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To: Gus who wrote (561508)	4/7/2004 8:37:05 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Jewish ‘neocons’ tilt U.S. policy toward Israeli agenda By RON CSILLAG, Canadian Jewish News, Aapril 8, 2004 "The editor of a left-wing Vancouver-based magazine is defending his own recent article that singles out prominent American neo-conservative Jews for, he says, tilting the Mideast policies of President George W. Bush toward Israel. The March/April issue of Adbusters checked off the names of 26 Jews on a list of 50 hawkish “neocons” said to have cozy relations with the war-minded U.S. Defence Department. The Jewish names include writers Norman Podhoretz and Irving Kristol; Deputy U.S. Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; former arms negotiators Richard Perle; and academic Daniel Pipes. They appear alongside U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice-President Dick Cheney and former UN ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. But the religions of those people are not identified. “A lot of ink has been spilled chronicling the pro-Israel leanings of American neocons and the fact that a disproportionate percentage of them are Jewish,” states the article, titled “Why won’t anyone say they are Jewish?” “Some commentators are worried that these individuals – labeled ‘Likudniks’ for their links to Israel’s right-wing Likud party – do not distinguish enough between American and Israeli interests,” it goes on. “For example, whose interests were they protecting in pushing for war in Iraq?” Adbusters, an alternative bi-monthly known for its biting anti-consumerist, anti-globalization stance, says it decided “to tackle the issue head on.” What those on the list share “is the view that the U.S. is a benevolent hyper power that must protect itself by reshaping the rest of the world into its morally superior image. And half of them are Jewish.” Kalle Lasn, the article’s author and the magazine’s editor, told The CJN he felt compelled to write the piece because “the mainstream and alternative media are somehow scared of talking about the Jewishness of the neocons and the Zionism there… and the influence this has on American foreign policy in the Middle East.” Other media outlets “just don’t have the guts because they’re afraid of this kind of vociferous backlash that I have experienced over the past few weeks.” Lasn said he’s received much abusive mail and even personal threats. “I really do understand what it feels like to be targeted by people who hate you.” He said the negative responses show a “kneejerk political correctness. It’s almost as if… many of them are Jews themselves. They’re in some sort of denial. They really think that somehow it is wrong to have a debate about the Jewishness of the neocons who are, after all, the most powerful political/intellectual group in the world today. “They [neocons] literally have the power to start wars and stop wars and they are the driving force behind the Bush administration’s foreign policy, not just in the Middle East, but throughout the world. They’re the people who make it possible for the American administration to give $3 billion a year to Israel, and many of them are connected to the Likud party. “It’s almost as though we have become so politically correct that we don’t even want to discuss the obvious anymore.” Lasn said he has “an incredible amount of respect” for Jews, who, owing to the Holocaust’s “deep imprint” on them, have developed a keen ability to spot dictators such as Saddam Hussein. “In that way, Jewish influence is wonderful.” However, “if 50 per cent of the neo-cons were Arabs or Palestinian, then this war [in Iraq] would not have started.” Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific region, director Erwin Nest said CJC “will be considering action” against Adbusters, but declined to elaborate."