Michael Perelman wrote:
Why in the world would the WSJ let Ali Abunimah review Carter's book? Is the paper becoming more open to critical views? Hard to believe. Jimmy Carter's Book: A Palestinian View By ALI ABUNIMAH December 26, 2006; Page A12
================================= Not to worry. The paper made sure to publish a companion piece by Michael Oren criticizing the book. Actually, Oren's op-ed was less a criticism - it didn't deal with any of the issues raised in Carter's book - so much as a review of how sympathetic US leaders since the Puritans have purportedly been to the Jews and Israel, suggesting Carter is out of step with traditional American values. Still, the fact that the Journal saw fit to run Abunimah's excellent op-ed seems to be another small straw in the wind that the US ruling class recognizes it has a foreign policy interest in creating a little more distance between itself and Israel - or at least creating the perception of such in Mideast and world opinion.
