[Houston Chronicle] Geoffrey Berg - Some have criticized our presidential candidates' positions on Israel as being in lockstep with the pro-Israel lobby. That view says more about the malevolence or ignorance of those who hold it than it does about the candidates. As one observer wrote recently, Israel's very existence as a Jewish state is viewed as its real crime by its enemies. No politician who believes that Israel has a right to exist and says so will ever win the approval of such extremists. Thailand, France and India all have lobbies in Washington. Despite widespread American political support for the continued existence of all of those countries, I don't recall these same critics decrying what must be the obvious undue influence the Thai, French and Indian lobbies have over our politicians. Instead, the critics' obsessive focus is on Israel, the world's only Jewish state. I wonder why that is.
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