The secret forces of Judaism

Sarah Honig
Another Tack
18 November '10

One day last week this newspaper’s banner headline wasn’t about pressing news. Prompted by George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points, it informed us that the former US president “rejects claim that Israel was behind Iraq war.”

Cause for celebration? Are we vindicated at last?

It’s not that we didn’t know that Israel’s security was hardly uppermost on Bush’s scale of priorities. It’s not that we ever suspected him of going to war for us. Still, it’s nice, perhaps for the sake of keeping the formal record straight, to have Bush’s denial of yet another anti-Jewish conspiracy theory.

Yet it’s not as if the propagators of such trash would be convinced. They’re likely the last who’d take Bush’s word for much, just as they wouldn’t take ours. Truth is hardly their paramount preoccupation. If anything unites America’s Left and Right – and lots in between – it’s the uncommon alacrity to blame Jews for whatever ails the world, though few would admit this in our era of political correctness.

Already during the first Gulf War uber-conservative Jew-baiter Pat Buchanan insisted America attacked Iraq at Israel’s behest (although Israel was Scudded as a result of a war it had nothing to do with and although the elder Bush scarcely disguised his antipathy to Israel).

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