Phil Weiss: "Wolfe's muddle is the same muddle that Jewish liberals have been in since the Iraq war. They are against the war, but their critique is blunted because they know that devotion to Israel played a part in the thinking of some of the war planners, but they don't want to talk at all about that because they fear it would result in a pogrom. And so they ascribe all the bad stuff to people they don't know and can easily demonize: the Christian right. Or Halliburton. And thereby fail to do their jobs as intellectual leaders, at a time when the country is in a tremendous foreign-policy crisis."
Source: http://mondoweiss.observer.com/2006/12/another-jewish-liberal-rationalizes-silence-on-things-that-d.html Comment: If you oppose the war, but don't speak out effectively against those who have engineered the war, and about their motives, values and objectives, don't you in fact passively SUPPORT the war? Yes, you do. Also the term "pogrom" probably understates what is in the works: the neocons could easily trigger the biggest explosion of anti-Semitism in the history of the world, all around the globe. The best way for the mainstream Jewish community to prevent this outcome is to take a strong, principled and highly visible stand against the neocons. But will it do so? Or will it allow itself to be herded into the neocon ghetto by the divisive scare tactics of the neocons?
