Friday, May 3, 2013

Hey YOU (...) Can you help us understand Zionism in Jewish life? 

"... I find this fascinating. For if Landis's marriage is fair game-- and I think it is-- then so are the social and ideological adhesions of neoconservatives. Are they Zionists? Do they have family living in Israel? Why did neoconservatives Richard Perle and David Wurmser-- who is married to an Israeli-American-- write "A Clean Break" for Netanyahu in 1996, calling for regime change in Iraq? Given these connections to a rightwing foreign regime, should these men have served in George Bush's foreign-policy braintrust? Did not Elliott Abrams and Paul Wolfowitz, who also were part of that brain trust, have family living in Israel?What about liberal Aaron David Miller, who tells us in his book that concern for Israel was part of his "ethnic DNA." Should he have been a peace processor? What about Chuck Schumer, who says his name means guardian in Hebrew and he is a guardian of Israel?
Do we ever hear mainstream media buttonholing these people about their connections to Israel or asking, sincerely, Can you help us understand Zionism in Jewish life? No.!"

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