Just how psychotic and self-destructive would the government of Israel, the
Israel lobby and the neocons have to be to declare war against all those
patriotic Americans who have opposed the Iraq War, an Iran War, and all the
other harebrained schemes being hatched in Israel and neocon circles?
Is Israel going to try to use the Department of Homeland Security and Mossad
sayanim to threaten James Baker, Colin Powell, Brent Scowcroft, Jimmy Carter,
Robert Gates, the CIA and the military establishment? Are Walid Phares, the
Bryens and "the JINSA crowd" (Colin Powell's phrase) really going to start
bullying and terrorizing many powerful Americans who are focused on protecting
the American interest?
Can you picture the response from those who have been threatened? Bring it
on, bitches, or something to that effect. Anyone associated with the neocon
enterprise is already sitting on the weakest possible limb, especially from by
the criterion of American loyalty and patriotism.
So: is The Lobby that crazy? Hell, yeah. Just listen to the latest deranged
neocon ramblings, in which they explain why they have been right all along
about Iraq and demonstrate that they are more eager than ever to attack anyone
who gets in their way. The Lobby, particularly the neocon faction of the The
Lobby, appears to be determined to go down in flames and to take as much of
world down with it as possible. A variation on the Masada Complex and Samson
Option, I suppose.
A closely connected matter: more than ever we need to be sensitive to the
threat of false flag terrorist ops on a scale greatly surpassing 9/11.
Desperate people commit desperate acts.
tim_howells_1000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/pentagon__infiltrated_.html
ISRAEL LOBBY SAYS PENTAGON `INFILTRATED'
HOSTILITY TO ZIONISM SEEN AS `MAJOR THREAT'
By Michael Collins Piper
Aleading voice of the pro-Israel lobby is pushing for an old-style
"witchhunt"under the guise of "homeland security"to identify (and expel)
individuals in the U.S. government and our military who are suspected of being
hostile to Israel.
The call for a witch-hunt is based on the outlandish thesis that
"Islamo-fascists" and Muslim "jihadist" operatives and, perhaps more
particularly, their "sympathizers"however loosely definedhave infested
America's defense, national security and federal law enforcement community.
The witch-hunt was proposed in the fall 2006 issue of the small-circulationbut
highly influentialJournal of International Security Affairs published by the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). JINSA has been one of
the frontline forces in the fanatically pro-Israel "neo-conservative" circles
directing foreign policy under George W. Bush.
Not only Vice President Dick Cheney, but also UN Ambassador John Bolton, former
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, former
chairman of the Defense Policy Boardto name just a few big Bush administration
nameshave all been associates of JINSA.
University of Pennsylvania Prof. Edward Herman has described JINSA as
"organized and [run] by individuals closely tied to the Israeli lobby and can
be regarded as a virtual agency of the Israeli government."
What first appears as commentary in JINSA's Journal often leads to very real
policies carried out by the Bush administration alone and sometimes in concert
with Capitol Hill which some critics have been known to cynically call "Israeli
occupied territory."
The JINSA call for a witch-hunt came in the context of a series of commentaries
on "21st Century Allies . . . and Adversaries" for the United States and
Israel, which two nations, of course, are seen in the JINSA world view as
virtual extensions of one another.
Zionist publications regularly assert that "anti-Israel" sentiments must
automatically be seen as "anti-American" and even as "anti-Christian" in
nature, a theme first loudly propagated by the American Jewish Committee's
Commentary magazine.
The commentaries, not surprisingly, named such countries as Iran, Syria, Russia
and Venezuela, as possible "adversaries" for the U.S.-Israel Axis. However, it
was an article by Walid Phareswho is associated with a Zionist lobby front
known as the Foundation for the Defense of the Democracieswhich made the
suggestion that there are very real "adversaries" on American soil, at high
levels in the American military and intelligence establishment. In his article
"Future TerrorismMutant Jihads," Phares asked:
"How deeply have jihadist elements infiltrated the U.S. government and federal
agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of
Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and various military commands,
either through sympathizers or via actual operatives?"
Although posed as a loaded question, Phares's implication was clear: he
believes such a "threat" exists. The JINSA writer then proclaimed the need for
a "national consensus" that requires "confronting these forces" based on
"knowledge of their ideologies, objectives and determination."
Since there are few Muslim Americans or even Arab Americans in any substantial
numbers in the FBI, Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, etc, the
suggestion that "jihadist" elements have "infiltrated" our government might
seem silly to the average American.
But in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the real
concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the FBI and the
CIA and in the military who are getting "fed up" with Zionist power in America.
Top military leaders openly dismissed the need for war against Iraq and Iran,
both wars of which have been long-time policy plans of the Zionist lobby. And
all of this, in the view of the JINSA sphere, constitutes effective
collaboration with and sympathy for the dreaded "jihadists."
For example, on May 11, 2005, the New York-based Forward, a leading Jewish
community newspaper, reported that Barry Jacobs of the Washington office of the
American Jewish Committee said he believed there are high-ranking officials
inside the U.S. intelligence community who are hostile to Israel and are waging
war against pro-Israel lobbyists and their neo-conservative allies in the inner
circles of the Bush administration.
Citing the ongoing FBI investigation of espionage by officials of the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading pro-Israel lobby group,
Forward reported that Jacobs believes, in Forward's summary, that "the notion
that American Jews and Pentagon neo-conservatives conspired to push the United
States into war against Iraq, and possibly also against Iran, is pervasive in
Washington's intelligence community."
Obviously, with such thoughts running rampant in pro-Israel circles, it is
inevitable a leading pro-Israel policy group such as JINSA would raise the
specter of "infiltration" by those who are seen as "sympathizers" and suggest
that they be purged from their positions in government agencies.
So the threat of a witch-hunt happening is real. Despite differences between
the Bush administration and its Democratic foes, both come together in one
realm: satisfying the Israeli lobby which funds both Democrats and Republicans
alike through a network of political action committees and exercising its clout
on Capitol Hill through pressure groups such as the APIAC, the American Jewish
Committee, the American Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League.
It is ironic that JINSA should be the source of a demand for an investigation
of foreign agents and sympathizers inside the American government. The founder
of JINSA, Stephen Bryen, a former Senate aide on Capitol Hill, faced certain
indictment on charges of espionage for Israel until pressure on the Justice
Department forced Justice to back off.
Not only Bryen, but several others in the JINSA sphere were under FBI
investigation on similar charges relating to their possible misuse of American
defense and intelligence information on Israel's behalf. They include:
Richard Perle, investigated in the 1970s when he was a top aide to then-Sen.
Henry Jackson;
Douglas Feith, whoalthough later promoted to a high post in the Bush
administration in 2001was fired from the National Security Council of
President Ronald Reagan; and
Paul Wolfowitz, now head of the World Bank and former deputy secretary of
defense in the Bush administration, investigated in the 1970s by the FBI on
suspicion of passing classified information to Israel.
(Issue #47, November 20, 2006)
