96 Senators Call On President Clinton to Support Israel (note: only part of letter shown) October 12, 2000 All but four members of the U.S. Senate signed the following letter to president Clinton expressing their solidarity with Israel. The four senators who did not sign were Spencer Abraham (R-MI), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Robert Byrd (D-WV) and Chuck Hagel (R-NE). The bipartisan letter was circulated by the Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-MS) and Tom Daschle (D-ND).

Dear Mr. President: We write to you to express our solidarity with Israel at this moment of crisis and our profound disappointment and frustration with PLO Chairman Arafat and the Palestinian Authority...We are deeply concerned at the continuing, coordinated campaign of Palestinian violence.

We urge you to express American solidarity with Israel at this crucial moment, to condemn the Palestinian campaign of violence, to do everything possible to secure the return of the three kidnapped Israeli soldiers from Lebanon, and to stand with Israel in international arenas - not only because we should, but because such actions are also the best way to restore the negotiating process.

America's open and abiding commitment to the security of Israel is the surest way to see our way safely through it.

53 U.S. Senators Urge Red Cross to Accept MDA By Melissa Radler JPOST August 2, 2001 In a bipartisan effort led by U.S. Senators Peter Fitzgerald (R-Illinois) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York,) a group of 53 senators sent letters yesterday to Secretary of State Colin Powell and leaders of the Red Cross urging the world's largest humanitarian organization to grant full and immediate membership to Magen David Adom (Israel's equivalent of the Red Cross).

Letter Signed By 81 Senators Asking President Clinton Not to Pressure Israel (note: part of letter below) Dear Mr. President: We are writing about the Middle East peace process, and the published reports of a disagreement between our administration and the Israeli government that may lead to the United States publicly presenting a peace proposal which is known to be unacceptable to Israel. We hope these reports are not true.

We share your administration's frustration with this lack of movement, but believe it would be a serious mistake for the United States to change from its traditional role as facilitator of the peace process to using public pressure against Israel. This would be particularly unfair and counterproductive since Israel has kept the promises it made at Oslo.

America's commitment to Israel's security undergirds the entire peace process and provides Israel the confidence it needs to take very real risks for peace. American Middle East diplomacy, as you know and have shown so well, has always worked best when pursued quietly and in concert with Israel. We strongly urge you to continue our critical role as facilitator of a process that can ultimately succeed only through the direct negotiations by the parties themselves.

Sincerely, Joseph I. Lieberman Connie Mack Letter from Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to President Clinton: Gingrich Criticizes Clinton Pressure on Israel May 6, 1998 (note: only part of letter shown) Dear Mr. President, I have followed the recent changes in your administration's Israel policy with a deep and growing sense of concern.

I strongly believe that genuine and lasting peace in Israel can only be achieved through voluntary direct dialogue between the parties, and not as a result of heavy-handed outside pressure by the United States. Israel must be able to decide her own security needs and set her own conditions for negotiations without facing coercion from the U.S. If your administration uses its influence to unilaterally design a "solution" or force Israel to the table...then what motivation does Chairman Arafat have to move toward common ground when America volunteers to drag Israel to his current position? Worse, America's strong-arm tactics would send a clear signal to the supporters of terrorism that their murderous actions are an effective tool in forcing concessions from Israel. Such signals endanger Israel and further weaken the peace process. (note: same argument used before September 11 and after September 11) Your administration must reevaluate it policy in this area.

Sincerely, Newt Gingrich Speaker of the House 87 SENATORS, 209 REPRESENTATIVES LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH: SUPPORT ISRAEL House, Senate Call For Reassessment of U.S.-Palestinian Relations April 6, 2001 (SOURCE: American Israeli Public Affairs Committee: AIPAC) 87 members of the Senate and the 209 members of the House sent letters to President Bush urging him to reassess U.S. relations with the Palestinian Authority.

Senate Letter (House Letter Is Almost the Same) Dear Mr. President: We are writing you out of a deep sense of frustration, anger and concern over recent events in the Middle East.... Over the past several months, the Palestinians have initiated on average over 30 "incidents" a day against Israeli soldiers and civilians (note: not a single mention of Palestinian casualties that are 4 times the Israeli casualties or the international condemnation of Israel by the State Department and every International Human Rights Organization.) Given the drastic changes that have taken place in recent months we believe it is time for the United States to initiate a reassessment of our relations with the Palestinians.

Such reassessment should, in our view, examine whether those Palestinian groups involved in violence, such as the PLO-affiliated groups Force 17 and Tanzim, should be designated as foreign terrorist organizations under Sections 219 of 8 USC 1189 and whether U.S. aid to the Palestinians is in fact meeting its goals, and whether it is appropriate for Arafat to be invited to meet with high-level officials in Washington while the violence continues; we also believe that you should reaffirm America's opposition to a unilaterally-declared independent Palestinian state.

