AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran for Israel

We must not allow anyone to push us into a war with Iran. Wesley Clark told Arianna Huffington about the push for war on Iran, "How can you talk about bombing a country when you won't even talk to them?" said Clark. "It's outrageous. We're the United States of America; we don't do that."

"When we asked him what made him so sure the Bush administration was headed in this direction, he replied: "You just have to read what's in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.""

"For Clark, this is the biggest foreign policy issue facing the U.S. "I'm worried about the surge," he said. "But I'm worried about this even more."", Huffington wrote on her blog.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna...

In his article, Eric Alterman warns about the push for President Bush to attack Iran. About Wesley Clark's concern that the attack is being pushed by "New York money people," Alterman writes, "I agree with Clark, but I agree that he also said what he said badly, though not anti-Semitically."

Alterman warns, "The Bush administration is clearly attempting to create a pretext to attack Iran" ... [this would result in] inciting worldwide terrorist attacks against Americans and their properties around the world, including inside the United States ... this being the Bush administration, you can count on it being done incompetently and dishonestly."

"Criticize the neocons for what they are actually doing -- or even use the word "neocon" -- and you're an anti-Semite. That means they get to keep doing it even if it means they are acting on behalf of what they believe are Israel's interests ... rather than America's."

"We saw during the Lieberman primary that The Weekly Standard actually does care more about what's good for Israel than for America -- they said American Jews should behave that way, and so do Newsweek's embarrassingly crazy Rabbi Gelman and Mona Charen and a few others. If anyone on earth thinks Marty Peretz cares more about the fate of the goyim in America than the heroes in Israel, I've never met him or her ... if you read this excellent New York Times Magazine piece on Abe Foxman, you'll get a small inkling of how the system works."
http://mediamatters.org/altercation/2...

On Bloggingheads, Alterman said, "Wesley Clark, used probably some incautious language, when he said that New York money men, which many people interpret to mean Jews, were pushing us to war with Iran. However, Jews, in New York, who have a lot of money, are in fact pushing us to war with Iran. It was a factually true statement. AIPAC is pushing us to war with Iran. AIPAC is the reason that no Democrats are coming out strongly against war with Iran. AIPAC's funding is extremely wealthy American Jews and AIPAC is pushing for war with Iran. So, when people go to Democratic politicians and they say "listen, I don't want you gettin' out in front and opposing war with Iran, particularly since you have national aspirations," they don't say it in the New York Times." - Wesley Clark and the anti-Semitism charge http://bloggingheads.tv/videos/1088?i...
Updated link to the segment (the old bloggingheads.tv link was broken)
http://www.representativepress.org/Is...

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[lowe1304]

Jews killed JFK

[zobielamouche1]

pollard betrayed usa with israel, now he is a hero for jews. so are the attackers of the uss liberty.

[ralffy1000]

right they live in fear, if they did then why stay

[madeley7]

The Jews in Iran live in fear, the community a pale shadow of the 80,000 who lived there before 1979 when the Islamists took over. They serve as useful idiots so the regime can maintain the pretence of religious freedom.  Woe betide any Jew who even dreams about Israel so they keep their heads down.

[ralffy1000]

then again I don't see the Iranians killing the jews that live in Iran, so your argument lost some if its water

[john ediamond]

get him! error///

[Bring back HUAC]

I could see how some might have thought there would be something to gain out of it when you put 2 and 2 together.

[Bring back HUAC]

Meanwhile these evangelicals are constantly trashed by the very people they support, they are called homophobes, kkk, gun-loving rednecks, jesus freaks, house niggers or kushim (if black), and the most ignorant names you can imagine for a people who consider themselves to be so intellectual and genius. These christians are living in a dream world. Israelis don't like you, but anyone will accept your support on the DL so they don't look bad. Can you believe where our tax dollars go

[Bring back HUAC]

Thank you Eric Alterman, it's very unfortunate that we have such punks like Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman who are constantly on the attack. I've notice that they've never tried to disprove most alleged Anti-semitic commentary but instead just get extremely volatile, angry and simply go off the deep end like a spoiled child screaming because he/she can't have an expensive toy.

[47esq]

Israel is free to d what ever ....I dont really care, just do it on you own and stay the hell away from the US...