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"If it is proven now beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jews of
France secretly bought and subverted French media for many years in
order to distort the national discourse and eventually push
unprepared France into the horrible and unneeded World War Two, is
it impossible to consider that the Jews of the US have secretly
taken over their national media and are now pushing the US into a
horrible and unneeded World War Three?"
�An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked by a
small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore
unresponsive to public pressure.� - Edward Said
Midas Ears
By Israel Shamir
A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected boardrooms of
newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers. It is
the spectre of glasnost: the dark secret of Jewish power is out. Just
recently it was �third rail�, touch-and-die, deadly dangerous to mention,
certain end to a career. Just recently, Joe Public snapped his TV from an
eminence with an Israeli passport to a member of a Jewish think-tank, and
muttered to himself: Surely it is just a coincidence that so many
important and largely unelected people in our country happen to belong to
this small minority group. Surely it is just a coincidence that they
belong to different parties but reach the same conclusions. Surely it is
just a coincidence that ninety per cent of American foreign aid goes to
their cousins in prosperous Tel Aviv. Surely it is just a coincidence
that they run our newspapers, television, cinema, universities.
Anyway, we are not allowed to notice this elephant in our sitting room.
Only rare desperados comment, as Edgar Steele did on Rense.com: �The
silence in America concerning Jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The old
adage has it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain who
really runs things, one need determine only who is spoken about in
whispers, if at all.�
Judged by this measure, the Jews rule supreme. Indeed, when I referred to
�Jewish media lords� during a UNESCO conference in the summer of 2001,
the audience�s hearts missed a beat.
The yet-unfought War on Iraq changed this. The American Ultimatum date
was set on 17 March, the Jewish feast of Purim. Purim, 1991 saw
destruction of Iraqi armies and death of 200,000 Iraqis. Too many
coincidences for a purely American war. The Americans peeped into the
bottomless abyss of World War Three and woke up from their
generation-long stupor. Thus the first victim of the Iraqi War is not
truth, but the strongest taboo in the West.
A Democrat member of Congress, usually a most docile specimen, one James
Moran, dared to tell his supporters: "If it were not for the strong
support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be
doing this."
He was immediately slapped by a Jewish overseer: "It is simply stunning
to hear Representative Moran make such accusations", said National Jewish
Democratic Council Executive Director, Ira N. Forman. �First, a number of
the current leaders of the anti-war movement are Jewish, and Jewish
organizations have clearly not been at the forefront among those groups
actively and stridently supporting a war in Iraq�. Forman had spoken, and
the media reported and amplified his view, and Moran duly recanted,
slapped. But he is not the only one.
The secret is out, and like the secret of King Midas and his long ears,
it is being sung now from coast to coast, despite the frantic efforts of
the organized Jewish community to clamp the lid back on the boiling
cauldron.
Kathleen and Bill Christison,[i] two ex-CIA experts, exposed the link
between right-wing American Jews and the Bush Administration. Edward
Said, the most celebrated American thinker of Palestinian origin, stated
the cause: �An immensely wealthy and powerful republic has been hijacked
by a small cabal of individuals, all of them unelected and therefore
unresponsive to public pressure.�[ii]
He was seconded by courageous Herman, Neumann and Blankfort. These
Americans of Jewish origin object to the un-elected, anti-democratic
Jewish power as they would object to any disproportionate minority power.
Their presence, as they were not afraid of the anti-Semitic label, was
instrumental in turning the tide and saving the intimidated majority from
its browbeating.
Edward Herman, the author of Manufacturing Consent (together with Noam
Chomsky), wrote of �the powerful pro-Israel lobby in the United States,
which advances Israeli interests by pushing for U.S. aid and protection
to Israel, and, currently, by pressing for a war against Iraq, which
again will serve Israeli interests. This lobby has not only helped
control media debate and made congress into `Israeli occupied territory�,
it has seen to it that numerous officials with �dual loyalties� occupy
strategic decision-making positions in the Bush administration��
Jeffrey Blankfort, the Californian who defeated ADL in court and made
Foxman pay heaps of dollars for his espionage against activists, took an
important next step and rejected the views upheld by Noam Chomsky, Joel
Beinin and Stephen Zunes, for these older radicals play down the crucial
importance of Jewish power.
