Re: [Marxism] US Left and Cartoon Crisis

[Aaron <listsubs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:22:22 -0800
>From: steve heeren <tzsche@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: [Marxism] US Left and Cartoon Crisis
>
>Did anyone on this list read this article by James Petras? It was eye-opening 
>to me but he seems to be saying that the tail (Israel) is wagging the dog (US 
>Empire) Any of you have any fundamental disagreements with it (and not his 
>other positions such as his hostility to Hugo Chavez' government)?
[SNIP]

It seems that the cliche about "the tail wagging the dog" is the standard 
response when anybody suggests that Israel and the Israel lobby (referred to in 
the Israeli media as "the Jewish lobby") can have a decisive effect on U.S. 
policy in the Middle East. Funny that, AFAIK, nobody has used that metaphor as 
a refutation when "Wall Street" or "The City" (i.e., London's financial 
district) is or was said to have that kind of power.

The relationship between Israeli capitalists, other Jewish capitalists, and 
non-Jewish capitalists is complex. Anti-semites over-simplify it in one 
direction. So did Ariel Sharon, who told the Israel cabinet not to worry about 
the U.S. because everybody knows the Jews run America! (I don't have his exact 
words, but, since I dropped out of Hebrew School way back in 1951, I wouldn't 
understand them anyway.) Most leftists react to anti-semitism by treating any 
discussion of specifically Jewish capitalist interests as support for 
anti-semitism. Moreover, most leftists won't even mention the actual workings 
of one of the most powerful institutions of U.S. capitalism, the so-called* 
"Federal Reserve Bank", because of the prominent role Jewish bankers play in it.

 - Aaron

* I say "so-called" because like the "Holy Roman Empire" which was neither 
holy, Roman nor an empire, the "Federal Reserve Bank" is not federal, has no 
reserve and isn't a bank! Rather, it's a government-empowered cartel of private 
banks.


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