Word: pro-arab
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...concerted Hart-Jackson "Stop Mondale" movement appears unlikely, however. Hart is scrambling to assure Jewish voters that he would not pick Jackson as a Vice President unless Jackson abandoned his pro-Arab tilt. Jackson, for his part, has been blasting Hart and Mondale equally for supporting the "supplyside economics" and "gunboat diplomacy" of President Reagan. He was swinging wildly and becoming increasingly moody and erratic as he tried to transform his flailing political crusade into a one-man peace movement. He has fired off a telegram to Syrian President Hafez Assad demanding the release of two Israeli diplomats, and proclaimed...
...there is a blurry line between political and social disagreements and that line is made all the more hazy by inflammatory rhetoric from either side. That Jackson cannot clearly articulate a pro-Arab platform--which is and should be perfectly acceptable--without also directing cries of "racism at American Jews, shows that he is not the moral leader he professes...
...close attention to the election. So far, Jackson has distinguished himself from the other Democratic candidates. "because he's broken out of the normal pattern of Presidential candidates of being unthinkingly pro-Israel," Lecturer Daniel Pipes, a Middle East History specialist, says Glenn has also been more consistent in not taking a pro-Israel stance, Pipes adds, and therefore runs a close second to Jackson in pro-Arab states...
...asked for Goodman's release, it was a no-lose situation. If they decided to hold on to Goodman, the publicity generated by Jackson's trip would enhance Goodman's value as a Syrian bargaining chip with Washington. If they released him to the populist, relatively pro-Arab Jackson, they could show magnanimity and embarrass the Reagan Administration...
...story, it turned out, was a phony, an obvious attempt at disinformation. But it succeeded in stirring up the longstanding feud between New York Mayor Edward Koch, who is staunchly pro-Israel, and Weinberger, who is considered pro-Arab by many Israeli officials and American Jews. By last week even the FBI had been brought in to investigate...