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To: ManyMoose who wrote (236058)	3/10/2002 7:53:45 PM
From: Emile Vidrine	Respond to of 769667

How about non-Jewish, arch-conservative Republican senator Jesse Helms, from North Carolina? How was he conquered for the Zionist cause? Zionist journalist Sidney Zion tells the story of (infamous Jewish attorney, friend of mobsters, and political activist) Roy Cohn's dragging of Helms onto the Zionist bandwagon: "Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina was the premier target of the Jewish lobby in his bid for re-election in 1984. It wasn't just that his voting record on Israel was terrible; the big thing was that Helms was in line to head up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Jewish money was flowing into the coffers of his opponent, the incumbent Governor James B. Hunt, and the election was attracting nationwide media coverage, particularly in New York. It looked like a toss-up, and Helms was very nervous indeed. What to do? Call Roy Cohn. Roy held a party for Helms, with a guest list made up of some of the richest Jews in New York plus a few wealthy goyim, who were either pro-Israel out of conviction or out of friendship with Cohn. That anybody in the city would show up at a bash for Helms was an act of friendship for Roy. Helms was being portrayed as practically the reincarnation of the Third Reich. When I got word about this party, I was appalled. I couldn't believe Roy Cohn would got this far. He was pro-Israel, whatever else his madness, he was consistently pro-Israel. How the hell could he allow his right-wing bullshit to bring him to this? But I'd never act moralistic with Roy Cohn. All I said was: 'How'd that Jesse Helms fund-raiser go?' 'It wasn't a fund-raiser.' 'Roy,' I said, 'I know you held a fucking fund-raiser for Jesse Helms.' 'It wasn't that at all,' he said. 'It was interferon.' 'What?' 'Inteferon. To stop the flow of pro-Israeli money to Hunt. That's what it what it was about. We didn't ask anybody for a dime. We told them we we didn't want their money. And we didn't Jesse didn't need money. He only needed to cut off the other guy's money. Anyway it would have been stupid to ask these people for campaign contributions. Let's face it, they couldn't be caught dead backing Jesse Helms. So the cancer cure. Interferon.' 'Did it work?' 'Sure. Jesse will win the election.' 'But why do you want that? You've always been for Israel.' 'Jesse Helms isn't anti-Israel,' Cohn said. 'How'd he manage to fool the world?' 'He voted against some Israeli appropriations. He votes against appropriation bills all the time. He votes against the Arabs. He's an old-line Republican. Tha'ts all there is to it. I know him forever, he's not pro-Arab, he's not anti-Israel. He's for Israel.' Several months after Helms won re-election, he went to Israel with Roy Cohn. Within a week he was a total Israeli hawk, to the right of General Arik Sharon. When I next saw Roy, I said, 'Well, you're the only guy I know who cashed in markers for Israel.' He didn't even smile. He said, 'I told you, Jesse Helms was pro-Israel.' 'But Roy, nobody knew it until you took him over there.' 'I knew it,' Roy said. 'Did he know it?' 'He knows it now.' And now Roy Cohn smiled." [ZION, S., 1988, p. 264-265]