A Simple Test of the Times' Courage
Here is a simple test of the Times courage. Stephen Walt and Kaavya Viswanathan are both Harvard authors who published the most significant writing of their lives this spring. Go to the Times site, the search box, and type in their names for the past 90 days. "Stephen Walt" : Seven results. One article, six letters. Now type in Kaavya Viswanathan : 33 results. Looks like most are articles: about 20.
Of course, Viswanathan is the 19-year-old sophomore whose plagiarized novel, called Opal something, became a bestseller, then a scandal among the chattering classes (including moi).
While Walt is the 50-year-old Harvard dean who co-authored the bombshell paper on the Israel lobby that is being passed among government ministers around the world, is the talk of the State Department, and has (even the Forward will tell you this) "triggered an escalating debate on the influence of Israel and Jewish organizations." Nope, The Times can't touch that with a bargepole.
The vast majority of aid that Israel get is targeted for U.S. arms purchases which keep lilly-white, limosine-liberal American consumers and gas-guzzlers like yourself safe. All of the arms funds goes right back into hands of US businesses and workers.
Israel is a strategic military ally in the Middle East.
The U.S. supports Israel's dominance so it can serve as a surrogate for American interests in this vital strategic region. Israel has helped defeat radical nationalist movements and has been a testing ground for U.S. made weaponry.
Does you know what the Lavi is? It's the Israeli designed and built fighter that was going to ruin the market for U.S.- made F-16's because it was so far superior. Israel to killed the plane in part so that the market for F-16s was not ruined.
There is much more to the US-Israeli financial support than half-baked so-called journalists (or are you just a "blogger" reporting your own clouded judgement) like you report.
Maybe Stephen Walt and his "work" just isn't as important as his cheerleaders would have us believe.
After all, the "Israel Lobby" isn't his first paper. So, how much reportage did his last paper get, or the one before that?
Can anyone honestly say they even know what his last paper was about without resorting to a google search?
I thought not. So why should "The Israel Lobby" get any more press than Mr. Walt's last 10 articles? Or were they also "censored" by some lobby?
Perhaps, it isn't the bias of the NYTimes that's at work here, but rather the bias of her attackers.
Just something to consider.