Vetting vice presidential possibilities, McCain has asked for Virginia congressman Eric Cantor’s records. Meantime The Forward is reporting that McCain is quietly campaigning for the Jewish “vote.” Hoping for more than 40 percent, McCain is enlisting the Republican Jewish Committee, a hotbed of neoconservatism, while his chair of Jewish outreach is also chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA, which Colin Powell blamed for the Iraq war and which has associations with deleterious Douglas Feith.
Once again, I say this election is the last gasp of the end of the peace process (Feith and Adelson, the principal moneyman for the Republicans, whom the Forward complains journalists are spilling “rivers of ink” on) versus the peace process (J Street plus Jeffrey Goldberg).
I say “vote” above because I believe McCain is jockeying for Jewish money principally, and a Christian Zionist buses.
The main guy pushing Cantor is nativist Republican congressman Virgil Goode, who writes in USAToday:
we were attacked by extremists who acted in
the name of the Islamic religion. I believe that if we do not stop
illegal immigration totally, reduce legal immigration and end diversity
visas, we are leaving ourselves vulnerable to infiltration by those who
want to mold the United States into the image of their religion, rather
than working within the Judeo-Christian principles that have made us a
beacon for freedom-loving persons around the world.
David Bloom of Adalah-NY has written about Cantor’s ties to rightwing Israelis who would expel Arabs from Palestine. Sorry, expel them again! Bloom tells me:
cantor is a right-wing zio-freakazoid. In 2002, he was one of six
congressmen who met with MK Benny Elon, head of the transferist
Moledet faction (the previous head, Rehavim Ze’evi, was assassinated
by the PFLP in 2002.). At the time, Elon, a relgious settler from
Moledet, was peddling the Elon peace initiative, which has since
become more popular & mainstream, at least the ideas. It calls for
“voluntary” transfer of Arabs. Arabs who don’t agree with the “peace
initiative” “will be expelled to their state on the other side of
the Jordan River..”
