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09 April 2010
By Jeff Gates
The history
of Israel as a geopolitical fraud will fill entire
libraries as those defrauded marvel at how so few
deceived so many for so long. Those duped include many
naive Jews who—even now—identify their interests with
this extremist enclave.
Israeli
leaders are wrong to worry about “de-legitimization.”
They are right to fear that a long-deceived public is
fast realizing that Israel’s founding was key to an
ongoing deception.
The
Invention of the Jewish People
did not begin with Shlomo Sand’s 2009 bestseller by
that title. There was no Exile says this Jewish
scholar. Nor was there an Exodus. So how could there
be a Return, the core premise of Israeli statehood?
If this
patch of Palestinian land never rightly belonged to a
mythical Jewish People, what then for the legitimacy
of the “Jewish homeland.” And for that depiction by
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in his
November 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild?
Were
Christians likewise seduced by Sunday school teachings
reliant on the phony findings of Biblical archeologist
William Albright? Shlomo Sand chronicles how in the
1920s Albright interpreted every excavation in
Palestine to
"reaffirm the Old Testament and thereby the New.”
In 1948,
President Harry Truman, a Christian Zionist, was
advised by Secretary of State George Marshall not to
recognize this enclave as a state. This WWII general
assured Truman that he would vote against him—and did.
That
military tradition resurfaced in January 2010 when
General David Petraeus dispatched a team to brief
Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, on the perils that Israel still poses to
U.S. national security. Mullen was reportedly shocked.
See: “The
Petraeus Briefing”
http://mideast.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/../
the_petraeus_briefing_biden_s_embarrassment_is_not_the_whole_story
He should
not have been surprised. Such insights are hardly new.
More than six decades ago the Joint Chiefs of Staff
cautioned Truman about the “fanatical concepts of the
Jewish leaders” and their plans for “Jewish military
and economic hegemony over the entire Middle East.”
In December
1948, Albert Einstein and 27 prominent Jews urged us
“not to support
this latest
manifestation of fascism.” They warned that a “Leader
State” was the goal of the “terrorist party” that has
governed Israel over all but a handful of the past 62
years.
The Joint
Chiefs
foresaw the
“Zionist strategy will seek to involve [the U.S.] in a
continuously widening and deepening series of
operations intended to secure maximum Jewish
objectives.”
Soon after
Truman recognized Israel, his presidential campaign
train was “refueled” by Zionist Jews with $400,000 in
contributions ($3.6 million in 2010 dollars). Soon
thereafter, Israel betrayed the U.S. by allying with
the British and the French to invade Egypt.
Though
London and Paris soon abandoned the operation, months
more were required to dissuade Tel Aviv from pursuing
their expansionist agenda then—as now—for Greater
Israel.
Outraged by
Israeli duplicity, Eisenhower sought help to rein them
in. He soon found that even then (as now) the Israel
lobby dominated Congress. Thus the former Supreme
Allied Commander appeared on television with an appeal
directly to the American people. Then—unlike now—a
U.S. Commander in Chief threatened to reduce
assistance to Israel.
To revamp
Israel’s tattered image, New York public relations
expert Edward Gottlieb retained novelist Leon Uris to
write Exodus. Jewish Zionists have routinely
proven themselves skilled storytellers and masterful
mythmakers.
This 1958
bestseller was translated into dozens of languages and
quickly made into a movie for the 1960 Christmas
season starring Paul Newman and featuring Peter
Lawford, brother-in-law of the just-elected President
John F. Kennedy. See: “Time for an American
Intifada?” http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2010/../time-for-an-american-intifada/
The Myth of a Loyal Ally
Phil
Tourney survived the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on
the USS Liberty that left 34 Americans dead and 175
wounded. The region-wide dynamics accompanying that
provocative Six-Day land grab guaranteed the conflicts
that remain so perilous to U.S. national security.
It was
during this Israeli operation that Tourney gave a
one-fingered salute to armed Israeli troops as they
hovered in helicopters over the USS Liberty while
preparing to rappel to the deck and, he surmises, kill
the survivors and sink the ship.
