Malaysia’s outgoing prime minister says his country’s next government shares his view that Jews dominate the world. U.S. State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Tuesday that the United States does not want Malaysian prime minister-designate Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to be tarred by Mahathir Mohammad’s comments earlier this month that Jews “rule the world by proxy” and that the Muslim world must unite to defeat them.
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