[Peace-discuss] Strange bedfellows

[C. G. Estabrook]

In fact Raimondo is quite wrong. Hitchens wrote one of the
best *defenses* of Chomsky (re the Faurisson affair) -- twenty
years ago, before he (CH) became a neocon.  It's called "The
Chorus and Cassandra" and is still quite worth reading:
<www.zmag.org/chomsky/other/85-hitchens.html>. --CGE


---- Original message ----
>Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 23:34:45 -0500
>From: "Morton K. Brussel" <brussel4 at insightbb.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Strange bedfellows  
>To: peace discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>   I just couldn't resist quoting this excerpt by
>   Justin Raimondo in Antiwar.com. Apologies to Carl.
>
>   …The controversy [over Mearsheimer's article on
>   the influence of the Zionist lobby] has certainly
>   been as instructive as it's been ugly. Not only has
>   the Lobby revealed itself by such a visible and
>   vocal baring of its very pointed teeth, but we have
>   also seen some remarkable alliances forged in its
>   defense. Who would have thought that Christopher
>   Hitchens would be on the same side of the barricades
>   as Noam Chomsky? Not since the days of the
>   Hitler-Stalin pact have we seen such a mind-blowing
>   convergence.…
>
>   The rest is to be found
>   at: http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=8796
>________________