It is also time for those of us in both parties who serve in Congress and in your administration to restate our commitment to Israel's security and to the uniquely common values and interests which America and Israel share.

June 11, 2001 The House of Representatives included several pro-Israel provisions in the Foreign Relations Authorization Act. The legislation, which passed 352-73 on May 16, included a section authored by Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY), Jewish, calling upon the State Department to review the current travel warning for Israel, while Reps. Jeff Flake (R-AZ) and Eric Cantor (R-VA), Cantor is Jewish, included language criticizing the anti-Israel comments of Syria's President Assad.

The House of Representatives voted to penalize Lebanon for not securing its border with Israel.

The House attached a provision, offered by Rep.

Tom Lantos (D-CA), Jewish, to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act prohibiting certain U.S. support for the Lebanese military until the army takes control of the country's border with Israel away from Hezbollah. (note: Israel withdrew from Lebanon after 22 years of military occupation) The Red Cross retracts description of Israeli settlements as "War Crime." In response to a strongly-worded letter from Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Jewish, regarding recent statements emanating from the organization, Dr. Jakob Kellenberger, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, stated unequivocally that the Red Cross does not consider Israeli settlement activity a "War Crime." EXAMPLES OF SENATORS INDIVIDUALLY EXPRESSING THEIR SOLIDARITY WITH ISRAEL SENATOR CHARLES SCHUMER's (D), ONE OF TEN JEWISH SENATORS: LETTER TO NYTIMES August 1, 2001 In a letter to the editor published in the New York Times August 1, 2001, Senator Charles Schumer, Jewish Senator from New York, states that Ehud Barak offered the Palestinians a state of their own on 97% of the West Bank with a capital in East Jerusalem. He states that Mr. Arafat reject this offer and instead of choosing peace he orchestrated a wave of violence that ended the peace process. (note: The scope and substance of the offer he mentions is false and Barak's "generosity" which was never stated publicly has been refuted by American negotiators who also wrote in the New York Times) SENATOR JOSEPH BIDEN (D-Delaware) PLEDGES HIS ALLEGIANCE TO ISRAEL In June of this year Senator Joseph Biden (D-Delaware), Chair of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee tells the Pro-Israeli Council on Foreign Relations that the Israeli-U.S. friendship "is not a transitory event, a marriage of convenience, or a short-term alliance." SENATOR JESSE HELMS (R-N. Carolina) CARES MORE ABOUT ISRAEL'S SECURITY THAN FORMER GENERAL AND PRIME MINISTER EHUD BARAK According to the Jerusalem Post of August 16, 2000: "Jesse Helms Critical of Barak's Concessions" Jesse Helms, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is critical of Prime Minister Ehud Barak for making too many concessions at Camp David.

"Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered concessions unimaginable even several weeks ago; indeed, I believe he went too far," Helms wrote in an August 8 letter to Americans for a Safe Israel, a small, New York-based group opposed to the peace process begun at Oslo in 1993.

"Israel must have an agreement that leaves a defensible state; the borders contemplated at Camp David leave Israel vulnerable," Helms added.

No American citizen, no American organization, no American institution, and no American domestic need or policy ever receives the immediate undivided attention of "our?" Congress than the single issue of Jewish America, that of Israel.

Whatever Israel needs and whenever it needs it, it can count on the Jewish American lobby, on the Jewish American Congressmen and Senators, and on the Jewish American appointees in the executive branch, along with the voice of the powerful media to continue that "Large Sucking Sound" out of our Treasury, Commerce, and Pentagon toward the only country in the world more condemned and criticized by the world community than any other. Israel's cynical use of the murder of millions of Jews in the Holocaust and the intimidating use of America's Scarlet Letter "A" for Anti-Semitism has allowed it to steal land, murder civilians, and create the world's longest suffering Palestinian refugees, all in plain sight of a world silenced by its guilt and by America's power.

There will never be peace for America as long as we the American citizens allow a foreign nation to dictate our foreign policy and who becomes our friends and our enemies. For sometime Israel and its "controlled Congress and media" are pushing our country to expand our war and murder of civilians to the Arab countries Israel deems standing in its vision of "Greater Israel." At the beginning we supported Israel to be our client state in the oil deserts of Arabia, now its us who've become the client state for Israel.

Israel is committing atrocities with our money and weapons---killing in our name. This has more to do with our national pride, identity, and role in the world than it does with Muslims, Palestinians, or Afghanistan. Is this our country, is this "our?" Congress, is Bush our President, and is Colin Powell our Secretary of State.

What Powell will say and not say on Monday November 19 will tell the American people and the world whether we are in charge of our destiny or is Israel. Let's pray that no more Americans die for Israel's sake and for the sake of reelecting "our?'" brave Congressmen. Alexander James