[news] Neocon Flap Highlights Jewish Divide

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

by Daniel Luban and Jim Lobe - July 30, 2008

A mushrooming media controversy pitting neoconservatives against a prominent Jewish-American political commentator could mark a new stage in the growing battle over who speaks for the U.S. Jewish community on foreign policy issues, particularly regarding the Middle East...TIME columnist **Joe Klein's** accusations that Jewish neoconservatives, who played a particularly visible role in the drive to war in Iraq and have since pushed for military confrontation in Iran, sacrificed "U.S. lives and money...to make the world safe for Israel" have spurred angry charges of anti-Semitism and personal attacks from [neoconservative] critics...  


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