To a degree, the point you are making about Jews and the point I made about Catholics are really the same--whether someone in an influential position adheres to the Constitution and secular law or to some "higher" calling. The inroads into power made by Likudniks are no different from the positions of influence that fundamentalists now enjoy. Both appear to be advancing agendas outside the secular nature of their job descriptions. The standard that you are applying to the current cabal of zionists, that certain of their associations disqualify them from certain govt jobs, could also be applied to Christian fundamentalists who obviously feel that God's law--and their interpretation of it--trumps secular law.
The problem with this standard is that it gets fuzzy around the edges. For example, what is a zionist? Someone who believes in the continued existence of the state of Israel. It's safe to say that every Jewish citizen in Israel is a zionist. Yet it is also true that 60-70% of the population favors a return to the green line--the pre-1967 border. It is also true that when Israelis vote, they vote security. So when an election comes along and Hamas startes blowing people up at bus stops, sentiment turns there just like it does here.
So I could argue that the so-called zionist cabal in the Pentagon and State Department are not really acting in the interest of a foreign power-in this case,Israel--at all so much as acting out of extreme religious views that influence their actions to the point of subverting not only the true interests of the US, but of Israel as well because their views are not only held by a minority within Israel itself, but opposed by all of Israel's neighbors, the wider Arab world, most of Europe and a large number of people here as well.
Part of the problem that Jews have always had, wherever they happen to be, is that they just don't fully assimilate. When push comes to shove, as you asserted in a previous post, they are bound not only by religion but by an overriding tribal affinity. That's been a problem everywhere they go and may well be at the root of the opression they have suffered because no one has been able to break it.
But if you are still intent on applying some loyalty test to people who hold positions of policy influence in the US govt, you might run into a little problem. It's called the First Amendment. |
