‘Conservative’ Rags Obsess Over Israel, Holocaust

Is defending Zionist malfeasance, carrying on about `Jewish suffering’ more important than U.S. problems?

By Michael Collins Piper

To read two of the leading “mainstream” conservative publications operating today, one would think that among the most important issues of the day are promoting the interests of the state of Israel and commemorating the Holocaust. Forget about current events, the economy, immigration, joblessness. Israel and the Holocaust are “the news.”

Take The Washington Times, the conservative daily newspaper in the nation’s capital, one which is considered “must” reading in Republican Party circles. Published by Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon, the Times regularly displays a blatant, over-the-top infatuation with promulgating pro-Israel propaganda and repetitious coverage of Holocaust-related historical material as “news.” Here are just a few examples that popped up in major stories sprawling across the pages of the Times in hardly more than two weeks time: Continue…

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