>...There is a really fascinating and disturbing issue here that I've
>often wondered about - some Israelis (meaning Israeli Jews, here)
>use the same sort of language that is (rightly) criticised by you
>and Schalit. For example, Blankfort likes to quote Uri Avnery (one
>of the authors in the book I think), as saying:
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>What happened to all those nice plans?"asked Israeli journalist and peace
>activist Uri Avnery. "Israel's governments mobilized the collective power
>of US Jewry - which dominates Congress and the media to a large degree -
>against them. Faced by this vigorous opposition, all the presidents; great
>and small, football players and movie stars - folded, one after
>another."....
What is wrong with that? Can anyone remember (I can't) when Congress failed to give a virtually or actually unanimous endorsement to any piece of legislation or "sense of the Congress" declaration pressed for by the AJC? Can anyone think (I can't) of a single other issue where a politician was forced to apologize for saying the US should be "even handed?" Can anyone imagine (I can't) what other lesson politicians are to draw from the purge of Representative McKinney?
Shane Mage
"Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives"
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62