Farrakhan: Jews may cloud Clinton administration Mideast policy

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan suggests
the Clinton administration's Middle East policy could be clouded by Jews
who advise the president.

"Every Jewish person that is around the president is a dual citizen of Israel
and the United States of America," Farrakhan said Monday during a news
conference at the National Press Club. "And sometimes, we have to raise
the question, 'Are you more loyal to the state of Israel than you are to the
best interests of the United States of America?"'

Farrakhan mentioned by name National Security Adviser Sandy Berger,
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin
and outgoing presidential adviser Rahm Emanuel, although none is a citizen
of Israel.

During his speech, Farrakhan also urged Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
not to yield to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Middle East
peace talks that were occurring on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

"I would beg my brother Arafat not to give in and make himself a tool of
Israel's policy to destroy the militant members of Hamas in the name of, 'I'm
frightened because we need a guarantee of security,"' the black minister said