Alexander Cockburn writes:
The late Steve Smith, brother-in-law of Teddy Kennedy, and a powerful figure in the Democratic Party for several decades, liked to tell the story of how a group of four Jewish businessmen got together $2 million in cash and gave it to Harry Truman when he was in desperate need of money during his presidential campaign in 1948. Truman went on to become president and to express his gratitude to his Zionist backers.
Gee, and I always had heard Truman became president in 1945. And the rumor is that he went against the State Department's advice and recognized Israel in May 1948 because his old business partner was Jewish..(or maybe not) .even though in those days "supporting Jews" would lose a lot of votes.....
Stephen Smith (Cockburn spelled his first name wrong) was born in 1927, and in graduated from Georgetown University in 1948,...that would make him a 21 year old college student when the "Jewish" businessmen gave all that money to Truman (and in 1948, 2 million dollars was a lot of money)...so how did Smith know about this? It is extremely unlikely he witnessed it... Or did he hear the story from from another source...maybe Joe Kennedy, a notorious anti Semite?
But Cockburn's entire column is pseudohistory...
Most of the essay is about people who DARE to criticize a book by two college professors that supposedly documents the Zionist conspiracy behing American foreign policy... the NERVE of those people, to criticize a well researched book....never mind that many of the "documents" used by the professors are similar to those paranoid screeds found on anti Semetic and conspiracy web pages.....
Umm... Mr. C. Did you ever hear the phrase "GIGO"...as in "garbage in, garbage out?
No, I guess not. Because at the end of the article, we find this quote:
"The question, therefore, is not whether the two professors are right in their findings. The question is what conclusions can be drawn from them..."The quote comes from Yuri Avnery, (whose name he also misspells) a well known leftist and founder of an Israeli peace site...(the site links to sites supporting the Infitada of course...)
Well, Mr. C, actually it DOES matter if the professors got their findings right...and it matters if they got their "data" from nutso web sites or from reality.It's not politically correct, but that's the way I am...
And, oh yes, Mr. C: The reason that most Americans back Israel is not because they have been manipulated by evil zionists but because they are hard headed Christians who would be sympathetic to many Palestinian demands, but dislike Palestinian "leaders" who encoure their followers to blow up buses and pizza parlors as political statements...
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