The Israel lobby is aiming to soften up US public opinion for an attack on Iran. Americans should resist its propaganda
Despite the ballyhoo of the recent
Aipac national policy conference
in Washington, when Israel-US bonds were feted, relations between the
two countries are currently more strained than at any time since 1991.
That was when the elder George Bush, as US president, fiercely lobbied
Yitzchak Shamir to join in the
Madrid peace conference. Relations then reached their nadir when James Baker uttered his infamous
remark about Israel's American-Jewish supporters: "Fuck the Jews, they don't even vote for us."
If
relations continue to deteriorate in coming …
