If our politicians are so cowed by powerful interest groups like the pro-Israel lobby or corporate sponsors or weapons makers or a wannabe autocrat that they willingly lie, then we have lost our Republic
NEWFANE — What makes politicians publicly embrace a lie when the truth is staring them in the face?
"There is an apartheid state here. In a territory where two people are judged under two legal systems, that is an apartheid state."
A simple statement of fact - in this case made recently by Tamir Pardo, a former head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence agency, referring to Israel's current system of treatment of Palestinians.
Pardo is not the only Israeli official to say so. Former diplomats, leaders, security officials, and cultural figures - loyal Israelis who love their country - are making the same point. These are not people who would be accused of being antisemitic even by the rabid right-wing Israeli defenders-at-all-costs in the United States.
So, when an American member of Congress - in the most recent case, Rep. Pramila Jayapal - makes the same assessment, why is it immediately followed by a clamorous uproar as politicians stampede to the microphones to utterly condemn and denounce such statements as antisemitic and anti-Israel?
What makes politicians publicly embrace a lie, when the truth is staring them in the face?
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