Re: Merging with the neocons

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect wrote:

> In a 214-page book on the ideology and roots of 
> Islamic totalitarianism, in which he bitterly 
> condemns a range of Muslim targets and sections 
> of the European Left, the self-described liberal 
> Paul Berman devotes precisely two lines to 
> suggesting that America should act against ?the 
> manias of the ultra- Right? in Israel. 
> Elsewhere, he espouses without qualification the 
> view that all blame for the collapse of the 
> Israeli-Palestinian peace process in 2000?01 
> lies with the Palestinians.(10)

[...]

> full: http://www.newamerica.net/index.cfm?pg=article&DocID=2928

Word is that Anatol LIeven (the author of the 
quoted passage) was forced out of the Carnegie 
Endowment for International Peace because he was 
too "radical," which is pretty funny, because 
he's not very radical. But criticizing messianic 
American nationalism and its Zionist affiliations 
is just too hot for some.

Doug