Judonia Rising: The Israel Lobby and American Society
What the Israel Lobby
Really Is
How It Hurts the USA
What to Do About It
A Working Paper
Part I: The State of the
Lobby
by
Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
Introduction
In
Fall 2006 Lady Kishwer Baroness Falkner of Magravine, who is a liberal member
of the House of Lords lead a study group at the Harvard Kennedy School of
Government. It was entitled Democracy for
the Islamic World?, US & British Foreign Policy After Iraq (http://www.iop.harvard.edu/study_groups/06_falkner.pdf).
Harvard Professor Stephen Walt, who co-wrote The Israel Lobby and US
Foreign Policy with University of Chicago Professor John Mearsheimer, was
the last guest speaker.
Because
the sessions were off the record, I cannot report Professor Walt's discussion
of US democratization policy, but I did talk with him about the difficulty
of understanding the Israel Lobby without a thorough understanding of
Eastern European Jewish social and political culture. He told me that he was
not going to learn Yiddish at this point in his career. The response is not
unreasonable. Realist foreign policy analysis does not delve much into
historical backgrounds, and most historiography available about Jews to
English-speaking readers is dreadful and verges on hagiography.
Not
only had Norman Finkelstein, Joseph Massad, and Noam Chomsky already
expressed significant disagreement with the Mearsheimer and Walt analysis as it
had appeared in the London Review of Books and in a Harvard Kennedy
School working paper by this time period, but Philip Weiss had begun
discussing the Israel Lobby on his Mondoweiss New York Observer blog
in a way that simultaneously agreed and disagreed with the two
authors because Weiss did not maintain a clear distinction between the
Israel Lobby, the organized Jewish community and the New Jewish Elite, which
Weiss argues has supplanted the old WASP elite.
Whereas
Professor Chomsky criticizes Walt and Mearsheimer because of the lack of
clarity in their definition of the Israel Lobby, in a sense Weiss builds on the
diffuseness of the Lobby. In any case, a USA, whose dominant elite is Jewish,
is not necessarily bending to the Israel Lobby when it pursues of pro-Israel
foreign policy.
Mearsheimer,
Walt, Finkelstein,[1] Massad,
Chomsky and Weiss are all correct. Their disagreements result from
problems of framework, language and lack of historical context.
Because a complete reworking of the Mearsheimer and Walt thesis would
require a text at least twice as long as The Israel Lobby and US Foreign
Policy, the following paper should only be considered a
brief introduction to a rigorous unified analysis based in a
non-exceptionalist understanding of Eastern European Jewish history.
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
Professors
Mearsheimer and Walt have done a service for American public political
discussion by arguing their opinion as foreign policy realists
Professor
Chomsky would correctly point out that one could make a good case for the
opposite of the above assertions, but debating the above claims misses the main
issue. The real problem is the lack of a genuinely open debate in Washington or
in the media about the US alliance with Israel.
The
two scholars underscore this issue and provide some good comic
relief when they claim that there is a strong moral case for supporting Israel
even though a good part of the book clarifies just how vacuous a belief in the
justice of Zionism and in the morality of Israeli practices really is.
Yet,
the book is flawed by acceptance of too many Zionist and Jewish
claims at face value.
When
the professors write, "There is no question that Jews suffered greatly
from the despicable legacy of anti-Semitism and that Israel's creation was
an appropriate response to a long record of crimes," they are
repeating both ethnic Ashkenazi primordialist essentialism
and also the basic creed of the so-called "pogrom and
persecution" version of Jewish history. Neither assumption holds up under
scrutiny.
The
second century Roman Historian Dio Cassius wrote "all who observe Judaic
law may be called Judeans, despite the ethnic group from which they
originate."
The vast majority of Roman Imperial Jews (more properly Judeans) had no
ancestral connection to the populations that lived in the Hasmonean or Herodian
Kingdoms of Judea. Modern ethnic Ashkenazim (Jews of Eastern European
Yiddish-speaking origins) have less connection and no obviously legitimate
claim on Palestine whatsoever. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/04/how-to-talk-about-zionism-new-improved.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2005/08/for-tony-blair-real-extremism.html.)
Paul
Kriwaczek writes the following in Yiddish Civilization, The Rise and
Fall of a Forgotten Nation, pp 5-6.
We
have forgotten that Yiddish-speaking Jews were no mere religious or linguistic
minority but formed one of Europe's nations, ultimately more populous than many
others — eventually to outnumber Bosnians, Croats, Danes, Estonians, Latvians,
Slovaks, Slovenians and Swiss, not to mention the Irish, the Scots and the
Welsh. What is more, their contribution to central and eastern Europe's
economic, social and intellectual development was utterly disproportionate to
their numbers. The Yiddish people must be counted among the founder nations of
Europe. (Please take note Ireland, Spain, Italy and Poland, who have pressed
for "the Christian roots of the continent" to be proclaimed in the
constitution of the European Union.)
In
the Polish Commonwealth ethnic Ashkenazim constituted an economic elite.
They lost this status in the partitions of Poland.
Yet,
despite supposedly onerously Czarist oppression, Russian Jews had higher
incomes, more education, and longer life spans than the non-Jewish
populations among whom they lived. They were highly disaffected because of
exclusion from the status and access to which they believed they were entitled,
but they were not obviously more oppressed than the majority of the Czar's
subjects and less oppressed than others.
Yuri
Slezkine belies the myth of Jewish powerless during the lead-up to WW2 in The
Jewish Century. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/02/pattern-of-ethnic-ashkenazi.html.)
Mearsheimer
and Walt's casual misconceptions about Jewish history accompany a similar lack
of interest in the sociology of the Jewish community.
Even
though How Jews Became White Folks & What that Says About Race in
America by Karen Brodkin asserts on p. 147 that
Italian
culture is not prefiguratively white, in the way Jewish culture — which Glazer
described as like Anglo-Saxon Protestant culture in valuing individuality and
ambition — is,
historically
Eastern European Jewish culture strongly controlled social and intellectual
deviation.
Many
of the social control mechanisms continue to exist, have evolved in the
American environment, and may help explain why liberal Jews have so empowered
the Neocons to the detriment of US foreign policy interests as James Petras has
described. (See http://www.philipweiss.org/mondoweiss/2007/12/james-petras-ha.html.)
The Professors
do not even ask whether stated reasons for supporting Israel are the real
or the same reasons for all Israel advocates throughout the "Israel
Lobby." Do the leaders and followers even share the same overall goals?
In
contrast, when Columbia Professor Michael Stanislawski investigates the
1848 killing of Reform Rabbi Abraham Kohn in Lemberg in his book entitled A
Murder in Lemberg, he asks whether the crime resulted from religious
conflict or from the threat that Kohn represented to the incomes of members of
the wealthy Jewish elite.
The
same question applies today. Does the so-called "Israel Lobby" merely
act to secure the interests of the State of Israel or is the real goal
enhancement of the wealth, status, and power of those who pay for it? After
all Saudi Arabia pays its professional lobbyists, who consequently serve the
Saudi state.
Not
only does Israel not pay the "Israel Lobby," but The Israel
Lobby and US Foreign Policy does not give a hint who really does, and in any case large sections
of the "Israel Lobby" like the Hollywood Crowd do not even appear in
the book even though scholars like Melani McAlister have investigated the
Hollywood foreign policy connection in books likes Epic Encounters:
Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000. With
such gaps in the analysis of the "Israel Lobby," no one should be
surprised with the weakness of the proposals that Professors Mearsheimer and
Walt make for responding to the "Israel Lobby."
Not Just Another Lobby
Their
book assumes that "the Israel Lobby" is simply another lobby except
for greater effectiveness.
