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07-03-04, 17:11
In Meeting, Kerry Emphasizes His Strong Support of Israel
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: March 1, 2004
enator John Kerry told dozens of Jewish leaders in New York on Sunday that he would continue the Bush administration policy of vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolutions seen as one-sided against Israel, participants in a closed 90-minute meeting said.
At the meeting, attended by the heads of major Jewish groups and Jewish politicians, he also repeated what he said in the televised debate earlier on Sunday: that the barrier Israel is erecting to separate Palestinian territories from Israeli ones is a fence, not a wall.
Mr. Kerry noted that if elected he would be the first president with a Jewish heritage and a Jewish relative, people at the meeting said. His brother, Cameron, who also attended, converted to Judaism. His paternal grandparents were Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism in fleeing Europe.
In Vienna yesterday, an Austrian genealogist said two Jewish relatives of Mr. Kerry's — his grandmother's sister and half-brother — had died in Nazi concentration camps.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/politics/campaign/01KERR.html
Kerry/Bush -> pro-oorlog en pro-Israel, waarom gaan ze niet gewoon samen op 1 ticket staan.
By DAVID M. HALBFINGER
Published: March 1, 2004
enator John Kerry told dozens of Jewish leaders in New York on Sunday that he would continue the Bush administration policy of vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolutions seen as one-sided against Israel, participants in a closed 90-minute meeting said.
At the meeting, attended by the heads of major Jewish groups and Jewish politicians, he also repeated what he said in the televised debate earlier on Sunday: that the barrier Israel is erecting to separate Palestinian territories from Israeli ones is a fence, not a wall.
Mr. Kerry noted that if elected he would be the first president with a Jewish heritage and a Jewish relative, people at the meeting said. His brother, Cameron, who also attended, converted to Judaism. His paternal grandparents were Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism in fleeing Europe.
In Vienna yesterday, an Austrian genealogist said two Jewish relatives of Mr. Kerry's — his grandmother's sister and half-brother — had died in Nazi concentration camps.
(...)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/01/politics/campaign/01KERR.html
Kerry/Bush -> pro-oorlog en pro-Israel, waarom gaan ze niet gewoon samen op 1 ticket staan.