Philip Weiss writes:
John Mearsheimer read the Times today and sent me the following note:
Make sure you read David Margolick’s review of the new Benny Morris book in the NYT Book Review section today. It is another shocking piece, given how much we now know about 1948.
First, he talks about “the dramatically outnumbered Jews,” how the Arab armies had “numerical superiority” over the Israelis. This is simply not true. The Zionist/Israeli fighting forces outnumbered the Palestinians between December 1947 and May 1948, and they outnumbered the Arab armies from May 1948 to January 1949, when the fighting stopped. Steve [Walt] and I lay out the numbers on p. 82 of the Lobby book.