You have to ask? I don't know what "too powerful" is, but it is dead obvious that AIPAC is plenty powerful enough to get a bunch of Congresscritters baying "anti-Semitism" every time anyone makes a modest criticism of Israel.
A new generation of people in the United States aren't going to put up with that. They treat Israel as a normal country, self-interested and too often willing to sacrifice human rights for (probably false) security. (You know, like the USA.) Legitimate friends of Jewish safety lose out -- as Palestinians have been losing for two generations now.
Headline ganked from the NYT. The article is very substantially better -- less biased and more informative -- than the headline.
I just thought it weird that it was spelled "Aipac" rather than "AIPAC" which is the acronym usage for decades.
ReplyDeleteThe initial cap and lower case is how it would be written using British newspaper usage. We were mystified by this when working on anti-apartheid newspapers in Australia. Some pro-Zionist headline composer from the UK got hold of this?
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