Shocker! Steve Rosen (That Steve Rosen) Backs Bibi, Not POTUS

By M.J. Rosenberg - April 5, 2010, 1:12PM


Too funny. The GOP, party of flag-waving, guilt by association and if-you-aren't-guilty-why-were-you indicted is now embracing Steve Rosen.

I have never done this but, beyond linking to the GOP link, I am re-publishing excerpts from a piece I wrote about Rosen the last time he attacked President Obama.

For the record, Rosen is now employed by the racist provocateur Daniel Pipes, who, even more than Rosen, thinks that hating Muslims is, by definition, what being pro-Israel is all about. Neither cares FOR Israel; both DESPISE Muslims and Arabs and, President Obama (who is neither but has the temerity to defy Netanyahu).

It's amazing that Rosen has the chutzpah to write anything about Israel. If I was indicted for passing classified US documents to Italy, I wouldn't even publish my favorite linguini recipe. I guess Rosen thinks hat no one remembers anything.

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http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/05/hes_baaaaack_the_gop_embraces_steve_rosen_yes_that_1/

By M.J. Rosenberg - April 6, 2010, 5:40PM

You never know where Jeff Goldberg will end up on a particular issue except that he will never deviate more than a few degrees from the AIPAC line. It is then no surprise that his piece today is called "AIPAC Is Good For The Jews."

Goldberg offers a quote from famed political scientist, Walter Russell Meade, a long time admirer of AIPAC, to make his case.

These two paragraphs represent the most delightful argument for AIPAC I've ever seen! Why? Because this is the best a top political scientist can offer and it is meaningless nonsense. It makes Sarah Palin sound like Adlai Stevenson.

This is where following the AIPAC line will lead you. Beware.

In the United States at least, lobbying for Zion turns out to be good for the Jews. The rise of AIPAC and other Jewish groups who make the case for stronger US support for Israel angers some international affairs specialists and others who think that on the whole the US-Israel relationship is bad for the United States. There definitely are groups of people who, while doing their level best to fight the temptation (so are they all honorable men), are so angry and so frightened by what they see as the Jewish juggernaut crushing dissent and imposing suicidal Middle Eastern policies on the stupidly passive American gentile population, sometimes cross that all-important line that separates the virtuously anti-Zionist from the vilely anti-Semitic. But out there where it really counts, in the great sea of American public opinion, Jewish support for Israel doesn't work that way. In fact, from what I can see the (mistaken) view that Jews are more hawkish than most Americans on the subject of Israel probably works to reduce anti-Semitism in the United States.
AIPAC, in other words, is good for the Jews, regardless of whether the positions it advocates are good for either Israel or the United States from a foreign policy perspective.


As my favorite President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt liked to say, "don't you just love it!" I do.


http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/06/the_best_quote_on_aipac_ever/

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee {AIPAC] has launched a drive to take over student government at the University of California at Berkeley, the organization’s Leadership Development Director announced at last week’s annual conference in Washington.

Here’s the money quote from Jonathan Kessler, made to student leaders drawn fom 370 campuses, including representatives from all 50 states:

How are we going to beat back the anti-Israel divestment resolution at Berkeley? We’re going to make certain that pro-Israel students take over the student government and reverse the vote. That is how AIPAC operates in our nation’s capitol. This is how AIPAC must operate on our nation’s campuses.

Also included among those chosen to address the students was attorney and militant Zionist Alan Dershowitz, who, reports JTA reporter Ben Harris, was “greeted like a rock star.”

Here’s Harris’s report :

http://richardbrenneman.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/aipac-well-take-over-cals-student-govt/