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Message: <br /><br /> If you are having trouble reading this email, you may view this article online at: http://www.jweekly.com/2667/full/2667/russia-s-zhirinovsky-now-blasts-buchanan-as-crap/ <br /><br /> <b>Russia’s Zhirinovsky now blasts Buchanan as `crap’</b> <br /> Friday, March 1, 1996 | by <p>LEV KRICHEVSKY </p> <br /><br /><p>MOSCOW—Russian ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky has sent Pat Buchanan an abusive, obscenity-filled letter after the Republican presidential hopeful refused to be associated with Zhirinovsky's politics.<br /><br /> "You are crap, Pat," Zhirinovsky reportedly wrote. "You filled your pants as soon as you got my congratulations. Who are you afraid of? Zionists?"<br /><br /> Zhirinovsky's letter also contained sarcastic suggestions that he would like to see Jews "dominating government and the parliaments of all countries."<br /><br /> It was sent this week after Zhirinovsky was apparently stung by Buchanan's effort to distance himself from a previous message Zhirinovsky sent congratulating Buchanan on his victory last week in the New Hampshire primary.<br /><br /> In that earlier message, the leader of Russia's Liberal Democratic Party referred approvingly to a comment Buchanan made repeatedly in the months preceding the 1991 Gulf War that the U.S. Congress is "Israeli-occupied territory."<br /><br /> "We have the same situation in Russia," Zhirinovsky's earlier message said. "The United States and Russia are not free countries, but are under occupation.<br /><br /> "So, to survive, we could set aside places on U.S. and Russian territories to deport this small but troublesome tribe."<br /><br /> After receiving Zhirinovsky's first message, Buchanan reportedly responded that he wanted to have nothing to do with what he called "the politics of hatred."<br /><br /> Buchanan also reportedly replied that he would provide safe haven to persecuted minorities if—"Lord forbid"—Zhirinovsky were ever elected Russia's president.<br /><br /> Zhirinovsky's press secretary, Maj. Gen. Viktor Filatov, confirmed in an interview the contents of last week's congratulatory message to Buchanan.<br /><br /> But he denied that Zhirinovsky was referring to the deportation of Jews.<br /><br /> "These were not Jews whom Zhirinovsky called `this small tribe,'" Filatov said. "He was talking about dissenters who do not like living in Russia. We know that there are a lot of people like these in America."<br /><br /> "We mentioned Israel in this letter because it was mentioned by Buchanan. Had he said that `Congress is occupied by the blacks' we would have put `the blacks,'" Filatov added.<br /><br /> In the past Buchanan has made his views on Israel clear. Several years ago, he wrote: "When it suits them, our Israeli allies launch air strikes on Tunis, Baghdad or Beirut; they invade Lebanon; they even enlist U.S. traitors, like the Pollards, to loot the secrets of a nation that has manifested toward them an extraordinary indulgence."<br /><br /> He has also criticized U.S. foreign aid to Israel as "subsidizing a policy that denies to Palestinians their God-given right to a homeland."<br /><br /> Meanwhile, the leadership of the Russian Jewish community expressed deep concern about Zhirinovsky's earlier message to Buchanan.<br /><br /> Alexander Osovtsov, executive vice president of the recently established Russian Jewish Congress, said in an interview that "the Congress will make an effort to sue Zhirinovsky for the anti-Semitic statement."<br /><br /> Zhirinovsky, whose Liberal Democrats are the third largest bloc in the lower house of the Russian Parliament, is running for the Russian presidency in June's elections.<br /><br /> According to a poll conducted last week by the Russian Public Opinion Institute, Zhirinovsky was the second most popular candidate after Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov.<br /><br /> Russian President Boris Yeltsin placed third in the poll.</p> <p> </p>

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