The most vociferous stateside opponents of linkage — the notion, accepted at the highest levels of the U.S. military, that resolving the Arab-Palestinian conflict will forward the U.S.’s broader strategic interests in the region — tend to come from the neoconservative camp. But their arguments fall flat when the straw men and flimsy evidence [...]
Earlier this week, I noted that Newt Gingrich and John Bolton, both of whom had been scheduled to appear at Pamela Geller’s Sept. 11 rally in Lower Manhattan against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque,” now appear to be getting cold feet — Gingrich has pulled out entirely, while Bolton will deliver a videotaped [...]
In my recent Tablet piece, I noted the ways that the conspiracy theories about Muslim-Americans propagated by self-proclaimed “anti-jihadis” like Andy McCarthy, Robert Spencer, and Pamela Geller — which have subsequently been taken up by mainstream politicians like Newt Gingrich — have created an ugly political atmosphere that makes violence against Muslims far more [...]
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