agreement, perhaps more accurate to say, in 1959 when prime minister -- in 1995 when prime minister rabin who was in charge of israel, and in the year 2000 there was substantial progress made by president clinton on those efforts. and the back channel communications between, brokered by turkey suggests that the time is right for promoting that kind of an effort. only israel can make a determination as to whether israel wants to give up the golan heights, which is key to having the peace talks proceed. but it is a very different world today in the era of rockets than it was in 1967 when israel captured the golan heights. syria obviously wants the golan back as a matter of national pride. former prime minister -- former secretary of state kissinger told me that he found president hafez al assad to keep his word on the negotiations for the disengagement in 1974, so that obviously any arrangements would have to be very carefully negotiated under president reagan's famous dictum of trust but verify. but it seems to me that now is a good time to promote that dialogue. the advantages would be if

palestinian leadership, let us continue together on the path of menahem begin and anwar sadat, yitzhak rabinand king hussein. let us realise the vision of the prophet isaiah, who in jerusalem 2700 years ago said: "nations shall not lift up sword against nation, and they shall learn war no more. with god's help, we will know no more war. we will know peace.

and we are going to pay for it by rabin is. we put out in our draft today a list of options for some of the cuts that could be made in existing programs. these are based on a menu of options that the president has submitted to us and we put them out there, and we will have them on the table as we consider where to make the cuts, and the revenue parts will be

rabin was chief of staff and military haircut before he was chief of staff of the military he was head of the elite commando unit and he personally went into lebanon, to beirut, to take out the terrorists who had assassinated israeli athletes. he went in and a wig dresser the woman and participated in the operation, was overseeing the operation, the rescue, the hostages in gonda and so he was also went on to the twa flight. anyway, he has personally, personally very brave. and so when you meet with him, i know james would say when he met him i would look at his hands and i said i know he is guilty. you look at somebody -- >> host: he looks at my hand gessner you look at some indifferently. it comes to that level of a patriot, that brave for his country and his people. so it really does, you step back. we're not talking about prescription drug coverage for seniors or something, you know, or the issues are different in israel, but also the leaders frequently come out of an express which is different. but he would talk about pulling. and he talked about he was trained by, he went with the

you know, rabin was chief of staff but before he was chief of staff he was the head of the elite commando unit and he personally went into lebanon beirut to take out the terrorists who had assassinated by israeli athletes and how munich. he went and had dressed as a woman and participated in that operation and was overseeing the rescue, the hostages and so he also went on -- he personally is very brave and so when you meet with him i know james carville would say i know he skilled people with his hands. >> host: james would say my hands? >> guest: you look at someone differently who has that level and he's been that a brief for his country and his people. who comes to this, so it really does -- you step back and think of things differently. we are not talking about prescription drug coverage for seniors. the issues are different in israel but also the leaders frequently come out of experience but he would talk about pulling and he was trained, he went with the french to the alps and says what i learned is it was impossible to do what you did through the alps and and winter and get from on

thank you very much you and your company rabin made his opportunity available to me. i am especially grateful you did not ask me to talk about polio eradication and how we were going to get it finished. he levesque me to look backwards and talk about things we have learned, so i first want to tell you what i am not going to talk about over the next few minutes. i am not going to talk about the horizontal, vertical debate about polio eradication, vertical programs in general and i am not going to talk about whether they are good or bad and morris talked about the politics of polio but i'm not going to talk about that. we are in washington and i think you get enough of that. what i'm going to focus on come i'm going to look back over the 15 years as suggested by the title by the global health council to look at what have we learned from this global effort to eradicate polio. that might be in some applicable to what we are trying to do, all of us in improving global health in general and improving in particular the uptick of other vaccines. now, before i get into the les

we fought run public schools, in the municipal bureaucracy is, corrupt political machines, rabin criminality, and all the appointed heading idiot -- pointed tenet busybodies. in this battle cars davis are dragons and lantos speed and mobility, they've let us count the terrain and pulled the enemy lines and thanks to our cars when the lost the city's better not forced to surrender, we were able to retreat. but our poor cars pay the price. and they were flashing swords beaten into until plowshares. cars became appliances period or worse than appliances -- nobody is ticked off at the driver of the dishwasher much less at the refrigerator. we all recognize these as laborsaving devices. the car, on the other hand, is seems to create labor. we hold of a car responsible for all the jury errands to which it needs to be steered and we're thinking, held, a golf cart is more fun. you can ride around with a six-pack tousing canada agrees on the fairways in taking swings at the golfers with a nine iron. we lost our love for cars and we forgot our debt to cars in the meanwhile the pointy headed busybodies