Anti-Jewish Friends of Israel, Part 2 Re: Ace on The Jews

[Max B. Sawicky]

Edmund Hanauer -- the director of SEARCH for Justice and Equality in 
Palestine/Israel <http://www.searchforjustice.org/>, the speaker whom 
we recently invited to give a talk at the Ohio State University, as 
you may recall -- brought up the topic of collaboration between 
Zionists and often anti-Semitic Christian evangelicals in his talk. 
While Max says it's all because "most American Jews support a Jewish 
state and accept the need for some measure of realpolitik as the 
price for that, including alliances with obnoxious people," 
comparable to the majority of Ohio voters' support for Republicans, I 
think that most American Jews (many of whom are more liberal than 
conservative) are actually unaware of the degree to which those who 
claim to represent American Jewry, as well as Israel, have made a 
marriage of convenience with Jew haters (not just garden-variety 
"obnoxious people"!).  I think Jewish leftists can stir up a 
meaningful controversy if they call out Zionist leaders on their 
habit of sleeping with enemies.

There has been a rational, anti-right-wing/pro-peace Israeli/Zionist
left for 20 years, with its own auxiliary in the U.S.  Has its own
magazine (Tikkun, w/the infamous Michael 'Politics of Meaning' Lerner).
This is all old shit.  My co-religionists are not that simple-minded.
I can easily imagine telling someone of this sort of information,
and if they didn't know they would say so what?  Isn't there an
ulterior motive, and look how many Jews are in the ME compared
to those hostile to their presence.

Perhaps this sort of thing is known best of all to Israeli's.
That the information content of the Israeli press is vastly
superior to the U.S. in all matters of the ME is an old story.

Sharon got lots of votes from people who didn't like him.
I can't see how they could have been misinformed.  Mistaken
yes, misinformed no.  It is possible to make mistakes despite
the availability of information.  For the same reason, I find
plausible now stories to the effect that Sharon's political
decline is in progress.  I welcome any correction by those
closer to the situation.

mbs