Like I said in the post I made, I knew this would touch a particularly raw nerve and it's your right to disagree but you have to admit that the Israeli lobby is VERY influential in DC
Unlike, say, the Saudi lobby, which has no influence at all. Nope, nobody can compete.
Come on Michael, have you even noticed that the American Jewish lobby has a long history of supporting democrats? James Baker famously dismissed the Jewish lobby, saying "f--k them, they don't vote for us anyway." The Bush administration does not get its foreign policy from AIPAC. It true that certain neocons are Jewish and have a similar view on the WOT and the nature of the enemy to certain members of Israeli right.
However, it to say that even these neocons are loyal to Israel, not the US, is a calumny without evidence. To go further and say that Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice et. al. are therefore pawns some of some Jewish cabal is both ridiculous and a very old anti-Semitic trope.
And yes, it definitely touches a raw nerve because it was talk like this - exactly like this, in fact - that Hitler used to get the Germans to support the Holocaust in the first place. |
