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Former Knesset Speaker: AIPAC Fosters ‘Near Treason’ In American Jews

I keep a dual-loyalty file. Jews like myself who say that Zionism demands dual loyalty of American Jews. Today an addition: former Israeli Speaker of the Knesset, Avraham Burg, writing in Haaretz this week:

[Jonathan Pollard] and his handlers lived and plotted in the twilight zone of the complex loyalty of the Jews of the United States. Their
basic premise was and still is that all Jews everywhere have dual
loyalty – the loyalty of an American citizen to his homeland, and a
much deeper, national-spiritual loyalty to the Jewish people and the
State of Israel. For years, Israel officially fostered this snarled
loyalty. It entangled and became entangled, plotted and spied. AIPAC
(the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) – the Jewish lobby in
Washington – is the bluntest conceptualization of institutionalizing
near treason and turning it into an enormous octopus of a political
mechanism with enormous dimensions and numerous victims.

Yes, Haaretz. Keep in mind, Walt and Mearsheimer denied that dual loyalty was at work, and were still called antisemites. Give this story ten years, it will be in the New York Times.

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