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Rothbard-Rockwell Report ROTHBARD-ROCKWELL REPORT In Search of A1 article had noted that Jews would vote enthusiastically for Gore’s Clinton (as indeed they did), Heckscher because, since he had picked A1 Gore as Veep candidate, Clin- by Murray N. Rothbard ton had received “the heck- While Bill Buckley has been scher” (Yiddish for imprimatur) engaged in his seemingly end- from A1 Gore. Well, that’s clear THE EAR less search for anti-Semitism, I enough. But that brings us back by Sarah Barton have been engaged in a simi- to Square One. How did Gore larly fruitless quest: I have been get the Heckscher? and then There is a lot of sneering go- trying to find out precisely why we are no better off than before. ing on in the U.S.about the Albert Gore seems to be iden- What is it about A1 Gore that various ethnic groups in the tical with Jewry. Let me put it gave him the lifelong power to Balkans, and how they are this way: in their sprightly’and confer heckschers, to convey ”obsessed by history” and famous article in the New York the Jewish vote? In addition to refuse to get on with the pre- Sunday Times Magmine (Jan. 17), attending Baptist services, is sent and future. But here we Michael Kelly and Maureen there some basement room have the alleged “libertarian” Dowd, in writing of the recent where A1 Gore secretly kisses and devotee of ”reason” Vir- strains in the Clinton-Gore rela- the menorah? ginia Postrel, the whiny editor tionship, talk about what a great In my quest, I asked a friend of Reason magazine, After de- advantage Gore had been to of mine, steeped in political nouncing Pat Buchanan in Clinton during the campaign. lore. He said, ”Maybe it’s be- Reason, various letter-writers Gore was a straight arrow, with cause Gore kisses up to Israel.” complained that she had over- no hanky-panky on the side But the problem with that is all looked Pat’s many libertarian (Okay); he was a channel to en- other Democratic politicians, stands. Ginny replied that, vironmentalists (sure, since he and most Republican ones, do while she recognizes that poli- had written a rabidly environ- the same. So what makes Gore tics is a matter of picking the mentalist book), and also he was (Cont. page 3, col. 1) (Cont. next page, col, 1) a channel to Jewish groups. ’ Here is where I get confused. Kelly and Dowd explain about the environmental part; but But What About the Hungarians?, by Murray N.Rothbard ...........3 how can they pass on, as if it were self-evident, about Gore Coping With the Inaugural, by M.N.R. ........................... .4 and Jews?What’s going on here? Rating Senate Republicans ....................................... .7 Am I missing out on some code “Doing God’s Work” in Somalia, by M.N.R. ...................... .8 book that everyone else has? Post-Election: LP Disintegrates, by Joe Melton .................... .14 Is Big A1 Jewish? I have never John Silber: Doing Well Doing Neocon Good, by M.N.R. ............18 seen any indications of such. Race and Reality, by Samuel Francis ............................ .19 (He surely doesn’t look Jewish.) As I pointed out in the Sep- Unions Are Back, by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. ..................24 tember 1992RRR (”Working Our Quotes That Need No Comment ................................. .25 Way Back to the President,” Kingonomics, by L.H.R., Jr. .................................... .25 p. 4), a previous New York Times P.C Watch, by L.H.R., Jr. ..................................... .26 (In Search of, . .cont. from R 1) is a former Vietnam peacenik it was Middle Germany, and different from all other politi- from Boston who later aban- there are the lost lands to the cians? In my Sept. 1992 article, doned the peace cause for fear real East, but that’s another and I mentioned a possible clue: that American non-intervention sadder story). But in all this Nat Hentoff, a soft Zionist, call- might spell lack of total U.S. reaching for a place in the sun, ed A1 Gore during the 1988 support for Israel. We know one oppressed and despised campaign, ”the Senator from that, ever since he purchased ethnic group remains immobile, Likud.” But that’s still much the New Republic, the one motif and no one seems to care: I too vague and broad a brush. underlying the allegedly vast speak of that marvelous and Well, I haven’t found the an- spectrum of ideological diversity ancient people, the Hungarians. swer yet, but some crucial hints in the magazine (all the way No banners wave for the resto- for the discerning come in an from left neo-con to center neo- ration of justice to the Hungar- amusing article in the Wushing- con) is total, all-out support for ians; undoubtedly, achievement ton Post. (Lloyd Grove, “Hail to the State of Israel. of such justice would be in- the Veep“ (Jan. 20)). It seems So where are we? Surely not convenient to the New World that the powerful left neo-con very far, if we have to conclude Order, an order that is ground- Marty Peretz, publisher of the that Marty Peretz equals, is ed squarely on the “territorial New Republic, threw a gala in- identical with, all of American integrity” of borders as they ex- augural party for A1 Gore, an- Jewry: Or is this somehow the isted before 1989 or 1991; but nouncing on the invitation a key? In our continuing quest, heck, the Croats and Slovenes ”fanfare in honor of A1 and we welcome any clues from our happily got away with such Tipper Gore.” Peretz, whose readers. breaches in ”territorial integri- magazine had featured an impu- ty,” and there is no reason why dent ”Clinton Suck-Up Watch.” the Hungarians cannot do the NR’s editors, who pride them- same. selves on their alleged diversity, But What About Just as Germany was shat- feistiness, volubility, and inde- tered and torn apart by the pendence, grew oddly taciturn The Hungarians? monstrous Treaty of Versailles when quizzed about the strange by M.N.R. in 1919, so Hungary, also bur- romance of NR with Gore. “I dened with phony ”war guilt” won’t talk to you”, said Mike Since the collapse of the des- for World War I by the victorious Kinsley; ”I didn’t come here to potic centralizing USSR, we all and vengeful Entente powers be put on the spot,” said Mickey know that nationality after (Britain & France), was carved Kaus; ”I think I’ll dodge this once-submerged nationality up by the equally monstrous one,” said the usually intrepid has arisen to seek, and often and corollary Treaty of Trianon Jacob Weisberg. And indeed, it achieve, ethnic justice at long the following year. In rewriting turns out that Peretz, who hung last. RRR has been in the fore- the map of Europe after World out on Gore’s campaign plane front of the clamor for ethnic War I, the Wilsonian slogan of and banned publication of vir- justice and self-government, ”national self-determination’’ tually any criticism of Gore in from the Slovenes to the Abkha- for each ethnic group was used the pages of the New Republic, zians, from the Chechens to the like the Orwellian slogan in has been a good buddy of Gore’s Croats. We have tried to track Animal Farm: ethnic groups dis- ever since the mid-sixties, when all of them, and to sort out their covered that some were more Peretz was an instructor at Har- often tangled conflicts. Gener- equal than others; some ethnic vard and Gore was his favorite ally, they have done pretty well; groups were set by the post- student. even the most despised and op- war order to rule over others. OK, so what do we know? pressed of all, the Germans, Poor Hungary was shorn of We know that Marty Peretz, have achieved the unity of fully one-third of their ethnic who made the smart career West and what was falsely call- and linguistic brethren. And, move of marrying an heiress, ed ”East” Germany (actually, after all the vicissitudes of the 3 March1993 .
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