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    <title>Source: Hoenlein aimed for bipartisanship</title>
    <link>http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/source-hoenlein-aimed-for-bipartisanship/</link>
    <description>A source helping Malcolm Hoenlein organize next week&#8217;s Iran rally tells JTA &#8211; on condition of being quoted only as an &#8220;official&#8221; &#8211; that Hoenlein genuinely saw the pairing of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential pick, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D&#45;N.Y.) as an appropriate match for the event.

As I reported earlier, Democrats are furious that organizers, in particular the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations executive, matched a Democratic lawmaker with the number two on the GOP ticket. The official agrees that, in hindsight, Hoenlein&#8217;s decision not to approach the campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D&#45;Ill.) after he secured Palin (apparently last week) was naive. The official adds, however, that Hoenlein&#8217;s decision was fueled by anxiety that, after having secured Clinton early in August, he was having trouble finding a Republican. In other words, Hoenlein&#8217;s relief at finally getting a Republican might have  gotten in the way of anticipating the fury of Democrats in general and Clinton in particular (she pulled out Wednesday, essentially accusing the organizers of making the event partisan).

Palin has yet to confirm. Officials in the Obama campaign say a surrogate will be there &#8211; but would not say if Obama&#8217;s running mate, Sen. Joe Biden (D&#45;Del.), would be the one.</description>
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      <link>bjledermam1@mac.com</link>
      <description>Mr. Hoenlein&#8217;s desperate attempt to provide Governor Palin with a foreign&#45;affairs photo&#45;op is obvious to all. Senator Clinton has no reason to particpate in this partisan circus. 


Everyone who is concerned about containing Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions should denounce Hoenlein&#8217;s placement of politics above principle. Mendacity will not be enough to vault Governor Palin to Washington DC.


58 days and counting since her selection as a Vice&#45;Presidential candidate and still NO press conference with Palin! What is the McCain campaign so afraid of? Never in the history of the Republic has a candiate on the national ticket been so silent. Let Sarah speak!</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Hoenlein&#8217;s desperate attempt to provide Governor Palin with a foreign-affairs photo-op is obvious to all. Senator Clinton has no reason to particpate in this partisan circus. 
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Everyone who is concerned about containing Iran&#8217;s nuclear ambitions should denounce Hoenlein&#8217;s placement of politics above principle. Mendacity will not be enough to vault Governor Palin to Washington DC.
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58 days and counting since her selection as a Vice-Presidential candidate and still NO press conference with Palin! What is the McCain campaign so afraid of? Never in the history of the Republic has a candiate on the national ticket been so silent. Let Sarah speak!
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>sheila@hen.com</link>
      <description>To Mister Strassfeld,


No one who is a &#8216;Rabbi&#8217; should be sharing his extreme left leanings in a public forum. Hoenlein was pressured by leftist organizations within the council after Clinton cancelled. Your party cancelled! They abandoned you in the face of Akhmadinijad! They will do it again!

 

Thanks for serving on my conservative din. I left your Haskalah movement a long time ago.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To Mister Strassfeld,
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No one who is a &#8216;Rabbi&#8217; should be sharing his extreme left leanings in a public forum. Hoenlein was pressured by leftist organizations within the council after Clinton cancelled. Your party cancelled! They abandoned you in the face of Akhmadinijad! They will do it again!
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Thanks for serving on my conservative din. I left your Haskalah movement a long time ago.
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>happirick@hotmail.com</link>
      <description>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;No one who works in the public arena could possible think that a political candidate and an officeholder are equivalant.


What does this mean??? Last I checked, both Palin and Clinton were BOTH officeholders!</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&gt;&gt;No one who works in the public arena could possible think that a political candidate and an officeholder are equivalant.
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What does this mean??? Last I checked, both Palin and Clinton were BOTH officeholders!
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>andrewmjacobs@bellsouth.net</link>
      <description>I am in truly shocked at the decision of Senator Clinton and the decision by the the powers that be to disinvite Palin.&amp;nbsp; What a disgrace.&amp;nbsp; Governor Palin, I apologize for the way the Jewish community has treated you and thank you for offering to come to this rally which should be above political party.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am in truly shocked at the decision of Senator Clinton and the decision by the the powers that be to disinvite Palin.&nbsp; What a disgrace.&nbsp; Governor Palin, I apologize for the way the Jewish community has treated you and thank you for offering to come to this rally which should be above political party.
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>philnyc18@yahoo.com</link>
      <description>The presence of Palin at the rally

would GUARANTEE major coverage of

the rally by the national &amp;amp; network

news (ABC News, NBC News, CBS News,

CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc.) and international

(BBC, ITN, etc.).

