The Entangling American Alliance With Israel: More of the American Right Catches On
03-12-2003, 10:04
by Mark Dankof for Al Bawaba
The American Neo-Conservative War Party, in firm control of both major political parties in the United States, is getting increasingly and obviously more desperate. The transparent desperation comes in the wake of plummeting opinion polls about Mr. Bushâs preemptive war in Iraq. This in turn is related to brewing public discontent over provably false pre-war intelligence estimates, skyrocketing war bills, a steady stream of young American deaths in what is demonstrably now an urban guerrilla war in Baghdad, the ongoing public exposure of the crooked character of no-bid contract awards and accompanying war profiteering by the Presidentâs friends in entrenched places like Halliburton Oil and Bechtel, and insane suggestions by key Administration advisors that an expansion of the preemptive war doctrine may soon include Syria and Iran.
The desperation is also due to the increasing inability of Mr. Bush and his Israeli-affiliated advisors to quash the free flow of information in an Internet age. Where once the denizens of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and The New Republic could insure a mainstream Left-Right War Party consensus on American Empire and Israel through the control and manipulation of disseminated news, their Information Monolith has become an increasing casualty of citizen accessibility to responsible domestic and international data and op-ed pieces which shed light upon what was an aura of darkness.
The most recent example of the shedding of light and the absence of the Emperorâs clothing occurred this week in two articles covering a story with the potential to sear the War Party even further. The British Guardianâs November 22nd story by Jamie Doward and Jessica Hodgson entitled, "Pentagon Bankers May Bail Out [Conrad] Black: âEx-Presidents Clubâ [Carlyle Group] Ready to Throw Lifeline to Embattled Telegraph Owner," and Justin Raimondoâs Antiwar.com op-ed piece entitled, "Conrad Black and the Corruption of Empire: The War PartyâTheyâre Thieves As Well as Liars," both reveal the ominous triangular alliance of Mr. Bushâs Neo-Conservative Chicken Hawks with military-related contractors and the ever-present Israeli Lobby at a time when a trusting consensus in the President and his preemptive war policies is coming apart like a cheap suit.
The story is fraught with implications. Lord Conrad Black, the recently deposed CEO of Hollinger International, Inc. and continued owner of the British Telegraph, was forced to step down at Hollinger after pocketing $7.2 million in unauthorized pay, not including millions in payments to Blackâs front companies for "management services." Hollingerâs stockholders are demanding a company investigation. The Security and Exchange Commission is also involved.
But far more than Conrad Blackâs criminal exposure is involved in the Hollinger affair, whose newspaper portfolio includes the Likudnik Jerusalem Post. Justin Raimondo reminds readers at Antiwar.com that Chief Neo-Con adviser to George Bush and Israeli asset, Richard Perle, is a Board Member of Hollinger and the head of Hollinger Digital, the companyâs venture capital arm---which in turn has invested $2.5 million in Trireme Partners, a subsidiary seeking to cash in on defense contracts and the Homeland Security buildup. Hollinger International also invested $14 million in an outfit called Hillman Capital, whose managing partner, Gerald Hillman, is not only a Perle partner at Trireme, but a fellow colleague at the infamous Defense Policy Board. It is this latter American national security conclave where the interests of defense contractors and assets of the Ariel Sharon regime in Israel intersect in the Pentagon boardâs individual and collective membership.
As Raimondo puts it, the Hollinger media combine is a ". . .particularly muscular tentacle of the Neo-Con media octopus. . .its demise would mark a great setback for the War Party." There is a corollary to this truism: the demise of Hollinger would not simply be a setback for the agitprop tentacles of the War Party, but a potential takedown of much more than the personage of Conrad Black. Who else might go down, criminally as well as politically, and what might be the subsequent implications for the credibility of American, Israeli, and British national security and banking elites if the takedown occurs in the light of day?
Key chessplayers with concealed hands may be attempting to arrange the pieces on the board to insure that the answers remain hidden in the darkness. The infamous Carlyle Group, linked to Bush and Bin Laden family investments, American defense contractors and oil consortiums, central bankers and Likudniks, has now stepped forward to indicate a possible interest in rescuing Hollinger International. The November 22nd Guardian story quotes a Carlyle source as indicating that: 1) the sum of the arrangement would be a removal of Conrad Black from management, but not his equity stake; 2) a Carlyle investment sum that could be as much as a 40% ownership of Hollinger; and 3) a provision for Carlyle to name new members to the Hollinger Board of Directors. Black must be rejoicing in a proposed arrangement which allows him to keep the dough, stay on this side of the law and jail, and maintain the protective covering of a management umbrella comprised of heavyweights John Major, George Herbert Walker Bush, James Baker, Frank Carlucci, Henry Kissingerâand Richard Perle. One suspects that Mr. Blackâs membership in the secretive, globalist Bilderberg group, mentioned in the Guardian account, would also remain intact.
What does not remain intact is the credibility of Mr. Bush and his top advisors about the moral and political rationale for war in Iraq. Especially problematic for the President--and for the Israeli Lobbyâs agents in both the Executive and Legislative Branches of the American government--is the exposure of a widening breach in the electorate generally, and on the starboard side of the political spectrum in the United States specifically, when it comes to the questions of Oil, Empire, and Israel as legitimate grounds for the expenditure of American lives. The vetting this week of the deeper implications of a Carlyle-Hollinger International, Inc. business partnership simply heightens this developing gulf, much to the chagrin of both George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon.
William Kristolâs The Weekly Standard, William F. Buckleyâs National Review, Joseph Farahâs pro-Israel Internet site World Net Daily, and the tel-evangelists of the Dispensational Christian lobby will continue to march to the drumbeats of more preemptive war, more military intervention, and more death on behalf of oil pipelines and Sharonâs occupation policies on the West Bank and Gaza. But other winds on the American Right have begun to blow in the opposite direction. These winds gather with increasing speed and resolve, in a desire to restore the Old Republic while avoiding planetary apocalypse and American policy paths designed to revisit the tragedies of the Roman and British Empires past. They include Patrick J. Buchananâs The American Conservative; Clayton R. Douglasâs The Free American; Jon Basil Utleyâs Americans Against World Empire; Eric Garrisâs Antiwar.com; LewRockwell.com; Robert Higgsâs The Independent Review; and the powerful, yet theologically reflective essays of Catholic commentator Joseph Sobran.
The plot thickens. Stay tuned.
(Mark Dankof is an Internet news commentator and book reviewer for Uncensored News and Views. A past candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware in 2000, he is a Lutheran pastor and post-graduate student of systematic theology at Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His own web site, Mark Dankofâs America, contains many articles and items of interest, including the recently completed 14 chapter manuscript A Summer of a Thousand Nights: From Tehran to Susa.)
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