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"US official: Bush gov't appeasing Arabs

The Bush administration is undertaking much of its current
Israeli-Palestinian diplomacy to appease the Arabs and Europeans, a top
White House official told a group of Jewish Republicans recently, according
to those present."

"Deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams said much of the
heightened State Department activity with the two parties was "process
for the sake of process" and being done to "assuage the Arabs and
the Europeans, who haven't been happy with the United States [and are]
happy to see that there's at least an attempt or energy being put into the
peace process," according to one attendee at the closed-door meeting.

Abrams also told the meeting that he would guard against the bureaucrats at
the State Department taking over American Middle East policy, as well as
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice falling into the "Clintonian
mode" of needing to point to achievements to secure her legacy as her
term concludes, according to someone at the discussion."


Adam

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