Final_Judgment

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"Kennedy in turn sent William Porter, the U.S. Foreign Service officer
who had explained to him the Algerian cause, as the first U.S. Ambassador
to Algeria. [Algerian leader] Ahmad Ben Bella visited Washington the same
year. Afterward, in the words of Ambassador Porter, Ben Bella 'ascribed to
Kennedy everything he thought good in the United States.'" 91
Although pro-Israel propagandists and some American conservatives
with close ties to the Israeli lobby said that an independent Algeria would be
a "communist" outpost in the Middle East, Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben
Bella banned the Communist Party of Algeria on November 29, 1962. 92 In
fact, Algeria was very much an Islamic state and it was precisely this which
created so much concern for Israel.
DeGAULLE'S MIDDLE EAST TURN-ABOUT
However, the debate over Algerian independence had sparked a major
crisis within France and the French Secret Army Organization (OAS), which
fought Algerian freedom, considered John F. Kennedy an enemy only second
to Charles DeGaulle.
(In subsequent chapters, in greater detail, we shall see further how
JFK's CIA enemies were, in fact, collaborating with DeGaulle's enemies in
the OAS, and traitors within his regime—along with the Israeli Mossad.)
Twenty years after Algerian independence, the Washington Post
commented on the effect that Algerian freedom had upon DeGaulle's Middle
East policy and, in turn, upon Israel:
"Diplomatically, France shorn of Algeria, returned under president
Charles DeGaulle to its traditional policy of friendship with the Arabs—
much to the chagrin of Israel and the 200,000 Algerian Jews who had lived
peacefully alongside their Arab neighbors until emigrating to France." 93
Israeli historian Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi notes that "when Algeria,
finally independent, joined the United Nations, only Israel voted against its
admission." 94 In fact, as we shall see, the Algerian question would
ultimately play a part in the events that led to JFK's assassination.
At the same time, JFK was shaping a Middle East policy that put him
at loggerheads with Israel. Yet, cognizant of Israel's political influence in
the United States, JFK made overtures to Israel and arranged to meet in
Palm Beach, in December of 1962, with Israeli Foreign Minister Golda
Meir.
`A TWO-WAY STREET'
It was during that meeting that Kennedy actually went so far as to
emphasize American support for Israel, probably the farthest that any
American president had gone since Israel was first established.
However, the president tempered that pledge with a hope that Israel
recognized that America also had interests in the Middle East. According to