Steinhardt is also Jewish, and a big financier of the Birthright Israel program, which seeks to pull young American Jews to deeper links to Israel. He was also a "target [in] a government bond manipulation scandal that's sparked outrage in Congress." [NATIONAL REVIEW, 5-9-92] The Progressive Policy Institute is a wing of the Democratic Leadership Council, headed by Al From (Jewish too), who is "also a top Clinton adviser." Vice Chairman of the DLC is David Steiner, former president of AIPAC, who was forced to resign that position when he was secretly tape-recorded bragging about how he manipulated American government on behalf of Israel. "We have a dozen people in his [Clinton's] headquarters," the then-president of AIPAC had noted for the tape,"and they are all going to get big jobs." [MOTHER JONES, 5-3-01] Progressive Policy Institute associate Robert Shapiro was also a staff economist for the Clinton campaign.

More importantly and prominently, by 1996 Jews held the following cabinet-level positions in the Clinton administration:

Robert Reich -- Secretary of Labor.

Mickey Kantor -- Secretary of Commerce. (Kantor has

been a member of the national advisory council for AIPAC. In

1994, notes Fred Goodman, Kantor "threatened trade sanctions

against China ... Although the [Clinton] administration refused to

make a trade issue of the Chinese government's political and

human rights abuses, it was ready to play hardball to stop the

manufacture of unlicensed compact discs and videos. The

commercial piracy, which the entertainment industry estimates

cost it as much as $2 billion a year, was the kind of issue that

was near and dear to the hearts of [David] Geffen and Time-

Warner, who had given the Democratic National Committee a

whopping $400,000 in 1992. [GOODMAN, p. 378] Also in 1994,

notes Barry Rubin, the world trade agreement "was negotiated by

Jews representing both the United States [Mickey Cantor] and

Europe [Leon Britton]. [RUBIN, p. xii] France's Foreign

Minister, Dominique Strauss-Kahn is also Jewish (1994); Jean

Bernard Levy is France's Chief of Staff for the Ministry of

Industry. In England, an economic counterpart is Peter

Mandelson, who resigned in 1998 as that country's Trade

and Industry Secretary after it was discovered "he had failed

to declare a large loan from Geoffrey Robinson, who resigned

as Paymaster General the next day." [OTTAWA CITIZEN, p.

A7] By 1993, even Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat had a French

Jew, Gabriel Banon, as his peoples' chief economic advisor.

Banon was once a "close advisor" to former French prime

minister George Pompidou. Banon also claims to have done

"favors" for U.S. presidents Gerald Ford, George Bush, and

                Ronald Reagan. [BERLEY, M., 6-22-96] (Stanley Cohen
                was even the lawyer in 1995 for "senior Hamas official"
                Moussa Mohammad Abu Marzook, who was jailed in New York
                City. "All the Israeli press, " Cohen said, "wants to know how a
                Jew can represent the head of Hamas. I ask them, 'How can a Jew
                NOT represent the head of Hamas?'") [WALKER, R., 9-11-95]
                A Jew, Robert Butkin, can even be found as the state treasurer of                 Oklahoma. [SCHREINER, B., 8-16-2000] (Even in the 1880s, when
                a Jew, Simon Wolf,, was the American ambassador to Egypt,
                a Jew, (Julius) Blum Pasha, was Egypt's Finance Minister!)
                [PANITZ, D & E, 1957, p. 98]

Robert Rubin -- Secretary of the Treasury. ("Rubin," noted the

Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "is known for his pro-Israel stance."

Dan Glickman -- Secretary of Agriculture. (At a second term Clinton

inauguration party, Glickman asked "every organization, every

                 Jewish organization to take another step forward and outreach to
                 Jews." [DORF, BEHIND, p. 1]

            In 1996, FBI agent Gary Aldrich, for five years assigned to do background
            checks on White House personnel, noted that when Glickman was
            nominated to be the Secretary of Agriculture:

John Deutch -- Director of the CIA. Appointed in 1995, "first,"

noted the [Jewish] Forward, "he made a series of personnel

changes, appointing David Cohen as deputy director of

operations and giving the organization's executive director,

Nora Slatkin, broad, unprecedented authority over the deputy

directors." [FORWARD, p. 9-29-95, p. 7] Deutch's

grandfather, Jean Fischer, was a prominent Zionist and friend

of the first Israeli president, Chaim Weizmann. Fischer headed

the Zionist Federation in Belgium. A town in Israel, Kefar Yonah,

is named in his honor. [STOLL, p. 7]

Israel's Jerusalem Post noted, in a 1996 article, the situation

for Jews in the CIA: "Jews fill top positions in the U.S.

intelligence community. In the CIA alone, intelligence sources

say, Jews fill four of the CIA's seven directorates and the agency

is headed by John Deutch, a director described by one Israeli

intelligence source as being 'so traditional in his Jewish outlook

that he practically wears a kippa [traditional Jewish skullcap]."

