“The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” is not even in bookstores, but already anxieties have surfaced about the backlash it is stirring, with several institutions backing away from holding events with the authors.
“Now that the cold war is over, Israel has become a strategic liability for the United States,” they write. “Yet no aspiring politician is going to say so in public or even raise the possibility” because the pro-Israel lobby is so powerful. They credit the lobby with shutting down talks with Syria and with moderates in Iran, preventing the United States from condemning Israel’s 2006 war in Lebanon and with not pushing the Israelis hard enough to come to an agreement with the Palestinians. They also discuss Christian Zionists and the issue of dual loyalty.
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The authors, two well-respected professors from big name universities, are now being portrayed and anti-Jewish racist. It's like what happen to former President Carter when he wrote: "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
Yet, amazingly, nearly everybody knows this is true: pro-Israeli lobbying dominates US foreign policy.
The additional point is made that this is not good for America, although the authors, trying to remain reasonable, point out that they also feel the lobbying by the Cuban groups, the tobacco companies, oil companies, etc. also has extreme influence on USA policies and is also not good for the country.
"Not only is Israeli policy and lobbying fatally flawed," the authors say, "but USA policy is also fatally flawed."
What could be a more reasonable observation than that?
The real pickle is...the real kosher pickle we're sucking on is that saying this is forbidden fruit and leads to insults and injury (in jobs, etc.).
Yup, the kosher pickle is forbidden f
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