The AP reports that Obama ate dinner Tuesday night, and surely nodded his head alot, at George Will's house. Who was there? David Brooks, William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer. Two fullblown neocons, one merely neoconnish, all tragically wrong on Iraq, all Jewish with no problem with the Israeli Occupation. The question arises, for those who were not invited to dinner: Why, when the Gaza slaughter is happening, is Obama meeting with these men? OK, Will and Brooks are serious and important writers. But Kristol and Krauthammer are feverish ideologues who deserve to be ignored. Why do they have power? Why is Obama's progressive base in purdah? Why did McCain run with a frankly-neoconservative program and Obama ran against it without the temerity to finger it openly? Why does Dennis Ross have power? What are the springs of this influence? I say that it is the Jewish presence in the media/financial/political Establishment and the pervasive infection of Jewish life with Zionist ideology. The Jews who chained themselves at the Israeli consulate in LA are our ray of hope, and they are not at dinner.
