Re: [A-List] Comment on a truthout.org/tompaine.com articlebyRayMcGovern

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anne wrote:

> But who said anything about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?  That's
> like going from "idle" to 90 mph in a nanosecond.  It serves no good purpose
> to ignore the plethora of Jewish lobbies, their success, their funding, and
> their objectives....

Anne is very correct here. Men like Chomsky who have argued as a point of
faith that Israel has no powerful lobby, that Israel is the weapon and the
soldier is the US-- has not only surrendered partial analysis out of fear of
ostracization, but in fact also leaves the Palestinian solidarity movement
hopelessly disarmed and weakened.

For example, when you are unwilling to look at organized, localized Jewish
Zionist (as opposed to Christian Zionist) lobbies, you can not really
understadn what is happening on both sides of the 49th parallel on campuses.
Yet, many Hillel/Zionist youth/etc groups are MASSIVELY funded to counteract
the influence of Palestinian solidarity work which only need rely on truth,
when given an equal playing field. So, when that occurs and then to
"re-balance" the sheet, various student groups "force" the issue to block
this or that aspect of the Zionist offensive, if no one has looked to the
power of the Jewish-Zionist lobby on those same campuses, they will dismiss
students as "untamed", needing to grow up, etc... When all they are doing is
contesting their rights to determine what happens on campus.

The same basics are true all across the board. If we ignore the weight of
the lobby that actually has the power to constrict our own access/voice
towards this or that, then we have no way of counteracting that same silencing.
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Macdonald Stainsby
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