Said on American Zionism

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Well, it *is* the only democracy in the region, and when you compare 
>even a Binyamin Netanyahu to a Hafez Assad there does seem to be a 
>very clear difference.
>
>Brad DeLong

Democracy can't be the point here -- the USA has consistently 
preferred Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc. to Iran & Iraq.  One might say 
that the U.S. government has supported Israel _despite_ its 
_democracy_ of, by, & for Zionists, because of its usefulness against 
pan-Arab radicalism.

Yoshie