About a year ago Andrew Sullivan asked one of the most telling questions ever asked about the American discourse: Why is there no anti-Zionist columnist at any American publication? There are none. There are any number of Zionists, countless ones, but the belief that unwavering American support for militant Jewish nationalism is not the answer to the Jewish Question is nowhere reflected in the mainstream. And this is itself proof of the strength of the Israel lobby.
More evidence for Sullivan’s file: David Harsanyi, a columnist at the Denver Post, is republished by RealClearPolitics, a mainstream site, espousing extreme views. P.S. Note the valorization of the “peace process”– as if Americans would stand for a process that facilitated the further colonization of their lands over two decades. Harsanyi:
The New York Times can’t file a dispatch from Israel without conflating the religiously motivated murders of civilians with the “settlement” problem. As if Hamas is firing rockets at civilians because it is exasperated by the slow progress of the peace process….
So a few weeks ago, when a mother, father and three children (including a 3-month-old) were stabbed to death by “militants” in a settlement — Reuters’ term for a Jewish neighborhood in the West Bank — the bulk of the story, as always, focused on how the “attack may complicate efforts to restart peace talks, which are frozen in arguments over whether Israel should first stop building in settlements on occupied land.”
If Reuters were faithfully accurate and impartial, it would … well, it would actually cover the murders. Then it would use more exact words — perhaps “disputed” rather than “occupied” — and mention that the process has been frozen since the late 1940s because of unremitting Arab violence.
