米で爆発イスラエルのための戦争反対現代版「ロメオとジュリエット」連続情報

転送、転載、引用、訳出、大歓迎！

　いやはや、何が起きるか、まったく予測が付かない「イラク戦争」威嚇情勢なり。

　こんな時には、最も重要な鍵言葉と鍵人物を選び出すことが、わが使命なり。

　その「鍵言葉」は、以下である。

「バグダッド攻撃の可能性が迫るにつれ、ある者は、アメリカはイスラエルのための戦争をしていると言う」(As possible strike on Baghdad nears, some say U.S. is fighting Israel’s war)

　以上の言葉を、どこに見いだしたかについては、後に、その記事全文を紹介する。

　なぜ、「全文」にこだわるかと言えば、子細に読めば、この一連の最新情報の背後には、単なる議員の発言だけではなく、現代版「ロメオとジュリエット」の複雑なドラマが潜んでいるのである。

「鍵人物」（キーパースン）は、「米バージニア州選出のモラン下院議員（５７）＝民主党」である。

　私は、2日前に、その関連として、以下に抜粋する通信を発した。

　つまり、今の最大の焦点の「鍵人物」（キーパースン）は、「米バージニア州選出のモラン下院議員（５７）＝民主党」である。名前の綴りはMoranである。くれぐれも、ブッシュを「軽度・精神薄弱」と罵ったmoronのアメリカ式発音の「モーラン」、イギリス式発音の「モロン」または「モーローン」と混同しないように、お願いする。「モロン」議員は、今、野党であり、与党の共和党の「どら息子」、ブッシュとは正反対の賢明な意志の強い政治家である。

　彼の発言は、冒頭に引いた「鍵言葉」の中心、「アメリカはイスラエルのための戦争をしている」に要約されて理解され、全米を、爆発的な論争に引き込んだのである。

　先に引いた「米議員がユダヤ批判で謝罪」と題する「共同」記事では、モラン発煙の主旨が、「対イラク戦（に向けた動き）はユダヤ系社会の強い支持が背景にある」となっているが、それでは、回りくどくて、意味が薄れる。

　アメリカ人の心の中では、今まさに、イラク攻撃が、実は、「スラエルのための戦争」なのではないのかという、かねてからの押さえに押さえられていた「黒雲のような疑念」が、爆発中なのである。

　以下、この3日間の関連情報を、続けて、英文のまま紹介する。

　まずは3月10日である。

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http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?strwebhead=Some+blame+

photo: Brian HendlerAn American soldier stands guard March 8 in the area where U.S. Patriot anti-missile batteries have been deployed near Tel Aviv.NEWS ANALYSIS

As possible strike on Baghdad nears, some say U.S. is fighting Israel’s war
By Matthew E. Berger
WASHINGTON, March 10 (JTA) ― A furor over comments by a U.S. lawmaker is highlighting the resurgent trend of blaming Israel and the Jewish community for the impending war against Iraq.

Six rabbis from northern Virginia have asked for the resignation of Rep. James Moran (D-Va.), after he told constituents last week that the Jewish community is behind the Bush administration’s push for war.

Moran is apologizing to the Jewish community, and was planning to meet with area rabbis later this week.

While Moran’s comments specifically linked the organized American Jewish community with a push for war, an increasing number of people are blaming the looming Iraq war on Jewish officials in the Bush administration.

The sentiments echo those made in 1991 by conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan, who said the Persian Gulf War was being touted by “the Israeli Defense Ministry and its amen corner in the United States.”

Given widespread skepticism of the U.S. motives for a strike on Baghdad, some Jewish leaders say there is potential for the “amen corner” comments to gain as much ― if not more ― traction as they did a decade ago.

“There is a greater potential for mischief on this issue now than 11 or 12 years ago,” said Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.

In a town hall with constituents March 3, Moran said, “If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this,” according to the Virginia-area Connection newspapers.

Moran said Jewish leaders were motivated by discussions they had with Israeli Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish former prime minister.

Rabbi Jack Moline, rabbi at the conservative Agudas Achim Congregation of Northern Virginia, is leading the charge for Moran’s resignation.

Moline, who spoke with the congressman for 45 minutes last Friday, says the lawmaker’s remarks are comparable to the comments of Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who was forced to vacate his leadership post last year after making racially insensitive comments at a birthday party.

