Jeffrey Goldberg is often entertaining but I don’t find this amusing. It’s a riff about someone who threatened Matt Drudge, and Goldberg promptly turns the subject to himself:
I’ve received various invitations over the years to kill myself, or let myself be killed, because I’m a supporter of Israel, or because I support the Kurds in their struggle against Saddam, or because I supported the invasion of Iraq (mainly because I’m a supporter of Israel, actually).
I guess that last is a joke. But I’m with Freud on this one, I think it’s an admission. As Goldberg himself has said recently, the Iran threat puts American supporters of Israel in a difficult position because they might want to put their Israel support ahead of their American interest and urge an attack on Iran. So he has acknowledged that dual loyalty is a real problem when it comes to Zionists; and when he jokes about this I am only reminded that yes, Virginia, many supporters of the Iraq war surely did so out of concern for Israel’s security, not the U.S.’s. From being verboten, this idea is now coming into the edges of the mainstream, David Hirst accepts it in Beware of Small States. And of course all the neocons who supported the war said not a word about the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
