Our journalism is broken. Jim Lobe of IPS and now Ali Gharib of Huffpo are saying that McCain will stall the peace process, as George Bush did. Per Lobe's report on Max Boot's statement to WINEP:
"the Republican candidate, if elected, would not become actively
engaged in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and discourage
Israeli-Syrian peace efforts."
engaged in Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts and discourage
Israeli-Syrian peace efforts."
So this is a clear difference between the candidates, and no one is really trying to expose it, call them out. Why not? In good measure because If you said tomorrow that Barack Obama is for the peace process and McCain is against it, Jewish numbers might actually shift on Obama, from 70-30, as MJ Rosenberg is now suggesting, closer to 60-40. And Obama doesn't want that… Which is not to say that his election will not have the effect of marginalizing the One Jerusalem crowd.