Tony
Karon, who is the senior editor of Time.com, recently commented on
Philip Weiss's blog
"that
a lot of the general AIPAC lines have been internalized in the U.S. political
mainstream. And in the process, AIPAC has established itself as synonymous not
just with Israel, but with philo-Semitism. What you see at that annual AIPAC
conference where Democrats and Republicans line up to kiss ass is a graphic demonstration
of the fact that AIPAC no longer even needs to go after the politicians, they
come to AIPAC cap in hand."
Thus
the primary Israel advocacy organization has effectively become an
American political institution that Americans accept without reservation for
fear of the accusation of anti-Semitism.
But Purposeful Misdirection with Saya`nim (Sleeper or Helper
Agents)
As
Walt and Mearsheimer point out, the achievement of Israel advocacy is
impressive by any standard. The success results from collaboration of an
extremely diverse web of organizations and individuals that specialize in
different aspects of the lobbying project and that work together on an “as
needed” basis.
A
member of the web can be classified in one dimension by message transparency
and in another dimension by individual or organizational transparency.
Karon’s comment above indicates that AIPAC has no need for a lot of opaqueness, but in many situations concealment of aspects of the Israel Advocate may increase effectiveness of a message. John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, albeit secretly funded and run by Jews, is almost excessively public about its lobbying efforts because it probably exists to prove that Israel advocacy is not a Jews-only production. (Jewish-dominated film and music industries routinely create stars. It apparently costs a good deal less money and effort to put someone on the A-list of Christian Israel lobbying.)
Following
the lead of AIPAC some think tanks like JINSA (Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs) and WINEP (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) make no
effort to conceal their Israel focus, but others like the Foundation for the
Defense of Democracy try to conceal Neocon Zionist agendas behind a message of
patriotism and anti-terrorism often combined with scare-mongering and anti-Arab
or anti-Muslim incitement.
HonestReporting
is a media watch dog like CAMERA but obscures its organizational structure and
especially its connection to Aish Hatorah, which encourages Jews to become observant
and then enmeshes such Jewish returnees in an occult mystical nationalist
Zionist agenda.
The
David Project pretends to be a Jewish communal organization that teaches Jewish
educators how to talk about Israel while StandWithUs claims to raise the Israel
consciousness of students on campus, but both act as attack dogs that
apparently raise money in proportion to the level of their nastiness.
The
David Project orchestrated an attack on the Roxbury Mosque as part of an ongoing
program of “diminishing the impact of Israel’s detractors” by normalizing
Islamophobia so that American Muslim criticism of Israel will be dismissed out
of hand. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2006/01/battle-waged-in-boston-over-new-mosque.html.)
StandWithUs
makes a special effort to counteract Jewish critics of Israel in the university
environment. The organization was so upset with Overcoming Zionism by
Joel Kovel that it has been trying to deny distribution to all books from
Pluto Press that reach the American Public via the University of Michigan
Press. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/zionist-attack-on-pluto-press.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/04/boston-globes-problem-with-muslims.html.)
Both
the David Project and StandWithUs work fairly closely with Israeli consulates
in the context of the Israel on Campus Coalition. Rashid Khalidi discusses the
nature of Israeli academia on p. 75 of The Iron Cage.
Perhaps the most eminent of the four, Reuven
Zaslani, eventually became the founder of Israel’s external espionage agency,
the Mossad. Zaslani later changed his name to Shiloach, and the Middle East
Center at Tel Aviv University (now the Moshe Dayan Center) was named for him
for a time. The two names that this center has borne illustrate the intimate
(and thoroughly unselfconscious) relationship within Israel institutions
between academic study of the region on the one hand, and both intelligence
work and warfare directed against the Arabs on the other.
Zionist
groups would like to use America academia in the same way, and the Israeli
mission to the US plays a large role in the battle for the control of academic
discourse about the Middle East.
Some
high profile academic Israel individual advocates like Alan Dershowitz are
fairly transparent in message and affiliation, others like Elie Wiesel, who
tries to act as high priest of Holocaust religion, work through other causes.
Ruth Wisse, whose husband is Chairman of the Board of Directors of CAMERA uses
her academic podium to street-fight for Zionism. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/09/jews-and-power-versus-israel-lobby-and.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/poisoning-atmosphere-at-harvard.html.)
Lately
Ruth Wisse has been faculty advisor to New Society: The Harvard College
Student Middle East Journal. Here is the description (http://www.college.harvard.edu/student/organizations/orgdetail?id=742).
New Society will be a forward-looking biannual journal of scholarship and opinion on the history, politics and culture of the Middle East. It will encourage students and faculty members to debate positive visions for the future of the region. Drawing its ideas from a wide range of contributors, the journal will feature a combination of long, scholarly essays, shorter op-ed style articles, reviews of books, movies and concerts, photographs and artwork, write-ups of events on campus, and interviews. It will publish students, faculty members, and associated scholars based on the quality of their scholarship and writing, but the journal will focus on nurturing and promoting undergraduate writers and editors in particular.
The journal’s content is predictably Zionistically correct. (See http://newsocietyjournal.com/.)
Mixing Israel Lobbying
with Other Activities
Like Wisse, Steven Spielberg has
Jewish interests beyond Israel, but the ending of Schindler’s List was
simply Zionist propaganda that implicitly justified the theft of Palestine from
the native population. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/married-to-another-man-married-to.html.)
Like
Wisse and Spielberg, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations is not exclusively focused on Israel advocacy, but today its most
public role consists of representing the concerns of the organized
Jewish community to the President of the United States.
Like
the Conference practically every other group within the organized Jewish
community provides some degree of overt Israel advocacy no matter how small a
role Israel plays in the organization’s official mission statement. Examples
run from
Below
is a typical instance in the Boston area.
Monday, October 15, 2007
7:15 PM Town Hall Meeting with Former
Israeli Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich
Itamar
Rabinovich was the former Ambassador of Israel to the U.S., past President of
Tel Aviv University, and Camp David Syrian Negotiator, and currently is a lecturer
at Harvard. After the briefing, you will be given the opportunity to share your
thoughts and concerns about Israel in an open community discussion. A dessert
reception will follow (dietary laws observed). At Temple Ohabei Shalom in
Brookline. RSVP required. To register or for more information, please call or
email.
1187
Beacon Street Brookline MA
617-457-8650
israelevents@jcrcboston.org
There
is a whole class of well-defined entities
Martin
Peretz appears to have used his position as a director of YIVO to transform
that institution into an overt Israel advocacy organization. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/02/making-yivo-zionist-organization.html.)
The
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Boston Public school system
through Zionized history textbooks (http://members.aol.com/thorsprovoni/history/naaplecture.htm#Figure_4)
put our various sorts of subliminal Zionist messages.
Many
media organizations like those owned by Rupert Murdoch mix genuine news
reporting with overt and indirect Zionist propaganda.
MEMRI
has been particularly successful in masking its true nature as an Israel
advocacy organization associated with Israeli intelligence services. Because
far too many trust its selective and misleading translations, MEMRI is one of
most effective Israel advocates. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/05/what-sanabel-said.html.)
The
movie Exodus was overt Zionist propaganda but unlike Obsession,
Radical Islam's War against the West, was not produced by an
officially Zionist organization even if the Israeli government directly or
indirectly provided some of the investment. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/zionist-film-exodus-terrorism-is-good.html.)
Former
Harvard President Lawrence Summers took a covert Israel advocacy position
and effectively put himself out of a job when he accused the Harvard
Divestment movement of anti-Semitism in effect if not in intent. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/07/fighting-hegemonic-blocking-on-campus.html.)
