When Victims Rule (pdf)

GOVERNMENT (PT. 2)
In 1999, Rabbi Daniel Lapin noted with concern the repeated Jewish-based
governmental scandals in the Clinton administration:
“The scandals in this administration have brought to public attention
an entirely different group of Jews, from Monica Lewinsky, whose sexual
proclivities have made me burn with shame, to all the spinning defense
lawyers on national TV night after night, from Bernard Schwartz of
Loral, who apparently sold missile technology to China [discussed elsewhere
in this volume], to Larry Lawrence, who falsified his war record to
be buried in Arlington National Cemetery. This is a new group of Jewish
faces, a whole different generation from that of Einstein, and Cardozo,
Salk and Buber. Frankly, they strike me as arrogant, shameless, and very
foolish. They have all the answers, or so they think, but the people who see
them on TV night after night know better.” [LAPIN, D., 1999, p. 42]
On the Republican side of Jewish politicking, in 1972 Seymour Lipset noted
that “some of the most pro-Israel senators are among the most conservative Republicans
in Congress.” [LIPSET, in COX, p. 196] Among Richard Nixon’s
high-level Jewish appointees were Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the
chairman of the President’s Council for Economic Advisors, Herbert Stein, and
the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, Ronald Berman.
Ronald Ziegler was Nixon’s press secretary. After Watergate, Len Garment, a
Jewish liberal Democrat, became Nixon’s lawyer. [HICKS, J., 3-29-97, p. B1]
Among President Ford’s Jewish appointees was Edward Levi, the Attorney
General. Among George Bush’s Jewish appointees was David Kessler, Commissioner
of the Food and Drug Administration. Bill Kristol was the Chief of
Staff for Vice President Dan Quayle in the George Bush administration. The
chairman of the Board of Directors of the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family
Literacy was also Jewish: Joan Abrahamson. “Most of the senior Middle East
positions [in the Bush administration] are Jews,” noted Joyce Starr in 1990.
[STARR, J., 1990, p. 247]
In 1999, in the early stages of the Republican presidential primary campaign,
the former president’s son, candidate George W. Bush, the governor of
Texas, “surrounded himself with a number of Jewish advisers, including Indianapolis
mayor Stephen Goldsmith; Josh Belton, policy director for the campaign,
and foreign policy hawk Richard Perle. [ROTH, B., 10-11-99] Ari
Fleischer was Bush’s spokesman to the mass media. (When Bush became president,
Fleischer became his press secretary. Fleischer is “active in a group of
Jewish congressional staffers who study with the Lubavitch Chasidic movement’s
Washington representative, Rabbi Levi Shemtov.” [FORWARD, THE
FORWARD FIFTY, 2000/2001] In fact, Fleischer “was an early leader and copresident
of Chabad’s Capitol Jewish Forum.” He was awarded Chabad’s Young
Leadership award in October 2001. [BESSER, J., 10-26-01, p. 30] Note Chabad’s
racist tenets at http://jewishtribalreview.org/cha.htm) Bush had went on a tour
of Israel the year earlier, under the auspices of the National Jewish Coalition.
“Gov. Bush Shores Up Image with Jews,” headlined the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
“By Visiting Israel.” “The relationship between the United States and Israel is
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