Sitting on the (Security) Fence?
This morning, Safire repeats the Kerry "security barrier" flip-flopping canard:
To hold the bloc's usual support, Kerry has me-tooed every policy decision Bush has made affecting Israel - finding old armistice lines "unrealistic," keeping Jerusalem undivided, favoring Arafat's isolation. Though at first he told an Arab-American audience that Israel's security fence was "a barrier to peace," Kerry changed his mind to comport with Bush's support of Ariel Sharon's plan.
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Yet, as Etgar Lefkovits of the Jerusalem Post pointed out to me last night, nobody had any idea how effective the barrier would be even a year ago -- and even much of the Likud opposed it (some hard-rightists still do). And Kerry voiced opposition to the barrier BEFORE the Supreme Court forced re-routing to avoid annexation of Palestinian olive groves and farmland.
Michigan (with its half million Muslims) goes to Kerry, plus 80% of the Jewish vote.
To hold the bloc's usual support, Kerry has me-tooed every policy decision Bush has made affecting Israel - finding old armistice lines "unrealistic," keeping Jerusalem undivided, favoring Arafat's isolation. Though at first he told an Arab-American audience that Israel's security fence was "a barrier to peace," Kerry changed his mind to comport with Bush's support of Ariel Sharon's plan.
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Yet, as Etgar Lefkovits of the Jerusalem Post pointed out to me last night, nobody had any idea how effective the barrier would be even a year ago -- and even much of the Likud opposed it (some hard-rightists still do). And Kerry voiced opposition to the barrier BEFORE the Supreme Court forced re-routing to avoid annexation of Palestinian olive groves and farmland.
Michigan (with its half million Muslims) goes to Kerry, plus 80% of the Jewish vote.
posted by hellisotherpeople at 10:49 AM
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