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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58007-2004Aug11.html

Ralph Nader, that master of controversy, has a new bete noire: the 
Anti-Defamation League. The independent presidential candidate has become 
embroiled in an ugly exchange with the Jewish organization, after he 
suggested that President Bush and Congress were "puppets" of the Israeli 
government.

"The days when the chief Israeli puppeteer comes to the United States and 
meets with the puppet in the White House and then proceeds to Capitol Hill, 
where he meets with hundreds of other puppets, should be replaced," Nader 
said earlier this summer. That prompted an angry letter from the league, 
which complained that the "image of the Jewish state as a 'puppeteer,' 
controlling the powerful US Congress feeds into many age-old stereotypes 
which have no place in legitimate public discourse."

Nader is not backing down. In a letter to the group that will be released 
today, he reiterated his arguments, challenged the league to cite a recent 
example of when American leaders have pursued a policy opposed by the 
Israeli government and pointed to Israeli peace groups that he said share 
his criticism of that country's leadership. "There is far more freedom in 
the media, in town squares and among citizens, soldiers, elected 
representatives and academicians in Israel to debate and discuss the 
Israeli-Palestinian conflict than there is in the United States," Nader wrote.