MEARSHEIMER LETS THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG

John Mearsheimer, the disgraceful professor who co-wrote The Israel Lobby and U.S Foreign Policy with Stephen Walt, has let his tongue slip and show that he knows that his whole claim that Israel manipulates US policy is just a big lie. Camera found him talking to NPR's On Point series with Tom Ashbrook, and during the segment recorded here, when Ashbrook asked:

Ashbrook: The argument’s been made that Iran is Israel’s greater fear, so if the Israel Lobby were so powerful, why would the US have gone into Iraq? That’s not the number one Israeli concern. Is there a contradiction then John, in you having described Iraq as the result of Israeli lobby influence?

So Mearsheimer replied:

Mearsheimer: No, Tom. It’s quite clear that in early 2002 – now remember we went into Iraq in March 2003. In early 2002 when the Israelis caught wind of the fact that we were seriously thinking about doing Iraq, that they came to Washington and told us that they would prefer that we do Iran first. The Israelis very clearly thought that Iran was a greater threat than Iraq. It’s not that they were uninterested in having us effect regime change in Iraq and Syria, it’s just that they preferred Iran.

But once they came to understand that Iraq would be the first operation, and we would subsequently deal with Iran and Syria, they embraced the idea of attacking Iraq, although they continually reminded us that we had to do Iran and Syria afterwards.

So what you see from early 2002 up until the war starts in March 2003 is that the Israelis are pushing us very hard, harder than other country outside the United States, to go to war against Saddam Hussein.

So thus, in that very same attempt to smear, he admitted the truth, that Israel had nothing to do with the decision to attack Iraq, and that this was the US administration's decision. So what's he trying to prove anyway?

F. William Engdahl points out that Mearsheimer and Walt are State Dept. consultants. Obviously, they're more involved in decision making than they'd have people believe.

MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SITE OF THE ISLAMIC WAKF'S VANDALISM AT TEMPLE MOUNT

Some extra info on the Wakf's destruction at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.








Here's an article for starters from Breitbart (via One Jerusalem) that tells some starting details, and here's some photos of when a policeman stood in the way of a tractor they were using, a very bold move.






The part showing what appears to be wreckage is most disturbing. And that's why, here's an important petition to sign.






The Wakf cannot be allowed to have their way with Jewish history.

It's got to be stopped now.

GOLDBERG ASKS BEINART WHAT THE PROBLEM IS THAT LIBERALS HAVE WITH ISRAEL

In their latest podcast on NRO, Jonah Goldberg asks The New Republic's Peter Beinart what problem liberals have with Israel.

THE EXCEPTIONS THAT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MAKES ABOUT ISRAEL

Like most Universities, Columbia University's library system maintains lists of resources that students might find useful when doing research projects. One of their sections is a section for "Middle East & Jewish Studies", and under that list is a section about Israel. So there are links to Israeli government sites like the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Bank of Israel. There are links to American government resources like the CIA World Factbook and the State Department Report on Human Rights. And there are links to Israeli media organizations like GLOBES and Ha'aretz.

And nestled toward the top is - you guessed it - "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy". Why is Walt and Mearsheimer's testament to the cognitive failures of realism in there? Why is it the only paper about American domestic politics, in a page devoted to links about Israel itself? It really sticks out like a sore thumb - as near as we can tel, it's the only link to an actual paper, rather than to a site. We would be very interested to know how this random paper found its way into a list of places on the web that talk about Israel. Because apparently if you're going to know anything about Israel, Columbia University thinks that you should know that they control the United States. It's like they're not even trying any more.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]