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Steven Walt Blogs
Matthew Yglesias — ... into some kind of objectionable “moral equivalent” (incidentally, if he doesn’t like using those buzzwords, which he shouldn’t, then it seems to me he shouldn’t use them), then he’s really not going to like this from Steven Walt’s new blog. ...

Imagine the Jews Were the Real Terrorists!
Weekly Standard Blog — ... Walt kicks things off with a bang, writing up a bizarre counterfactual of Middle East History. In this realist fantasy, Israel loses the Six Day War, the Arabs overrun the country, but the Jews are not driven into the sea. Instead, "a million or so Jews had ended up as stateless refugees confined to that narrow enclave known as the Gaza Strip." What's become of the other 1.7 million Jews that then lived in Israel is not imagined -- as Walt says, this is just "a thought experiment." Walt continues: ...

A Jewish Gaza?
Ross Douthat — ... , let me welcome them to the blogosphere by taking exception to this hypothetical from new-minted FP blogger Stephen Walt, which has been ...

Walt’s moral Disneyland and other stupid academic tricks
Yourish.com — ... “The Mideast as Moral Disneyland” in which he criticized those who passed judgment on Israel speaking of false concern for Israel’s moral well-being. Well there are others who live in similar moral Disneylands when it comes to the Middle East. One of those is Stephen Walt - he of Walt and Mearsheimer infamy - who is now blogging at Foreign Policy. One of his first posts is titled What if Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War? (via ...

The Same Old Change
AntiWar.com — ... . The free flow of thought and discussion that has been engendered by this heartless military operation in Gaza has given rise to a number of thought experiments – analogies in which, for one example, the historic roles are reversed, and the Israelis become the Palestinians. As Professor Walt writes in his new blog at Foreign Policy magazine: "Imagine that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War, leading to a massive exodus of Jews from the territory of Israel. Imagine that the victorious Arab states had eventually decided to permit the Palestinians to establish ...

What is the Israel lobby?
Megan McArdle — Stephen Walt, of The Israel Lobby fame, launches into the blogosphere with a bang: Here's a thought experiment: Imagine that Egypt, Jordan, and Syria had won the Six Day War, leading to a massive exodus of Jews from the territory of Israel. Imagine that the victorious Arab states had eventually decided to permit the Palestinians to establish a state of their own on the territory of the former Jewish state. (That's unlikely, of course, but this is a thought experiment). Imagine that a million or so Jews had ended up as stateless refugees confined to ...

The Walt Counterfactual, Revisited
Ross Douthat — ... To the first point, I actually think the Irish example tends to weaken Walt's counterfactual.   The major point of the thought experiment was Walt's insinuation that a Jewish Hamas wouldn't be denounced as terrorists in Washington the way the Arab Hamas gets denounced - because of the influence of the Israel Lobby, presumably. And the example of Northern Ireland suggests precisely the opposite. Yes, even a stateless, terrorism-prone Jewish group in the Holy Land would doubtless have sympathizers in the United States, just as the Irish Republican Army did in the 1970s ...

Hamas, The IRA And Washington
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... I must say that whatever reservations I had about the Walt-Mearsheimer book (and I largely share Ross's assessment), Walt's counter-factual post on Gaza has generated a lot of great blog debate. It has helped out the deeper debate we need to have. As has the entire Gaza bombardment. ...