Bernard Lewis' op-ed piece in the May
16, 2007 issue of the Wall Street Journal deserves swift rebuttal.
This is the same man who advised President Bush prior to the
Iraq war that the only language Arabs understood was the language
of force. While Presidents may self-select advisors who tell
them what they want to hear, these advisors bear as much responsibility,
specially when they pose as "experts".
Lewis is an octogenarian Zionist,
an "expert" author of numerous books purporting to
explain Islam and Arabs. His political agenda is thinly veiled,
and along with his neoconservative cohorts he has been one of
the lead propagandists advocating military action in the middle-east.
A card-carrying member of the Israel Lobby, his situational analysis
consistently deflects attention from Israel's primacy in US policymaking
where the Mideast is concerned.
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