Said on American Zionism

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Oct 14 12:54:07 PDT 2000


Brad DeLong wrote:


>Worked for them: no. Worked on them: probably. Worked on the U.S.
>Congress: certainly...

Why in god's name do you think that? Look at the U.S. press coverage of events in and around Israel over the last week - the bogus evenhandedness (a la Jimmy Carter on Vietnam: the destruction was "mutual"), the anguish over 2 dead Israeli soldiers and the near silence over 90 dead Arab civilians, the denunciation of suicide bombers as "cowards" (and the implied celebration of cruise-missile launchers as heroic). Why would Congress act like anything other than the provincial imperialists they always act like?

Doug



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