The Jewish community has had problems with Moran for years because of his outspoken comments against Israel. They have also been frustrated by the lack of a primary challenger against him in congressional races.

“We have attempted to bridge the gap with Congressman Moran,” Moline said.

“And we have attempted to persuade the Democratic Party that he wasn’t the best representative for us.”

Moran told JTA on Monday that he didn’t intend to single out the Jewish community, but was responding to a question from a woman who identified herself as Jewish. He said he was trying to make the point that all faith communities could affect the administration’s choice to go to war.

“I slipped up and I said something that has been properly taken as offensive,” Moran said.” I wish I had caught myself and reflected on it before I said it.”

Ever since military action against Iraq became a possibility, the American Jewish community has been treading lightly so as not to fuel criticism that the war would be for Israel’s benefit.

Many are cognizant of the discomfort the Jewish community felt after Buchanan made his comments in 1991, and want to keep Israel as much out of the mix as possible.

Israel, too, has taken a low profile, though the widespread view is that Jerusalem supports U.S. efforts to dismantle a regime that is a threat to its security.

But some have pointedly noted that some of the strongest advocates for war in the Bush administration are Jewish, implying that their support for Israel is the rationale.

Among those being targeted are Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of defense; Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board; Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy; and Dov Zakheim, the Pentagon’s comptroller.

The comments are predominantly in the international media ― specifically in Europe and the Arab world ― but are also finding their way into print in the United States.

And, in contrast to 1991, the attacks on Jewish officials have come from the liberal as well as the conservative media.

“They use code words,” Lawrence Kaplan, senior editor of The New Republic, said of the commentators.

“Very rarely does anyone come out and say it’s a bunch of Jews,” said Kaplan, co-author of a new book with William Kristol, “The War over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and America’s Mission.”

In a Washington Post Op-Ed last month, Kaplan chastised University of Illinois professor Paul Schroeder for comments he made in Buchanan’s magazine ― The American Conservative ― that suggested the war would be fought for Israel’s benefit and is being pushed by Jewish neo-conservatives.

Schroeder says he is trying to walk the fine line between criticizing policy that can benefit Israel and being viewed as anti-Semitic. He wants Americans to realize that Israel has more to gain from this war than the United States.

“Any reasonable risk assessment and cost-benefit utility analysis made in regard to the prospect of war for America and for Israel comes out very differently,” Schroeder told JTA. “For the United States, this is a high-risk, high-cost venture. For Israel, this is a very low-risk, low-cost venture with potential for great benefit.”

Schroeder, who says he is a strong supporter of the American-Israel alliance, says he is not opposed to the war because of Israel, but because a war “would destroy our position in the world.”

He says he wrote his article hesitantly, because of concern that he would be pegged as anti-Semitic.

“There’s a kind of self-censorship that goes on here,” he said. “You’re afraid people will take your comments one way.”

But Kaplan says the problem is not that people are saying a war with Iraq would help Israel, it’s the insinuation that Jewish and Zionist members of the Bush administration are drumming up the war for Israel’s benefit.

“Rather than being a matter of correlation, they’re making it causation,” he said.

He notes that there are many non-Jewish advocates for war in the Bush staff ― such as Bush’s national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ― but they are never mentioned in these articles that speak of Israel’s interests.

Jewish leaders are reaching out to senior Bush administration officials, asking them to think about the ramifications their comments related to a war could have for the Jewish community.

But because Jewish leaders do not see the rash of remarks as a conspiracy, they say it is easier to address each comment individually, rather than speaking out publicly.

“People will always say these things,” one Jewish official said. “It holds as much water as the reports that Jews were responsible for the attack on the World Trade Center.”

Israel’s interests are not the only rationale given by anti-war protesters for the impending military action. They also cite Iraq’s oil reserves as well as the personal vendetta Bush may have ― both because of his father’s last go-round with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and because Saddam later tried to assassinate his father.

But the comments about a war for Israel could cause an anti-Jewish response if the war goes poorly, Jewish officials say.

“If, God forbid, the war is not successful and the body bags come back, who’s to blame,” Foxman asked.

“There’s a potential for anti-Semitism and scapegoating for people in a situation where it’s not conducive.”

Kaplan said even if the war is successful, the statements lead to a perception that the United States is placing the interests of another country ahead of its own.

