--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Shocking [to me] list of US/Isreal dual citizenship US Government > officials directly influencing US Policy, both foreign and domestic, > and representing the *hard right* views of Israel's hardliners >
************ This is complete crap. Just because the U.S. citizens listed below are Jewish does not mean that they are dual citizens of Israel and the U.S. -- it's not impossible that one or two of the people listed do have Israeli citizenship, and I'm certainly not going to do the legwork to repudiate this claim, but I'm quite sure that all or nearly all of the people listed only hold citizenship in the U.S., even if they have interests in Israel. The hairball that posted the web site ( http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html ) does not cite where he got his info that there are many people holding dual U.S.-Israeli citizenship and says only that he derived this information from some space case on the web: "Consider the following list that I obtained on the web:", without citing his sources. It's undoubtedly complete bullshit from some Jew-hater. Dual citizenship is common. Our own beloved Bevan is a duallie of Aussie and America, and I know lots of dual Mexico/U.S. folks. There are no exceptions in U.S. law or policy for people holding U.S. and Israeli citizenship (as compared with any other dual nationality of a U.S. citizen). > === > NOTE: > Actual Percentage of Jewish people in the USA: 2.2% > http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/usjewpop.html > > ANOTHER IMPORTANT NOTE: > As a group, American Jews continue to be *STAUNCHLY LIBERAL* . A new > poll shows that 77 percent of American Jews now think that the Iraq > war was a mistake, compared with 52 percent of all Americans. (Jewish > support for the war has collapsed: A poll taken a month before the war > showed that 56 percent of Jews supported it, somewhat below the > national average at that time.) Eighty-seven percent of Jews voted > Democratic in 2006. (emphasis added) > http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2007/03/20/aipac/ > === > > ...The U.S., in its special relationship with Israel, has become very > sympathetic to allowing Israeli-Americans to retain two nationalities > and allowing U.S. citizens not only to hold public office in Israel, > but to hold US government positions as well! No other country holds > this special exception to our laws of citizenship. > > So, you might ask, are there any other dual Israel-American citizens > who hold US government positions that could compromise American > security? Yes. Consider the following list... > > > Michael Mukasey > Recently appointed as US Attorney General. Mukasey also was the judge > in the litigation between developer Larry Silverstein and several > insurance companies arising from the destruction of the World Trade > Center. > > Michael Chertoff > Former Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division, at the > Justice Department; now head of Homeland Security. > > Richard Perle > One of Bush's foreign policy advisors, he is the chairman of the > Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. A very likely Israeli government > agent, Perle was expelled from Senator Henry Jackson's office in the > 1970's after the National Security Agency (NSA) caught him passing > Highly-Classified (National Security) documents to the Israeli > Embassy. He later worked for the Israeli weapons firm, Soltam. Perle > came from one the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktanks, the AEI. > Perle is one of the leading pro-Israeli fanatics leading this Iraq war > mongering within the administration and now in the media. > > Paul Wolfowitz > Former Deputy Defense Secretary, and member of Perle's Defense Policy > Board, in the Pentagon. Wolfowitz is a close associate of Perle, and > reportedly has close ties to the Israeli military. His sister lives in > Israel. Wolfowitz came from the above mentioned Jewish thinktank, > JINSA. Wolfowitz was the number two leader within the administration > behind this Iraq war mongering. He later was appointed head of the > World Bank but resigned under pressure from World Bank members over a > scandal involving his misuse of power. > > Douglas Feith > Under Secretary of Defense and Policy Advisor at the Pentagon. He is a > close associate of Perle and served as his Special Counsel. Like Perle > and the others, Feith is a pro-Israel extremist, who has advocated > anti-Arab policies in the past. He is closely associated with the > extremist group, the Zionist Organization of America, which even > attacks Jews that don't agree with its extremist views. Feith > frequently speaks at ZOA conferences. Feith runs a small law firm, > Feith and Zell, which only has one International office, in Israel. > The majority of their legal work is representing Israeli interests. > His firm's own website stated, prior to his appointment, that Feith > "represents Israeli Armaments Manufacturer." Feith basically > represents the Israeli War Machine. Feith also came from the Jewish > thinktank JINSA. Feith, like Perle and Wolfowitz, are campaigning hard > for this Israeli proxy war against Iraq. > > Lawrence (Larry) Franklin > The former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst with expertise in > Iranian policy issues who worked in the office of Undersecretary of > Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and reported directly to Feith's > deputy, William Luti, was sentenced January 20, 2006, "to more than 12 > years in prison for giving classified information to an Israeli > diplomat" and members of the pro-Israel lobbying group American Israel > Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). > > Franklin will "remain free while the government continues with the > wider case" and his "prison time could be sharply reduced in return > for his help in prosecuting" former AIPAC members Steven J. Rosen and > Keith Weissman, [who] are scheduled to go on trial in April [2006]. > Franklin admitted that he met periodically with Rosen and Weissman > between 2002 and 2004 and discussed classified information, including > information about