Re: Among Religious Groups, Jewish Americans Most Strongly Oppose War

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2/25/07, Leigh Meyers <the.buffalo.in.the.midst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Sure, my zionist/adl/agent-of-a-foreign-government father opposes the
> war in Iraq, but he'd jump for joy if the U.S. bombed Iran back to the
> stone age.
>
> That's not anti-war, he just thinks AIPAC and others screwed up a
> long-term strategy ... severely. Albeit, there may be a rift within the
> disporia of jewish nationalist organizations regarding strategy.
>
> It's ALL about Iran, and if you follow the history, it always was, with
> Saddam Hussein's government as proxy army/muscle in the region. It
> almost worked too!
>
> Gallup should have asked the Jewish community in the US if it would be
> OK to turn Iran into a sheet of glass (environmental benefit, contains
> the spills) with our oil underneath .

I'm pretty sure they would have said no, given the Reform Jews'
favoring of the Iraq Study Group's recommendation on Iran,
notwithstanding your father's opinion.  :->  They may or may not be
opposed to sanctions on Iran, which would have been a question worth
asking.
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Yoshie
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