If You Think Jerrold Nadler Is Pro Israel - Think Again

Candidate Makes Her Case Alone Since Congressman Nadler Refuses to Debate

First Installment: “If You Think Jerrold Nadler is Pro-Israel – Think Again.”

View the First Video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn8WTOk2sx4

Republican congressional candidate Susan Kone (NY8) today launched an advertising campaign highlighting her opponent’s ‘deafening’ silence in the wake of what former Democratic New York City Mayor Ed Koch has termed ‘President Obama’s hostility toward Israel’. Kone also noted that “Mr. Nadler’s ‘true colors’ are evidenced by his contribution from his personal political action committee ‘Jerry Pac’ to Loretta Sanchez of California - a signer of J-Street’s Infamous ‘Gaza Letter of 54’ requesting that Israel appease the terrorist group Hamas which controls Gaza and had been incessantly launching rockets targeting Israeli civilian populations for months on end.”
 
According to Kone -- “this election is in large part a referendum on President Obama’s policies toward Israel as the district represents one of the  largest and most diverse Jewish communities in the world. Congressman Nadler was the primary surrogate to the Jewish community - misleading Jewish voters during the presidential campaign that this Administration would be a true friend to Israel and that he would be a true friend to Israel.  A true friend to Israel would not have stood silent in light of two years of insensitive treatment toward Israel  - a true friend to Israel would not be helping to finance the campaign of a woman who signed the Gaza Letter of 54.”  
 
Kone continued, "While many in the Jewish community including myself spoke upagainst the insensitive treatment of Israel, Mr. Nadler - who has a proclivity topontificate - remained deafeningly silent. He did however speak up loud and clear to argue that ACORN was, as he said, ‘entitled’ to continue to receive millions in taxpayer funding notwithstanding both established criminal behavior and a bipartisan vote of Congress to the contrary. He also spoke up loud and often against those who felt that the building of mosque near Ground Zero was a poor and insensitive choice of location. Nadler labeled opponents of the location of the mosque--including the families of the victims of September 11--as, in his words, 'shameful', 'hateful' and 'divisive'. He was quite vocal in his assertion that their passionate pleas for respect and understanding were, as he put it, 'hate speech' rather than 'hurt speech'.”

Kone continued, “We have not been true to our friends with whom we share common values or tough enough on our enemies. Israel is just one example." 
 
In the ad, Kone's campaign cites numerous instances of insensitive treatment toward Israel to which Mr. Nadler remained silent:
 
OBAMA’S ANTI-ISRAEL ACTION/POLICY: JERRY’S RESPONSE
1) Pressuring Israel to halt construction in the Silence West Bank and Jerusalem but no pressure on the Palestinians to merely recognize the State of Israel.  Silence
2) Willingness to meet and negotiate with the Holocaust denying and terrorist supporting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The weak sanctions approach has done nothing to deter Iran’s nuclear weapons development and will result in a modern day Hitler having nukes.  Silence
3) Breaking 41 years of U.S. policy by supporting a United Nations‘ Resolution that singled out Israel’s Nuclear program, called for Israel to open its nuclear facilities to UN inspection, and made no mention of  Iran’s nuclear program.  Silence
4) Linking the United States’ relationship with Israel to the pace of peace negotiations with the Palestinians which even Sen. Charles Schumer sharply criticized. Silence
5) The public harassment of Israel’s PM, Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White House in March of 2010. Silence