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AJCommittee Tells GOP Chair Where to Stick It

The JTA reports,

The chairman of the Republican Party was booed at an American Jewish Committee event over comments on Iraq.
Ken Mehlman, who is Jewish, said Iraq posed less of a challenge now than under Saddam Hussein.
Mehlman was otherwise politely received when he spoke Tuesday at the AJCommittee’s 100th anniversary celebrations in Washington, and he got warm applause when he said the Bush administration would not tolerate an Iranian nuclear bomb and always would stand by Israel.
The room burst into applause, however, when AJCommittee board member Edith Everett asked Mehlman to “take a message” to President Bush to stop linking Israel and Iran.
“It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran,” Everett said.

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(c/o J. Morris)

3 thoughts on “AJCommittee Tells GOP Chair Where to Stick It

  1. “It does not help Israel and it does not help American Jews to appear to be stimulators of any action against Iran,” Everett said.
    that’s an interesting choice of words

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