potential attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. Rosen and > Weissman would later share what they learned with reporters and > Israeli officials." (source: sourcewatch.com). > > Edward Luttwak > Member of the National Security Study Group of the Department of > Defence at the Pentagon. Luttwak is reportedly an Israeli citizen and > has taught in Israel. He frequently writes for Israeli and pro- Israeli > newspapers and journals. Luttwak is an Israeli extremist whose main > theme in many of his articles is the necessity of the U.S. waging war > against Iraq and Iran. > > Henry Kissinger > One of many Pentagon Advisors, Kissinger sits on the Pentagon's > Defense Policy Board under Perle. For detailed information about > Kissinger's evil past, read Seymour Hersch's book (Price of Power: > Kissinger in the Nixon White House). Kissinger likely had a part in > the Watergate crimes, Southeast Asia mass murders (Vietnam, Cambodia, > Laos), Installing Chilean mass murdering dictator Pinochet, Operation > Condor's mass killings in South America, and more recently served as > Serbia's Ex-Dictator Slobodan Milosevic's Advisor. He consistently > advocated going to war against Iraq. Kissinger is the Ariel Sharon of > the U.S. Unfortunately, President Bush nominated Kissinger as chairman > of the September 11 investigating commission. It's like picking a bank > robber to investigate a fraud scandal. He later declined this job > under enormous protests. > > Dov Zakheim > Dov Zakheim is an ordained rabbi and reportedly holds Israeli > citizenship. Zakheim attended Jew's College in London and became an > ordained Orthodox Jewish Rabbi in 1973. He was adjunct professor at > New York's Jewish Yeshiva University. Zakheim is close to the Israeli > lobby. > > Dov Zakheim is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and > in 2000 a co-author of the Project for the New American Century's > position paper, Rebuilding America's Defenses, advocating the > necessity for a Pearl-Harbor-like incident to mobilize the country > into war with its enemies, mostly Middle Eastern Muslim nations. > > He was appointed by Bush as Pentagon Comptroller from May 4, 2001 to > March 10, 2004. At that time he was unable to explain the > disappearance of $1 trillion dollars. Actually, nearly three years > earlier, Donald Rumsfeld announced on September 10, 2001 that an audit > discovered $2.3 trillion was also missing from the Pentagon books. > That story, as mentioned, was buried under 9-11's rubble. The two sums > disappeared on Zakheim's watch. We can only guess where that cash went. > > Despite these suspicions, on May 6, 2004, Zakheim took a lucrative > position at Booz Allen Hamilton, one of the most prestigious strategy > consulting firms in the world. One of its clients then was Blessed > Relief, a charity said to be a front for Osama bin Laden. Booz, Allen > & Hamilton then also worked closely with DARPA, the Defense Advanced > Research Projects Agency, which is the research arm of the Department > of Defense. > > Judicial Inc's bio of Dov tells us Zakheim is a dual Israeli/American > citizen and has been tracking the halls of US government for 25 years, > casting defense policy and influence on Presidents Reagan, Clinton, > Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. Judicial Inc points out that most of Israel's > armaments were gotten thanks to him. Squads of US F-16 and F-15 were > classified military surplus and sold to Israel at a fraction of their > value. > > > Kenneth Adelman > One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sits on the Pentagon's > Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist pro- Israel > advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Adelman frequently > is a guest on Fox News, and often expresses extremist and often > ridiculous anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. Through his racism or > ignorance, he actually called Arabs "anti-Semitic" on Fox News > (11/28/2001), when he could have looked it up in the dictionary to > find out that Arabs by definition are Semites. > > I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby > Vice President Dick Cheney's ex-Chief of Staff. As chief pro-Israel > Jewish advisor to Cheney, it helps explains why Cheney is so gun-ho to > invade Iran. Libby is longtime associate of Wolfowitz. Libby was also > a lawyer for convicted felon and Israeli spy Marc Rich, whom Clinton > pardoned, in his last days as president. Libby was recently found > guilty of lying to Federal investigators in the Valerie Plame affair, > in which Plame, a covert CIA agent, was exposed for political revenge > by the Bush administration following her husband's revelations about > the lies leading to the Iraq War. > > Robert Satloff > U.S. National Security Council Advisor, Satloff was the executive > director of the Israeli lobby's "think tank," Washington Institute for > Near East Policy. Many of the Israeli lobby's "experts" come from this > front group, like Martin Indyk. > > Elliott Abrams > National Security Council Advisor. He previously worked at > Washington-based "Think Tank" Ethics and Public Policy Center. During > the Reagan Administration, Abrams was the Assistant Secretary of > State, handling, for the most part, Latin American affairs. He played > an important role in the Iran-Contra Scandal, which involved illegally > selling U.S. weapons to Iran to fight Iraq, and illegally funding the > contra rebels fighting to overthrow Nicaragua's Sandinista government. > He also actively deceived three congressional committees about his > involvement and thereby faced felony charges based on his testimony. > Abrams pled guilty in 1991 to two misdemeanors and was sentenced to a > year's probation and 100 hours of community service. A year later, > former President Bush (Senior) granted Abrams a full pardon. He was > one of the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Reagan Administration's > State Department. > > Marc Grossman > Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs. He was Director > General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human Resources at the > Department of State. Grossman is one of