Am I missing something here? I thought that the anti-Israel bias surrounding the Hezbollah-Israeli conflict was fairly evident to most objective observers who heard the BBC reports describing the Hezbollah katyushas as “harmless rockets” and saw the doctored Rueters’ photos intended to exagerate destruction to Lebannon’s infrastructure.
But apparently CAIR (the Council on American-Islamic Relations) apparently doesn’t see it that way.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ — On Monday, August 28, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will host a panel discussion on “The Israel Lobby and the U.S. Response to the War in Lebanon” at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. The panel will feature Professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, authors of a recent Harvard University paper titled “The Israel Lobby.”
In that paper, the authors stated: “Other special-interest groups have managed to skew foreign policy, but no lobby has managed to divert it as far from what the national interest would suggest, while simultaneously convincing Americans that US interests and those of the other country — in this case, Israel — are essentially identical.
CAIR Board Chairman Parvez Ahmed had this to say:
â??For America to be regarded as an honest broker in the Middle East, we must disengage our policies in that region from the dictates of the pro-Israel lobby.”
Our friend from Jihadwatch Janet Levy had this to say of Ahmed:
He noted that public attitudes about the influence of the Israel lobby are changing. He cited a commentary in todayâ??s New Jersey Star-Ledger in which that newspaperâ??s national political correspondent stated: â??Bush must abandon his policy of unconditional support for Israel in favor of an even-handed one that might gain him credibility in the region as a more or less honest broker. And the best way to move Bush in that direction is by abandoning the unofficial taboo in this country on questioning Israel or our policy toward that country.â?Â
and this:
If youâ??re wondering why CAIR seems so active lately, it may have something to do with that $50 million they recently received from overseas radical Islamic groups: Media Campaign in US to Dispel Islamophobia.
HT LGF and Jihadwatch