Israeli Lobby Scrambling For New Approach To Crisis
Part One Of Two Part Series
10/25/01 12:29:41 PM
Bill White for Pravda
Moscow, Russia -- <P>�America is finally running out of patience with us�
the headline read in
the Israeli daily Ha�aretz Tuesday. Sharon had just rebuffed the American
demand that Israel withdraw its troops to behind the lines of occupation,
and
was holding more than five thousand Palestinian refugees trapped in the
'Aida
and 'Azza/Beit Jibrin camps. On Wednesday, the butcher Sharon began
shooting
the refugees as he did in 1982.. The US State Department was �feeling like
a
fire brigade� struggling with the potential for war not just in
Afghanistan,
but in Occupied Palestine and Kashmir as well. On the home front, Israel�
s
allies in the United States were also scrambling. Having been defeated in
their attempts to use the September 11 bombing to draw the United States
closer
to Israel, they were facing a purge of their supporters in the Defense
Department, as it became clear that their agents on the inside were
leaking US
secrets to both Israel and the press. The �official� Jewish lobby was now
scrambling for damage control, and grasping at anything to distract public
attention away from the US-Israeli relationship.
<P> �Saudi Arabia is the home of � one of the most fanatical, intolerant,
and
extreme forms of Islamic fundamentalism,� Mortimer Zuckerman, an American
media
baron, publisher of US News and World Report as well as the New York Daily
News, and head of the powerful Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish
Organizations, wrote in his weekly column. There had been a �mendacious
implication � that the September 11 attacks were related to America's
relationship with Israel� but now, Zuckerman wrote, �we � must face the
harsh
fact that Saudi Arabia, a nation we have long supported, is a central
disseminator of the poisonous spores of fanaticism.�
<P>Could the Zionist lobby be serious? Could it really be trying to
persuade
the public that the reason for bin Laden�s attack on New York was not US
support of Israel, but the fact that the US paid �moderate� Muslim regimes
in
the Middle East primarily to keep them from attacking Israel? If a
directive
issued by Israel�s Foreign Ministry to pro-Israeli journalists was
indication,
they were. And the attempt to distract the public showed the growing
desperation the lobby is using in its efforts to keep the disintegrating
situation in the Middle East from becoming a disintegration of their
political
power here at home.
<P><B>The Changing Tune</B>
<P>Only a month ago, the Zionist-dominated elements of the American press
were
demanding the heads not of just the Taliban, but of the entire population
of
the Islamic world.
<P> �America's enemy is the Islamic Axis: Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Sudan
and
Afghanistan and the groups they fund, support and direct. These groups
include
the cells of Osama Bin Laden, Hamas, Hezbollah and the PLO,� wrote
ex-Israeli
propaganda minister turned American journalist Zev Chafets, in Zuckerman�s
New
York Daily News, �The U.S. must invade these countries (if there is time),
dismantle their unlatched governments, disperse their armies and seize
their
arsenals. � If there isn't time [they] will have to be destroyed by
whatever
means necessary: the Japanese model.�
<P>Chafets was not alone.
<P> �The enemy has identified itself in public and openly � Its name is
radical
Islam� wrote columnist Charles Krauthammer on Sept 12, �there should be no
talk
of bringing these people to �swift justice� � We must carry their war to
them.�
<P>They were just two of hundreds of voices, most of them Zionist, or at
least
tied into America�s �official� Jewish lobby, that demanded the destruction
of
Islam.
<P>Little more than a month later, their tune had changed, from a rumbling
war-
mongering drum beat to a softer song of explanation and excuses:
<P> �What spawned the real Osama bin Laden � was the infidel's �occupation
�' of
Saudi Arabia, home to Mecca and Medina, the holiest cities in Islam.�
wrote
Krauthammer on October 19, as he played along with the fiddlers trying to
dance
America�s attention away from Israel, �Bin Laden � in giving reasons for
his
jihad on America, never fails to cite the starving and bombing of Iraq.�
<P>Newspaper columns now avoided talk of Israel, not even recognizing the
Israeli occupation as a possible complaint of bin Laden�s, and certainly
not
mentioning it in the context of �terrorism�. Israel was no longer safe.
The
Israeli lobby was on the defensive.
