The Flogger recently opined that Congress, in giving practically unanimous support to Israel’s murder* of Lebanese noncombatants in retaliation for Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli combatants, “made Mearsheimer and Walt prophets with honor.” With the last seven words a Jewish writer for The Nation, Norman Birnbaum, concurs:

The Israel lobby’s successful campaign coordinated with the Israeli Embassy, to persuade Congress to back the White House decision to give Israel a free field of fire in Lebanon can be read as an unintended postscript to another campaign: This spring professors John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Stephen Walt of Harvard published in The London Review of Books and as a paper of the Kennedy School of Government an analysis of the “stranglehold” on US policy exerted by Israel's unconditional backers. Those backers responded with loud denunciations of the authors as malevolently anti-Semitic or (in the most benign of their criticisms) intellectually incompetent. . . .

Jehovah, for many American Jews, of course gets a respectful hearing—but Israeli prime ministers and chiefs of staff are taken to speak directly for the Lord of Hosts.

See the whole article, “Is Israel Good for the Jews?”

* “. . . killing the innocent, even if you know as a matter of statistical certainty that the things you do involve it, is not necessarily murder. . . . On the other hand, unscrupulousness in considering the possibilities turns it into murder.” G. E. M. Anscombe, “Mr. Truman’s Degree.”