The realities of Zionist power in America:
"Who are the winners? They are the so-called neo-cons,
or neo-conservatives. A compact group, almost all of
whose members are Jewish. They hold the key positions
in the Bush administration, as well as in the think-tanks
that play an important role in formulating American policy
and the ed-op pages of the influential newspapers. [...]
The immense influence of this largely Jewish group stems
from its close alliance with the extreme right-wing Christian
fundamentalists, who nowadays control Bush's Republican
party. [...] Seemingly, all this is good for Israel. America
controls the world, we control America. Never before
have Jews exerted such an immense influence on
the center of world power".
Uri Avnery
"The Night After"
CounterPunch
April 10, 2003
www.counterpunch.org/avnery04102003.html
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On another disturbing front, Israel Radio (Kol Yisrael),
reported on Oct. 3, 2001, that Israeli Prime Minister,
Ariel Sharon, had boasted at a Cabinet meeting,
"I want to tell you something very clear, don't worry
about American pressure on Israel, we, the Jewish
people control America, and the Americans know it."
William Hughes
"Lieberman's Conflict of Interest?"
CounterPunch
August 23, 2002
www.counterpunch.org/hughes0823.htmlby
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Since 1967, we have received some 170 billion dollars
from the people of the US. This money could be used
to feed and school all the underprivileged kids of America.
It could pay to compensate the descendants of the African
slaves and help them out of their hardship. It could save
the sick and comfort the miserable; it could turn Africa
into a paradise. But it was kidnapped and shipped to our
shores. Every dollar invested by the Israeli lobby into
senators and congressmen has been returned a hundred
fold, as promised by the Bible. Besides the taxpayer's
money, the supporters of Israel's -business executives -
invested billions of dollars that theirshareholders entrusted
them with. There is no sound business reason behind
Intel's investment, or other similar investments. Israel
has no pool of qualified workers, they have to be imported
like everything else. The risk of the investments in our
country is great and the profits are meager. But then
again, they are playing with somebody else's money.
Israel's supporters fleece America in a grand way,
but they also go after other prey. [...] The Swiss and
the Germans keep paying umpteen billions of dollars to
Israel for the confiscated property of Jews, though Israel
never paid even one penny for the confiscated Gentile
property. The Europeans meekly comply under threat
of the toughest of brothers Cray, the mightiest enforcer
of Jewish loans, the US. Israel's supporters overseas
are like a giant Hoover machine, sucking out money
and sweat from all over the world. Witness Mark Rich,
the thieving billionaire, pardoned by the best supporter
of Israel, Bill Clinton? He was a Mossad agent. [...]
Sometimes, the Palestinians and their friends bemoan
their inability to build up their own Arab lobby to counteract
the Israeli lobby. They miss the most important point.
The Israeli lobby should not be just a Palestinian concern,
but the concern of all Americans. When oil runs out
of a tanker's hulk, it should concern the crew and the
owners, not only the fish. Israel's supporters swindle
all Americans of their money, and antagonize America's
potential friends abroad. Many American politicians
support the swindle in order to remain in power.
For personal political ambitions, they betray the
trust of their voters. John F. Kennedy told Gore Vidal,
that in 1948, Harry Truman was on the verge of losing
the presidential election, but a Zionist supporter brought
to him 2 million dollars cash and saved his skin. It
caused America to vote for the creation of the Jewish
State. This pattern perpetuates itself. The politicians
take bribes, sell pardons, accept "donations", and
help the Israeli lobby to rob the people of America.
The actual direct contribution of American Jews for
the welfare of Israel is quite small and tax exempt.
It would hardly cover the cost of the missiles and nerve
gas to kill Palestinians, much less support the Israeli
life style to which we have become accustomed. But
what Israel supporters collect in campaign contributions
is enough to bribe politicians and embezzle a good
chunk of American money from the US treasury. If
such a swindle would be hatched by, say, the Libyan
lobby, the media would rightly demand these people
be registered as foreign agents of influence. That is
where the Israeli lobby cashes in on the solidarity of
the many American Jews and right-wing Christian
Zionists in the national media.
Israel Shamir
"Kid Sister"
February 17, 2001
www.israelshamir.net/english_articles.html
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The Pentagon, that enormous, sprawling building on
the banks of the Potomac, houses most of the Department
of Defense's central headquarters. It is the top command
for the forces and measures which provide Americans
with security in a troubled world. Across the Potomac
is the Department of State, a massive eight-story building
on Washington's Foggy Bottom, the nerve center of our
nation's worldwide diplomatic network. These buildings
are channels through which flow each day thousands
of messages dealing with the nation's top secrets. No
one can enter either building without special identification
or advance clearance. Armed guards seem to be everywhere,
and in late 1983 concrete emplacements were added
and heavy trucks strategically parked to provide extra
buffers if a fanatic should launch an attack. These buildings
are fortresses where the nation's most precious secrets
are carefully guarded by the most advanced technology.
