<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Justin wrote:</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>> He expressly said in the Nation fairly recently that if it came to a conflict between the interests > of Israel and that of the US, he'd put Israel first. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is what Alterman wrote:</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>"...we ought to be honest enough to at least imagine a hypothetical clash between American and Israeli interests. Here, I feel pretty lonely admitting that, every once in a while, I'm going to go with what's best for Israel."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That's equivocal enough to allow for a number of interpretations, and the most charitable (i.e. sometimes we ought to subordinate the interests of our own community to the interests of another) is entirely unobjectionable.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-- Luke</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>