Israel, Cohen claims, is motivated not by an aversion to being
obliterated but merely by a cynical desire “to lock in American
support and avoid any disadvantageous change in the Middle Eastern
balance of power.”
America should say no, Cohen asserts, because “Israeli hegemony
is proving a kind of slavery.” That statement seemed especially
ugly, and a Google search showed why. In 1939, Der Stürmer
published an editorial by Julius Streicher titled “The Way to
Slavery,” which declared that “what one calls democracy today is
concealed Jewish domination.”
Of course the Times is not the Stürmer, and
Cohen is no Streicher. The latter was actively promoting evil; the
former, one must assume, is fatuously trying to explain it away.
But Cohen’s faint echo of the rhetoric that led to the Holocaust
suggests that more respect for postwar taboos would be good for the
Times’s moral hygiene.
Alan Brooks| 6.22.09 @ 8:32AM
yeah, well Stalin's serfs benefited from his 1930s 'stimulus' plans, too.