WASHINGTON, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Nationally syndicated radio columnist Andy Martin, the only announced 2004 Republican Party candidate for U.S. Senator from Florida, will hold an airport news conference today, May 18th at Reagan national Airport, arrival gate for US Airways Shuttle Flight 2677 at 3:06 P.M., to condemn President Bush's coddling of Ariel Sharon and the Israeli military junta.
Monday May 19th Martin will conduct a news conference to condemn the Bush administration's policies in Iraq, which have led to the "betrayal of the Iraqi people."
"Mr. Sharon has not made it to Washington, but I will," says Martin. "I unhesitatingly condemn the occupation of Palestine, and the neo-Nazi tactics of the Sharon regime. Once again, President Bush's foreign policy is left in tatters. To allow Sharon's extremists to pretend there is a 'peace process,' and road map, when there is 'no road,' is a travesty.
"Israeli propaganda has drugged the American people for too long. Suicide bombing is a response to occupation, brutal occupation, evil occupation. Anyone who contends otherwise is deluding himself.
"I returned from Israel a few days ago, where I traveled as an Arab to see what it was like. It was sickening to see the way the Israelis are trying to dehumanize Palestinians, and destroying Israel in the process. I traveled on the 'Arab buses' and saw how Palestinians are daily degraded. Sharon is destroying Israel to occupy Palestine, and Bush is endangering Americans to kowtow to Sharon. It will all end badly," says Martin.
Boston.com 5/18/2003
