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In the 1980s,Ronald Reagan picked up on both threads,aiding anti-communist rebels in a bid to "roll back" communism in the Third World and promoting the Strategic Defense Initiative so the U.S. no longer had to rely on deterring a nuclear USSR.After?9/11,
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Guess who's mad that reverence for Israel among Members of Congress would be sent-up by a comedy program? You got it: Abraham Foxman,head of the Anti-Defamation League. Foxmanexplained to theDaily Beast why he thinks the bit feeds anti-Semitic tropes: "It focuses on the issue of Israel to such a ridiculous extreme that we do become concerned because there is a claim out there that America’s a tool of the Israelis." But what Foxman ignored entirely was that SNL didn't pull the focus on Israel from thin air: rather,the "ridiculous extreme" to which Israel featured in the bit reflected the ridiculous extreme to which Israel featured in the actual hearing on Capitol Hill.
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