Stanley Hoffmann dead

This is one of the most interesting professors on international relations.  He was quite original and interesting to read and listen to.  He developed an early interest in the Palestinian question (read the lenthy interview with him in Journal Of Palestine Studies in 1985 by Ghassan Bishara).  He was close to Walid Khalidi who had an influence on him, I think.  There was a time when Sadiq Al-Azm (who used to accuse basically anyone who meets with an American of being a Mossad spy) called a traitor those who met with Hoffmann.  Hoffmann was called names by Zionsits in the US for speaking out albeit mildly about Israeli repression.  He wrote the introduction to George Ball's Error and Betrayal.   His views on the Palestinian question, however, were very non-courageous: he basically always spoke from the standpoint of Israeli security and interest. Never went beyond the limited two-state non-solution.  I admired one thing about him: he never cared to get close to power: he in fact deliberately avoided it.