The return of the neocon canard

[Guno צְבִי]

Those who were against the U.S. invasion of Iraq tendentiously blamed it on “the neocons.” This was code for “the Jews,” because a number of influential “neocon” analysts who supported the war happened to be Jewish.

The false claim that Israel had taken America to war in Iraq became a common meme on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004, Thomas Friedman wrote that Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s prime minister, had President George W. Bush “under house arrest in the Oval Office.”

In London, a British colonel told me that “Ariel Sharon has his hand up Bush’s back”—and was astonished when I replied that Israel had told the United States it was Iran, not Iraq, that posed the greatest danger.

The disastrous course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were generally viewed as a lethal quagmire, turned the West in general against getting involved in any future wars, particularly those in the Middle East.

Opponents of the war against Iran are now re-running the Iraq war memes, with the charge that now-mythical “neocons” are driving President Donald Trump into yet another “forever war” with American “boots on the ground” as U.S. forces die for a cause “in a faraway country.”

https://www.jns.org/the-return-of-the-neocon-canard/

 

[Guno צְבִי]

The answer, astounding as this may seem, is that people on both the left and right have concluded that the Islamic world’s aggression against the West is all the fault of the Jews.

For the left, the Islamic world is the historic victim of Western colonialism and imperialism. As such, it can’t be held responsible for any violence against the West, which must be viewed instead as legitimate resistance.

Accordingly, Muslims—whether in the form of the Palestinian Arabs or the Iranian regime—can’t possibly be guilty of genocidal aggression against Israel. Their violence can only be seen as resistance, and so the story has to be concocted that Israel is guilty of colonialism and oppression.

Those purported Israeli crimes are held to have enraged the entire Islamic world against Israel and its Western backers. So, for the left, it’s the oppressive and aggressive Jews who are the reason that the world is lurching into war.

On the other side of the political divide, some on the right seek alternative explanations for what seems to them inexplicable and terrifying. These people subscribe to the Western delusion that everyone in the world is governed by rationality and self-interest.

Accordingly, they find it impossible to grasp the nature of religious fanaticism. They can’t understand that Islamic terrorists blow themselves up on the streets of Western cities not out of despair but from an ecstatic belief that they are doing the will of God. They can’t grasp that Iran’s Supreme Leader believes that providing an apocalypse will bring the Shia messiah down to earth.

Ever since 9/11, these people on the right have asked themselves why Muslims hate the West so much, since the West has had nothing to do with the Islamic world. They have concluded that it could therefore only be because of resentment at the existence of the Jewish State of Israel.

So war against the West by the Muslim world is the fault of the Jews for being there at all. And so these ignorant Westerners go straight down the rabbit hole of Jewish conspiracy theory, which tells them that the only explanation for America supporting Israel is that the Jews possess some kind of demonic, magical powers to control events.

 

[Cypress]

Those who were against the U.S. invasion of Iraq tendentiously blamed it on “the neocons.” This was code for “the Jews,” because a number of influential “neocon” analysts who supported the war happened to be Jewish.

The false claim that Israel had taken America to war in Iraq became a common meme on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2004, Thomas Friedman wrote that Ariel Sharon, then Israel’s prime minister, had President George W. Bush “under house arrest in the Oval Office.”

In London, a British colonel told me that “Ariel Sharon has his hand up Bush’s back”—and was astonished when I replied that Israel had told the United States it was Iran, not Iraq, that posed the greatest danger.

The disastrous course of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which were generally viewed as a lethal quagmire, turned the West in general against getting involved in any future wars, particularly those in the Middle East.

Opponents of the war against Iran are now re-running the Iraq war memes, with the charge that now-mythical “neocons” are driving President Donald Trump into yet another “forever war” with American “boots on the ground” as U.S. forces die for a cause “in a faraway country.”

https://www.jns.org/the-return-of-the-neocon-canard/

The biggest Neocons in America, and the ones everyone remembers are
Dick Cheney, George Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condi Rice, and they aren't Jewish.