Jeff Blankfort noticed the roots of the Rupture Evangelicals� meteoric
rise in the US. This obscure sect would never have left its lair in
remote Dixie, but for the Jewish media lords. Jeff noticed that when
Black Entertainment Television was taken over by Viacom, whose owner,
Sumner Redstone (n� Murray Rothstein), was recently described in the New
York Times as the world's biggest media owner, he eliminated BET's news
program and began running evangelical Christian infomercials for Israel.
Blankfort�s list of �Jews in media�[iii] enables an understanding of the
secret of Jewish charm, and it can be compared with a similar extensive
list by Prof. Kevin MacDonald of California State University.
The Iraqi War, and even more its linkage with Palestine, became the
litmus test of Jewish power.
Organized Jewry pushed for war and at the same time denied its
involvement. Thus in New York City, the City Council rejected an anti-war
resolution, and only 12 of its 51 members were for it. This is not
strange for heavily Jewish New York. Indeed, a Democrat, Rep. Robert
Jackson, said it in a most straightforward way: "New York City is the
home away from home for most Jews; and many members of the Jewish
community think [the war is] in the best interests of the state of
Israel." According to Jackson, several of his council colleagues have
been intimidated into silence by the pro-Israel crowd: �People are not
talking about this."
Jackson was certainly right, but a Jewish newspaper [iv] (surprisingly or
not, all newspapers in the New York area are Jewish) condemned him for �
racism: �[He claimed that] not only do the Jews run New York City, but
they've cowed their opponents into silence. Jackson could as well call
New York Hymietown.�
This response is remarkable for its typically Jewish logic. First, the
opponent�s rational argument is perverted and distorted, then it is
aligned with opprobrium; and at the last stage, the opponent is destroyed
forever.
That is one of the secrets of Jewish might: the Jews enter a dialogue
berserk-like, with great vehemence, quite foreign to the Socratic style.
While sane people are satisfied with quoting their opponent and fighting
his arguments, madmen (for berserk is a temporarily-mad individual) go
for the jugular.
David Mamet, the Jewish American playwright, provides a good example of
this vehemence as he notices a �Volvo of old, the vehicle of my brethren,
the congenitally liberal. It was festooned, as are its kind, with every
sort of correct exhortation: Save James Bay, Honor Diversity, and so on.
A most interesting bumper sticker read: Israel Out of the Settlements � a
slogan which could best be translated as Hook-nosed Jews Die�.
I wonder why Mamet stopped at this, for with equal adequacy the slogan
can be translated as Torture Babies, Denounce America and Burn Apple Pie.
Who cares for the form of the Jewish nose? Mel Brooks noticed long ago
that Jewish girls have the cutest noses, made by the best plastic
surgeons�
It is the racist Jewish policies in occupied Palestine that annoy good,
�congenitally liberal� people. But if Mamet were honest, he would not be
Mamet
Now, Bill Keller of the NY Times read the Riot Act to the Americans. He
kindly allows that �most of the big Jewish organizations and many donors
are backing the war� but insists that �the idea that Israel's interests
are driving one of the most momentous shifts in America's foreign policy
is simple-minded and offensive�. Well, Keller is certainly being paid for
his convictions by a Jewish media lord, and one of the nastiest, Arthur
Sulzberger Jr, the owner of the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a host of
other publications. This undermines the possible veracity of Keller�s
words. Let something similar be written in a thoroughly non-Jewish
newspaper! But alas, there are no important media outlets in the US that
are not owned or controlled by Jews �
Surely a coincidence? Do not bet on it. A few days ago, in the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, an important all-Jewish conference on
anti-Semitism took place under the auspicious aegis of the Sasson Centre.
The talk given by the French Jewish historian Simcha Epstein dealt with
pre-war France but pertained more immediately to America. This is what
Epstein said:
�The pre-war anti-Semites said that the Jews of France organized a
syndicate secretly bankrolling and subverting the press. And what
did the Jews say at that time? They said: �Of course not! No, it�s
a lie, of course not! We are not engaged in conspiracies!� And what
did the historians and the Jewish historiography coming afterwards
say? �Of course not! It is anti-Semitic drivel!� But we know now
from Jewish sources that before WWII the Jews of France secretly
financed the press.
