From: horen@rs.com (Jonathan B. Horen)
Subject: Re: BILL CLINTON ON ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE
Followup-To: talk.politics.mideast
Reply-To: horen@rs.com
Organization: Renaissance Software, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 12:05:22 PDT

In article 26710@ncrcae.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM, nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss) writes:
>>
>>
>>                          The Bush Record
>>
>>The Bush Adminstration has gravely harmed our relationship with Israel.  It
>>has:
>>
>>    o Pressured Israel to make once sided concessions in the
>>      peace process
>>
>
>     * Pressured the Arabs to make concessions too.

What pressure? What concessions? Where? But the Arabs were strong and
steadfast, and didn't yield to the pressure.

>>    o Ignored the cruel and crippling economic boycott of
>>      Israel by its Arab neighbors, and disregarded other
>>      roadblocks to peace
> 
>     * The Economic boycott will end once peace is achieved
>       and the Palestinians have their own homeland.

So the economic boycott won't be one of the Arab concessions, eh?

>>
>>    o Denied Israel's request for humanitarian assistance in
>>      resettling Russian Jews, and
>>
>     * The United States have always helped Israel to resettle
>       Jews in Israel. Recently the Loan guarantees have been
>       approved.

Resettle Jews in Israel because of a history of annihilation
in every other country in which we settled (and for the last 44 years
the Arabs have been dedicated to the "final solution" of annihilating 
us there, too). And the Loan Guarantees have been approved because
Israel agreed-to and stopped-building new settlements.

>>    o Eroded Israel's security needs by selling billions of
>>      dollars in sophisticated weaponry to Israel's Arab neighbors.
>>
>     * If the United States does not sell weapons to allies like 
>       Saudi Arabia then Britian will and the United States will
>       loose billions of dollars. After all they are allies and
>       they boost the economy of the Western world by lowering
>       the price of oil. 

Where do you buy *your* gasoline? I pay $1.25/gallon, up from $0.98
last September.

[...]
>>
>>Palestinian State.  The Palestinians should have the right -- as specified in
>>the Camp David Accord -- to participate in the determination of their future.
>>But they do no have the right to determine Israel's future.  For that reason,
>>Bill Clinton opposes the creation of an independent Palestinian state.
>>
>
>Did he really say that? I have never heard it. Why the Palestinians have no right
>and Israel have right?

Because Jordan=Palestine.

>
>>
>>
>>    o Together, our two nations will create a Joint American-
>>      Israeli High-Tech Commission to work on research and
>>      development of the technologies of the twenty-first Century.
>>
>>
>>Against the arms race.  We learned from Saddam's conquest of Kuwait that
>>missles and military dictators are a dangerous combination.  It is time we
>>became a leader in the effort to rein in the dangerous poliferation not only of
>>weapons of mass destruction, but of conventional arsenals as well.
>>
>>    o We need to aid Israel's defense against these dangerous
>>      weapons by ensuring the completion of the Arrow anti-
>>      ballistic missle.
>>
>
>The weapons of mass destruction are dangerous and should be kept away from 
>the hands of Saddam Hussein, Syria, and Israel as well.

Israel has them, but doesn't (and won't) use them (unless faced with
annihilation). Iraq and Syria have them AND USE THEM WITH IMPUNITY!!