Interesting to ponder this in the wake of the Chicago/Harvard essay "discovering" undue Zionist influence in U.S. politics. Could it be that the U.S. ruling class is looking for a scapegoat in the wake of the Iraq debacle? Is it time for the Ziocons to eat dirt while whitewashing U.S. foreign policy?
Will Israel step into the breach as the globalized Jewish scapegoat, as the money lenders and tax collectors once were used in Eastern Europe?
We will see....
Joanna
Doug Henwood wrote:
> Al-Ahram Weekly - March 23-29, 2006
> <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/787/op35.htm>
>
> Blaming the lobby
> Joseph Massad
>
> In the last 25 years, many Palestinians and other Arabs, in the United
> States and in the Arab world, have been so awed by the power of the US
> pro-Israel lobby that any study, book, or journalistic article that
> exposes the inner workings, the substantial influence, and the
> financial and political power of this lobby have been greeted with
> ecstatic sighs of relief that Americans finally can see the "truth"
> and the "error" of their ways.
>
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