President Clinton said the United States is “attempting to ascertain what the general outlines of the costs” of an Israeli-Syrian deal would be. He was responding to an Israeli newspaper report that Barak has already asked the United States for $17 billion in aid to cover the security costs of a peace treaty with Syria.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
