			Foreign Correspondent

		      Inside Track On World News
	    By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster
		 Eric Margolis <emargolis@lglobal.com>

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ARKANSAS PORK STEW
by 
Eric Margolis  21 March 1996

NEW YORK -  The Democratic Party's foreign policy used to
consist of three famous `I's': Ireland, Israel and Italy.

Irish and Italian-American voters once comprised the 
biggest block of key urban votes for the  Democrats.  Jewish
voters provided half the party's funds, and decisive voting
blocks in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles.

Today, things have changed somewhat.  The Democrat's new
trinity is II&A: Ireland, Israel and Africa.  

Italian-Americans have decamped to the Republicans.  The
big-city Irish vote has consequently become even more
important.  That's why President Clinton has been cozying up 
for the past year to the IRA, which is trying to blast 
Britain from Northern Ireland. 

The IRA's main support and financing comes from Boston and
New York.  American money buys the IRA bombs that explode in
London.  In spite of bitter British protests, President
Clinton refuses to crack down on the IRA's American
connection. In a blatant attempt to woo Irish Catholic
votes, Clinton even invited IRA political leader Gerry Adams
for an intimate dinner at the White House.

But, while playing footsie with Irish extremists,  Clinton
declared holy war against Islamic extremists.  Hamas' aim is 
to oust Israel from territories it conquered in 1967 - or to 
recapture  all Palestine,  depending on which faction you
ask.  

While the IRA's political leader is feted at the White
House, Hamas' purported political leader in the US is jailed
here in New York without bail for alleged terrorism.  

The FBI is directed to halt fund-raising by Palestinian
groups in the US- even for charity.  But nothing is done to
stop fundraising by the IRA, or by Democratic-voting Jewish
fundamentalist groups in Brooklyn, who financed and
encouraged the extremists that murdered Israel's Prime
Minister, Yitzhak Rabin.  

Clinton ordered the US Army, FBI and CIA to the Mideast to
`battle terrorism,'  the very same week that three New York
City cops are gunned down in the crime-ridden Bronx.

However, Clinton didn't rush to Miami to commiserate on TV
with families of four Cuban-Americans killed by Castro's
jets in a carefully planned ambush.  Cubans vote Republican. 
  

Instead, Clinton rushed off to Sinai, for the anti-terrorism
jamboree, then to Israel. There, he gave US $100 million to
Israel,  which already receives over US $5 billion annually,
60% of all US foreign aid.      

Clinton's intimate Hollywood friends, who have become the
video Svengalis of this made-for-TV presidency, produced a
Mideast special worthy of Oscar night during Clinton's  one-
day visit to Israel.  Standing before billowing Israeli and
American flags, a determined-looking Clinton proclaimed  he
would defeat terrorism.  Staged next to him was a  chorus of
dark-skinned Falasha Jews from Ethiopia.  

It was exquisite TV political theater: 1.  the prez looked   
Steve Seagal forceful;  2.  Jewish voters in the US were
thrilled; 3.  Many American black viewers mistook the
singing Falashas for blacks, and were elated. 

For blacks, however, who vote 98% Democratic, Clinton's main
goodie has been his efforts to block Republican-induced
welfare cuts. And, of course, the much ballyhooed invasion
of Haiti. Though no more than a dozen Americans can name
Haiti's new president - who is merely a figurehead for the
old one - the Administration proclaimed total victory in
Haiti and departed. Mired in abject poverty and squalor,
Haiti is no better off today than before the invasion, save
that it now has a pretend democratic government.  This mini 
D-Day, staged by Clinton at the urging of the Congressional
Black Caucus,  cost American taxpayers US$ 1.1 billion.

While the  US military has been dangerously degraded by
massive budget cuts,  the Clinton Administration has somehow
managed to find the money for a new  program whose noble
goal is - wait for it - training black South Africans in
hairdressing! 

The White House calls all this `statesmanship.'     

I call it Arkansas pork stew.


copyright 1996   Eric Margolis

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