[lbo-talk] "Does the Jewishness of the neocons influence American foreign...

[Doug Henwood]

Michael Pugliese wrote:

>     After an Islamist uprising in the spring of '82 in El Hama, 
>Syria, Assad, Sr. had the air force do some carpet bombing. Twenty 
>thousand were killed., according to pg. 174 of , "Right To Exist, " 
>by Yaacov Lozowick. Other estimates are higher.
>A google hit,  http://www.google.com/search?q=El+Hama+1982+Assad
>http://www.2la.org/lebanon/ee/terrorsy.htm
>The following is part of the horrific testimony of one survivor:

What's the point of this sort of thing, Michael? No one's ever 
claimed Assad's regime was admirable. It's usually invoked as some 
sort of back-door apologetics for Israeli policy. I might remind you 
that, unlike Syria, Israel does its violent work with U.S. arms, 
money, and support.

Doug