Final_Judgment

737 Final Word? [639]
In Israel itself, according to the Post on January 24, the press had
"lapped up the Clinton allegations." The Post said that "interest seemed
particularly sharp because Monica Lewinsky is Jewish."
Writing in the January 22, 1998 issue of the Israeli daily Yedioth
Aharonoth, Nahum Barnea wryly commented: "We innocently thought the
fate of the peace process was in the hands of a Jewess, born in Prague,
named Madeleine Albright. Apparently, the fate of the peace process is, to
no lesser degree, in the hands of another Jewess, named Monica Lewinsky,
24 years old, a Beverly Hills native, who spent a fun-filled summer three
years ago as an [intern] at the White House."
What is interesting is that by the time Barnea's comments were
repeated in the February 2, 1998 issue of Newsweek, which devoted a
special issue to the scandal, Newsweek had carefully edited Barnea's words
so that they now read: "It turns out that the fate of the peace process
depends on a different woman."
In fact, the scandal forced the president into retreat as far as pushing
Israel was concerned. On January 27, 1998 the Washington Post again let
the cat out of the bag when it reported that "last week, Clinton demonstrated
he could not compel the Israelis to meet their responsibilities for a further
military pullback. This week [in the wake of the scandal] he is even less
capable, if only because people in his own party, not to mention the
Republicans, will not support a policy of greater pressure on Israel."
MOSSAD BLACKMAIL?
Perhaps it was really no surprise when, on March 3, 1999—as the
Lewinsky scandal was heating up—the hard-line Zionist New York Post
screamed "Monica Phone Sex Shocker," announcing that a new book,
Gideon's Spies, by respected veteran author Gordon Thomas, had revealed
that "Israel Blackmailed Bill With Monica Tapes."
The story, which appeared in Thomas' book, claimed that the Mossad
had gained access to tape-recorded phone sex sessions between the
president and Miss Lewinsky and had used the information to force Clinton
to call off a high-priority FBI investigation of a Mossad mole at the top
levels of the national security establishment.
True or not, the publication of the story was used by Clinton's critics
(much to the delight of his enemies in Israel) to justify the allegation that
Clinton's personal peccadilloes were a potential threat to national security
and yet another reason for his impeachment.
HILLARY'S SWITCHBLADE?
So in light of all of this, is it really extraordinary to ask if when—in the
midst of the Lewinsky controversy—the reason First Lady Hillary Clinton
called for the establishment of a Palestinian state was Hillary's way of
warning the Israelis what could happen if they didn't back off in their
support of the elements that were trying to drive her husband out of office?