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It is difficult to understand why anyone would take Mort Zuckerman
seriously. He is a New York based but Canadian born Israel firster who
made a fortune in real estate before buying The New York Daily News and
the US News and World Report. He now fancies himself as a leading
journalist and political commentator. Zuckerman is frequently spotted on
the television talking head circuit where he dispenses analysis of
international events that could have been crafted in Tel Aviv or
Herzliya, where the Israeli intelligence service Mossad has its
headquarters.

Zuckerman’s latest contribution to international harmony is a
lengthy piece in the US News & World Report entitled “Israel Is a
Key Ally and Deserves US Support.” It is a propaganda piece that
promotes one of the most persistent fictions put out by the mainstream
media, that the relationship with Israel somehow benefits the United
States. To give the devil his due, it is not often that an article in a
national publication includes an out-and-out lie in its first few words,
but Zuckerman succeeds in doing just that. As he is a smart man who
went to Harvard Law School before becoming a propagandist for Israel, he
must know that words have meanings. But the significance of the word
“ally” must have somehow eluded his grasp. Israel is not now and never
has been an ally of the United States. As Z... >>>