[RODAN, p. 20] (Also in the intelligence realm, a Jewish senator,

Arlen Specter, was by the mid-1990s chairman of the Senate

Intelligence Committee). By the 1960s, Samuel Halpern was the

"executive officer of Task Force W"-- the CIA team set up to kill

Cuba's Fidel Castro; Sidney Gottlieb, "who could produce a

lethal virus or poison on demand" was a "scientific advisor" to

CIA assassination projects; and Arnold Silver was the CIA

station chief in Luxemberg, also involved in plans for worldwide

                 political murders. [HERSH, S., 1997, p. 191] Journalist Alexander
                 Cockburn noted Gottlieb as the "US official poisoner" who "for
                 many years, most notably in the 1950s and 1960s ... presided over
                 the CIA's technical services division and supervised preparation of
                 lethal poisons, experiments in mind control and administration of
                 LSD and other psycho-active drugs to unwitting subjects."
                 [COCKBURN, A; GOTTLIEB] Jewish "counter-culture" publisher Paul                  Krassner notes also that "Tim Leary told me about the use of acid by                  Herman Kahn, director of the Hudson Institute and author of On                  Thermonuclear War ... When we met, his assistant, Anthony Wiener,
                 was there -- he was the conduit for CIA funding of the MK-UL-TRA                  project, which used LSD in behavior-modification experiments with                  unaware subjects." [KRASSNER, 1993, p. 112]
                 (Even among those who believe that the AIDS virus was intentionally                  created to harm African-Americans and gays, the central figure of                  accusation rests upon Wolf Szmuness, a Jewish immigrant scientist
                 from Poland). [ http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~wbova/fn/earth/AIDS.htm ]
                 In the FBI, during the J. Edgar Hoover era, there were allegations that
                 there were few Jews allowed in that department. Yet, "over the years [under
                 Hoover] two Jews became Assistant Directors. Jewish employees
                 were given days off to observe religious holidays, and Jews once
                 made up most of the FBI basketball team." [SUMMERS, A., 1993
                 p. 57]

An earlier Jewish Clinton cabinet nomination, Zoe Baird, for Attorney General, was rejected by Congress when it was discovered that she had employed two illegal Peruvian immigrants in her home.

Other major Clinton administrative appointees include

William Cohen -- Secretary of Defense. (Cohen's father was Jewish,

his mother not; he has not publicly foregrounded a distinctly

Jewish identity. "Nevertheless, "noted the [Jewish] Forward,

"[Cohen] received a Jewish education and would perhaps have

stayed 'in the fold' if a rabbi had not rejected him in his early

years. Nevertheless, [Cohen] remains a great friend of Israel,

where he had traveled on frequent visits. He has many personal

friends there, and we are assure, it is possible to chat with him

in simple Hebrew. His defense of Israel on various occasions is

well known." [FORWARD, 2-21-97, p. 7]

(An earlier Clinton selection for Secretary of Defense, Robert Inman, was dismissed in Congressional hearings thanks to Jewish influence in the mass media and the Zionist lobby. Michael Saba notes that Jewish journalist William Safire was especially critical of Inman's "anti-Israel bias," Inman's support of the "excessive sentencing of Jonathan Pollard" [the Jewish American spy for Israel] and his reluctance to provide Israel with U.S. spy satellite photographs. [SABA, M., 1994] Another Jewish journalist, Susan Garment, of the Washington Post, wrote that "Inman named five journalists who treated him badly. Safire, Tony Lewis, Ellen Goodman, the cartoonist Herblock, and Rita Braven. All five are Jewish ... This did nothing to dispel public impressions of Inman's anti-Israel bias." [SABA, M., 1994] )

Madeline Albright -- Secretary of State. (Albright's story is

intriguing. She reputedly had no knowledge of her "lost" Jewish

heritage until informed about it by the Washington Post while in

office in 1997. The state of Israel is alleged to have known about

her Jewish ancestry two years before she did). [JEWISH

TELAG, p.2] Albright has suddenly, literally, become the

"daughter of Holocaust victims ... On a deep, even untapped,

psychological level," says the Jewish Week, "Albright may have

strong feelings about Israel." [SCHOFFMAN, p. 23] "When I

say I had known that Albright was Jewish," wrote Barbara

Amiel, wife of media mogul Conrad Black, "I mean that one

look at her features told me so. Of course, I put it in the back

of my mind because I attributed absolutely no significance to

it ... (Well, perhaps I dissemble. Being Jewish myself, I had a

feeling of kinship and admired her achievement a notch more ...

Albright happens to be the kind of person whose attractive

features correspond to that tribal affinity in an almost

unmistakable manner." [AMIEL, p. 26]

The Clinton administration has been involved in more military

adventures than any other presidency since the Vietnam War,

including the bombings of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Serbia. "The

Kosovo conflict," notes Newsweek, "is often referred to by

her friends and foes as Madeline's War ... More than anyone

else she embodies the foreign policy vision that pushed [other

Clinton officials] into this war." [ISAACSON, W., p. 25]

(In 1999, a wealthy Austrian family threatened to sue Albright

for the return of fine art masterpieces allegedly stolen from

them from Czechoslovakia by her father). [CAMPBELL, M.]

