[lbo-talk] A Liberal Blogger Watches the Antiwar Rally on C-SPAN

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 1/27/07, mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/01/im-watching-some-idiot-on-c-span.html
>
> "Joe and I are heading down to the peace rally in an
> hour, to take photos, etc. And I'm watching it on
> C-Span right now, and I'm asking myself - though I'm
> not surprised - why is some woman from the "US
> Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation" speaking? And
> why is she speaking, ad naseum, about the "Israeli
> occupation of Palestine" rather than speaking about
> the war in Iraq? She gave 10% of her speech to Iraq
> and spent the rest of the time railing against Israel?
>
> First off, wrong topic.
>
> Second off, way to alienate most Jews in America, a
> rather influential group of people we could use as
> allies.

The bipartisan Iraq Study Group links the Iraq War to the Israeli
occupation and says it's time to rein in Tel Aviv, a Jewish
billionaire (concerned that Tel Aviv's policy is helping increase
anti-Semitism) is seeking to build a liberal counterweight to the
AIPAC, and the former President of the United States decries apartheid
that the Israeli occupation is, _and_ this "liberal" blogger can't
stand one anti-war speaker from the most sensible -- and moderate --
coalition among all that are working to end the Israeli occupation, a
coalition that includes Jewish groups (see
<http://endtheoccupation.org/groups.php>) and that has been led by a
well known and respected Jewish woman intellectual?

Why is this "liberal" blogger to the right of the saner voices
(admittedly still only a few, but increasing in number) from _the
ruling class_?
-- 
Yoshie
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