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• Tuesday, May 13, 2008 09:54 PM

  yup, here's the links

  http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/10/analysts/permalink/6e34cf77ffc63b336c36e64b3e5b8e46.html

  and

  http://letters.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/05/10/analysts/permalink/2bb9efcbfb4f86511cd47bd2858352d2.html

  and on the other zionists, such as they are:

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050801521.html

  five myths on who’s really ‘pro-israel’

  May 13, 2008 by niqnaq

  Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, JStreet, in WaPo, May 11, 2008

  Six decades ago, my father fought alongside Menachem Begin for Israel’s independence. If you’d have told him back then that politicians in the world’s last superpower would be jockeying today to see who can be more “pro-Israel,” he would have laughed at you. Grateful as I am for decades of US friendship with Israel, I have to wonder, as the state my father helped found turns 60, just who is defining what it means to be pro-Israel in the US these days. Some purported keepers of that flame claim that supporting Israel means reflexively supporting every Israeli action and implacably opposing every Israeli foe—adopting the talking points of neoconservatives and the most right-wing elements of the American Jewish and Christian Zionist communities. Criticize or question Israeli behavior and you’re labeled “anti-Israel,” or worse. But unquestioning encouragement for short-sighted Israeli policies, such as expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, isn’t real friendship. Would a true friend not only let you drive home drunk, but offer you their Porsche and a shot of tequila for the road? Israel needs real friends, not enablers. And forging a healthy friendship with Israel requires bursting some myths about what it means to be pro-Israel....

  —Rowan Berkeley Read Rowan Berkeley's other letters
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