Stephen Walt has been condescendingly mocking people who think that Chas Freeman is a Saudi tool: Jonathan Chait says I'm "paranoid," that I "went bonkers" in a recent blog post, and that my scholarship is "wildly hyperbolic." He says his real objection to Charles Freeman's appointment as chair of t...

I was a little worried that the Saudis would use their long-time lobbyist Chas Freeman - now comfortably ensconced as NIC - to buy up the Obama administration. Then I read this report from the Center For Security Policy. Turns out that's not really a possibility because the Iranians won't sell it to...

If you're interested in how the vaunted foreign policy community is circling its wagons around professional Israel hater Chas Freeman, you can check out this endorsement in the guise of an article by pro-Freeman partisan Laura Rozen: A source close to Freeman said that among the critics taking shots...

MR, 08/26/08: You know why [Obama thinks] a nuclear Iran would be a disaster for global security? Because Israel might do something stupid... it's not that there's something inherently problematic about letting an apocalyptic Islamic state acquire nuclear weapons but rather that those jumpy Israelis...

Astonishing. The AP managed to write an article that utterly contradicts its lead. Here’s the lead: Israeli students slam American ‘Israel Lobby’ authors Two prominent American professors, who have recently been causing an uproar with their best-selling book critical of the powerfu...

From the New Republic: No one will bitch, probably no one will even picket.  And, of course, no one will take responsibility for the sheer nonsense of the argument. I wonder whether Walt and Mearsheimer, now that they will be in the neighborhood, will take their message to Cairo, Damascus, Riya...