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Archives for May 2006

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Israel Lobby And Reply To Drezner

Israel Lobby And Reply To Drezner

Juan Cole

The Israel Lobby And a Reply to Drezner Philip Weiss weighs in on the Mearsheimer and Walt paper on the Israel lobby at The Nation. It is a fine, searching, level-headed treatment. The big surprise: The influence of Leon Uris on American political science! Thanks to bloggers, by the way, for taking up the issue […]

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Settling Iraq Before It Blows Up

Settling Iraq Before It Blows Up

Juan Cole

Settling Iraq before it Blows Up A renewed debate on the possible partition of Iraq is emerging. Let’s get one thing out of the way. As for letting a civil war rage, deliberately, I don’t understand. Everyone is (rightly) complaining about world inaction on the genocide in the Sudan. But here you want to provoke […]

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Racial Mccarthyism On Right Petition I

Racial Mccarthyism On Right Petition I

Juan Cole

Racial McCarthyism on the Right The petition I set up to defend John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt from scurrilous charges of anti-Semitism (which is to say, racism) for daring write an academic paper on the Israel lobby, is percolating along, accumulating signatures from post-secondary teachers, as I had hoped. Academics from all over the country […]

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Defending Bloggers From Slaps It Was

Defending Bloggers From Slaps It Was

Juan Cole

Defending Bloggers from SLAPs It was bound to happen. “Blogger hit with Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit.” Props to MBA for trying to help.

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