Priorities from the GOP 2000 Platform

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GOP Platforms on the Middle East

• Priorities from the GOP 2000 Platform
• Peace in the region
• Ensuring Israels security
• Ensuring the reliable flow of oil
• Terrorism
• Projected Middle East Priorities for the GOP
  2004 Platform
  
• War on Terror (Iraq / Afghanistan)
• WMD and Rogue States
• Democracy and reform
• Oil
• Israel/Palestine Road Map

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What if George W. Bush were to?

• Announce a new initiative,
• No Peoples left behind in the
  Middle East
  
• Assert that his next administration will
  recognize a Palestinian state without specifying
  borders, as Truman did for Israel in 1948
  
• Expand the Broader Middle East Initiative
• From A loose program of the willing for
  liberalization and reform
  
• To A permanent alliance that would encompass
  political, military and reconstruction concerns

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What if George W. Bush were to ?

• Extend the mandate for the 9/11 commission to
  include periodic updates on the status of the
  War on Terrorism.
  
• Create an Ombudsman for the Justice
  Department that would assess the effects of the
  Patriot Act on minorities, particularly Arab- and
  Muslim-Americans

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Conclusions

• If Bush gains 10 to 15 of independents by
  adopting these or similar ideas, he would bring
  in another 1 to 2 million votes
  
• The born again vote appears split over the
  Israel-Palestine dispute, even taking into
  account the traditional African-American born
  again support for Democrats
• Bush might regain some of the lost Muslim support
  he had in 2000 by modifying his policies on
  Israel-Palestine and the Patriot Act