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Ron Brown Spreads
Clinton Message
Throughout Israel
1FRU8EL EIKOZIN
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nited States Commerce
Secretary Ron Brown
seems to have a knack
for being in an interest-
ing place at the right time.
"I went to South Africa the
day after President (Bill) Clin-
ton signed the legislation re-
moving the sanctions. I was in
Mexico the day
that the NAFTA
treaty was signed
and I was in the
Middle East the
day that Presi-
dent Clinton was
meeting with
President (Hafez)
Assad," he said
recently while
driving from
eastern Jeru-
salem to Beit
Jala.
He had just
left a meeting
with Palestinian
leaders at Orient
House, becoming Ronald Brown
the first U.S. cab-
inet member to visit the Pales-
tinian headquarters since the
PLO flag was raised over it.
He was on his way to put his
stamp of approval on a pioneer
project of "Builders for Peace,"
the group formed by U.S. Vice
President Al Gore to encourage
private sector investment in the
territories by Jewish and Arab
American businessmen.
Mr. Brown's recent nonstop
Middle East schedule some-
what resembles a campaign
whistle-stop tour, the kind he
executed so well during Mr.
Clinton's election campaign.
During his reign as Democ-
ratic National Committee chair-
man, Mr. Brown traveled the
country raising funds for the
party and preaching the central
Clinton message: "It's the econ-
omy, stupid."
Now Mr. Brown is deliver-
ing a similar message to Arab
and Israeli leaders. He is pro-
moting the idea that strong
economies are as vital to the fu-
ture of the region as any peace
agreement.
In practice, that means ac-
tively pressuring the Arab na-
tions to end their economic
boycott against Israel and push-
ing Israel to reduce tariffs and
lower trade barriers.
The two issues are linked,
Mr. Brown explained.
"We believe
that tariff and
non-tariff barri-
ers should be re-
moved, notwith
-standing who
puts them up,"
he said.
He has won
applause from
Israeli officials
with his promi-
nent public crit-
icism of the Arab
boycott in his
previous stops
on this trip in
Amman and
Riyadh.
The recent
visit was Mr.
Brown's fifth trip to Israel. A
successful corporate lawyer, his
charm and renowned powers of
persuasion have helped make
him one of the most popular
men in Washington.
After playing such a key role
in the Clinton victory, it was
clear that Mr. Brown would
earn a top cabinet post. After
weeks of speculation that Mr.
Brown might be named secre-
tary of state, he instead went to
commerce.
Though he has never been
elected to office, Mr. Brown
might be the most powerful
African-American political fig-
ure in the United States.
When he took the helm of
the Democratic National Com-
mittee, the American Jewish
community looked at him
askance because of his back-
ground as a top aide and rep-
resentative of Jesse Jackson,
with whom the Jewish corn-
munity has had their frictions.
But within a short time, all
doubts were erased and the