Former South African president Nelson Mandela criticized President Clinton as using the Middle East peace process as a “political football.” Addressing British Jewish leaders in London on April 5, Mandela said he had told Clinton: “You Western powers have failed. The perception is that your interest lies not in peace but in having the honor of bringing it about.”
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