by Melissa Rossi Author, What Every American Should Know about the Middle East (Plume/Penguin, Jan. 2009)
“I’d thought it would just be a breezy Friday afternoon, when I clicked on today’s post of M.J. Rosenberg, here on Huffington Post.
Director of Policy for the Israel Policy Forum, Mr. Rosenberg’s blog entry concerns the upcoming Israeli election — and he tells us the outcome is ‘really not our business.’ After all, he blithely notes, ‘As Americans, our job is to promote policies that are best for America, and for Israel.’
(NOTE on Sunday, Feb 8: The above quote is from his original column on Huffington Post, which he changed over the weekend — deleting the controversial ‘and for Israel’ part. The column, however, can still be read on the Israel Policy Forum at www.israelpolicyforum.org/ — as of Sunday at least.)
There weren’t comments when I started reading — but by the time I read through his post and hit the reply button, there were already five comments and more pending. All of them saying the same thing — no, Mr. Rosenberg — our job is to promote policies that are best for America. PERIOD.” (Read more from huffintonpost.com)