Philip Weiss (Mondoweiss)
Yesterday the White House
sought to diffuse tensions over its Iran opening with a meeting between
the president and a “small coterie of Jewish organizational leaders.”
One of those leaders was Abe Foxman, who had lashed out at John Kerry
for making “inappropriate” criticisms of Netanyahu. Though Kerry never
mentioned Netanyahu by name.
Of course you would think Iran policy involves all of us, and that
our Secretary of State should be free to criticize foreign leaders who
slam our policymaking. But who counts the most: the official Jewish
community, the Israel lobby (whose existence has been repeatedly
pooh-poohed in the mainstream press).
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