By Staff 10/29/06 8:01am

The Times States There Is an Israel Lobby, Then Demonstrates Its Strength

Hat’s off to the New York Times. Yesterday’s front-page profile of Philip Zelikow, a top aide to Condoleeza (help me, spellcheck) Rice and the head of the 9/11 Commission, referred baldly to a fundamental divide among policymakers between “realists” (Zelikow) and “neoconservatives and the pro-Israel lobby.” This is great news. The Times accepts Read More

By Staff 5/29/06 1:12pm

The Smoking Transcript

The historic piece on the Israel lobby in the London Review of Books in March continues to reverberate. The latest LRB contains a dispute between the paper’s authors, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, and the former executive director of the 9/11 Commission, Philip Zelikow.

The dispute was perhaps inevitable. The original Read More