Billionaire investor George Soros has added his voice to a heated but little-noticed debate over the role of Israel’s powerful lobby in shaping Washington policy in a way critics say hurts US national interests and stifles debate.
In the current issue of the New York Review of Books, Mr Soros takes issue with “the pervasive influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)” in Washington and says the Bush administration’s close ties with Israel are obstacles to a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians.
Soros, who is Jewish but not often engaged in Israel affairs, echoed arguments that have fuelled a passionate debate conducted largely in the rarefied world of academia, foreign policy think tanks and parts of the US Jewish community.
“The pro-Israel lobby has been remarkably successful in suppressing criticism,” wrote Mr Soros. Politicians challenge it at their peril and dissenters risk personal vilification, he said. AIPAC has consistently declined comment on such charges, but many of its supporters have been vocal in dismissing them.
(Source: The Age)
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While he may make a good point in this instance, that is purely incidental as George Soros is a good for nothing moveon.org supporter.
You aint gonna like what I have to say but Soros is a sorry, pathetic self-hating Jew. And frankly, I am uninterested in hearing that he was a Holocaust survivor; so were both sets of my grandparents, they should live and be well, 2 of whom had been in Auschwitz for 3 years(!) and don’ t act like this whatever you call him.
If peace means giving everything away to the Palastenians, of course “close ties with Israel are obstacles to a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians”.
Georgo Soros is a extreme left wing kook who is only listened to because of the mammoth contributions he gives to virulently Left Wing causes (such as moveon.org) and the funds he has donated to many democratic campaigns to oust Republicans.
The kind of people he supports are the ones with zero morality.
What a “Soros” excuse for an American he is, and an even sorrier excuse for a Jew.
George soros is a pathedic excuse of a human being holocost surviver or not. His ideas are worthless and not even worth reading in the bathroom
Keep up with the comments, Rabbosai! YW – Send them to Soros and let him no that he can have his Jewish membership card back!!
Add him to the never-ending list of JEW-HATERS, who’s only concern is the greenbacks in his pocket.
he is a sicko and just because he survived so what
Soros is a malshin.
how could anyone support a candidate that tzoros backs