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of Israel? "I phoned the State Department ... Suddenly someone picked up the receiver and then I heard a voice saying in perfect Israeli Hebrew: »Good Morning, how can I help you?«" |
Notice to the American
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Maariv (daily paper of Israel) - 2. 9. 1994: |
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By Avinoam Bar-Yosef Several weeks ago the rabbi of "Adath Ysrael" synagogue in Cleveland Park, Washington, dedicated his Sabbath sermon to the Jewish cultural and political center which is being formed in America:
"For the first time in American history," the rabbi said, "we no longer feel that we live in diaspora. The U.S. has no longer a government of Goyim (Gentiles), but an administration in which the Jews are full partners in the decision making at all levels. Perhaps the aspects of the Jewish religious law connected with the term 'government of goyim' should be re-examined, since it is an outdated term in the U.S." Indeed, as far as the Jews are concerned, President Bill Clinton contributed towards a real change in the Administration's outlook, having concluded a series of changes in enhancing Jewish power beginning during under President Reagan and his Secretary of State, Schultz. True, the Jewish political influence was also evident in America of the previous decades. We have already seen a Jewish Secretary of State, Kissinger, enjoying the confidence of President Richard Nixon and there were Jewish Cabinet members under Carter. However, they were usally the exceptions testifying to the rule. Especially, pious Jews were hardly ever appointed to participate in political work concerning the Middle East. The picture has now totally changed and not only about the Middle East. For example, every morning at about 6:00 o'clock, several staff cars travel from the CIA center to the White House with senior officers of the American intelligence community, who are about to present to the president and to the four top staffers a PDB - President's Daily Briefing - the term for the most exclusive report in Washington. the document, consisting of 5-7 pages, is often accompanied by top secret satellite photographs transferred by the Pentagon. It is composed in the course of the night by the best American intelligence experts who analyze the telegrams and reports arriving from the CIA's world-wide network of agents. It contains the most sensitive information regarding developments around the world. Its uniqueness, compared to other American intelligence documents, lays in the fact that it almost always indicates the source of the information, whether the source is tapping by means of satellite. If Clinton is in Washington, he holds a short discussion on the contents of the document with the five other addressees: Vice-President Al Gore, National Scurity Advisier ("Sandy") Berger, and National Security Adviser to the Vice-President, Leon Perth. Two of the addressees, Berger and Perth, are warm Jews. They have reached posts that are extremely sensitive for the U.S. politicies. They are by no means exceptions.
In the National Security Council, 7 out of 11 top staffers are Jews. Clinton had especially placed them in the most sensitive junctions in the U.S. security and foreign administrations: Sandy Berger ist the deputy chairman of the council; Martin Indyk, the intended ambassador to Israel, is a senior director in charge of Western Europe; Don Steinberg, the senior director and adviser to the president, is in charge of Africa; Richard Feinberg, the senior director and adviser to the president, in charge of Latin America; Stanley Ross, the senior director and adviser to the president, is in Charge of Asia. The situation is not much different in the president's office which is full of warm Jews: the new Attorney General, Aberner Mikve (now replaced the Jewess J. Reno); the president's schedule and programs manager, Ricky Seidman; deputy chief of staff, Phil Leida; economic adviser, Robert Rubin (now Minister of Finance); media director, David Heiser; staff director, Alice Rubin; Ely Segall, in charge of volunteers; Ira Mezina, in charge of the health program. Two Cabinet members, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Micky Cantor in charge of international trade agreements, are Jewish. They are joined by a long list of senior Jewish officials in the State Department, headed by the head of the Middle East Peace Team, Dennis Ross, and followed by many deputy secretaries and even more senior secretaries' chiefs of staff.
