal your money,” it’s actually funny...
...between Arabs and Jews. But not everybody sees that there is no solution to this question. No solution! There is a gulf, and nothing can bridge it ... We, as a nation, want this country to be ours; the Arabs, as a nation, want this country to be theirs." --DAVID BEN-GURION June...