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APPEASEMENT- THE TOOL OF CLINTON'S FAILED FOREIGN POLICY
by Staff Writers -The Daily Republican OnLine Newspaper
WASHINGTON DESK - The world has learned by sad experience President William Jefferson Clinton usually bets on the losing horse. He put American money on the losing side in the Israeli election. And now in the Russia election, after sending billions of American dollars to sway the vote there, it appears today he has bet on the wrong wager once again.
In the case of Benjamin Netanyahu, the new Israeli prime minister, it is likely that Israelis voted for Mr. Netanyahu because they are tired of Clinton administration photo-ops and its failure to generate any peace as promised. In fact, the Israelis know that the number of Israeli deaths from terrorist attacks has been markedly higher since the Oslo agreement of 1994 giving Palestinians a measure of self-rule.
Prime Minister, Netanyahu, knows that a substantial majority of Israeli Jews now feel that Yasser Arafat photo-ops in the Clinton White House has perhaps ruined any chance of peace in the mid-east. The Israeli people see Clinton's "shuttle diplomacy" as a failure of the peace process.
The 'romancing' of Israeli Liberals and Syrian President Hafez Assad has pitted Syria and Clinton on one side against Conservative Israel voters. Israeli voters saw this shift in foreign policy as tied to Clinton's attempt to exceed the normal bounds of diplomatic relations. This grim Clinton fiasco has brought Israeli voters together and has now elevated the Conservatives Likud Party into popular legislative power and military control of its own destiny.
Clinton supporters in the U.S. and Israeli liberals criticized the results of the Israeli election. American newspapers have echoed the rancor of the political loss of Israeli Liberals. Harvard University professor, Ruth R. Wisse, wrote that: "One of the most disquieting aspects of the Israeli election was the American media's reaction to it."
The spectacle of an American president showing partisanship on behalf of the incumbent in another country's election was a big political risk that the Clinton was willing to take. The Clinton administration lost. The Clinton White House's overall conduct of foreign policy is thus called into question around the nation and the world, at large. Every other nation that the Clinton administration has asked to take risks for peace have pulled-back in the aftermath of the most recent Clinton foreign policy fiasco in Israel and Syria.
For example, Bosnia Muslims, who have been willing to take risks for the Clinton administration's "Dayton Agreement" now find that NATO troops are not helping them reclaim the homes lost to ethnic cleansing or indeed even to visit the communities from which they fled. And, the indicted war criminals Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic are still calling the shots in Serb controlled sections of Bosnia.
Serbia president Slobodan Milosevic, is continuing to call the shots in parleys with the Clinton administration and European foreign ministers.
Meanwhile in the United Kingdom more than 200 people in Manchester paid for the Clinton's administration's posturing for peace yesterday when they were wounded by a massive IRA bomb in a crowded shopping area. Clinton administration photo-ops with IRA terrorist Gerry Adams, causes serious doubt in England and Ireland about the credibility of Clinton's "peace agenda."
Originally, the Clinton administration overtures were accepted as a well-intentioned try at a post-Cold War foreign policy. However, the Clinton administration's overt partisan preference for the Liberal Shimon Peres over the tougher-minded Conservative Netanyahu says a lot about Clinton's purposes in framing his partisan foreign policy. The Liberal Shimon Peres, was defeated at the polls because he was guided by the Clinton White House which orchestrated Israel's policy of appeasement to Israel's declared enemies.
The Arabs of a Palestinian state had been led by the Clinton administration to expect a repartitioning of Jerusalem. It was reported in the Wall Street Journal today that Zalman Shoval, Likud's director of international affairs, told the Wall Street Journal editors during a short visit to New York that if the Palestinians put statehood and Jerusalem at the top of their agenda, there will be no talks. And there will be no more offers to trade Hafez Assad the Golan Heights for peace talks.
The Clinton administration appeasement policy has now been 'outed' for the world to see. The entire Clinton administration "peace process" is clothed with an extraordinary imagination in which the IRA, Israel and Bosnia, are co-opted by Clinton to let aggressors have what they want and to leave the United Kingdom, Israel, and Bosnia with the fragile hope that aggressors will stop being aggressors.
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