How the ISRAEL LOBBY escapes scrutiny from political reporters
Reageer (0)by Philip Weiss
26-3-2010
I’m from Baltimore, I think I knew David Cordish when I was a kid. He’s a fit, impressive 70, and was at AIPAC this week, embracing an Israeli soldier who is taller than he is. (Even I know when my homoerotic nationalism is being strummed.) Cordish is a board member of AIPAC. Well, here is the Baltimore Sun doing a profile of developer Cordish’s fundraising activities and showing how he raised half a million for Dick Cheney 6 years ago and this week raised $300,000 for Joe Biden at his house.
There is one paragraph about Israel, deep in this story. Would it really hurt anyone, reporter Justin Fenton of the Balto Sun, to mention that Cordish is a prime figure in the Israel lobby and was on the stage earlier this week in D.C.? Would it hurt to press Cordish about how central Israel is to his worldview? Because that’s how it works. They are not partisan in an American sense; AIPAC people care only about Israel. They’ll buy both sides. And does it occur to anyone that raising $500,000 for Bush-Cheney in ‘04 had any effect on policy? No that’s a canard. Did Sheldon Adelson’s $300,000 to the Bush team in 2000 have any g-d thing to do with the cipher Doug Feith getting a big job at the Pentagon and us going to war in Iraq? Because of a nail a war was lost.
By the way, this Sun article is similar to the NYT’s coverage of Arizona developer Donald Diamond and even Connie Bruck on Sheldon Adelson in the New Yorker. The Times completely elided Diamond’s concern for Israel, and Bruck, who is married to a former stalwart of AIPAC, downplayed Adelson’s machinations.
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