> Now, where leftist blindness verging on anti-semitism comes in is the fact
> that they treat the expulsions of Palestinians by Israel as uniquely evil
> policy in the region, while downplaying the mass murders by Syria (Hama
> 1982, probably far worse than Israel's murders in Lebanon the same years)
or
> many other similarly wretched policies by Arab regimes.
-I really resent what you just said. what did I say in my post that was -Anti-Semitic? And how can I be against myself? If you forgot, Arabs are -Semites too.
This particularly response is actually one of the red flags for exactly what I was talking about, since you deny that there is even real unique prejudice against Jews, so you play games with words. No anti-arab discrimination group in the US uses the word "antisemitism" to describe anti-arab discrimination.
>And when
> claims are made that there is a Jewish conspiracy running American foreign
> policy against the interest of the deluded goys, we are back in the
> Protocols of the Elders of Zion land.
-There is no CONSPIRACY. Got it. It is very simple "Money is the mother's
-milk of american politics."
>Politicians need money to
>get elected. AIPAC is the second strongest interest group in rasing money
>and giving it to pro-Israel politicians. The strongest is AARP.
Yes-- and Jews have all the money as we all know. The focus on money coming from Jews as the source of Israeli support is exactly the problem with the whole argument, sincce it denies the political support Israel gets for all sorts of other reasons from non-Jews.
At Open Secrets (www.opensecrets.org), they track contributions from both PACs and individuals specifically targetted through pro-Israel groups. The totals for the 2000 election cycle from pro-Israel sources were just over $6 million (see http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus.asp?Ind=Q05) Not chump change but hardly enough to decide all elections in a multi-billion dollar electoral system, especially where defense contractors alone spent $13 million in the same election cycle and energy companies spent $65 million. BTW labor unions spent $84 million. Israel does pretty well among ideological groups-- roughly comparable to the gun rights folks -- but the monetary support is as much a reflection of their electoral strength as a cause.
Sure, New York primaries are strategic and money doesn't hurt, but if Israel didn't have support from religious conservatives and sectors of the defense establishment for their own purposes, Israel wouldn't get support from the US.
I wish Israel had less political support for its actions among non-Jews than it does, but the support is there.
-- Nathan Newman