The Great Debate, Part 4

Continuing his response to the question from the audience about 9/11, Professor Mearsheimer stated, "The whole subject of the relationship of our policy towards Israel and the Palestinians and how that influenced the events of 9/11 is a subject---as the woman indicated---that simply can't be discussed in the mainstream media in the United States." Ira Stoll (The New York Sun, 9/29/06) attempted to refute Mearsheimer's statement by writing, "He appeared to have forgotten the article that ran on September 20, 2001 on the op-ed of the largest circulation American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal, that began with the sentence: 'Is American support of Israel behind the hatred of this country that pervades the Arab world and that literally exploded into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11?' " Ira Stoll neglected to mention that this article was written by Norman Podhoretz. In his essay "Whose War?" ("The American Conservative" 3/24/03), Patrick Buchanan described Norman Podhoretz as "editor emeritus of 'Commentary,' whose magazine has for decades branded critics of Israel as anti-Semites." Not surprisingly, the title of Podhoretz's article is "Israel Isn't the Issue."