But how secure are the secrets?
"The leaks to Israel are fantastic. If I have something
I want the secretary of state to know, but don't want
Israel to know, I must wait till I have a chance to see
him personally." The declaration comes from an ambassador
still on active duty in a top assignment, reviewing his
long career in numerous posts in the Middle East.
Although hardly a household name in the United States,
his is one of America's best-known abroad. Interviewed
in the State Department, he speaks deliberately, choosing
his words carefully. "It is a fact of life that everyone in
authority is reluctant to put anything on paper that
concerns Israel if it is to be withheld from Israel's
knowledge," says the veteran. "Nor do such people
even feel free to speak in a crowded room of such
things."
Paul Findley
Former Congressman from Illinois
They Dare To Speak Out - People and Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby
Lawrence Hill Books, 1989, p. 139
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Jewish power has, in fact, been trumpeted by a number
of Jewish writers, including one, J.J. Goldberg, editor of
the Jewish weekly Forward, who wrote a book by that
name in 1996. Any attempt however, to explore the issue
from a critical standpoint inevitably leads to accusations
of anti-Semitism, as Bill and Kathy Christison pointed out
in their article on the role of right-wing Jewish neo-cons
in orchestrating US Middle East policy, in CounterPunch
(1/25/03):
"Anyone who has the temerity to suggest any Israeli
instigation of, or even involvement in, Bush administration
war planning is inevitably labeled somewhere along the
way as an anti-Semite. Just whisper the word 'domination'
anywhere in the vicinity of the word 'Israel', as in 'U.S.-Israeli
domination of the Middle East' or 'the U.S. drive to assure
global domination and guarantee security for Israel", and
some Leftist who otherwise opposes going to war against
Iraq will trot out charges of promoting the Protocols of the
Elders of Zion, the old czarist forgery that asserted a Jewish
plan for world domination."
[...]
This is hardly the first time that Jews have been
in the upper echelons of power, as Benjamin Ginsberg
points out in The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State,
but there has never been a situation anywhere like
the present. This is how Ginsberg began his book:
"Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable
influence in American economic, cultural, intellectual and
political life. Jews played a central role in American finance
during the 1980s, and they were among the chief beneficiaries
of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations.
Today, though barely 2 % of the nation's population is
Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief
executive officers of the three major television networks
and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are the owners
of the nation's largest newspaper chain and the most
influential single newspaper, the New York Times."
That was written in 1993. Today, ten years later,
ardently pro-Israel American Jews are in positions
of unprecedented influence within the United States
and have assumed or been given decision making positions
over virtually every segment of our culture and body politic.
This is no secret conspiracy. Regular readers of The New
York Times business section, which reports the comings
and goings of the media tycoons, are certainly aware of it.
Is each and every tycoon a pro-Israel zealot? Not necessarily,
but when one compares the US media with its European
counterparts in their respective coverage of the Israel-
Palestine conflict, the extreme bias in favor of Israel on
the part of the US media is immediately apparent.
[...]
A better explanation was provided by Stephen Green,
whose Taking Sides: America's Secret Relations with
Militant Israel was the first examination of State Department
archives concerning US-Israel relations. Since the
Eisenhower administration, wrote Green, in 1984,
"Israel, and friends of Israel in America, have
determined the broad outlines of US policy in
the region. It has been left to American Presidents
to implement that policy, with varying degrees of
enthusiasm, and to deal with the tactical issues."
An exaggeration, perhaps, but former US Senator
James Abourezk (D-South Dakota) echoed Green's
words in a speech before the American-Arab Anti-
Discrimation Committee last June:
"That is the state of American politics today.
The Israeli lobby has put together so much
money power that we are daily witnessing
US senators and representatives bowing down
low to Israel and its US lobby. Make no mistake.
The votes and bows have nothing to do with the legislators'
love for Israel. They have everything do to with the
money that is fed into their campaigns by members
of the Israeli lobby. My estimate is that at least $6
billion flows from the American Treasury to Israel each
year. That money, plus the political support the US
gives Israel at the United Nations, is what allows
Israel to conduct criminal operations in Palestine
with impunity."
That is a reality that has been expressed many
times in many forms by ex-members of Congress,
usually speaking off the record.
