'Salon' and Other Right-Thinking Journalists Insult Readers' Intelligence on the Role of Jewish Money in Politics. Just Read the Zionist Historians

I always say our journalism is broken when it comes to the Middle East and the Israel lobby: basic political questions go unasked, and unanswered, because journalists are afraid of raising what are said to be antisemitic canards. One of those prohibitions is using the words "Jews" and "money" in the same sentence. In Salon, this week there was a long and simpleminded article about Obama's efforts to cultivate Jews with his acrobatics on Jerusalem and Israel. Typical of the leftish press, Salon averred that Obama's prize is... Florida. All those Jewish voters in a swing state.

That kind of statement borders on fraud. First, Obama is widely thought to be plotting an electoral strategy that doesn't depend on Florida. So where are all those swing Jewish voters--New York? California? Those are solid blue states.

Get real. Obama is playing Twister on Israel and Jerusalem because of Jewish influence (as the Nation's Ari Berman said some weeks back in a rare violation of the taboo). Obama seeks Jewish media support, he wants Jewish money, which is central to the American political process. Look again at Connie Bruck's piece on Sheldon Adelson in The New Yorker last week. Let's focus on a key moment in the formation of the last White House administration. God bless her, Bruck reports that Adelson has supported the extremist Zionist group One Jerusalem and Adelson has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Republican National State Elections Committee. Bruck fails to connect the dots on this one, but according to the FEC, Adelson gave $300,000 to the Elections Committee before Bush took office, and one of those gifts, $100,000, was made in December 2000, right as Bush was awarded the White House by the Supreme Court. At that very moment, Douglas Feith says vaguely in his new book, Feith, an obscure hedgehog-like figure-- who was reportedly a founder of One Jerusalem and probably knows Adelson-- and who was then working at a small, very Israel-oriented law firm, got "feelers" from the Bush team. And lo and behold, Feith became an Under Secretary for Defense. A big job for a nebbish.

Did Adelson's gift play a part? I bet it did. But I don't know.

Is anyone doing simple journalism on an issue that helped incinerate Iraq and that is turning the Middle East into a tinder box? Where is Tom Blanton of the National Security Archive--a great reporter, my old friend, the guy who taught me the significance of corporate boards' interlocking networks 30 years ago; Tom, are you even going near this stuff or have they got you too? Connie Bruck did fine work in The New Yorker. But consider that her own husband Mel Levine is engaged in an effort to convince Hollywood Jews of Obama's bona fides on Israel-- why? Because of the Jewish vote? No: California went 54-44 Kerry over Bush in '04. L.A. is one of the cashcows of the Democratic party.

I need to take this issue of Jewish money on directly. It is simply too important to our politics. So I'm going to quote from four books, two of them by rightwing Zionists, that speak frankly of the role of Jewish money in establishing and securing the state of Israel. All emphases are mine.

1. In 1916, at the height of World War I, Chaim Weizmann, the leading proponent of Zionism in Europe, was lobbying England to produce the Balfour Declaration when he learned that the Germans were about to get war supplies from Russia. Weizmann was determined to cut the Germans off, so that America and England would be indebted to the Jews. "We think that Jews of South Russia who control trade could effectively counteract German and Bolshevik manoeuvres," Weizmann wrote. "Every influence must be used now." [From One Palestine Complete, by Tom Segev]

2. "The Depression also diminished the ability of American Zionists to influence government policy toward Palestine. Jews, a high proportion of whom were investors and businessmen, were especially devastated by the crash and no longer able to engage in politics and philanthropy." --Michael Oren, in Power, Faith and Fantasy.

3. Jewish wealth played a role in making sure that the U.N. voted for Partition in '47, Benny Morris writes in his new book, 1948. "Pecuniary considerations apparently affected the votes of one or two Latin American ambassadors... More telling, apparently, were promises and threats directed at individual governments by American Jewish businessmen and politicians. Apparently prominent in this lobbying effort was Samuel Zemurray, head of the United Fruit Corporation, which had large plantations in the Caribbean," Morris writes. (Advice to young journalists. Don't use "apparently" three times in one paragraph.)

