Dean blames Rove for online attacks(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

[dajabr]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16 (JTA) — Howard Dean is smarting from e-mails that distort his views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and he has suggested that President Bush’s right-hand man is behind the e-mail campaign.
Speaking Monday to the Pacific Council on International Policy, a leadership forum in Los Angeles, Dean said he believed Karl Rove, the White House’s senior political adviser, is behind an e-mail campaign that has flooded inboxes of American Jews across the country.

The White House referred calls about Rove’s alleged involvement in the e-mail campaign to the Bush/Cheney re-election campaign. Scott Stanzel, a campaign spokesman, said the campaign does not respond to comments by the Democratic contenders.

The message in the e-mails is that Dean wants an “even-handed” policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Many Jews consider that a way of saying that the United States should be less supportive of Israel.

More: http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13573&intcategoryid=3

[joeybee12]

1. The campaign does not respond to the Democratic contenders????????????????

Guilty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aquart]

3. Wait. Was there a doubt about that?

[joeybee12]

4. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It just amazes me that they can be so brazen and make a comment like that just spells out their guilt so quickly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aquart]

2. Bet they don't send that email to American Muslims.

Wonder what they do send them?

[Aloha_Texan]

5. Another example of the Nixon-Muskie strategy

Its becoming apparent which dem threatens Rove.

- Aloha Texan

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. A one-way ticket to Gitmo?

:shrug:

[corporatewhore]

6. from an article i read he seemed anti palestinian

n an interview with The Forward earlier this year, he stated that his views are closer to AIPAC's (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) than APN's (Americans for Peace Now). AIPAC's positions as more hawkish and one-sided, resembling the vision of the neocons within the Bush administration; and APNs as multilateral, reaching out to all sides of the conflict.Last December, Dean told the Jerusalem Post that he unequivocally supported $8 billion in U.S. loan guarantees for Israel."I believe that by providing Israel with the loan guarantees ... the US will be advancing its own interest," he said. His unconditional support for the loan package, in addition to $4 billion in outright grants, went further than even some of the most pro-Israel elements in the Bush administration, like Paul Wolfowitz, who wanted to at least include some vague restrictions like pushing Israel to curtail new settlements and accept a timetable to establish a Palestinian state.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16280

[The Sushi Bandit]

7. Dean must be “even-handed” toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

We have for too long ignored the Palestinian's need for freedom with their own home-land. The occupation of Palestine must end!

[tsipple]

9. Uh, People? Do you believe everything you read?

Dean didn't say what JTA claims. They got it wrong. Check the videotape at C-SPAN if you want (of Dean's foreign policy speech on Monday).