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Andrew Sullivan(R) of Great Britain fights for a ball with Serbia's Nemanja Bjelica during their 2009 European championship preliminary round, group C, basketball game in Warsaw on September 9,2009. Andrew Sullivan
JERUSALEM - MARCH 19: An Israeli border policeman kicks away a tear-gas canister, during violent clashes in Shuafat refugee camp, on March 19, 2010, in Jerusalem, Israel. Hundreds of Palestinian youth clashed with Israeli police throughout East Jerusalem, in response to further closures of a the Al-Aqsa mosque inside the Old City to men under 50 and growing tensions over Israel's plans to build more houses in East Jerusalem. Israel
WASHINGTON - MARCH 16: A demonstrator wears a t-shirt with the image of former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during a 'CODE RED' rally in opposition to the health care reform bill on Capitol Hill March 16, 2010 in Washington, DC. Sponsored by The American Grass Roots Coalition and the Tea Party Express, the rally focused attention and opposition to the congressional Democrats' efforts to push through a final vote on health care reform by the end of the week. Sarah Palin
Harvard professor Stephen Walt, pictured, who together with John Mearsheimer, unseen, a University of Chicago professor, published a book arguing that pro-Israel special interest groups have manipulated the U.S. political system to promote policies that favor Israel and run counter to American interests, speaks to students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where the two lectured about their best selling book, Thursday, June 12, 2008. The two prominent American professors who caused an uproar with their best-selling book critical of the Israel lobby in Washington are in Israel and facing a raucous reception. Stephen Walt
Norman Finkelstein, center, a vocal American critic of Israel who resigned last year as a political science professor at DePaul University in Chicago, walks inside the grave of Qana victims who were killed in an Israeli attack during the 2006 summer war between Israel and Hezbollah, in the southern village of Qana, Sunday Jan. 6, 2008. Finkelstein met Hezbollah's commander in south Lebanon, Nabil Kaouk, in his office in the coastal city of Tyre also toured the border village of Aita al-Shaab, the location from where Hezbollah guerrillas triggered the war after they crossed the border, killing three Israeli soldiers and capturing two others in hopes of trading them for Lebanese prisoners in Israeli jails, according to the report. Norman Finkelstein
WASHINGTON - MARCH 30: Peter Beinart (L), editor-at-large for The New Republic and a Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy on the Council on Foreign Relations, and David Brooks (C), of the New York Times, speak with Tim Russert (R) during a live taping of Meet the Press March 30, 2008 in Washington, DC. Guests General Michael Hayden, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, David Brooks, of the New York Times, and Peter Beinart, a Senior Fellow for US Foreign Policy on the Council on Foreign Relations, appeared on the show to speak about the successes and falures of the CIA in the war on terror and the upcoming US presidential elections. The New Republic
FAIRFAX, VA - MARCH 19: U.S. President Barack Obama speaks on health care reform at George Mason University March 19, 2010 in Fairfax, Virginia. Obama is making a last minute appeal for support of his proposed health care legislation as the U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the legislation as early as Sunday afternoon. Barack Obama
University of Chicago professor John Mearsheimer, right, who together with Harvard professor Stephen Walt, unseen, published a book arguing that pro-Israel special interest groups have manipulated the U.S. political system to promote policies that favor Israel and run counter to American interests, defends his views with Israeli students at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where the two lectured about their best selling book, Thursday, June 12, 2008. The two prominent American professors who caused an uproar with their best-selling book critical of the Israel lobby in Washington are in Israel and facing a raucous reception. John Mearsheimer
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (C) attends the Middle East Quartet meeting in Moscow on March 19, 2010. The international Quartet for the Middle East met in a bid to revive the peace process despite tensions after Israel's announcement of new settler homes and a deadly rocket attack. Middle East
Douglas Baird, Professor of Law at the University of Chicago talks in a classroom at the school about President Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize Friday, Oct. 9, 2009 in Chicago. University of Chicago
US President Barack Obama embraces Michigan Democrat Senator Debbie Stabenow as he greets lawmakers after signing the HIRE Act, a 17.6 billion dollar jobs bill that encourages businesses to hire workers, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, DC, March 18, 2010. U.S. Democratic Party
A Palestinian woman walks with her donkey in the West Bank village of Mreiha, near Jenin, Monday, March 15, 2010. West Bank
WASHINGTON - AUGUST 13: Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich delivers remarks during a course about government budgeting at the American Enterprise Institute August 13, 2009 in Washington, DC. Quoting Dwight Eisenhower, Albert Camus, Ronald Reagan, George Orwell, Margaret Thacher and others, Gingrich said his course would guide federal, state and local government to better budget policy. George Orwell
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz addresses an audience at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass., in this file photo taken Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2007. Former senior Bosnian Serb leader Momcilo Krajisnik told a U.N. war crimes court Monday, March 26, 2007, that he wants the prominent U.S. defense attorney to represent him in his appeal against a 27-year sentence for mass murder and persecution. Alan Dershowitz
Under a picture of Iran's late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, talks with Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during their meeting in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007. Iran
A combo picture shows Israeli author Amos Oz (L) taken at the Frankfurt/Main Book Fair 11 October 2002, Lebanese writer of Syrian origin Adonis (Ali Ahmad Said) taken 13 May 2002 in Paris and an undated photo of US author Philip Roth. The three authors are in line for the Nobel Prize of Literature. Philip Roth

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