Posted on 12/16/2002 5:27:45 PM PST by veronica
U.S. President George W. Bush supports conferring special American aid to Israel to help the country cope with its current economic difficulties.
While Bush, in a discussion with Jewish leaders last week, did not go into details about Israel's recent assistance request to his administration, participants in the conversation said there appears to be little doubt about the president's commitment to granting the aid.
A delegation of senior Israeli officials will leave for Washington soon to discuss the request with U.S. counterparts. Israel has asked for $4 billion in a special defense grant as well for American agreement to confer loan guarantees of between $8 billion and $10 billion.
This special assistance would be added to the United States' annual aid package to Israel, which is comprised of $2.16 billion in defense assistance and $480 million for economic-civilian spheres.
In the same conversation with Jewish leaders, Bush said the administration's Middle East policy is based on his June 24 speech, and is not obligated by efforts being made in various government branches to formulate a "roadmap" for implementing proposals made in the speech.
Bush's comments stand in opposition to signals recently sent out by some State Department officials to Israeli officials suggesting that the roadmap proposals are entirely consistent with Bush's speech.
Under the roadmap formulations, a provisional Palestinian state would be established by 2003, and this state would launch talks with Israel to attain a final status agreement by 2005.
The State Department wanted to finalize the roadmap proposals during a meeting of foreign ministers from the Quartet, which is scheduled to be in Washington Friday.
But complying to a request made by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the White House has agreed to defer final action on the roadmap proposal until after January's general elections and the formation of a new Israeli government.
WHAT!!!
THE PRESIDENT IS A TOOL OF THE JEWS!!!
ANY REAL AMERICAN WOULD OPPOSE THIS ON CONSTITUTIONAL GROUNDS....JUST ANOTHER WAY TO BLEED THE HARD WORKING WHIT...err...PEOPLE OF THESE FREE INDEPENDANT UNITED STATES!!!
(Friggin J-E-W-S.....White Power!!)
I am delighted to see that you are quite awake.
It's great to see that more anti-administration folks sign up on FR. Welcome. /Sarcasm.
Send me $160,000 and I'll shut up.
I wish I had 160,000.
he State Department wanted to finalize the roadmap proposals during a meeting of foreign ministers from the Quartet, which is scheduled to be in Washington Friday.
I just saw some posts on a Catholic thread where you were discussing the Covenant.
As long as you are consistant.
If you don't think this administration is much better than the last, you don't know much about the Clinton crew. My advice is to go to Newsmax.com and read some of the articles on Bill & Hill. You'll find that the Clintons will stop at nothing to achieve their political ambitions.
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