I’m often impatient with Shmuel Rosner’s blog on Haaretz because he is so unreconstructed in his support for Israel, and his support for American pols who support Israel, but Rosner is, in the end, a small price to pay for Haaretz’s tremendous influence and bravery.
And this week, in a piece on Ron Paul, Rosner offers very fair comment on Ron Paul’s criticism of the Israel lobby:
Is this anti-Semitic? Is it biased?
I think it is the obvious price that Israel supporters are paying for being - well – influential. No, AIPAC is not responsible for the war in Iraq. But being a strong lobby comes with a price: the price of being singled out by a libertarian candidate for the Presidency….So why does it seem as if he deals with Israel more than with many other countries? The reason is simple: Israel’s profile in America is high, and the issues of concern to Israel are also those troubling America. One can plausibly suspect that Paul is somewhat more irritated with Israel than with most other countries. But for a candidate opposing foreign aid and any American involvement in the Middle East, this is not an unreasonable annoyance.
Rosner should be congratulated for the grownup way he’s talking about this stuff. Would that the American media would take it on so directly…
Related posts:
- Columbia’s Israel Lobby Says Let’s Talk About the Nakba– in Private
- The American street wants to talk about the Israel lobby
- The American street wants to talk about the Israel lobby
- Walt & Mearsheimer Should Let Israel Be Israel
- Chris Matthews Should Talk About the Israel Lobby Because It’s All He Thinks About
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Ron Paul needs to repudiate these Neo-Nazis,
http://adamholland.blogspot.com/2007/10/neo-nazi-support-for-ron-paul.html
Just as you need to look at someone named Joachim Martillo, who posts here, more closely,
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Get a grip on yourself, Michael.
You'll be OK.
http://www.nbc4.com/news/14516979/detail.html
Snippet from 9/11 Commission's hearing, which was ignored in the final report that was supposed to pinpoint Why it happened:
MR. SNELL: Atta was chosen as the emir, or leader of the mission. He met with Bin Ladin to discuss the targets, the World Trade Center, which represented the United States economy, the Pentagon, a symbol of the U.S. military, and the U.S. Capitol, the perceived source of U.S. policy in support of Israel.
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MR. HAMILTON: But what have you found out about why these men did what they did? What motivated them to do it?
MR. FITZGERALD: I believe they feel a sense of outrage against the United States. They identify with the Palestinian problem, they identify with people who oppose repressive regimes, and I believe they tend to focus their anger on the United States
Dear Michael Pugliese:
It is absurd to argue that a politician is responsible for any fringe group that seconds his position on a given issue. Hitler was a conservationist, a dog lover and a promoter of fuel efficient automobiles. That hardly makes neo-Nazis out of the Sierra Club, PETA or the Rocky Mountain Institute.
Unlike the other candidates who have all de facto repudiated the US Constitution, Ron Paul doesn't need to repudiate anything.
Maybe all the Jews in America should be required to repudiate West Bank Settlements? Let's ask Abe Foxman about this before he shoots off his ugly face any further.
PW is too kind to Rosner.
Rosner is a flunkey pure and simple.
What's in it for Israel is Rosner's sole refrain.
If a US-based media representative from any other country were to carry on like Rosner s/he would be treated with derision and hounded out of the country.
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