[National Review] Lenny Ben-David - Every generation sees new critics who arise to assail American support for Israel. Profs. Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of the last year's controversial paper (and a new book), The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, repeat and amplify the 30- and 40-year-old opinions of two of the most prominent critics of American support for Israel a generation ago: Sen. J. William Fulbright and George Ball, an undersecretary of state in the 1960s. They sound like Ball/Fulbright disciples, but Ball and Fulbright were perceived as so one-sided on Middle East issues that their opinions had little currency. There is not much new in the publication of Walt and Mearsheimer's expanded polemic - not the anti-Israel accusations, not the charges of dual loyalty, nor the challenges to the rights of American citizens who effectively petition their government. The writer served as deputy chief of mission in Israel's embassy in Washington.
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