[Peace-discuss] Is the NYT helping AIPAC keep its cards hidden?

[Stuart Levy]

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:

http://www.popularresistance.org/is-right-wing-israeli-lobby-trying-to-hide-its-work-for-war-in-syria/


    Why Did a Reference to AIPAC Vanish From an /New York Times /Story
    on the Syria War Push? -- David Weigel, slate.com


      Now you see it, now you don’t.

This is a graf that appears near the end 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/world/middleeast/syria.html> of a 
Sept. 2 /New York Times/ piece by Jackie Calmes, Michael Gordon, and 
Eric Schmitt, on the evolving negotiations in Washington over striking 
Syria.

    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.

But here was how that section looked 
<http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/09/02/obama-pushes-for-approval-syria-military-strike/kBwJRFicDkYsIsG0g8eSpJ/story.html> in 
a /Boston Globe/ version of the story—a syndicated version, with the 
same authors.

    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.

    *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.*

    *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.”*

That bit in bold is absent, completely, from the /NYT /version. For it 
sins, the /NYT/ was called out 
<http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.com/2013/09/nyt-cuts-aipac-reference.html> 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.


On 9/3/13 9:38 PM, "E. Wayne Johnson 朱稳森" wrote:
> The Neocons are out to overturn the tide
> of non-interventionism...
>
> The interests of America...
[...]

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