At the height of last week's demolitions,
Bush was getting cheers of "four more years" at a Washington meeting of AIPAC, the main U.S. pro-Israel lobby. Ignoring the Gaza catastrophe, Bush praised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and said Israel "has every right to defend itself against terror."
Coming in the midst of Gaza's humanitarian catastrophe, Bush's comments were an embarrassment.
Tommy Lapid, Israel's justice minister, had this to say of Gaza:
"We look like monsters in the eyes of the world. It makes me sick."
Why couldn't Bush have said that? Because the U.S. occupation of Iraq robs his administration of all moral authority.
Bush hopes to win more Jewish votes in the November election.
The Bush-Cheney campaign was boosted by a recent poll showing Bush support among Jews up to 31 percent, compared to only 19 percent in 2000.
AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, is not representative of Jewish opinion. Thirty-one percent is better than 19, but still shows that more than two-thirds of American Jews do not support Bush-Cheney.
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