{"id":3132,"date":"2008-05-06T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3132"},"modified":"2008-05-06T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:32:19","slug":"phillip-weiss-john-mearsheimer-eviscerates-the-times-review-of-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3132","title":{"rendered":"Philip Weiss: John Mearsheimer Eviscerates the &#8216;Times&#8217; Review of &#8216;1948&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipweiss.org\/mondoweiss\/2008\/05\/make-sure-you-r.html\">Philip Weiss writes<\/a><\/strong>:<br \/>\n<em>John Mearsheimer read the Times today and sent me the following note:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Make sure you read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/04\/books\/review\/Margolick-t.html?scp=1&amp;sq=margolick&amp;st=nyt\">David Margolick&#8217;s review<\/a> of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1948-History-First-Arab-Israeli-War\/dp\/0300126964\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1209924359&amp;sr=8-1\">Benny Morris book <\/a>in the NYT Book Review section today. It is another shocking piece, given how much we now know about 1948.<\/p>\n<p>First, he talks about &#8220;the dramatically outnumbered Jews,&#8221; how the Arab armies had &#8220;numerical superiority&#8221; 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. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy\/dp\/0374177724\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1209924583&amp;sr=1-1\">Steve [Walt] and I lay out the numbers on p. 82<\/a> of the Lobby book.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philipweiss.org\/mondoweiss\/2008\/05\/make-sure-you-r.html\">Continue reading<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Weiss writes: John Mearsheimer read the Times today and sent me the following note: Make sure you read David Margolick&#8217;s review of the new Benny Morris book in the NYT Book Review section today. It is another shocking piece, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=3132\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ow","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}