Ferment Over 'The Israel Lobby

It was said, by some, after 9/11, that Israel knew about the pending attacks and did not warn the U.S, perhaps wanting the U.S. to attack Arab lands, just as it has done. I don't know whether Israel warned us or not, and it really doesn't matter, since damned near everyone else in the entire damn world did warn Bush, but the White House went deaf and, then, went on vacation.

So, I doubt seriously if any warning from anyone would have mattered. The 9/11 attacks were a gift from on-high for Bush, who was an illigitimate president, with a long-standing plan to go to war in the middle east, specifically, in Iraq.

If Israel was behind the attacks, as more far out conspiracy theories have held, then they are truly nsane over there and do not need there own state. They would stand to lose everything, including the only real ally they have. So no one really believes that one, unless one considers that many NeoCons have worked for the Israeli government as well as the U.S. government, including Wolfowitz and Perle.

One effect this entire sorry episode has had, is to cause many, many Americans to take a look at our foreign policy where Israel in concerned.

It should be re-examined.


Ferment Over 'The Israel Lobby':

"Intellectuals can only dream of having the impact that John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt have had this spring. Within hours of their publishing a critique of the Israel lobby in The London Review of Books for March 23, the article was zinging around the world, soon to show up on the front pages of newspapers and stir heated discussion on cable-TV shows.

Virtually overnight, two balding professors in their 50s had become public intellectuals, ducking hundreds of e-mails, phone messages and challenges to debate.

Titled 'The Israel Lobby,' the piece argued that a wide-ranging coalition that includes neoconservatives, Christian Zionists, leading journalists and of course the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, exerts a 'stranglehold' on Middle East policy and public debate on the issue. While supporting the moral cause for the existence of Israel, the authors said there was neither a strategic nor a moral interest in America's siding so strongly with post-occupation Israel.

Many Americans thought the Iraq War was about oil, but 'the war was motivated in good part by a desire to make Israel more secure.' "