The six Republican candidates jostling for their party’s presidential nomination courted Jewish voters at a daylong event marking the 15th anniversary of the founding of the Republican Jewish Coalition. One of the candidates, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), said during his speech that as president he would “tend with care” the U.S.-Israel relationship and would “participate in the Middle East peace process only in pursuit of genuine peace and not some means to embellish my profile as a statesman.”
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