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Tuesday, April 18, 2006 12:00 AM

Breaking the silence

The overwrought response to John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's brave paper only confirms its thesis.

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  • Monday, April 17, 2006 10:56 PM

    A bad article ends discussion

    I have not read Mearsheimer and Walt's article, but I have read Salon's commentary on it.

    It is sad that we cannot have a healthy discussion regarding the US's relationship to Israel without someone screaming anti-semitism, or anti-zionism (thanks, Dayenu).

    Regardless of the scholarship and over-generalizations of Mearsheimer and Walt's article, we should and need to be having this discussion. This is what we should be doing in an open, free and liberal society. It's unfortunate that the original article seems to be of shoddy quality because it may just have the effect of entrenching those who can't say a single negative thing about Israel.

    Is someone racist for questioning affirmative action?

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