Posted by Eugene Volokh:
Quote Query:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2005_06_05-2005_06_11.shtml#1118358723
Former Congressman Paul Findley, writing on [1]The Huffington Post,
writes:
As Condoleezza Rice once said: "We have an Israel-centric foreign
policy." How true. . . .
This struck me as quite surprising, so I did a google and LEXIS search
for this quote to get more context, but I couldn't find it. Searching
for "Rice" near "Israel-centric," I found a [2]Robert Novak column
that said:
In private conversation, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice
has insisted that Hezbollah -- not al Qaeda -- is the world's most
dangerous terrorist organization. How could that be, considering al
Qaeda's global record of mass carnage?
In truth, Hezbollah is the world's most dangerous terrorist
organization from Israel's standpoint. While viciously
anti-American in rhetoric, the Lebanon-based Hezbollah is focused
on the destruction of Israel. "Outside this fight (against Israel),
we have done nothing," Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, the organization's
secretary general, said in a recent New York Times interview. Thus,
Rice's comments suggest that the U.S. war against terrorism,
accused of being Iraq-centric, actually is Israel-centric.
But that surely can't be it, since that's Novak characterizing Rice's
attitude as being implicitly Israel-centric, and not a quote from Rice
saying "We have an Israel-centric foreign policy."
Can any readers help me out? If you have any pointer to a place where
Rice said this, please e-mail me at volokh at law.ucla.edu.
References
1.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/paul-findley/our-israelcentric-foreig_2378.html
2.
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/26/column.novak.opinion.sharon/
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