PLOWING THE PLOT:

Academic Israeli path goes astray (Boston Herald, March 26, 2006)

We can’t recall an academic document as misleading as an anti-Israel tract turned out this month by a Harvard dean and a University of Chicago professor.

The United States “has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel,” asserts a paper on the Kennedy School of Government Web siteby the academic dean of the Kennedy School, Stephen Walt, and his collaborator John Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at Chicago.

And why is the United States allied with Israel? “Domestic politics, and especially the activities of the Israel Lobby.”

Their major evidence of that is the boasting of groups such as the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee. This boasting is not evidence of much. It’s like that of the rooster who thinks he makes the sun rise.

The fact is, Americans long have overwhelmingly supported Israel, a democracy that tries to live by the rules of civilized society in the face of enemies who don’t. A new poll by Quinnipiac University shows that Americans have a higher opinion of Israel than all other countries save Canada and Britain. The Israel Lobby is not changing minds; it is plowing prepared ground.

Yeah, but the plot was prepped by those Masonic Founders.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 26, 2006 7:51 AM