American-Jewish leaders are urging President Bush not to name Rita Hauser American Ambassador to the United Nations, in view of Hauser\'s pro-Arab positions. A letter from the Zionist Organization of America to the President details some aspects of the Hauser record, including the following:
* In June 1994, she attacked Congress for insisting that Arafat comply with his Oslo obligations. In 1992, after then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin deported 400 Hamas terrorist leaders, Hauser publicly declared that \"the U.S. must push for return of all deportees.\"
* In 1988 she attacked the Republican Party platform - which was widely considered pro-Israel - for being \"negative\" and \"hostile to accommodation and compromise.\" That same year, five years before Oslo, Hauser and others met with Arafat in Sweden and reported that he was a \"moderate.\"
* She lavished praise on the intifada of the late 1980\'s, noting the Palestinian \"willingness to sacrifice,\" their restraint in using lethal weapons, and more. She similarly had praise for the late Syrian dictator Hafez Assad. In 1989, she said that the fact that \"Arab-Americans are learning to use both clout and money\" is \"basically for the good, because it creates a better balance.\"
* In June 1994, she attacked Congress for insisting that Arafat comply with his Oslo obligations. In 1992, after then-Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin deported 400 Hamas terrorist leaders, Hauser publicly declared that \"the U.S. must push for return of all deportees.\"
* In 1988 she attacked the Republican Party platform - which was widely considered pro-Israel - for being \"negative\" and \"hostile to accommodation and compromise.\" That same year, five years before Oslo, Hauser and others met with Arafat in Sweden and reported that he was a \"moderate.\"
* She lavished praise on the intifada of the late 1980\'s, noting the Palestinian \"willingness to sacrifice,\" their restraint in using lethal weapons, and more. She similarly had praise for the late Syrian dictator Hafez Assad. In 1989, she said that the fact that \"Arab-Americans are learning to use both clout and money\" is \"basically for the good, because it creates a better balance.\"