The book was preceded by a paper commissioned by The Atlantic and written by Mearsheimer and Walt. The Atlantic rejected the paper, and it was published in London Review of Books.​[11] The paper attracted considerable controversy, both praise​[12]​[13]​[14]​[15]​[16] and criticism.​[17]​[18]
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor to U.S. President Jimmy Carter, wrote: “Mearsheimer and Walt adduce a great deal of factual evidence that over the years Israel has been the beneficiary of privileged — indeed, highly preferential — financial assistance, out of all proportion to what the United States extends to any other country. The massive aid to Israel is in effect a huge entitlement that enriches the relatively prosperous Israelis at the cost of the American taxpayer. Money being fungible, that aid also pays for the very settlements that America opposes and that impede the peace process.”[32]
Glenn Greenwald has endorsed the book’s central thesis, arguing “Walt and Mearsheimer merely voiced a truth which has long been known and obvious but was not allowed to be spoken. That’s precisely why the demonization campaign against them was so vicious and concerted: those who voice prohibited truths are always more hated than those who spout obvious lies.”[35]
Some background on some of these Putin money gutter dwellers:
Mearsheimer: x.com
Greenwald: x.com
I ask my fellow evangelicals who are so enraptured (sorry for the pun) with Prophetic Futurism and who believe that Zionist Israel is Biblical Israel and that the land of Palestine belongs to Zionist Israel: Have you ever studied Romans Chapter Eleven without reading Scofield’s (or Ryrie’s or MacArthur’s) Zionist-inundated notes?
I will read the rest later
Bottom line: Netanyahu is purposely keeping Israel’s wars alive for his own personal self-preservation.
There are two common statements that I don’t believe. This is one of them and the other is Russians don’t want to fight Putin’s war.
All you have to do is go back to 9/11. Did the US not support lower IQ Bush’s war?
Whether right or wrong when people feel threatened they will support war and are easy targets for propaganda. Just as the US uses propaganda on its citizens, Russia and Israel will get their share of biased news. When I see a young woman recovered from the vultures that I know was repeatedly raped, I feel Israel should wipe out Hamas and anyone that gets in the way. I am not Jewish and I am not much for war. If I feel this way, how do you think the people of Israel feel.
Thousands of young men died in Vietnam and the vast majority of Americans supported the war. If a government can sell that a third world country that is half way around the world is critical to the security of the US, don’t you think the Russian government can sell the U S trying to put weapons on their doorstep as a serious threat?
People that write things like the above seem to view the world from their own perspective rather than putting themselves in the shoes of a person in those places.
They probably also believe the US doesn’t use propaganda on its citizens and or they are not a product of this propaganda.
Ok I continued reading
But just yesterday, Col. Douglas Macgregor suggested to Judge Andrew Napolitano that Israel’s population today is 4½ to 5 million. If that’s true,
That is so much bullshit that I just lost any respect for Macgregor. What happens when nearly 1/2 the country leaves? A country would collapse if halve its population left in a year. Holy cow. Who says stuff like this and who believes it?
There is a difference between being very critical about war and being anti-war. Not willing to support any war for any reason is naive beyond belief. More naive than those that think communism just needs to be tried right. Lew maybe is in this category.
The West suffers from a serious lack of understanding of war probably because we have a seventy year history of thinking limited war works even though it consistently has not. Conducting war as though no innocent people will be harmed is like thinking the cop should shoot the guy attacking them in the leg.
Side note. After Kamala gets elected lower IQ Bush will be a relative genius.
This story is a great demonstration of my maxim that any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word “no.” The reason why journalists use that style of headline is that they know the story is probably bullshit, and don’t actually have the sources and facts to back it up, but still want to run it.
Consider using Betteridge’s law of headlines (book of knowledge link) in evaluating the point of an article prior devoting mental energy to it.
This approach seems to work fairly well. Case in point: “Could the Zionist State of Israel Disappear Within a Year?”. Betteridge’s Law indicates the answer is “no”.
Headline writers and authors always have the option to frame the topic the other way around if they believe the thesis holds but may be too provocative. For instance, an alternative headline would be “Can the Zionist State of Israel Continue to Exist One Year From Today?”. With this rule of thumb, that hypothetical article may be worth reading.
