MSNBC: Tucker Carlson, Larry Korb and the “lobby?”

Since the Iraq study group has come out with its findings, there has been a virtual chorus of US politicians calling for the US to work on solving the Palestine – Israel conflict, as if they have nothing to do with it.

That aside, Tucker Carlson actually asked the most obvious question today about whether the US would apply equal pressure to both sides, which is what (according to him) would be necessary to solve the crisis. Tucker actually acknowledged that anyone who dares to say publicly, what anyone who spends 15 minutes in the Middle East knows, is attacked as an enemy of Israel. Actually, I think they’re attacked as an anti-Semite but point made.

Both he and Larry Korb noted how well it worked out for Bush senior when he withheld loan guarantees from Israel because the Israeli government continued to build illegal settlements in the West Bank with US money.

Clinton was not about to make that mistake.