Just then
the captain aboard a nearby U.S. carrier scrambled
jets to assist a vessel under attack by an “ally.”
When Israeli intelligence intercepted the
transmission, the helicopters fled only to have
President Lyndon Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara recall our fighters.
Soon
thereafter, Israeli torpedo boats pulled alongside the
USS Liberty to inquire if those aboard needed
assistance. Those same boats had just blown a hole in
the hull, killing 25 Americans. Israeli
machine-gunners had then strafed stretcher-bearers,
firemen, life rafts and even the fire hoses—all clear
war crimes. Only then did this ally display the
chutzpah to ask if our servicemen required
assistance.
Had that
notorious land grab failed to advance the narrative of
Israel as the victim, what might be the condition of
U.S. national security today? Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently conceded the
duplicity that continues to typify this “special
relationship.”
As he
confessed:
"Our policy
on Jerusalem is the same policy followed by all
Israeli governments for 42 years, and it has not
changed. As far as we are concerned, building in
Jerusalem is the same as building in Tel Aviv."
In other
words, the 1967 war was neither defensive nor
preemptive but an outright taking of land that, one
year later, Tel Aviv acknowledged as precisely what
concerned the Pentagon 62 years ago. In
effect, Netanyahu confirmed that this relationship
reflects multi-decade premeditation. The U.S. has
since discredited itself by protecting this “ally”
from the rule of law for its taking and brutal
occupation of land that rightly belongs to others.
Even now,
few know that Mathilde Krim, a former Irgun operative,
was “servicing” our Commander-in-Chief in the White
House the night the 1967 war began. Her husband,
Arthur, then chaired the finance committee for the
Democratic National Committee.
Even now,
few Americans know the role in that cover-up played by
Admiral John McCain, Jr. Or the role still played in
this sordid history by his son, Republican Senator
John McCain III. See: “McCain Family Secret: The
Cover-up” http://criminalstate.com/press/Chapter4.pdf Are
those who champion this “state” the same belief-makers
responsible
for the myth of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?
Iraqi meetings in Prague? Iraqi mobile biological
weapons laboratories? High-level Iraqi contacts with
Al Qaeda? Iraqi yellowcake uranium from Niger?
Was any of
that intelligence legitimate? Whose interests were
served by deceiving the U.S. to wage war in the Middle
East? By the Suez Crisis? By the Six-Day War? By
covering up the attack on the USS Liberty?
Adhering to an Enemy?
How are
U.S. interests served by treating Israel as a
legitimate state? When was Israeli behavior anything
other than duplicitous?
At what
point do we concede the common source of the
storylines foisted on an imperiled global public?
Who created
the narrative that saw us segue seamlessly from a
global Cold War to a global War on Terrorism? Remember
the promise of a post-Cold War “peace dividend”? Who
induced the U.S. to wage a war whose costs could total
$3 trillion, including $700 billion in interest?
Why is debt
always the prize? At the end of WWII, the U.S. was
home to 50% of the world’s productive power. Were we
induced to hollow out our economy by the same
consensus-shapers that induced us to wage war in the
Middle East?
Do these
devastating dynamics trace to a common source?
Who
benefits from the “Islamo” fascist narrative? Whose
storyline—really—is The Clash of Civilizations?
Who has long spied on the U.S. and routinely
transferred to other nations our most sensitive
defense technologies?
Who had the
means, motive, opportunity and, importantly, the
stable nation state intelligence required to
perpetrate such a debilitating fraud from inside
the
U.S.
government?
And from inside other governments that joined the
“coalition of the willing”?
If not
Israel and its supporters—who? In effect, are those
now advocating an “unbreakable bond” with Israel
giving aid and comfort to an enemy within?
Israel is
right to worry. It was never legitimate. As both an
enabler and a target of this fraud, the U.S. has an
obligation to concede its source—and to secure the
weapons of mass destruction now under the control of
this enclave.
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
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