Barack to the Future

PJ Media ^ | 28 July 2014 | Ed Driscoll

[Rummyfan]

“Is the Left anti-Semitic? Sadly, it is heading that way,” Brendan O’Neill writes in theLondon Telegraph. Of course, the obvious rejoinder is, “Heading…?”

This is a recurring theme in anti-Israel sentiment today: the idea that a powerful, sinister lobby of Israel lovers has warped our otherwise respectable leaders here in the West, basically winning control of Western foreign policy. You see it in cartoons depicting Israeli leaders as the puppet masters of politicians like William Hague and Tony Blair. You can hear it in Alexi Sayle’s much-tweeted claim that the “Western powers” kowtow to Israel because they are “frightened of it… frightened of the power that it wields”. You can see it in the arguments of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in their popular book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy, which holds an apparently super-powerful pro-Israel lobby in the heart of Washington responsible for the Iraq War and all other kinds of disasters. The claim is often made that Israel has corrupted Western officials, commanding them to carry out its dirty work.

[snoringbear]

“Same problem as with the “liberal” Christians: “

No argument here. There is a difference though. A majority of American Christians vote GOP. Majority of American Jews Dem.

[Olog-hai]

Not liberal American Christians; they certainly vote Democrat. And there are far more liberal Jews by percentage.

[exnavy]

I believe that, all of B-rokes’ moves are calculated.