Question of the Day: Can you tell the difference between Israel and Judaism?

Joe Sobran can:

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The story concerns Lawrence Franklin, a Defense Department policy analyst who has now been charged with passing on highly classified info to two pro-Israel lobbyists, a foreign official (we are left to guess what country he works for), and “unidentified members of the media.” Franklin also seems to have ties to neoconservative notables like Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, and 83 classified documents were reportedly found in his West Virginia home.

The two lobbyists were (allegedly, as they say) top officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, better known as AIPAC. Ask your congressman if he’s ever heard of it. Chances are his knees will buckle and his mouth will dry up. You may take that as a Yes.

Franklin’s lawyer says his client is innocent and will fight the charges. Israeli officials say they aren’t involved in the case and have never received any secret information. AIPAC has long since denied everything, saying the investigation smacks of anti-Semitism and stuff. Don’t they all.

Sorry, kids. Treason is treason. Execute them all.

Our prestige has fallen so low that it’s surprising that the Israelis don’t dissociate themselves from America in their own interest. Both countries are widely regarded as threats to the world’s peace, but the United States has been killing far more people than Israel has. American propaganda is starting to resemble the old Soviet variety, with its Orwellian blather of “liberation” and “democracy” to cover horrifying acts of violence.

Ouch!

George Washington and Alexander Hamilton warned that republics are especially vulnerable to “foreign corruption.” No doubt that’s still true, but the United States also produces plenty of the home-grown stuff. Do you know whom your congressman had lunch with today?

Americans are forever congratulating themselves on enjoying the blessings of self-government, but nobody bothers to measure them. Before our Revolution, the historian Paul Johnson points out, the average American paid sixpence a year to the British Crown. When our own income tax was adopted less than a century ago, only the very richest paid the top rate: 7 per cent. (Another historian mentions that under the Roman Empire, income taxes might have been “as high as one per cent.”)

Israel is a small country with a big government. The United States is a big country with a humongous government. But don’t worry. It’s not just government, we’re assured; it’s self-government! We can all vote. That makes everything all right, according to the slogans of democracy that the looters employ to placate the looted.

In truth, we are all implicated in a system so vast and intricate that nobody can comprehend it; and all the world’s governments increasingly cooperate with each other. Modern war is terrifying, but modern peace is sinister.

QuickRant:
Anti-semitism is one thing, but anti-Israelism? Please. Cut off their annual $3 billion and Egypt's $2 billion, and soon we'll be talking serious money. Force them to free their people by freeing both their economies. (You probably assume Egypt is run by a kleptocratic oligarchy, but did you know Israel was founded by socialist non-observant Jews? As if Jews were too stupid to run an actual country of their own. Who's an anti-semite here?)
I do not give a damn about Arab or Israeli public opinion. I see NO difference between an Arab or Moslem terrorist targeting Americans and an American Jew or Israeli citizen committing acts of espionage against the US. Kill them all.