Friday, May 16, 2008

Jewish Journalists Get Obama to Renew Balfour

/* In my analogy, Peretz is Rothschild, the money guy, and Goldberg is Weizmann, the intellectual. The statements by Obama seem as forced to me as Balfour's vague note of 1917.....In a sense, neither is that interested in what Obama really thinks--both men behave less like journalists than petitioners, trying to get Obama on the record expressing his support of the Jewish state as an answer to the Jewish problem. "I’m curious to hear you talk about the Zionist idea. Do you believe that it has justice on its side?" Goldberg asks. Then: "Do you think that justice is still on Israel’s side?" */

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