The Lobby's Psychotic Thought Processes

A hallmark of sanity is the realization that peace, justice, truth, and diplomacy are superior to wars, injustice, lies, and oppression. Yet the Israel Lobby prefers to ignore the fact that Israel's unjust, illegal, and murderous occupation of Palestine must end for the good of Israel, Palestine, the US, and the world. Serious diplomacy is required, but there are many who oppose peace talks.

For instance, Jeff Jacoby, writing in yesterday's The Boston Globe ("Death of the Bush Doctrine"), objects to the Annapolis policy of final status peace negotiations which are currently ongoing. Jacoby wishes to return to the failed Road Map policy requiring that diplomacy wait for the peace which will never come. In this he is joined by Israeli legislator Avigdor Lieberman, who has withdrawn from Israeli Prime Minister Olmert's government because Lieberman also opposes the resumption of peace talks. Instead of believing in justice and diplomacy, Lieberman favors exchanges of populations, i.e. ethnic cleansing of Arabs from Israel, as reported in today's The New York Times. (This Lieberman is not to be confused with our own Senator Joe Lieberman, affectionately known as the Senator from Tel Aviv for his sponsorship of two infamous war-mongering resolutions: the 2002 Lieberman-Warner resolution authorizing war with Iraq and the 2006 Lieberman-Kyl resolution declaring part of Iran's military a terrorist group.)

The US Israel Lobby has traditionally set impossible pre-conditions for peace talks, especially a cessation of all violence. Yet, from time immemorial patriots have resisted occupation. This is well dramatized in the 1969 French film "Army of Shadows" in which French resistance fighters refuse to give in to their Nazi occupiers. Such is the insane status quo preferred by the Israel Lobby.