Did you notice Republican candidates going to AIPAC meeting in the middle of their campaign? Did you notice Obama there too? This is an enlightening article and video from Al Jazeera.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryus2012/2012/03/20123774029910326.html
Harland Harrison
I've written on the topic "Is Applying Libertarian Principles to Israel Anti-Semitic?"
http://www.carolmoore.net/libertarianparty/principlesandisrael.html
Last week I joined hundreds of peaceniks, including many Jewish groups, to protest AIPAC at its annual conference.
But the truth is AIPAC-types are having a field day in the LP with the likes of Wayne Root, Bruce Cohen, Aaron Starr, Daniel Weiner, Scott Lieberman leading the charge. They even have their hand picked candidate Gary Johnson talking about how great our "ally" Israel is and refusing to deny he'd follow Israel's charge into war with Iran. He says he thinks war is a bad idea, but he doesn't say "Israel is on its own - we won't spend 3 trillion dollars to back up its aggression."
As a Jewish friend confirmed to me recently, Root/Cohen/Starr/Weiner/Lieberman/et al seems to be of the primordial and paranoid mindset that gentiles - including in the LP - are out to kill Jews and that gentile majority organizations - including the LP - must be strictly controlled to stop the Genocide of Jews. I personally can't waste much more time fighting that kind of mental illness.
It's easier to just work directly for dissolution of the large nation states that *all* power mad individuals and groups, whatever their motivation, seek to control. Ala http://secession.net
Here's a couple of old JewishLibertarians@yahoogroups.com emails that give you the flavor of their mental instability. (Aaron Biterman moderator.) Join the yahoogroup and read much more of it in the archives...
Carol,
I haven't seen any paranoid rhetoric about Israel or Jews from anyone you mention below except Bruce Cohen and perhaps to some degree W.A.R. Your judgement that it's not worth wasting much more time on it seems wise to me. I'm mildly curious to see the rest of Aaron Biterman's post making the case for why he thinks Ron Paul is anti-semitic, though on the face of it I find that claim even less convincing than the unconvincing claims that Ron Paul is racist or anti-gay.
I don't think Gary Johnson is anyone's "hand-picked candidate" -- his decision to seek the Libertarian nomination after he was denied the opportunity to participate in the GOP primaries on an equal footing makes sense on its own without requiring any dubious theory of him having been recruited by Jewish partisans. However I do think Johnson should be pressed to adhere in his campaign to the Libertarian Party's non-interventionist stances on ending U.S. government aid to other governments and opposing extra-national military interventions except in cases of defending the territory generally recognized as being legitimately under the U.S. government's jurisdiction.
I definitely agree with you that we are better off focusing on the "dissolution of the large nation states that *all* power mad individuals and groups, whatever their motivation, seek to control" (i.e. supporting decentralism and the right of secession), than in getting drawn in to becoming partisans in the interminable Arab-Israeli disputes.
Love & Liberty,
((( starchild )))
*In the sense that Wayne Root said he would step aside and let Johnson run and he and his cronies would not be throw false allegations of supporting or hobnobbing with pedophiles against him to try to defeat him... Just couldn't think of the phrase for that kind of candidate...