Was the Trib's scathing denunciation of the research paper "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" (by University of Chicago and Harvard University political science professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, respectively) an April Fools' Day joke (" 'The Israel Lobby ,'" April 1 and TribLIVE.com)? I am not usually impressed with research papers generated by normally left-wing universities, but the Trib's slander of the authors prompted me read the 82-page paper online ( ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011 ). The Trib's casual dismissal of the well-documented (42 pages of keynotes) research paper by two well-respected professionals as "blatantly anti-Semitic" is a insult to not only the professors but to careful readers who have been wondering for 2 1/2 years how the United States got sucked into the Iraq disaster. Does the Trib's knee-jerk editorial indicate that it also is a member of the Israel Lobby? Gerald SchillerVerona

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