�Since the end of the 19th century, there was a secret Jewish
organization, well financed, which bought and bankrolled
newspapers. Sometimes it took over existing newspapers, which
suddenly became pro-Dreifus because they received Jewish subsidies.
New papers were created especially by the Jews. Two very important
papers of the period, one was called Les Droits de l'Homme, the
Rights of Man, was financed by the Jews, and L�Humanit�, which was
the Socialist and then the Communist newspaper of France, was also
financed by Jews. I say this on the authority of Jewish sources of
course.
�And this brings us to a dramatic dilemma of historiography. Saying
this, saying what I said, is something horrible and unacceptable,
because it means that the Jews organized a conspiracy and secretly
bought the media, or part of the media. That was precisely what the
anti-Semites said at that time, and what they still say today. And
we know now from Jewish sources that the allegations were true,
that there was a Jewish clandestine activity of bankrolling the
press.� End of quote.
Some people perceive every suggestion that Jews are able to act together
as a mad conspiracy theory. Let them read and re-read this report by a
Jewish historian made at a Jewish conference. If it is proven now beyond
any reasonable doubt that the Jews of France secretly bought and
subverted French media for many years in order to distort the national
discourse and eventually push unprepared France into the horrible and
unneeded World War Two, is it impossible to consider that the Jews of the
US have secretly taken over their national media and are now pushing the
US into a horrible and unneeded World War Three?
Actually there is no need for secrecy. One of the chief Zionist
ideologists, Zeev Hefetz (ex-spokesman of PM Begin), wrote in an American
daily: "Disarming Iraq is only a start in Middle East" as �the Arab and
Iranian (sic!) cultures� are "irrational" and that nothing can be done,
short of war, to "improve the collective mental health of Arab
societies". [v]
Certainly this massive �disarmament� will be carried out by American
soldiers, though the commands will be given by the Jewish chicken-hawks
roosting in the Pentagon. As for reasons for the war, they were
eloquently stated by a keynote speaker at a conference on anti-Semitism
by Yehuda Bauer, the director of the Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad
va-Shem in Jerusalem:
The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion, he said. They are a
civilization, and they have their civilizing mission. They cannot
tolerate the competing civilization of Islam, as they could not
tolerate Christendom or Communism. That is why the war with Islam
is unavoidable.
But the war is avoidable. Even today, at minutes before H-hour, the war
is avoidable. And if fire is unavoidable, let the Jewish advisers of
President Bush be fired. Let this Purim see the great Exodus of the
"Wolfowitz Cabal" from the Pentagon. Excluding the clinical possibility
of his actual zombification, G W Bush should be able to understand that
he has been misled by this powerful, un-elected minority. They cannot
deliver what they promised. Moreover, their own days at the helm of the
Republic are numbered. They over-estimated their abilities, and pushed
too hard. As the frog of La Fontaine, they can blow up. Bush still can do
a U-turn, and save himself and his country.
In a way, today�s America reminds of Russia in 1986, at the beginning of
glasnost. After the Soviet citizens were allowed to learn who rules them
and how, the days of the Soviet regime were counted. Glasnost gave place
to perestroika.
Now, for the first time in a generation, Americans are allowed to see the
men in power, the toxic combination of the Right-Wing Democrats of
Lieberman, the Republican neo-liberals, the Neo-Cons and plain Con-men.
The Iraqi War brought them forward and presented them in clear light. Now
is the time to undo their hold.
It can�t be postponed for the divisive presidency of G W Bush is
perceived as the period of �White� Protestant Anglo-Saxon rule, despite
the prevalence of his Jewish advisers. All available contenders for the
next elections - Lieberman, Kelly and even Kuchinich � claim their Jewish
connections and declare their undivided loyalty to Jewry and to the state
of Israel.
In the present political setup of America, there will be no real
alternative to Jewish ascendancy. If Bush flops, it will be construed by
the media as a WASP flop. If he succeeds, it will be seen as success of
his Jewish advisers.
That is why American patriot forces should not wait for the next
elections, or for the end of war. They must act now, by calling the war
off. They have an enemy, but he is not in Iraq.
What is called for is a new American revolution, on a par with the New
Deal and abolition of slavery, with de-monopolization of the discourse;
that is of media and universities, for starters.
In the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Americans undid the mighty
Standard Oil. They created new anti-monopoly laws and terminated the
threat to democracy. This achievement could be repeated now.