One of the most intersting Jews from the Israeli point of view, who has rarely been exposed to view till now, is Rahm Emanuel, Clinton's senior adviser in charge of coordinating special projects in the White House. His office is located next to the famous Oval Office ... He has a face that is more suitable for an Israeli tourist than for a senior official in the U.S. Administration. "You know, Rahm Emanuel is a name that would not be out of place in the Tel-Aviv phone directory," I told him. A large warm smile spread across is face. "Our original name was Auerbach. We opened the first pharmacies in Tel-Aviv and in Jerusalem ... Rahm and his two brothers received a warm Jewish education ... Perhaps the most intriguing thing that happened to me personally in the course of the past year, since I have been posted in Washington, was the meeting with the organized American Jewry. The best place to see them as they are, the place where I always came each year to admire them, is the annual convention of the pro-Israel lobby, AIPAC. This is the place not only to feel the pulse of American involvement in the Middle East, but also where I felt that somehow it helps me to ignore the deep distress inherent in the feeling of loneliness of living in a state located in the heart of so many hostile Arabs. I always asked myself what was the value of the Jewish experience in America as far as Israel is concerned. Did the identification with Israel derive from a deep sensation of a common Jewish fate or was it one of the tools of the local community to garner power for achieving truly equal rights in a mixed society comprised also of many emigrants and members of various faiths? Was the Jewish power in the U.S. a phenomenon which will decrease or to increase? Were the intermarriages of Jews with Gentiles threatening to weaken the Jewish power in the U.S.? Or, so I was sometimes afraid, were the American Jews building a new Jewish cultural center that would compete with Israel? "Adat Ysrael" Synagogue in Washington is not only a place of worship. It is a Jewish community center, with a prestigious Jewish kindergarten, a Jewish school with Judaism, literature, culture and of course, Hebrew classes. On Saturdays there are always two seperate prayer sessions. The first is the large one, encompassings hundreds of worshippers, which ends in a food blessing at tables tastefully laid with Jewish delicacies. Its members belong to the creme de la creme of Washington society: senior administration officials, successful lawyers, rich businessmen. All are wealthy people ... The entrance fee to synagogue is 1.000 U.S. Dollar for a single holiday ... But the most important reason for their praying is that they feel a close connection with Israel ... The other synagogue competing for the young generation of wealthy Jews is located in Georgetown ... Many Jewish Administration officials pray there. They not only don't try to conceil their religious affiliations but go to a great length to demonstrate their Judaism since it may help their careers greatly. The enormous Jewish influence in Washington is not limited to the government. In the popular programs on the TV are warm Jews ... Let us not forget in this context the Jewish predominance in the Washington academical institutions. At percentage in the population. In the fields of security and science, in the film industry, in art and in literature, the Jewish influence can only be described as immense, with a corresponding enhancement of the Jewish power ... Where did they all spring from? In Israel we are already accustomed to the names of the Jews called Dennis Ross, Dan Kurtzer and Aharon Miller, since they have taken part in each of the Secretary of State's visits to the Middle East in the last six years. But that is a relatively new phenomenon. When Dan Kurtzer, a pious Jew who observes the Sabbath and all commandments of Judaism arrived at the American State Department 18 years ago with a doctorate in Middle East studies, he was told: "You have all the qualifications to serve in the Middle East division, but don't even think of suggesting it because of your Jewish origin. "Today he is the boss of those who gave him that piece of advice, so much had the Jewish power increased meantime. I phoned the State Department ... Suddenly someone picked up the receiver and then I heard a voice saying in perfect Israeli Hebrew: "Good Morning, how can I help you?" Rahm Emanuel: "The Holocaust creates a sense of a destiny shared by all Jews. The Jews must act to strenghen Israel so that the Holocaust cannot be repeated" ... Today, when there is talk about 51 percent of interfaith marriages, the danger of assimilation appears to be even greater, yet when examining the phenomenon from close up one finds that the trend is opposite ... Can Israel really sense that at a distance of thousands of miles away is a flourishing Jewish center that not only deeply admires and supports it, but also feels a shared destiny with it? There is no doubt about it, especially in the matters concerning its existence. All the Clinton's Administration officials dealing with Israel; Ross, Kurtzer, Indyk and Miller being just a sample, may have different views concerning the desired solution for the Israeli-Arab conflict but they are warm Jews in whatever they do ... But they also firmly believe that the shared interests between the two states (U.S.A. and Israel) are fundamental and permantly enduring. It is because of this deeply held belief that they made a huge contribution to the fact that Clinton's Administration has fully adopted their approach on the issue of relations between the U.S. and Israel ... The many Jews in Clinton's Administration have not been created by a design, but their large number is not due to chance either. The American way of life supports the achievers ... Although the Jewish power in the current Democratic Administration is so huge, there are also many warm Jews heading for the top position in the Republican Party... Clinton was also made conscious by his many Jewish friends about the distressing memory of the Holocaust, which still haunts the leaders of the U.S. Jewish community and about its importance for the continual support of Israel which is obligatory on the U.S. |
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"The Jews Who Run Clinton's Court" |
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The above statement has been made by the Secretary General of the Jewish World Congress, Israel Singer. Singer is quoted in the book "Die Deutschlandakte" ("The Germany File", edition ferency bei Bruckmann, Munich 1995, p. 343), written by the Israeli Professor Michael Wolffsohn (photo). |
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population but occupy more or less 90 percent
of all the key positions in the US-Administration.
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