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...prove their claim, Walt and Mearsheimer quote Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as having said at a meeting in the late 1930s: “After the formation of a large army in the wake of the establishment of the state, we shall abolish partition and expand to the whole of Palestine...
Dershowitz says that quote was taken out of context. He cites the work of former Harvard visiting professor Efraim Karsh, who reprinted a transcript of a July 1938 Jewish Agency meeting at which Ben-Gurion made the remark that Walt and Mearsheimer quote...
Dershowitz’s paper, in addition to criticizing the Walt-Mearsheimer take on Ben-Gurion, also assails the professors’ quotation of journalist Max Frankel’s memoirs...
...Walt and Mearsheimer write: “In his memoirs, for example, former [New York] Times executive editor Max Frankel acknowledged the impact of his pro-Israel attitude on his editorial choices.” They cite Frankel as saying: “I myself wrote most of our Middle East commentaries. As more Arab than Jewish readers recognized, I wrote them from a pro-Israel perspective...
Dershowitz takes issue with that quotation, alleging that Walt and Mearsheimer “did not read Max Frankel’s autobiography, but rather came across the quotation somewhere far less reputable...