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Kerry is also using the controversy
to highlight Dean's inexperience. "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," Kerry said in a statement. "If
the president were to make a remark
such as this, it would throw an
already volatile region into even
more turmoil."
A leading Jewish Democrat went
further. "There have been alarming
signs that Gov. Dean is giving in to
pressure from the hard left to take a
more critical stance toward Israel,"
this source said. "That may win him
some support in some primaries, but

s predicted, the increasingly
desperate race to slow the
Howard Dean Democratic
nomination bandwagon is
taking on some nasty Middle East
overtones.
The eruption came after Dean,
speaking to voters at a New Mexico
barbecue last week, said that it is "not
our place to take sides" in the Arab-
Israeli conflict.
Early this week, under fire from his
Democratic rivals, Dean refused to
back down from that statement,
telling the Washington Post that the
United States needs an "evenhanded"
approach to the con-
flict. Dean's com-
ments came after
weeks of pressure by
liberal Democratic
activists urging the
surprise frontrunner
to take a more "bal-
anced" view of the
conflict.
The barbecue
brouhaha prompted
a political feeding
frenzy from several
former Democratic
frontrunners who are
in danger of being
swamped by the
Democratic presidential hopeful and former Vermont Gov.
Dean surge. Sen. Joe
Howard Dean walks through the crowd at the Service
Lieberman, D-
Employees International Union's Member Political Action
Conn., and Sen.
Conference in Washington on Monday.
John Kerry, D-Mass.,
both charged that
ultimately it hurts his candidacy and
Dean was suggesting a shift in tradi-
hurts
the party."
tional U.S. support for Israel. More
The source cited a controversy ear-
importantly, they cited his comments
lier in the year when Dean refused to
as proof of their claim that Dean is a
disassociate himself from highly criti-
foreign policy neophyte who will
cal material about Israel on the Web
blunder his way across the world
site of the liberal grassroots organiza-
stage.
tion MoveOn.
"If this is a well-thought-out posi-
Benjamin Ginsberg, a Johns
tion, it's a mistake, and a major
. .
Hopkins
University political scten-
break from a half-century of
tist, said that Dean's comments
American foreign policy," said
reflect the campaign's unique funding
Lieberman, who has immersed him-
strategy — raising money through
self in foreign policy during 14 years
small donations over the Internet.
in the Senate. "If it's not, it's very
"Remember, a major reason
important for Howard Dean, as a
Democratic candidates are so respect-
candidate for president, to think
ful of Jews is because [Jews are] where
before he talks."

