Melanie Phillips on Walt’s Protocols
Charles Johnson
Thu Mar 23, 2006 at 8:40 am PST • Views: 128
Melanie Phillips is spot on, in this comment on the Walt/Mearsheimer anti-Israel article:
You have to laugh, though, when the authors try to wrap themselves in the mantle of heroic fighters against the attempt by the ‘Israel lobby’ to stifle them:
Anyone who criticizes Israeli actions or says that pro-Israel groups have significant influence over U.S. Middle East policy…stands a good chance of getting labeled an antisemite.Actually, they stand instead an excellent chance of being published in the London Review of Books, one of the most prestigious publications of the British and English-speaking intelligentsia. Anyone who offers the alternative view doesn’t have a cat in hell’s chance of writing for it at all — and not a much brighter prospect of getting it published anywhere else, either. But open the Guardian or Independent any day of the week, and these ‘stifled’ claims of the Israel /Jewish/neocon global conspiracy/world evil pour from their pages in an unstoppable torrent of bile.
Frank says: