John Kerry’s stepson said he was misquoted in a story that said he regarded Israel as the “51st state” of America. A New York Post gossip item on Sunday quoted Chris Heinz as saying, “One of the things I’ve noticed is the Israel lobby — the treatment of Israel as the 51st state, sort of a swing state.”
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