Jesse Jackson Foregin Policy Views

I'm writng a TL that includes the 1996 Presidental Elections. I'm considering making him be one of the Dem. canadadites.

I've been unable to find much about his foreign policy views. So I ask the members of this board.

1.) What was his stance on the war in the Balkans? Did he support US intervention?

2.) What was his stance on NATO expansion?

3.) What about Israel? I've heard that he was hostile to the Israeli government and favored the Palestinians?
 

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Jackson probably wouldn't have the best relations with Jewish-Americans and Israel,according to his Wikipedia article:

Jackson was criticized in the early 1980s for refusing to repudiate Louis Farrakhan, for his support of a Palestinian state, and for remarks made to a reporter where he referred to New York City as "Hymietown".[2][36] (Hymie is a pejorative term for Jews.) Jackson ultimately acknowledged he had used the term, and said he had been wrong; however, he also said that he had considered the conversation with the reporter to be off-the-record at the time he made the remarks.[36] Jackson apologized during a speech before national Jewish leaders in a Manchester, New Hampshire synagogue, but an enduring split between Jackson and many in the Jewish community continued at least through the 1990s.[36]

Shortly after President Jimmy Carter fired U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young for meeting with Palestine Liberation Organization representatives, Jackson and other black leaders began publicly endorsing a Palestinian state, with Jackson calling Israel's prime minister a "terrorist", and then soliciting Arab-American financial support.[37] Jackson has since apologized for some of these remarks, but they badly damaged his presidential campaign, as "Jackson was seen by many conservatives in the United States as hostile to Israel and far too close to Arab governments."[38]

According to a 1987 New York Times article, Jackson began attempting to improve his relationship with the Jewish community after 1984.[2] He was invited to speak in support of Jewish Senator and Vice Presidential candidate Joe Lieberman at the Democratic National Convention.[39]
 
Yeah. Of course, it's possible he may not make that gaffe.

In general, foreign policy was skipped over by Jackson in favour of domestic stuff. From what I can fathom, he was dovish, but foreign policy wasn't his strong suit.

As far as I can understand, that. But the foreign policy platform would've probably consisted of:

-Universal disarmament

-Withdrawal from, dismemberment of NATO

-Creation of Palestinian state

-Lifting embargo on Cuba

Send me the link to your thread. I'd love to check it out and comment :)
 
As far as I can understand, that. But the foreign policy platform would've probably consisted of:

-Universal disarmament

-Withdrawal from, dismemberment of NATO

-Creation of Palestinian state

-Lifting embargo on Cuba

Send me the link to your thread. I'd love to check it out and comment :)

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/crisis-in-the-kremlin-an-extended-cold-war-tl.390118/

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I hope you enjoy. I've only gotten three months into it (POD in November 1989.)

I plan on breaking it up into a trilogy

Part 1: 1989-1996 Presidential Election (Major Dem. canadites are going to be Cuomo, Jackson, Brown, Gore, the major GOP canadites are Dole, Quayle, and Buchannan.
Part 2: 1997-2006
Part 3: 2007-2016
 
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