[lbo-talk] Re: WBAI's ambitions

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Apr 11 12:40:34 PDT 2003


Bradford DeLong wrote:


>Hasn't his father told him...
>
>(a) "the Jews don't vote for us.
>
>(b) when Ariel Sharon was Israeli Defense Minister, he made two
>commitments to Ronald Reagan's personal representative Philip Habib:
>(i) that Israel would observe the ceasefire Habib had negotiated
>with Assad, (ii) that Habib could assure Yasser Arafat that
>Palestinians in refugee camps near Beirut would be safe once the PLO
>had departed for Tunis

On (a), no doubt they think they can get Jews to vote for them, and on (b), that's too complicated and historical for W to understand or care.

Doug



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