Comments on: Nakba Commemoration at Columbia U. This Week http://mondoweiss.net/2008/04/nakba-commemora.html The War of Ideas in the Middle East Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:08:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: MRW. http://mondoweiss.net/2008/04/nakba-commemora.html/comment-page-1#comment-60670 MRW. Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000 http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/04/27/nakba-commemora.html#comment-60670 <p>Philip,</p> <p>I got to this and without reading further, had to reply.</p> <p>"I do believe that people will accept tribal elites if they don't help wreck the foreign policy."</p> <p>You couldn't be more correct. The uppy and downy of who's in and who's out and who's the reigning elite is accepted. And who the hell cares.</p> <p>But when the reigning elite is diddling with foreign policy with disastrous, possibly catastrophic, results for all our countrymen and innocents in a targeted country with no perceivable benefit to Americans, then derision and hatred sets in. It would be he same if the Italians (Catholic) or the Brits (Protestants) were doing it. The fact that the reigning elite in DC are Jewish neocons whose first love and concern is Israel, and this prompts negative reaction to the policies being put forth by this elite group , then of course they're going to be despised. And no amount of anti-semitism wailing will change that because these ostensible Americans have broken faith with their fellow citizens.</p> <p>[Fellow commenters, dont even bother penning me about the Jewish neocons line, read Ari Shavit's article instead:<br /> http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=280279&contrassID=2&subContrassID=14&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y]</p> <p>I have every right to criticize, complain, and deride the personal and individual desire of Elliot Abrams as national policy, and I have every right to denounce it.</p> Philip,

I got to this and without reading further, had to reply.

"I do believe that people will accept tribal elites if they don't help wreck the foreign policy."

You couldn't be more correct. The uppy and downy of who's in and who's out and who's the reigning elite is accepted. And who the hell cares.

But when the reigning elite is diddling with foreign policy with disastrous, possibly catastrophic, results for all our countrymen and innocents in a targeted country with no perceivable benefit to Americans, then derision and hatred sets in. It would be he same if the Italians (Catholic) or the Brits (Protestants) were doing it. The fact that the reigning elite in DC are Jewish neocons whose first love and concern is Israel, and this prompts negative reaction to the policies being put forth by this elite group , then of course they're going to be despised. And no amount of anti-semitism wailing will change that because these ostensible Americans have broken faith with their fellow citizens.

[Fellow commenters, dont even bother penning me about the Jewish neocons line, read Ari Shavit's article instead:
http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/04/27/nakba-commemora.html#comment-60671 <p>Oh, shoot. Hit the wrong comment section. I apologize. Will put this where it belongs or you can remove it, and this one.</p> Oh, shoot. Hit the wrong comment section. I apologize. Will put this where it belongs or you can remove it, and this one.

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