Blaming the cabal
Here is what is true: Jewish Americans hold no monolithic view about a possible war with Iraq. One survey conducted by the American Jewish Committee shows that 59 percent of Jews approve of a possible war while 36 percent disapprove--numbers that mirror the public at large. A majority worries about a larger war in the Middle East. But what of those Jewish neoconservative hawks lurking inside the administration? Didn't some of them write memos in the late 1990s calling for, among other things, the overthrow of Saddam? Yes. Have those pre-9/11 treatises now become George Bush's master plan? Please. "To believe that," says one administration official, "is to believe that George Bush is a liar." Your choice.
Elie Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor who considers himself a dove, supports this war. Wiesel argues that appeasing dictators does not lead to peace. "Had Europe's great powers intervened against Adolf Hitler's aggressive ambitions in 1938 instead of appeasing him in Munich, humanity would have been spared the unprecedented horrors of World War II," he writes in the Los Angeles Times. "Does this apply to the present situation in Iraq? It does." Obviously, the cabal has gotten to him, too.
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