Democratic Opponent of Clinton Criticizes Actions of Israel

[DYouth]

ublished on Wednesday, July 26, 2006 by the New York Times
Democratic Opponent of Clinton Criticizes Actions of Israel


WASHINGTON -- Jonathan Tasini, the antiwar candidate mounting a Democratic primary challenge against Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, said this week that Israel had “committed many acts of brutality and violations of human rights and torture.”

Mr. Tasini made the comments in a wide-ranging interview with a political blog, the Room 8, after he was asked if he believed Israel was a terrorist state, according to an audiotape posted Monday on the Web site, www.r8ny.com.


Jonathan Tasini, wearing tie, at a rally of the New York City Veterans for Progressive Change in City Hall Park in Manhattan on Tuesday.
“It’s painful to say that, but when you fire missiles from sophisticated aircraft on unarmed civilians in Gaza, those are again, the definition to me of ... ,” he said, pausing to find the right words.

“Terrorism is a very heavily laden word,” he continued. “But to me, what the key thing is, what are you doing? Are your actions in violation of the international norms of the Geneva Convention, and so on? And I think it’s sad to say, but it’s clear, yeah.”

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0726-06.htm

[OKNancy]

1. LBN rules require the original source

The NYTimes article is

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/26/nyregion/26tasini.html?ref=washington
( it says 18 hours ago on google, but we'll let that slide)

[God Almighty]

2. Go Jonathon

Most Democratic groups have endorsed Tasina. PDA, DFA (I believe), the PHDC and other groups. Tasini just might win this one. Goldwater was more liberal than Hillary.

[krkaufman]

4. What the heck? I wasn't even aware that Billary had a challenger.

I was just thinking the other day (after seeing Bill & Hillary campaigning for Joementum), that it would be nice to see someone like Lamont challenging Hillary. Glad to hear *somebody's* giving it a shot.

[ckramer]

3. Finally

A real democrat should speak up on brutality of Israel.