In the face of the threatened collapse of the Lobby, he argues, American Jews should openly and proudly assume their proper role as moral and religious exemplars for their fellow Americans and cease acting like a frightened minority. Ultimately Schwartz concludes that in today's America, a ?Jewish lobby? may no longer be necessary. As a result, Schwartz predicts an increasing turn for Jewish voters away from their dysfunctional marriage with the Democratic Party and toward the Republicans. He says his concerns of nuclear war have heightened and specifically of the U.S. Their strategic vision projects a foreign policy that is both good for America and good for the Jews. Schwartz is nonresident senior fellow at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and an independent consultant, editor and co-author of the 1998 book Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of US Nuclear Weapons Since 1940. Likewise, today, it has not been the meek and timid leaders of the supposedly all-powerful Jewish Lobby that have defended the Jews but the reviled ?neocons? in the Bush Administration. The Center for Islamic Pluralism describes itself as 'a think tank that challenges the dominance of American Muslim life by militant Islamist groups. At that time, Schwartz reminds us, it was not the official representatives of the Jewish community that stood up to the fascist goons of New York City, but Jewish socialists?the antecedents of today?s neoconservatives. Stephen Schwartz (from 2017 Lulu Schwartz) is a close associate of Daniel Pipes with whom he founded the think tank, Center for Islamic Pluralism (CIP). Bush? How did AIPAC officials come to be accused, in 2004, of espionage? Above all, what is good for the Jews, and who decides it? Many of us forget that in the 1930s, a genuine home-grown fascist movement arose in America. What is the ?Jewish lobby? How powerful is it? What was its involvement in the preparations for war in Iraq? Was there really a ?cabal? of neoconservative Jews in the administration of George W. In this biting and incisive polemic, journalist and author Stephen Schwartz confronts the myth of a Jewish lobby head on, asking questions that no one else has dared to pose. The allegations against these neoconservatives?especially former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz?echoed the case of the notorious Jonathan Pollard who pled guilty of spying for Israel in 1986. A group of largely Jewish neoconservatives were among the architects of the war, and their motivations for removing Saddam Hussein were alternately ascribed to oil interests and the need to protect Israel. The cause of Stephen Schwartz, a writer formerly known as 'Comrade Sandalio,' has been taken up by William Safire and Ronald Radosh. The run-up to the Iraq war had provided new grist for this theory. The neocons are up in arms one of their own has been fired from his position as a 'journalist' at the Voice of America and may be on his way to becoming the Mumia Abu Jamal of the War Party. That the power in question was assumed to be Israel brought fresh credibility to a conspiracy theory that had been floating around Washington for years: that a powerful ?Jewish lobby? controls U.S. In 2005, two then-officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee were indicted for handing over classified information to a foreign power.
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