He met with embraced Yasser Arafat in Beirut in July of 1979, when the PLO was still recognized by most of the world as a terrorist organization and a stooge of the Soviet Union. Several days later in Jerusalem, he visited Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust Memorial, which inspired his remarks about a Jewish "persecution complex," his public admonishment that "Jews should learn to see that their 'holocaust' was but one among many in history" and his private complaint that he was "sick and tired of hearing about the Holocaust." He actively (and successfully) sought to sow dissension between the black and Jewish communities in America and he's always been in the forefront of the campaign to equate Zionism with racism. Then there was "Hymietown." That's just the tip of the iceberg.
And now suddenly Jesse's a senior aide to his brand new best friend John Kerry, along with Al Sharpton, about whom no commentary is necessary. Perhaps this poll has something to do with it. More illumination here.
I'm hoping that those who are the targets of this charade will see through it clearly. And that those to whom Kerry is basically flipping the bird will notice.
