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IT'S WHAT HE'S BOUGHT TO DO
Senate
leader pledges
Daschle:
U.S. Must Support Israel By KEN GUGGENHEIM WASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle told the largest pro-Israel lobbying group Monday that U.S. support for Israel must be absolute. "Israel has always had fair-weather friends. What it needs now are foul-weather friends," he told the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which is holding its annual convention in Washington. "As long as I am majority leader of the United States Senate, we will be a friend to Israel in fair weather and in foul," he said. Daschle, a possible presidential candidate in 2004, spoke as the Bush administration continued to press Israel to complete its withdrawal from the West Bank. "The president believes withdrawals need to continue," presidential spokesman Ari Fleischer told reporters Monday. Israel has withdrawn its forces from most West Bank cities, but standoffs continue in at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, where Palestinian gunman have taken refuge, and at Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah. Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday praised Israel for sticking to the schedule it had given him for withdrawing from the West Bank, but says the Middle East crisis won't end until soldiers are back in their garrisons and normal life resumes in Palestinian cities.
Remember the LIBERTY?
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