“It lays the blame or credit to this war at Israel’s doorstep, when really this is a war for America’s interests,” he said.
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　次は11日である。

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Tuesday, March 11, 2003
Congressman:
Jews pushing war

Moran issues apology denying remarks anti-Semitic

Posted: March 11, 2003
10:30 p.m. Eastern
2003WorldNetDaily.com

A Democratic congressman is under fire for remarks in which he suggested American Jews were behind the push to war with Iraq and Jewish leaders could prevent war if they wanted to.

Jewish organizations condemned as "reprehensible" and "anti-Semitic" the comments of Rep. James P. Moran Jr., D-Va., delivered to 120 people attending a forum at St. Anne's Episcopal Church on March 3.

Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va.

"If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this," Moran was quoted by the Reston Connection as saying. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going, and I think they should," he added.

The comments were made in the context of a discussion over why anti-war sentiment was not more effective in the United States.

Amid backlash, Moran apologized in a statement released yesterday.

"I made some insensitive remarks that I deeply regret. I apologize for any pain these remarks have caused to members of the Jewish faith and any other individuals," Moran said.

"I should not have singled out the Jewish community and regret giving any impression that its members are somehow responsible for the course of action being pursued by the administration, or are somehow behind an impending war," he continued.

He said his point was that if U.S. organizations including religious groups would be more vocal about their opposition to war it could change the course of events.

The apology didn't assuage six rabbis who issued their own statement yesterday calling for Moran's resignation.

"Such remarks about any minority group in America, whether African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims or others, are beyond inappropriate in the rhetoric of a member of Congress," Rabbi Jack Moline of Alexandria, Va., wrote.

"When Moran realized just how outrageous his remarks were, he attempted to backpedal, saying he didn't mean what he clearly said. This time it just won't work," Sophie R. Hoffman, president of the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington, told the Washington Post.

The Anti-Defamation League and the National Jewish Democratic Council also criticized the remarks, according to the paper.

Jewish leaders view the incident as a last straw of sorts for the seven-term congressman who voted in 1991 against foreign aid to Israel, offered "rhetorical support" for the Palestinian cause and accepted campaign contributions from sympathizers of the Hamas terror organization. Moran subsequently returned the donations.

"I know in my heart that I am anything but anti-Semitic," Moran told the Post and added his daughter is marrying a Jewish man and converting to Judaism, along with her 9-year-old son.

"Nobody could berate me more than I do when I see my words in print compared to what I intended to say," he said.

Criticism from the White House and members of Moran's own party added to the outcry today.

"These remarks are shocking. They are wrong and they should not have been said," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.

"It's a sad day when comments like that are made. They debase the debate and they have no purpose," WUSA-TV quotes Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle as saying.

"Congressman Moran's comments were not only inappropriate they were offensive," House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said.

"That kind of rhetoric is unacceptable and goes against the value and beliefs of the Democratic Party," echoed Guillermo Meneses, Democratic National Committee spokesman.

The Ha'aretz reports an undercurrent of suspicion over Jewish and Israeli influence on American foreign policy accompanies the growing anti-war movement and sparks debate over the line between free expression and classic anti-Semitism.

The so-called "conspiracy theory" has roots in the Clinton administration but has taken flight during the Bush administration, reports Ha'aretz.

The appointments of "hawkish" Paul Wolfowitz as deputy defense secretary and of Elliot Abrams as director of Mideast affairs for the National Security Council are cited as evidence of the theory.

"The Likudniks are really in charge now," an unnamed senior administration official told the Post last month in reaction to the Abrams appointment.

Rabbi and peace activist Michael Lerner described speeches at anti-war rallies last month as containing "a barrage of Israel bashing and anti-Semitic garbage."

WorldNetDaily reported last week an anti-war protest on the campus of York University in Toronto reportedly turned violent when students with an American flag were attacked and Jewish students were harassed by anti-war demonstrators.

Protesters stormed a booth set up by the Young Zionist Partnership and the Canadian Alliance, shouting insults at them.

"Hundreds of people basically swarmed three people," said Paul Cooper, president of the Zionist group. He said only a few people were confrontational, but everyone else "watched and did nothing to stop it."

"They chose to attack me, and I'm identifiably Jewish, but they didn't attack Paul [Cooper], who's not, and that's scary," said Yaakou Rath, campus president of the Canadian Alliance.

