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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...
What’s more, the debate in Foreign Policy featured a very prominent former U.S. government official taking sides with Walt and Mearsheimer. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security advisor under former President Carter, agreed that domestic pro-Israel lobbies are powerful, and that their influence was felt acutely at peace negotiations between Israel and Arab nations that were brokered...
Away from the pages of Foreign Policy, Walt and Mearsheimer also received unexpected support in their criticism of the Israel lobby...
First, renowned press observer Michael Massing ’74 wrote an extensive essay in The New York Review of Books on the subject. After thumping Walt and Mearsheimer for not examining AIPAC in detail, he launched into a 5,000-word, in-depth examination of the committee’s structure and power...
...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...