Posted on 03/02/2006 5:46:31 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
Former President Bill Clinton has accepted at least $1.6 million from the United Arab Emirates, including $300,000 from a Dubai sheik who adamantly backs the country's controversial boycott of Israel.
On Jan. 17, 2002, Mr. Clinton was paid $300,000 to address the Science, Technology and Arts Royal Summit in Dubai at the invitation of Crown Prince and UAE Defense Minister Sheik Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Less than three months later, Sheik Mohammad urged the United Nations to approve the use of force against Israel's to halt what he called the Jewish state's "butchery" of Palestinians, according to London's Financial Times.
Mr. Clinton's benefactor called for then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to "stand trial before the International War Crimes Tribunal," where Sheik Mohammad said he would "have a prominent place in the list of world's killers, terrorists and criminals."
The Dubai sheik then reminded that "Arabs have a wide room for political, diplomatic and economic moves and have the right, at least, to revive the Arab economic boycott to Israel."
Mr. Clinton accepted another $300,000 from the Dubai regime for a speech in 2005. And his presidential library in Little Rock has collected seven-figure sums from several Arab governments participating in the anti-Israel boycott, including Dubai.
In Sept. 2005, the New York Sun reported:
"When the library opened last year, a computer display in the exhibit halls included information on some, but not all, donors. The Saudi Royal Family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar all gave $1 million or more."
The paper noted that after it published a previous list including Mr. Clinton's Arab donors, "the computer display was shut off. It has not been restored."
On Thursday morning, NewsMax called the offices of Mr. Clinton, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Charles Schumer, Rep. Peter King and the Anti-Defamation League in New York, inquiring about the appropriateness of Mr. Clinton taking so much cash from a country that boycotts Israel. None of the calls had been returned by presstime.
I wonder how the NY Jewish lobby will react to this one...
One more reason to be against the ports deal. As if we needed another one!
Unless the MSM reports this, you ill never see this story again.
Like the absolute pathetic doomed lemmings they are... NOTHING will happen. Nothing. More money to the democrats and the Clintons, if anything.
These are the same Clintons who scream "f**king Jew b*stards" at the drop of a hat.
The NY Jewish voter:
Was all over the media today..earlier.
By the looks of the latest FReeper poll ... Clinton is on our side, guys!
Other articles mention there is no record of BJ Clinton ever registering as a foreign agent for Dubai as required by federal law. Where is the outrage?
"I wonder how the NY Jewish lobby will react to this one.."
They will reflexively write Hillary another check and vote for her again.
I don't know what kind of spell she has cast over people, but they do not want to acknowledge the truth about the Arkansas Grifters. They care nothing for Israel or the Jewish people, only about harvesting their votes.
Bill's side?
Which side of his mouth is he speaking out of today?
Well, i'm not "on his side", but i agree the port deal is ok.
The Jewish lobby is sufficiently mature to view this article with the skepticism that it deserves.
There are plenty in this lobby who fully understand that Arab countries must pay lip service to the idea of Arab unity - for domestic reasons, namely the suppression of radical Islamic elements in the countries - while in actuality be doing something else.
In the instance of the UAE, that includes providing sites for U. S. and allied air bases to conduct air operations aginst Iraqi terrorists. And there are, correspondingly, extensive port/docking facilities for the U. S. and allied forces on the coast of the UAE.
These bases would be utilized in strikes against nuclear facilities in Iran. The UAE is a prime, essential ally in the war against terror.
Finally, the UAE has recently acknowledged that it INDIRECTLY conducts trade with Israel. This is no small matter when the anti-Israel political environment is considered in the Middle East.
Leftists in the U. S. cannot be happy with the support, both direct and indirect, that the UAE provides the allied forces and Israel itself.
The same Bill Clinton that is fully supportive of the Administration's stand on the DPW Ports Deal? The same Bill Clinton that turned over the Long Beach Naval facility to COSCO, a front for the ChiCom Navy and played it up as a "business deal between corporations" in the same review Bush used for DPW?
Or is it the same Bill Clinton that was adopted as the Bush family pet, single-handedly cleaning up his image forever?
YEP!
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