The Atlantic Tees Up the Israel Question, After All

by Philip Weiss on October 30, 2006 · 3 comments

The Atlantic Monthly has just published a poll of “foreign-policy authorities” on U.S. support of Israel. I can’t get access to the whole poll but the teaser is exciting: 62 percent of these wise men say that the Bush Administration’s support for Israel is “too strong.”

How exciting. Thus the Atlantic Monthly endorses the conventional wisdom proffered by Foreign Policy last summer. A conventional wisdom mobilized in some real measure by brave Walt and Mearsheimer, whose piece the Atlantic killed a year ago. A conventional wisdom that isolates the neocons and Commentary, which labelled Walt and M “jackals.” Maybe the jackal paradigm is shifting? Ask the hyenas.

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{ 3 comments }

1 Bill Pearlman October 30, 2006 at 7:20 pm

First American Jews were squids, now we are hyenas. I suppose little Phil, anything above a rat is an improvement on that great flick out of Germany the "Eternal Jew". Do you watch it every night and dream of the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews. Just a question

2 Bill Pearlman October 31, 2006 at 1:13 am

For anybody who's interested, my picture is up on the web.

3 Bill Pearlman October 31, 2006 at 1:40 am

Is that the best you can come up with, a picture of a clown. Ouch, I'm wounded. This must be the same Islamic culture and intellect that came up with suicide bombers but can't make a light bulb from Casablanca to Karachi

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