Tonight on Hardball, Chris Matthews interviewed a Kennedy cousin about Caroline Kennedy's positions on various issues. (I didn't get cuz's name, because I was laying tile in the other room.) The cousin wasn't sure where Caroline was on abortion or the Second Amendment, and Matthews let go a little about how we have no idea where she is on these very divisive issues. I think I also heard the word "culture wars" in there.
I was struck by the fact that the issue I care the most about is never discussed in any of these shows in a divisive manner. It's not allowed to be divisive: No, as Stephen Spiegel of Israel Policy Forum said some time ago in a debate with John Mearsheimer, Americans love Israel like they like ice cream. So we get to have angry debates over gay marriage and violent lyrics and abortion and gun control, with this side contending against the other, but on this issue there's absolutely no public discussion, because everyone agrees. Even as 1.5 million Palestinians live in an open air prison in Gaza and Jewish neoconservatives help destroy Iraq so as to solve Israel's problems.
I keep saying This hypocrisy can't last. But I guess that's why I have a blog…
