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Media Watch
ADL Letter to the Chicago Tribune
Note: This letter appeared in the Chicago Tribune on March 14, 2003.
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Letters to the Editor
Chicago Tribune
To the Editor:
In his March 10th polemic, "OK, President Bush, what if…?," Fred Donner wastes no time painting a deceptive backdrop for readers regarding the potential war with Iraq. As in any democracy, tough questions that challenge the decision to go to war and the consequences and implications stemming from such conflict are legitimate. Yet Donner's paper-thin thesis that U.S. foreign policy is dictated by what is best for the State of Israel is nothing more than fodder for conspiracy theorists and anti-Semites.
Buying into an absurd theory that has evolved from a whispering campaign, Donner has chosen to manipulate and pervert basic facts to strengthen his claims. He consistently casts aspersions on the loyalty to the U.S. government of three senior members of President Bush's administration because of their participation in the "Clean Break" study, which theoretically strategized about a Middle East without Saddam Hussein. Would Israel benefit from a Middle East without an anti-Semitic psycho-sadist neighbor like Hussein? Of course, as would the entire world. One need not be a professor at the University of Chicago to know that.
Donner's assertion that America devised the upcoming war with Iraq to deflect attention from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is simply preposterous. The author's thinly-veiled claims about "likudniks' schemes" accomplishes little more than to propagate centuries-old anti-Semitic canards of Jewish control.
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Sincerely,
Elana Stern
ADL Associate Director
Chicago
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