Alan Greenspan -- a holdover from before Clinton took office

(appointed during the Reagan administration), is the Chairman

of the Federal Reserve Board. His political career began as

an economic advisor to Republican president Richard Nixon in

1968. The (New York) Financial Times noted that Greenspan

"has been one of the most powerful men in the world for well

over a decade. A single word of expression can be enough to

unsettle stock markets around the globe or to send shares

soaring." [FIN TIM, p. 14] Chairman of the powerful

Securities Exchange Council (SEC)? Also Jewish: Arthur

Levitt. Head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)? Also

Jewish: Robert Pitofsky, appointed by Clinton in 1994.

In late 1998 the Jewish Week noted that Jewish billionaire George Soros is

"often accused of masterminding some world conspiracy ... if the

[economic] global crisis keeps spreading -- as most experts expect

-- you won't hear much more talk about blaming Soros and his Jewish

cronies. Anger will probably focus increasingly on the leaders of the

[International Monetary Fund] and the Washington policy makers who

stand behind it. The bad news is that most of them are Jewish too.

Israel's daily Yediot Achronot recently published an unintentionally

chilling list of senior economic policymakers known to be attending

Kol Nidre services in Washington on the eve of the IMF summit.

Among them: Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and his top deputy

Lawrence Summers [who has since succeeded Rubin as Treasury

Secretary], World Bank Chairman James Wolfenson and his top

deputy, Josef Stieglitz; Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan,

and IMF Director Stanley Fischer. That's scary. And it's only a partial

list." [GOLDBERG, JJ, The Sixth, p. 12]

In the White House, all the powerful people in the Clinton administration pale in importance to who the (Jewish) Forward calls "the biggest Jew in the Clinton world right now." That is Steve Grossman, who was named in 1997 as the chairman of the Democratic National Committee. And what job did he leave to take this position? The chairmanship of AIPAC. "The highlight of Sunday's lunch for leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee," reported the Jewish Exponent, "-- in addition to kosher food trucked in from Baltimore -- was the arrival of Steve Grossman, until last week the chair of the pro-Israel lobby group and now the national chair of the Democratic National Committee." [BESSER, SCENES, p. 61] President Clinton, declared Grossman, is "committed to Jewish values, principles, and the Jewish agenda more than any other president that I can remember." [GELBWASSER, p. 13] (Sara Ehrman, an old friend of Hillary Clinton is also a Democratic National Committee senior political advisor; she also served as "a former lobbyist for AIPAC." [LIFTON, p. 52] During Ms. Clinton's successful run for the New York senate seat, the (Jewish) Forward also noted in 2000 that "in the latest setback to Hillary Rodham Clinton's effort to reach out to the Jewish voters, a Democratic Party leader and key Jewish adviser to her campaign was arrested this week on corruption charges. Paul Adler, the Democratic leader of Rockland County and a relator with past legal troubles, was charged Monday with public corruption, fraud, extortion and other charges linked to his real estate transactions.") [FORWARD, 9-15-00, p. 15]

Stunningly, as Grossman rose to head the DNC, in the same year Fran Katz, the AIPAC Deputy Political Affairs Director, became the Financial Director of the Democratic Party. This situation, notes Mitchell Kaidy, "contribut[ed] to the impression that the foreign lobby and the incumbent party have become one and the same." [KAIDY, M., 9-97, p. 42] Likewise, as AIPAC seeped deeper into the American political structure, in 1999 the (Jewish) Forward announced that a Jewish "Democratic consultant, Mark Mellman, is hiring AIPAC's political director, Michael Bloomfield." [GITELL, S., 5-28-99, p. 19] Conversely, prominent Jewish Democrats may seep into AIPAC -- in 1999 Robert Bassin, Chief of Staff for Democratic House of Representatives member John Lewis (Georgia) was reported to be considered for one of the chief AIPAC positions. [GITELL, S., 5-28-99] (There are, of course, Jews in positions of power at the side of non-Jewish Congressman throughout America. Josh Shapiro, for example, is Chief of Staff for Pennsylvania's Congressman Jan Hoeffel). [SALISBURY, G., 3-30-99, p. 65]

The DNC Finance Chairman before Katz was also Jewish, Alan Solomont, also a "friend" of Steve Grossman. [GELBWASSER, M., 12-6-97, p. 3] In 1997 Solomont, "a nursing home tycoon" and former president of the Massachusetts Federation of Nursing Homes, was subpoenaed by the Senate Committee on Government Affairs about his role as "a major contributor [who] successfully lobbied Clinton administration officials to modify regulations for his industry." [GOLDSCHLAG, 2-3-97; WEISSENSTEIN, E., 8-18-97] In turn, Solomont "took over the DNC's troubled funding operation from Marvin Rosen, a Miami lawyer who has been blamed for loosening the controls on fundraising and for using his political contacts to bolster his law firm ... [The DNC had accepted millions of dollars] from foreigners whose donations are illegal under U.S. law." [BRODER, J., 4-3-99] (Amy Weiss Tobe also became the Democratic National Press Secretary in 1996; the next year she was the DNC Communications Director). [The National Finance Chair for the Democratic Party in 1990 was Monte Freidkin, later the Chairman of the National Jewish Democratic Council].

