La Libre Belgique reported that "the Simon Wiesenthal Centre has placed the European Commissioner Karel De Gucht in its" Top 10 " Semitic remarks most of the year for said "do not underestimate the influence of the Jewish lobby on Capitol Hill " adding that "Mr. De Gucht apologized."
It is incorrect to state that Mr De Gucht has apologized. It has not only not withdrawn its charges on the dominance of the "Jewish lobby" but he has even confirmed : "I Gave To The year interview yesterday Flemish radio. I Was Asked about the Middle aussi East peace talks. I Gave my personal point of view. I regret thats the comments made That I Have Been construed in a sense That I Did not intend ". I Did not mean in" any way possible to cause insult or stigmatize the Jewish Community. I want to make clear That anti-Semitism has no place in today's world am and is Fundamentally o Against European values. "
noted that the Chairman of CCOJB, Maurice Sosnowski , recently said on Radio Judaica have questioned the Center for Equal Opportunity about what Mr. De Gucht and had not received a response.
Purpose (translated) by Karel De Gucht
"We should not underestimate, for example, the [power] Jewish lobby on Capitol Hill, the U.S. Congress. This is the best organized group pressure that exists. In other words, we must not underestimate the influence of the Jewish lobby on American politics. Whether Democrats or Republicans, it comes at about the same.
Do not underestimate the opinion - outside of the lobby - the average Jew who does not live in Israel. There are indeed among most Jews faith [geloof] - I could hardly describe it differently - they're right. And faith is something you can easily fight with rational arguments. It does depends on whether these Jews are believers or not. Even secular Jews [vrijzinnige] share the same belief of actually right. It is not easy even moderately with a Jew, to have a discussion about what is happening in the Middle East. This is very emotional. "
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