Hamid Algar, of UC, Berkeley wrote this on an academic email list. I post here with his permission:
"A brilliant and unforgettable example of the "prescience" of Bernard Lewis was his piece "August 22: Does Iran have Something in Store?" that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2006. Here he predicted that on that day Iran would unleash its (non-existent) nuclear arsenal on the Zionist entity in order to bring about the apocalypse. As a blogger remarked once the day in question had passed, "the nuclear apocalypse was milder than expected.""
"A brilliant and unforgettable example of the "prescience" of Bernard Lewis was his piece "August 22: Does Iran have Something in Store?" that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2006. Here he predicted that on that day Iran would unleash its (non-existent) nuclear arsenal on the Zionist entity in order to bring about the apocalypse. As a blogger remarked once the day in question had passed, "the nuclear apocalypse was milder than expected.""
