The anti-Semitic leader of the Nation of Islam told an audience of about 1,000 people in Detroit that President Clinton is pro-Israel because his Cabinet includes Jews but no Arabs. Among the people Louis Farrakhan mentioned as Jewish members of the Cabinet was Defense Secretary William Cohen, who was raised a Unitarian.
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