[Marxism] What does the brouhaha over Sheehan/Israel reveal?

["M. Junaid Alam" <alam1@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I find it highly revealing that the weapon with which Sheehan is
supposed to be felled is the Israel question. Isn't there some bitterly
twisted irony here? Here is an American woman who lost an American son
denouncing the American war in Iraq, and it is apparently her stance on
whatever is happening in relation to ISRAEL that will possibly knock her
down in the public eye? Is American fetishization of Israel so
grotesquely extreme that this kind of thing is actually possible? I mean
why should most people give a damn what she thinks about Israel one way
or the other? Her esteem should be measured by people in terms of
whether or not they support the war in Iraq. Who the heck is going to
say, "well I oppose the Iraq war, but I love Israel so much that I think
she's just crazy," except for some liberal Jews?

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