Jeffrey Blankfort
"The Israel Lobby and the Left"
Published in:
The Politics of Anti-Semitism
Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
CounterPunch and AK Press, 2003, pp. 101-106
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Why then is the Zionist lobby so powerful when their
own scholars write endlessly about the alienation of
their youth from the movement? The answer is simple:
the Jews are the richest ethnic or religious stratum
in the US. Because their standard of living is so high,
they are the most educated. Because they are the
most educated, they are the most scientific oriented,
hence most inclined towards atheism or religious
skepticism. But the true believer minority still has
an unbelievable amount of money to throw at the
politicians.
In 1991, I interviewed Harold Seneker, then the editor
of the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, for
an article in The Nation. I told him that I found Jews,
2.2% of the population, to be about 25% of the 400.
[...] My estimate is that 84 of the latest 400 are Jews.
The magazine doesn't list religious affiliations unless
the person involved is distinctive in giving to religious
charities, etc. And not all of the Jews are pro-Zionists.
Some listees are among the educated disaffiliated
we are discussing. But Zionist money is prodigious.
James Tisch, chair of the Conference of Presidents
of Major Jewish Organizations isn't on the list, altho
he is CEO of Loews Corp., listed on the Fortune 500
list. But daddy, Laurence, is, at $2 billion, and uncle
Preston is worth $2.3 billion. His predecessors at the
Conference were Ronald Lauder, $1.8 billion, and
Mort Zuckerman, who struggles along with a penny
ante $1.2 billion. Chaim Sabon, $1.7 billion, is a
University of California regent. Mayhaps he got the
job because he gave the Democrats the largest
campaign contribution in American history?
[...]
Both major parties pick their candidates via primaries
which any member can enter. So occasionally an
honest Democrat or Republican is elected to Congress
and begins to criticize their party's Israel über alles
line. Usually it doesn't take long before a tidal wave
of Zionist cash pours in against them in the next
election and out they go. [...] Many leftists don't like
to talk about it because of their fear of raising anti-
Semitism. They want to talk about oil money. That's
fine. Any kid who they let cross streets alone knows
that oil is the major reason that the US is so deeply
involved in the Middle East. But that doesn't explain
why the two capitalist parties are so pro-Zionist.
Indeed their pro-Zionism creates problems for them
with the Arab masses. And it doesn't explain why
liberal Democrats are as zealous for Israel as the
most fanatic Republican Christian Zionist. [...] The
moral of the story is that, while it is crucial to talk
about oil industry domination of US foreign policy,
it is just as crucial to talk about Zionist funding
and its enormous influence on domestic politics.
Lenni Brenner
"The Demographics of American Jews"
CounterPunch
October 24, 2003
www.counterpunch.org/brenner10242003.html
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Almost all influential individuals and groups in the U.S.
political landscape still shy away from discussing the
degree to which this Israeli connection has been a major
factor in determining the entire complex of U.S. policies
on Iraq and the Middle East since September 11. In the
eyes of most Americans, the correctness of the ever
stronger ties between the right-wing governments of the
United States and Israel is simply not to be questioned.
(If you do question these ties, you must be prepared to
deal either with suspicions of anti-Semitism that may be
directed at you, or, more likely, with suggestions that you
are simply "too far out" of the mainstream and therefore
deserve no further consideration. In the latter case, an
unspoken motive of your interlocutors is often that they
fear being charged with anti-Semitism, or with being
"self-hating Jews," if they seem to agree with you.)
[...]
Although the war was sold to Congress and the public
on the basis of the WMD issue, many of us believed
for months before the war that the actual reasons the
Bush administration invaded Iraq were the U.S. drive
for global domination, oil--and Israel. [...] It is vital that
we break through the taboos, which have, if anything,
grown stronger in recent months.
Bill and Kathleen Christison
"The Pervasive Fear of Talking About the Israeli Connection"
CounterPunch
December 13/14, 2003
www.counterpunch.org/christison12132003.html
Let's name the Jew
By Prof. Kevin MacDonald
kmacd@csulb.edu
Go to original for article links:
forums.originaldissent.com
Over the last year, there's been a torrent of articles on neoconservatism
raising (usually implicitly) some vexing issues: Are neoconservatives different
from other conservatives? Is neoconservatism a Jewish movement? Is it
“anti-Semitic” to say so?
The dispute between the neocons and more traditional conservatives — “
paleoconservatives” — is especially important because the latter now find
themselves on the outside, looking in on the conservative power structure.
Hopefully, some of the venom has been taken out of this argument by the
remarkable recent article by neoconservative “godfather” Irving Kristol (“The
Neoconservative Persuasion,” Weekly Standard, August 25, 2003). With commendable
frankness, Kristol admitted that:
“the historical task and political purpose of neoconservatism would seem to
be this: to convert the Republican party, and American conservatism in general,
against their respective wills, into a new kind of conservative politics
suitable to governing a modern democracy.” (Read on!)
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