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Disgruntled White Male [OP]

2004-03-04 09:16 | User Profile

Bush or Kerry (Kohn) - either way the Jews win:

nationalvanguard.org "John Kerry Meets with Israel Lobby Big-Shots"

New York — John Kerry, the Democratic presidential front-runner, quietly pledged allegiance to Israel at a Sunday closed-door meeting with Jewish leaders, the details of which are very sketchy. Kerry is said to have reminded the group that if elected, he'll be the nation's first president with Jewish roots.

Kerry, whose paternal grandparents converted from Judaism to Catholicism and changed their name from Kohn to Kerry before immigrating to the US, held the meeting in advance of the Super Tuesday primaries in 10 states, which includes New York.

According to leaks, the candidate assured participants of his support for Israel's "security fence" and signaled that if elected all of his middle east advisers will be Jewish.

Concerns had been raised over remarks the Democratic senator made to an Arab American group last year, describing Israel’s security fence as "provocative" (referring to the fence being routed through Palestinian neighborhoods and olive groves in an obvious land grab). The Jews were also concerned about his prospective middle east advisers, mooted as former US president Jimmy Carter and White House aide James Baker, both gentiles, and viewed as dangerously impartial.

The election front-runner "clarified" those issues during the meeting, taking great pains to reassure the group of his full support for Israel. All participants described the closed-door meeting as successful. "It would be impossible for anyone to leave that meeting not impressed," said Hannah Rosenthal, the executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs.

Kerry "clarified" his possible choice of envoys to the region, this time putting forward the names of three Jews: Dennis Ross, a former aide to Clinton, former Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger, and former Clinton UN ambassador Richard Holbrooke.

Meanwhile, Kerry described himself as "very touched" after it was revealed that two of his family members had perished in the "Holocaust." Both of Kerry’s paternal grandparents were born Jewish, and this week, an Austrian genealogist reported that two of his grandmother’s siblings had died in Nazi concentration camps. Kerry said: "It gives an even greater personal sense of connection [to world Jewry] that is very touching."

Kerry spent the days leading up to Super Tuesday in New York City, attending Friday-evening services at Ramath Orah, an Orthodox synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.

The campaign has hired a Jewish coordinator for New York, Lisa Gertsman. But Cameron Kerry, the candidate's brother, who converted to Judaism 20 years ago when he married a Jewish women, is key to the campaign’s Jewish outreach effort.

Cameron Kerry said that he believed his brother — like his party — was in lockstep with U.S. Jews on domestic issues. Of particular concern, he said, was the Bush’s administration’s appointment of hard-line conservative judges to appeals courts. “It makes me heartsick,” he said. “I have every reason to believe they are going to undermine civil rights in this country.”

Participants at Sunday’s meeting said the candidate went into unprecedented detail on how a Kerry presidency would deal with the Middle East:

— Kerry promised to increase US engagement to end suicide bombings, saying he would use "leverage."

— Kerry promised to aggressively pursue disarming Iran of its nuclear capability.

— Kerry promised to address the demographic threats to Israel’s future as a Jewish state.

— Kerry promised to use "leverage" to end "state-sponsored anti-Semitism" in the Arab media.

“He was able to talk to the complexity,” said Judith Stern Peck, president of the Israel Policy Forum, which promotes greater U.S. engagement in the region. “He knows Israel; he’s been going there for years.”

Other Jewish leaders also praised Kerry's pro-Israel remarks in interviews with the press after the meeting. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, told the New York Daily News that "there's no significant gap" between Kerry and President Bush on support for Israel.

Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, added: "President Bush’s support for Israel has been exceptional. That doesn’t mean that Sen. Kerry’s can’t be just as exceptional."

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Source: Jeff Hook

Hugh Lincoln

2004-03-04 15:11 | User Profile

Shocking news! I was under the impression that the Democratic candidate would reverse course on Israel, extracting our country from the fatal embrace.

Nah.

The difference between a Republican and a Democrat in the White House, for Israel, is that the Democrat will grumble .003 decibels louder when the Jews go on a rampage.