Surprise!… Kucinich's Support for Ahmadinejad Upsets Jews

Supporting Ahmadinejad must be what the Cleveland Plain Dealer means by “colorful” behavior.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported today on Dennis Kucinich’s support for Iranian Regime President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:

Dennis Kucinich, the colorful Cleveland congressman and longshot presidential candidate, has outraged Jewish leaders in Northeast Ohio by insisting that Iran’s anti-Zionist leader is not seeking to exterminate Israel.

Umm. This picture was taken at an Iranian protest:

The message to “Wipe Israel off the map” is not lost in translation here as Kucinich insists.
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is regarded by many in the western world as a menace with nuclear ambitions, who recently called for supporters of Israel to, among other things, “burn in the fire of the Islamic nations’ fury.” Kucinich, however, says another translation of that and other statements is that Ahmadinejad merely wants regime change in Israel, not death to its people and supporters.

Jewish leaders say such a translation might be acceptable only if Kucinich ignored Ahmadinejad’s behavior, which includes torture of his own people, and Middle East history since Israel’s founding in 1948…

He and Texas Republican Ron Paul – also a presidential aspirant – were the only House members to vote against a June 20 resolution condemning the Iranian leader and asking the U.N. Security Council to take up charges alleging violations of genocide conventions. Cleveland Democratic Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Lake County Republican Steve LaTourette were among the measure’s 103 co-sponsors.

A June 28 letter to Kucinich from Harley Gross, chairman of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland, and Stephen Hoffman, the federation president, called Kucinich’s interpretation of Ahmadinejad’s statements “both tortured and a clear indication of either a lack of understanding of Israel’s enemies on your part or, and we hope that this is not the case, an antipathy toward Israel.”

“Unfortunately, it goes beyond naive,” Alan Melamed, president of the Cleveland chapter of the American Jewish Committee, said in a phone interview Wednesday.

Hat Tip Hannity

More Kucinich– The “colorful” Ohio Representative lashes out at his democratic foes for limiting debates.
Hat Tip Cornhusker

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