The joint Jewish leaders’ letter debunking various myths concerning Barack Obama’s origins is principled and correct, but it misses the point (“Campaign Of Falsehoods On Obama Seen Sticking,” Jan. 25). Americans should be long past innuendo and ought to examine troubling facts. I am far more concerned that in the liberal spirit that everyone can get along better through “communication,” Obama would sit with Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Pray tell, what would they discuss? And would he bring along Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser to former President Jimmy Carter? Moreover, Obama’s comfort with anti-Israel advocates, including his pastor and a church whose board has taken a series of anti-Israel actions, and with George Soros, is disturbing. Obama has not called for any change in
his church’s anti-Semitic views. Were Obama’s Pastor Wright an Evangelical, press scrutiny would be far harsher. He also harshly attacked his political opponents for voting to designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group, even though they have murdered Jews in Buenos Aires and bolstered Hezbollah in Lebanon. Obama advocates “world nuclear disarmament.” How shockingly naive. He believes that if “America leads the way ... countries like Iran and North Korea won’t have an excuse.” For these and other substantive reasons, I submit that the superfluous public discourse misses the point.
Metropolitan Region Co-President American Jewish Congress Manhattan
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