Israel Advocates as Thought Police
Then
there are all sorts of groups and individuals that covertly and informally act
as Israel advocates. Jewish cliques within Interfaith discussion groups[2]
often engage in subtle Israel advocacy or enmeshment while the
often-transnational Jewish networks in academia, across various professions and
in the finance industry often serve Zionist purposes of exclusion of Arabs,
Muslims and anti-Zionists or of control of discourse. The David Project, which
works with informal networks of Jewish doctors, has inserted Zionist propaganda
into the Harvard Medical School through its subsidiary X-Ray Project. [3]
The members
of the Jewish finance networks trade insider information and protect
each other. Membership generally requires politically correct attitudes
towards Israel. Expressions of sympathy toward Palestinians can end careers —
at least until Gulf and Saudi Arabs buy enough of the NY investment banks, but
the networks might manage to persist with greater secrecy.
As the
work of researchers like Alison Weir (http://www.ifamericansknew.org)
and Laurel Leff (Buried by the Times, The Holocaust and America’s Most
Important Newspaper) clearly indicates, the media industry is full of
all sorts of facilitators and gatekeepers, who have a clear effect
on the coverage of the conflict over Palestine even in cases where the
media owners are themselves unbiased.
Even
though Spielberg himself is an Israel advocate, he strayed from Zionist
political correctness in Munich and was subjected to a
concerted media attack. The Hollywood Crowd got the message, and the
marketing of Munich ran into all sorts of “unforeseen” problems. As a result,
the movie probably only made one third of reasonable expectations in gross
ticket receipts, and it will probably be a long time before
Spielberg deviates from the Zionist narrative to give Palestinians
another 20 seconds of sympathy.
Beyond
the facilitators and gatekeepers there are thousands to tens of thousands —
often students or retirees — who will make faxes, letters, calls, emails or
come to gatherings on behalf of organizations connected with Israel
advocacy.
The Neocon Movement, which is the current incarnation of the American Revisionist or Jabotinskian movement, is not an Israel advocacy group or organization, but its members distribute themselves either
Friedmanites
have been so prominent in the economic regime that the occupation has
attempted to impose on Iraq that the common identification of Milton
Friedman's economic thinking merely with Cato Institute libertarianism looks
incorrect. In today's political intellectual environment Friedmanism looks more
like an adjunct of Neoconservatism.
The
complex composite structure of Israel advocacy is unusual among lobbying
efforts but not unknown.
Environmental
and other public interest group advocacy, unlike corporate and foreign
government lobbying, tends to divide tasks among a set of organizations
that each have their own sources of funding.
For
a given lobbying project, lobbies with a complex organizational structure generally
assign a temporary coordination center. The Jewish Federation has a long
history of coordinating resources within the Jewish community and seems to
provide a permanent coordination center for Israel lobbying from the
national level of opposing an AWACS sale down to pressuring a Barnes
and Noble store for hosting a Palestinian author like Susan Abulhawa. (See
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/05/lobby-activities-its-just-frggin-novel_28.html.)
The
Jewish Federation also works through its educational, media updating,
propaganda and indoctrination efforts to make sure that a large number of
Jewish and a lesser number non-Jewish volunteers are available to act as foot
soldiers (saya`nim and non-Jewish volunteers) in Israel advocacy.
Such foot soldiers like the enlisted men in a regular army rarely understand
the big picture or have insight into the strategies of the leadership (as
Israel Shamir has pointed out).
Israel
advocacy is probably unique in the degree that the unofficial lobbying
organizations have their own day-to-day programs that have little or no
direct connection to the State of Israel even if on occasion the
quotidian activities can serve in pro-Israel efforts.
Such projects probably constitute an aspect of the
diffuseness to which Chomsky has referred.
In
Boston the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Justice (JALSA), which is a
spin-off of the American Jewish Congress, has an ongoing project in regendering
American society according to feminist and gay liberation principles.
An
Israel Lobbying effort coordinated by the JCRC might use concepts from the
JALSA regendering activity, to wit, the argument that Americans should
have no sympathy for Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims because they tend to be
anti-feminist and anti-gay. In any case, the distinction between ongoing local
projects and Israel advocacy is not always distinct even in the case of AIPAC,
which was established — as Professor Kovel recently pointed out to me —
shortly after the Rosenberg espionage case became public.
AIPAC
had to make sure
Because
Jewish Federation organizations have been coordinating projects for a long time
Israel Lobbying efforts benefit from organizational memory that does not exist
in other lobbying situations. The longevity of Jewish Federation
organizations can give Israel Lobbying efforts a generational aspect
not seen elsewhere. For example, Israel Advocacy organizations worked for fifty
years to delegitimize Arabist points of view in the foreign service and state
department, drive out Arabist officers or bureaucrats and replace them with
Israel sympathetic personnel (see The
Marginalization of U.S. Mideast Experts, http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1095/9510080.htm).
Possibly
because of long-standing relationships with government officials, because of
the fear of the accusations of anti-Semitism, or simply because Jews are
disproportionately represented among government officials especially in the
legal and regulation enforcement divisions (another class of saya`nim),
Israel advocacy is unique among lobbying efforts in that participating groups
and individuals for the most part get a pass on tax code, constitutional, and
criminal — especially SEC — issues as happened recently when the existence of
an AJC memorandum was revealed that questioned the congruence of Obama's
thinking with Jewish interests or goals (see Internal Memo Takes On Obama’s
Mideast Approach - Forward.com, http://www.forward.com/articles/12543/).
The IRS would have immediately announced an investigation to determine whether
any other 501(c)(3) organization in a similar situation was violating the rules
with regard to its tax deductible status.
In other words, not only are Americans subjected to often very well camouflaged pro-Israel indoctrination in practically any situation often from completely unexpected sources, but Israel advocates also do not even bother to obey those few rules that the government has established for such activities.
Not the Ordinary Conspiracy
The
activities associated with Israel advocacy have the appearance of vast conspiracies
especially when a financier like Marc Rich uses all sorts of strings of
influence within the Jewish community to obtain an eleventh hour pardon from
Clinton or when Jewish academics, Jewish alumni and Israel advocacy
organizations mobilize in an attempt to prevent a Palestinian-origin academic
like Nadia Abu el-Haj, who has an interest in Jewish studies, from obtaining
tenure. The signers of the Deny Nadia Abu El-Haj Tenure
Petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/barnard/)
are breath taking in their almost uniform indication of German Jewish and
ethnic Ashkenazi origin.
Nevertheless
as much as conspiracy theorists find evidence of freemasonry, the elders of
Zion, the illuminati, dark Talmudists, malicious Cabbalists, or some other
group of secret puppeteers, Israel lobbying activities constitute a natural
evolution of Jewish, especially ethnic Ashkenazi, communal organizations.
The
structure of Israel lobbying is a response to historical developments generally
unrelated to Zionism.
Because
there has been a sort of Darwinian selection in both the official and unofficial
organizations as well as in their techniques, all of which go back often as
much two centuries in European environments, Israel lobbying is naturally far
more effective than a lobby that was put together over the last few decades or
so in response to a specific issue or to serve a specific corporate interest.
Struggle for American and the World
Israel
lobbying has for the most part totally manipulated the US government into
subordinating US interests to Israeli interests to the detriment or harm of the
nation, but Mearsheimer and Walt fail to describe the full magnitude
of the problem.
Bat-Ami
Zucker points out in Ha-Mesoret Ha-Mishpatit ve-Ha-Zionit shel Louis D.
Brandeis [The Legal and Zionist Tradition of Louis D. Brandeis, in Hebrew ] that
Brandeis aimed to demonstrate that Zionists were complete and better Americans.
In other words Zionism at least for Brandeis and people like him was part
of the German Jewish Americanization project (and provided an alternative to
Jewish radicalism or communism here in the USA).
Eighty
years American Jews have moved beyond mere assimilation. The New Jewish
Elite that supplanted the older New York German Jewish elite has been
assimilating US society and culture to Jewish standards for the last generation,[4]
and Jewish groups are now at the centers of American power.
Mort
Zuckerman recently made an important observation in a JTA news report
(http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/106775.html).
