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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (53438)7/8/2004 4:41:13 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 793757
 
...for the sake of the Israel,...then I don't think you read the piece at all carefully.

Not for the sake of Israel. For the sake of reelection. Here's what Hollings said about why Bush wanted to secure Israel:

"Every president since 1947 has made a futile attempt to help Israel negotiate peace. But no leadership has surfaced amongst the Palestinians that can make a binding agreement. President Bush realized his chances at negotiation were no better. He came to office imbued with one thought -- re-election. Bush felt tax cuts would hold his crowd together and spreading democracy in the Mideast to secure Israel would take the Jewish vote from the Democrats. "

That Hollings clip you offered is oddly cobbled. It takes the last of one paragraph and combines it with the first of the next paragraph in a way that distorts by combining different thoughts. Not that Hollings saying that Bush invaded Iraq to win an election by getting Jewish votes is pretty, but that's closer to politics as usual and a far cry from sacrificing the US to save Israel at the behest of some Jewish cabal.

I may be more attuned to this stuff than you are, but I really don't think I am imagining things.

You are more attuned and you have more at stake than I. Your history of examining such things gives you a framework within which you interpret new information. (You may recall we discussed frameworks in the context of media reporting. <g>) If you have a certain framework, lots of things can look like anti-semitism. Perhaps, even probably, some of them are. But not everything that can be fit into the framework is. At the very least there is some grey area, some room for uncertainty and the benefit of the doubt.

I have a bias towards thinking well of people. It's my humanism, I think--I risk losing my faith if I can't regard humanity favorably. I want everyone to be the best they can be and I am reluctant to judge anyone negatively until and unless he doesn't give me any other choice. When someone says something ambiguous, I almost automatically treat it in a positive and constructive way if at all possible. So I may be as predisposed to not find anti-semitism as you are to find it. Ain't we a fine pair.
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