Susie Kneedler writes:
Keith Olbermann and Newsweek's Richard Wolffe seem to have discovered that they can (barely) discuss Israel
through a left-wing lens by (rightly) linking Cheney to Netanyahu and
then discussing Obama's efforts to broker Israeli-Syria negotiations.
Key insights from Wolffe:
through a left-wing lens by (rightly) linking Cheney to Netanyahu and
then discussing Obama's efforts to broker Israeli-Syria negotiations.
Key insights from Wolffe:
1. "It is a remarkable situation that you would have a sitting Vice President trying to actively undermine the incoming President with a foreign power" (about minute 4)
2. "[It was] Cheney who also said that Obama was somehow pro-Palestinian. Obama in the middle of the campaign said that he believed in an undivided Jerusalem. You know, if that's pro-Palestinian, then the Palestinians are really screwed."
(4:40 or so)
But Olbermann and Wolffe of course don't follow up with discussion of how Palestinians have been "screwed."
Bad link. Try this.
Rachel Maddow is probably the bellweather of television MSM for making a breakthrough on openly discussing the Lobby and its impact on US foreign policy. If she won't touch the Lobby on her show then, certainly, no one else will. Sure, Fareed Zakaria interviewed Chas Freeman a few weeks back on his CNN weekly show on a Sunday afternoon. Probably 10 people watched, so I wouldn't count that.
I would encourage readers of the blog to contact Maddow's producers and encourage them to schedule a segment on a topic related to the Lobby. It's news, dammit! There's plenty of material, and it would be a first. We shouldn't hold our breath for "60 Minutes" to do anything, despite Bob Simon's fine piece on the settlements.
It's a great pity that the western powers have gone to such lengths to actually foster a sexually retrograde climate in the Muslim world, over the last thirty years or so, by financing and protecting the most rabid fundamentalist anti-left factions and simultaneously demonising them in the western media, thus making them perversely into heroes. It's clever of course, but it's a great pity.