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Is the Israel lobby the unspoken faultline in the American discourse?

Connect the dots. Dot 1:

Sidney Harman, husband to Jane Harman, whose connections to the Israel lobby prompted government wiretaps a couple years ago, buys Newsweek:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/sidney-harman-newsweek-pu_n_667448.html

Dot 2:

Newsweek International editor Fareed Zakaria returns award to Israeli lobby group ADL because of its stance against mosque near Ground Zero

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/06/fareed-zakaria-returns-an_n_674099.html

Dot 3

Zakaria leaves Newsweek for Time magazine. Time editor Rick Stengel says that Zakaria is a spokesman for "a post-American world." Zakaria says he left because of corporate "synergy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/18/fareed-zakaria-jumps-to-t_n_686896.html

Well at least it’s the faultline, not the cliff. You get to be on either side of the faultline. Just don’t talk about the faultline.

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