Sunday, April 9, 2006
The Seattle PI imports a British voice (where else outside the Middle East would you expect...next choice France, of course?), a writer for Robert Fisk's home-port (Fisk is speaking today at MIT if you're in the area -- Noam Chomsky to introduce), The Independent, in order to issue a "heartfelt thanks" to Messrs. Walt and Mearsheimer: Rupert Cornwell: U.S. aid to Israel put in sharp focus
Lies and laughers abound -- that aid is extended to Israel with no questions asked, that there is no moral or strategic case for support for Israel, that there is anything revolutionary in the paper, that the pro-Israel lobby is far larger than the gun, farm and Cuba lobbies, that the US "fails to twist Israel's arm," that a writer for The Independent quotes approvingly from Pat Buchanon (that should have given him pause right there), that anyone who criticises Israel is automatically an anti-semite, that there is no connection between Israel's fight against Arab terror and our own terror war...goodness, there's hardly any column left!
Cornwell concludes by informing us that the muse for his piece was a book on his shelf:
Plainly, Tivnan's arguments have changed nothing. Americans like Israel, come what may. I will bet that the very similar ones of Walt and Mearsheimer make little difference either.
According to the Publisher's Weekly blurb posted on the Amazon page for that particular work:
Of course, AIPAC lost that fight, rather weakening the case of its author (the book is now out of print and available from $2.24 used -- perhaps Mr. Cornwell could be convinced to part with his copy)...and that's the trouble. The folks who don't like American support for Israel just don't seem to be able to convince. Rather than blaming the unfairness of it all, they should be sharpening their pencils...or considering changing their own views.
(H/T: isirota1965)
