Dore Gold has posted a (relatively) brief but pointed response at the JCPA website. Among other things, he points out that had Mearsheimer & Walt bothered to try using any primary sources to back up their main thesis, they would have found that many of the relevant documents are still classified. They would also have discovered that what is out there doesn't support them.
The Blue Octavo Notebooks, on the other hand, is back after a long absence with an extended and thoroughly researched evisceration of many elements not (to my knowledge) covered elsewhere.
For yet another effective rebuttal (that wasn't intended as such -- it was published earlier), see Richard L. Rubenstein's article "Pipeline to Peril," which I linked last week.
While I expect this whole subject is already becoming tiresome, I also expect that many of us who support Israel will be having snippets from the "Lobby" libel tossed our way at water coolers and cocktail parties (does anyone still have cocktail parties?) in the coming weeks. It's good to be prepared.
