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The Monitor's Dubious Source
 The Christian Science Monitor is entitled to its views on the Mideast conflict. But in a staff-ed urging the Bush administration to take more involvement in the peace process, the Monitor tries bolstering its argument by quoting from a dubious source: the controversial paper on American-Israeli relations written by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt. The Monitor writes:
But as a new paper by the academic dean of Harvard University's Kennedy School, Stephen M. Walt, and University of Chicago political scientist John J. Mearsheimer, points out: "Saying that Israel and the United States are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards. The United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel.... US support for Israel is not the only source of anti-American terrorism, but it is an important one."
Bush can hardly pretend to be the global terrorist fighter if he allows Israel's separation barrier to take up an estimated 8 percent of the West Bank and also lets nearly 400,000 Jewish settlers leave Palestinian territory looking like Swiss cheese.
Mearsheimer and Walt have already been discredited; we blogged but a small handful of debunkings here.
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I would like to hear Walt and Mearsheimer's and the CSM's explanation as to why Thailand, the Philipines, Europe, Russia, India Indonesia, and even saudi arabia has a terrorism problem. The fact is the whole world is under a terrorist threat from islam. Is that all the fault of Israel too?
Posted by: Laura at Mar 30, 2006 7:16:01 PM
They hate us because we back Israel; they hate us because we have troops in their holy land; they hate us because we enshrine freedom of speech; they hate us because of our insistence of freedom of religion; they hate us because we allow women to live freely; they hate us because of our buildings
If we change all of these things maybe they will like us. Or, maybe, they just hate US.
Posted by: Brad at Mar 30, 2006 9:20:46 PM
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