{"id":399623,"date":"2019-03-15T13:35:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-ilhan-omar-wrongabout-anything-3\/"},"modified":"2019-03-15T13:35:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:35:49","slug":"is-ilhan-omar-wrongabout-anything-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/is-ilhan-omar-wrongabout-anything-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Ilhan Omar Wrong\u2026About Anything?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

It has been clear for some time<\/a>\u00a0that Ilhan Omar owes no one any apologies for her remarks on AIPAC and those who tow its line; quite to the contrary, apologies are owed her.\u00a0 Developments over the past several weeks underscore how important it is to drive that point home.<\/p>\n

Before the 2008 publication of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt\u2019s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>the subject was, for all practical purposes, taboo.<\/p>\n

Everything had to be kept hush hush, just as it did with the NSA (no such agency), the massive signals intelligence operation at Fort Meade.\u00a0 Everybody who cared knew that it was there and what it did, but only \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d dared speak of it.<\/p>\n

Ten years ago, and for many years before that, there was no shortage of books and articles critical of Israel and Zionist ideology.\u00a0 But accounts of anything resembling an Israel lobby were as rare as snowstorms in July.\u00a0To broach the topic was to invite charges of anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

Then in 2006, two years before they came out with the book, Mearsheimer and Walt published an article in The London Review of Books.\u00a0 <\/em>The authors are distinguished political scientists and public intellectuals, but no suitable mainstream American publication would touch it.<\/p>\n

After the book appeared, it did not take long for its arguments to win the day \u2014 to such an extent that, nowadays, the taboo that protected the Israel lobby from scrutiny is, like the one that kept the NSA…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair It has been clear for some time\u00a0that Ilhan Omar owes no one any apologies for her remarks on AIPAC and those who tow its line; quite to the contrary, apologies are owed her.\u00a0 Developments over the past several weeks underscore how important it is to drive that point home. Before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-399623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}