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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (116767)	10/13/2003 5:17:09 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Jacob, You are painting a picture of anti-muslim bias and making a claim of an Israeli tilt and are selecting history to back your claim. The Suez Crisis was a specific anti-colonial, Arabist push by the US. The disasters that both Truman and Eisenhower started in the ME, were not anti-muslim any more that actions against the Pirates were. They were actions associated with the larger proxy war being fought between the US and Soviets. Even Kermit Rooslevelt (who engineered the coup in Iran) warned Dulles against painting ME policy with an anti-communist brush. He was ignored just as the old China hands were. How do I justify this position? Well we had helped found Israel and were busily overthrowing Arab nationalists, but switched courses on the Suez deal. Why? - in a word Hungary. How could we address the Soviet issue there and let our allies have a free hand in Egypt? However, Nassers tilt to Russia following these events drove our policies against Pan-Arabism and led to interventions in Lebanon and the tilt to Israel. The first President to try and re-address our ME policy and review our 'tilt' on Israel was Bush's father - and the margin of his loss of Jewish votes was a lesson all US politicians learned. Look at Howard Deans Israeli policy flip-flops for the most recent example. Similar voting patterns with anti-Castro cubans frustrate any rational policies there as well. John