The history of Israel as a
geopolitical fraud will fill entire libraries
as those defrauded marvel at how so few deceived
so many for so long. Those duped include many
naive Jews who "even now" identify their
interests with this extremist enclave. Israeli
leaders are wrong to worry about
"de-legitimization."
They are right to fear that a
long-deceived public is fast realizing that
Israel's founding was key to an ongoing
deception. The Invention of the Jewish People
did not begin with Shlomo Sand's 2009 bestseller
by that title. There was no Exile says this
Jewish scholar. Nor was there an Exodus. So how
could there be a Return, the core premise of
Israeli statehood? If this patch of Palestinian
land never rightly belonged to a mythical Jewish
People, what then for the legitimacy of the
"Jewish homeland."
And for that depiction by
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in his
November 1917 letter to Lord Rothschild? Were
Christians likewise seduced by Sunday school
teachings reliant on the phony findings of
Biblical archeologist William Albright? Shlomo
Sand chronicles how in the 1920s Albright
interpreted every excavation in Palestine to
"reaffirm the Old Testament and thereby the
New." In 1948, President Harry Truman, a
Christian Zionist, was advised by Secretary of
State George Marshall not to recognize this
enclave as a state.
This WWII general assured Truman
that he would vote against him? and did. That
military tradition resurfaced in January 2010
when General David Petraeus dispatched a team to
brief Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the perils that Israel
still poses to U.S. national security. Mullen
was reportedly shocked. See: The Petraeus
Briefing. He should not have been surprised.
Such insights are hardly new. More than six
decades ago the Joint Chiefs of Staff cautioned
Truman about the "fanatical concepts of the
Jewish leaders" and their plans for"Jewish
military and economic hegemony over the entire
Middle East."
In December 1948, Albert
Einstein and 27 prominent Jews urged us "not to
support this latest manifestation of fascism."
They warned that a "Leader State" was the goal
of the "terrorist party"that has governed Israel
over all but a handful of the past 62 years. The
Joint Chiefs foresaw the "Zionist strategy will
seek to involve [the U.S.] in a continuously
widening and deepening series of operations
intended to secure maximum Jewish objectives."
Soon after Truman recognized
Israel, his presidential campaign train was
"refueled" by Zionist Jews with $400,000 in
contributions ($3.6 million in 2010 dollars).
Soon thereafter, Israel betrayed the U.S. by
allying with the British and the French to
invade Egypt. Though London and Paris soon
abandoned the operation, months more were
required to dissuade Tel Aviv from pursuing
their expansionist agenda then (as now) for
Greater Israel.
Outraged by Israeli duplicity,
Eisenhower sought help to rein them in. He soon
found that even then (as now) the Israel lobby
dominated Congress. Thus the former Supreme
Allied Commander appeared on television with an
appealdirectly to the American people.
Then-unlike now-a U.S. Commanderin Chief
threatened to reduce assistance to Israel.
To revamp Israel's tattered
image, New York public relations expert Edward
Gottlieb retained novelist Leon Uris to write
Exodus. Jewish Zionists have routinely proven
themselves skilled storytellers and masterful
mythmakers. This 1958 bestseller was translated
into dozens of languages and quickly made into a
movie for the 1960 Christmas season starring
Paul Newman and featuring Peter Lawford,
brother-in-law of the just-elected President
John F. Kennedy. See: Timefor an American
Intifada? The Myth of a Loyal Ally Phil Tourney
survived the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on the
USS Liberty that left 34 Americans dead and 175
wounded.
The region-wide dynamics
accompanying that provocative Six-Day land grab
guaranteed the conflicts that remain so perilous
to U.S. national security. It was during this
Israeli operation that Tourney gave a
one-fingered salute to armed Israeli troops as
they hovered in helicopters over the USS Liberty
while preparing to rappel to the deck and, he
surmises, kill the survivors and sink the ship.
Just then the captain aboard a nearby U.S.
carrier scrambled jets to assist a vessel under
attack by an "ally."
When Israeli intelligence
intercepted the transmission, the helicopters
fled only to have President Lyndon Johnson and
Defense Secretary Robert McNamara recall our
fighters. Soon thereafter, Israeli torpedo boats
pulled alongside the USS Liberty to inquire if
those aboard needed assistance.
Those same boats had just blown
a hole in the hull, killing 25 Americans.
Israeli machine-gunners had then strafed
stretcher-bearers, firemen, life rafts and even
the firehoses?all clear war crimes. Only then
did this ally display the chutzpah to ask if our
servicemen required assistance. Had that
notorious land grab failed to advance the
narrative of Israel as the victim, what might be
the condition of U.S. national security today?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu recently conceded the duplicity that
continues to typify this "special relationship."
As he confessed: "Our policy on Jerusalem is the
same policy followed by all Israeli governments
for 42 years, and it has not changed. As far as
we are concerned, building in Jerusalem is the
same as building in Tel Aviv." In other words,
the 1967 war was neither defensive nor
preemptive but an outright taking of land that,
one year later, Tel Aviv acknowledged as
precisely what concerned the Pentagon 62 years
ago.
In effect, Netanyahu confirmed
that this relationship reflects
multi-decadepremeditation. The U.S. has since
discredited itself by protecting this "ally"
from the rule of law for its taking and brutal
occupation ofland that rightly belongs to
others. Even now, few know that Mathilde Krim, a
former Irgun operative, was"servicing" our
Commander-in- Chief in the White House the night
the1967 war began. Her husband, Arthur, then
chaired the finance committee for theDemocratic
National Committee. Even now, few Americans know
the role in that cover-up played by AdmiralJohn
McCain, Jr. Or the role still played in this
sordid history by his son, Republican Senator
John McCain III. See: McCain Family Secret.
Are those who champion this
"state" the same belief-makers responsible for
the myth of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction?
Iraqi meetingsin Prague? Iraqi mobile biological
weapons laboratories? High-level Iraqi contacts
with Al Qaeda? Iraqi yellowcake uranium from
Niger? Was any of that intelligence legitimate?
Whose interests were served by deceiving the
U.S. to wage war in the Middle East? By the Suez
Crisis? By theSix-Day War? By covering up the
attack on the USS Liberty? Adhering to an Enemy?
How are U.S. interests served by treating Israel
as a legitimate state?
When was Israeli behavior
anything other than duplicitous? At what point
do we concede the common source of the
storylines foisted on an imperiled global
public? Who created the narrative that saw us
segue seamlessly from a global Cold War to a
global War on Terrorism? Remember the promise of
a post-Cold War "peace dividend"? Who induced
the U.S. to wage a war whose costscould total $3
trillion, including $700 billion in interest?
Why is debt always the prize?
At the end of WWII, the U.S. was
home to 50% of the world's productive power.
Were we induced to hollow out our economy by the
same consensus-shapers that induced us to wage
war in the Middle East? Do these devastating
dynamics trace to a common source? Who benefits
from the "Islamo" fascist narrative? Whose story
line really is The Clash of Civilizations? Who
has long spied on the U.S. and routinely
transferred to other nations our most sensitive
defense technologies? Who had the means, motive,
opportunity and, importantly, the stable nation
state intelligence required to perpetrate such a
debilitating fraud frominside the U.S.
government? And from inside other governments
that joined the "coalition of the willing"? If
not Israel and its supporters?who? In effect,
are those now advocating an "unbreakable bond"
with Israel giving aid and comfort to an enemy
within?
Israel is right to worry. It was
never legitimate. As both an enabler and a
target of this fraud, the U.S. has an obligation
to concede its source?and to secure the weapons
of mass destruction now under the control of
this enclave.
