 James Moran at Reston: He Will Be Hard To Beat |
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Posted by Jonathan Mark on Thursday, January 15, 2004Moran Responded to Question About His Jewish Comments
About 150 people were present at the Lake Anne Community Center in Reston last night to attend one of James Moran's "Town Meetings."
Moran will be hard to beat. He is charming and personable. I may know he is a phony, but even I found him likable.
Moran called on me, and I politely asked him about comments that he made last month on the Mark Plotkin show on WTOP radio.
I urged Moran not to identify supporters of the Iraq war as Jews, and pointed out that on the Plotkin show Moran stated that a majority of the leadership of the organized Jewish community supported the war.
Moran responded by saying that his comments had pertained to what he alleged was an advertisement that the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations had taken out. Moran said that this ad had run in the N.Y. Times on a full-page and that it supported the war with Iraq.
Moran said that there is a broader issue involved, and that he had discussed it on the show after "Plotkin kept pushing me." The broader issue is that he, Moran, is a supporter of the Israeli Labor Party and believes that Israel is poorly served by the policies of Ariel Sharon.
Moran stated that he regrets his earlier remarks about Jews. He was probably referring to the remarks last March.
There was scattered applause for Moran when he finished.
On the way out I asked a woman who was distributing Clark for President literature if she liked Moran. She replied that she was disappointed in the way Moran had handled impeachment. (Moran in fact had called on President Clinton to resign but then backtracked and denied he had ever said such things.)
I mentioned that I also had been appalled at Moran's behavior back then, but that people had forgiven Moran.
Just like many voters have forgiven Moran for everything else he has done as well. Cutting through the fog of Moran's considerable personal charm is going to be quite a job.
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| Re: James Moran at Reston: He Will Be Hard To Beat by Jerome Chapman on Thursday January 15, @09:21AM |
| Moran has used the line that he supports the Labor Party for a long time to cover his consistant, virulently anti-Israel record. Like much of what he says on many topics, it's a lie. When Labor was in power, Moran was just as antagonistic to Israel and the US-Israel relationship as he is now.
Labor's Ehud Barak was the Prime Minister in October 2000 when Moran voted against the first in the recent series of resolutions supporting Israel's right to defend itself against terrorism. Over the past three years, Moran opposed all such resolutions, which won overwhelming bipartisan approval in Congress. Labor's Yitchak Rabin was the Prime Minister in May 1994 when Moran made one of his most vicious speeches on the floor of the House, following the incident in which a Jewish gunman shot worshippers in a Hebron mosque. In his speech, Moran accused the Israeli government and U.S. supporters of Israel of "collective acts of complicity in a pervasive injustice." More basically — and tellingly — there's not a single Labor Party leader in Israel who would agree with the positions Jim Moran has taken. ALL of them support the Congressional resolutions Moran has consistently opposed. NONE of them would subscribe to any of Moran's ugly comments, such as his statement that Sharon is seeking "a warrant from President Bush to kill at will with weapons we have paid for" (American Muslim Council speech, June 2001) or his assertion that, if it were not for the Jews, we would not be at war in Iraq (Reston, March 2003). Another lie, that you report, is his refeernce to a full-page ad supporting the war in Iraq which he says was placed by the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. He has used that line several times since his March 2003 Reston speech, but the head of the Council has stated publicly that there never was any such ad. |
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