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December
03, 2003
The Entangling American Alliance With
Israel: More of the American Right Catches On
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by Mark Dankof for Al Bawaba
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American Neo-Conservative War Party, in firm control of both major
political parties in the United States, is getting increasingly and
obviously more desperate. The transparent desperation comes in the wake of
plummeting opinion polls about Mr. Bush’s preemptive war in Iraq. This in
turn is related to brewing public discontent over provably false pre-war
intelligence estimates, skyrocketing war bills, a steady stream of young
American deaths in what is demonstrably now an urban guerrilla war in
Baghdad, the ongoing public exposure of the crooked character of no-bid
contract awards and accompanying war profiteering by the President’s
friends in entrenched places like Halliburton Oil and Bechtel, and insane
suggestions by key Administration advisors that an expansion of the
preemptive war doctrine may soon include Syria and Iran.
The
desperation is also due to the increasing inability of Mr. Bush and his
Israeli-affiliated advisors to quash the free flow of information in an
Internet age. Where once the denizens of the New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and The New
Republic could insure a mainstream Left-Right War Party consensus on
American Empire and Israel through the control and manipulation of
disseminated news, their Information Monolith has become an increasing
casualty of citizen accessibility to responsible domestic and
international data and op-ed pieces which shed light upon what was an aura
of darkness.
The most recent example of the shedding of light and
the absence of the Emperor’s clothing occurred this week in two articles
covering a story with the potential to sear the War Party even further.
The British Guardian’s November 22nd story by Jamie Doward and
Jessica Hodgson entitled, "Pentagon Bankers May Bail Out [Conrad] Black:
‘Ex-Presidents Club’ [Carlyle Group] Ready to Throw Lifeline to Embattled
Telegraph Owner," and Justin Raimondo’s Antiwar.com op-ed piece entitled,
"Conrad Black and the Corruption of Empire: The War Party–They’re Thieves
As Well as Liars," both reveal the ominous triangular alliance of Mr.
Bush’s Neo-Conservative Chicken Hawks with military-related contractors
and the ever-present Israeli Lobby at a time when a trusting consensus in
the President and his preemptive war policies is coming apart like a cheap
suit.
The story is fraught with implications. Lord Conrad Black,
the recently deposed CEO of Hollinger International, Inc. and continued
owner of the British Telegraph, was forced to step down at
Hollinger after pocketing $7.2 million in unauthorized pay, not including
millions in payments to Black’s front companies for "management services."
Hollinger’s stockholders are demanding a company investigation. The
Security and Exchange Commission is also involved.
But far more
than Conrad Black’s criminal exposure is involved in the Hollinger affair,
whose newspaper portfolio includes the Likudnik Jerusalem Post.
Justin Raimondo reminds readers at Antiwar.com that Chief Neo-Con adviser
to George Bush and Israeli asset, Richard Perle, is a Board Member of
Hollinger and the head of Hollinger Digital, the company’s venture capital
arm---which in turn has invested $2.5 million in Trireme Partners, a
subsidiary seeking to cash in on defense contracts and the Homeland
Security buildup. Hollinger International also invested $14 million in an
outfit called Hillman Capital, whose managing partner, Gerald Hillman, is
not only a Perle partner at Trireme, but a fellow colleague at the
infamous Defense Policy Board. It is this latter American national
security conclave where the interests of defense contractors and assets of
the Ariel Sharon regime in Israel intersect in the Pentagon board’s
individual and collective membership.
As Raimondo puts it, the
Hollinger media combine is a ". . .particularly muscular tentacle of the
Neo-Con media octopus. . .its demise would mark a great setback for the
War Party." There is a corollary to this truism: the demise of Hollinger
would not simply be a setback for the agitprop tentacles of the War Party,
but a potential takedown of much more than the personage of Conrad Black.
Who else might go down, criminally as well as politically, and what might
be the subsequent implications for the credibility of American, Israeli,
and British national security and banking elites if the takedown occurs in
the light of day?
Key chessplayers with concealed hands may be
attempting to arrange the pieces on the board to insure that the answers
remain hidden in the darkness. The infamous Carlyle Group, linked to Bush
and Bin Laden family investments, American defense contractors and oil
consortiums, central bankers and Likudniks, has now stepped forward to
indicate a possible interest in rescuing Hollinger International. The
November 22nd Guardian story quotes a Carlyle source as indicating that:
1) the sum of the arrangement would be a removal of Conrad Black from
management, but not his equity stake; 2) a Carlyle investment sum that
could be as much as a 40% ownership of Hollinger; and 3) a provision for
Carlyle to name new members to the Hollinger Board of Directors. Black
must be rejoicing in a proposed arrangement which allows him to keep the
dough, stay on this side of the law and jail, and maintain the protective
covering of a management umbrella comprised of heavyweights John Major,
George Herbert Walker Bush, James Baker, Frank Carlucci, Henry
Kissinger—and Richard Perle. One suspects that Mr. Black’s membership in
the secretive, globalist Bilderberg group, mentioned in the Guardian
account, would also remain intact.
What does not remain intact is
the credibility of Mr. Bush and his top advisors about the moral and
political rationale for war in Iraq. Especially problematic for the
President--and for the Israeli Lobby’s agents in both the Executive and
Legislative Branches of the American government--is the exposure of a
widening breach in the electorate generally, and on the starboard side of
the political spectrum in the United States specifically, when it comes to
the questions of Oil, Empire, and Israel as legitimate grounds for the
expenditure of American lives. The vetting this week of the deeper
implications of a Carlyle-Hollinger International, Inc. business
partnership simply heightens this developing gulf, much to the chagrin of
both George W. Bush and Ariel Sharon.
William Kristol’s The
Weekly Standard, William F. Buckley’s National Review, Joseph Farah’s
pro-Israel Internet site World Net Daily, and the tel-evangelists of the
Dispensational Christian lobby will continue to march to the drumbeats of
more preemptive war, more military intervention, and more death on behalf
of oil pipelines and Sharon’s occupation policies on the West Bank and
Gaza. But other winds on the American Right have begun to blow in the
opposite direction. These winds gather with increasing speed and resolve,
in a desire to restore the Old Republic while avoiding planetary
apocalypse and American policy paths designed to revisit the tragedies of
the Roman and British Empires past. They include Patrick J. Buchanan’s The
American Conservative; Clayton R. Douglas’s The Free American; Jon Basil
Utley’s Americans Against World Empire; Eric Garris’s Antiwar.com;
LewRockwell.com; Robert Higgs’s The Independent Review; and the powerful,
yet theologically reflective essays of Catholic commentator Joseph Sobran.
The plot thickens. Stay tuned.
(Mark Dankof is an
Internet news commentator and book reviewer for Uncensored News and Views.
A past candidate for the United States Senate in Delaware in 2000, he is a
Lutheran pastor and post-graduate student of systematic theology at
Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia. His own web site, Mark
Dankof’s America, contains many articles and items of interest, including
the recently completed 14 chapter manuscript A Summer of a Thousand
Nights: From Tehran to Susa.)
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