Zuckerman, President's Council Order Attack On Saudi Arabia
So You Wondered Why All The Papers Released The Same Article Today, Huh?
10/22/01 4:16:54 PM
LSN Staff
New York, New York -- Mortimer Zuckerman and his Council of President's of
Jewish Organizations have
ordered a full-bore attack in the newspapers against the nation of Saudi
Arabia
as part of a move to assist the American public in believing the
outrageous
Israeli lie that it is US policy towards Saudi Arabia and not Israel that
caused the September 11 attack.
The Council of President's of Jewish Organizations, known as the
President's
Council, is the major foreign-policy making body for American Jewry. All
three
major American congregations, the major Jewish "defense" organizations,
and the
major Jewish lobbyist organizations, as well as several other Jewish
community
groups, meet at the Council regularly to determine what foreign policy
line all
of the major Jewish community organizations will endorse. Domestic policy
for
Jewish organizations is determined by a similar meeting held under the
auspices
of a group known as NCRAC (pronounced nac-rac).
Zuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News, US News and World Report, and
Atlantic Monthly, among other publications, led the charge today in his
own
column (http://www.jewishworldreview.com/mort/zuckerman.html), where he
calls
Saudi Arabia the "central disseminator of the poisonous spores of
fanaticism".
The battle was joined by Charles Krauthammer
(http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/krauthammer.html) and Norman
Podhoretz
(don't know what we did with the URL), who both published columns today or
Friday attacking the Saudi royal family.
The attack had been prepped by a series of minor articles that appeared in
a
variety of commentary sites over the past few days. The Jewish
President's
Council decided that the articles that they had floated appeared effective
and
intellectually more sound than their previous attempts to sway the
American
public, and decided to make the attack on the Saudi family the center of
their
propaganda, replacing demands for an attack on Iraq (something they still
would
like, but are de-emphasizing as a "lost battle" -- for now.)
Two weeks ago, the government of Israel ordered that US journalists loyal
to
Israel emphasize that bin Laden is angry at Saudi Arabia rather than
Israel,
and to attack US aid and support to Saudi Arabia as the cause of the
attacks,
rather than US aid to Israel. They hoped to re-direct the root causes of
US
anger -- including general US opposition to foreign aid -- and give it a
new
target, thus warding off the blows Israel was suffering.
The flaw in their reasoning, of course, is that the reason the US is
providing
aid to Saudi Arabia is in a large part to keep in power an Arab government
that
is unlikely to attack Israel. The US buys the relative safety of Israel
by
providing similar aid packages to nations such as Egypt.
Official Jewry in the United States does meet and coordinate acts and
propaganda centrally and with the government of Israel, and issues
marching
orders down the line to the "Grass-roots" activists. Members and leaders
of
the Jewish community who disagree with the "official" line are brutally
attacked in the press, as when Jewish World Review led Friday with an
article
attacking a Reform rabbi who claimed that "militany Jewish Orthodoxy" has
been
responsible for the second intifada,
(http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jonathan/rosenblum.html), and as today
where
David Horowitz, a leader in the Jewish neo-Conservative movements, founded
in a
New York coffee house seventy years ago, led with an attack on Jewish
dissenter
Noam Chomsky
(http://www.frontpagemag.com/horowitzsnotepad/2001/hn10-22-01.htm).
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