Is McCain for American or Israel presidency?

I don't get it.


I understand Israel as allied of America but not the owner of America.


McCain seems to be distressed about Iranian president comment about Israel to the extent that he is making it a main campaign issue.


On a question - who is drowning America, i got a response below





Martin S. Indyk, born July 1, 1951 to a Jewish family


in London, England, President Clinton’s ambassador to


Israel and now director of Brookings’s Saban Center


for Middle East Policy, foreign policy adviser………..


He served two stints as United States Ambassador to


Israel, from April 1995 to September 1997 and from


January 2000 to July 2001 [4] and was the first and so


far, the only, foreign-born US Ambassador to Israel.


In 1982, Indyk began working as a research director


for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee


(AIPAC), a pro-Israel lobbying group in Washington








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Major critiques of Jewish lobbying were published by controversial billionaire George Soros, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Nicholas Kristof, the respected British newsmagazine The Economist and the popular Web site Salon.





The replies were furious. The New York Sun accused Kristof and Soros of spreading a “new blood libel.” The American Jewish Committee’s executive director, David Harris, wrote in a Jerusalem Post opinion article that Kristof had a “blind spot” and had “sanctimoniously lectured” Israel.





The editor of The New Republic, Martin Peretz, renewed an attack on Soros that he began a month ago when he called the Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor a “cog in the Hitlerite wheel.”





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News reports are more even-handed, in part because reporters strive to be objective, but also because it is difficult to cover without acknowledging he Jewish actions. To discourage unfavourable reporting, the Lobby organises letter-writing campaigns, demonstrations and boycotts of news outlets whose content it considers anti-Israel ( Rev. Wright ). One CNN executive has said that he sometimes gets 6000 email messages in a single day complaining about a story.





In May 2003, the pro-Israel Committee for Accurate Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) organised demonstrations outside National Public Radio stations in 33 cities; it also tried to persuade contributors to withhold support from NPR until its Middle East coverage becomes more sympathetic to Israel. Boston’s NPR station, WBUR, reportedly lost more than $1 million in contributions as a result of these efforts. Further pressure on NPR has come from Israel’s friends in Congress, who have asked for an internal audit of its Middle East coverage as well as more oversight.





THE LIBERAL MEDIA | posted March 6, 2008 (March 24, 2008 issue)


(Some) Jews Against Obama


ERIC ALTERMAN





During the past few months a small group of neoconservative Jews, many of whom hold key positions in the world of official Jewish institutions, have been working to undermine the presidential candidacy of Barack Obama with a series of carefully planted character assassinations and deliberately misleading innuendo. I noticed this trend when Debra Feuer, a counsel for the American Jewish Committee, sent a confidential memo to her counterparts at other organizations criticizing Obama's views on the Middle East, Iran and Syria and attacking him for having once appeared at a fundraiser headlined by the late Edward Said. The memo, reported by the Forward, was immediately disowned, but not denied, by AJC executive director David Harris.


Also throwing his hatchet into the ring was Morton Klein, who heads up the Likud-loving Zionist Organization of America, complaining that "Barack Obama doesn't understand the continuing Arab war against Israel" and terming the notion of an Obama presidency "frightening." He was joined by Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the umbrella group that professes to speak for all American Jews. Hoenlein told the Israeli daily Ha'aretz that Obama's talk of "change" could prove "an opening for all kinds of mischief" and gave voice to what he termed "a legitimate concern over the zeitgeist around the campaign." The Tennessee Republican Party issued a news release noting what it claimed was "a growing chorus of Americans concerned about the future of the nation of Israel, the only stable democracy in the Middle East, if Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is elected president of the United States."





March 18, 2008


Apparently Without Irony, Washington Post Says Jewish Advocates Demand that Obama Show 'Fealty to Israel'


The story continues: supporters of Israel are rising against Obama, there is a major push this week to destroy his candidacy. Today's Washington Post reports on a debate yesterday arranged by United Jewish Committees in D.C. among Jewish advocates for Hillary, Obama, and McCain. The debate became a rout, the Post columnist averred, in which the advocates for Hillary and McCain "used their time to raise doubts about Obama's fealty to Israel."


Fealty to Israel? They portrayed Obama as a dangerous leftwinger, and when the Illinois senator's surrogate defended Obama's statement that the U.S. does not have to cleave to Likud policies, Ann Lewis, Hillary's advocate, responded:


"The role of the president of the United States is to support the decisions that are made by the people of Israel. It is not up to us to pick and choose from among the political parties."


Yup, sounds like fealty to me! What is there to say about such a statement? Horrifying. Likud has been against the peace process, against a Palestinian state, for the colonization of the West Bank. Do we have a foreign policy? Do we take sides on such matters? Do we take sides on minority rights in foreign countries? Are we the strongest country in the world, or do we get dragged around by racist biblical colonialists half a world away? What did we just do in Serbia and Kosovo--exercise our power to establish a Muslim state. But in this part of the world we have had no independent power to say what is right and wrong, for 60 years...


The columnist who wrote the piece is Dana Milbank, who in 2006 suggested that Walt and Mearsheimer are Nazis for talking about something called "the Israel lobby." When Milbank cites "fealty to Israel" and describes security guards with Israeli accents, it's hard to tell how ironic he is being. I think he is impish; and is trying himself to marginalize Obama without coming out and saying so.


22 hours ago


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Is McCain for American or Israel presidency?
He works closely with those that lobby with Israel. Those people would be Feingold, Kristol, Wolfowitz, Kerry, Bush, Cheney, and the rest in the PNAC.
Reply:You ask if McCain is running for the U.S. presidency. The answer is yes.





Then you copy and paste reams of verbiage that you have neither read nor understood.





Nor will anyone here read all that stuff.





If you are trying to tell us that you oppose McCain, I guess that means that we should vote for McCain.





Thank you for your input.








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Reply:okay im sorry but theres noooooooo way im reading through all of that!!!
Reply:This is one real rambling editorial. It seems to be all over the place with no real direction or point. Is it an anti-Jewish piece, a pro-Muslim piece? You need to take a course in English composition.