M.J. Rosenberg on Tom Lantos blocking promised aid to Lebanon. Sometimes you really have to wonder what Israel’s soi disant friends in Washington think they’re doing. The idea that we should engineering a situation where Lebanon’s economy and infrastructure have been battered by U.S.-made Israeli weapons and then rebuilt through Iranian dollars funneled through Hezbollah is going to serve our interests or Israel’s is daft.
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