[i Kathleen and Bill Christison, `A Rose By Another Name: The Bush
Administration's Dual Loyalties�, Counterpunch, Dec. 13, 2002).
[ii] http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/628/op2.htm
[iii] Here is enough sampling to indicate that it is not:
First of all, Sumner Redstone ( n� Murray Rothstein) owns $8 billion
dollars worth of Viacom, which gives him the controlling interest in CBS,
Viacom, MTV worldwide (Brian Graden, president), and most recently he
bought Black Entertainment Television and proceeded immediately to cut
down its public-affairs programming. The president of CBS is Leslie
Moonves, the great nephew of David Ben-Gurion.
Michael Eisner is the major owner of Disney-Capitol Cities, which owns
ABC. David Westin is the president of ABC News. Although it has lost
viewers, Nightline host Ted Koppel is a strong supporter of Israel. Lloyd
Braun is chair of ABC Entertainment. And there is the perennial Barbara
Walters.
Neil Shapiro is the president of NBC News. Jeffrey Zucker is the head of
NBC Entertainment and Jack Myers has some important post there, as well.
Although Rupert Murdoch of Fox is not Jewish, Mel Karamazin, the
president of the corporation is, as is Peter Chernin, the second in
command at Murdoch's News Corps.
Sandy Grushow is chairman of Fox Entertainment, and Gail Berman is
president. Murtdoch has received numerous awards from various Jewish
charities.
Jamie Kellner is chair and CEO of Turner Broadcasting.
Walter Issacson is the News Director of CNN which also has Wolf Blitzer,
host of Late Edition, Larry King of Larry King Live, Paula Zahn, and
Andrea Koppel, Ted's daughter.
Jordan Levin is chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Howard Stringer is chair of Sony Corp. of America.
Robert Sillerman is the founder of Clear Channel Communications,
Ivan Seidenberg is chair of Verizon Communications
Terry Semel, former co-chair of Warners is CEO of Yahoo.
Barry Diller, former owner of Universal Entertainment, is the chair of
USA Interactive.
Joel Klein is chair and CEO of Bertelsmann's American operations, the
largest publishing conglomerate in the world.
Mort Zuckerman, the Chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish
American Organizations, owns US News and World Report and the NY Daily
News.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. publishes the NY Times, the Boston Globe and a
host of other publications.
Marty Peretz publishes the New Republic, which is unabashedly pro-Israel,
as is
William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard.
Donald Graham, Jr. is the chair and CEO of Newsweek and the Washington
Post.
Michael Ledeen, of Iran-Contra fame, edits National Review.
Ron Rosenthal is the Managing Editor of the SF Chronicle and Phil
Bronstein is the Executive Editor.
David Schneiderman owns the Village Voice and a number of other
"alternative" weeklies.
Columnist William Safire, Tom Freidman, Charles Krauthammer, Richard
Cohen, Jeff Jacoby, are among the most widely syndicated columnists.
There are a number of widely syndicated talk show hosts such as Michael
Savage (ABC) on more than 100 stations, Michael Medved, 124 stations, and
Dennis Prager who has an Israeli flag on his website. Others include Ron
Owens, Ben Wattenberg, and former ZOA official Jon Rothman, all in San
Francisco on ABC.
In Hollywood, which was founded by Jews, there is of course, Stephen
Spielberg, David Geffen, and Jeffrey Kranzberg of Dreamworks, Eisner of
Disney, Amy Pascal, chair of Columbia, and many, many more.
For the intellectuals, we have NPR, with pundit Daniel Schorr and weekend
hosts Scott Simon and Liane Hansen, Robert Segal, Susan Stanberg, Eric
Weiner, Daniel Lev, Linda Gradstein (a well-known speaker at pro-Israel
events) covering Jerusalem, Mike Schuster (whose soft-ball interview with
Ariel Sharon after Sabra and Shatila should have brought him before the
court of Hamarabi). Brook Gladstein.
And that's just for starters. From the boss to the delivery it's an
impressive list. While they certainly can't be put in the same box when
it comes to Israel, they more or less guarantee that there will be limits
to any criticism they may make of Israel�.
[iv] NY Post 22.02.03
[v] November 12, 2002 The New Haven Register
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