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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran
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To: sea_urchin who wrote (15952)8/6/2007 9:26:34 PM
From: Crimson Ghost  Read Replies (1) of 22250
 
Even at YearlyKos Panel Bashing Lobbyists, Israel Support Is 'Third Rail'

Yesterday's presidential forum at the YearlyKos convention was all about bashing lobbyists, but there was one lobby they didn't touch. According to the official chatroom at YearlyKos, Israel was off the table:

[11:52] Quirinal Raymaker: [Apropos of fighting Al Qaeda] this gets to the question of us support for israel, which NONE of them will touch..

[11:52] Jillan McMillan: / yeah!!

[11:52] MeiLin Miranda: / q, that's the third rail of politics

[11:52] Kiala Ireton: /exactly meilin

Another chatter states that support for Israel is simply "ingrained" in American politics. This is a tautological statement. It is ingrained because a bunch of people want it to be ingrained. It doesn't have to be. The netroots can't open the issue up--in a forum bashing lobbyists, no less--because more than half of Democratic presidential giving is Jewish, and a high percentage of that Jewish money is concerned with Israel (out of a devotion similar in character to rightwing Christians' opposition to gay marriage and abortion). There's a word for the failure of a political conference to discuss an important issue because of money: corruption.

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