<P><B>Elder Lore</B>
<P>There is no question that a Jewish lobby, with goals and interest
beyond
just Zionism and Israel, exists in America. It is divided into three
major �umbrella� organizations � the National Jewish Community Relations
Advisory Council (NCRAC or �nacrac�), the Conference of Presidents of
Major
Jewish Organizations (the �President�s Conference�), and the
American-Israeli
Political Action Committee (AIPAC). Each organizations is a council of
smaller groups, and has responsibility for a certain area of Jewish
political
life -- NCRAC issues a yearly document laying out the domestic political
line
that the nation�s Jewish groups have agreed to adhere to, the President�s
Conference issues the foreign policy line, and AIPAC conducts the actual
lobbying of Congress and the Administration.
<P>There are nine major groups that form these councils, though each group
has
between 50 (for the President�s Conference) and several hundred members on
its
theoretical governing body (and AIPAC is unofficially controlled by it�s
four-
member �officer�s committee�). There are the groups that represent the
three
main trends of American religious Judaism � the national unions for the
Reform,
Conservative and Orthodox synagogues. There are the three �defense
agencies� �
the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), American Jewish Congress, and the
American
Jewish Committee. Then there are the three women�s organizations �
Hadassah,
the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Women�s American ORT. There
are
additionally as many as 300 other �official� Jewish organizations active
in the
country and contributing representatives to the councils in various ways.
<P>The lobby works like the Mafia within its own community, brutally
suppressing Jewish voices that dissent from its foreign policy dictates.
According to Jewish writer JJ Goldberg, editor of the Jewish commentary
paper
the Forward, and author of the book �Jewish Power�:
<P> �By mid-1976 � NCRAC and the American Jewish Committee ordered up
internal
studies on the limits of dissent. The Presidents Conference and the
Synagogue
Council of American held public inquiries on the topic. All the
organizations
reached the same conclusion: American Jews had the right to discuss
issues
freely, but only within discreet forums, outside public view. �
<P> �Working closely with [Israeli Ambassador Simcha] Dinitz and his
staff, the
Presidents Conference and NCRAC began to draw up a set of baseline
principles
to govern behavior within the organized Jewish community. They boiled
down to
three basic tenants. One was that Israelis were the only ones entitled to
decide Israeli policy, since they alone bore the risks. The second was
that
American Jews must stand publicly united with Israel, and air
disagreements
only in private. The third was that Israel would no negotiate with
Palestinian
terrorists, since talking to them would grant them legitimacy
<P> �These rules were quickly taken up by the Jewish leadership as sacred
write
from Jerusalem. Jews who disagreed found themselves unwelcome in
community
forums, asked to leave governing boards, shouted down at meetings. Even
luminaries � began to find themselves ostracized after they endorsed
Middle
East compromise.�
<P>Like the mafia, they will rub you out � not your life, but your
reputation.
With extensive contacts inside both political parties and the mainstream
press,
the �official� Jewish community keeps its members under tight lock and
key.
<P><B>Cracks In The Press</B>
<P>The Lobby�s muscle arm in America and abroad, though it is often
impolitic
to state it outright, are the major media institutions in America that are
owned by Jews, combined with those that are not owned by Jews, but
dominated by
non-Jewish Zionists. (see �American Media Uses Disinformation To Guide
Policy�) To this they add many of America�s most widely published and
widely
read opinion columnists, editors, �independent� publishers, and reporters.
Even those in the media who choose to distance themselves are not immune
to its
pressures, as two American journalists recently discovered when they were
purged from their newspapers for anti-Israeli statements.
<P>Freelance writer Jim Moore was the first of the two. Over the weekend,
he
submitted an article to the Tallahassee Democrat, daily newspaper of
Tallahassee, Florida, and owned by the Knight-Ridder Corporation. The
article
was one of several he had written that were critical of Israel, but this
one
was a little different. It included a quote from Ariel Sharon, broadcast
on
Col Yisrael radio, that �Jewish people rule America.� Managing Editor
Mizell
Stewart feared the implications of Moore�s piece and refused to print.
Moore
received notice barred from ever again writing for the paper the next day.
