Just think... Walt & Mearsheimer in translation
The controversial book by American academics Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, who accuse the pro-Israel lobby of hijacking American policy, hit bookstores in Europe in September and soon will be published across the Arab world and in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world.And in an indication of the strong interest the book is attracting in Europe, it is being translated into German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish and even Catalan.
The good news is that the book won't be available in Lashon HaKodesh.
Hebrew-only readers... will have to wait. To date, no Israeli publishing house has agreed to translate the book. “We are hoping that the most liberal publishers in Israel might consider publishing it, however, it has proven very difficult,” said Christine Hsu, assistant to Walt and Mearsheimer’s agent at the William Morris Agency, Raffaella De Angelis. The agency declined to be more specific.
I got a kick out of this comment (file under "Professors can be so dumb"):
“Books don’t sell all that well in the Arab world, where the tradition is more oral and visual,” said Shibley Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution.
Is it any wonder that books "don't sell all that well" where literacy rates are 50% (Muslim world) - 53% (Arab world)? Hullo? Of course that doesn't stop Hitler's Mein Kampf from being a bestseller in places like Turkey and the Palestinian terror-tories.
According to Bernard Lewis, one of the first leaders of Syria's Baath party, Sami al-Jundi, said in his autobiography that “We were the first who thought of translating Mein Kampf.”
Gotta give credit where credit is due.
published in Lebanon 1975
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UPDATE: See Mein Kampf along with Jimmy Carter's book in a bookshop in Amman, Jordan, courtesy of Deborah Lipstadt -- and with thanks to Rick Richman for the heads-up Q.E.D.
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And for all you who hate to see Walt & Mearsheimer repressed, there's also this Dutch documentary (2007) "produced as a result of the repression of the now famous Walt and Mearsheimer report 'The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.' "
It runs slightly over 50 minutes, and while the first minute and 20 seconds are in Dutch, the rest is said to be in English. (I didn't watch it all ... yet ... so I don't know.)
Now are you sure you don't want to join The Israel Lobby ???
How 'bout if I could get you this bumper sticker?
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