[lbo-talk] The Banality of anti-Israel Lobby

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Tue Aug 10 16:43:58 PDT 2010


On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:04:13 -0700 (PDT) David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> quoted, approvingly:


> Blankfort’s basic claim is that a Jewish Lobby has absolute control
> over US policy in the Middle East. This is hardly a novel claim –
> it’s been advanced by various congressional Republicans and
> mainstream hawks like Walt and Mearsheimer, who claim that The Lobby
> is the reason that the US deviate from their general foreign policy
> of support for “democracy” when it comes to the Middle East, and that
> the Lobby is harming “national interests”.

Once again we see characterization rather than citation. This is the sort of thing that Alan Dershowitz and the ADL specialize in, and it is such a patently dishonest mode of argument that it utterly discredits anybody who traffics in it.

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