Rev. Wright is all over the airwaves today, you may have noticed. Thanks to the opaque National Republican Trust. And in the Harvard Crimson too. It is sad that the Crimson runs a piece by a freshman named Avishai Don saying that Obama isn't good for the Jews:
blame if Obama gets elected, because they fail to recognize signs that
perhaps Obama is not quite the messiah for whom the all Jewish people
have been waiting. Despite Obama’s official stances on most Israel
policy issues, it is hard to ignore my family’s contention that it is
sheer negligence for Jews to elect a candidate who may not have a
consistently pro-Israel policy.
Don also uses the Holocaust analogy. I am betting that Don has Israeli connections. From his name, from his picture in the meridional sun here. And of course, his piece is all about Israel.
I'm reminded of when I first heard the name Reverend Wright. Zev Chafets, a revolving door Jew, who moved from Pontiac, Michigan, to Israel to work for Menachem Begin then came back here to prosecute his career, wrote that piece for the New York Times Magazine nearly a year ago about Mike Huckabee that broke an important story I now forget, involving snakehandling comments Huckabee made about non-Christians. Mormons, maybe that was it. The only religious story the press really talked about: the religious right. Anyway, Chafets was then on the Brian Lehrer show on WNYC, as I recall, and spoke dark-hintingly about Rev. Wright and Obama's church and all the mumbo-jumbo from the pulpit. Chafets is a good entrepreneurial writer; he would have gone to the Times then to try and write about Wright. And the Times, I am sure, turned him down. The Crimson runs it today.
So there is a dual-loyalty tinge to this Rev. Wright stuff. What is America's interest? What is Israel's? And never the twain shall be discrete.
