The left is driving the discourse, and the mainstream is being forced to contend with our ideas about the conflict. The circle of official agreement on conventional wisdom grows narrower and narrower. Howard Kohr of AIPAC explained this process a year back at AIPAC in his amazing "Predicate for Abandonment" speech, when he said that the campuses were lost, Europe and the blogosphere were hopeless, and so the faithful must work to hold Congress and Washington. That island is getting smaller by the minute.
Roger Cohen has buckled; and invokes Peter Beinart’s defection from the Israel lobby. Now Conservative British P.M. David Cameron goes to Turkey and calls Gaza "a prison camp." How long before an American congressmen break? Cameron:
Speaking in Ankara, the Prime Minister denounced the attack on the flotilla as ”completely unacceptable”…
"Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.”
