[Marxism] Fw: Nader faces down ADL counter-assault for criticizing Israel - says Bush and Congress are "puppets" of the Israeli government (Aug 12 - Washington Post)

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Bush and Congress are "puppets" of the Israeli government (Aug 12 -
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Nader vs. the ADL

By Brian Faler

The Washington Post
12 August 2004

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58007-2004Aug11.
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Ralph Nader, that master of controversy, has a new bete noire:
the Anti-Defamation League. The independent presidential
candidate has become embroiled in an ugly exchange with the
Jewish organization, after he suggested that President Bush and
Congress were "puppets" of the Israeli government.

"The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United
States and meets with the puppet in the White House and then
proceeds to Capitol Hill, where he meets with hundreds of other
puppets, should be replaced," Nader said earlier this summer.
That prompted an angry letter from the league, which complained
that the "image of the Jewish state as a 'puppeteer,' controlling
the powerful US Congress feeds into many age-old stereotypes
which have no place in legitimate public discourse."

Nader is not backing down. In a letter to the group that will be
released today, he reiterated his arguments, challenged the
league to cite a recent example of when American leaders have
pursued a policy opposed by the Israeli government and pointed to
Israeli peace groups that he said share his criticism of that
country's leadership. "There is far more freedom in the media, in
town squares and among citizens, soldiers, elected
representatives and academicians in Israel to debate and discuss
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict than there is in the United
States," Nader wrote.

The longtime consumer advocate's willingness to criticize Israel
may win him some votes, since both Bush and Democratic nominee
John F. Kerry strongly support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon. But not if Abraham H. Foxman, the national director of
the league has anything to say about it. "What he said smacks of
bigotry," Foxman said.
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