----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 11:45 AM Subject: Israel's image problem
> My Yale class of '75 has a listserv that I read as a good index of
> liberal bourgeois opinion. The political consensus is generally
> Clintonite. Of course there are a couple of enthusiastic Sharon
> supporters on the list, but I've been surprised over the last couple
> of days by the level of criticism of Israel.
Why? The liberal bourgeois I know isn't uniformly pro-Israel. You'd probably call me a Clintonite, and yet I'm not an enthusiastic Sharon supporter. William himself probably isn't... if I recall correctly, his administration didn't want Netanyahu to win.
-- Luke