The absence of Palin means that only New

Yorkers will get to see coverage on

their local &#8220;ten&#45;oclock news&#8221;.


By disinviting Palin, the organizers

proved that they don&#8217;t give a damn

about &#8220;getting the message out&#8221; about

Iran&#8217;s danger to Israel, and what they

are really after is just a &#8220;gee, look

what I did! I made a rally!&#8221; picture 

to put in their next fundraising letter.


How dare these &#8220;leaders&#8221; lose coverage

for this rally ?!

Disgusting!

All the more disgusting, if the &#8220;leaders&#8221;

dumped Palin under orders from the NYC

Democratic Party Machine, because they

know that the Jews likely to show up

for such a rally (i.e Jews who know what&#8217;s 

going on in the Middle East and have been

there) and would probably be cheering Palin and Booing Obama).


Shame on the disinviters of Palin.

Iran applauds your decision to effectively

remove the event from the nightly news.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The presence of Palin at the rally
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would GUARANTEE major coverage of
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the rally by the national &amp; network
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news (ABC News, NBC News, CBS News,
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CNN, FOX, MSNBC, etc.) and international
<br />
(BBC, ITN, etc.).
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The absence of Palin means that only New
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Yorkers will get to see coverage on
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their local &#8220;ten-oclock news&#8221;.
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By disinviting Palin, the organizers
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proved that they don&#8217;t give a damn
<br />
about &#8220;getting the message out&#8221; about
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Iran&#8217;s danger to Israel, and what they
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are really after is just a &#8220;gee, look
<br />
what I did! I made a rally!&#8221; picture 
<br />
to put in their next fundraising letter.
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How dare these &#8220;leaders&#8221; lose coverage
<br />
for this rally ?!
<br />
Disgusting!
<br />
All the more disgusting, if the &#8220;leaders&#8221;
<br />
dumped Palin under orders from the NYC
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Democratic Party Machine, because they
<br />
know that the Jews likely to show up
<br />
for such a rally (i.e Jews who know what&#8217;s 
<br />
going on in the Middle East and have been
<br />
there) and would probably be cheering Palin and Booing Obama).
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Shame on the disinviters of Palin.
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Iran applauds your decision to effectively
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remove the event from the nightly news.
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>megan@iram.com</link>
      <description>Michael Strassfeld is totally off&#45;base&#8212;whining about President&#8217;s Conference not being in step w/his lefty agenda he writes: &#8220;No one who works in the public arena could possible think that a political candidate and an officeholder are equivalant.&#8221; 


How utterly facile. 


Who&#8217;s Afraid of Sarah Palin? 

Hillary Clinton, that&#8217;s who. 


&#8220;[Mrs.] Clinton has pulled out of an appearance at a New York rally next week to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because she doesn&#8217;t want to be seen alongside Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a &#8220;partisan&#8221; event, her aides say.&#8221;


&#8220;[Palin&#8217;s] attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event,&#8221; Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said Wednesday. &#8220;Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending.&#8221;


It&#8217;s rather Orwellian to describe an event as &#8220;partisan&#8221; because it was designed to include members of both parties. As for Mrs. Clinton, she has an obvious political motive for avoiding Palin. She is much more likely to win the presidency in 2012 if Barack Obama loses this year&#45;&#45;but she cannot afford for Democrats to think that she is acting on that basis, and appearing with Palin would reinforce that suspicion.


All this was anticipated by &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; whose season premiere this weekend featured a sketch in which Tiny Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Mrs. Clinton staged a joint appearance to protest media sexism.


&#8220;Good evening, my fellow Americans,&#8221; said Fey as Palin. &#8220;I was so excited when I was told Sen. Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight.&#8221;


Replies Poehler as Mrs. Clinton: &#8220;And I was told I would be addressing you alone.&#8221;


Strassfeld is more concerned about his lefty agenda than about the real of Iran. 