"The emotional climate at these demonstrations has been one that most Jews I have encountered find somewhere between uncomfortable and overtly anti-Semitic," he told LA Weekly.

"It is an old canard that Jews control America and American foreign policy," Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham Foxman told U.S. Jewish Forward last month. "During both world wars, anti-Semites said that Jews manipulated America into war. So when you begin to hear it again, there is good reason for us to be aware of it and sensitive to it," he said.

As for Moran, he predicts the Jewish community will mount a fierce opposition to block his re-election.

Morris Amitay, treasurer of the pro-Israel Washington PAC, confirmed Moran's predictions. He told the JTA he has a candidate in mind to challenge Moran in the Democratic primary.

"We now have a vulnerable incumbent," JTA quotes Amitay as saying.
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　もう一つ、11日である。

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U.S. lawmaker, under fire, predicts
Jewish opposition to his re-election
By Matthew E. Berger
WASHINGTON, March 11 (JTA) ― Rep. James Moran (D-Va.) says he understands why Jewish leaders are furious with him over a history of comments against Israel and the Jewish community, and predicts the Jewish community will mount a fierce opposition to replace him in the next congressional primary.

Moran, 57, told JTA on Monday that he felt “hurt” and would not heed the call for his resignation by six local rabbis. They made the call after the congressman told constituents last week that the Jewish community is behind the Bush administration’s push for war with Iraq.

“If I were a rabbi and seeing those remarks, I would have reacted the same way, maybe worse, given my emotional makeup,” the seven-term lawmaker said in a candid telephone interview.

Moran, whose daughter is in the process of converting to Judaism, has been at odds with the local Jewish community for years.

He has often tried to climb out of holes, which he admits he has mostly dug for himself by speaking ill of Israel and its supporters.

“I’m insufficiently cautious in the way I express myself,” said Moran, the former mayor of Alexandria, Va. “I tend to be too blunt and too graceless.”

Morris Amitay, treasurer of the pro-Israel Washington PAC, indicated that Moran’s prediction about his future is correct.

Amitay said he already has someone in mind to challenge Moran in the Democratic primary, and expects that person to receive strong support from the Jewish community.

“We now have a vulnerable incumbent,” said Amitay, a former executive director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

Rabbi Jack Moline, the spiritual leader at the Conservative Agudas Achim Congregation of Northern Virginia, says the Jewish community’s long-standing tiff with Moran stems from his support for Palestinians.

“Moran’s empathy for people who are suffering has expressed itself as antagonism for the state of Israel and the people of Israel,” said Moline, who led the call for Moran’s resignation this week.

Among the lawmaker’s actions in recent years that have prompted Jewish fury:

% On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s visit to Washington in June 2001, Moran told a national convention of the American Muslim Council that the Israeli leader was “probably seeking a warrant from President Bush to kill at will with weapons we have paid for”;

% In 2001, the lawmaker was also forced to return $2,000 in political campaign contributions from Abdulrahman Alamoudi, the former executive director of the American Muslim Council, because of remarks Alamoudi made in support of Palestinian terrorist groups;

% In 1994, Moran told the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee that the killing of 29 Muslims by an Israeli doctor, Baruch Goldstein, was “not committed by a lone individual but collective acts of complicity in a pervasive injustice.”

In the latest controversy, Moran told a town hall meeting with constituents March 3, “If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this,” according to the Virginia-area Connection newspapers.

His latest comments were rebuked by Jewish leaders, local officials and his peers in Congress. Even the White House called the remarks “shocking.”

“Congressman Moran suggested that the reason that the president is thinking about using force in Iraq is because of the influence of the Jewish community,” White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Tuesday.

“Those remarks are shocking. They are wrong, and they should not have been said.”

Democratic congressional leaders ― including Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) ― chastised Moran, as did the National Jewish Democratic Council.

Moran has spent this week apologizing, and was scheduled to meet with local Jewish leaders Thursday.

“I slipped up and I said something that has been properly taken as offensive,” Moran said in his interview with JTA. “I wish I had caught myself and reflected on it before I said it.”

Moran says the comments were not taken out of context, but he is trying to make clear that his response came from a questioner who identified herself as Jewish and asked why more Jews were not expressing their concerns about the impending war with Iraq.

