Who is Stephen Walt?
“I’ll get around to answering Stephen Walt’s latest fantastical assertion — that the Arab states have no effective lobby in Washington — in a little while, but any number of Goldblog readers have asked me in recent days to explain Walt’s obsession with what he sees as the negative influence many Jews, most Jewish organizations, and the Jewish state, have on Washington. I thought that instead of recapping my New Republic review of Walt’s book The Israel Lobby, co-authored with John “I’ve Got a List of 57 Jews in My Pocket” Mearsheimer, I would just print the whole damn thing on this blog. The review originally ran in the October 8, 2007 number of The New Republic, under the headline “The Usual Suspect.” You can read the review on The New Republic website as well. The review extends on this blog into the jump.”