In the meantime &#45; the Iranian  Hitler&#45;wannabe will even destroy the lefty vision of an even tinier Israel:


Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel on Thursday, saying the Jewish state would not survive, even if it gave up land for a Palestinian state. &#8220;I have heard some say the idea of greater Israel has expired,&#8221; Ahmadinejad said. &#8220;I say that the idea of lesser Israel has expired, too.&#8221; Ahmadinejad will travel to New York next week to attend the UN General Assembly. The Iranian president repeated previous anti&#45;Israel comments, calling the Holocaust a &#8220;fake&#8221; and saying that Israel is perpetrating a holocaust on the Palestinian people.</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Michael Strassfeld is totally off-base&#8212;whining about President&#8217;s Conference not being in step w/his lefty agenda he writes: &#8220;No one who works in the public arena could possible think that a political candidate and an officeholder are equivalant.&#8221; 
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How utterly facile. 
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Who&#8217;s Afraid of Sarah Palin? 
<br />
Hillary Clinton, that&#8217;s who. 
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&#8220;[Mrs.] Clinton has pulled out of an appearance at a New York rally next week to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad because she doesn&#8217;t want to be seen alongside Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin in a &#8220;partisan&#8221; event, her aides say.&#8221;
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&#8220;[Palin&#8217;s] attendance was news to us, and this was never billed to us as a partisan political event,&#8221; Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said Wednesday. &#8220;Sen. Clinton will therefore not be attending.&#8221;
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It&#8217;s rather Orwellian to describe an event as &#8220;partisan&#8221; because it was designed to include members of both parties. As for Mrs. Clinton, she has an obvious political motive for avoiding Palin. She is much more likely to win the presidency in 2012 if Barack Obama loses this year--but she cannot afford for Democrats to think that she is acting on that basis, and appearing with Palin would reinforce that suspicion.
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All this was anticipated by &#8220;Saturday Night Live,&#8221; whose season premiere this weekend featured a sketch in which Tiny Fey as Palin and Amy Poehler as Mrs. Clinton staged a joint appearance to protest media sexism.
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&#8220;Good evening, my fellow Americans,&#8221; said Fey as Palin. &#8220;I was so excited when I was told Sen. Clinton and I would be addressing you tonight.&#8221;
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Replies Poehler as Mrs. Clinton: &#8220;And I was told I would be addressing you alone.&#8221;
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Strassfeld is more concerned about his lefty agenda than about the real of Iran. 
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In the meantime - the Iranian  Hitler-wannabe will even destroy the lefty vision of an even tinier Israel:
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel on Thursday, saying the Jewish state would not survive, even if it gave up land for a Palestinian state. &#8220;I have heard some say the idea of greater Israel has expired,&#8221; Ahmadinejad said. &#8220;I say that the idea of lesser Israel has expired, too.&#8221; Ahmadinejad will travel to New York next week to attend the UN General Assembly. The Iranian president repeated previous anti-Israel comments, calling the Holocaust a &#8220;fake&#8221; and saying that Israel is perpetrating a holocaust on the Palestinian people.
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>Lawret@gmail.com</link>
      <description>The action of the Council was craven and repellent.&amp;nbsp; The Iranians will not respect an organization that shrinks in fear from having a Republican politician on a rostrum because a Democratic Senator took a walk.&amp;nbsp; Where was the Council when backbones were distributed?</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The action of the Council was craven and repellent.&nbsp; The Iranians will not respect an organization that shrinks in fear from having a Republican politician on a rostrum because a Democratic Senator took a walk.&nbsp; Where was the Council when backbones were distributed?
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>bramamber@aol.com</link>
      <description>Formally disinviting Gov. Sarah Palin, possibly future vice president of the US, to speak at the rally as a result of political posturing by Hillary Clinton and threats from the Stalinist Left, is a disgrace. So much for a cause greater than one&#8217;s party, so much for freedom of speech, so much for not giving into intimidation. 


Having both Clinton and Palin at the same event seems pretty bi&#45;partisan and evenhanded to me. Hillary is not a mere &#8220;office holder.&#8221; She is actively campaigning for Obama and saying &#8220;No Palin&#8221; at campaign stops. It suddenly becomes &#8220;partisan&#8221; to her when Republicans are afforded the same equal invitation as Democrats. So who is partisan?


Further proof of this fact is that when she withdrew, the organizers extended a hand to let any Democrat come and speak in her stead. They could have sent Biden, or anyone else.&amp;nbsp;   


At first they chose Wexler, the person who, when Plain was chosen as VP candidate, said it was &#8220;an insult to Jews&#8221; and lied that she supported Buchanan.&amp;nbsp;  


So this was all about silencing Palin, who the Democrats are scared of.


Gov. Palin has an excellent record on Israel and has been an outspoken critic of Iran. 

