Posted on 01/10/2007 9:04:35 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
The Republican Jewish Coalition today strongly condemned “blatantly anti-semitic” remarks made by Retired General Wesley Clark in an interview with Arianna Huffington and urged the Democrat presidential aspirant to apologize.
In detailing his concerns about the prospect that America might respond militarily to Iran’s nuclear provocations, Clark argued that if such measures were taken, it would be the result of “pressure being channeled from the New York money people."
By prefacing the observation with a remark about “the Jewish community,” Clark made it clear to anyone who failed to read between the lines exactly which “New York money people” he had in mind.
RJC Executive Director Matthew Brooks responded: “This is yet another sign that the veiled and not-so-veiled anti-semitic sentiments that are rampant in the left-wing blogosphere are seeping into the ‘mainstream’ of Democrats’ political discourse.
“Wesley Clark owes American Jews an apology, and I sincerely hope Democratic leaders will join the RJC in urging him to retract his reckless comments.”
“The Jewish community will be watching carefully,” Brooks concluded.
This is only slightly surprising. Clark, after all, was one of the architects of the bombing campaign against Christian Serbs in Kosovo and Serbia--the campaign that allowed Albanian Muslims to take most of Kosovo.
We are getting as bad as the liberals on this stuff.
Nonsense. Rev. Al Sharpton used the phrase "Jew them down" on tv and did not go through the 2004 election having to defend himself against of being a bigot.
The Macaca Moment was something else altogether.
Let him apologize for Waco, first.
Run Wes, run!
clark has always struck me as sounding and looking like a janitor who happened by when the dems were looking for another candidate. "Hey you, You own a suit? Come back tonight for the debate."
I know the Rhodes Scholarship stuff, but he is one of their failures - just a dunce.
From Wesley Clark to Jesse Jackson to Cindy Sheehan, the Democrat party is thick with those who bash Jews and blame Israel for the world's problems.
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