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Anti-Semitism can appear in many forms, many disguises. Its latest camouflage can be seen in “The Israel Lobby,” an article in the March 23 London Review of Books by Political Science Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Dean Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. This article is an extract from “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” their March 2006 self-published academic “working paper” that is neither peer reviewed nor published in any scholarly journal. Although ballyhooed as a work by two major scholars, they acknowledge that it “should not...

Tbilisi seems to be extremely concerned over what it calls “a sudden” and “worrisome” change in Russia’s position over Georgia’s territorial integrity, which was demonstrated by President Putin’s recent statements and Russia’s stance during discussions of the Abkhazian conflict at the UN Security Council on January 31. Speaking at an annual press conference in the Kremlin on January 31 President Putin reiterated that a “universal principle” should be applied while dealing with ‘frozen conflicts’ and Kosovo can serve as a model for resolving conflicts in post-Soviet space. “If some one thinks that Kosovo can be granted full independence, than why...