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proclaimed histori.: Jerusalem
an Arab capital city and declared that
control of the city must be granted to a
future RA. state.
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The Bath-Risch Senate letter paral-
lels a letter sent to Saudi Arabia's
King Abdullah by the C.S. House of
Representatives a 1,ceek earlier. Michigan
Reps. Gary Peters, Bart Stupak, Peter
Hoek.stra, Thaddeus McCotter and
Candice Miller were among the 226 con-
gressional signers.
The Saudis have flatly spurned U.S.
calls for improving f elations with
Israel to iumpstart the peace talks.
"Inc.-rementalism and a ste-p-bv-sten
ap7roach has not and. we
ea e. Saudi Forel L - -7i
will not lead
Minister Prin,:e Saud al-Faisal said
following tall-:s with .Secretar-- - of State
Clinton." iemporan- security and con-
fidence building measures will also not
bring peace."
Neither is Dan Polial-c. co-d i rector lit
government re.lations for the New 'fork-
based Zionist Organization of America,
sanguine. While commending Senators
Bayh and Risch and their co-signers
for the pro-Israel letter, Pollak said,
"Ultimately, the road to peace does not
depend on Saudi Arabia's confidence-
building measures, but rather on Saudi
Arabia and other Arab states. accep-
tance of Israel as a Jewish state.
"The entire discussion ignores the
actual commitments the Arab side
have made in each of the agreements
they have signed with Israel since the
Oslo process started. They are required
to arrest and disarm terrorists, con-
fiscate their illegal weapons and end
incitement to hatred and murder in
their schools, mosques, Youth camps
and government-controlled media.
The administration and the Western
media continue to ignore this basic
fact and. instead. are pursuing mean-
ingless res,--ict:o,-ss on Jews living in
Jerusalem. \\R kr10v; the region is
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contradicts and undermines the
efforts" of the Obama administration
to promote Middle East r,, -ace:- stated
APN. and "sends a message that the
signers consider settlements more
important than peace.-
In ari action ale:: :o its activists.
JStreet criticized the 3avh-Risch letter
as "one-sided" and urged amendments
to the letter "so it reflects :he presi-
dents balanced approa.cH and sp.-cif-
cap,-
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for a complete
freeze
Israeli
Jeremy 3en-Arni. I Street execu-
tive director. said in a statement. -As
President Obama made clear both in
His Cairo st eech and at His nneeting
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APN1 and Jstr-et. lobbied against the
Bavh-Risch letter. They urged mem-
bers to contact their U.S. senators to
dissuade them from signing because
the letter fails to address Israeli settle-
ment building,
"The subtext of the letter directly
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Only six of the 13 Jewish senators
signed the missive: Barbara Boxer.
D-Calif.. Ben Cardin. D-pfd.. Joe
Lieberman. I-Ct.. Charles Schumer.
D-N.Y., Arlen Specter, D-Pa., and Ron
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arms, an end to the hatred and an
acceptance of the fact that there
is and should be a Jewish state
here in the Middle East. The reali-
ties on the ground are such that
we could never see Israel return
back to the '67 lines."
Michigan freshman Rep. Gary
Peters arrived in Israel on Aug.
9 as part of a Democratic con-
gressional mission led by House
Majority Leader Steny Hoyer
of Maryland and sponsored by
the American Israel Education
Foundation. Israeli Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman told
the group that the confluence of
unrest in the West Bank and Gaza
and the developments out of the
Fatah convention in Bethlehem
"has buried any chance of com-
ing to an agreement with the
Palestinians in the next few
years."
The Jerusalem acs: quotes
Lieberman as warning that the
"Palestinians' uncompromising,
extremist positions on Jerusalem,
right of return and settlements
are making a gap between us that
can't be bridged" and that any
attempt to force an agreement
was doomed to failure.
Israeli President Shimon Peres
also cautioned that Israel has
to be "careful not to repeat the
mistakes of Gaza. "We left and
Hamas came in and started shoot-
ing at us."
But Peres was careful to soften
the line between the U.S. and
Israel on settlements, noting that
the only outstanding issue is
accommodation of natural growth
in existing settlements.
Peres hopes that a solution is
in the offing, the Jerusalem Post
reported, "and that it was not a
tragedy for Israel and America to
disagree on one or two points."
From his own perspective,
Peres considered Obama's
plan to be "positive, serious
and sincere."
Answering
Israel's Critics
The Charge
Jewish groups are unfairly criticiz.-
ing the choice of Ma_ry Robinson, a
former president of Lreland and for-
mer U.N. commissioner on human
rights. to receive the Presidential
Medal of Freedom.
The Answer
Robinson presided over. thereby
endorsing, the notorious 2001 U.N.
anti-racism conference in Durban,
which devolved into a strictly anti-
Israel and anti-Seth tic affair and
laid the c4-roundwork for worldwide
campaigns to divest from and aca-
demically boycott Israel.
- Allan Gale, Jewish Community
Relations Councii
of Metropolitan Detroit