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Articles By Rick Richman (14 Articles)

1) Three Reflections On The Democratic Party That Used To Be (Plus A Footnote)

Rick Richman | Posted Nov 14 2007

From Senator Joseph Lieberman's November 9 speech at The Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies:

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2) Walt And Mearsheimer On The Road: More Distortion

Rick Richman | Posted Oct 02 2007

Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt were in Los Angeles last month, speaking to an overflow crowd of more than 300 people at the Armand Hammer Museum - part of a speaking tourwith appearances at World Affairs Councils in San Francisco, Dallas and Washington, D.C., the City Club in Cleveland, forums at the University of Chicago, MIT and Columbia University, the Cambridge Forum in Harvard Square, and media slots on NPR, the Colbert Report, and WTTW-TV in Chicago.

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3) Rudy Giuliani's Realism

Rick Richman | Posted Aug 29 2007

Rudy Giuliani's article in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs ("Toward a Realistic Peace") marks an important statement about the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian "peace process."

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4) Jimmy Carter's Disingenuous Diplomacy

Rick Richman | Posted Nov 22 2006

Jimmy Carter's new book - Palestine Peace Not Apartheid - should, by all rights, be headed for the remainder bin. Martin Peretz, editor-in-chief of The New Republic, calls it a "tendentious, dishonest and stupid book."

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5) The State Of Scholarship At Columbia - And Of Book Reviewing At The New York Times

Rick Richman | Posted Oct 18 2006

Professor Rashid Khalidi, who directs the Middle East Institute at Columbia University, is currently on a multi-city book tour for his new book The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon Press) - aided by a favorable New York Times review from an unlikely book reviewer.

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6) Visiting Israel At War

Rick Richman | Posted Aug 23 2006

Back in April, Rabbi Wolpe gave a sermon whose title took one aback: "Can Israel Survive?"

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7) America, Israel and Tony Judt

Rick Richman | Posted Apr 26 2006

After Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer posted an anti-Israel polemic on the website of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government - styled as a "research" paper but containing virtually no original research and riddled with extraordinary scholarly lapses - the response of much of the mainstream media in America was admirable.

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8) The 'Israel Lobby' And Academic Malpractice

Rick Richman | Posted Mar 29 2006

Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer's "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy," posted on the Harvard School of Government website and abridged in the London Review of Books, has generated assertions that it is anti-Semitic - in effect if not intent.

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9) A Mid-War History Lesson: Bush 2005/Churchill 1942

Rick Richman | Posted Dec 01 2005

In his extraordinary "Strategy for Victory" speech at the U.S. Naval Academy on November 30, 2005, George W. Bush addressed the combination of continuing difficulties in Iraq, political attacks on his management of the war, and the criticism of a hostile mainstream media.

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10) A Non-Nuanced Middle East Peace Plan

Rick Richman | Posted Nov 10 2004

In the October 7, 2004 issue of The New York Review of Books, Rob Malley, who was part of the U.S. team at Camp David, reviewed Dennis Ross's book on the peace process (The Missing Peace) and came to a conclusion very different from Ross.

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11) Kerry, Kennedy And Isaiah

Rick Richman | Posted Aug 18 2004

A few weeks ago, John Kerry gave a foreign policy speech in Seattle - another of his criticisms of the Bush Administration for "going it alone" instead of "assembling a team."

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12) John Kerry On Israel: Second To Several

Rick Richman | Posted Jul 14 2004

Someone who read an abbreviated version of "Kerry, Carter and Israel" (my front-page essay in the May 5 issue of The Jewish Press) wrote that he was unconcerned about Kerry, because his pro-Israel voting record was "second to none," he had "fought" the attempt by the first President Bush in the early 1990's to cut loan guarantees to Israel, and he had endorsed Israel's recent actions against the leaders of Hamas.

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13) Kerry, Carter And Israel

Rick Richman | Posted May 05 2004

Faced with running against the most pro-Israel president since Harry Truman, John Kerry started in February to modify his position on Israel.

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