In 1999, Beth Dozoretz, yet another Jew, took the reins as "chief fundraiser for the Democratic Party" in her new position as the Financial Chair of the Democratic National Convention. [BRODER, p. 22] (Dozoretz later lobbied Clinton to pardon wealthy Jewish financier, Israeli philanthropist, and fugitive criminal Marc Rich. "Another key player in the effort [to get the pardon]," adds Newsweek, "was [Rich's ex-wife] Denise Rich's friend and fellow Democratic fundraiser Beth Dozoretz, who apparently appealed directly to Clinton"). [ENDA/KUHNHENN, 2-15-01, p. A1; ISIKOFF, M., 2-19-01] On the Republican side, Mel Sembler has been for years the Finance Chairman for the Republican National Committee; he is also chairman of Florida real estate company and an active member in the National Jewish Coalition. (He was formerly the U.S. ambassador to Australia. President George Bush Sr. had "named Sembler ambassador to Australia, which got him included in a series of Doonesbury comic strips poking fun at the link between money and patronage."). [TROXLER, H., 1-22-97]

In 1992, President Clinton named Fred Goldberg to a position in the Treasury Department. He had for the past three years been the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Goldberg was earlier a partner at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Meagher and Fromm. Another partner at the firm at the time was Kenneth Bialkin, for years the chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League, and, later, chairman of the American-Israel Friendship Committee. (In January 2000, President Clinton even named an Orthodox rabbi, Irving Greenbaum, as the new chairman of the nearby Holocaust Museum in Washington DC). Head of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) through most of the 1990s and into the next millenium? Doris Meissner, "a child of German immigrants." (Elinor Caplan, head of the Immigration office up North, is Meissner's mirror in Canada). In 2000, "a three-judge panel ruled ... that [Mazer] Al-Najjer, 43, should be freed [from prison], but Immigration and Naturalization Service Commissioner Doris Meissner appealed to [Attorney General Janet] Reno" to keep him imprisoned. Al-Najjer, an Arab, was accused of have links to terrorist acts against Israel and had been "jailed for more than three and a half years on the basis of secret evidence that immigration authorities refused to show him or his lawyers." [TAYLOR, M., 9-7-00, p. B1:7; LARDNER, JR., G., 12-16-00, p. 2] Reno released him.

In 1993-94 the two individuals President Clinton appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Steven Breyer, were also both Jewish. And multi-millionaires. [CANTOR, p. 401] (A 1987 Jewish justice appointee to the Supreme Court, Douglas Ginsberg, was discovered to have smoked marijuana while a Harvard law professor and was passed over for the government post). Of the nine current American Supreme court justices, notes the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, "President Clinton's two Jewish appointees to the Supreme Court are by far the richest." Depending upon how one plays with papers, Ruth Ginsberg and her husband are worth between $5.9 to $24.1 million; the Breyer's assets are valued at between $3.3 to $15.9 million. [KURTZMAN, 5-27-98]

The profoundly disproportionate presence (even dominance) of Jews in important governmental positions, as well as their economic influence in the political field (and its disturbing implications), goes entirely unremarked upon by the mass media. As Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab note:

"Neither Ruth Bader Ginsburg, nor Stephen Breyer's appointment to

the Supreme Court called any public comment about them being Jews

... [Likewise] during and after the 1992 campaigns in which Californians

elected Jews to both United States senatorial vacancies, not a voice was

raised publicly to mark the fact. The Republican nominee for one of

these seats was also Jewish." [LIPSET, RAAB]

"One measure of progress that's been made," agreed Hyman Bookbinder, a former official of the American Jewish Committee, "is that when Clinton appointed Stephen Breyer to be the second Jew on the Supreme Court, you heard practically nothing about his being Jewish." [MATUSOW, B., MAY 2000, p. 79] (This situation is of course quite different from the past. When receiving an award from the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, notes the Washington Post, Justice Ginsburg "noted the fear of anti-Jewish bias that Supreme Court lawyers felt some 50 years ago. The names of four Justice Department lawyers, all Jewish, are missing from a legal brief they wrote in 1948, Ginsburg said at the Feb. 18 award ceremony. The decision was made by Arnold Raum, No. 2 in the office that handles Supreme Court appeals, and himself a Jew, Ginsburg said. 'It wouldn't do, he thought, to make it so evident that the position of the United States was 'put out by a bunch of Jews,' Ginsburg said, quoting a later account.") [GEARSON, A., 2-28-02]

In 1999 Supreme Court Justice Breyer gave an address to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations entitled "Zion's Justice." He said that "the Zionist ideal is, of course, exactly that -- an ideal. It is an objective toward which imperfect reality must struggle. But, whatever the imperfection of reality, this ideal retains its hold upon our imagination and that of the world." [BREYER, p. 19] His speech, and later article, rhapsodized about former Jewish Supreme Court Justices Louis Brandeis (whose term began in 1916) and Felix Frankfurter (who began in 1939), both avidly activist Zionists, and their emulative roles in serving the Zionist cause in high level American government. But how things have changed. "It is important to remember," says Breyer,

