Philip Weiss explains why Obama can't criticize the neocons around McCain:
"Jews are mobbed-up with neoconservatism and the Democratic Party is mobbed-up with Jews."
But the issue is not really "Jews" per se as Weiss himself explains that many prominent progressive Jewish individuals in the US have sought to disassociate Jewishness from the NeoCons and their reactionary Zionism. This is a positive trend which should be encouraged, but holding conferences in which holocaust deniers are featured prominently and which ends up giving ammunition to those who wish to paint Iran as anti-Jewish rather than simply anti-Zionist, doesn't exactly help this process (aside from the immorality of it.)
The bottom line: Pro-Israelis have infiltrated both parties in the US.
Anyway - Obama's fear of the so called "Jewish vote" is why, my friends:
1- Obama will lose the election, since he can't use the main wedge issue in this election (the Irax war and Bush's foreign policy -- which is supported by the NeoCons in the Democratic party which sees it as pro-Israel), or...
2- Even if he wins, his foreign policy with respect to Iran won't be too different from Bush's.
The only difference under a President Obama: Overt calls for war may be put aside since the US population doesn't have a stomach for another protracted war, and instead the pro-Israeli element pushing for this war will take care to hide itself better and instead present this as not-just a pro-Israel agenda, that's all. They'll try to dress up attacking Iran as a broad-based liberal, democratic cause rather than simply a pro-Israeli cause.
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