Two link-rich articles describing the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Golberg “interview” (inquisition) with Obama about his devotion to Israel:
–from Antiwar.com:
“Yet Obama still keeps trying to appease the Lobby. He’s purged staff members who so much as looked cross-eyed at the Israelis, such as one poor adviser who meekly suggested that talking to Hamas might not be such a bad idea. He was out faster than you can say Mearsheimer and Walt.
Speaking of which: the Obama-oids have gone out of their way to distance themselves – i.e., ‘reject and denounce’ – those two hate-criminals, even though, as Philip Weiss trenchantly avers, a book by Obama’s point man on the Middle East says pretty much the same thing. In response to all this, Scott McConnell, editor of The American Conservative, dryly remarked: ‘At this point one wonders whether the people who deny the dramatic influence of the Israel lobby on American politics feel a little bit silly.’
Obama’s latest ritualized act of kowtowing takes place in the pages of the online edition of The Atlantic. In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg – a male Judy Miller who retailed Ahmed Chalabi’s tall tales of Iraqi ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and other fables while still managing to keep his job and his reputation – Obama jumps through all kinds of hoops with admirable dexterity, while ultimately avoiding abject humiliation and even showing signs of resistance.”
–from Salon.com:
“The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg conducted what he’s calling an ‘interview’ with Barack Obama regarding Israel, but it sounded much more like an inquisition. Goldberg repeatedly demanded that Obama swear his devotion to Israel and affirm prevailing orthodoxies (‘I’m curious to hear you talk about the Zionist idea. Do you believe that it has justice on its side?'”
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