From Mr Leonard Toboroff Sir: The disgraceful and lamentable catalogue
of circumstances surrounding the Clinton pardons are the subject of intense news coverage, congressional oversight and criminal investigation in America. There was no need for Taki to distort the very considerable record for British readers and distil the subject into one illustration where he found himself free to expound sly antiSemitic innuendo.
In a far more insightful article than Taki's, Christopher Caldwell examined the Rich pardon in last week's Weekly Standard (Blame it on the Jews'). He concludes that not only is the so-called Israeli approach to Clinton overstated, but also that Clinton long ago deliberately harvested form letters for the purpose of justifying this long-planned and scandalous pardon to those who would inevitably question it, and then artfully suggested (New York Times op-ed) that he pardoned Rich at the behest of Israel and Jewish organisations. This from the soi-disant friend of Israel and architect of a plan to cede half of Jerusalem to Arafat!
But even the New York Times, reversing its eight-year role as an auxiliary of the Clinton public-relations machine — perhaps maddened by its gullibility in publishing Clinton's op-ed puff-piece blaming Israel — took the extraordinary step of contradicting that article in a lengthy editorial (3 March 2001) by saying, it turns out Bill Clinton himself was Marc Rich's most forceful lobbyist. . . .
It is strange to see only Taki carrying water for Clinton's discredited excuse — maybe not so strange if one factors in Taki's unusual sympathies and lack of objectivity.
Leonard Toboroff
New York, United States
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