Published: 02/03/2008
Mort Zuckerman,
the editor of U.S. News & World Report, called Israel a "client
state" of the United States.
"Israel has
to understand — like it or not — it is not a great power. It is a client state.
And therefore, it must be dependent upon a great power," Zuckerman said
during an interview on Shalom TV's "World Jewish News" show last
week. "There is no question that the United States has been and is the
most reliable long-term friend and ally that Israel has, and it must do what it
has to do in order to maintain that relationship. And if [cooperating with
Bush's Annapolis peace initiative] is part of that price, Israel has to do it
for the United States."
Zuckerman, a
recent past chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish
Organizations, said he is pessimistic about the chances for peace between
Israel and the Palestinians but that Israel must make the effort because
"it is the only way to maintain whatever political support it has,
especially in the United States — but really, in the Western world."
He compared Israel
and her quest for peace to Sisyphus, the figure in Greek mythology who
repeatedly rolled a huge rock up a hill only to have it roll from his grasp
near the summit.
Zuckerman says
U.S. policy toward Israel likely will change when a new president takes office
next year.
"It never
does stay the same — and it is often a surprise," he said. "But it is
my judgment that there are a whole variety of views of Israel."
If
Israel is a client state and the New Jewish elite is dominating American
culture and politics, American Zionists or more correctly those American
Zionists manipulating or dominating US ME policy call the shots in Israel
and not local Israeli politicians.
There
is another critical aspect to the flow of power. A segment of the American
Jewish community seems to increase its status, wealth and power through its
Israel connection, which at the very least gives this small but important
well-connected group of American Jews a place on the gravy train of unaccounted
cash aid to Israel.
These
American Jews then use their increasing wealth to make sure that national
politicians, who support continuing and increasing aid to Israel, are well
funded during election campaigns. By careful working the Israel lobby and media
connections, this group of Zionists keeps American politicians in a state of
dependency on Jewish contributions and in a state of fear of campaign
swift-boating.
In
effect American national politicians with the exception of Ron Paul are clients
of powerful Jewish Zionist elite. In other words, the State of Israel may be a
client state of America, but America is a client state of the American Jewish
Zionist elite, which is probably in the process of establishing itself as the
permanent national "meritocratic" elite.
[Is
it surprising that a vocal Zionist like Kondracke and Commentary,
which until recently was the flagship national publication of the American
Jewish Committee have systematically attacked affirmative action?]
While
the American public has not fully comprehended the nature of power relations,
Israeli leaders do, and the American Zionist elite calls all shots on issues of
importance to the American elite from "Who is a Jew" to whether the
USA should attack Iraq or Iran first.
The
political relational hierarchy and the domination of an American
Zionist elite over all validate the Finkelstein and Massad critiques of The
Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy.
The
alliance between Israel and the US states is in the process of creating an
internal American caste system that will be dominated by a small class of
hyper-wealthy Zionists. With the sort of permanent war that has been envisioned
since the beginning of the twentieth century by a segment of the Zionist elite
under the influence of Sorel and with the application of the Friedmanite Shock
Doctrine as described by Naomi Klein, this caste system will spread globally.
(See The Shock Doctrine, The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, by Naomi
Klein.)
The Israeli economy or more properly a small segment of hyper-wealthy Israeli Jews linked by family and business relations to the dominant US Zionist elite is thriving as the US economy is tanking and Iraq is being ground down. It is the outcome of which leading Zionists dreamed in the twenties, and it has a high probability of spreading from the ME throughout the Muslim world to South America, and to parts of the former Eastern block.
The
Kremlin, which has never had much tolerance for internal competing power
centers or external powers mucking in its backyard, saw danger in the
extension of a transnational hyper-wealthy Zionist political elite to
Russia and has taken preventive action against Jewish oligarchs within the
territories of the former Soviet Union. It was stunning how quickly Jewish and
Friedmanite groups rushed to support Mikhail Khodorkovski in his power struggle
with the Russian government.
Among
religious, leftist, and right wing ethnic Ashkenazim there has long been a
current of thought that Jews are safest in alliance (or better in dominating)
an undemocratic government.[5]
Thanks to the Patriot act and other actions of the Bush administration, the
undemocratic Zionist future is coming into being right before our eyes, and
McCain looks like the most likely of current present candidates to bring about
the fulfillment of the ultimate globalized Zionist dystopia, but Zionists
throughout the political system are poised to influence any other possible
victor except Ron Paul, whom Zionist facilitators and gate-keepers in the US
media are trying to starve of media attention.
Abolishing
Israel and eradicating Zionism would not eliminate the exploitive tendencies of
globalization but would destroy the focal point of the forces that are aiming
for the worst of all globalized futures.
Economics is Key
Even
though Professors Mearsheimer and Walt barely discussed economics and cash flow
issues in their book, no other aspect of Zionist movement in the
US is more important in understanding how it wins politically or
how it can lose.
Today,
individual contributions is far less important to day to day Israel lobbying
and advocacy, which often piggyback on funded, endowed, or profitable groups
generally within or associated with the organized Jewish community. As has
already mentioned, Martin Peretz, as a director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research (http://www.yivo.org/) has managed to transform this
non-Zionist institution into an organ of Israel advocacy and Zionist defense.
The latest YIVO bulletin includes a full-page denunciation The Israel Lobby
and US Foreign Policy. (See Making
YIVO a Zionist Organization, http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/02/making-yivo-zionist-organization.html.)
Peretz has managed to leverage a rather small contribution to YIVO to get the
benefits of both YIVO resources and prestige.
Nowadays,
many official Zionist institutions themselves have endowments while Israel
Advocacy includes its own independent profit centers in film-making
and conference production, which is an industry in which Sheldon Adelson,
who is an important Zionist donor has made billions of dollars. The big Zionist
donors tend to start and fund new projects. These donors often do their own
R&D or marketing analysis. Many such projects are openly publicized like The
Big Ideas Series: Introducing 10 Proposals for Jewish Communal Innovation « The
New Jew: Blogging Jewish Philanthropy (http://thenewjew.wordpress.com/2007/12/11/the-big-ideas-series-introducing-the-first-three-proposals-for-jewish-communal-innovation/)
from Charles Bronfman. The New Jewish Elite has no need for secrecy in its
plans to manipulate the American mainstream.
Zionist
institutions and corporations often receive direct funding from the United
States government. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is an example.
It serves a major role in justifying the theft of Palestine from the native
population and has recently become a major part of the Zionist and Neocon
Darfur project (http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-letter-to-michael-capuano.html,
http://members.aol.com/ThorsProvoni/Darfur/FifthQuestion.htm),
which distracts from Zionist crimes in Palestine and from the Neocon-inspired
disaster in Iraq and which is part of the ongoing Zionist project to incinerate
Arab and Muslim countries in order to make the Middle East safe for Israel.
(See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/12/killing-muslims-under-humanitarian.html.)
Zionist
scare-mongering has also landed lucrative government and private contracts for
Zionist terror-study groups like the Investigative Project and the
SITE Institute while government grants to increase security seem to go
disproportionately to Jewish groups.
While
Jewish organizations may be somewhat more effective at grant writing, government
approving officials are often Jewish officials, who are constantly receiving
literature and indoctrination that comes from the organized Jewish
community and that identifies numerous individuals and groups threatening Jews.
The
Aliyah Scam, which has often been funded by the US government in many ways, has
brought a tremendous amount of money into the Jewish community, and a good
portion of such money is then put into Israel advocacy. (See Scamming
Americans Robbing Palestinians, http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/07/scamming-americans-robbing-palestinians.html.)
Israel
itself is a profit center for Israel advocacy, which receives a tremendous
amount of funding from real-estate dealing and from the tourist industry.
