Midas
Ears
A new spectre haunts
America. It
enters the well-protected boardrooms of newspapers and
banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers. It is the
spectre of glasnost: the dark secret of Jewish power is out.
Just recently it was ‘third rail’, touch-and-die, deadly
dangerous to mention, certain end to a career. Just
recently, Joe Public snapped his TV from an eminence with an
Israeli passport to a member of a Jewish think-tank, and
muttered to himself: Surely it is just a coincidence that so
many important and largely unelected people in our country
happen to belong to this small minority group. Surely it is
just a coincidence that they belong to different parties but
reach the same conclusions. Surely it is just a coincidence
that ninety per cent of American foreign aid goes to their
cousins in prosperous Tel Aviv. Surely it is just a
coincidence that they run our newspapers, television,
cinema, universities. Anyway, we are not allowed to notice
this elephant in our sitting room.
Only rare desperados comment, as Edgar Steele did on
Rense.com: “The silence in
America
concerning Jews is simply deafening, isn't it? The old adage
has it that, when visiting a foreign country, to ascertain
who really runs things, one need determine only who is
spoken about in whispers, if at all.” Judged by this
measure, the Jews rule supreme. Indeed, when I referred to
‘Jewish media lords’ during a UNESCO conference in the
summer of 2001, the audience’s hearts missed a beat.
The yet-unfought War on
Iraq changed
this. The American Ultimatum date was set on 17 March, the
Jewish feast of Purim. Purim, 1991 saw destruction of Iraqi
armies and death of 200,000 Iraqis. Too many coincidences
for a purely American war. The Americans peeped into the
bottomless abyss of World War Three and woke up from their
generation-long stupor. Thus the first victim of the Iraqi
War is not truth, but the strongest taboo in the West. A
Democrat member of Congress, usually a most docile specimen,
one James Moran, dared to tell his supporters: "If it were
not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this
war with
Iraq we would
not be doing this."
He was immediately slapped by a Jewish overseer: "It is
simply stunning to hear Representative Moran make such
accusations", said National Jewish Democratic Council
Executive Director, Ira N. Forman. “First, a number of the
current leaders of the anti-war movement are Jewish, and
Jewish organizations have clearly not been at the forefront
among those groups actively and stridently supporting a war
in
Iraq”. Forman
had spoken, and the media reported and amplified his view,
and Moran duly recanted, slapped. But he is not the only
one.
The secret is out, and like the secret of King Midas and his
long ears, it is being sung now from coast to coast, despite
the frantic efforts of the organised Jewish community to
clamp the lid back on the boiling cauldron. Kathleen and
Bill Christison,[i]
two ex-CIA experts, exposed the link between right-wing
American Jews and the Bush Administration. Edward Said, the
most celebrated American thinker of Palestinian origin,
stated the cause: “An immensely wealthy and powerful
republic has been hijacked by a small cabal of individuals,
all of them unelected and therefore unresponsive to public
pressure.”[ii]
He was seconded by courageous Herman, Neumann and Blankfort.
These Americans of Jewish origin object to the un-elected,
anti-democratic Jewish power as they would object to any
disproportionate minority power. Their presence, as they
were not afraid of the anti-Semitic label, was instrumental
in turning the tide and saving the intimidated majority from
its browbeating.
Edward Herman, the author of Manufacturing Consent
(together with Noam Chomsky), wrote of “the powerful
pro-Israel lobby in the
United States, which
advances Israeli interests by pushing for
U.S.
aid and protection to
Israel, and,
currently, by pressing for a war against
Iraq, which
again will serve Israeli interests. This lobby has not only
helped control media debate and made congress into `Israeli
occupied territory’, it has seen to it that numerous
officials with ‘dual loyalties’ occupy strategic
decision-making positions in the Bush administration…”
Jeffrey Blankfort, the Californian who defeated ADL in court
and made Foxman pay heaps of dollars for his espionage
against activists, took an important next step and rejected
the views upheld by Noam Chomsky, Joel Beinin and Stephen
Zunes, for these older radicals play down the crucial
importance of Jewish power. Jeff Blankfort noticed the
roots of the Rupture Evangelicals’ meteoric rise in the
US. This obscure
sect would never have left its lair in remote
Dixie, but for the Jewish media lords. Jeff
noticed that when Black Entertainment Television was taken
over by Viacom, whose owner, Sumner Redstone (né
Murray Rothstein), was recently described in the New York
Times as the world's biggest media owner, he eliminated
BET's news program and began running evangelical Christian
infomercials for Israel. Blankfort’s list of ‘Jews in media’[iii]
enables an understanding of the secret of Jewish charm, and
it can be compared with a similar extensive list by Prof.
