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(MEMRI) — Following are excerpts from an interview with former Lebanese defense minister Mohsen Dalloul, which aired on ANB TV on September 4, 2011:

Mohsen Dalloul: If you examine the [Americans’] foundational texts, you will see that many of their forefathers were critical of American policy. Even presidents, like Jimmy Carter. . . If you want, you can even go further back, to the speeches of George Washington…

In a very important speech, George Washington called not to trust the Jews, saying that the Jews are blood-suckers. In the constitutional convention, Benjamin Franklin, one of the founding fathers, stood up and said — and I quote — “Gentlemen, let me warn you that the Jews might gather on American soil. They are bad seed, and so on and so forth. I propose adding an article to the constitution preventing the entry of Jews into the US.” He was a president and one of the founding fathers.