Candidates With Real Chutzpah
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From my perspective as an American and a Jew, Dana Milbank's mocking column ["The Audacity of Chutzpah," March 18] on Barack Obama's adviser Dan Kurtzer, a former ambassador to Israel, did a disservice to Obama and Kurtzer and to much of the American Jewish community.
Milbank incorrectly assumed that the leaders of major American Jewish organizations represent the views of the broader Jewish population on Israeli matters and U.S. interests. The sorts of charges explicitly and implicitly leveled against Obama and some of his advisers are strikingly similar to those circulated internally in the Jewish community against fellow Jews who believe that Israeli policy toward the Palestinians has been a disaster for both peoples. A serious policy story was lost in Milbank's mockery.
We are offered candidate John McCain, who pledges to talk with no one in the Middle East hostile to Israel and capable of vetoing peace. And we have candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, committed to supporting whatever preferences a particular Israeli cabinet endorses. The real chutzpah is for such candidates and their surrogates to claim that they are good for Israel or American Jewry.
-- Davis B. Bobrow
St. Michaels, Md.
