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15.08.04, 06:49
By Brian Faler
Thursday, August 12, 2004; Page A07
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."