Kevin MacDonald of California
State
University.
The Iraqi War, and even more its linkage with
Palestine, became the litmus test of
Jewish power. Organised Jewry pushed for war and at the same
time denied its involvement. Thus in
New York City, the City Council
rejected an anti-war resolution, and only 12 of its 51
members were for it. This is not strange for heavily Jewish
New York. Indeed, a Democrat, Rep. Robert Jackson, said it
in a most straightforward way: "New
York City is the home away from home
for most Jews; and many members of the Jewish community
think [the war is] in the best interests of the state of
Israel."
According to Jackson,
several of his council colleagues have been intimidated into
silence by the pro-Israel crowd: “People are not talking
about this."
Jackson
was certainly right, but a Jewish newspaper[iv]
(surprisingly or not, all newspapers in the
New York area are Jewish)
condemned him for … racism: “[He claimed that] not only do
the Jews run
New York City, but they've cowed
their opponents into silence.
Jackson could as well call
New York
Hymietown.”
This response is remarkable for its typically Jewish logic.
First, the opponent’s rational argument is perverted and
distorted, then it is aligned with opprobrium; and at the
last stage, the opponent is destroyed forever. That is one
of the secrets of Jewish might: the Jews enter a dialogue
berserk-like, with great vehemence, quite foreign to the
Socratic style. While sane people are satisfied with quoting
their opponent and fighting his arguments, madmen (for
berserk is a temporarily-mad individual) go for the jugular.
David Mamet, the Jewish American playwright, provides a good
example of this vehemence as he notices a “Volvo of old, the
vehicle of my brethren, the congenitally liberal. It was
festooned, as are its kind, with every sort of correct
exhortation: Save James Bay, Honour
Diversity, and so on. A most interesting bumper sticker
read: Israel Out of the Settlements … a slogan which could
best be translated as Hook-nosed Jews Die”.
I wonder why Mamet stopped at this, for with equal adequacy
the slogan can be translated as Torture Babies, Denounce
America and Burn
Apple Pie. Who cares for the form of the Jewish nose? Mel
Brooks noticed long ago that Jewish girls have the cutest
noses, made by the best plastic surgeons…
It is the racist Jewish policies in occupied
Palestine that annoy good,
‘congenitally liberal’ people. But if Mamet were honest, he
would not be Mamet.
Now, Bill Keller of the NY Times read the Riot Act to
the Americans. He kindly allows that ‘most of the big Jewish
organizations and many donors are backing the war’ but
insists that ‘the idea that
Israel's interests are
driving one of the most momentous shifts in
America's
foreign policy is simple-minded and offensive’. Well, Keller
is certainly being paid for his convictions by a Jewish
media lord, and one of the nastiest, Arthur Sulzberger Jr,
the owner of the NY Times, the Boston Globe
and a host of other publications. This undermines the
possible veracity of Keller’s words. Let something similar
be written in a thoroughly non-Jewish newspaper! But alas,
there are no important media outlets in the
US that are not
owned or controlled by Jews …
Surely a coincidence? Do not bet on it. A few days ago, in
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
at
the Sasson Conference
on anti-Semitism, the French Jewish historian
Simcha Epstein of the Antisemitism Institute dealt with the
situation in pre-war France but pertained more immediately
to America. This is what Epstein said:
“The pre-war anti-Semites said that
the Jews of France organized a syndicate secretly
bankrolling and subverting the press. And what did the Jews
say at that time? They said: ‘Of course not! No, it’s a lie,
of course not! We are not engaged in conspiracies!’ And what
did the historians and the Jewish historiography coming
afterwards say? ‘Of course not! It is anti-Semitic drivel!’
But we know now from Jewish sources that before the WWII the
Jews of France secretly financed the press.
