07 July 2010By Jeff Gates
With Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the
White House July 6th, it’s time to recall
how Tel Aviv deceived Washington throughout the
entirety of the U.S.-Israeli relationship.
U.S. military leaders will be watching this meeting
very closely, as will the veterans community.
For me, confirmation of Israel’s strategic
duplicity came in a meeting with Harry McPherson who
served as counsel and speechwriter for Lyndon B.
Johnson. LBJ entered the Senate in 1948 with Louisiana
Senator Russell Long for whom I served as counsel and
speechwriter.
At his law offices in Washington, Harry described
his arrival in Tel Aviv the night that the 1967 War
began. That war typifies the consistency of this
ongoing deceit.
He flew in the night before from Vietnam through
Hong Kong. He knew on arrival that something was amiss
because the airport lights were off. He checked into
his hotel and was awakened early on June 5th by Wally
Barbour, the U.S. ambassador to Israel.
A pear-shaped diplomat with a penchant for
yellowing Palm Beach suits, Barbour called to tell
Harry that the war had just broken out—to which he
replied, “But I just come from the war.”
Barbour picked him up at the hotel and they hurried
to the foreign ministry for a brief meeting before
conferring with the Israeli chief of military
intelligence. In response to their repeated question,
“Did the Egyptians attack?” McPherson and Barbour
received only evasive answers. As air raid sirens
wailed, McPherson recalls in A Political Education:
Barbour suggested that we might continue the
discussion in the underground bunker. The general
studied his watch. “No, that won’t be necessary. We
can stay here.” Barbour and I looked at each other. If
it wasn’t necessary, the Egyptian air force had been
destroyed. That could only have happened so quickly if
it had been surprised on the ground. We did not need
to ask for confirmation, but left at once to cable the
news to Washington.
Israel was neither under attack nor under threat of
attack as its leadership has since conceded. Air raid
sirens were just props in the stagecraft of waging war
by way of deception.
The Israel-as-victim storyline was stage-managed by
Zionist extremists to make both Israeli citizens and
foreign observers believe that the Jewish
state was endangered. As with the phony intelligence
that induced the U.S. to war in Iraq in March 2003,
the facts in June 1967 differed dramatically from the
geopolitical narrative.
Under cover of that false attack, Tel Aviv occupied
land belonging to its neighbors. The bulk of that
property is still held by force 43 years later with
the support of the U.S. as its oft-duped ally.
Servicing the
Commander-in-Chief
In the lead-up to Israel’s Six-Day Land Grab,
Johnson was lobbied by U.N. Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg. LBJ had moved Goldberg from the Supreme
Court to the U.N. so he could be replaced with Abe
Fortas, Johnson’s personal lawyer. Fortas was a senior
operative in a network of Zionists who helped produce
the Johnson presidency and shaped its policies.
When Goldberg used heart-rending rhetoric to weave
for Johnson a storyline about Israeli vulnerability
and the pending victimization of hapless Jews at the
hostile hands of an Arab “ring of steel,” LBJ waved a
Central Intelligence Agency report predicting that
Israel could win any war in the region in two
weeks.
When Goldberg persisted, Johnson ordered the CIA to
revisit their analysis. The agency returned with a
revised report concluding that Israel could win any
war in the region in one week.
On June 4th, at a Fortas-hosted dinner
for Johnson, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and New
York investment banker John Loeb, Fortas cautioned
Johnson that war might soon erupt in the Middle East.
When the president turned to McNamara for his
opinion, the Pentagon chief agreed with Johnson that
there would be no war. Johnson then confirmed that
U.S. intelligence agencies agreed with McNamara’s
assessment. Johnson left for the White House at 10:58
p.m.
Less than six hours later, at 4:30 a.m. on June 5th,
National Security Adviser Walt Rostow called LBJ to
announce that Israel had attacked Egypt. Mathilde Krim,
a former Irgun operative, was Johnson’s guest at the
White House that night. Before informing anyone else,
LBJ stopped by the blonde beauty’s bedroom to tell
her, “The war has started.”
