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The Financial Times (UK)
Saturday, April 01, 2006
Editorial

"...Reflexes that ordinarily spring automatically to the defense of open debate and free enquiry shutdown at least among much of America's political elite--Once the subject turns to Israel, and above all the pro-Israel lobby's role in shaping US foreign policy...

Moral blackmail--The fear that any criticism of Israeli policy and US support for it will lead to charges of anti-Semitism--Is a powerful disincentive to publish dissenting views. It is also leading to the silencing of policy debate on American university campuses, partly as the result of, targeted campaigns against the dissenters...

Nothing, morover, is more damaging to US interests than the inability to have a proper debate about the Israel-Palestinian conflict...

Bullying Americans into consesus on Israeli policy is bad for Israel and makes it impossible for America to articulate its own national interests..."