The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center protested assertions by Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas that “international Zionism” was responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the 1992 defeat of President Bush and the sex scandal currently besetting President Clinton. “We protest the type of demagoguery which continues to poison Arab minds,” the associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, wrote in a letter to Syria’s ambassador to the United States.
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