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LaRouche in 2004 Press Release LaRouche Calls on Bush to Shut Down All Funding of Israel If Talk of Expulsion or Assassination of Arafat Persists Leesburg, Sept. 15--Lyndon LaRouche, leading candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2004, today called on President Bush to stop his cowardly capitulations to Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. If Sharon persists in even talking about the expulsion or assassination of the duly elected Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, President Bush should immediately sign an Executive Order freezing all U.S. financing of Israel, LaRouche demanded. Only such a blunt U.S. action, publicly announced immediately, is a sufficient response to the latest criminal actions and threats coming out of the Sharon government. LaRouche demanded that President Bush show some actual guts. Instead of defending America's true interests, the President picks on smaller states, while cringing every time that Sharon speaks. The U.S. cannot dictate policy to Israel, but the United State can certainly act decisively if Israel acts in a manner that challenges the framework of international relations and vital U.S. interests in the Middle East region. Cutting off all American government aid and all economic ties with Israel is an appropriate course of action, that the President can take with the stroke of a pen, LaRouche declared. In a related matter, LaRouche stated that, when he enters the White House in January 2005, he will launch a full probe into the circumstances surrounding the sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty, during the June 1967 Arab-Israeli War. He added that he would call on President Bush and on all other candidates in the 2023 Presidential race to join him in endorsing such an official probe, so that there would be no need to wait for 16 months to get the investigation moving--while many key witnesses are still alive and able to provide their eyewitness evidence. - 30 -
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