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WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Problem With J Street. ?During the Cold War, Americans gradually got into?

By Glenn Reynolds

WALTER RUSSELL MEAD: The Problem With J Street. “During the Cold War, Americans gradually got into the habit of considering Israel one of our most valuable and reliable allies. In recent years this longstanding association has been substantially strengthened by the widespread public belief that the same people who most hate Israel and want to bring it down are the bitter enemies of the United States and will stop at nothing to kill as many American civilians as they possibly can. . . . If the Jews of Hollywood, Wall Street and the mainstream media were as powerful and clannish as European anti-Semitic legend has it, Europe would actually like America?s Middle East policies much more than it does.” These days, the Baptists support Israel more than the Jews.

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