4. "Jewish groups had opposed the reform [the Campaign Financing Act of 1974] , and a leader of one of them, for the record, has stated why. Speaking at a symposium sponsored by Commentary magazine, Rita Hauser, a New York attorney who is a major force at the American Jewish Committee, frankly declared that the new campaign financing laws had 'eliminated the strongest weapon the Jewish community exercised in influencing the selection of nominees in both political parties.'"  Namely money.  [From The Lobby, by Edward Tivnan (thanks to Nim Chimpsky)].

Comments

[samuel burke]

say it aint so shane.....phil youre bound to come under fire at some point...your hubris must irk the zionist something fierce.
The word Hubris was used to describe actions of those who challenged the gods or their laws.

“We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.” – James Paul Warburg, whose family co-founded the Federal Reserve - while speaking before the United States Senate, February 17, 1950

[Joachim Martillo]

2. "The Depression also diminished the ability of American Zionists to influence government policy toward Palestine. Jews, a high proportion of whom were investors and businessmen, were especially devastated by the crash and no longer able to engage in politics and philanthropy." --Michael Oren, in Power, Faith and Fantasy.

It is probably a misreading of the financial record. A lot of the wealthy German American Jews came out of the Great Crash quite cash rich in a deflated economy, but most of this wealthy Jewish class was highly anti-Zionist, and Weizman conducted a very complex sort of diplomacy to enmesh German American Jews in Zionist politics.

Only with the end of WW2 does there seem to have been a decisions to move the center of the Zionist Virtual Colonial Motherland to the USA from Great Britain, where the hyperwealthy Jewish philanthropists of the Cousinhood manipulated British politics.

See Judonia, Balfour Declaration and Afterward.

[Joachim Martillo]

Canvassing the Hollywood Jewish Elite

Consider these two reports.

• Supermodel Bar Rafaeli: “Israel or Uganda, what difference does it make?"
• British magazine names Israeli model Bar Refaeli 'Body of 2008'

Bar Rafaeli's remarks seem to have brought her under a Hollywood ban, and the lawsuit is her attempt to prove to the Hollywood powers that she really is a Zionist and loves Israel.

[Jim Haygood]

I am tired of all this incremantalism--it's time for yellow stars!

[Madrid]

Obama is now backing down on withdrawal from Iraq:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/04/us/politics/04policy.html

I kind of knew this would happen. The US will only stop its adventurism when it's economy collapses. Obama will do nothing fundamentally different from McCAin with regard to Iraq. He will also put a more attractive face on US imperialism, and in this respect, one might make a good argument that the Iraq occupation will end faster with a bumbling, senile fool like McCain in charge.

Not that it makes much difference, but I won't be voting for either tweedledee or tweedledum.

[peters]

Every genuine anti-Zionist realises that if Israel is the Jewish State and the crimes committed by this State are committed in the name of the Jewish people then we are bound to ask, ‘who are the Jews? What is Judaism? And what is Jewishness?’ There is no alternative than to question the Jewish lobby and the role of Jewish media. These are the parameters of contemporary anti-Zionism, this is what anti-Zionism is all about, and if this is what new anti-Semitism is all about, we have nothing left to admit to the hunters than being anti-Zionists means we are going to be hunted sooner or later.
gilad atzmon

[marko]

Any news repost on US policy in the Middle East should contain this sentence - "Democratic presidential candidates depend on Jewish supporters to supply as much as 60 per cent of the money"

[5 dancing shlomos]

early july 4th, 2008 now known as 'return to slavery day'.

get some spine and caring. start in boston. toss kosher salt and kosher pickles into the harbor. tar and feather dershowitz/shrillowitz, wolfowitz/spittlewitz. have a party to celebrate a real american revolution not a loafer licking at an aipac party. stomp all them 535 belly crawling snakes. have rumsfeld and cheney carry the weight of america's shame for the rest of their sorry and way too long and artificially maintained lives. put doofus in a zoo(the back with his entire clan) and forget. send a barrel of white powder to the nyt and wa post.

let the fireworks explode true. not just as a signal the days gorging on diseased meat and genetically changed corn has ended.

[Ari_E]

Obviously, Jewish money doesn't only permeate the political structures of America.

When about 40-50% of America's billionaires (and probably an even higher percentage of America's millioniares) are Jews even though they are only about 2% of the overall population, Jewish money permeates nearly EVERYTHING in America.

[Barry Leamington]

If each of us killed just one Jew think of what we could achieve for the future of mankind.