As I have reported, according to the latest records on guidestar.org (now 2 years old), Gold has substantial American support. The American Enterprise Institute gives $96,000 a year to Dore Gold as a “scholar” in Jerusalem. It’s a weird deal. Gold runs a neocon thinktank in J’lem. He is not much of a scholar; he’s a political operator, maybe a public intellectual. Why the American Enterprise Institute is giving so much to an Israeli activist is a good question. Why it kept Gold’s name off its website, even while giving him all that money, is another.
Israel’s colonization of the West Bank has been underwritten by American Jews, or as Jeffrey Goldberg puts it, “Jewish leaders, who live in Chicago and New York and behind the gates of Boca Raton country clubs.” He and I agree that it’s time to take those shadowy leaders on.
The chairman of the American Enterprise Institute is Bruce S. Kovner, who lives behind high gates not far from me in Dutchess County, New York, when he is not in his mansion on Fifth Avenue. Kovner’s AEI has roosted many neocons who have opposed giving up the West Bank colonies–like Richard Perle and Dore Gold and David Wurmser. I wonder what the unreconstructed David Frum, Michael Ledeen, Joshua Muravchik, Irving Kristol, Michael Rubin and John Bolton have to say about the Syria deal or the two-state solution.
The fascinating thing about Kovner is that he maintains a sparkling reputation in liberal arts-loving New York, and not just because he plays a bitchin harpsichord. He’s chairman of Juillard. He has a soft touch. He’s funny, he’s smart. He is also nullifying American effectiveness in the Arab world and, according to Goldberg and other Zionist 2-staters, threatening Israel’s very existence by underwriting hardline policies. Shouldn’t he come under pressure within his haut-bourgeois community to cast off these extremists?
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Fucking magnificent post. Bravo.
Could you get him for an interview at Juilliard? Maybe in light of the Finkelstein arrest and deportation, which he covered, Glenn Greenwald wants to ask the president of AEI some questions, too?
These guys really deserve to be kicked in the nuts. Repeatedly. Until they don't spawn any more anything.
I am very impressed that this brilliant man has learned to play the harpsichord, however.
I wonder how many hundreds, thousands of musicians, fathers, intellectuals died for Kovner et al's war?
Maybe they could at least offer some of their wealth to be transferred, to pay our off-the-charts Chinese credit card debt?
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