June 11, 2006

Broadcast Date: 
Jun 11 2006

Journalist Michael Massing on the Israel Lobby, plus the story behind the revelation that the CIA knew Adolf Eichmann's whereabouts as far back as the 1950s.

 

Episode segments
  • JUNE 11 2006
    American Politics, Jewish
    Michael Massing, contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review and frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books among other venues.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Michael Massing talks about his recent article in The New York Review of Books, The Storm Over the Israel Lobby and explains why, "on their central point--the power of the Israel Lobby and the negative effect it has had on US policy--Mearsheimer and Walt are entirely correct."

  • JUNE 11 2006
    Foreign Policy, Jewish
    Elizabeth Holtzman, former member of Congress, Brooklyn District Attorney and NYC Comptroller
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    Former Congress member Elizabeth Holtzman responds to the recent revelation that in 1958 the CIA knew the whereabouts of Adolph Eichmann, but failed to share that information with the Israelis, and reminds us of the sorry history of the CIA's many collaborations with former Nazis in the aftermath of WWII.