Let's Think About that Again...
Globes
reporter Ran Dagoni reporting from Washington writes, "President Bush's
administration has given its blessing to the MOU [Memorandum of Understanding]
between Israel and the US." Also quoted is Ambassador David Ivry: “[the
MOU] institutionalizes a process enabling Israel to prepare defense plans."
Boaz Raday, cited as "Israel's Minister of Economic Affairs in
Washington," said, "We wanted to prevent renewed debate on military
aid every year, so that some administration official won't say, 'Let's think
about that again.'"
The
MOU "institutionalizing" 8 more years of a process of unilateral
transfers to Israel which began in 1974 (and which according to 15 years of
research by this Institute shows aid and other forms of free money to be the
single most destructive policy of the Jewish state in preventing growth and
fastening upon its people a pattern of demographic decline now being certified
in the peace process) is being touted by the friends of Israel, here in the
words of Boaz Raday (formerly chief advisor to Labor Treasury Minister Shohat
whose policies, including the killing of the Free Export Processing Zone Law,
are regularly reviewed by Alvin Rabushka in these pages) as being "greatly
desired" by Israel. "We are glad," says Boaz Raday, "that we
succeeded in achieving" this historic "first time" 8 year lock-in
of US aid.
Globes
also reports that this MOU was effectively the final act of Mr. Clinton's
administration and the first one of the incoming Bush team.
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