HOW TO DESTROY U.S.-ISRAEL RELATIONS
How to Destroy U.S.-Israet Relations The Clinton administration is about to unveil a proposal for divvying up disputed territory on the West Bank. It will do so knowing that the Israeli government...
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...As if he needed more reasons to harbor a grudge, Indyk was also apparently a target of Albright's wrath during her infamous tour of the Gulf...
...The White House reaction to Panetta's remarks was instantaneous: All the former chief of staff meant, of course, was that the president had merely to be kept from situations that might be misconstrued, to avoid the appearance of impropriety...
...To understand the origins of this impending American diplomatic disaster you'd have to know a few things that the State Department correspondents of the New York Times and Washington Post don't tell you...
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...Panetta's other comments to Barnes make it clear why these prophylactic (so to speak) steps were taken and what, precisely, the president's staff was guarding against when they refused to let him be alone with women...
...Enter assistant secretary of state Martin Indyk...
...Clinton's Middle East negotiator, Dennis Ross, opposes this strategy...
...The Clinton administration, in contrast, coddles dictators merely to appease campaign contributors...
...In the evenings, we always made sure he had company when he was with friends...
...Do you want to live in a society where you have to wonder about the privacy of your conversations with close friends...
...He apologized for America's having coddled anti-Communist dictators in Africa during the Cold War...
...have experience scanning black-and-white and four-color images...
...That's what Linda Tripp did to Monica Lewinsky...
...You'd have to know, for instance, that Secretary of State Madeleine Albright felt humiliated during the recent Iraq crisis when she traveled through the Middle East and found little support for the Clinton administration's anti-Saddam policies...
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...anetta: My Years on Bimbo Patrol The Best Interview of the Week Award goes to James A. Barnes of the National Journal, for the revealing quotes he managed to wrestle out of Leon Panetta...
...The ads are scheduled to run once a month in the Times...
...We were sensitive to those issues," Panetta said...
...But that spin won't wash...
...Who will be the victim of all this falace intrigue...
...government think this is a good idea...
...Ross and Indyk have worked hand-in-glove on the Middle East for more than a decade...
...If it turned out that somehow his dark side prevailed in these moments of temptation, it would be a disappointment...
...Pace numerous liberal commentators, Africa is among the least appropriate settings for such contrition, since Africans were as much participants in, as victims of, the slave trade...
...U.S.-Israel relations...
...Panetta revealed to Barnes that impeding the development of just such relationships was always an uphill battle...
...Out of Africa—the Sooner the Better President Clinton managed a trifecta of shamelessness last week in the first half of his Africa trip...
...No calls please...
...And therein lies another irony...
...But since being elevated to assistant secretary, the ambitious Indyk, long working in Ross's shadow, has split with his erstwhile colleague...
...Should such a betrayal by a friend or such conduct by a prosecutor be encouraged by the law...
...Finally, there was the stunningly inappropriate speech in Rwanda, in which President Clinton said of the 1994 genocide of 600,000 Tutsis: "The international community, together with nations in Africa, must bear its share of responsibility for this tragedy...
...Will the next one question the dangerous combination of sexual harassment and abuse of presidential power...
...Indyk, who recently served as Clinton's ambassador to Israel, disapproves of Israel's present Likud government, and especially its prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu...
...She caught an earful from American allies about the breakdown of the Middle East peace process and Israeli intransigence...
...Some dangerous combinations, it turns out, are more dangerous than others...
...Yet the goal of preserving freedom against the depredations of Moscow and its Cuban mercenaries was worth lots of unpleasant alliances...
...Help Wanted_ The Weekly Standard is seeking a full-time assistant art director...
...Less than two weeks after the Monica Lewinsky story broke, the ACLU placed a costly, quarter-page ad in the New York Times, featuring a picture of a young woman talking on the phone...
...And humanly complicated, too...
...In March, the ACLU ran a second ad on the New York Times op-ed page, again featuring a close-up shot of a pretty woman's lips...
...How would you feel if all your phone conversations last night were secretly taped and made public today...
...In many states, the ad informed readers, "oral sex is a crime...
...If "a woman wanted to ride with him [the President of the United States] in the limo, we took steps to make sure that didn't happen...
...The word is she came back from that trip furious at the Israeli government and insisting on a plan to get the peace process going again, which meant putting pressure on Israel to make more concessions...
...It will do so knowing that the Israeli government will reject the plan, that U.S.-Israeli relations will then go into a deep freeze, and that the whole diplomatic fiasco will absolutely delight Yasser Arafat, who has agreed to the American scheme only because he knows it will be rejected by Israel and will destroy U.S.-Israeli relations...
...Clinton's speech was a blasphemy, as Michael Kelly aptly called it in his National Journal column last week: "a lie to the survivors of genocide about one's complicity in that genocide...
...Is how we express our love for one another any of the government's business...
...Don't bet on it...
...While he was ambassador, Indyk was so favorable to Netanyahu's opponents in the Labor party that he was all but declared persona non grata by Netanyahu...
...Correction_ Last week's cover photograph of Bill Clinton doing his chin thing should have been jointly credited to Ken...
...If the descendants of the slaveowners owe an apology, a morally serious president as opposed to the self-absorbed and preening one we have, would deliver that apology to the descendants of the slaves themselves, on American soil, and not to the descendants of those who captured and sold those slaves in the first place...
...The ads, explained an ACLU press release, are part of a year-long advertising campaign and were designed to use "the investigation into President Clinton's relationship with Monica Lewinsky to question the dangerous combination of overzealous law enforcement and lax privacy laws...
...The ACLU, Now More than Ever As if more evidence were needed that the ACLU is less a civil-liberties organization than a particularly obnoxious arm of the Democratic party, consider the group's latest advertising campaign...
...The president also apologized, in so many words, for the slave trade...
...Why would anyone in the U.S...
...The Clinton administration had full knowledge of the genocide as it was being carried out and thwarted efforts to head it off...
...You never control all of the private moments," Panetta went on...
...The idea to impose an "American plan" on Israel, knowing that it will be rejected, is Indyk's...
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...Panet-ta of course was White House chief of staff while the president was busy developing his "complicated human relationship" (Mike McCurry's phrase) with Monica Lewinsky...
Vol. 3 • April 1998 • No. 29
