New York – Senator John McCain and his Mideast policy inclinations are being challenged over an interview that he granted two years ago to Amir Oren, a journalist from the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, on May 1, 2006, in which McCain declared that his administration “would send “the smartest guy I know” to the Middle East: “Brent Scowcroft, or Jim Baker though I know that you in Israel don’t like Baker.”
Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email
McCain reportedly added: “I would expect concessions and sacrifices by both sides.”
When Oren asked McCain if that meant a “movement toward the June 4, 1967 armistice lines, with minor modifications,” the reporter wrote, “McCain nodded in the affirmative.”
To deflect criticism that he has encountered on the 2008 campaign trail, the McCain campaign has been quoting an article by John B. Judis, senior editor at The New Republic, who wrote in an article in that publication on October 25, 2006 that McCain was “miffed at his portrayal in Haaretz,” saying that “after reading the Haaretz article and subsequent report in The Jewish Press [in New York],” he felt the need to “clear up several serious misimpressions.” McCain said that “in contrast to the impression left by the Haaretz article, I’ve never held the position that Israel should return to 1967 lines, and that is not my position today.”
The senator repeated this week what he said to the New Republic which was that “in the course of that brief, off-the-cuff conversation, I never discussed settlement blocs, a total withdrawal, or anything of the sort.”
Reached at his desk in Tel Aviv, Oren said that McCain is “not telling the truth”, and that he would gladly invite him to a polygraph to see who is telling the truth. He said the Republican frontrunner indeed recommended Baker and Scowcroft as potential candidates to deal with the Middle East, and that he clearly answered in the affirmative when it came to McCain’s expectations of Israel, and how it should relate to further withdrawals.[israelinsider]
Boruch, Krankheit did outright lie. He convinced the whole country that Vietnam was a quagmire, that the Tet Offensive was a communist victory, when in fact it was a huge victory for South Vietnam and the USA. After Tet, the communists were finished, but Krankheit and his colleagues convinced the public otherwise, and turned a victory into a defeat. It’s his fault that we lost Vietnam and millions suffered for his lies. He should burn in hell.
the isrealis are trying to make sure that whoever comes in t office in shold become a jew hater if he is not yet.
thay forget the elecions here are u.s. elections for president of the united states and not bchiros for the state of isreal.
Anonymous said…
Mark Levin 1:45 pm: you are right on the money (pardon the pun) – Leiv Sarim u’Melachim beYad Hashem.
Who the next president is, is up to us, not US.
February 10, 2008 11:07 PM
Brilliant comment to make in a public forum,
Vehamaivin yovin.
Sonaihem shel yisroel have enough bloodthirsty enemies making such comments.
Mark Levin 1:45 pm: you are right on the money (pardon the pun) – Leiv Sarim u’Melachim beYad Hashem.
Who the next president is, is up to us, not US.
When I was a boy Walter Cronkite was the most trusted man in America. He would look you straight in the eye and tell you the “truth”. Walter may never have outright lied, but he was also subject to the subtleties of who he was interviewing. Left or Right, there is no objectivity to speak of. Senator McCain is well versed in political subltety, just as his opponents are both Republican and Democrat.
Haaretz is the most eztreme leftist paper in Israel. I would not believe anything they say. McCain is the most pro- Israel of any canidate. ten times better than Hillary and a thousand times better than Obama.
So of all the evils left, and they are evil, hillary mach’shayfa would not be any better. Obama would be so busy kissing every yishmaeli tuchis out there he wouldnt be better either. What’s left? LOTS OF T’FILLA!
OBAMA KEEPS ON LOOKING BETTER AND BETTER…
Tough call: Do I believe a flaming liberal reporter from Ha’aretz, or a politician?
I vote for the lesser of two evils (which we all will have to do next November): McCain.