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Kushner, the Monitor pointed out, co-edited, along with the equally far-left Alisa Solomon, an appalling volume called Wrestling With Zion: Progressives Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. The Forward`s Ami Eden wrote of that book: “... reading [it] takes you to an alternative universe, where the Israel of today has reoccupied Palestinian territories and is adopting harsh security measures — but not in response to a Palestinian-launched intifada bent on blowing up babies on buses.

Having read a few essays from that dreadful anthology I can attest to the author's description.

The problem with our society is that we think an idiot like Jonathan Safran Foer is qualified to speak about the Middle East conflict-or any subject of great import, for that matter-simply because he wrote a novel that made the N.Y. Times best-seller list.

When will people realize that these people are cretins, whose only contribution is to entertain us?

Otherwise, they should just keep their traps shut.

[Zhangliqun]

The problem with our society is that we think an idiot like Jonathan Safran Foer is qualified to speak about the Middle East conflict-or any subject of great import, for that matter-simply because he wrote a novel that made the N.Y. Times best-seller list.

Or that Noam Chomsky is qualified to preach on foreign policy because he is a linguist. Or that Meryl Streep is qualified speak on pesticides because she is an actoid, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc..............................