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TomClash Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 07:36 AM
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Halper: Israel may attack Iran so that we won’t hear the word ‘Palestinian’ for another 5 years
Israel may well attack Iran in an effort to distract the world from the Palestinian issue, Jeff Halper of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions said last Saturday in New York.

“There’s a very real possibility that Israel will attack Iran,” he said. At a time when there is tremendous international pressure on Israel to end the occupation and even the U.S. discourse is beginning to shift on Israel, an Iran attack would be the “ultimate deflection... it would deflect everything.”

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“I don’t want to become all jingoistic,” he said, but there are real questions of where AIPAC is leading the US that should be in the conversation politically: “You’re an American member of Congress not an Israeli member.”

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And when the issue is framed in that manner, most American Jews are going to fall into line "150 percent." Even AIPAC supporters' greatest fear is that they are going to be seen to have dual loyalties because there is a “conflict between the interests of Israel and the United States,” Halper said, and that cleavage ought to be stated now.

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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-04-11 03:23 PM
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1. Israel is not going to risk suicide just to deflect from the Palestinian issue
I have lots of respect for Jeff Halper, but he's jumping the shark here.
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