Conquering the Occupied Territories in the 1967 war proved a boon to tourism
because of the important holy sites that they contain and whose control the
Israeli government would never concede to any sort of Palestinian authority no
matter how servile.
Not
only does American aid to Israel come back to the US via a web of family
and business connections, but US aid also goes to subsidize Israeli
corporations, which compete with American firms and even create American
subsidiaries or even relocate to the USA. The portion of US aid that
must be spent in the USA can then be spent in corporations that are for all
intents and purposes Israeli and whose personnel are fully aware that they
must contribute to political candidates that will support increasing funding of
Israel.
The
State of Israel has consequentially become involved in startup funding and in
picking winners among new American corporations through American and
Israeli venture capital funds that are directly or indirectly connected to the
Israeli government.
This
activity is not new for the Israeli government. The Israeli government has been
involved assuring the success of the right people in the American entertainment
and news industry since the 1950s. Golan Globus is a prominent example, and
Haim Saban is at least in part an Israeli government creation.
The
Zionist movement assumed from its earliest phases that it would be dependent on
wealthy and influential Jews in the Diaspora. Members of the Counsinhood
of Britain's wealthiest Jews probably paid for the Balfour Declaration. After
the propaganda reverses of the first Intifada, the need for an even wealthier
and more influential class of Jewish Zionists in the USA became obvious.
[In
this strategic framework, the Zionist movement also depends on Jews, who are
not necessarily wealthy but are in critical positions to serve the Zionist
movement especially in intelligence or logistics matters. Such individuals are
today called saya`nim. The spy Jonathan Pollard is a particularly egregious
saya`an, who was caught. [I have expanded the meaning of the term in this
document to include Jewish stealth helpers in Israel Lobbying efforts.]
In
addition to saya`nim, Zionists have often used Shabbesgoyim like Orde Wingate
during the pre-State period or more recently John McCain III and his father
Admiral John McCain, Jr., who absolved Israel of blame in the attack on the USS
Liberty. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/01/money-jews-brain-jews-politics.html.)
The Zionist movement has tended to recruit and reward Shabbesgoyim in families.
New York Zionist campaign contributions have rewarded John
McCain throughout his political career. Today McCain represents the
Neoconservative Friedmanite position in Republican politics without — until
recently — a lot of the social conservative baggage to which many American Jews
and Friedmanites object.]
Zionist
connections in the investment banking industry led to earlier IPOs in the 90s
with little or no evidence of profitability. Subprime mortgages were a similar
class of dubious investments, whose true nature was obscured in CDOs
(collateralized debt obligations), and the valuation of Google and similar
companies like Facebook has similar dubious characteristic. Some serious
forensic analysis and financial analysis is needed to understand these economic
developments, but the end result has been very clear in the development of a
new class of superwealthy that is mostly Jewish and willing to put a lot of
money into Israel advocacy and into influencing the US government.
While
many members of this New Jewish Elite would reflexively put money into Israel
because of long Zionist indoctrination, they also need Israel as a means to
hide their wealth because Israel has a level of economic transparency and
corruption comparable to Italy or Egypt. The Bar-Lev line in Tel Aviv is an
early indicator of the degree of embezzlement and sweetheart deals in Israeli
economics and politics. Israelis have long made a lot of money in providing
money laundering and other transaction hiding services both to Jews and
non-Jews. Obviously, all parties in this sort of business have an interest in
preserving the State of Israel to make sure that this sort business continues.
Post-9/11
Islamophobic scare-mongering as well as the Iraqi occupation has created a
growth industry in hardware and software for security, control, and
checkpoints. This industry understands that its profitability depends on
international policies that maintain conflict through unconditional
support of Zionism.
Sophisticated Composite Marketing
Awash
with money, Israel Lobbying and Advocacy uses the most effective combination of
targeted, multi-level, viral, guerrilla, and product drag marketing techniques.
The Functional Groups
The
American public constitutes a complex market than can be segmented in many
ways, the most obvious division being Jewish versus non-Jewish. A functional organization
specializing in memorializing (generally exaggerated) non-Jewish barbarism
towards Jews may not be particularly useful in inspiring non-Jewish support for
Israel except perhaps in guilt-based projects.
Israel
Lobbying can count on a wide range of functional organizations including:
The Basic Projects
Ongoing
and past projects associated with Israel Lobbying and Advocacy efforts:
The
Islamophobia & Arabophobia project is striking in its apparently conscious
use of models from classic anti-Semitism of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth century.
From
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/07/updating-ajc-attacks.html:
There
are many more similarities between Islamophobic and anti-Semitic
politics. Stab in the back accusations toward progressive Americans, Arab
Americans, and Muslim Americans will not be far behind.
The
International Hillel Society, the American Jewish Committee, AIPAC and JINSA (a
think tank) frequently mail Islamophobic and Arabophobic literature to
scare-monger against targeted Arab and Muslim individuals and groups. Because
the mailing lists of Jewish organizations typically include important people in
government, the news media and legal professions, continuous low-level
defamation tends to create conditions for the effectively disenfranchisement of
Arab and Muslim Americans in ways strongly reminiscent of the treatment that
African Americans suffered post-Reconstruction until some civil rights activism
began to produce results.
A Web of Influence, Conditioned Thinking and Reflexive
Behavior
Ongoing
Zionist indoctrination of the American public has produced a Zionist web of
influence, conditioned thinking and reflexive behavior that is breath-taking in
its pervasiveness.
Even
without the presence of media gatekeepers and facilitators, journalists in
print, broadcast and cable media almost invariably misrepresent relevant Middle
Eastern or Eastern European current events or history. There is
little reluctance to turn Zionist or IDF press releases into news
reports with no qualifications.
American
news organizations almost invariably misquote and mistranslate Iranian President
Ahmedinejad, and America media use tendentious Zionist language like
the "right to self-defense," "Muslim extremism," and
"Arab intransigence" while almost never conceding a similar right of
Palestinian or Arab self-defense or addressing issues of Jewish racism,
extremism or fanaticism. During the recent Lebanon war, the American media with
rare exceptions took the Israeli point of view.
Only
recently have American media begun to concede the role of Russian Jews in the
Russian Revolution and the murder of the Czar's family. While scholarly
journals discuss the Jewish role in the Soviet security apparatus before the
end of WW2, no inkling of the Soviet Jewish role in mass murder, ethnic
cleansing and genocide is allowed to reach the general public. Such facts would
interfere with the Zionist legitimization narrative which requires European
Jews to be innocent powerless victims of the German Nazis, and reasonable
people would drawn the obvious analogy between Soviet Ashkenazi and Zionist
Ashkenazi ethnic cleansing or genocidalism.
Only
occasionally does accurate depiction of Zionist ethnic cleansing in 1947-8 ever
reach the American public, and descriptions of the start of the 1967 war — even
on NPR — still include descriptions of the movement ("barreling") of
Egyptian tanks through Sinai to attack Israel.
Roman
Catholics according to statistical analysis are less sympathetic. It is
intriguing that practically every time the Boston Globe runs a story
that features a Catholic cleric expressing a criticism of Israel, within
approximately a week, it also runs a story about a Catholic cleric sex scandal
sometimes featuring events from as much as 25 years ago as if to provide some
crude sort of "balance" that even CAMERA and HonestReporting do not
advocate. It is an often-unconscious behavior more often associated with
an angry ethnic press, and it may be significant
The
Boston Globe does not seem particularly different from other important
newspapers.
Other
content in the US shows similar tendencies. One expects the film or novel Exodus
to demonize Palestinians, but movies like Bright Lights, Big City, Time
After Time, and Oh God, You Devil! do as well. (See http://members.aol.com/thorsprovoni/history/naaplecture.htm#_ftnref54.)
