[fdsa2]

Does anyone have any information on these AET group?

[Mo1]

They criticised what they say is Washington's unabashed support for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon

And throwing our support behind a terrorist pig like Arafat would be better???

Why do these people hate the jews so much?

[JasonC]

Fire them all and get new people who support our policies.

[Fenris6]

"The organiser of the American missive, Andrew Killgore, who served as US ambassador to Qatar from 1977 to 1980"

The Carter years. Sigh. Are these "diplomats" all appointees of Democrat administrations?

I'd be curoius to hear their explanation of why _diplomacy_ failed at the UN. 12 years of useless condemnations of Iraq. A corrupt oil for food program. France & Russia playing ego games in the war on terror, etc.

Perhaps these "diplomats" are discouraged that the Munich Waltz didn't make a comeback...

[swilhelm73]

http://www.highbeam.com/library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:90984280&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf

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Following are individuals, organizations, companies and foundations whose help between January 1 and August 2, 2002 is making possible activities of the tax-exempt AET Library Endowment (federal ID #52-1460362) and the American Educational Trust, publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. We are deeply honored by their confidence and profoundly grateful for their generosity.

HUMMERS

($100 or more)

Anonymous donor, Seattle, WA

Shakir Abbas, Newberry, FL

Peter Abboud, Austin, TX

Mohamed Abdelnabi, Union, KY

Selma and Evelyn Abdo, Syracuse, NY

M. Aburmishan, Des Plaines, IL

Michael and Jane Adas, Highland Park, NJ

Ethel Adnan, Sausalito, CA

Kay and Rhonda Ajluni, New Bern, NC ...
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then the article cuts off...

[exnavy]

Mr Killgore was appointed under Carter, if that helps with party affiliation.

[Robert Drobot]

Where's Joe McCarthy when we really need him!!!

Revive the House un-American Activities Committee!!!

[KQQL]

Around 50 retired US diplomats have written to US President George Bush to complain about America's policy towards the Middle East. The letter is similar to one written by 52 former British diplomats to UK Prime Minister Tony Blair last week.

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BUSH TO MORONS : YOU ALL ARE FIRED !!

[kcvl]

The American Educational Trust, publishers of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, will host a press conference in the Lisagor Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St, NW, Washington, DC at 12:00 noon on Tuesday May 4, 2004, to announce and discuss the following letter to President Bush. If you are a former diplomat and would like to sign the letter, please call the Washington Report at 202-939-6050, extensions 104, 106, or 0, or email us at info@wrmea.com. If you are a non-diplomat, you may sign on in the supplementary list. Please include a title, and the place and position of your last post if you were an foreign service officer. Thank you.


http://www.wrmea.com/index.htm

[An.American.Expatriate]

There has been no response yet from the White House, our correspondent says, though in the past, the administration has been quick to savage its critics.

Is the author sure he's refering to the right administration?? This sounds a lot like the Sink Meister's MO.

[dsc]

That's like fifty child molesters complaining about the statute of limitations.

Wonder how many of them were Soviet agents. At least ten, I'd guess.

[xm177e2]

Are they equally well-paid by the Saudis?

[zarf]

THE OLD GUARD DIES HARD!!!

It's a new era and these washed up old farts want to continue the status quo.

If Kerry is elected it will be 4 or 8 more years of the same ol' same ol' treading water crap authored by the old, stick in the mud, establishment bullbuttdung garbage eating good for nothing "diplomatic" fossils of a by gone era...

[swilhelm73]

AH HA! Their y2k donor list includes The Egyptian Embassy;

http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/042000/0004113.html

The problem is who knows who all those anonymous names represent...

[KMAJ2]

AET is an arab friendly, UN pandering group founded by two former Jimmy Carter diplomats and a former British soldier.

Here is from their website:

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs is a 140-page magazine published 10 times per year in Washington, DC, that focuses on news and analysis from and about the Middle East and U.S. policy in that region.

The Washington Report is published by the American Educational Trust (AET), a non-profit foundation incorporated in Washington, DC by retired U.S. foreign service officers to provide the American public with balanced and accurate information concerning U.S. relations with Middle Eastern states.

