Remarks on Receiving the Peace Garden Scroll and the Shalom Chaver Award for International Leadership March 18, 1999
Administration of William J. Clinton, 1999 / Mar. 18 Remarks on Receiving the Peace Garden Scroll and the Shalom Chaver Award for International Leadership March 18, 1999 Leah and Dahlia, Noa, Yuval, Tali, Rachel: Today I also thank Leah and Dahlia for re- Hillary and I are honored to welcome you here. membering our friend His Majesty King Hus- We are honored by the Shalom Chaver Award sein. In a humorous moment in an otherwise and the Peace Garden and the power of your profoundly somber day, at his funeral, I was example. Thank you, Noa, for the beautiful song. standing with another leader of the Arab world I thank the members of the Cabinet who are whom I dare not mention for fear of embar- here, the administration, especially Secretary rassing him, and we noticed standing there at Albright and Mr. Berger, and I want to say the King’s funeral Prime Minister Netanyahu, a special word of thanks to all those who have General Barak, and General Mordechai. And the been on our peace team, now and for the last leader looked at me, and he said, ‘‘This is truly 6 years: Mr. Ross, Mr. Indyk; before them, Sec- an amazing world. King Hussein is the only retary Christopher, Mr. Lake, and others. thing they agree on.’’ [Laughter] I welcome the members of the diplomatic Hussein and Yitzhak Rabin were brave sol- corps who are here. I think it would be worth diers who had the courage to tell the hard truth noting, as a particular tribute to Prime Minister that there would be no security for any in the Rabin, that the members of the diplomatic corps Middle East without fairness for all, that the who are here are the Ambassadors of Jordan, time had come to lift people’s hopes, not exploit Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Qatar, Oman, and the their fears, to reach across the divide of history and hatred, to fulfill the true promise of the PLO.
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