NADER'S JEWISH CONSPIRACY

Back to school
When Ralph Nader says the United States "is the second State of Israel," he just demonstrates his fondness for fantasies of Jewish manipulation and control, Stuart Schoffman writes.

My avuncular advice is, do what your heart tells you, but for heaven’s sake, don’t vote for Nader. Not only because last time (with a little help from the Supreme Court), a strong Nader showing in Florida and New Hampshire landed the wrong man in the White House -- it’s Nader’s noxious views on Israel that render him unfit. The veteran gadfly has polluted political discourse this summer by trafficking in nasty stereotypic imagery. "The Israeli puppeteer," he told a Washington audience, "meets with the puppet in the White House, and then moves down Pennsylvania Avenue and meets with the puppets in Congress, and then takes back billions of taxpayer dollars. It is time for the Washington puppet show to be replaced by the Washington peace show."

It’s one thing to oppose the policies of the Sharon government, or to decry the reluctance of the Bush administration to press Israel to negotiate with the Palestinians; leaders of Reform Jewry in America, as concerned liberal Zionists, have lately done exactly that. But when Ralph Nader says it’s "obvious," as he did in a response to criticism by the ADL, that "the United States is the second state of Israel," he again demonstrates his fondness for "Protocols"-style fantasies of Jewish
manipulation and control.(Jerusalem Report)