[Peace-discuss] WHAT accounts for the US' mindless support for Israel???

[C. G. Estabrook]

I don't see the point.  It's true that the Israel lobby raised money for Percy's 
opponents, but surely you're not suggesting that Percy's loss to Simon 
represented any change in US policy toward Israel and/or the Middle East? Even 
Mearsheimer & Walt admit that Dine's comment was "hyperbole."


Ron Szoke wrote:
> From the NationMaster online encyclopedia --
> 
> Re former IL Senator Charles H. Percy:
> 
> Percy's first foray into electoral politics was a run for governor of Illinois in 
> 1964, which Percy lost to Democratic incumbent Otto Kerner. His second 
> attempt, a run for senator from Illinois, succeeded two years later, with Percy 
> upsetting incumbent Democratic senator Paul Douglas (a former professor of 
> Percy's at the University of Chicago). During that campaign, his daughter 
> Valerie was murdered at the family home under mysterious circumstances, and 
> campaigning was suspended for two weeks, but then continued. Valerie Percy's 
> murder has never been solved, despite a long investigation. [1]
> 
> Percy served in the Senate until 1984, when he was defeated for re-election by 
> Paul Simon, in a campaign in which Percy was attacked for an "anti-Israel" 
> stance because he supported the sale of AWACS planes to Saudi Arabia. 
> Speaking in Toronto in 1984, AIPAC's Executive Director Tom Dine boasted: "All 
> the Jews, from coast to coast, gathered to oust Percy. And the American 
> politicians—those who hold public positions now, and those who aspire—got 
> the message." [2]
> 
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