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10/15/2008: "Jackson says Obama would end Zionist domination of the US"
Barack Obama's campaign on Wednesday dismissed the Rev. Jesse Jackson's assertion that as president, the Democratic candidate would rid the United States of years of "Zionist" control.
Speaking at the first World Policy Forum event in Evian, France, the daily quoted Jackson as promising "fundamental changes" in U.S. foreign policy. He said the most important change would occur in the Middle East, where "decades of putting Israel's interests first" would end.
Jackson said that Obama "wants an aggressive and dynamic diplomacy." He went on to criticize the Bush administration's handling of Middle East diplomacy, telling the Post, "Bush was so afraid of a snafu and of upsetting Israel that he gave the whole thing a miss. Barack will change that," because, as long as the Palestinians haven't seen justice, the Middle East will "remain a source of danger to us all."
Jackson has not always been such a strong Obama supporter. In July, he apologized to the Illinois senator for "crude and hurtful" remarks he had made about him after an interview with a Fox News correspondent.
[ Jackson's remarks are likely to damage Obama's election chances, losing him Jewish votes and increasing the chance a Jew will assassinate him, so he may just be saying this out of spite. Obama's campaign must have been very eager to contradict Jackson's outrageous statement and assure everyone that, under Obama, the US will still stick firmly to Israel first policies.]
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1028665.html