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Why
Clinton’s pious lecturing is hard to swallow
2001-12-31
15:27:48
Ghazala Ibrahim for Ummahnews
31 December 2001
Bill
Clinton’s recent visit to Britain was a reminder to me, as to many other Muslims
how he will be remembered in the Islamic world as a foreign policy failure. His
‘lectures’ in London, Manchester and elsewhere showed a bitter and troubled man
sanctimoniously preaching to people against living in their separate "little
boxes" such as "man-woman", "British-American" and "Muslim, Christian [and]
Jew."
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In
Somalia, America intervened (unsuccessfully) with the arrogance of a colonial
power only to have its armed forces withdraw in humiliation. Elsewhere, America
under Clinton sent Cruise missiles to poverty-stricken Afghanistan and Sudan
because they were said to be harbouring Osama bin Laden. He, we were and are
told, was responsible for the Embassy Bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998.
Nevertheless, then as now, where was the proof?
In all this, what is
baffling is why anyone for example expected Clinton, now raising money for
Israel, to have delivered a just settlement for the Palestinians whilst he was
US President? Being inextricably linked to one of the parties in the dispute
(i.e. Israel), he was clearly unfit for the job.
His administrations were
largely manned by prominent members of the American Zionist/Jewish lobby such as
Madeleine Albright (Secretary of State), William Cohen (Secretary of Defense),
Alan Greenspan (Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank).
Then there was George
Tenet (CIA Chief), Dennis Ross (Special Middle East Representative), Robert
Rubin (Secretary of Treasury), James P. Rubin (Under Secretary of State),
Richard Holbrooke (Special Representative to NATO), Samuel ‘Sandy’ Berger (Head
National Security Council), Stuart Eizenstat (Under Secretary of State), Mark
Penn (Asia Expert to NEC), Martin Indyk (Assistant Secretary of State for Near
Eastern Affairs), Peter Tarnoff (Deputy Secretary of State),
Not
forgetting Judith Feder (National Security Council), Stanley Ross (National
Security Council), Samuel Lewis (National Security Council), Lanny P. Breuer
(Special Counsel to The President), Leon Panetta (White House Chief of Staff),
Joel Klein (Assistant Attorney General) and Dan Glickman (Secretary of
Agriculture),
Or Sidney Blumenthal (Special Advisor to First Lady),
Evelyn Lieberman (Deputy Chief of Staff), Charlene Barshefsky (U.S. Trade
Representative), Susan Thomases (Aide to First Lady), Gene Sperlin (National
Economic Council), Ira Magaziner (National Health Care), Alice Rivlin (Economic
Advisor), Janet Yellen (Chairwoman, National Economic Council), Rahm Emanuel
(Policy Advisor), Doug Sosnik (Counsel to President), Jim Steinberg (Deputy to
National Security Chief), Jay Footlik (Special Liason to the
Jewish
Community) and Robert Nash (Personal Chief).
There were yet
more: Jane Sherburne (President's Lawyer), Sandy Kristoff (Health Care Chief),
Robert Boorstin (Communications Aide), Keith Boykin (Communications Aide), Jeff
Eller (Special Assistant to Clinton), Tom Epstein (Health Care Adviser), Richard
Feinberg (Assistant Secretary Veterans), Hershel Gober (Food and Drug
Administration), Steve Kessler (White House Counsel), Ron Klein (Assistant
Secretary Education), Madeleine Kunin (Communications Aide).
And David
Kusnet (Dept. AIDS Program), Margaret Hamburg (Dir. Press Conferences), Many
Grunwald (Liason to Jewish Leaders), Karen Adler (Dir. State Dept. Policy), Dan
Schifter (Director Peace Corps.), Eli Segal (Deputy Chief of Staff), Robert
Weiner (Drug Policy Coordinator), Jack Lew (Deputy Director Management and
Budget), David Lipton (Under Secretary of The Treasury), Kenneth Apfel (Chief of
Social Security) and David Kessler (Chief of Food & Drug
Administration).
Not forgetting Seth Waxman (Acting Solicitor General),
Howard Shapiro (General Counsel for the FBI), Lanny Davis (White House Special
Counsel), Sally Katzen (Secretary of Management and Budget), Kathleen Koch
(Heads FBI Equal Opportunity Office) John Podesta (Deputy Chief of Staff), Alan
Blinder (Vice Chairman of Federal Reserve), Abner Mikva (Counsel to President
Clinton), Richard Feinberg (Special Assistant to President Clinton -National
Security Council), Ricki Seidman (Deputy Communications Director), Phil Leida
(Economic Adviser), David Heiser (staff director), Alice Rubin (volunteers),
Leon Fuerth (National Security Adviser to Vice President Gore), Robert Reich
(Secretary of Labor), Don Steinberg (Special Ambassador for Humanitarian
De-mining), Mickey Kantor (Commerce Secretary), and last but not least Ron Klain
(Chief of Staff for Al Gore).
This is a long, though not an exhaustive
list. There were undoubtedly other members of the Zionist/Jewish lobby present
in Clinton’s administrations. The point however is that these individuals
undeniably had influence on America’s dealings with the Muslim world, be it the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Kashmir, Chechnya or elsewhere.
Thus, for
instance, it was not enough that the Secretary of State Albright, her
Under-Secretary James Rubin and the US Defense Secretary William Cohen were
Jewish, Clinton even had to ensure that the Special Envoy to the Middle East
Dennis Ross was of the Jewish faith. Even in my wildest dreams, I cannot ever
imagine a Muslim being appointed as envoy to the Middle East.
This lack
of impartiality led Clinton to ignore Muslim grievances. The few times that he
made lame attempts to address the Israeli-Palestinian question, his sympathies
for the Zionist/Jewish lobby precluded any just settlement. Policies were
custom-made for Israel’s benefit and were antithetical to Palestinian interests.
The sole aim was the promotion and preservation of the barbaric state of
Israel.
The sinister influence of this lobby upon Clinton’s
administration was vividly demonstrated by the fact that it redefined the
"occupied territories" as "territories in dispute". No matter what crime was
perpetrated by Israel, good ol’ Bill would there to back her up. That is what he
did when he was in power and that is what he is doing now that he is an
unemployed.
It is in this context that we must view his visit to Britain
to raise yet more funds to fuel further Zionist butchery. These examples confirm
Clinton’ s status as Israel’s roving propaganda ambassador. Hence, when we still
see him feigning self-righteous indignation about the world’s current state of
affairs, we need to remind him of his part in it.
With successive abysmal
administrations like Clinton’s since the Second World War, we are told that
America is not partial in her dealings. What then adds insult to injury is that
some ill-informed sections of American society have the gall to deny that
anti-Americanism in the Islamic world and around the globe generally, stems from
a long chain of misguided US foreign policy and the unhealthy / suspect
influence of a certain lobby.
Ghazala Ibrahim is a freelance writer based
in Great Britain
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