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Israel's Friend A poll released recently by the Washington Post showed that 55 per- cent of Americans "approve of the way Bush is handling the campaign against terrorism,". and 51 percent said they "trust Bush more than Kerry to deal with terrorism, while 42 percent pre- fer the Democrat." We also should not forget that Bush, in my opinion, has been the greatest friend Israel has ever had in the White House. At the U.N.'s Security Council and General Assembly, allies of the United States and others who are indifferent or hos- tile to our country have conveyed the view that if we end our alliance with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, they would welcome the United States back into their circle. But Bush has refused to abandon Israel. This November, we American Jews should remember our friends. 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The Saudi government, one of the Bush administration's closest allies in the Middle East, regularly blames Israel and Zionism for all the world's evils, including terrorism. The same Prince Naif also has declared that he believes Zionists to be behind the Sept. 11 attacks, and the Saudi press prints the most vicious anti-Semitic diatribes as a matter of course. One looks in vain for a public condemnation of Abdullah's offen- sive remarks by President Bush or his senior officials, a reticence that may well be the result of the Bush family's long and intimate relation- ship with the Saudi royal family. To be sure, the U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia politely discussed the Crown Prince's comments with the Saudi foreign minister, but that was about it. In contrast, Kerry unequivocally denounced Abdullah's "outrageous anti-Semitic comments" and correct- ly pointed out that they raise "seri- ous questions about the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's commitment to com- bating terrorism." Kerry understands that Israel is more than just another country. "I think it is fair to say," he said in his 1997 AIPAC speech, "that the ashes of the Holocaust victims were scattered on the wind, but that wind also carries on it their prayers and purpose — above mountains and sea, across thousands of miles, so that the pain of history is redeemed in the land of Israel. It is a sacred place — for them, for their people who live there and for all the world." Both the United States and Israel need an American president of vision, moral courage and intellectu- al depth who thoroughly under- stands the imperatives of history. Kerry is that man, and for the sake of both nations, we must elect him in November. ❑