It is a place filled with trees, good weather, and also important secrets. Of course, this was not the first time that the United States held itself accountable for israel. Of jimmy carter was not the only one who had this sense of responsibility in us government. The first and perhaps most responsible us president on the palestinian issue was harry s. Truman. The most important place to express this sense of responsibility was in the United Nations General Assembly to divide palestine in. To two independent states, arab and jewish, it was possible to create nation with the vote of the majority and give them land in the same place. Those are in favor will say yes, those are against will say no. Afghanistan, no, argentina. Argentina, abstention, egypt, no, iraq, no, no, lebanon, no, soviet union, yes, united kingdom, abstain, United States, yes, paraguay, yes. The resolution of the Duck Committee for palestine was adopted by sir this three boats 13 against 10 abstentions israeli flag wa
Jimmy carter, who was really concerned about peace and security in the world, invited the two sides of major conflict to a meeting. His guests were anwar al sadat, president of egypt and former fighter, the Prime Minister of israel, managin begin. After 30 years of fruitless arab israeli wars, both sides preferred to talk secretly. About the conflict for few days. The secret talks needed a comfortable place and it was situated in washington northwest road top of the forested hills. It was camp david, the country retreat for the president of the United States. It is a place filled with trees, good weather, and also important secrets. Of course, this was not the first time that the United States held itself accountable for israel. Jimmy carter was not the only. One had this sense of responsibility in us government, the first and perhaps most responsible us president on the palestinian issue was harry s truwman. The most important place to express this sense of responsibility was in the U
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With israel, this is for, im sorry, ill come back to you, go ahead, yes, indeed, this is giving a green light for this fascist Israeli Government to continue oppressing palestinians and continue its colonial policies, unchecked by International Law or by any kind of ethics or morality, since as you pointed out you know the the Us Government which is now you know basically almost shut down because of its budget problems, its state department in the meantime and its highest level of government like secretary of state blincon, all they seem to be interested in is how to serve israel, and it seems sometimes i wonder who is the master and who is the tail of the dog so to speak because they seem to be that the Us Government devotes all its energy towards these israeli policies rather than uh thinking about even american interests. Still cant make a sense out of why it is that saudi arabia is even mulling this overler, but moving to the big picture here, um, you know, these uh socalled regime
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