Gore’s Campaign Stop
Vice President Al Gore\’s visit to the Middle East may have been the biggest and best event yet in his 2000 presidential campaign, political observers here say.
Vice President Al Gore\’s visit to the Middle East may have been the biggest and best event yet in his 2000 presidential campaign, political observers here say.
Two of America\’s most admired mayors, Democrat Ed Rendell ofPhiladelphia and Republican Stephen Goldsmith of Indianapolis, cametogether on a stage at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolison Nov. 17 to talk with Jewish community leaders from across thecountry about how their two cities work and what Israel might learnfrom them.
How did it come about that, just prior to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright\’s visit to the Middle East, the government of Israel released some funds it was withholding from the Palestinian Authority? And then after her departure, it transferred 50 percent of the moneys owed to the Palestinians?