“I was trying to explain my sense that mainstream elements of society and communities of faith were in support of war and if they weren’t, we wouldn’t be going to war,” Moran said. “If she had identified herself as a Catholic, I would have said the same thing.”

Moran paused, sighed, and said, “I wish she would have identified herself as a Catholic.”

Moran has consistently told Jewish audiences that his support for Muslim and Arab groups was “pandering” and that he has at times lacked knowledge on Middle East issues.

Moran, whose northern Virginia congressional district includes roughly the same number of Jews and Arab Americans, has supported pro-Israel resolutions in Congress in the past ― which his adversaries say was an attempt at pandering to them.

But Moran’s long-term voting record on Israel has been of concern to the Jewish community.

He was one of 17 lawmakers who voted against a congressional resolution commemorating the reunification of Jerusalem in 1997 and one of 37 who opposed legislation in 1995 that required moving the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv.

Moran says he is a strong supporter of the Labor Party in Israel and has forged good relations with Yossi Beilin, the dovish former justice minister and one of the architects of the Oslo peace process.

“I feel quite strongly that the Likud Party approach to the Palestinians is relatively self-destructive,” Moran said. “If you expand the settlements, the laws of demographics will end Israel.”

Despite his controversial oratory and actions, Moran has until now been able to maintain the support of a number of Jewish lawmakers.

Last October, in a pre-election letter to Moran’s constituents, 11 Jewish senators and U.S. representatives called Moran a friend of Israel.

Some of the signatories of that letter said this week that they viewed Moran’s recent comments as anti-Semitic, but that it was too early to say whether they would support his re-election.

But at least two of those signatories, New York Democrats Jerrold Nadler and Gary Ackerman, both strong Israel supporters, indicated they would stick by their colleague.

Saying that “people with hateful beliefs do not apologize,” Ackerman said, “As a friend, I will counsel him to think his words through carefully as these issues are very heavily nuanced.”

For his part, Moran says he believes his re-election battle will get tougher next year because of his comments.

“I would have a safe district if it were not for my Herculean efforts against it,” he said, anticipating that Jewish constituents would put up, and “fund heavily” a primary opponent against him.

But Moran says he will not resign and will face re-election next year.

“I think I have to take it on,” he said. “I owe it to my kids not to back down.”

That includes his daughter who is converting to Judaism before an August wedding.

“This puts a damper on what should be a wholly positive experience for her,” he said.
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　次は12日である。

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http://dynamic.washtimes.com/twt-print.cfm?ArticleID=20030312-76628071
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com

Moran's remarks on Jews stoke debate
David R. Sands
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published March 12, 2003

　Rep. James P. Moran's remarks on the influence of American Jews on the Bush administration's hard line against Iraq have put a public face on a bitter and intensely personal debate among policy-makers and pundits over the motivations of those pushing a new war in the Middle East.

　The Alexandria Democrat has apologized profusely for his March 3 comment that there would be no military strike against Saddam Hussein "if it were not for the strong support of the [American] Jewish community." But some argue that Mr. Moran did not go far enough with his apology.

　Both the White House and senior Democratic leaders in Congress were swift to condemn Mr. Moran's comments. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer called the remarks "shocking. They are wrong, and they should not have been said."

　Charges of "dual loyalty" and countercharges of anti-Semitism have become common in the feud, with some war opponents even asserting that Mr. Bush's most hawkish advisers ― many of them Jewish ― are putting Israel's interests ahead of those of the United States in provoking a war with Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein.

　"A stronger Israel is very much embedded in the rationale for war," said Richard Stengel, a columnist with Time magazine's online edition. "It is a part of the argument that dare not speak its name, a fantasy quietly cherished by the neoconservative faction in the Bush administration and by many leaders of the American Jewish community."

　MSNBC talk-show host Chris Matthews said war supporters in the Bush Pentagon were "in bed" with Israeli hawks eager to take out Saddam.

　That line of argument has spurred a furious counterattack, with many saying that some of the criticism has crossed the line from legitimate policy debate to classic anti-Semitism.

　"The Moran argument is outrageous on its face," said Mitchell G. Bard, executive director of Bethesda-based American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise and a former editor for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

　"President Bush has always said he is pursuing his policy to protect American lives, not to aid Israel," he said. "The idea that Israel or its American supporters can convince a president of the United States to go to war when he doesn't want to is ridiculous."