 

Long before she was a candidate for VP, she had an Israeli flag in her office even though the Jewish population of Alaska is only 6,000.&amp;nbsp; She signed a resolution honoring Israel on its 60th birthday and supporting Alaska&#8217;s ties to the Jewish state. She met with Israeli Foreign Ministry official David Akov, Israel&#8217;s consul general for the Pacific Northwest, and they discussed cooperation between Israel and Alaska on various issues, including counterterrorism efforts. He invited her to visit Israel and she impressed upon him her desire to do so, reportedly telling him that Alaska&#8217;s residents love Israel.

 

The organizers want to stop Iran? They can&#8217;t even stand up to liberal intimidation in New York. What a joke! 


This is not only wrong, it&#8217;s plain dumb. When Palin becomes vice president, don&#8217;t be surprised if she is not thrilled to listen to our causes in the White House. With friends like this, who needs enemies?&amp;nbsp;  

 

I was going to attend &#45; with or without Hillary there &#45; but doubt I will now.&amp;nbsp;  

 

Mark Bernstein

Vice President, Netivot Israel Louna Terror Victim Fund</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Formally disinviting Gov. Sarah Palin, possibly future vice president of the US, to speak at the rally as a result of political posturing by Hillary Clinton and threats from the Stalinist Left, is a disgrace. So much for a cause greater than one&#8217;s party, so much for freedom of speech, so much for not giving into intimidation. 
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Having both Clinton and Palin at the same event seems pretty bi-partisan and evenhanded to me. Hillary is not a mere &#8220;office holder.&#8221; She is actively campaigning for Obama and saying &#8220;No Palin&#8221; at campaign stops. It suddenly becomes &#8220;partisan&#8221; to her when Republicans are afforded the same equal invitation as Democrats. So who is partisan?
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Further proof of this fact is that when she withdrew, the organizers extended a hand to let any Democrat come and speak in her stead. They could have sent Biden, or anyone else.&nbsp;   
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At first they chose Wexler, the person who, when Plain was chosen as VP candidate, said it was &#8220;an insult to Jews&#8221; and lied that she supported Buchanan.&nbsp;  
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So this was all about silencing Palin, who the Democrats are scared of.
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Gov. Palin has an excellent record on Israel and has been an outspoken critic of Iran. 
<br />
 
<br />
Long before she was a candidate for VP, she had an Israeli flag in her office even though the Jewish population of Alaska is only 6,000.&nbsp; She signed a resolution honoring Israel on its 60th birthday and supporting Alaska&#8217;s ties to the Jewish state. She met with Israeli Foreign Ministry official David Akov, Israel&#8217;s consul general for the Pacific Northwest, and they discussed cooperation between Israel and Alaska on various issues, including counterterrorism efforts. He invited her to visit Israel and she impressed upon him her desire to do so, reportedly telling him that Alaska&#8217;s residents love Israel.
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The organizers want to stop Iran? They can&#8217;t even stand up to liberal intimidation in New York. What a joke! 
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This is not only wrong, it&#8217;s plain dumb. When Palin becomes vice president, don&#8217;t be surprised if she is not thrilled to listen to our causes in the White House. With friends like this, who needs enemies?&nbsp;  
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I was going to attend - with or without Hillary there - but doubt I will now.&nbsp;  
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Mark Bernstein
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Vice President, Netivot Israel Louna Terror Victim Fund
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>mstrassfeld@aol.com</link>
      <description>Malcolm Hoenlein does not have a naive bone in his body. Inviting Palin is part of his ongoing agenda to tilt the Conference of President&#8217;s rightward both on Israel and domestic policy. No one who works in the public arena could possible think that a political candidate and an officeholder are equivalant.

mjs</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Malcolm Hoenlein does not have a naive bone in his body. Inviting Palin is part of his ongoing agenda to tilt the Conference of President&#8217;s rightward both on Israel and domestic policy. No one who works in the public arena could possible think that a political candidate and an officeholder are equivalant.
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mjs
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      <title>Comment by</title>
      <link>anonymous@anon.com</link>
      <description>the AZM sent an email today with a flier saying that both palin and clinton are speaking at the rally. has something changed? anyone know hwats that is about?</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the AZM sent an email today with a flier saying that both palin and clinton are speaking at the rally. has something changed? anyone know hwats that is about?
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      <link>mortty23@gmail.com</link>
      <description>Normally I disagree with Hoenlein , BUT this time he is 100% correct. Being against achminadajad is not partisan. Hillary is 100% wrong for not attending. And I am an Obama supporter</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Normally I disagree with Hoenlein , BUT this time he is 100% correct. Being against achminadajad is not partisan. Hillary is 100% wrong for not attending. And I am an Obama supporter
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