Vincent
Brook discusses Jews on TV in Something Ain't Kosher Here, The Rise of the
"Jewish" Sitcom. He correctly identifies some aspects of trends in
Jewish representations, but he misses the real story in which early Jewish
trends conformed to the project of assimilating Jews to American society and
making non-Jews comfortable with Jewish neighbors. Gradually, the TV sitcoms
switch first to the project of assimilating non-Jewish society to
various Jewish (really ethnic Ashkenazi) social-cultural norms like
female dominance in relationships, female breadwinners, early sexual
initiation, sexual ambiguity and serial polygamy and then to the project of creating
non-Jewish comfort with the blending of Jews into the dominant elite. Because
the Hollywood Crowd are subjected to the same ongoing Israel advocacy
activities as other Americans, the writers for the most post incorporate
the State of Israel into everyday American culture and American civic religion
as part of the scripts and thereby reinforce ongoing Israel advocacy projects.
American
Jews reinforce the lessons of Israel education for themselves with a whole
class of Israel or Jewish oriented novels (written by authors like Naomi Ragen,
Herman Wouk, Leon Uris, Meyer Levin, and Elspeth Baker), comic books, or
other literature, where one expects to find Zionist or Jewish prejudices,
but another possibly larger class of writing responding to Zionist indoctrination
contains all sorts of subliminal Israel advocacy, sliming of Palestinians,
Arabophobia or Islamophobia.
Paul
Anderson provides a fairly typical and subtle example of subliminal
Zionist propaganda in The High Crusade, which is a science
fiction novel that reinforces the inevitability of an Israeli Imperium on
Earth. Here is a typical example from Keith Laumer’s 1964 science fiction
novel, entitled A Plague of Demons (pp 127-128 in the 1965 Pocket Books
version, approximately p. 76 in the online RFT version). (See http://www.webscription.net/10.1125/Baen/0743435885/A_Plague_of_Demons.rtf.) The book connects the State of Israel with
the American icon Benjamin Franklin.
"What's the Ultimax Group?"
"An elite inner circle organization, international in scope, privately financed, comprising one hundred and fourteen individuals selected on the basis of superior intellectual endowment, advanced specialist training, emotional stability, and other factors."
"For what purpose?"
"To monitor trends in the Basic Survival Factors, and to take such
steps as may be required to maintain a favorable societal survival ratio."
"I never heard of them. How long have they been operating?"
"Two hundred and seventy-one years."
"My God! Who started it?"
"The original Committee included Benjamin
Franklin, George Loffitt, Danilo Moncredi, and Cyril St. Claire."
…
"That's that," I said. "Tell me more about this Ultimax Group.
What's it been doing these past couple of hundred years?"
"It contributed materially to the success of the American War of
Independence, the defeat of the Napoleonic Empire, the consolidation of the
Italian and German nations, the emergence of Nippon, the defeat of the Central
Powers in the First Engagement of the European War, and of the Axis Powers in
the Second Engagement, and the establishment of the
State of Israel. It supported the space effort . . ."
I was beginning to feel a little ragged now; the first fine glow was fading. I listened to the voice for another half-hour, while it told me all about the little-known facts of history; then I dismissed it and took another nap.
The
comic book Stormwatch: Team Achilles like many others emphasized the
categorical and moral imperative to do anything and everything to wage the War
on Terror according to Israeli or Neoconservative principles.
At
this point the Zionist equation of Arabs or Muslims with terrorists is so
embedded in popular culture that people with no connection to the American
Jewish community see terrorist financing in Arab or Muslim investments in
American companies and denounce innocuous companies like Ptech, Dubai
Portsworld or Arab financed investment fund management companies.
Pro-Israel
vulture capitalists in media benefit from a similar phenomenon. As soon as
potential advertisers learn that a pro-Israel investor has acquired a
newspaper, their marketers discover a need to place adds to generate good will
or for some other purpose. Eventually the newspaper enters the black. The
vulture capitalist cashes in. New investors, who are perhaps not so pro-Israel,
may lose revenue especially if editorial or Middle East coverage changes. The
newspaper enters the red, and the vulture cycle can continue a few more times
until Murdoch or some similar investor like CanWest incorporates it into an
almost certainly pro-Israel media empire.
Ultimate Results
The
changes that Israel lobbying and advocacy projects have introduced into
American society are devastating as Zionists have attempted to control American
discourse and have warped economic relations because the USA and Arab or Muslim
countries.
Israel
advocates try to control what books are available for Americans to read and
have run campaigns against The Scar of David by Susan Abulhawa, A
Little Piece of Ground by Elizabeth Laird, Dreaming of Palestine
by Randa Ghazi, and Overcoming Zionism by Joel Kovel. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/05/lobby-activities-its-just-frggin-novel_28.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/zionist-attack-on-pluto-press.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/08/making-sure-americans-hear-only-one.html.)
US
political debate is being reduced either to arguments whether Muslim Americans show
loyalty by taking an oath of office on the Quran as happened in the case of Ken
Ellison or to tests of loyalty Israel as happened in the cases of Findley,
McKinney and Percy.
Through
the Israel on Campus Coalition, the Israeli Consulates and Embassy are
orchestrating censorship campaigns throughout
American universities often with the aid of freelancers like former
Harvard President Lawrence Summers. (http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/09/boycotts-and-priniples-of-academia.html.)
The
same groups and individuals are trying to enforce indoctrination of American
students with Zionist mythology from kindergarten through university level
by means of Holocaust Education programs generally developed in Israel.
The
hyper-wealthy Zionist elite is trying to create Israel Studies programs in
which only Zionistically correct scholars will teach while stealth and overt
Israel advocacy groups and individuals attempt to drive any scholars critical
of Zionism from American education. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/09/jacob-lassner-and-nadia-abu-el-haj.html.)
Nadia
Abu el Haj, Finkelstein, Arun Gandhi, Massad, Dabashi, Saliba, Debby
Almontaser (Khalil Gibran International Academy, New York City) and many
others have been subjected to such attacks. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/11/zionism-penisism-and-joseph-massad.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/02/arun-gandhi-and-sholem-aleichem.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/12/conspiracy-against-rights-in-nyc.html.)
The attempt to prevent Arab and Muslim Americans from working at universities and other educational institutions looks like a form of conspiracy against rights. As Arabs and Muslims become a larger part of the American population, Israel Lobbying and Advocacy groups and individuals like the David Project or Joe Kaufman (Chairman of Americans Against Hate, the founder of CAIR Watch, and the spokesman for Terror-Free Oil Initiative) are so desperate to prevent any rational discussion of the conflict over Palestine that they have engaged in similar conspiracies against rights both
·
to prevent American Muslims from freely assembling to practice
their religion and also
·
to stop Arab and Muslim Americans from giving charity to
Palestinians.
The
standard modus operandi of conspirators has involved scare mongering
and defamation, which has long been a specialty of Abraham Foxman and the
ADL as well as of David Harris and the American Jewish Committee.
These organizations and more specialized Israel Lobbying organizations like the
Genocide Information Network are afraid of losing control of genocide discourse
for fear that Americans might realize as a result of efforts like the
Somerville Divestment Project that the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which is
the Nakba or the Holoexaleipsis (the Great Erasure), is a unique and
perhaps the archetypal genocide. If such a realization became common
among Americans, it would undermine US support for Israel. Campaigns like
the ADL's "No Place for Hate" and attempts to thwart recognition of
the Armenian Genocide make rational discussion of genocide in America
practically impossible. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-jewish-genocide-denial.html.)
Altogether
Israel Lobbying efforts are grinding down American Constitutional rights and
Israelizing society to the point where the American political system is under
attack by a wide-ranging seditious conspiracy, and the side-effect of
Islamophobic and Arabophobic incitement against Arab or Muslim investments or
university contributions or charitable donations, is discouraging the flow of
capital from Saudia and the Gulf when the US economy most desperately needs
such liquidity.
