--- Jan Coffey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neo-conservatives and zionists would be very strange > bedfellows.
Not really - neocons and those people commonly referred to as Zionists often share quite a few policy interests - among them a belief (as I believe) that the security of the state of Israel should be the United States's highest priority in the Middle East. Also the belief that terrorism should be fought by fighting terrorists, not giving them what they want. > What has she said that seems anti-symetic any way? > Is it > the "zionist" talk? (I haven't read everything she > has weritten). Indeed it is. Talking about "Zionist conspiracies" is one of the hallmarks of the anti-semite, I would think. Jews are just like everyone else, except more people hate them. They are not particularly prone to conspiracy, and arguing that some sort of Jewish cabal took us to war in Iraq is absurd (particularly for an Administration that has, count them, _zero_ Jewish Cabinet level officials) but absurd under any circumstances). Why would anyone believe that unless they were predisposed to think ill of Jews? Someone may disagree with the war - a perfectly reasonable position. But there were plenty of honest reasons to go to war, and plenty of honest people who thought that it was a good idea. > Just becouse the hollicost happened, and just > becouse there are anti- > symites out there blaming zionism for their ills, > and acusing a whole > people for zionism, doesn't mean that there are no > zionists. Not sure how this tracks. What's wrong with being a Zionist? Being a Zionist generally means that you believe that the State of Israel should exist as the home of the Jewish people. Well, by that definition I am a Zionist, and I'm proud of that fact. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
