Shtull-Trauring says Foxman, frustrated and under attack, placed his cards on the table, angrily retorting: “I don’t represent you nor the Jewish community! I represent the donors.” Foxman’s outburst was surprising not because of its content, but because of its candor. Foxman needn’t bother himself with the trifling concerns of American Jews who happen not to be multimillionaire philanthropists. If he makes the Jewish community less appealing to young Jews, if his theatrics turn us off and turn us away, that’s all beside the point. Foxman’s job is to keep the millionaire benefactors happy: the rest of us can go jump in the Kinneret.  - Fire Foxman/Denying the Armenian Genocide should be the last atrocity perpetrated by the ADL chief. by Joey Kurtzman, July 9, 2007 Jewcy.com

Interesting insight into the way the world of Washington, DC "advocacy" politics works. It's all about inciting wealthy people to donate you money, by exploiting the worst fears and passions of those who hold the purse strings. Of course, if you're Jewish but don't have money, then who cares what you think. But that's the way it works in the Imperial Capital.

It also might explain the disconnect between Jewish-Americans and the Israeli Lobby on the Iraq War. And something about where the inspiration of Bush's foreign policy comes from. You cannot differentiate between Bush's disingenuous and bellicose rhetoric about "The War on Terrorism" and the views of the wealthy Zionists who bankroll the AIPAC and the ADL.