Ed Koch weighs in on the race to replace Anthony Weiner in his Brooklyn congressional district:
“If Jewish New Yorkers and others who support Israel were to turn away from the Democratic Party in that congressional election and elect the Republican candidate to Congress in 2011, it might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position on the state of Israel and to re-establish the special relationship presidents before him had supported,” Koch said in his weekly commentary….
“I want to put a shot across Obama’s bow,” Koch said in an interview. He is furious with Obama over the president’s public push to get Israel to use its 1967 borders as a starting point for negotiations over a Palestinian state.
Have no fear. From the NY Jewish Week.
In an interview Tuesday, Weprin said he would stress his six visits to Israel as a City Council member and the fact that he has family living there as part of his Zionist bona fides.
“I’m one of the few [Democrats] who has been very strongly criticizing Obama on the statement he made that the starting point [in Mideast peace talks] is Israel going back to the pre-‘67 border,” Weprin said.
