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It is obvious that “Warren” is purposely confusing two issues. He’ s pretending that a call for a man to retire is the same as an effort to have him fired. He’s also trying to cause a ruckus by claiming that a tenured professor at a highly-regarded university is merely a “messenger” of an unpalatable “message” rather than the fabricator of lies (not opinions, not facts but rather lies masquerading as facts.) He wishes us all to pretend along with him that Mearsheimer is the victim here rather than the perpetrator and purveyor of bald-faced lies.

For any reader interested in the specifics of Mearsheimer and Walt’s lies in the article that led to their book contract, you can read them here: http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/research/working_papers/dershowitzreply.pdf

A few representative examples, as noted in the article cited above, laying out the Mearsheimer-Walt errors. The following are errors:

• Walt and Mearsheimer update the centuries-old “blood libel” by claiming that citizenship in Israel is based on “blood kinship.”
• On two separate occasions, Walt and Mearsheimer intentionally quote David ben-Gurion out of context so as to make it appear that he is saying the exact opposite of what he actually said.
• The authors claims that “Contrary to popular belief, the Zionists had larger, better-equipped, and better-led forces during the 1947-49 War of Independence….”
• They insist that “The mainstream Zionist leadership was not interested in establishing a bi-national state or accepting a permanent partition of Palestine.”
• They repeat Yasir Arafat’s “Bantustan” accusation – that Prime Minister Barak didn’t offer the Palestinians a contiguous West Bank in 2000 – concluding, contrary to the published maps, that “no Israeli government has been willing to offer the Palestinians a viable state of their own.”