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2004-09-13 01:05 | User Profile

Jeffrey Blankfort

Introduction

When Malaysian Prime Minister Mathahir Mohammed declared at an international Islamic Conference in Kuala Lumpur in mid-October, 2003 that "today the Jews rule the world by proxy [and] They get others to fight and die for them,[1] the reactions in the U.S. and the West were predictable.

It was "a speech that was taken right out of the Protocols of Zion," according to one Israeli commentator[2], and Mathahir would be accused of imitating Hitler and insuring that "Muslims around the world are similarly being fed a regular diet of classic big lies about Jewish power.[3]

Big lies? Given Israel's unchecked dominion over the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors over the past half century, supported in every way possible by the United States, one can assume that Muslims, not to mention intelligent non-Muslims, have no need for additional instruction as to the extent of Jewish power. As further proof of its existence, if such were needed, there would be no attempt to measure the Malaysian prime minister's words against the reality of the times to determine if there was anything accurate in his assessment.

If Mathahir could be accused of anything, it would be of being sloppy historically and using too broad a brush. The Jews, as such, control nothing. A segment of American Jewry, however, has been able, with few exceptions, to shape U.S. Middle East policy since the mid-Sixties. Given America's position as a major world power, and now its only superpower, that is not a small achievement.

Over the years, that segment, the organized American Jewish community - in short, the Israel lobby - has amassed unparalleled political power through skillfully combining the wealth of its members[4] with its extraordinary organizational skills to achieve what amounts to a corporate takeover of the U.S. Congress and virtual veto power over the presidency.

There is virtually no sector of the American body politic that has been immune to the lobby's penetration. That its primary goal has not been to improve the security and well-being of the United States or the American people, but to advance the interests of a foreign country, namely Israel, may be debated, but it was acknowledged, in part, more than a dozen years ago by Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), who complained to an annual conference of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council that "There's only one issue members [of Congress] think is important to American Jews - Israel."[5]

It was no secret that Israel had long been interested in eliminating the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and redrawing the map of the Middle East to enhance its power in the region.[6] Initiating that undertaking became a task for key individuals in and around the White House with deep roots in right-wing Israeli politics. The attack on the World Trade Center supplied the opportunity. That Iraq had nothing to do with it was immaterial. The lobby's propaganda apparatus would make the American people believe otherwise.

The first step has been completed. Saddam Hussein has been removed, not by Israel, but by the U.S. and its "coalition of the willing." From the perspective of the Israelis and, one must assume, the lobby, it is better that American and foreign soldiers do the shedding of blood, Iraqi and their own, rather than those of Israel, the world's fourth ranked military power. Such an accusation will most assuredly draw cries of "blood libel" from the likes of the Anti-Defamation League, but it is a conclusion that one can readily draw from the facts. The degree to which the present Iraq situation, as well as the first Gulf War, can be attributed to efforts of key individuals and the major Jewish organizations that constitute the lobby is what this article will examine.*

*The lobby¹s existence and power well predate its alliance with what may be called its Christian fundamentalist auxiliary, which has given it unprecedented influence over both Congress and the White House.

[url=http://www.leftcurve.org/LC28WebPages/WarForIsrael.html] A War for Israel (whole article)[/url]

londo

2004-09-13 04:28 | User Profile

Was Iraq Invaded to Secure Israel: Another Fiction in a Game with Hidden Objectives?

By Warren Hastings

09/11/04 "ICH" -- Comments this year, by Sen. Hollings and retired Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Zinni, and latterly everyone, publicising the “open secret” among Washington insiders, that Iraq was invaded to secure Israel, unfortunately helps promote a fiction planted to cover the real motivation. I don’t doubt their sincerity in raising the alarm, but in my view they have been fooled along with the rest. Of course, Hollings and Zinni were immediately subjected to the usual slander, which had the effect of confirming their comments as true, which was probably the intended effect.

The neo-conservative Zionists have tricked the US political establishment with the idea that the invasion of Iraq was to secure Israel by way of democracy for the Arabs; peace in Palestine via Baghdad, and all that nonsense. This could not be further from the truth. As students of the verbiage merchant Leo Strauss they know the importance of lying, not only lies, but lies within lies; lies for the public and a different lie for the politicians. They are highly duplicitous and cunning subversives.

