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

[Dennis Perrin]

> 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

Welcome, Yoshie, to the liblogger sensibility, something that I've wallowed 
in perhaps far too much. Recall that it took weeks for most libloggers to 
say anything about Israel's assault on Lebanon (James Wolcott was an 
exception), and when they did, their main concern was the IDF's 
"disproportionate" use of cluster bombs. If you think this is bad, just wait 
till their heroes Webb and Edwards (not to mention Hillary and Gore) back a 
US/Israeli strike on Iran. Oh, I can read their tortured posts now -- that 
is, assuming they write any.

Dennis