"that Brandeis was a leader when Zionism was controversial among

Jews. Indeed, after Brandeis was confirmed as a member of the

Supreme Court in 1916, the New York Times, with support from

some Jewish groups, argued that Brandeis should resign from his

public position in Zionist organizations. And he did so. This

opposition reflected something deeper than simple concern for

judicial propriety. It reflected a widely held view that American

Jews need not -- and perhaps out not -- support the Zionist

cause because doing so might prove inconsistent with their

obligations toward their own country or intervene with their

participation in American civic life ... [p. 18] ... Felix Frankfurter

was Brandeis' pupil, in respect to Zionism and everything else ...

Brandeis needed an assistant to carry on his Zionist activities,

particularly after he was appointed to the Court. He chose

Frankfurter. Even when Brandeis was on the Court -- in one

act now considered highly controversial -- Brandeis would

deposit between $250 and $3,000 in Frankfurter's expense account

as he traveled throughout the country advocating causes which

included Zionism ... In 1919 ... Brandeis told Frankfurter to

prepare for a practical task, writing legal bequest forms 'adequate

in several states,' to organize an effort 'to get in touch with all Jewish

lawyers in America' and try to have many Jewish clients remember

Zion in their wills. That same year, he had Frankfurter travel to the

Paris Peace Conference as a leading representative of American

Zionists." [BREYER, p. 18-19]

Brandeis' wife, Alice, was even a financial supporter of the Zionist underground terrorist IRGUN organization. She held a membership card in the American League for a Free Palestine, a supportive offshoot of IRGUN. Justice Brandeis himself "met more than once with visiting delegations from the Revisionist Zionist movement to discuss illegal immigration and related issues. At one 1939 session with IRGUN emissary Robert Briscoe, Brandeis reportedly remarked, "If I were a young man like you, I would be with you." [MEDOFF, 1996] ("Revisionists were heavily fascist and profoundly influenced by Mussolini," notes Jewish author Edwin Black. [BLACK, E., p. 143] )

In 1983 a scholarly work by Bruce Allen Murphy about Jewish Supreme Court justices Brandeis and Frankfurter was published. It was entitled The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection. The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices. Supreme Court justices, appointed for life terms, are expected to maintain an apolitical, non-partisan bearing as decision-makers of American law. Murphy's volume studies the two Supreme Court justices' secret extrajudicial political activities, largely, but not only, of a Zionist/Jewish nature. As Murphy notes, after his exhaustive study of existent document archives:

"Felix Frankfurter learned the art of being an extrajudicially active

member of the Supreme Court at the knee of Justice Brandeis. It now

appears that in one of the most unique relationships in the Court's

history, Brandeis enlisted Frankfurter, then a professor at Harvard

Law School, as his paid political lobbyist and lieutenant. Working

together over a period of twenty-five years, they placed a network

of disciples in positions of influence, and labored diligently for the

enactment of their desired programs. This adroit use of the politically

skillful Frankfurter as an intermediary enabled Brandeis to keep his

considerable political endeavors hidden from the public. Not

surprisingly, after his own appointment to the Court, Frankfurter

resorted to some of the same methods to advance governmental

goals consonant with his own political philosophy. As a result,

history virtually repeated itself, with the student placing his own

network of disciples in various agencies and working through this

network for the realization of his own goals ... So extensive was

the extrajudicial behavior of both Brandeis and Frankfurter that

one is left puzzled as to how it could have remained secret for

     so long." [MURPHY, B., 1983, p. 10, 11]

     Under President Lyndon Johnson, Jewish Associate Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, says early AIPAC chief I. L. Kenen,

      "accepted my invitation to make a speech to the national AIPAC policy conference
      and he associated himself with the historic pro-Zionist declaration made by Justice
      Louis D. Brandeis just fifty years before. Goldberg came under attack because
      of that speech. [He listened] to a long harangue by Saudi Arabia's Baroody on
      Zionism and the influence of American Jews on American political leaders." [KENEN,
      I., 1981, p. 228-229]

       In 1998, both current Jewish Supreme Court Justices, Breyer and Ginsburg, joined in a 6-3 ruling (a 5-4 loss if non-Jewish Justices in their stead had different views) in favor of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, one that would make

      "it unlikely the pro-Israel lobby will have to disclose information about its membership
       or expenditures. Six former politiicans and diplomats, all stauch critics of U. S.
       Policy toward Isrel, have been seeking increased government regulation of AIPAC
       ... the plaintiffs have been urging the Federal Election Comission to regulate AIPAC
       as a political commitee ... AIPAC ... defines itself as membership organization and              registered lobby on behalf of legislation affecting U.S.-Israel relations ... Justice
       Stepehn Breyer wrote the majority opinion for the court." [KURTZMAN, D.,
       6-5-01]

