>Massad's critique of M&W's paper misses the main points: that the
>policies the U.S. follows in the Middle East, whether or not
>determined by the influence of the Israel lobby, *contradict* the
>interest of the U.S. capitalists taken as a whole, that the cost of
>this influence has mounted and become impossibly onerous. These
>propositions have merit.
But this would suggest that 2% of the US pop can outweigh the influence of the US capitalists taken as a whole? That's really hard to believe.
Doug