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Thursday, May 26, 2005
Ten Years Ago
The following letter appeared in The Jerusalem Post on May 25, 1995. It was written at a time when tensions over Oslo were boiling, in objection to Prime Minister Rabin's call on Bob Dole to refrain from calling for the U.S. embassy in Israel to be moved to Jerusalem.
In three disastrous years the Labor Party, led by Yitzhak Rabin, has done little right. The government's asinine reaction to Bob Dole's "initiative" to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, therefore, comes as no surprise.
Having served as ambassador here, Rabin believes himself to be an expert on American politics. If he is, he would understand that Dole, like Phil Gramm and just about every candidate for the presidency, promises to move the embassy in an effort to gain Jewish money and votes. Bill Clinton, for example, sounded very much like a Likudnik during his campaign, but now, unlike King Hussein, refuses to meet with Binyamin Netanyahu. As a result, few of us take campaign rhetoric seriously; most of us are offended by these insults to our intelligence. Dole seems to be especially lacking in sincerity; his hostility toward Israel as a senator makes George Bush look like a Zionist. (Bush, by the way, also promised to move the embassy.)
Perhaps Rabin is not an expert on US politics, but he surely understands the art of election-year pandering. Indeed, his broken promises to the residents of the Golan rank among the all-time greats.
Instead of hysterically lobbying Dole to refrain from promising to move the embassy, Rabin should have simply ignored the issue and stuck to lobbying for aid to the PLO. Rabin can rest assured that if Dole is elected, he will not, heaven forbid, move the embassy to Israel's capital, even if Labor is then in opposition. All Rabin has accomplished is to place the issue of Jerusalem onto op-ed pages all over the world, granting yet another victory to the PLO.