Not until 7:45 a.m. did Johnson speak with Soviet
Premier Aleksi Kosygin who expressed his hope and
expectation that the U.S., as Israel’s closest ally,
would restrain Tel Aviv.
Mathilde Krim was the wife of Arthur Krim, chairman
of the Finance Committee for the Democratic Party and
president of United Artists. While Johnson was in the
Senate, Krim bought land near the LBJ Ranch in Texas
where he built “Mathilde’s House.” When Arthur was
away on business, Johnson routinely took Marine One,
the presidential helicopter, to visit Mathilde.
An Inside Job
In the war’s first few hours, the “victimized”
Israelis destroyed the Egyptian Air Force while its
aircraft were still on the ground. Walt Rostow sent
Johnson a memo describing the success of Tel Aviv’s
“vulnerable” military as “the first day’s turkey
shoot.” By evening, the Jordanian air force was also
largely destroyed.
Johnson also received a memo from Arthur Krim that
read, “Many arms shipments are packed and ready to go
to Israel, but are being held up. It would be helpful
if these could be released.” Johnson ordered them
released.
By evening of the second day, two-thirds of the
Syrian air force had been destroyed. The glee in the
State Department Operations Room was palpable, leading
Under Secretary of State Eugene Rostow to caution,
“Gentlemen, gentlemen, do not forget that we are
neutral in word, thought and deed.”
At the State Department’s mid-day press briefing,
spokesman Robert McCloskey repeated Rostow’s official
“neutrality” lie. Zionist advisers surrounded Johnson
in the decision-making that lent U.S. support to the
1967 war. “Everyone around me, without exception was
pro-Israel,” recalls Johnson speechwriter Grace
Halsell. She identified more than a dozen close
advisers to Johnson, including Walt Rostow, his
brother Eugene and Arthur Goldberg.
White House counsels Leo White and Jake Jacobsen
were likewise pro-Israel as were two key
speechwriters: Richard Goodwin, husband of biographer
Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Ben Wattenberg whose parents
moved to the U.S. from Palestine. Likewise domestic
affairs adviser Larry Levinson and John Roche, an avid
Zionist and Johnson’s intellectual-in-residence.
The Non-Separation of Powers
In the lead-up to this Israeli aggression, Fortas
served as an enabling back channel between the Israeli
embassy and the White House. Fortas had known Israeli
Ambassador Avraham Harman since the ambassador’s
arrival in Washington in 1959. During the March 1960
visit to Washngton of Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion,
Fortas sponsored a breakfast at his home attended by
Harman and Johnson who was then Senate Majority
Leader.
Fortas’ biographer conceded: “For several weeks
before the crisis erupted into war, the Israeli
ambassador was ‘in very frequent contact’ with Fortas
and regularly visited the justice at his chambers or
his house.” An outspoken Zionist, Fortas also attended
a critical White House strategy meeting on the Middle
East on May 26th, ten days before the land
grab began.
When it came to Israel, Fortas was never neutral.
“When they get back from Egypt,” a law clerk in his
Supreme Court chambers overheard Justice Fortas say,
“I’m going to decorate my office with Arab foreskins.”
Throughout the six days of carnage that Israel
inflicted on its neighbors, Near East experts met
daily with Johnson in the Cabinet Room. Fortas
attended each meeting. Reflecting on comments by
Fortas to Johnson at their June 4th dinner
party, John Loeb wrote to Fortas on June 6th:
“You were prophetic about the Middle East. Thank the
Lord the President has you as a friend and counselor.”
In 1968, Johnson failed in his attempt to elevate
Fortas to Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Fortas
resigned in May 1969 in the wake of a series of
scandals. In the summer of 1970, The New York
Times reported his registration as a lobbyist for
Kuhn, Loeb & Company.
Fortas cemented his relationship with Johnson in
1948 when, in LBJ’s first Senate race in Texas, the
Washington lawyer finessed the extensive vote fraud
apparent in the Democratic primary in which Johnson
claimed an 87-vote victory, including 200 votes
tallied in alphabetical order.
