".....That brings me to the most staggering statement in Parsi's book, a comment by Efraim Inbar, an Israeli at the conservative Begin-Sadat Center in Jerusalem. He told Parsi that Rabin overplayed the Iranian threat.
"There was a feeling in Israel that because of the end of the Cold War, relations with the U.S. were cooling and we needed some new glue for the alliance... And the new glue... was radical Islam. And Iran was radical Islam."
And the Israel lobby went to work in the U.S. to push this idea; and it became the American religion under Bush. Yes, of course: radical Islam is a real threat. A phantom didn't take down the World Trade Center. The issue here is to what extent American fears, and foreign policy, are being driven by local forces that are doing their utmost to gain the upper hand. Why aren't we talking about this? Why isn't Parsi's "glue" revelation sparking front-page investigative series in the Washington Post and N.Y. Times? "
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