Jeff states his disappointment with liberal Jews.

This was sent by a noted British hate-monger by the name of Christopher Leadbeater:

From: Jeff Blankfort BCC: charliechimp1@aim.comSent: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 3.55am

Subject: The Nation's Lazare Does a Hit Piece on Mearsheimer & Walt

"Given the kind of people who are criticizing Mearsheimer and Walt and the way the anti-Semitism card is used to silence dissent on the Israel-Palestine question, many might feel compelled to defend their thesis. They should think twice before doing so. To be sure, Mearsheimer and Walt are not anti-Semites, and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy does not portray Israel as uniquely evil or "singularly pernicious." But just because a book is not bigoted does not mean it is good, and the one that Mearsheimer and Walt have written suffers from significant methodological deficiencies, which is a polite way of saying it's a mess. In expanding their 13,000-word article into a 500-page book (with more than 100 pages of notes!), they have succeeded mainly in exacerbating the flaws of their original argument. They seem to know little about how American government works, how lobbyists function or how the United States interacts with the world at large. They are blind to history and tone-deaf to ideology...."Whether or not Israel is a shining moral paragon, it certainly is not a pariah state to be condemned. It is, in fact, a nation among nations--a country much like any other, with its problems, its opportunities, its virtues, and, at times, its failings and shortcomings. In short, Israel is a "normal" country.

"This is the latest example of why I do not subscribe to The Nation which has served for years as the Zionist Light publication for liberal Jews, like Lazare, whose sympathy for the Palestinians, like The Nation's, stops at the point where Israel might be threatened with sanctions, the loss of aid or US political support and whose task at this moment seems to be defending the Israel lobby from the scrutiny and righteous wrath of the American people. In my book, soon to be written, this makes him and others like him part and parcel of the lobby and one of the reasons it has been so effective in silencing what passes for "The Left."-JB