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However, Foxman's disgust with President Clinton was not unique.
Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents
of Major American Jewish Organizations, declared: "The president's
reference to Israel's nuclear program is surprising and disturbing—as far as
we know it's unprecedented."
Unprecedented—in public. But not in private. For taking a similar
private stand, Clinton's hero, John F. Kennedy, paid with his life.
THE LEWINSKY AFFAIR
Ironically, the fact is that Bill Clinton himself may have found himself the
victim of Mossad intrigue during the vaunted Lewinsky affair that led to his
impeachment.
A lot of American conservatives who hated Bill Clinton were frankly
disturbed when I wrote in the February 23, 1998 issue of the weekly
Spotlight that "Maybe Hillary Clinton is right, and there is a 'right-wing
conspiracy' to destroy her husband."
However, I most assuredly upset supporters of Israel when I added:
"But don't count on Hillary to tell you whose 'right-wing' is behind that
conspiracy—and how the scandal is being used to manipulate U.S. Middle
East policy."
Hillary Clinton's argument that a "right wing conspiracy" in America
was behind the ongoing sex-and-perjury scandal that may topple her
husband had one big flaw: After all, it was the major media in
America—led by the Washington Post and Newsweek, joined by the New
York Times and Time magazine, along with the major networks, that were
hyping the scandal and suggesting that it might ultimately be Bill Clinton's
undoing.
Newsweek itself enlisted longtime Clinton confidant George
Stephanapolous to write of Clinton's "betrayal" and young Stephanapolous,
now a well-paid ABC commentator, even went on the air to bring up the
possibilities of resignation and impeachment.
And nobody had ever accused any of those major media voices of being
a voice for the "right wing"—or the "right wing" in America, at least.
WHOSE 'RIGHT WING'?
However, the first lady may have put her finger on something when
she claimed that a "right wing conspiracy" was energizing the then-ongoing
"Monaco-gate" scandal. But the First Lady didn't dare (at least publicly) to
raise the suspicion that it was more than just certain elements in the
American right wing who have helped bring the scandal to the public eye.
In fact, in the midst of the Lewinsky scandal, one could easily find a
connection that linked the hard-line "right wing" in Israel to the "Monica-gate"
in Washington, D.C.
It thus may have been no coincidence that just as the American
supporters of Israel's right wing—the Likud bloc—were launching a major