many of the pro-Israel Jewish > officials from the Clinton Administration that Bush has promoted to > higher posts. > > Richard Haass > Director of Policy Planning at the State Department and Ambassador at > large. He is also Director of National Security Programs and Senior > Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was one of the > more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the first Bush (Sr) Administration who > sat on the National Security Council, and who consistently advocated > going to war against Iraq. Haass is also a member of the Defense > Department's National Security Study Group, at the Pentagon. > > Robert Zoellick > U.S. Trade Representative, a cabinet-level position. He is also one of > the more hawkish pro-Israel Jews in the Bush (Jr) Administration who > advocated invading Iraq and occupying a portion of the country in > order to set up a Vichy-style puppet government. He consistently > advocates going to war against Iran. > > Ari Fleischer > Ex- White House Spokesman for the Bush (Jr) Administration. Prominent > in the Jewish community, some reports state that he holds Israeli > citizenship. Fleischer is closely connected to the extremist Jewish > group called the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidics, who follow the Qabala, and > hold very extremist and insulting views of non-Jews. Fleischer was the > co-president of Chabad's Capitol Jewish Forum. He received the Young > Leadership Award from the American Friends of Lubavitch in October, 2001. > > James Schlesinger > One of many Pentagon Advisors, Schlesinger also sits on the Pentagon's > Defense Policy Board under Perle and is another extremist pro-Israel > advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Schlesinger is also > a commissioner of the Defense Department's National Security Study > Group, at the Pentagon. > > David Frum > White House speechwriter behind the "Axis of Evil" label. He lumped > together all the lies and accusations against Iraq for Bush to justify > the war. > > Joshua Bolten > White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Bolten was previously a banker, > former legislative aide, and prominent in the Jewish community. > > John Bolton > Former UN Representative and Under-Secretary of State for Arms Control > and International Security. Bolton is also a Senior Advisor to > President Bush. Prior to this position, Bolton was Senior Vice > President of the above mentioned pro-Israel thinktank, AEI. He > recently (October 2002) accused Syria of having a nuclear program, so > that they can attack Syria after Iraq. He must have forgotten that > Israel has 400 nuclear warheads, some of which are thermonuclear > weapons (according to a recent U.S. Air Force report). > > David Wurmser > Special Assistant to John Bolton (above), the under-secretary for arms > control and international security. Wurmser also worked at the AEI > with Perle and Bolton. His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, along with Colonel > Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, co-founded > the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),a Washington-based > Israeli outfit which distributes articles translated from Arabic > newspapers portraying Arabs in a bad light. > > Eliot Cohen > Member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board under Perle and is > another extremist pro-Israel advisor. Like Adelman, he often expresses > extremist and often ridiculus anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. More > recently, he wrote an opinion article in the Wall Street Journal > openly admitting his rascist hatred of Islam claiming that Islam > should be the enemy, not terrorism. > > Mel Sembler > President of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. A Prominent > Jewish Republican and Former National Finance Chairman of the > Republican National Committee. The Export-Import Bank facilitates > trade relationships between U.S. businesses and foreign countries, > specifically those with financial problems. > > Steve Goldsmith > Senior Advisor to the President, and Bush's Jewish domestic policy > advisor. He also served as liaison in the White House Office of > Faith-Based and Community Initiatives (White House OFBCI) within the > Executive Office of the President. He was the former mayor of > Indianapolis. He is also friends with Israeli Jerusalem Mayor Ehud > Olmert and often visits Israel to coach mayors on privatization > initiatives. > > Adam Goldman > White House's Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. > > Joseph Gildenhorn > Bush Campaign's Special Liaison to the Jewish Community. He was the DC > finance chairman for the Bush campaign, as well as campaign > coordinator, and former ambassador to Switzerland. > > Christopher Gersten > Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Administration for Children and > Families at HHS. Gersten was the former Executive Director of the > Republican Jewish Coalition, Husband of Labor Secretary. > > Mark Weinberger > Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Public Affairs. > > Samuel Bodman > Deputy Secretary of Commerce. He was the Chairman and CEO of Cabot > Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. > > Bonnie Cohen > Under Secretary of State for Management. > > Ruth Davis > Director of Foreign Service Institute, who reports to the Office of > Under Secretary for Management. This Office is responsible for > training all Department of State staff (including ambassadors). > > Daniel Kurtzer > Ambassador to Israel. > > Cliff Sobel > Ambassador to the Netherlands. > > Stuart Bernstein > Ambassador to Denmark. > > Nancy Brinker > Ambassador to Hungary > > Frank Lavin > Ambassador to Singapore. > > Ron Weiser > Ambassador to Slovakia. > > Mel Sembler > Ambassador to Italy. > > Martin Silverstein > Ambassador to Uruguay. > > Lincoln Bloomfield > Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs. > > Jay Lefkowitz > Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Domestic Policy > Council. > > Ken Melman > White House Political Director. > > Brad Blakeman > White House Director of Scheduling. > > http://www.viewzone.com/dualcitizen.html >