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Entry: Morning Links Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/morning_links#21832 Post contents: The hysterical reaction to Mr. McPeak's candid comments are so typical. Anyone who suggests that the Israel lobby is powerful and subordinates American interests to that of Israel is accused of anti-Semitism The accusation is used to intimidate and silence. As Joseph Sobran remarked," The full story of [Pat Buchanan’s 1996 presidential] campaign is impossible to tell as long as it’s taboo to discuss Jewish interests as freely as we discuss those of the Christian Right. . . . Not that the Jews are all-powerful, let alone all bad. But they are successful, and therefore powerful enough: and their power is unique in being off-limits to normal criticism even when it’s highly visible. They themselves behave as if their success were a guilty secret, and they panic, and resort to accusations, as soon as the subject is raised. Jewish control of the major media in the media age makes the enforced silence both paradoxical and paralyzing. Survival in public life requires that you know all about it, but never refer to it. A hypocritical etiquette forces us to pretend that the Jews are powerless victims; and if you don’t respect their victimhood, they’ll destroy you. It’s a phenomenal display not of wickedness, really, but of fierce ethnocentrism, a sort of furtive racial superpatriotism. Sent at: 2008 07 06