"Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat (is) and actually has been since 1990 -- it's the threat against Israel," Zelikow told a crowd at the University of Virginia on Sep. 10, 2002, speaking on a panel of foreign policy experts assessing the impact of 9/11 and the future of the war on the al-Qaeda terrorist organization.
"And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don't care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the American government doesn't want to lean too hard on it rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell," said Zelikow.
[Inter-Press Service]
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 MOTECK1457 at aol.com wrote:
> I would like to point out, as a Jewish opponent of Bush and of his
> disgusting war in Iraq, that he did not launch his aggression on
> behalf of Zionism. His oil revenue, crony capitalist, human rights
> violating friends come from anti-Zionist Saudi Arabia.
>
> Moreover, when the Bush administration, under its despicable practice
> of extraordinary rendition, kidnapped Maher Arar, a Canadian citizen
> of Syrian origin, and sent him overseas to be tortured, he did it with
> the collusion of the anti-Zionist Syrian government. Arar has also
> said that while in Jordan and in transit to Syria, he was beaten and
> abused by Jordanians officials too.
>
> It saddens me to see any segment of the Iraqi resistance succumbing to
> this simplistic (and yes, anti-Semitic) analysis.
>