"Israel's proxy war"

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Feb 27 11:40:36 PST 2003


loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote:


>The argument that US politicians have to do the bidding of right-wing
>Zionists in order to court the Jewish vote and get elected is also
>unconvincing and is basically mistaking effect for cause.

Jews are something like 3% of the U.S. electorate and concentrated in New York and LA, places that Republicans almost never carry in presidential elections. Right-wing Christians are the major pro-Israel force in electoral politics.

Doug



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