In Bill Clinton's second Presidential term, other Jews in prominent positions of power included:

Gene Sperling -- Chairman of the National Economic Council

Evelyn Lieberman -- Director of Voice of America

Janie Gorelick -- Assistant Attorney General

Stuart Eizenstat -- Undersecretary of State for Economics

Aaron Miller -- Deputy Middle East Coordinator

Daniel Kurtzer -- Ambassador to Egypt

Marc Grossman -- Assistant Secretary for European and Canadian

Princeton Lyman -- Assistant Secretary of State for International

Stanley Roth -- Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific

Jeffrey Davidow -- Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American

James Rubin -- Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

Jack Lew -- (an Orthodox Jew); Director of the Office of Management

and Budget [GROSS, N., p. 30]

       This list is just a sampling. "There are uncounted dozens of Jewish White House staffers," noted the Jewish Exponent in 1997. [BESSER, Celebrating, p. 1] There are so many that Ira Forman, director of the National Jewish Democratic organization, "tells of one Jewish staffer friend who balked at handling the White House Christmas decorations but was told he had to do it 'because, heck, everyone else here is Jewish too.'" [GROSS, N., p. 30] "We've stopped counting the number of Jews in key places in the Clinton administration," noted Hyman Bookbinder, the former Washington representative of the American Jewish Committee, "there are so many of them." [MATUSOW, B., MAY 2000, p. 79]

     Richard H. Curtiss, a former State Department officer, noted the situation in 1998:

     "A large percentage of other top-echelon State Department political appointees
     and ambassadors are Jewish. A U.S. ambassador who happened to be
     visiting Washington in October remarked to the writer that during Rosh Hoshana,
     the Jewish New Year, many State Department offices took on the forlorn,
     nearly deserted visage that used to characterize the brief interval between
     Christmas and New Year's day. The same was true in the White House, where
     the top two foreign affairs officials, National Security Adviser Samuel Berger
     and his deputy, John Steinberg, are Jewish, as is Vice President Al Gore's
     national security adviser, Leon Furth. So are a lot of other White House
     policymakers ... Nor is there anything particularly incongruous about the
     high percentage of top Jewish officials in the Clinton White House and
    foreign affairs establishment. Ins ome other government departments, the
     situation differs only in the details. Ironically, Secretary Donna Shalala
     of the Department of Health and Human Services is the only Arab American
     in the cabinet. But according to HHS insiders, most of her second echelon
     officials, all White House appointees, are Jewish. So are a remarkably high
     percentage of top officials in the National Institutes of Health, which supervise
     hundreds of research grants at home and abroad. At the Department of Commerce
    the situation is similar, even after the resignation of Secretary of Commerce
     Mickey Kantor, a long-time pro-Israel activist and Clinton's 1992 elelction
     campaign manager. At the Pentagon and CIA, at political appointee levels
     (in contrast to career military and CIA officers), things are not that different ...
     The record of a staff meeeting at Secretary Robert Rubin's Treasury
     Department early in the second Clinton administration shows that when
     top echelon leaders were discussing the best times to make announcements
     the Treasury does not want the American public to notice, one official
     said, 'The time to do it is Christmas or Easter, since those are the two biggest
     holidays.' The 'they' the official was speaking about in the apparently all-Jewish
     meeting were the 90 to 95 perecent of US taxpayers who are of Christian
     heritage but who, in the Clinton administration, are so dramatically
     under-represented in top foreign policymaking positions."
     [CURTISS, R.H., 2-28-98, p. 28]

      "There is also a sizeable contingent of Jewish women," noted the Jerusalem Report in 1998, "many of whom started out with a Hillary [Clinton] connection, in the most senior echelons of the White House, including Communications Director Ann Lewis, White House Director of Public Policy Maria Echaveste [who married a Jewish lawyer and converted to Judaism], and Lynn Cutler, deputy director of White House inter-governmental affairs." [GROSS, N., p. 30] Hilary's own personal staff, notes Netty Gross, "is also heavily Jewish." [GROSS, N., p. 32] (White House FBI agent Gary Aldrich notes on one occasion what it was like decorating Hilary Clinton's White House Christmas tree, with ornaments from various artists, featuring "sex toys" and self-mutilation devices": "I couldn't believe the disrespect that these ornaments represented. Many of the artists invited to make and send something to hang on the tree must have had nothing but disgust, hatred, and disrespect for the White House and the citizens of this country, a disgust obviously encouraged by the first lady in the name of artistic freedom ... Here was another five golden rings ornament -- five gold-wrapped condoms. I threw it in the trash. There were other condom ornaments, some still in the wrapper, some not.") [ALDRICH, G., 1996, p. 105-106]

In July 26, 2000, during Hillary Clinton's campaign for Congress from New York, Jewish senator Charles Schumer ("a recognized leader in Jewish issues on Capitol Hill") was recorded on videotape at a fund raiser for the President's wife. He responded to questions by Jews present about Israel, saying, "My guess is [Ms. Clinton] will vote exactly as I vote on Jewish issues. She will look to me to see how to vote ... Is she going to be a leading voice in the Senate? No. Is she going to have the same feeling about it that I do -- born Jewish? No. But she will be good." "Schumer," noted the Associated Press, "in shirt sleeves, chatted casually with supporters on the tape, seemingly unaware that a camera was rolling." [ASSOCIATED PRESS, 7-27-2000]

