"Zionist Lobby" or American interests?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Gilad Atzmon writes: "Zionism is a very singular political method 
aimed at perfecting the transformation of world disasters and human 
pain into Jewish gain" ("The Zionist Lobby and American Foreign 
Policy," _CounterPunch_ 22 August 2002, 
<http://www.counterpunch.org/atzmon0822.html>).  Wrong.  The majority 
of Jews in the world have little -- perhaps nothing -- to gain 
materially from Zionism and Israel, much less the policy of the 
continuing occupation, whether or not they can see this truth 
themselves today.

The problem with the CounterPunch articles by Atzmon and Michael 
Neumann is not so much anti-Semitic implications (which are absent in 
the Neumann article but present in the Atzmon one) as they ignore 
class politics, of the USA, Israel, the Palestinians, the 
predominantly Arab states, etc., altogether.  Therefore, they lead 
the reader away from any meaningful attempt at understanding the 
workings of the Empire and Zionism.
-- 
Yoshie

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