Jesse Jackson has lashed out at Post columnist Amir Taheri for having the temerity to take note of some Jackson predictions on how a President Barack Obama would approach the Middle East.
The “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, Jackson told Taheri at the World Policy Forum in France, but the “decades of putting Israel’s interests first” would end during an Obama presidency.
Not surprisingly, those words had Obama’s aides quickly running for cover.
A spokesman stressed that Jackson is “not an adviser to the Obama campaign and is therefore in no position to interpret or share Barack Obama‘s views on Israel and foreign policy.”
As for Jackson himself, he accused our colleague of trying “to incite fear and division” and of “selectively imposing his own point of view and distorting mine.”
But he didn’t actually deny saying what Taheri said he said.
And, Jackson’s protests notwithstanding, there’s really no alternate interpretation to a charge that “Zionists . . . have controlled American policy for decades.”
Again, he meant what he said.
Until things blew up in his face.
Jesse Jackson needs to shut up and realize that his biggest enemy is his mouth.