　Sometimes the line between legitimate and illegitimate criticism is difficult to see, said Shoshana Bryen, special projects director for the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a small but influential Washington think tank. "Any policy is subject to legitimate criticism, and you can even debate whether America's interests and Israel's interests are the same or different in a given situation.

　"Where you cross the line, as Moran did, is when you make a blanket statement ascribing a view or a motivation to an entire group of people. It is not legitimate when you impute hidden motives to someone or some group, when you don't address their arguments but attack them for who they are."

　JINSA's advisory board in recent years has boasted such prominent Iraq hawks as Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Pentagon adviser Richard Perle.

　Ms. Bryen said JINSA, which was founded in 1976, attracted such people as Mr. Perle and Mr. Wolfowitz because the organization dealt with issues they already cared about deeply. "It's not as if they were waiting for JINSA to come along and tell them how to think about the problems of the Middle East," she said.

　The leading U.S. Jewish groups have not taken a formal stand on war with Iraq, and polls indicate that American Jews' views on the war mirror those of the U.S. population as a whole ― with 59 percent of American Jews backing military action compared with 58 percent of the population.

　Patrick J. Buchanan writes, in the American Conservative magazine, which he edits, that it is "a cabal of polemicists and public officials" who "seek to ensnare our country in a series of wars that are not in America's interests."

　Mr. Buchanan raised the question before, in the run-up to the 1991 Persian Gulf war.

　But both sides say the debate has substantially broadened this time, in part because of the strong influence of neoconservative hawks on the security policies of the Bush administration and in part because many leftist protesters in the anti-war movement have raised the same issue.

　Critics such as Mr. Buchanan and many peace activists say that Israel and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be the prime beneficiary of any move to oust Saddam.

　From Israel's perspective, they say, a successful war would cripple a regional rival and military threat, destabilize regimes such as Iran and Syria that are hostile to Israel, ease the pressure to make concessions in the conflict with the Palestinians, and leave Mr. Sharon as the sole remaining worthwhile U.S. ally in the region.

　"For some of Israel's supporters both within the U.S. administration and the think tanks that feed it ideas, catastrophic developments ... and the instability, chaos and violence that would ensue, fit into a broader plan to completely remake an unruly Middle East with Israel as the dominant local power under overall American hegemony," wrote columnist Ali Abunimah for the Electronic Intifada, an Internet news service that covers Middle East events "from a Palestinian perspective."

　Mr. Buchanan says his opposition is to war, not to Jews. "[Neoconservatives] say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not," he writes. "We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon."

　The U.S. debate has presented a delicate dilemma for Israel, which has tried to keep a low profile even though an Iraq war is frequently referred to by many in the Sharon government who believe it would help solve many of Israel's economic and strategic problems.

　Daniel Ayalon, Israel's ambassador to the United States, said in a speech earlier this week that his country was "trying to be very low-profile here because Iraq is not our business. Iraq is not an Israeli problem. It's an international problem, it's a problem for the region, it's a problem for its own population. ... For anyone to suggest that the road to Baghdad runs through Jerusalem, nothing could be further from the truth."

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　さて、私は、911事件発生直後から、民主党の黒人女性下院議員、シンシア・マケニイに注目し、そのシリーズを、わが電網宝庫の以下に収めている。

　シンシア（お母ちゃん）は、アメリカのユダヤ人・ロビーの猛攻撃を受けて、昨年の中間選挙に敗れ、野に下った。しかし、今度は、地元のユダヤ人とアラブ人の社会の間の「取り持ち」に腐心し続け、しかも、ユダヤ人との結婚を控えて、息子（モラン孫）と一緒に(つまり、再婚に違いない)、ユダヤ教に改宗を準備中の娘を持つ「お父ちゃん」または「お祖父ちゃん」が、ついに、前面に立ってしまったのである。

　何とも、まあ、アメリカ社会の縮図のような「お父ちゃん」または「お祖父ちゃん」ではないか。

　もしかすると、これは、現代版「ロメオとジュリエット」に発展しかねない事件なのである。

　おお、日本の「お父ちゃん」または「お祖父ちゃん」たちよ！
　君らも、自殺率世界一などを競わずに、今こそ決起せよ！
　おお、「お父ちゃん」、おお、「お祖父ちゃん」！

　以上。

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