>"He blames U.S. imperialism more than Israeli influence"
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>Is there a dimes' worth of difference between the two in the Middle
>East?
Your foregrounding of Israeli "influence" is, you know, icky. It's too close to the Counterpunch line - that Israel and a small group of rich American Jews have hijacked U.S. policy against our national interests - which is too close to classic anti-Semitic discourse for my taste. The U.S. doesn't need lessons in imperial brutality from anyone.
Doug