[Marxism] Jewish Advocates Demand that Obama Show 'Fealty to Israel'

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from a blog by Philip Weiss
 
Apparently Without Irony, Washington Post Says Jewish  Advocates Demand that 
Obama Show 'Fealty to Israel'
 
 
The story continues: supporters of Israel are rising against Obama, there is  
a major push this week to destroy his candidacy. Today's _Washington Post 
reports_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/17/AR2008031702440.html)
  on a debate yesterday arranged  by United Jewish Committees in 
D.C. among Jewish advocates for Hillary, Obama,  and McCain. The debate 
became a rout, the Post columnist averred, in which the  advocates for Hillary 
and 
McCain "used their time to raise doubts about Obama's  fealty to Israel." 
Fealty to Israel? They portrayed Obama as a dangerous leftwinger,  and when 
the Illinois senator's surrogate defended Obama's statement that the  U.S. does 
not have to cleave to Likud policies, Ann Lewis, Hillary's advocate,  
responded:   
"The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions  
that are made by the people of Israel. It is not up to us to pick and choose  
from among the political parties."
Yup, sounds like fealty to me! What is there to say about such a statement?  
Horrifying. Likud has been against the peace process, against a Palestinian  
state, for the colonization of the West Bank. Do we have a foreign policy? Do 
we  take sides on such matters? Do we take sides on minority rights in foreign  
countries? Are we the strongest country in the world, or do we get dragged  
around by racist biblical colonialists half a world away? What did we just do 
in  Serbia and Kosovo--exercise our power to establish a Muslim state. But in 
this  part of the world we have had no independent power to say what is right 
and  wrong, for 60 years... 
The columnist who wrote the piece is Dana Milbank, _who in 2006 suggested_ 
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801178.
html)  that Walt and Mearsheimer are  Nazis for talking about something 
called "the Israel lobby." When Milbank cites  "fealty to Israel" and describes 
security guards with Israeli accents, it's hard  to tell how ironic he is 
being. 
I think he is impish; and is trying himself to  marginalize Obama without 
coming out and saying so. 
This is bad news for Obama but maybe good for America. If Obama is going down 
 on this issue, there will at last be, I vouchsafe, a robust debate over our  
Israel policy.  
_http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2008/03/apparently-with.html_ 
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