<P>Though Israeli officials have publicly admitted that Sharon �had bouts
of
anger during a recent Knesset meeting and that he said �things that
shouldn't
be said,�� this didn�t matter to Knight-Ridder. Though it is not a Jewish
owned or managed company, it still plays ball. When asked to explain
their
actions, Stewart referred Pravda�s inquiries to a secondary editor who
declined
to respond.
<P>A second, and bigger, crack appeared over the weekend in upstate New
York,
where two editors for the Oneida Daily Dispatch were fired after
publishing an
article quoting a Pakistani man who claimed that the September 11 attacks
were
conducted by Israel�s Mossad. The article, and all references to the two,
were
pulled from the Daily Dispatch�s website (http://www.oneidadispatch.com),
and
according to an Associated Press article on the case that ran on October
19,
Managing Editor Jean Ryan and City Editor Dale Seth were dismissed from
the
paper. Not surprisingly, the paper is owned by the Newhouse Media Group,
a
Jewish newspaper group owned by the brothers Samuel and Donald Newhouse �
two
men who�s wire services regularly carry often ridiculous articles
attacking �right-wingers� and �racists�, real and imagined, across
America.
<P>But the third �crack�, though it was only slight, is perhaps the one
that
most threatens the currently locked armed approach of the media in its
attempts
to misinform the American public. When Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
bin
Abdul Aziz Alsaud had his $10 million dollar check rejected by New York
Mayor
Rudolph Giuliani, every newspaper in New York applauded Giuliani but one �
the
usually Zionist New York Post if Rupert Murdoch�s News Corp. Why?
According
to columnist Johnathan Tobin, writing in Jewish World Review, �[the
Prince] is,
among other things, a major stockholder in News Corp., the multinational
media
conglomerate that owns the Post.�
<P><B>Defensive Front</B>
<P>It is not the occasional slip of a reporter�s tongue, however, which
has the
Lobby in a dither, nor is it the small financial influence of one Saudi on
one
paper that has never truly been in their control. What bothers them most
is
that everything they demanded of the Bush administration � war on Iraq,
war on
Syria, war on Hizbollah, war on Hamas � had not only been denied them, but
they
are facing, for the first time in thirty years, a government that seems
ready
to simply remove them from policy making altogether.
<P>Two Defense Department officials � Richard Perle on the Defense Policy
Board
and Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense � comprise the core of
the
Zionist lobby�s influence over US foreign policy. But their dual loyalty
has
caused them to leak to the press a number of important details of the US
military�s actions in the Afghan campaign � including top secret
information on
a US Special Forces raid on airfield near the city of Kandahar. The
information caused the raid to fail, and the nearly 200 Special Forces
troops
involved in it to force evacuate the area only two hours into their
mission.
The result has been a Secretary of Defense who has threatened to not only
dismiss, but possibly arrest, the �unknown� individuals responsible:
<P> �The fact that some members of the press knew enough about those
operations
to ask the questions and to print the stories was clearly because someone
in
the Pentagon had provided them that information. And clearly, it put at
risk
the individuals involved in the operation,� Rumsfeld told the London Times
Monday, and �It is terrible. And I just can�t imagine people being that
irresponsible that they�re willing to do that � I couldn�t care less where
the
source of the leak is, the responsibility is the same.�
<P>Though Rumsfeld did back off his threats to arrest those responsible,
and
stated that responsibility was �unclear�, it is clear that the lead
candidates
for the leak, two men who have been previously identified as leaking
Pentagon
data to the members of the press such as radical pro-Israeli journalists
Bill
Safire and William Kristol, were Perle and Wolfowitz, causing some
observers to
wonder if the President�s Conference�s dynamic duo were about to be
dismissed
from public duties.
<P>And as a further indication of US unhappiness with Israeli-loyal
�American�
citizens in the military, the Jerusalem Post reported Tuesday on the first
wartime purge of an Israeli-American �dual citizen� from US forces. US
Army
Reserve Major Shawn Pine was relieved of his command of the 300th Military
Intelligence Company of Austin, Texas, Tuesday after being accused of
suspicious links to the Israeli military-intelligence complex. Pine, of
course, accused the Army of �anti-Semitism�, but all his complaining has
not
gotten him his reinstatement.
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>Israeli
Army Seals Village, Commits Massacre</A> � Islamic Association For
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