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...David Ross, former President Clinton’s chief negotiator at the 2000 Camp David negotiations, seemed more concerned with discussing the limits of the lobby’s power—questioning Walt and Mearsheimer??s linkage of the lobby’s power to Iraq and Iran...
...interviews shortly after the essay was published, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz repeatedly called the authors “liars” and “bigots,” adding later, in a published rebuttal, that Belfer Professor of International Affairs Walt and Mearsheimer??s essay was “filled with distortions...
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...
...authors have amended and updated their original paper, the scholars who continue to debate them—like Ben-Ami and Ross—have devoted their energies to addressing Walt and Mearsheimer??s central claims rather than discrediting the report by attacking its footnotes and sourcing...