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It’s time for strategic patience, and economic pressure.
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The irrationality of the realists.
In conversation with Coleman Hughes, Walter Russell Mead explains the origins of American support for the Jewish state and dispels many myths about Zionism and the U.S.-Israel relationship. His analysis ranges from the attitudes toward the Jews of 17th-century Anglo-American Protestants to the irrationality of the realist professors of international relations Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. (Video, 60 minutes. Audio available at the link below.)
It’s time for strategic patience, and economic pressure.
The irrationality of the realists.
Blind spot.
A dialogue.
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Subscribe NowIn conversation with Coleman Hughes, Walter Russell Mead explains the origins of American support for the Jewish state and dispels many myths about Zionism and the U.S.-Israel relationship. His analysis ranges from the attitudes toward the Jews of 17th-century Anglo-American Protestants to the irrationality of the realist professors of international relations Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. (Video, 60 minutes. Audio available at the link below.)