Jews, observed Stuart Eizenstat, eventually the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, "have become much more vocal, not just as an outside interests group, but by integrating into the system." [BESSER, Escape, p. 38] (Joe Rubin, by the way, is the "chief lobbyist for the US Chamber of Commerce"). [NELSON, S., 11-20-01] Eizenstat, noted the Baltimore Jewish Times,

"said that the Jewish community has reached a kind of critical mass in

politics that guarantees that many of the gains of the Clinton years will

remain, no matter who occupies the White House. 'I think the change will

last,' said Eizenstat, 'people in the middle levels [of national

government] will move up in the years ahead; younger people who are

being trained at junior levels will, in future administrations, take more

senior positions." [BESSER, J. p. 38]

(Eizenstat is also notable for his public defense of Rabbi Irving Greenberg -- the head of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum -- after Greenberg faced condemnation for writing a letter to President Clinton seeking clemency for Jewish American fugitive Marc Rich. Eizenstat praised Greenberg for "embracing ... Jewishness from its assimilationist drift." After hearing Rabbi Greenberg lecture at a Jewish retreat in 1974, "the Holocaust," writes Eizenstat, something most us of us had barely thought about, became central to our lives, our understanding of Judaism and of Jewish ethics.") [EIZENSTAT, S., 4-3-01]

With so many Jews in the upper echelons of American government, notes the Jerusalem Post, "Arabs have repeatedly complained that the United States has not acted as an honest broker" in Middle East peace negotiations. [GROSS, N., p. 32] Specifically, Israeli commentator Meron Benevenisti described an Israeli newspaper's depiction of the 4-member Clinton "peace mission" to barter arrangements between Israel and Palestinians in the 1990s as "the mission of four Jews" -- the paper "gloated with pride while talking about the Jewish and even Israeli roots of all its members." "The 'Israeli roots' of those US diplomats," adds Israel Shahak, "comprising what went under the name of a 'peace mission' included the fact that a son of one of them was said to be studying in a Hesder Yeshiva, to receive military training there. He was also said to be a sympathizer of Gush Emunim and was awaiting the opportunity to serve in the Israeli army in the Territories." [SHAHAK, I., ]

In the international field, Jewish "current or immediate past" [1997] ambassadors to other countries included those to Egypt, Israel, Poland, Switzerland, Brazil (Melvin Levitsky), Nepal (Ralph Frank), Romania, Spain, Hungary, Belgium, Denmark, France, Morocco (Marc Ginsberg), Venezuela (Jeffrey Davidow), Turkey (Marc Grossman), Bahamas (Arthur Schechter: 1998-2001) and Malaysia, among others. Matthew Dorf notes that

"Indeed, an article in the October [1997] issue of the professional journal

of the American Foreign Service Association, Foreign Service --

headlined 'Where've All the Arabists Gone?' -- laments the changes

taking place. 'If any other group had taken over, there would have been

a big storm, but with the Jewish-American takeover, nobody has the

courage to speak,' William Rugh, a former ambassador to Yemen, was

quoted as saying." [DORF, Focus, p. 3]

In 1972, Evan M. Wilson, the United States Minister-Consul General in Jerusalem till 1967, reflected a view about American foreign policy in that area that has long since been erased by Zionist expansion in the U.S. government:

"In retrospect, it seems clear that our support of the creation of a

Jewish state in Palestine, against the wishes of the [Arab] population

of that country, was a mistake. It had a catastrophic effect upon our

relations the Arab world and our important interests in the Middle

East. It has caused us to be associated in the minds of the Arabs

with Israel, which they regard as an alien, hostile element in their midst

and which they identify with the forces of imperialism and colonialism

against which they have been struggling since the First World War."

[WILSON, E., 1972, p. 72-73]

In 1997, when David Hermelin was named to be the U.S. ambassador to Norway, a friend, Jay Alix, was quoted as saying:

"He's probably one of the world's great philanthropist leaders. He's

raised more money for Jewish causes than anyone else." [FRENCH, p.

B1]

Hermelin died in office in 2000. He was noted in the New York Times as having been "a devoted supporter of Israel and the Jewish people," serving as Chairman of Israel's 50th Anniversary Committee, Vice Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, and International Chairman of the State of Israel Bonds." [NEW YORK TIMES, 11-23-00, sec. 11, p. 11]

Also in 1998, Steven Green, the former head of the Samsonite luggage company, and others, packed his bags for his post as Ambassador to Singapore. In the same year the Jewish Forward noted that Richard Holbrooke, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, "surprised the audience [at the Center for Jewish History's Inaugural Dinner] with the revelation that, like his wife, Kati Marton, he too is Jewish." [LEON, 9-25-99, p. 15] (Daniel L. Spiegel was Ambassador to U.N. from 1994-96).

