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

[Morton K. Brussel]

Percy's presence in the Senate might have caused a little more  
friction in U.S. steamroller of support for Israel.
--mkb


On Jan 22, 2009, at 8:02 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:

> 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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