“Since the end of 19th
century, there was a secret Jewish organization, well
financed, which bought and bankrolled newspapers. Sometimes
it took over existing newspapers, which suddenly became pro-Dreifus
because they received Jewish subsidies. New papers were
created especially by the Jews. Two very important papers of
the period, one was called Les
Droits de l'Homme,
the Rights of Man, was financed by the Jews, and
L’Humanité, which was the Socialist and then the
Communist newspaper of France, was also
financed by Jews. I say this on the authority Jewish sources
of course.
“And this brings us to a dramatic dilemma of historiography.
Saying this, saying what I said, is something horrible and
unacceptable, because it means that the Jews organized a
conspiracy and secretly bought the media, or part of the
media. That was precisely what the anti-Semites said at that
time, and what they still say today. And we know now from
Jewish sources that the allegations were true, that there
was a Jewish clandestine activity of bankrolling the press.”
[Listen
to this sentence ]
Some people perceive every
suggestion that Jews are able to act together as a mad
conspiracy theory. Let them read and re-read this report by
a Jewish historian made at a Jewish conference. If it is
proven now beyond any reasonable doubt that the Jews of
France secretly bought and subverted French media for many
years in order to distort the national discourse and
eventually push unprepared France into the horrible and
unneeded World War Two, is it impossible to consider that
the Jews of the US have secretly taken over their national
media and are now pushing the US into a horrible and
unneeded World War Three?
Actually there is no need for secrecy. One of the chief
Zionist ideologists, Zeev Hefetz (ex-spokesman of PM Begin),
wrote in an American daily: "Disarming Iraq is only a start
in
Middle East" as “the Arab and Iranian (sic!)
cultures” are "irrational" and that nothing can be done,
short of war, to "improve the collective mental health of
Arab societies".
[v]Certainly
this massive ‘disarmament’ will be carried out by American
soldiers, though the commands will be given by the Jewish
chicken-hawks roosting in Pentagon. As for reasons for the
war, they were eloquently stated by a keynote speaker at a
conference on anti-Semitism by Yehuda Bauer, the director of
the Holocaust Memorial Institute Yad va-Shem in
Jerusalem:
The Jews are not a nation, neither a religion, he
said. They are a civilisation, and they have their
civilising mission. They cannot tolerate the
competing civilisation of Islam, as they could not
tolerate Christendom or Communism. That is why the
war with Islam is unavoidable.
But the war is avoidable. Even today, at minutes before
H-hour, the war is avoidable. And if fire is
unavoidable, let the Jewish advisers of President Bush
be fired. Let this Purim see the great Exodus of the "Wolfowitz
Cabal" from the Pentagon. Excluding the clinical
possibility of his actual zombification, G W Bush should
be able to understand that he has been misled by this
powerful, un-elected minority. They cannot deliver what
they promised. Moreover, their own days at the helm of
the Republic are numbered. They over-estimated their
abilities, and pushed too hard. As the frog of La
Fontaine, they can blow up. Bush still can do a U-turn,
and save himself and his country.
In a way, today’s
America reminds
of Russia
in 1986, at the beginning of glasnost. After the Soviet
citizens were allowed to learn who rules them and how, the
days of the Soviet regime were counted. Glasnost gave place
to perestroika. Now, for the first time in a generation,
Americans are allowed to see the men in power, the toxic
combination of the Right-Wing Democrats of Lieberman, the
Republican neo-liberals, the Neo-Cons and plain Con-men. The
Iraqi War brought them forward and presented them in clear
light. Now is the time to undo their hold.
It can’t be postponed for the divisive presidency of G W
Bush is perceived as the period of ‘White’ Protestant
Anglo-Saxon rule, despite the prevalence of his Jewish
advisers. All available contenders for the next elections -
Lieberman, Kelly and even Kuchinich – claim their Jewish
connections and declare their undivided loyalty to Jewry and
to the state of Israel.
In the present political setup of
America, there
will be no real alternative to Jewish ascendancy. If Bush
flops, it will be construed by the media as a WASP flop. If
he succeeds, it will be seen as success of his Jewish
advisers.
That is why American patriot forces should not wait for the
next elections, or for the end of war. They must act now, by
calling the war off. They have an enemy, but he is not in
Iraq. What is
called for is a new American revolution, on a par with the
New Deal and abolition of slavery, with de-monopolisation of
the discourse; that is of media and universities, for
starters. In the beginning of the Twentieth Century,
Americans undid the mighty Standard Oil. They created new
anti-monopoly laws and terminated the threat to democracy.
