New Battleground
In campaign season, Pelosi takes
Israel fight to GOP.
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Following their trip to the Middle East, representatives spoke at a May 22
press conference. From left are Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., Ron Klein, D-Fla., Nancy
Pelosi, D.Calif., David Dreier, R-Calif., and Alcee Hastings, D-Fla.
Ron Kampeas
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Washington
A
lmost eight years of
President Bush have "made
matters worse for Israel"
— that's how the Democrats intend to
make their case to Jewish voters.
This was the message from
the speaker of the U.S. House of
Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, in an
exclusive interview May 20 with JTA,
just hours after her return from Israel.
She made clear in the bluntest of
terms the Democratic Party's strategy
when it comes to making Israel a cam-
paign issue: Bring it on.
Pelosi said the two pre-eminent
topics raised by Israeli leaders dur-
ing her trip to mark the Jewish state's
60th anniversary were the twin threats
of Iran and Hamas. "I would say on
two of the major concerns — mani-
festations of concern in Israel — the
threat of Hamas and the threat of Iran
developing a weapon of mass destruc-
tion, that the administration has made
matters worse she said.
"It was extraordinary that the
United States would urge Israel to
accept an election in which a terrorist
organization would participate Pelosi
said of the Bush administration's push
for the 2006 Palestinian legislative
elections, which ended up bringing
llamas to power in the Gaza Strip.
"On the issue of the existential
threat of the issue of Iran's develop-
ment of weapons of mass destruc-
tion, I believe that 71/2 years could
have been used better to have a more
robust diplomacy, with sanctions
related to economics, to culture — to
every aspect of the political relation-
ships as well:"
Republicans hope to peel off tra-
ditional Jewish community support
for Democrats by pointing out the
sharp differences on Iran between
the two parties' likely candidates, Sen.
Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz. On May 22, the same
day Obama spoke at a Boca Raton
synagogue, the Republican Jewish
Coalition ran ads in three major
Florida newspapers questioning his
policies, particularly on Iran.
Obama countenances tough diplo-
macy, possibly including meetings
with Tehran's leadership, to keep Iran
from developing a nuclear weapon.
McCain says such meetings under-
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