Where are the diversity police?
>Jewish Numbers Grow at the State Department
>Salon Magazine
>By Jonathan Broder, Feb. 13, 1997
>WASHINGTON - following the recent revelations about Madeleine Albright's
>Jewish roots,the new U.S. Secretary of State faces a new conundrum: All
>her
>top candidates for a slew of senior positions in the State Department
>are
>Jewish and male. A number of foreign policy experts have been quick to
>note
>the exquisiteness of the irony. "It suggests that we've come a long way
>in
>this country from the days when the foreign service was reserved for a
>very
>WASPy elite," says former National Security Council Middle East advisor
>Richard Haass, who now directs foreign policy studies at the Brookings
>Institution.
>But it also poses problems for Albright. If all the Jewish candidates
>are
>appointed, Albright could draw fire from other minorities and women, not
>to
>mention proArab critics of Washington's Mideast policy and antiSemites
>of
>various stripes. "I'm sure this will feed all the black helicopter kooks
>who think all this is a Jewish conspiracy," said one Jewish foreign
>policy
>analyst who asked not to be identified. Albright already has promoted
>two
>Jewish appointees to senior positions: Special Middle East coordinator
>Dennis Ross is now Albright's senior counselor, a position that extends
>his
>troubleshooting responsibilities well beyond the Middle East and gives
>him
>an office on the State Department's prestigious seventh floor.
>Meanwhile,
>the position of undersecretary of State for economic affairs has gone to
>Stuart Eizenstadt, previously ambassador to the European Community and
>the
>administration's point man on determining the extent of Jewish assets in
>Swiss banks.
>And for the first time in the State Department's 208-year history, Jews
>lead the list of contenders for the six regional assistant secretary
>posts.
>According to well informed sources, they are: Mark Grossman, currently
>U.S.
>ambassador to Turkey, for assistant secretary for European affairs;
>Princeton Lyman, currently the assistant secretary of State for
>international organizations, and former Rep. Howard Wolpe of Michigan,
>for
>assistant secretary for African affairs; Stanley Roth, an aide to former
>Rep. Steven Solarz of New York and a former staffer on the National
>Security Council, for assistant secretary for Asian affairs; Karl
>Indefurth, a former ABC News correspondent who served as Albright's
>deputy
>at the United Nations, for assistant secretary for South Asia; Jeff
>Davidow, assistant secretary of State for Latin American affairs, who is
>expected to stay on at his post; Martin Indyk, currently U.S. ambassador
>to
>Israel, for assistant secretary for Near Eastern Affairs. Having chosen
>(nonJewish) diplomatic veterans Strobe Talbott and Thomas Pickering as
>her
>No. 2 and No. 3, respectively, Albright may come under fire in diversity
>conscious Washington for such a heavily Jewish and allmale lineup. Her
>biggest challenge, however, is likely to come with Indyk, who worked for
>AIPAC, the proIsrael lobby, and then headed the proIsrael Washington
>Institute for Near East Policy before joining the administration.
>"The Near East bureau always has prided itself in having career
>professionals at the helm," says Robert Kaplan, whose book, "The
>Arabists,"
>examines the State Department's stewardship of Middle East policy.
>Indyk,
>appointed by President Clinton as his Middle East advisor in 1993 and
>then
>as ambassador to Israel, "is a political candidate," says Kaplan. "In
>some
>circles," he adds, "there's a lot of resentment that people like Ross,
>(his
>Jewish deputy Aaron) Miller, and Indyk got so powerful in Near East
>affairs." Such resentment may ultimately scotch Indyk's chances at the
>post
>which could go instead to Ned Walker, a former deputy to Albright at the
>United Nations and now U.S. ambassador to Egypt, or Chris Ross, U.S.
>ambassador to Syria. Both of them are Arabists.
>If Middle Eastern politics end up getting in Indyk's way, gender
>politics
>could decide who gets the position as undersecretary of State for
>management. Two male candidates are vying for the job, but Albright is
>said
>to want to fill the slot with a woman. Her top candidate: an assistant
>Interior secretary for policy and management named Bonnie Cohen.
>Albright's
>newly uncovered Jewish past and the prospect of so many Jews entering
>the
>State Department has already occasioned some mordant humor in foreign
>policy circles. For example:
>Q: Why did Pamela Harriman have a stroke?
>A: Someone leaned over at a party and told her Madeleine Albright was
>Jewish.
>Responding to concerns that there may be too many Jews at the State
>Department, one foreign policy analyst said: "What's there to worry
>about? After all, they're all Reform anyway."
>Jonathan Broder is Salon's Washington correspondent. He also writes for
>the
>Jerusalem Report and is a senior editor for the weekend edition of "All
>Things Considered."
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