Eighteen Democratic US Congressmen visiting Israel say that though they now realize that Yasser Arafat was “the main impediment to peace,” they see “hope” in his successors.
Cantor dispatched a letter to Fayyad about the incident, which Fayyad told Hoyer he would respond to.
Hoyer said, however, that, since PM Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and the US Consul General all believe the Fatah man's story, he truly believes Fayyad’s claim that the payment was the result of a bureaucratic error.
The representatives’ trip is sponsored by the American Israel Education Foundation, an independent, bi-partisan, non-profit, charitable foundation affiliated with AIPAC.