The Forward used to be fearful about the charge that Israel-centric neocons drove the Iraq war planning. When Walt and Mearsheimer said as much, the Forward accused them of antisemitism; “in dark times blame the Jews.” Now, in the wake of the Talansky-Olmert scandal, in which diaspora revolving-door-ism and tail-wagging-dog-wagging-tail-ism has reached a new height, the Forward is making jokes on the same subject: “In March 2003 came the few dozen Zionist neocons who finagled the Bush administration into invading Iraq for Israel’s benefit.”
What did Freud say about jokes?
The same editorial blames journalists for spilling “rivers of ink” on Sheldon Adelson. Oh my, the third richest man in the country, the funder of birthright, One Jerusalem, and Freedom’s Watch, and the Forward is urging journalists to be incurious? What has befallen my people in the age of neoconservatism?
Oh I can’t get enough of this one. The piece ends with the comment that half of Israeli society wants to give up the West Bank, the other half doesn’t. And we expect that brutalized society to figure out the answer? These folks need international pressure…
(Thanks to Joachim Martillo for the headsup)
