Glenn asks:

"But what if it's true? What if there are Americans urging war becuase they think it's good for Israel and don't care about the effect on the U.S.? Are we not allowed to say that?"

Your entire premise is so tragically flawed here, Glenn. You're buying into the noting that there is a distinct subgroup of Americans (Jews) advocating for Israel because of dual loyalty.

Do you know where the word "cabal" comes from? The Kaballah. The notion that hidden Jews work behind the scenes as parasites to destroy the very country they live in.

This narrative is nearly a thousand years old. It led to the Crusades. It led to the Spanish Inquisition. It led to the Pogroms and the Holocaust.

Each time, when people spoke out, those defending the accusations responded with, "But what if it's true? What if I'm simply telling the truth?"

The fact you don't even worry nor consider for a moment the negative ramifications of reviving this age old fairytale of Jewish dual loyalty speaks profoundly negatively.

"What if it's true?"

Glenn, what if it's not? Read a history book for the answer to that one.

I'm impressed you have the guts to say it, and shattered that some as brilliant and important as you are in fighting so much of the beltway corruption is slipping into such a historically damaging and intellectually lazy logical fallacy.

The war mongerers are not doing so because of this deep love for Israel.

The war mongers are doing it because of deep hatred for Islam.

After all your great work, if you still can't see what motivates these people, I don't know what to tell you. You've keyed in on their psychological weakness, their need to feel "tough" and "manly" and send other kids to die because they're cowards and armchair warriors and insecure raging xenophobes.

THIS is your answer.

Not some hidden Jewish cabal of financiers who only care about Israel. That sort of 6 year old fairy tale is so far below someone with your intellectual abilities Glenn I don't even know what else to say.

You're falling into a historical narrative as old and seductive as any that has ever existed.

Jewish intellectuals are everywhere.

You will see them wherever you choose to look. The anti-Semites on the right see George Soros and the liberal "elitists" (Jews) in Hollywood working to destroy good Christian values.

Heck, read up on Joe McCarthy. The entire right wing blacklist followed the same narrative you're floating about Jews determined to destroy America because they don't care about it, only themselves and their "tribe."

And you seriously want to argue that a conservative movement grounded in old school blue-blood notions of White Christian hegemony, the movement that attempted to drive "Jewish communists" out of Hollywood in the 1950s and still rants about Jewish liberals at the ACLU today is somehow run by Jews who care more about Israel than America?

Come on Glenn. You're so accurate 90% of the time. You're so much smarter than this nonsense.

I don't get this. Am I not allowed to question Glenn without my integrity and motives being questioned? Or simply have six people tell me how I'm "full of shit" or write for the "Jew friendly Daily Kos," which is a wonderfully erudite retort.

I think the key thing we all forget is that Anti-Semitism, like racism, is not found on the "right" or "left." We like to think our side is "good" and their side is "evil." Both both sides attract ugliness.

Calling out anti-Semitism on the left doesn't make me less of a progressive, people.

Here's David Duke on how pro-Israel factions behind the scenes led to 9/11:

http://www.davidduke.com/writings/howisraeliterror.shtml

Traitors to the United States have allowed a terrorist foreign nation to control the United States Government. Some readers might think it preposterous for me to assert that that a foreign nation controls America. But, consider the fact that the former head of the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee, William Fulbright, said precisely that. He asserted on CBS's Face the Nation television program that "Israel Controls the United States Senate."1 And, Senator Fulbright was no dummy; it is in his name that the brightest students scramble after the so-named "Fulbright" scholarships. Not only did Senator Fulbright make this powerful indictment, but the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, George Brown, as well as many others, have said essentially the same thing.

We can say we can't possibly get the Congress to support a (Israeli) program like this. And they say don't worry about the Congress. We will take care of the Congress. This is somebody from another country, but they can do it. They own, you know, the banks in this country, the newspapers. Just look at where the Jewish money is. — 2(General George S. Brown, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff)

Of course, General Brown actually understated the Jewish control of the American media.

So, who here agrees with David Duke?