From: nabil@ncrcol.ColumbiaSC.NCR.COM (Nabil Idriss)
Subject: Re: BILL CLINTON ON ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST
Keywords: ISRAEL CLINTON BOOR ARKIE SLICK-WILLY
Organization: NCR E&M Columbia SC.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 15:29:50 GMT

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>           BILL CLINTON ON ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST
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>    The end of the Cold War does not mean the end of U.S.
>    responsibility abroad, especially in the Middle East.
>    The people of the region are still denied peace and
>    democracy.  America's friend Israel is still threatened
>    by her neighbors.
>
>    The United States has vital interests in the Middle East.
>    That is why Governor Clinton supported President Bush's
>    efforts to throw Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.  We must
>    remain engaged in the region and continue to promote the
>    spread of democracy, human rights and free markets.
>
>    Among all the countries in the Middle East, only Israel
>    has experienced the peaceful transfer of power by ballot
>    - not by bullet.  Only Israel could experience it.  As
>    President, Bill Clinton will never let Israel down.
>

Can you elaborate on the "peaceful transfer of power?"

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>                          The Bush Record
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>The Bush Adminstration has gravely harmed our relationship with Israel.  It
>has:
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>    o Pressured Israel to make once sided concessions in the
>      peace process
>

     * Pressured the Arabs to make concessions too.

>    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.
>
>    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.

>    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. 

>Bill Clinton opposes the Bush Adminstration's actions.  He believe they are no
>way to treat a steady friend and stable democracy.
>
>
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>                        THE CLINTON PLAN
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>Loan Guarantees.  Bill Clinton will grant Israel's longstanding request for our
>assistance in its effort to cope with the massive influx of Jewish refugees
>from the former Soviet Union.  He will not hold hostage to political struggle
>hundreds of thousands or men, women, and children whose freedom we've demanded
>for decades.
>
>Peace Process.  The United States will work with the new Israeli government to
>move the peace process forward.  In doing so the United States cannot rightly
>predetermine the outcome of the negotiations or impose peace on any party.
>
>    o We can and should server as an honest broker, and, on
>      occasion, as a catalyst.  No side should be expected
>      to make unilateral concessions.
>
>    o Jerusalem is the capital of the state of Israel and
>      must remain an undivided city accessible to people
>      of all faiths.
>
>    o Peace that does not provide for Israel's security will
>      not be secure and lasting.
>
>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?

>
>
>    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.


>    o We need an Adminstration that will produce action, not
>      just promises to stop the spread of dangerous missles
>      in the Middle East.  We need a strong international
>      effort and tough sanctions to keep weapons of mass
>      destruction out of the hands of tyrants like those in
>      Iran, Iraq and Libya.
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