Said on American Zionism

[Brad DeLong]

>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

This is the non-Gandhi road. It has the normal effects. Given that 
Arafat's task is to persuade the Israeli electorate that it is 
worthwhile handing over some degree of sovereignty over parts of East 
Jerusalem to him, and to persuade the U.S. Congress that he can be a 
peaceful statesman, the non-Gandhi road is not working.

Brad DeLong