Does the tail wag the dog?
Israel and imperialism
by Pete Brown,
Detroit Workers' Voice
Does the tail wag the dog? This is the issue posed by a variety of bourgeois opponents of Israel who claim that support for Israel is supposedly bad for American imperialism. They assert that Israel, the little tail attached to the great USA dog, actually controls and manipulates the dog. They especially blame Israel for the war against Iraq, asserting that the Israeli zionists used American dupes to do their fighting for them. Different people are giving this view, and it has some influence in the anti-war movement and among activists, distracting from an anti-imperialist critique of Israel. This view gets sustenance from an unspoken anti-Semitism promoted by anti-progressive right-wing trends, and it promotes allegiance to US imperialism as the supposedly "good" alternative to Israeli aggression in the Middle East.
Subheads:
- The Israel lobby
- Bourgeois Arab nationalism
- Racial politics
- U.S. policy in the Mideast
Full text at
http://www.communistvoice.org/31cTailWagDog.html
(From the May 20, 2003 issue of
Communist Voice (
https://www.communistvoice.org/CV31.pdf)