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     Knotes clip: Lucille Barnes in the The Washington Report on
     Middle East Affairs (August/September 1992): Details on the
     influence of the Israeli lobby in the Clinton campaign. Many
     key Clinton advisers have close ties to Israel or its lobby.
     The media have attacked Bush since he defied AIPAC regarding
     unconditional loan guarantees.

<doctype>magazine article
<author>Barnes, Lucille
<title>Israel Lobby Ecstatic Over Gore Selection
<magazine>The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
<date>August/September 1992
<vol>7
<num>3
<pages>27-28

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     Clinton's all-out support of Israel and his selection of
     Gore is not a matter of chance. Hardly a day passes without
     the name of another leading pro-Israel activist surfacing
     from Clinton's campaign inner circle. Top adviser David
     Ifshin is general counsel to the American Israel Public
     Affairs Committee, Israel's Washington lobby.

     Mickey Kantor, who took over Ifshin's campaign chairman
     duties as the Clinton staff grew, has been active in Los
     Angeles fund-raising for Israeli causes and pro-Israel
     candidates.

     <it>The Washington Post</it> revealed that Clinton's finance
     chairman, whose father is an Israeli, had been involved in
     an AIPAC-coordinated campaign to bring in outside funds and
     student volunteers to defeat U.S. Congressman Paul Findley
     in Illinois in 1982. Findley's defeat was one of AIPAC's
     first successful "hits" on congressmembers who ignore the
     Israel lobby line. Other reports revealed that Clinton's
     media adviser was born in Israel.

     Sarah Ehrman, national Jewish coordinator of the Clinton
     campaign, is a family friend in whose Washington, DC
     apartment Hillary Clinton stayed while working as an
     attorney during the Watergate hearings. Ehrman, who drove
     Hillary to the Clintons' wedding in Fayetteville, Arkansas,
     in 1974, also has been an employee in AIPAC's Washington
     headquarters for the past 12 years. She left AIPAC last
     month to join the Clinton staff in Little Rock.

     "Clinton is likely to get the highest percentage of any
     Jewish vote since Hubert Humphrey" in 1968, National Jewish
     Democratic Council Vice Chairman Stuart Eizenstat, former
     domestic policy adviser to President Jimmy Carter, told the
     Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Given AIPAC's praetorian guard
     around Clinton, the statement should come as no surprise....

     As every political pro knows, but none will say out loud,
     the nationwide clout of America's pro-Israel community comes
     not primarily from votes but from the funding it can muster
     for candidates and the support it can generate in the media.
     George Bush has been on the receiving end of an extremely
     hostile mainstream media campaign ever since Sept. 12, 1991,
     the day he defied the more than 1,000 supporters brought in
     by AIPAC to lobby on Capitol Hill for unconditional loan
     guarantees to Israel.

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