Martin Indyk, formerly on Clinton's National Security Council, is the first Jewish United States Ambassador to Israel in history. All other Presidents recognized the obvious dangers and avoided the intrinsic pro-Israel bias problem in such an appointment. (Canada's 2000 ambassador to Israel? Also Jewish: David Berger). Indyk's story is especially disturbing. In 1973 Indyk was a student in Israel. In 1982 he began work for Near East Research, Inc., the research unit of AIPAC. He later founded the pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy: "many of the Institute's financial backers were Jews who were members of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee." [FORWARD, 9-5-97] Co-founder of the Washington Institute was Barbi Weinberg, "wife of AIPAC Chairman Emeritus Lawrence Weinberg." [HALSELL, G., MARCH 1993, p. 9] (Such think tanks, notes former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Jame E. Akins, "basically provide spokesmen for Israel. And if they would identify themselves as that, fine. What's pernicious is passing themselves off as an independent think tank. They are not, just as any Arab group would not be.") [HALSELL, G., MARCH 1993, p. 9] Indyk was even once "an international media and communications adviser to former Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir in Israel." [HALSELL, G., MARCH 1993, p. 9] Indyk, born in Australia, about to become intimately involved with American national security secrets, became an American citizen only days before starting his job on Clinton's National Security Council! [FORWARD, 9-5-97, p. 1] Facing Congress for confirmation of his (ultimately successful) appointment to the NSC, the (Jewish) Forward noted in 1994 that

"[Indyk] is expected to face a grilling from Senate Republicans over his

decision to become an American citizen only last year, just days before

he was tapped for the NSC slot. GOP members will also quiz the

London-born, Australian-reared Mr. Indyk about a top position he held

in an Australian intelligence service for a former prime minister."

Eventually working as the American ambassador to Israel, two Jewish authors understand that as always his final goal, noting that "with the recognition that Indyk has made 'aliyah' [immigrated] to America specifically so he could work in Israel, one sees the formation of a new American Jewish myth." [SAGE/ZAROMB, p. 41] This Jewish-centeredness to Israel "myth" has a jarringly transworld flavor. Although Connecticut-born Dore Gold decided to move to Israel, he became that country's Ambassador to the United Nations, and acted in that country's interests in his office near the U.N. building in New York City. Intending no sarcasm, Jesse Sage and Franklin Zaromb also note that "One might ask who is more American: [Israeli prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, who spent his entire adolescence in America as well as several years after the [Israeli] army, or Indyk, the newly approved U.S. citizen?" [SAGE/ZAROMB, p. 44] Or as one former U.S. Ambassador to the Middle East remarked, "Culturally, when you run into somebody like Benjamin Netanyahu or Moshe Arens [the Israeli Foreign Minister, from America] or guys who speak American-accented English and know your cultural background as well as or better than you do, it is very hard to remind yourself that you are dealing with a foreign country." [STARR, J., 1990, p. 96] "So many Israelis have studied in the United States that attending an American university,” says Joyce Starr, "at least at the master's and doctoral levels, has become almost a rite of passage for Israel's elite." [STARR, J., 1990, p. 101]

As American-born Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens notes,

"We've had a Prime Minister from the United States, Mrs. [Golda]

Meir, and a Deputy Foreign Minister, Yehuda Ben-Meir. There

are many Americans in Israel in key positions." [STARR, J., 1990,

In 1998 the Iraqi foreign minister accused Martin Indyk of being "a known Jew and Zionist." The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations responded by calling "it 'deplorable' to drag in Indyk's ethnic background," and demanded that the Iraqi "apologize for this dramatically offensive slur." Iraq, of course, is easily dismissed these days, and its foreign ministry is given credence by virtually no one. The very next day, however, the U.S. State Department "sat down to discuss the latest foreign tirade against Jewish influence in Washington." This second, especially uncomfortable attack, was far more difficult to categorically dismiss as an ethnic slur or an expression of irrational anti-Semitism. The new attack came from Nathan Sharansky, a minister in the Israeli government, who complained, noted the Jewish Week, that "Israel was suffering because there were too many liberal Jews in the Clinton administration." [GOLDBERG, JJ, Too Many Jews?, 7-17-98, p. 4] (The Jewish Week article did not try to dismiss the Jewish influence angle of the complaint, but rather than they were not necessarily "liberal.")

The blurring of the American government into a Zionist/Israeli one is also poignantly illustrated by New Jersey governor McGreevey's selection in 2002 of an Israeli citizen, Golan Cipel, to be his "special counsel to the governor on homeland security" for $110,000 a year. Cipel, noted a New Jersey newspaper, had "limited experience in U.S. Domestic security as [the governor's] closest adviser on terrorism ... He was appointed to the newly created position without an official announcement or the extensive background checks that are routine for most top state officials ... Cipel is a former Israeli sailor" and was once "spokesman for the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan" which was "one of the Israeli government's top spokesmen in the United States." [PILLETS/RILEY, 2-2002]