Tom the Exterminator on the Middle East

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Apr 7 08:39:53 PDT 2002


Michael Pollak wrote:


>On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>> But let's shift the question: Why does the Wall St. Journal Comics Crew
> > push for so hard a line in the Mideast?
>
>The WSJ editorial page position on Israel has long been somewhere to the
>right of the Hebron Settlers. It's an invariant that's independent of
>current events.

Ok, but why? It's one of the major sites for American conservatism to "think" out loud. It's morally conservative, but not Xian fundie. The corporate culture of Dow Jones was basically midwestern isolationist for decades. So why is it so hardline?

Doug



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