The ancient song of hatred

Much has already been written on Mearsheimer and Walt's The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy but, last week, when they took their road show to MIT, they made it very clear that Israel is to blame for 9/11 - that without Bin Laden's hatred of what Israel is doing to the Palestinians - there never would have been a 9/11. 

As Mearsheimer told his audience, "A critically important issue when talking about America's terrorism problem is the matter of how US support for Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinians relates to what happened on September 11." He then went on to say that now that the Cold War is over Israel is no longer a strategic asset to America. In other words - if we end our support of Israel, America will be safer and the terrorists will pick other targets - the only obstacle to achieving that is the Jewish lobby and its stranglehold on policy-making in Washington.

CNN's God's Warriors at war with truth

A day prior to the airing of Christiane Amanpour's six-hour CNN documentary entitled God’s Warriors, I was one of four clergymen to be a guest on Larry King Live to discuss the issue of fundamentalism in today's world. The interview on Larry King was pre-recorded in mid-July and none of the participants had seen the six-hour documentary because it was still being edited. Now that I have seen it, I sent the following critique to the producers of God's Warriors.