Invade Iraq to secure Israel. What from? It is a military superpower armed to the teeth with every weapon known to man. It certainly wasn’t threatened by Saddam’s ramshackle dictatorship, contained as it was by a sanctions regime of mediaeval ferocity. To convert Iraq to a prosperous and stable democracy; to act as a beacon state for democratic reforms in the wider Middle East? That will be the day. The last thing Israel wants is democracy and prosperity for the Arabs; that would cancel most of their plans. They would much prefer the Arabs to do a re-run of the Stone Age.

American and Israeli aims diverge. The US would like a Middle East of servant governments, pumping cheap oil, with wide open markets. Israel, on the other hand, would prefer to visit the four horsemen of the apocalypse on the region, especially in the direction of Central Asia. There is no way to reconcile the contradictions of neo-con policy, pronouncement, and outcome to date, without the conclusion that chaos is the objective. Why? From chaos a greater Israel may emerge.

Gaming with America as a wager. The motivation behind the Iraqi adventure can be understood as a game with hidden objectives. (Game theory is a favourite subject of Israeli strategists.) The objective is not to achieve the publicly stated aims; the goal is to lengthen the war and raise the stakes for America, to the extent that failure and retreat will be a national disaster. Policies of confusion and tension have been essential to the plan. The Iraqi administrative centres were deliberately smashed by aerial bombing, and, after the primary conflict was over, arsonists were employed to finish the job. In addition to abolishing many government ministries, the CPA also abolished the army and police, in a move guaranteed to maximise lawlessness and public disorder. Abolishing the army was a particularly effective way of creating a reservoir of recruits for the resistance, and that was the intention.

British observers probably wonder why Israeli urban warfare tactics are being used instead of British Army tactics. The British Army has a wealth of experience in defusing urban conflict and the Basra experience has proven it. Israeli tactics, on the other hand, include a political component - to antagonise, and so fan the fires of hatred. This is their strategy in Palestine. The Pentagon was given the job of “nation building,” and the State Department kept out of the game for as long as possible, until a sustained and effective resistance could be provoked. We are watching the materialisation of an Israeli directed programme for perpetual war. They aim to raise the stakes further by adding Iran and Syria to the game, with the objective that, ultimately, not losing will become a matter of survival for American status, prestige, and prosperity. Not capable of winning, and not losing either, atrocities and chaos can only increase. Thus has Israel yoked America to its infernal plough.

American politics has been hijacked by the Zionist lobby and Sharon openly boasts of controlling Congress. Presidential incumbent Bush and challenger Kerry have both pledged allegiance to Israel as a prerequisite for office. Bush has genuflected to Israel by approving its annexation of occupied territory, in contravention of UN Security Council resolutions. Kerry has been interviewed for the job by the leaders of the fifty largest Jewish organizations, for their stamp of approval. No country other than Israel would dare have its agents give a job interview to a presidential candidate. Senators and Representatives routinely suborn themselves to Israel’s wants, at the expense of US national interest and their taxpaying constituents’ pockets. Any congressman, or woman, who criticises or fails to support Israel, is targeted to lose office. At the least this is political racketeering in support of a foreign government; at worst, treason.

America is in a predicament with no obvious route out. The Zionist lobby, which is really a money-power lobby representing the Israeli interest, knows that the American people cannot be fooled indefinitely, so they are actively engaged in turning America into a domestic surveillance state, to forestall the emergence of threats and the possibility of them losing control over the levers of power. The war on terror fiction provides the excuse. Internal dissent can be dealt with early when there is a file on everyone: careers and personal prosperity can be sabotaged; reputations slandered, and traps laid. Anyone who doubts the power of surveillance should remember how J. Edgar Hoover kept himself in a job by making a file on everyone of importance.

America’s problem gives a lesson for the European democracies, if they don’t want their governments hijacked. Keep Zionist money and lobbyists out of the political process, keep their hands off the levers of policy and power, and keep Israel at arm’s length.

[url=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6891.htm] Found here. [/url]