Supporters of the Jewish State are frothing at the mouth over public remarks by a former CIA analyst critical of the "special realtionship" that allows them to distort U.S. policy and suppress debate:

"Michael Scheuer, the former director of a CIA unit assigned to track down Osama Bin-Laden, calmly expressed the view that American soldiers are now dying in Iraq for the sake of Israelis. He further claimed that any debate of American support for Israel is squelched in the public sphere...

"One of the big things we have not been able to discuss for the past 30 years is our policy towards the Israelis. Whether we want to be involved in fighting Israel's wars in the future is something that Americans should be able to talk about. They may vote yes. They may want to see their kids killed in Iraq or Yemen or somewhere else to protect Israel. But the question is: we need to talk about it. Ultimately, Israel is a country that is of no particular [strategic] worth to the United States... Why don't we talk about that? Because AIPAC and other influential American Jewish groups are extraordinarily involved in the funding of American political campaigns and have the ability to reach out and make sure that people lose their jobs, or are otherwise hurt, if they dare to criticize Israel."

-- Israel National News

The zealots can't argue with Michael Scheuer's credentials as a 20 year CIA veteran or the truth of what he says about the criminal Jewish State, its powerful backers, and their control over U.S. policy. So, like many others before him, he is simply smeared with the racist "anti-Semite" brush instead.

"One policy I am critical of in [my book] 'Marching Toward Hell' is the nature of the U.S.-Israel relationship. I argued that unqualified, bipartisan support for Israel damages U.S. national security, and I damned those who identify critics of the relationship as anti-American [or] anti-Semitic... Now, however, I have the personal experience of losing both position and income for condemning Washington's status quo Israel policy as a threat to U.S. national security... I can only say of them what FDR said of his domestic foes: "They are unanimous in their hatred for me -- and I welcome their hatred."

-- Michael Scheuer article

But maybe the old trick is starting to lose its charm.

"People like Jeffrey Goldberg -- and his comrades at places such as Commentary and the ADL -- have so abused, over-used, manipulated and exploited the "anti-semitism" and "anti-Israel" accusations for improper and nakedly political ends that those terms have become drained of their meaning, have almost entirely lost their sting, and have become trivialized virtually to the point of caricature...

The Israeli devastation of Gaza (see photos) and its trapped, defenseless civilian population -- using American bombs, arms, money and diplomatic cover -- was so brutal and horrific to watch that it inevitably changed the way people view that Middle East conflict."

-- Glen Greenwald article