Arab Americans badger Lieberman during talk

[Judi Lynn]

Arab Americans badger Lieberman during talk
Audience hostile to candidate's support for Israel

David S. Broder, Washington Post Saturday, October 18, 2003

Dearborn, Mich. -- Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., was booed and heckled Friday by an audience of Arab-Americans as a parade of presidential hopefuls made their appeals to a constituency that is gaining recognition as an increasingly important swing vote in the 2004 campaign.

Lieberman, an Orthodox Jew, drew shouts of disagreement from many of the 300 people attending the Arab-American Institute leadership conference in this Detroit suburb when he attempted to defend the security fence under construction by the Israeli government in the West Bank as a temporary nuisance that would be removed once the Palestinian leadership makes "a 100 percent effort" to end terrorism.

His reception was in marked contrast to the applause given rivals Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and a spokesman for retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who canceled because of illness. Marc Racicot, former chairman of the Republican National Committee and now chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign, was heard in silence and criticized afterward for his response to questions about administration policy in Middle East and the anti-terrorism Patriot Act, both of which are highly unpopular with this audience. (snip/..)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/10/18/MNGND2EE5S1.DTL

[Alpharetta]

1. Other dialog from his appearance:

"What about the wall?" shouted several attending the Arab American Institute leadership conference as they interrupted Lieberman's speech. The reference was to Israel's plan to build a barrier that juts into the West Bank

Lieberman, who is Jewish, insisted the wall is temporary.

"I regret the confiscations," said the Connecticut senator, referring to the Palestinian land that has been taken in the effort to build the wall.

.....

"It has nothing to do with security. It has to do with stealing from the Palestinians," shouted Greta Berlin during a question-and-answer session after the speech. Berlin, a Los Angeles resident, had just returned from the West Bank, where she was working with the International Solidarity Movement, a pro-Palestinian group.

From:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/17/democrats.arabs.ap/index.html

[cliss]

2. This is one of the reasons people say

Lieberman cannot be president. They claim that because of his Jewish faith, he can never be objective. He will always favor Israel, and by doing to he will inflame already explosive jewish/arab hostility.

So it would probably be better to have some "neutral" unaligned person take over as president. I'm not sure about the fundamentalist Christians, however. They have their own axe to grind, namely the "crusade" issue (christians vs. muslims). So I don't know which one would be worse.....

[The Zanti Regent]

3. Looneyman needs to explain why wall in Berlin BAD but West Bank GOOD

What a disgusting whore.

Looneyman is a raving anti-Muslim bigot who needs to be shown the door ASAP!