http://www.momentmag.com/moment/issues/2011/10/lewis.html
A Retrospective Of The Scholar Who Provided The Intellectual Ammunition For The Iraq War
REVERED, REVILED AND, ALAS, SO WRONG…HE PAINTED A PHONY, MISLEADING PICTURE OF THE “GOLDEN ERA ” OF JEWS IN ARAB/MUSLIM LANDS WHEN IN FACT, THEY WERE AN OPPRESSED MINORITY OF DHIMMIS WITH ONLY MOMENTS OF TOLERANCE; HE WAS A GREAT CHEERLEADER FOR CAMP DAVID AND OSLO AND NEVER ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE ARAB/ISRAEL WAR WAS NEVER ABOUT BORDERS BUT ALWAYS ABOUT JIHAD….HIS ENORMOUS KNOWLEDGE WAS AT THE SERVICE OF APPEASEMENT …..RSK
Bernard Lewis has just moved to a small apartment in the manicured suburbs on Philadelphia’s Main Line. At 95, it was time for the man the Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing calls the “most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East” to leave Princeton—his home for more than 35 years—for a senior living facility known for attracting retired academics.