Michael Scheuer goes after the "Israel-firsters" again at antiwar.com, attacking the Israel lobby for pushing the war in Iran after getting us into the mess in Iraq. He's expanded on Walt and Mearsheimer. As has Joe Klein, who went public about dual loyalty to try and stop the Iran hysteria. I want to say it's finally happening. The journalists are doing their jobs, and exploring the effect of the "lobby like no other," as Scheuer puts it, on U.S. foreign policy, rather than waiting for professors to write books about it and then slagging the books.
Note Leonard Fein, the Forward columnist, committing every fiber of his being last year, at the American for Peace Now website no less, to arguing that the Israel lobby/neocons had nothing to do with the Iraq war. He made a journalistic value of incuriosity, and demonstrated that religious identification with the neocons went of an honest audit of an American disaster for much of the Jewish press.
Or all the boys at Yivo saying it was antisemitic to blame the neocons for the Iraq war. London's Jewish radio station says it's closing down because it can't pay a 15,000-pound slander judgment it owes MP George Galloway for implying that he was an antisemite. We don't have libel laws like that in the U.S., and for good reason: journalists are supposed to discuss these things. Maybe it's happening.
