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Speaking of neocons - a neat twist in the internal struggles that
(we can hope) are going on: it looks as if the New York Times is
helping AIPAC keep its pro-Syria-war cards hidden:<br>
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href="http://www.popularresistance.org/is-right-wing-israeli-lobby-trying-to-hide-its-work-for-war-in-syria/">http://www.popularresistance.org/is-right-wing-israeli-lobby-trying-to-hide-its-work-for-war-in-syria/<br>
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<h2><a>Why Did a Reference to AIPAC Vanish From an <em>New York
Times </em>Story on the Syria War Push? <small>-- David
Weigel, slate.com</small><br>
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<h3>Now you see it, now you don’t.</h3>
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<p>This is a graf that appears <a
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/world/middleeast/syria.html"
target="_blank">near the end</a> of a Sept. 2 <em>New York
Times</em> piece by Jackie Calmes, Michael Gordon, and Eric
Schmitt, on the evolving negotiations in Washington over
striking Syria.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday, Mr. Obama has invited the Republican and
Democratic leaders of the House and Senate defense, foreign
affairs and intelligence committees to the White House. But
that night, he will depart on a long-planned foreign trip,
first to Sweden and then to Russia for the annual Group of
20 summit meeting of major industrialized and developing
nations, a forum that is sure to be dominated by talk of
Syria, and bring Mr. Obama face to face with Mr. Assad’s
chief ally and arms supplier, President Vladimir V. Putin of
Russia.</p>
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<p>But here was how that <a
href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/09/02/obama-pushes-for-approval-syria-military-strike/kBwJRFicDkYsIsG0g8eSpJ/story.html"
target="_blank">section looked</a> in a <em>Boston Globe</em> version
of the story—a syndicated version, with the same authors.</p>
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<p>On Tuesday, Obama is to meet with the leadership of the
Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, and their counterparts in the House.</p>
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<p><strong>Administration officials said the influential
American Israel Public Affairs Committee was already at
work pressing for military action against the government
of Assad, fearing that if Syria escapes American
retribution for its use of chemical weapons, Iran might be
emboldened in the future to attack Israel. In the House,
the majority leader, Eric Cantor of Virginia, the only
Jewish Republican in Congress, has long worked to
challenge Democrats’ traditional base among Jews.</strong></p>
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<p><strong>One administration official, who, like others,
declined to be identified discussing White House strategy,
called AIPAC “the 800-pound gorilla in the room,” and said
its allies in Congress had to be saying, “If the White
House is not capable of enforcing this red line” against
the catastrophic use of chemical weapons, “we’re in
trouble.”</strong></p>
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<p>That bit in bold is absent, completely, from the <em>NYT </em>version.
For it sins, the <a
href="http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/09/nyt-cuts-aipac-reference.html"
target="_blank"><em>NYT</em> was called out</a> by Israel
policy critic M.J. Rosenberg; for now, it hasn’t explained why
the grafs were cut. You could argue that the section wasn’t
key, I suppose, but it was more interesting than the lede news
that the Syria strike plan had “tentative support of one of
President Obama’s most hawkish critics, Senator John McCain.”
He’d been calling for this for months! The appeal to
pro-Israel sentiment in this campaign is just dead-bang
obvious, from John Kerry putting Assad in the same sentence as
Hitler to the references to “Munich” and appeasement.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/13 9:38 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson
朱稳森" wrote:<br>
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<big>The Neocons are out to overturn the tide<br>
of non-interventionism...<br>
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The interests of America...</big><br>
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[...]<br>
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