[Peace-discuss] Today's Letters to N-G = Radical Cult blindly follows research of Carl Estabrook!

[David Green]

If any headway is to be made among "average" Jewish-Americans, the distinction must be made between the interests of elites and common people in both countries, rather than between the power of the Lobby and other corporate interests. As Gabriel Ash has written:
   
  "The interlocking and overlapping nature of Washington makes analysis difficult, but not impossible. It is both possible and necessary to identify the different interests and the alliances they make. It is also possible to notice when they clash. Once so described, talk of the power of the Lobby to control Washington becomes incoherent. Nobody controls Washington. There are more or less powerful alliances, and they usually do not test their power by engaging in all out war against each other. There is always a background of cooperation. But it is equally incoherent to dismiss the power of the Israel Lobby just because others, such as energy corporations, also supported and gained from the U.S. support for Israel. This is like dismissing the power of Wall Street investment banks because agribusiness also supports “free trade.” When Cynthia McKinney was unseated by AIPAC, it was a service the Israel Lobby performed for Washington as a whole, getting rid of Representative
 who actually had the audacity to represent the poor people of her district. But it was her disrespect for Israel that got AIPAC to lead the charge. This is how cooperation works, and one must not be surprised that other segments of Washington would repay the favor and occasionally support Israel well beyond what their immediate interests dictate."
  

"Morton K. Brussel" <brussel at uiuc.edu> wrote:
  They [=apologists for Israel and administration fomenters of war policies ] were far from negligible factors, if not solely " responsible (of course) for the invasion of Iraq": Why deny what seems clearly true? Perhaps I don't understand this argument.  

  
    On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:24 PM, David Green wrote:

    Again, that's why it's important to reject the notion that the Israel Lobby was responsible for the invasion of Iraq.
   





       
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