WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS - WHY WOULD EDWARDS SAY SOMETHING AS STUPID AS "ISRAEL IS THE GREATEST THREAT TO WORLD PEACE"?

The Democratic Party is driven by viciously anti-Semitic activists and dominated by celebrated anti-Semitic veterans. Its foreign policy elites are institutionally biased against Israel and its domestic elites are either anti-Semitic themselves or breathtakingly untroubled by open anti-Semitism in their colleagues.

John Edwards is not a stupid guy. He's also almost certainly not anti-Semitic. How then could he find himself saying something so blisteringly stupid:

There are other emerging fissures, as well. The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he invoked the "I" word -- Israel. Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked, was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As a chill descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close.

Now this article points out how unfair it is for pro-Israel activists to try to shut down attacks against Israel. We've dealt with this before - if there's a Jewish conspiracy to hush up criticism of Israel, they are doing the worst job that anyone in the history of the human race has done about anything. Read this slowly: John Edwards, like Jimmy Carter and Wes Clarke, isn't being criticized for saying something mean about Israel or Jews. He's being criticized for saying something mean about Israel or Jews that also happens to be mindbogglingly wrong. For a rational, basically good guy like Edwards the answer is a little more complicated. It has to do with his day to day life, the things that he reads and the people he talks to.

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