Even
if American gets over the current economic crisis, the alliance with Israel at
this point has probably cost every current US taxpayer at least $10,000.00, and
the costs at this point are rising at least geometrically thanks to
Neocon-orchestrated policies.
Fighting Back to Save America
Pointing
out the cost of Israel to each and every American is a good starting point to
counteract Israel lobbying and advocacy.
The
Zionism of Christian evangelical fundamentalists is part of generational
program of Jabotinskians but is not particularly deep. Obviously, Rapturists do
not care much about the cost of Israel to America, but Christian Zionism can be
fought by scriptural disputation, by questioning the patriotism of
its leaders and by exposing surreptitious Jewish funding and
organizing. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2007/04/linguistics-islam-and-beatitudes.html,
http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/01/islamic-marcionism-in-malaysia.html.)
In
other areas Israel advocates have had so much success because in today's
America Jews play by a set of rules completely different from all other
Americans, and even not particularly Zionist Jews have no real incentive to
challenge the system, when renders them
At
the college level, the International Hillel Society acts like a
junior auxiliary to the KKK by running racist programs like Taglit/Birthright
Israel and by hosting extremist speakers that incite murder and genocide
against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims or deny that they are human.
Jewish
organizations, no matter how much they campaign against laws and candidates,
get a completely pass of the rules and regulations of 501(c)(3) organizations.
The tax fraud probably reaches tens of billions of dollars at this point.
Not
just Jewish organizations are enmeshed in the tax fraud; the Harvard Kennedy
School of Government Wexner Israel Fellowship Program (not the Wexner Israel
Heritage Fellowship program) violates the principles of Bob Jones vs. USA. (See
http://www.acluprocon.org/SupCtCases/398Bob.htm,
, http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=461&invol=574.)
(The Wexner
Foundation > Wexner Israel Fellowship > General Information and Awards,
http://www.wexnerfoundation.org/Default.aspx?tabid=84)
Established
in 1989, The Wexner Israel Fellowship Program represents a unique and important
partnership between The Wexner Foundation and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. Each year, up to ten
outstanding Israeli public officials are funded to pursue a Master Degree in
Public Administration at the Kennedy School and to participate in a set of
leadership institutes sponsored by the Foundation itself. The goal of the
program is to provide Israel's next generation of public leaders with advanced
training in public management and leadership development, thus enhancing the
quality of democracy and the institutional vitality of Israel's public sector.
Wexner Israel fellows find themselves at the hub of both the university-wide
program in public policy and the Kennedy School's faculty, curriculum,
students, and research centers. Consequently, they encounter a rich environment
conducive to reflection and dialogue about Israel's policy challenges and the
diverse leadership strategies that could address those challenges. Wexner
Israel Fellows are awarded a Mid-Career Master in Public Administration (MC/MPA)
upon successful completion of the academic year.
As
is frequently pointed out in the Hebrew press, the Israeli public sector
is highly discriminatory against non-Jews. This fellowship lets the racism of
Israeli society exclude non-Jews (in 19 years only two non-Jews have
participated even though depending on how one counts somewhere between 20-30%
of Israeli citizens are non-Jews. Fellowship meetings are held at the Harvard
Hillel. Fellows take part in programs at synagogues. It does not provide a particularly
friendly environment to Israeli Palestinians with any sort of self-esteem, and
one must wonder whether exclusion of residents of the Occupied Territories is
really legitimate after 60 years of racist Jewish domination.
Obviously,
Harvard is sponsoring a racist Jewish fellowship. The fellowship documents at
the KSG websites indicate that fellows will establish personal relationships
with current or future US government officials so that 10 to 15 years in
the future, the decisions of US bureaucrats and leaders will be tainted by
personal issues (Wexner's unstated goal).
This
program should put Harvard University's status as a tax-deductible 501(c)(3)
institution in jeopardy. Why should Harvard be allowed to engage in racist
practices that forced Bob Jones University to lose its 501(c)(3) status? The
program has run for 19 years, and one must wonder how many American
universities are similarly sponsoring Jewish racism.[6]
The
Jack Abramoff case indicates that many SEC, FEC, and terrorism related violations
are very much Israel-related; yet, according to newspaper reports no
investigators are looking into aspect of ongoing criminality. It looks like US
government officials are engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct justice or some
other similar violation. There are major equal protection issues in the ongoing
government persecution of Muslim charities without comparable investigation of
Jewish charities that are supporting Zionist terrorism, ethnic cleansing,
crimes against humanity and war crimes.
The US government also appears to have no interest in prosecuting violations against rights when the victims are Muslim communities that want to build Mosques or are Arab and Muslim American university professors or Arab school principals.
The
Functions Manual: Criminal Division of the DOJ (http://www.usdoj.gov/jmd/mps/manual/crm.htm)
says the following on the Office of Special Investigations.
Special
investigations - since its creation in 1979, the Office of Special
Investigations has been responsible for detecting, investigating, and taking
legal action to denaturalize and/or deport persons who took part in
Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution committed abroad during the period 1933-45
and, since
December 2004, also for detecting, investigating, and taking legal action to
denaturalize persons who participated abroad in acts of genocide or in acts of
torture or extrajudicial killings committed under color of foreign law.
As
far as I know the OSI has investigated neither for Jews involved in
Soviet torture, extrajudicial killings, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, or
genocide nor for Jews involved in revenge killings or torture
after the defeat of Nazi Germany nor for Jews involved in pre-state Zionist or
Israeli torture, mass murder, ethnic cleansing, genocide, or extra-judicial
killings.[7]
Yet both Polish and also Lithuanian prosecutors have indicted or
investigated Israeli Jews for such crimes. (See http://tinyurl.com/25zwfp for discussion
of a Lithuanian case.)
Is
there some sort of equal protection violation in the possibly selective
prosecution of someone like Zajanckauskas
To US, Vladas Zajanckauskases of Sutton is a war criminal;
to his family, he is a good man (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/09/29/two_faces_of_a_wwii_case/)
Source:
Boston Globe | Date: Sep 29, 2007 | By: Linda Matchan
...would
make him the oldest person ever deported as a result of an investigation by the
Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations.
To OSI officials, this is a story of justice served, a textbook case of a Nazi
collaborator who managed...
or
Henss?
Federal officials say 85-year-old Lawrenceville man was WWII
Nazi concentration camp guard (http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2007/10/01/nazi_1002_web.html?cxntnid=bn_2007-10-01_12_33_id306_e)
According Justice Department and Homeland
Security officials, Paul Henss, an 85-year-old German citizen living in
Gwinnett County, guarded prisoners "at the notorious Dachau and Buchenwald
Concentration Camps in Nazi Germany."
According
to Wikipedia, Congressman Rahm Emanuel's father, the Jerusalem-born
pediatrician Benjamin M. Emanuel, was a member of the Irgun, a Zionist
paramilitary terrorist organization that committed mass murder, ethnic
cleansing, genocide, terrorism, and extra-judicial killings. So far OSI has
undertaken neither investigation nor legal action against either Benjamin
Emanuel or the multitudes of similar Zionist or Soviet Ashkenazi immigrants
with similar criminal backgrounds.
Does
the OSI only prosecute non-Jews? Can non-Jewish Eastern Europeans or
Palestinians receive any justice from the US DOJ?
Neutralizing
Israel lobbying and advocacy groups will be extremely difficult without a push
for the US government to enforce laws equally for Jews and non-Jews. Then once
a good part of the American public realizes that Israel is a terror
state, the USA will be forced to apply anti-terror laws apply and seize
assets of organized Jewish community along with those of Zionist billionaires
as terrorism supporters just as Islamic charities have been stripped of
their funds.
•Until the US government
begins to enforce laws equitably, activists will have to research real estate
transactions[8] and
investigate who is paying for Israel advocacy programs.
