although it wont show, my net pseudonym is LeaNder. Were the No stands for "No" and the Leader alludes to the German Fuehrer. I am both German & female, although leaNder is fine.

Besides I am painfully aware of all you write. And I am studying the neocons carefully but slowly, led by someone whom I fist and many still consider an antisemite. I in fact found myself defending him almost against my better "German" will. BUT ironically these people forward themselves antisemitic fictional lore or extreme right fictions without a further thought.

The problem I have with the Jabotinsky angle is that it seem to be fitted, without the necessary care in these matters,into a larger and older fictional conspiracy lore. A field that has to be "walked" with great care. Search for translations of the German: Michael Hagemeister, and you will realize what I mean.

Come to think of it; I have to check if he has finished his Habiliation on Sergei Alexandrowitsch Nilus.

Be assured though, I feel very, very honored by your reply.

leaNder

I wish Richard S. Levy had used this article in his encyclopedia of antisemitism, but it probably was too long.

Roland ben Mikael

(Remember when folks were still able to claim that there's no lobby? Seems like it was just yesterday.)

Methinks Phil is being a little hard on the Nation in this post. It has e published some first rate stuff on the neocons, for example the delicious polemic above.

While most conspiracy theories are inaccurate phenomenological attempts of people to understand political or economic situations in the face of a dearth of information, in Eastern European history we often find genuine secret conspiratorial behavior especially since the collapse of Poland as the first modern failed state.

Zionists, Bolsheviks, Polish nationalists, Serb nationalists and many other Eastern European political groups have often acted conspiratorially.

It is part of the political equation, and Eastern Europeans, whether Jewish or non-Jewish have brought this type of political behavior to the USA, just as one might observe that south Italians have brought certain forms of pathological social behavior to the USA.

Michael Walzer's attitudes toward Arabs and Palestinians do not differ much from those of Neocons. Just go back and reread Just and Unjust Wars to see what I mean. (I have also heard Walzer spout off about Arabs when he was sitting behind me in a Harvard Square restaurant. It was not a pretty thing to hear.)

AIPAC is only a small part of the Israel Lobby and is a sort of distraction from the real web of control that interconnected Jewish communal organizations like the JCCs, JCRCs, the JCPA, the ADL, the AJCommittee, the AJCongress and a plethora of similar organizations are able to exert on American society from the tiniest school board to the national political level.

These groups can fund sophisticated viral and multi-tier marketing campaigns to distort serious issues like the rebellion in Darfur and US misdeeds in the horn of Africa to the benefit of a racist agenda mapped out by fanatic ideologues like Charles Jacobs of the David Project.

I bring this issue up because my congressman Michael Capuano has been thoroughly enmeshed in a Darfur advocacy campaign led by Neocon ideologue Eric Cohen and orchestrated by the racists at the Boston JCRC (like Ken Sweder) and at the JCPA.

http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/05/lobby-activities-its-just-frggin-novel_28.html describes a racist compaign that the organized Queens Jewish community threw together in a matter of weeks. I wish progressives could work as effectively.

Seeing the QJCC in action helped me to understand the pressures that Rep. Capuano experiences, but if the segregationists and states rightists of the 50s and 60s had been so organized, we would still have Jim Crow in the USA.

Anyway, the Asian culture is based on shame, so that is their automatic response instead of looking introspectively and realizing working 90 hours a week and leaving the kids all on their own is not the right way to raise them.

Clue in and get over your need for a scapegoat. Just because Philip is working out his own neurosis in public doesn't mean you get to be an idiot too.