Matt Yglesias

Palin and the Jewish Agency

Sarah Palin does Israel policy:

Palin, Republican John McCain’s running mate, also tried to burnish her foreign policy credentials by meeting here with Israel’s ambassador to the United States, apologizing for the session’s delay.

“We look forward to … working with your Jewish agency,” she told Ambassador Sallai Meridor just before her speech outside Washington.

This is a reference to The Jewish Agency for Israel which helps Jews leave their current countries and move to Israel. Which is nice. But I think that most American Jews like the United States of America just fine. What we’d like to see is a commitment to policies here in the USA that help secure the interests and security of religious and ethnic minorities rather than, say, demagogic rhetoric about which kinds of people and which kinds of places are authentically American.

UPDATE: Corrected quote makes much more sense:

“I look forward to hearing about your work with the Jewish Agency and all the plans that we have. We’ll be working together.”

Dunno what that reporter was thinking; the alternations completely changed the meaning of what he was attributing to Palin.