arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

And on the evening of the first day Rumsfeld can talk to his Israelien friends;
"Evening Plenary
Profiles in Courage: Honoring the Heroes
8:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Donald Rumsfeld*, Secretary of Defense

Special presentation in honor of:
Dr. Bernadine Healy, Former President of the American Red Cross "

http://www.aipac.org/

WASHINGTON - (May 24) - Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore issued a stern warning to Syrian President Hafez Assad yesterday, saying the US would hold him personally responsible if northern Israel is subjected to terrorist attacks once the IDF withdraws from Lebanon.

"If peace does not come to this area, President Assad will bear a heavy responsibility before the entire world," Gore told a cheering crowd of AIPAC leaders at their annual conference in Washington. Gore spoke a day after Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor George W. Bush addressed the same audience and criticized the US administration for trying to impose its vision of peace on Israel.

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/05/24/News/News.7195.html

For the first time in the history of the annual American Israel Public Affairs Council policy conference, both presidential candidates appeared before the largely Jewish-American crowd proclaiming their unwavering and unconditional support for the state of Israel. Governor George W. Bush and Vice President Al Gore believe that to win an American election, or at least the media support they need to win, they must first win AIPAC.

Bush took a shot at the Clinton-Gore administration when he said, "My support for Israel is not conditional on the outcome of the peace process." Gore countered the next morning by saying, "We must not and would not in any way try to pressure Israel to agree to measures that they did not agree to," as most of the AIPAC audience believes Bush's father, President George H.W. Bush, did nine years ago at Madrid.

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/072000/0007015.html