[Wall Street Journal, 8Sep06] William Kristol - University of Chicago political science professor John Mearsheimer came to Washington last month along with his sidekick, Stephen Walt of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Speaking to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, they attacked the "Israel Lobby" (of which they claim I am a part) for its pernicious deeds, and singled out several Jews who served or serve in the Bush administration. These Jews, they explained, have special "attachments" in the Middle East. The attachment? Their religious belief - Judaism. Bigotry now has an academic cachet. As Robert Goldberg reported in the Washington Times, after one Moveon.org member celebrated the defeat of "Jew Lieberman," 95% of those who responded to the post on the Moveon Web site expressed their approval. Jews are under attack. And no one seems very concerned. Much of the world is in denial about the jihadist threat. But the jihadists are on the move. Recently in Gaza, kidnapped journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig were forced to "convert" to Islam before being released. What would have happened to them if they had been Jewish? And, incidentally - if they had refused to "convert," as some Jews and Christians have in the past - what would have happened then?
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