Jim Lobe, one of the most astute analysts of the neo-cons, just published an essay entitled "Neo-Cons Shaken, But Not Deterred" with insights from Jacob Heilbrunn's new book, They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons'. Here's a quote:
Indeed, it is characteristic of neo-conservatives to depict virtually every foreign policy challenge — from the Sandinista government in Nicaragua 25 years ago to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — to U.S. (or Israeli) hegemony as a potentially cataclysmic replay of the 1930s. The neo-conservatives, according to Heilbrunn, 'have shaped a romantic narrative for themselves in which they are the new Churchills staring down the forces of evil.'Lobe's essay should be read in conjunction with yesterday's report that "Wolfowitz Appointed Chairman of Arms Control Advisory Panel."
Fear that Saddam Hussein intended a 'second holocaust' against Israel served as one of the main motivations for the neo-conservative promotion of war with Iraq, according to Heilbrunn. 'As Jews, they (and their Catholic conservative allies) were haunted by the memory that the allies had not stopped the Holocaust — and they strongly believed that it was America's obligation to act preemptively to avert another one.'
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I found it very interesting that the day the Palestinians broke through the wall and flooded into Egypt that in the same newscast on NBC they had a piece on new mass graves discovered in the Ukrane from 60 years ago. The slightest hint that Israel could be critisized and they pop up with another holocaust story.
The fact that Jews were once penned up in the Warsaw Ghetto and left to starve doesn't give them the right to do the same to Palestinians.
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