AET's Foreign Policy Committee has included former U.S. ambassadors, government officials, and members of Congress, including the late Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright, and Republican Senator Charles Percy, both former chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Members of AET's Board of Directors and advisory committees receive no fees for their services.

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs does not take partisan domestic political positions. As a solution to the Palestinian-Israeli dispute, it endorses U.N. Security Council Resolution 242´s land-for-peace formula, supported by seven successive U.S. presidents.

In general, the Washington Report supports Middle East solutions which it judges to be consistent with the charter of the United Nations and traditional American support for human rights, self-determination, and fair play.

Material from the printed version of the Washington Report, and from this web site, may be reprinted without charge as long as articles are not changed in any way and are credited to the author and the magazine. [This release does not apply to any of the photographs or graphic designs in the printed magazine or this web site.]

http://www.wrmea.com/html/about.html

The American Educational Trust was founded in Washington, DC in January, 1982. Its founding chairman was Edward Firth Henderson, a British Army Officer during World War II who served in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Co-founders were Andrew I. Killgore, AET's first president, who was U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar when he retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980; and Richard H. Curtiss, AET's first executive director, who was chief inspector of the U.S. Information Agency when he retired from the U.S. Foreign Service in 1980.

In addition to the three founding directors, other initial directors of the American Educational Trust were prof. John Ruedy, director of studies at Georgetown University's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies; former Democratic Member of Congress Thomas Rees of Los Angeles; John Law, Middle East correspondent for U.S. News & World Report for some 20 years before he founded Mideast Markets, a publication of the Chase Manhattan Bank; and Dr. John Duke Anthony, president and chief executive officer of the National Council on U.S. Arab Relations.

Subsequent board chairmen have included Dr. John Davies, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture and director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), and the current chairman, the Reverend Dr. L. Humphrey Walz, former associate executive of the Presbyterian synod of the Northeast.

http://www.wrmea.com/html/founders.html

We've maintained since our founding, in January 1982, that real stability in the Middle East and real security for both Arabs and Israelis, must start with an Arab-Israeli land-for-peace settlement based upon U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, including full Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, Gaza, southern Lebanon and the Golan Heights, and equal rights for all of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish residents of a shared Jerusalem.

We also have suggested that the dispute is not between Arabs and Israelis, but rather moderates versus extremists in each camp. Now we include the objective of fair and free elections to choose Palestinian leaders to finalize a peace agreement with Israel. Our goal, therefore, has been the fine-tuning of U.S. Middle East policies to support the moderates in Israel, in the Arab States, and in the rest of the Islamic world.

These proposals for bettering U.S. relations with all Middle Eastern countries have been characterized as "Arabist" or "Israel bashing" by partisans of special interests in the Middle East. But they provided the underpinning for the principles of peace signed Sept. 13, 1993, and the Cairo, Oslo II and Wye Plantation implementation agreements that followed.

http://www.wrmea.com/html/stand.html

[binger]

If these state department guys were voted in by the senate, this senator probably voted for every one of them!

[piasa]

very interesting stuff on this thread so far

[Asclepius]

... though in the past, the administration has been quick to savage its critics ...

No editorial bias here. Oh, no. Just the facts.

[AmericanVictory]

Ah, the angst of the Arabists on both sides of the Ocean.

[Jumper]

This is more of the Democrat effort to smear in the eyes of the public the reputation of Bush and elect "Any Democrat". Problem with these diplomats is that our Diplomacy is quite effective and remains confined to diplomatic channels....

The State Department is a liberal "Feeling" centric organization; of course, there are few logical "Thinking" types like myself floating around.

The major problem any new administration will have after Bush is that he has set the financial course of America for the next 10-years (Clinton talked about it but Bush did it - and there is not much room for Democrat spending on social issues:)-).

[VisualizeSmallerGovernment]

Throwing Israel to the wolves is "diplomatic"? If so, I think "diplomacy" is overrated.