The Royal Road to Neconservatism

Earlier today I said that Marty Peretz abandoned the New Left after the October '73 war between Israel and Egypt and Syria. Wrong. Scott McConnell–who announced today that he will endorse Obama, points out: "Peretz's
disaffection from the left came after the 'New Politics' conference in
'67 or '68, where there was a lot of black powerish, probably not very
polite or reasonable, anti-Zionism. He wrote about it for Commentary.
He actually had been one of the big funders of the conference." From Peretz's piece: "Where the Middle East is concerned, the doctrine which has won so quick
an acceptance–in the sectarian press of the Left, in discussions among
movement activists, and in the resolutions adopted at the disastrous
convention of the National Conference for New Politics–is that Israel
and Israel alone must bear the blame for the past and the
responsibility for the future."  A good reminder that just as Freud said dreams are the royal road to the unconscious, Podhoretz and Peretz and Kristol and now Lieberman will all tell you that Israel is the royal road to neoconservatism. Hey I'm a lefty–maybe there's hope for me too! Sorry, Mr. Peretz.