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To: Zoltan! who wrote (223854)	1/31/2002 2:53:06 AM
From: DOUG H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hillary the LapDog terrorist coddler. Monday, Jan. 28, 2002 5:07 p.m. EST Hillary Tongue-Tied as Schumer Blasts Bill As much as she might want to fire back at her New York colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, for insulting President Clinton yesterday, Hillary Clinton had best bite her tongue. Why? Because of an extraordinary pledge made during her Senate campaign that she would follow Schumer's lead on all matters Jewish. So it must have been particularly frustrating for Clinton to hear about Schumer's address to New York's Central Synagogue Sunday, where he blasted her hubby as a terrorist enabler who for years coddled Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. According to the New York Post, Schumer actually had the temerity to tell the group that Mr. Clinton had failed to hold Arafat's "feet to the fire" as Palestinian-sponsored terrorism against Israel continued throughout the 1990s. And though he didn't mention it, New York's senior senator couldn't have been too pleased with Arafat's frequent visits to the Clinton White House - more than any other foreign leader (even if the PLO chief had to cool his heels every once in a while when the ex-prez was being Lewinsky-ed.) Yesterday Schumer sounded ecstatic that those days were over. "The Bush administration - they have done an incredible job," he told the breakfast gathering. "They're the first administration since Arafat became head of the PLO to say to Arafat, 'We are not going to deal with you until you end the violence.'" "I am just so gratified that the president and the administration have taken this tough stand," he added. So why isn't Hillary likely to respond? It was Schumer's pledge that "she'll do exactly as I say" on Mideast issues that smoothed things over with New York's politically crucial Jewish voters - worried as they were over Mrs. Clinton's public embrace of Suha Arafat and her long history as a Palestinian sympathizer. And just when that controversy seemed to subside, up popped several witnesses who recalled Hillary's 1974 tirade against a campaign aide whom she denounced as "a f---ing Jew bastard." She may be thinking the same thing about Sen. Schumer right now, but Hillary knows that one word from her colleague could rekindle all the old questions.