Source: WorldNetDaily
Oct 18, 2006
White House Spokesman Tony Snow told reporters Tuesday that President George W. Bush stands firmly behind Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's statement last week that "there could be no greater legacy for America" than helping to birth a Palestinian Arab state on ancient Jewish lands.
Snow was responding to a question over how the Bush administration could view as desirable the creation of a state run by Hamas and PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas, a man who for decades served as Yasser Arafat's second-in-command, financed the Munich massacre of the Israeli Olympic team, and in his doctoral thesis denied the existence of the Nazi Holocaust.
Rice made her remarks during a speech to the American Task Force on Palestine.
In that address, she also suggested a comparison between the Palestinian Arabs' quest for statehood and the American Revolution.
Said Rice:
"I know that sometimes a Palestinian state living side by side in peace with Israel must seem like a very distant dream. But I know too, as a student of international history, that there are so many things that once seemed impossible that, after they happened, simply seemed inevitable.
"I've read over the last summer the biographies of America's Founding Fathers. By all rights, America, the United States of America, should never have come into being."
The Zionist Organization of America responded:
"By saying this, Secretary Rice is implying a comparison of Yasser Arafat and Hamas leaders to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson."