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Forward on israel and politics

Do we have this

The RJC advertisements — which feature photographs of such controversial liberals as Cindy Sheehan, the Rev. Al Sharpton and former President Jimmy Carter, and taglines like “Today’s Democratic party is not my father’s Democratic party” — have struck a considerable nerve in both Jewish and wider Democratic circles in recent weeks. They have prompted not only a flurry of op-eds and editorials in Jewish newspapers, but also a public response from top Democratic leaders — among them Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware, the ranking minority member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. While Jews make up a small percentage of the electorate nationwide, they account for a disproportionate percentage of voters in critical swing states, such as New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio, that could determine whether the Democrats seize control of the Senate and the House of Representatives from the Republicans.

by accident?

Israel’s current policy in the territories, Carter writes in the book’s summary, is “a system of apartheid, with two peoples occupying the same land but completely separated from each other, with Israelis totally dominant and suppressing violence by depriving Palestinians of their basic human rights.” In a separate passage in the advance draft, the former president stated that “Israel’s continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.”

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Posted by SoccerDad at October 20, 2006 1:58 PM