Howard Dean on Israel/Palestine

[Hatalles]

Remember this?

Howard Dean came under fire yesterday from two rivals for the Democratic nomination for saying the United States should not "take sides" in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Five days after Dean told supporters in New Mexico that "it's not our place to take sides" in the conflict, Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.) accused him of advocating a "major break" from the United States' long-standing policy of explicitly siding with Israel in the Middle East.

Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.) said: "It is either because he lacks the foreign policy experience or simply because he is wrong that governor Dean has proposed a radical shift in United States policy towards the Middle East. If the president were to make a remark such as this it would throw an already volatile region into even more turmoil."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=311896&mesg_id=311896

[gristy]

1. help me out here

What is the relation to the current conflict?

[theboss]

2. You don't know who Hezbollah is, do you?

This current battle has nothing to do with Israel and Palestine...aside from the tangetal aspect where EVERYTHING in the Middle East has to do with Israel and Palestine.

[lastknowngood]

3. So say the lapdogs of the Israel lobby

n/t