Pete's response in the Tracy Press
From the Tracy Press, 08/12/06
Holocaust did occur; I toured camp
Pete McCloskey
I am responding to the libelous letter to the editor by Nicholas Villagomez, alleging that I am a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite. It was printed in Wednesday’s Tracy Press.
I am neither, as a whole number of reputable Jewish leaders and a number of former Jewish members of Congress will attest.
That the Holocaust occurred is undeniable. I have personally visited one of the Nazi death camps, perused the official records of the U.S. Army units that liberated several others and talked with a number of Holocaust survivors, both Jewish and Polish.
It is not anti-Semitic to challenge the several actions of Israel, which I have done since Israel first used cluster bombs in Southern Lebanon in the late 1970s in violation of their agreement with the United States when we furnished them with those lethal weapons.
It is not anti-Semitic to urge that Israel abide by the two-state solution set forth in U.N. Resolution 242 and to withdraw its settlers from the West Bank and Gaza, a policy urged by every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson.
Our troubles in the Middle East would be far less had we not vetoed nearly every U.N. resolution critical of Israel in recent years, and had we continued to act as an even-handed broker for a fair peace between Israelis and the Palestinians, an effort continued by every president from Jimmy Carter through Bill Clinton.
My wife and I have contributed campaign funds to two members of the Israeli Knesset who had the courage to back the peace efforts of Yizhak Rabin and oppose the military vengeance of Ariel Sharon, and before him, Menachim Begin. Inasmuch as Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we would materially damage the position of our enemies if we demanded that Israel dispose of its arsenal of between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads as a ?condition of our demand that Iran abandon its efforts to achieve a nuclear capacity.
• Former Congressman Pete McCloskey resides in Rumsey. He unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, in the 11th Congressional District’s June primary. McCloskey has since endorsed Pombo’s foe in November, Democrat Jerry McNerney of Pleasanton.
Holocaust did occur; I toured camp
Pete McCloskey
I am responding to the libelous letter to the editor by Nicholas Villagomez, alleging that I am a Holocaust denier and an anti-Semite. It was printed in Wednesday’s Tracy Press.
I am neither, as a whole number of reputable Jewish leaders and a number of former Jewish members of Congress will attest.
That the Holocaust occurred is undeniable. I have personally visited one of the Nazi death camps, perused the official records of the U.S. Army units that liberated several others and talked with a number of Holocaust survivors, both Jewish and Polish.
It is not anti-Semitic to challenge the several actions of Israel, which I have done since Israel first used cluster bombs in Southern Lebanon in the late 1970s in violation of their agreement with the United States when we furnished them with those lethal weapons.
It is not anti-Semitic to urge that Israel abide by the two-state solution set forth in U.N. Resolution 242 and to withdraw its settlers from the West Bank and Gaza, a policy urged by every U.S. president since Lyndon Johnson.
Our troubles in the Middle East would be far less had we not vetoed nearly every U.N. resolution critical of Israel in recent years, and had we continued to act as an even-handed broker for a fair peace between Israelis and the Palestinians, an effort continued by every president from Jimmy Carter through Bill Clinton.
My wife and I have contributed campaign funds to two members of the Israeli Knesset who had the courage to back the peace efforts of Yizhak Rabin and oppose the military vengeance of Ariel Sharon, and before him, Menachim Begin. Inasmuch as Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, we would materially damage the position of our enemies if we demanded that Israel dispose of its arsenal of between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads as a ?condition of our demand that Iran abandon its efforts to achieve a nuclear capacity.
• Former Congressman Pete McCloskey resides in Rumsey. He unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, in the 11th Congressional District’s June primary. McCloskey has since endorsed Pombo’s foe in November, Democrat Jerry McNerney of Pleasanton.
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