A Fortas-devised legal strategy led to Johnson’s
name appearing on the November ballot as the
Democratic Party nominee. In a strongly Democratic
state, that primary victory assured the ambitious
Texan a victory in the general election and a seat in
the U.S. Senate. Decades later, those familiar with
this political history continued to refer to him as
“Landslide Lyndon.”
A Strategic Provocation
The Six-Day Slaughter of 1967 pre-staged the
geopolitical dynamics for all that has followed—not
only in the Middle East but also in the U.S. as
Israel’s violent taking of land outraged everyone in
the region and set American foreign policy on today’s
ruinous course.
The periodic carnage visited on Palestinians
ensures that this strategic provocation remains fresh
in the minds of Muslims worldwide. Reactions to these
serial provocations, in turn, fuel the plausibility of
the latest storyline, The Clash of Civilizations
and its corrosive counterpart: the Global War on
Terrorism with “Islamo fascism” the essential Evil
Doer branding.
Israel has performed with reliable consistency
every act required to provoke and sustain extremism in
the Muslim world. Only by duplicity has the Zionist
state sustained a U.S. alliance whose main effect has
been to make America appear guilty by association.
On August 9, 2000 in a White House ceremony,
President Bill Clinton presented Johnson paramour
Mathilde Krim with the Medal of Freedom. By then this
former Irgun terrorist had been rebranded as a
high-profile medical researcher and AIDS activist
adored and promoted to political prominence by her
pro-Israeli supporters in Hollywood.
It’s not expected that Israeli-American Rahm Israel
Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff to Barack Obama,
will urge that Monica Lewinsky receive the nation’s
highest civilian honor. It’s not yet known what role
Emanuel and White House political strategist David
Axelrod have played in sustaining our costly “special
relationship” with the Jewish state.
As yet another Israeli Prime Minister arrives in
Washington with yet another rationalization for
continuing this entangled alliance, a nomination is
pending for the appointment to our highest court of a
third Jewish Zionist for a court with just nine
jurists. In time, historians will identify the role
played by the Israel lobby (and Emanuel/Axelrod) in
the nomination of Elena Kagan.
Based on the consistency of “Bibi” Netanyahu’s
duplicitous conduct over decades, Barack Obama needs
to know when an Israeli Prime Minister is once again
deceiving a U.S. president. History suggests a
reliable test: are his lips moving?
The End of History
Though the U.S. has been deceived with stunning
consistency for more than six decades, a mid-course
correction remains possible. If this latest president
can concede to himself that his political career is a
product those complicit at this deceit, he may yet
emerge as the transformative leader that his
supporters once hoped he could be.
If Barack Obama can be honest with himself, he will
speak candidly to the American people and explain why
this long-running deceit must be brought to a speedy
close. If on July 6th he announces support
for a one state solution, that will start to unwind
this perilous alliance.
Senior military leaders have confirmed the common
source undermining U.S. national security. Should the
current commander-in-chief fail to act consistent with
the known facts, this latest political product of the
Chicago Outfit may risk their continued allegiance.
To advance peace, he needs only declare U.S.
support for the designation of Jerusalem as an
international cultural site under the protection of
U.N. troops. To end the multi-decade cycle of
provocation/reaction, he needs only reassign 30,000
U.S. troops to Palestine to rebuild a destroyed
society, resettle its ousted people on occupied land
and secure Israel’s nuclear arsenal.
The Zionist experiment was a failure before it
began. An overdue end to this apartheid regime can
begin July 6th. Or this perilous alliance
can continue—at untold cost in blood and treasure.
July 6th could be a defining moment for
a president in need of such a moment. That date could
also mark the restoration of American values to U.S.
foreign policy and grant solace to those moderate and
secular Jews long appalled at the conduct of Zionists
who in 1948 deceived a U.S. president to recognize as
a legitimate state their extremist enclave in the
Middle East.
Jeff Gates is a US attorney and author of
Guilt By
Association, Democracy at Risk and The
Ownership Solution. This article and many of his works
are available in series at
Criminal State.
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