I keep saying that my side is winning, inside Jewish life. Well, here’s another Jew for whom the Israeli occupation is a sine qua non of his understanding of Israel: bookseller Ira Glunts, taking on the Israel lobby, and commenting on how quickly the McCain campaign tried to undo Sarah Palin’s Jewish problem by getting her an inoculation from AIPAC:
though the anti-Jewish accusations against their bible- praising,
hockey mom candidate were scurrilous and spurious, the McCain campaign
thought that the best antidote against Palin’s burgeoning Jewish
problem was immunization from a group of hastily assembled AIPAC
directors, who, I assume, were in town for the Republican convention.
The group met with Palin at her hotel. Ironically, she was chaperoned
by the man she had replaced as John McCain’s choice for a running mate,
Senator Lieberman…Josh
Block, a spokesman for AIPAC, announced, “We had a good productive
discussion on the importance of the U.S./Israel relationship, and we
were pleased that Gov. Palin expressed her deep, personal, and lifelong
commitment to the safety and well-being of Israel…”
Glunts has some sport with those words “lifelong commitment” on the part of the girl from Sandpoint, Idaho (just down the road from the Aryan Nation in Hayden Lake). I’ve mentioned this incident before, the AIPAC meeting last week for which Palin blew off a religious right event. I don’t think we can make too much of it. Palin was vetted, by the Israel lobby. And what is the refrain in her speeches: she has taken on the lobbyists!
