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Dennis Ross – Presidential Advisor for Israel/ Palestinian Negotiations Unlike Jimmy Carter, Clinton was motivated not by his fears of renewed conflict but by his hopes of what could be achieved … In his first meeting as President with Prime Minister Rabin in March 1993, when the Israeli Prime Minister told him he had a […]
Letter to the King of Saudi Arabia “The Government and the people of the United States have given support to the concept of a Jewish national home in Palestine ever since the termination of the First World War, which resulted in the freeing of a large area of the Near East, including Palestine, and the […]
Iran Barack Hussein Obama (2009 – 2017) Kerry Confronts Concerns of Arab States After Iran Nuclear Deal Manama, Bahrain ― A year after he struck the outlines of a nuclear deal with Iran, Secretary of State John Kerry finds himself confronting a new challenge from Tehran: While it is observing the nuclear agreement to the […]
Yasir Arafat/ Hamas President Bill Clinton (1993 – 2001) BILL CLINTON: ‘I KILLED MYSELF TRYING TO GIVE THE PALESTINIANS A STATE’ Former US president Bill Clinton came to his wife’s defense on May 13 when the focus of a campaign event for Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton shifted to Israel. During a speech discussing his wife’s […]
“In ancient times the irrigation of the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys supported probably 10 million people in the kingdoms of Babylon and Nineveh. The deterioration and destruction of their irrigation works by the Mongol invasion centuries ago, and their neglect for ages, are responsible for the shrinkage of the population to about 3,500,000 people in […]
In Gen. George S. Patton’s handwritten journal, Patton, who oversaw the Displaced Person operations for the United States, seethed after reading Harrison’s findings, which he saw ― quite accurately ― as an attack on his own command. “Harrison and his ilk believe that the Displaced Person is a human being, which he is not, and […]
Faced with complaints by outside Jewish groups about conditions of “abject misery,” President Harry S. Truman sent a former immigration official, Earl Harrison, to Europe to inspect the camps. His findings were blistering. The survivors “have been ‘liberated’ more in a military sense than actually,” Harrison wrote Truman in the summer of 1945. “As matters […]
“Roosevelt assured Ibn Saud that he would support … ‘no action that would prove hostile to the Arab people.” Source: Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict 1881-2001, By Benny Morris; Schoenbaum, David. The United States and the State of Israel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993
“Late in July, the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe wrote President Roosevelt calling for bombing the deportation railways and gas chambers. The letter emphasized that the railroads were also used for military traffic and that an attack on Auschwitz could open the way for inmates to escape and join the resistance […]
“THE WHITE HOUSE, UNDER PRESSURE FROM ARABIST OFFICIALS (E.G. STATE DEPARTMENT), PERSUADED CONGRESS TO WITHDRAW A JOINT RESOLUTION CALLING ON BRITAIN TO RESCIND THE WHITE PAPER AND SUPPORTING A JEWISH STATE. But, at the same time, Roosevelt assured the Jews that ‘full justice will be done [after the war] to those who seek a Jewish […]