Letters to the Editor
The Washington Post, March 13, 2003
The Washington Post, March 13, 2003
For centuries, Jews have been stigmatized and branded as "outsiders" with no loyalties but to their own kind. This dangerous canard continues to captivate modern-day conspiracy theorists, and surfaced during the 1991 Gulf War, when Pat Buchanan blamed the Jewish "amen corner" for provoking the conflict. Rep. Moran's words have successfully reignited this pernicious myth.
Second, anti-Semites have long spoken of a Jewish conspiracy controlling the U.S. government. While most rational Americans reject such bigoted fantasies, the unsettling fact is that fully one-third of Americans still accept the notion that Jews have "dual loyalties." This was apparent in a May 2002 Survey of Anti-Semitism in America, which also found that 20 percent of the American public agrees that, "Jews have too much power in the U.S. today."
http://www.adl.org/israel/letter_washington_post_19.asp
Chris Wolf/ David Friedman/ADL
Chris Wolf/ David Friedman/ADL
We can say unequivocally, with vehemence and certainty, that the immense strategic benefit, to Israel, of a thoroughly broken Iraq, whether secular or theocratic, whether run by Saddam Hussein or by imams, is a coincidence of the utmost order, and nothing but a co-incidence. That the "proconsul" in Iraq, Paul Bremer is a Jew, that the commanding general who waged the invasion was a Jew, coincidence! That the people of Iraq grow more "anti-Semitic" by the hour is an unfortunate by-product of the irrational Arab temperament being in close contact with freedom-loving American soldiers. And nothing more. Nothing.
Anti-Semites will bring these issues up seeking only to burden the already suffering Jews of the world. A cruel and mindless sport whose cost in human lives is incalculable. That a democratic and prosperous Iraq would again be a threat to the nation of Israel has nothing - nothing! - to do with the inexplicable lack of democratic government in Iraq, months after the "war" has "ended".
And to intimate, as some have, that the Madrid bombings were an Israeli act of clever sabotage is scurrilous anti-Semitism, and nothing more.
There is no intrigue, except among Islamists and their ilk.
None whatsoever, anywhere; except as I said, amongst the followers of Mohamed. To imply otherwise is dangerous nonsense and must be treated as dangerous nonsense; it must be contained and silenced.
Anti-Semites have no place in a democracy. And it is now officially anti-Semitic to question the moral validity of the Israeli military, or the manipulation of American public opinion, through mass media, to further Jewish interests at the expense of the American people, by American Jews.