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The simmering debate over the role of Jewish neoconservatives in drawing
America into war in Iraq erupted with new fury this week. One of America's
most respected ex-generals took to the airwaves to charge on CBS News' "60
Minutes" that the war had been fought for Israel's benefit, just days after
a similar charge was leveled on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

The retired general, Anthony Zinni, a past chief of the U.S. Central
Command and President Bush's former Middle East special envoy, told "60
Minutes" on Sunday that the neoconservatives' role in pushing the war for
Israel's benefit was "the worst-kept secret in Washington." Three days
earlier, Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, rose
on the Senate floor to defend a newspaper essay he had written earlier in
the month making the same charge. Both men complained that they had been
unfairly labeled antisemitic for speaking out.

Their comments come just weeks after the United Nations' special envoy to
Iraq, Lakhdar Brahimi, called Israel a "poison in the region" and said that
American support for Israeli policies was making his job more difficult.

In the face of these mounting criticisms, a leading Jewish Democrat on
Capitol Hill, Rep. Nita Lowey of New York, told the Forward that the
president's policies were increasing the danger to Jews across the world.