This achievement could be repeated now.
[i]
Kathleen and Bill Christison, `A Rose By Another Name:
The Bush Administration's Dual Loyalties’, Counterpunch, Dec. 13, 2002).
[iii]
Here is enough sampling to indicate that it is not:
First of all, Sumner Redstone ( né Murray
Rothstein) owns $8 billion dollars worth of Viacom,
which gives him the controlling interest in CBS, Viacom,
MTV worldwide (Brian Graden, president), and most
recently he bought Black Entertainment Television and
proceeded immediately to cut down its public-affairs
programming. The president of CBS is Leslie Moonves, the
great nephew of David Ben-Gurion.
Michael Eisner is the major owner of Disney-Capitol
Cities, which owns ABC. David Westin is the president of
ABC News. Although it has lost viewers, Nightline host
Ted Koppel is a strong supporter of
Israel. Lloyd
Braun is chair of ABC Entertainment. And there is the
perennial Barbara Walters.
Neil Shapiro is the president of NBC News. Jeffrey
Zucker is the head of NBC Entertainment and Jack Myers
has some important post there, as well.
Although Rupert Murdoch of Fox is not Jewish, Mel
Karamazin, the president of the corporation is, as is
Peter Chernin, the second in command at Murdoch's News
Corps.
Sandy Grushow is chairman of Fox Entertainment, and Gail
Berman is president. Murtdoch has received numerous
awards from various Jewish charities.
Jamie Kellner is chair and CEO of Turner Broadcasting.
Walter Issacson is the News Director of CNN which also
has Wolf Blitzer, host of Late Edition, Larry King of
Larry King Live, Paula Zahn, and Andrea Koppel, Ted's
daughter.
Jordan Levin is chairman of Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Howard Stringer is chair of Sony Corp. of
America.
Robert Sillerman is the founder of Clear Channel
Communications,
Ivan Seidenberg is chair of Verizon Communications
Terry Semel, former co-chair of Warners is CEO of Yahoo.
Barry Diller, former owner of Universal Entertainment,
is the chair of USA Interactive.
Joel Klein is chair and CEO of Bertelsmann's American
operations, the largest publishing conglomerate in the
world.
Mort Zuckerman, the Chair of the Conference of
Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations, owns
US News and World Report and the NY Daily News.
Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. publishes the NY Times, the
Boston Globe and a host of other publications.
Marty Peretz publishes the
New
Republic, which is unabashedly
pro-Israel, as is
William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard.
Donald Graham, Jr. is the chair and CEO of Newsweek and
the Washington Post.
Michael Ledeen, of Iran-Contra fame, edits National
Review.
Ron Rosenthal is the Managing Editor of the SF Chronicle
and Phil Bronstein is the Executive Editor.
David Schneiderman owns the Village Voice and a number
of other "alternative" weeklies.
Columnist William Safire, Tom Freidman, Charles
Krauthammer, Richard Cohen, Jeff Jacoby, are among the
most widely syndicated columnists.
There are a number of widely syndicated talk show hosts
such as Michael Savage (ABC) on more than 100 stations,
Michael Medved, 124 stations, and Dennis Prager who has
an Israeli flag on his website. Others include Ron
Owens, Ben Wattenberg, and former ZOA official Jon
Rothman, all in San Francisco
on ABC.
In
Hollywood, which was founded by
Jews, there is of course, Stephen Spielberg, David
Geffen, and Jeffrey Kranzberg of Dreamworks, Eisner of
Disney, Amy Pascal, chair of
Columbia, and many, many more.
For the intellectuals, we have NPR, with pundit Daniel
Schorr and weekend hosts Scott Simon and Liane Hansen,
Robert Segal, Susan Stanberg, Eric Weiner, Daniel Lev,
Linda Gradstein (a well-known speaker at pro-Israel
events) covering Jerusalem, Mike Schuster (whose
soft-ball interview with Ariel Sharon after Sabra and
Shatila should have brought him before the court of
Hamarabi). Brook Gladstein.
And that's just for starters. From the boss to the
delivery it's an impressive list. While they certainly
can't be put in the same box when it comes to
Israel, they
more or less guarantee that there will be limits to any
criticism they may make of
Israel”.
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