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Subject:
Chas Freeman & the Turning Tide
Sambation
3/16/2009 7:40:17 AM
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Many of you have probably seen the Chas Freeman controversy. For those who have not, he was the National Intel. Council chair appointee until it was revealed that he had ties to the Saudi royal family, the bin Ladens, and served on the board of CNOOC, China's 3rd largest oil company (the one which tried to take over Unocal).
Freeman "withdrew" his nomination, but made a basically anti-semitic screed on the way out. The usual vitriol about the "Lobby" -- uppercase "L" included.
The anti-Israel left is now touting this guy as a hero. His past anti-Israel comments ("Israel has no talent for peace", as if Israel's Arab opponents are little lambs) has given him such standing that his ties to the Saudis and China, his sycophancy of the Saudi King, whom he called "Abudllah the Great", and his lament that the PRC showed too much restraint at Tiananmen Sq. in '89, have all become magically transparent. There is only one issue now -- the Israel issue. The Lobby. The octopus arms of the Jewish monster.
I did not and would not have written about Freeman, who was sort of low-level State Department scum until now, had it not been for the visceral anti-Israel response. The facts (Nancy Pelosi's opposition to Freeman, letters by Chinese rights activists opposing him, etc), which are a liberal's kind of facts, have been swept away. What remains is a pulsating, latent hatred. A new destination for anti-Semitism which has found anti-Lobbyism as a vehicle.
The tide is turning, to put it bluntly. Europe has clearly tilted back towards anti-Semitism, partly out of fear of its soon-to-be Islamist conquerors. But the US seemed to be cleaner of this ill. Perhaps not. |
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