Newsweek has details on how a Republican pollster in the United States is helping The Israel Project sell Americans on Israeli settlements.
How do you sell the American public on the idea that Israel has the right to maintain or even expand Jewish settlements in the West Bank? Be positive. Turn the issue away from settlements and toward peace. Invoke ethnic cleansing.
Obviously, rumors of the Israel lobby's demise are greatly exaggerated.
But I actually think Luntz's verbal gymnastics are a symptom of a larger problem: Public discussion about the settlements -- in government, in the media -- is horribly muddled.
