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The anti-war right contradicts its own anti-Israel case
On first glance, the story about a possible Israeli spy in the Defense Department seems unlikely: even if the Israelis had wanted to spy on us, how could they risk a repeat of the extremely damaging Pollard situation?
Whatever the truth may turn out to be in this case, it will stir up all the familiar anti-Israel suspicions, including the charge that the whole U.S. war on Iraq was waged solely at the behest of the Israelis and not for our own national interest. I am reminded of a key point which disproves that idea. Prior to the war, the anti-war right said we were attacking Iraq because the Israelis were concerned about Hussein using his WMDs against Israel. When the WMD stockpiles failed to materialize, the anti-war right began saying that Bush had lied to us about WMDs in order to get us into the war. But if there were no WMDs, and if Bush—as well as those devilishly clever Israelis and neocons—knew it, then why would Bush, the Israelis, and the neocons feel it necessary to topple Hussein in order to protect Israel from Hussein’s non-existent WMDs? Email entry |