I, for one, am tired of pussyfooting around about the Neocons. Gal Beckerman isn't, thankfully:

"If there is an intellectual movement in America to whose invention Jews can lay sole claim, neoconservatism is it."

Gal Beckerman
"The Neoconservative Persuasion: Examining the Jewish Roots of an Intellectual Movement"
The Forward
Jan 6, 2006

They didn't have to look down to a pile of papers.

Two things changed all of that.

1) Realization that Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people is being bankrolled with my tax dollars.

2) The Zionists (under the guise of 'neocons) managed to get control of state power through the Bush administration and they led us to the Iraq disaster. US interests became subservient to Israeli interests.

Philip is not alone. A clear majority of Jews in the US opposed the Iraq war. And today it is Jewish intellectuals leading the reaction against the crazy situation where Israeli interests have higher priority than US interests when it comes to the ME. (That many of these people believe that these policies are not in Israel's interest either is not my concern).

Rather than impotently denying what has happened to US foreign policy, Witty and Seliger would probably better serve their cause by trying to educate the zealots inside Aipac that there could be serious backlash against Israel if they don't temper their policies.

This needs to stop now. It's an untruth.

According to the American Jewish Committee, most Jews they polled favored the invasion. The poll was done a few months before the invasion of March 2003. The below article is from JTA five+ years ago:

Most U.S. Jews support war against Iraq, poll shows

Friday February 14, 2003

NEW YORK (JTA) — A majority of American Jews — 59 percent — approve of launching a military strike against Iraq to remove Sad
Those were among the results of the American Jewish Committee's Annual Survey of American Jewish Opinion. The AJCommittee poll o

The AJCommittee also found:

*Seventy-eight percent believed Americans will have to surrender some personal freedoms to make America safe from terrorism.

*Eighty-six percent supported expanding spying on groups under suspicion.

*Sixty-five percent favored greater camera surveillance on streets and public places.

*Sixty-seven percent favored a national I.D. system for U.S. citizens.

Still, 62 percent rejected racial or religious profiling. Only 35 percent favored such law enforcement methods.

In the survey, more than half of Jews favor war with Iraq, although 62 percent fear it would increase the risk of terrorism against the United States and 56 percent said it would likely blow up into a wider Mideast war.

People feel "the threat of terror is real, yet that you can't turn the other cheek to terror and to Saddam," said Steven Bayme, the AJCommittee's national director of contemporary Jewish life.

Jewish hopes for an Israeli-Palestinian peace have continued to erode, reflecting a downward slide AJCommittee polls have tracked since the second Palestinian intifada erupted in September 2000.

Asked about their hopes for peace, 49 percent said they were less optimistic than one year ago — up from 42 percent in 2001.

Distrust of Arab intentions is also growing. When asked if the "Arabs" want Israel's destruction rather than the return of the West Bank and Gaza, 82 percent agreed and only 15 percent disagreed.

One year earlier, 73 percent agreed with that statement and 23 percent disagreed.

Despite those rising concerns, 49 percent of U.S. Jews favored the creation of a Palestinian state. Approximately 47 percent opposed one, though 98 percent felt Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat is not doing enough to stop terrorism.

Therefore, the pol results published by AJC is a result that they desired. But it is not supported by other, more objective, pols.

According to the AJC:

"The sample consisted of 1,008 self-identified Jewish respondents selected from the Market Facts consumer mail panel. The respondents are demographically representative of the United States adult Jewish population on a variety of measures. The margin of error for the sample as a whole is plus or minus 3 percentage points."

Is the AJC just lying or are they unable to determine what the majority of Jews think?

Granted, I'd venture to guess that over 50% of the American public in general was in favor of the invasion due to the incessant propaganda and brainwashing via the mass media. My only point is that there's little to no proof to back up the assertion that most Jews opposed the Iraq invasion. 80% of Israelis were in favor of it also.

Salon Radio: L.A. Times' Tim Rutten on Ahmadinejad

Is the U.S. failing to take the "Iranian threat" seriously enough, or is that threat being exaggerated and distorted?
Glenn Greenwald Oct 3, 2008

TO LISTEN- http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/10/06/im-getting-to-the-end-of-the-discussion-with-ralph-seliger-heres-the-latest-seliger-answers-my-latest-challenge-re-meretzt.html#comment-50112 <p>Thanks for the the Greenwald link, John.</p> <p>Tim Rutten is an interesting little bit-player in the entertainment industry. He's the "media columnist" at the LA Times. So that meant, back in 2003 when the campaign was being waged against screening Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", he wrote <a href="http://newsbusters.org/node/6779" rel="nofollow">"no less than six hyperventilating columns that dealt almost exclusively with breathless concerns over anti-Semitism."</a> </p> <p>Last year, when the new biography of Colin Powell came out which talked about the role of "the JINSA crowd" and mentioned Truman's historical pandering to "Jewish votes," it was Tim who was again leading the charge against this <a href="http://www.middleeast.org/launch/redirect.cgi?a=59&num=256" rel="nofollow">"anti-Semitic slander".</a> </p> <p>Now here he is again, courageously standing up againt the Iranian Hitler.</p> <p>Is it anti-Semitic of me to wonder if he is Jewish?</p> Thanks for the the Greenwald link, John.

Tim Rutten is an interesting little bit-player in the entertainment industry. He's the "media columnist" at the LA Times. So that meant, back in 2003 when the campaign was being waged against screening Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ", he wrote "no less than six hyperventilating columns that dealt almost exclusively with breathless concerns over anti-Semitism."

Last year, when the new biography of Colin Powell came out which talked about the role of "the JINSA crowd" and mentioned Truman's historical pandering to "Jewish votes," it was Tim who was again leading the charge against this "anti-Semitic slander".

Now here he is again, courageously standing up againt the Iranian Hitler.

Is it anti-Semitic of me to wonder if he is Jewish?