Tuesday, October 16, 2007


Controversy II

The second controversy will focus on the debate about the impact of the pro-Israel lobby on American foreign policy in the Middle East. We will start by reading the key article by Mearshiemmer and Walt and its criticism and then also look at the storm generated by President Carter's book. Here is a useful article on the article. Here is a link to AIPAC.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Monday, October 08, 2007


A division of Jerusalem

Eric Joseph found this story and emailed it to me. It is indeed an incredible development. How do you respond to this. Here is an interesting letter to Hillary from a Jerusalem resident.

Monday, October 01, 2007

What do you make of this story in the Jerusalem Post? While you are there also read this very interesting article about the contestation of Jewish identity.