U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright defended the Clinton administration’s stance that the impasse in the Israel-Palestinian peace process hampered efforts to assemble a coalition in the recent crisis with Iraq. “The reality we have to deal with is that when the peace process is stalled, our influence in the region is affected,” she wrote to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. She was responding to the group’s leaders, who had written they were “deeply concerned” about the administration’s linkage of the issues.
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