Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Fri, 04/07/2006 - 02:04.
Zaid, I never argued that the Jewish establishment in the US is powerless or irrelevant. Far from it. It really does have the power to get a prominent scholar demoted, or to get a stage production about Rachel Corrie cancelled. A part of the role that real power plays is to perpetuate the illusion of the greater power to determine US foreign policy. Not due to any conspiracy by the Anglo establishment, but due to the simple functioning of the system. "The function of a system is what it does."
I'm not here to cast aspersions on Mersheimer's and Walt's motives as you do on Massad's. The worst case scenario is that they are entirely earnest.
I don't have a clue what it is like to grow up Palestinian in this (or any other) country. But I do have a clue about whether your situation would be better or worse if Buchanan had greater political power. If you interpret this as an exculpation of the Jewish establishment, that is entirely arbitrary.
You may not agree with the discourse I am promoting, but I can assure you it is entirely honest. I have never conflated anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, never used charges of the latter cynically, never been less than aggressive in calling out Israel's crimes. Believe what you will.
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Zaid, I never argued that the Jewish establishment in the US is powerless or irrelevant. Far from it. It really does have the power to get a prominent scholar demoted, or to get a stage production about Rachel Corrie cancelled. A part of the role that real power plays is to perpetuate the illusion of the greater power to determine US foreign policy. Not due to any conspiracy by the Anglo establishment, but due to the simple functioning of the system. "The function of a system is what it does."
I'm not here to cast aspersions on Mersheimer's and Walt's motives as you do on Massad's. The worst case scenario is that they are entirely earnest.
I don't have a clue what it is like to grow up Palestinian in this (or any other) country. But I do have a clue about whether your situation would be better or worse if Buchanan had greater political power. If you interpret this as an exculpation of the Jewish establishment, that is entirely arbitrary.
You may not agree with the discourse I am promoting, but I can assure you it is entirely honest. I have never conflated anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, never used charges of the latter cynically, never been less than aggressive in calling out Israel's crimes. Believe what you will.