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Another Democrat playing with the TRUTH

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Kerry cites Netanyahu in calling GOP ‘lies’

By Ron Kampeas · September 6, 2012

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (JTA) -- U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praising the Obama administration in a bid to show that Republicans have "lied" about Obama and Israel.

"Barack Obama promised always to stand with Israel to tighten sanctions on Iran — and take nothing off the table," Kerry said Thursday night in Charlotte, N.C., where Democrats are holding this year's convention.

"Again and again, the other side has lied about where this president stands and what this president has done," said Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee and believed to be a strong contender for the secretary of state spot in a second Obama term.

"But Prime Minister Netanyahu set the record straight -- he said our two countries have 'exactly the same policy…' -- 'our security cooperation is unprecedented...' When it comes to Israel, I'll take the word of Israel's prime minister over Mitt Romney any day," he said.

Netanyahu has assiduously avoided the appearance of endorsing a candidate, although he is known to be close to Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for president. It was the second time this week that a Democrat used an Israeli figure to attack the GOP.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, cited Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren at the convention's outset in accusing Republicans of endangering Israel by sowing divisions between the parties on Israel.

Oren has decried partisan use of Israel, but in an unusually sharp statement denied ever specifying one party or the other.

There is an guy from Israel on TV for the last few days saying Obama WAS popular in Israel when he took office but now NOT SO MUCH NOW due to his policies. I guess they didn't like being told to go back to the 1967 borders and I don't imagine they liked the fact the DNC took Jerusalem out of their Platform.
 
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