re: #45 Obdicut

You could have avoided a hell of a lot of trouble by clarifying in your opening sentence that by “American-Israel lobby” you were referring to AIPAC and ECI, and not, you know, the whole panoply of lobbying organizations that could fall under that rubric.

As AIPAC and ECI are among the largest and/or loudest of that lobby, and as my article focuses on the two of them, I think that was pretty clear. At least if one bothered to read the full article.

What do you think of Adbusters “lot of Jews in here” attack on Bush’s White House? It was really weird to me to go Jew-counting after the whitest goddamn guy in the world started the war with Iraq.

Sorry, no familiar with it, or the context for it. (This issue isn’t particularly a beat of mine, and I rarely write about it. But seeing those two issues in a row — the disgusting ECI ad, and the hypocritical pass given to the Kochs by AIPAC — I happened to have a free to moment to share my thoughts on them.)

And what do you think about Adbusters (and Finklestein’s) comparison of Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto?

Again, not familiar with it. But I’m a strong believer in democracy and the First Amendment, so happy to see both folks expressing their opinions — whatever it is — and others respond in kind, as appropriate. I’m not big on condemning someone for having an opinion (even one I may disagree with). Seems to me an argument should win, or lose, on its own merits, rather than someone being condemned (and the argument ignored) for simply having made it. Don’t know if that speaks to your questions or not, but there ya go.