The left is frothing over a new article from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government that will no doubt be featured in every CAIR press release from now on, a lengthy diatribe about the Israeli lobby’s control of the United States, and our need to have closer ties with Islamic nations.

The American Thinker has a terrific refutation of this sick piece of trash: Stephen Walt’s War with Israel.

UPDATE at 3/20/06 9:33:48 am:

Harvard, of course, is the recent recipient of a $20 million gift from the Saudi royal family.

UPDATE at 3/20/06 3:34:10 pm:

The Stephen Walt article has a high-profile supporter: David Duke Claims to Be Vindicated By a Harvard Dean.

Duke, a former Louisiana state legislator and one-time Ku Klux Klan leader, called the paper “a great step forward,” but he said he was “surprised” that the Kennedy School would publish the report.

“I have read about the report and read one summary already, and I am surprised how excellent it is,” he said in an e-mail. “It is quite satisfying to see a body in the premier American University essentially come out and validate every major point I have been making since even before the war even started.” Duke added that “the task before us is to wrest control of America’s foreign policy and critical junctures of media from the Jewish extremist Neocons that seek to lead us into what they expectantly call World War IV.”

Mr. Walt said last night, “I have always found Mr. Duke’s views reprehensible, and I am sorry he sees this article as consistent with his view of the world.”

UPDATE at 3/20/06 3:48:36 pm:

Don’t miss this guest post by Lee Smith at Michael J. Totten’s blog: A Place Called Saudi Arabia.

UPDATE at 3/20/06 3:53:45 pm:

Another good rebuttal to Walt’s cartoonish analysis, by Martin Kramer: Stephen Walt’s World.

UPDATE at 3/20/06 4:58:16 pm:

CAMERA assesses the article: Study Decrying “Israel Lobby” Marred by Numerous Errors.