They
will have to put together a who’s who of Zionist subversion in the
USA.
To
change the consciousness of Americans, activists must fight American Holocaust
religion and work for recognition
Activists will have to challenge American Jews
socially at interfaith activities, community events and elsewhere. They must
demand clarification of Jewish loyalties and force Jewish leaders to
acknowledge
Activists need to make effort to
counter Israel advocacy and Holocaust studies at the high school and even
grammar school levels. They need to work for coordination among
anti-Zionist Arab American, Muslim American, genuinely anti-Israel Jewish
American, conservative, liberal, and other religious (especially Catholic)
groups.
Eventually, activists must work to create
Palestinian-sympathetic or Palestinian POV Hollywood-style cinema for American
audiences. (See http://members.aol.com/ThorsProvoni/NewTwoWeddings.pdf,
http://members.aol.com/ThorsProvoni/twoweeks.pdf
for proof of concept.)
Yet,
as cold as it is to state, the real issue is not Palestine.
Unless
they are neutralized, Israel lobbying groups, Israel advocates, Zionists,
Neoconservatives, and Friedmanites will steal America and effectively
abolish the Constitution in all but name to create a society of servitude
for all Americans except for those belonging to the hyper-wealthy
transnational Zionist political elite.
[1] Finkelstein has pointed out that supporting Israel
is justifiable as a matter of foreign policy because Israel provides a stable
base from which the USA can project its power, but the Zionist state is not
obviously so much more stable than its neighbors, whose major internal threats
to stability often in any case relate to the existence of the State of Israel.
Since the stability of the oil-producing states is a major interest of the USA,
the benefits of the possibly slightly greater stability of Israel as a US base
vis-à-vis Jordan or Egypt are negligible if they even really exist.
[2] Jewish cliques in Interfaith Action groups that
undertake genuine charity work are less likely to misuse the forum, but the
organized Jewish community has used international interfaith action in the
Sudan as a vehicle to control genocide discourse and to defame Arabs or
Muslims. Mohammad Abu-Nimer has studied dialogue and conflict resolution
between Arabs and Jews in the Israeli context. (See Dialogue,
Conflict Resolution, and Change: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Israel by Mohammad Abu-Nimer). As in American dialogues
between Christians and Jews or between Muslims or Arabs and Jews there rarely
is a meeting of minds, and Jewish participants tend to attempt to establish
personal relations to impede any serious discussion or action on genuine
injustices. From the standpoint of non-Jewish participants such interactions
rarely seem to produce much in the way of change in the Jewish participants.
(See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/01/followup-natalie-portmans-genocidal.html.)
[3] Lots of Jewish doctors in the Boston area are
important participants in Zionist activities or contributors therein. HMS
instructor Dr. Kenneth Levin, to whose extra-curricular activities former
President Summers did not object, often works with the David Project and helps
facilitate Zionist projects in the Harvard Medical School area. (See http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=%7BF66256B6-688A-45AE-9252-CF9758750035%7D.)
[4] Just consider the sequence
of films, Goodbye, Columbus, Elaine May’s original version of The
Heartbreak Kid, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Farrelly Brothers’
remake of The Heartbreak Kid, and Waitress.
The book Goodbye,
Columbus was a rather acerbic investigation of Jewish assimilation and
cultural norms in sexual relationships. The movie toned down the Jewishness (Yiddishkeyt)
of the story (part of the assimilation project), but hints of Jewish difference
and discomfort were still there. [Nowadays Rabbi Cooper of the Wiesenthal
Center certifies movies for Jewish acceptability, but in the past some sort of
informal consensus mechanism was probably operative.]
The
Heartbreak Kid (EM)
pokes some fun at stereotypes as it depicts a Jewish invasion of the gentile
elite.
In Desperately
Seeking Susan the Jewish suburbanites, who are fairly casually but blandly
promiscuous, are clearly wealthier than the gentile Susan and her friends, who
express the goyish animalistic passion for which the Jewish Roberta
longs.
Today,
Gentile-Jewish tensions are passé. Even though Eddy Kantrow, who is the male
protagonist of The Heartbreak Kid (FB) is still Jewish albeit less
obviously than Lenny Kantrow of the EM version, the Farrelly Brothers and
Spielberg wrote out the Jewish-Gentile conflict theme. Eddy is no longer a
young shlep selling sporting goods but is the established 40-something
proprietor of a sporting goods store.
The story,
which now begins in San Francisco instead of New York, is on the whole gayer
and more misogynistic than the original. One could sympathize much more with
the younger Lenny Kantrow even when he is lying at a mile at minute because he
is a fool for love. In the same situation, Eddy Kantrow seems at best a shmuck
and more often simply predatory.
Miranda,
who replaces Kelly Corcoran of the original, and her family are offended that
Eddy tried to pick up Miranda during his honeymoon, but eventually Miranda
dumps her husband to seek out Eddy, who responds and apparently intends to dump
his second wife. It is a fairly nasty reprise of the sort of serial polygamy
that characterized Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazi culture with none of the
mitigating circumstances associated with early marriage and a high level of
family pressure.
In
Adrienne Shelly’s Waitress, which is exceptionally hostile to men, there
are no Jewish characters, but the Southern gentiles now have the New York
Jewish morality associated with Sex and the City, and after an affair
that gives her self-confidence, the heroine dumps her husband to start her own
business. The movie represented the final assimilation of American non-Jews to
Jewish norms, and it received rave reviews.
It was
interesting that the movie had the triple Goddess subtheme that was present in
the movie Enemies, A Love Story, which was adapted from Sonim, A
Geshikht fun a Lieb by Isaac Bashevis Singer. (See http://eaazi.blogspot.com/2008/01/connecting-hanukkah-christmas-and-idu-l.html.)
Probably accidentally, Waitress is a sort of inversion of Judah Leon
Gordon’s poem Kozo shel yod, which is loosely translated as “The Dot on
the ‘I.’” This poetic satire tells the story of a Jewish woman and her
inadequate husband. Her problem results from the strictures of Rabbinical law
(Halakhah), which can be quite barbaric in some marital situations.
[5] I grew up with the story
that the first Chabad Rebbe Shneur Zalman of Liadi chose to support the Russian Czar over
Napoleon, who would have brought ideas from the Enlightenment to the Czarist
Empire.
[6] In the case of the Harvard Wexner Israel Fellowship, Wexner is the culprit that set up Harvard and its donors to commit tax fraud. He should be culpable for tax code infractions and conspiracy. His Wexner Heritage Foundation has been instrumental in providing fellowships at American universities to Israelis that have routinely engaged in war crimes and terrorism against Palestinians. The Foundation should be shut down and its assets seized for providing material assistance to terrorism. As supporting Zionist terrorism was the purpose of the Foundation, all of Wexner’s assets should also be seized and Wexner should be arrested and sent to Guantanamo or a similar facility where he can be interrogated according to Dershowitzian principles to discover the extent of his conspiracy against the American legal and Constitutional system.
[7] Here is article 2 from
the international Convention on Genocide (http://www.hrweb.org/legal/genocide.html)
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following
acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical,
racial or religious group, as such:
(a)
Killing members of the group;
(b)
Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c)
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d)
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e)
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Items a, b, and c have applied to Palestine
since racist Eastern European Ashkenazim began to invade Palestine for the
purpose of stealing it from the native population at the end of the 19th
century. Genocidal Zionist intent against the native population of Palestine
can be traced back as far as 1882 as the following citation from Professor
Joel Kovel on page 45 of Overcoming
Zionism demonstrates.
Thus
Vladimir Dubnow, in 1882: "The ultimate goal is, in time, to take over the
Land of Israel and to restore to the Jews the political independence they have
been deprived of for these two thousand years ... The Jews will yet arise and,
arms in hand (if need be), declare that they are the masters of their ancient
homeland."