The Clinton administration actively worked against Benjamin Netanyahu’s re- election bid, a close aide to the outgoing prime minister charged. In the four months preceding the Israeli elections, “hardly a day passed without a Washington story about Netanyahu failing to keep his word,” David Bar-Illan wrote in the June 14 issue of National Review magazine. On Monday, a spokesman for President Clinton’s National Security Council denied the charge, saying the “Clinton administration in no way became involved in the internal politics of the Israeli election.”
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