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ANTI-SEMITIC OR ANTI-HYSTERIA?

Los Angeles

Alexander Cockburn concurs with Representative James Moran that "if it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this" ["Beat the Devil," March 31]. Cockburn's evidence is that "at the elite level...the Jewish voices one hears are overwhelmingly pressing for war." He cites the prowar stance of Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams and others. Embedded in Cockburn's logic are the premises that the Jewish elite imposed themselves on Bush--that Bush would be of the same mind as the protesters in the streets were it not for these influential Jews. Does Cockburn conclude that since Bush's senior foreign policy advisers Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are African-American, we would not be at war were it not for blacks?

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