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“You can’t mention Israel, Bro!”
…by Jonas E. Alexis
Oliver Stone probably didnât know that he was attacking the Neoconservative hawks, warmongers, and ethnic cleansers in Washington when he told Stephen Colbert that âIsrael had far more involvement in the US election than Russia.â[1]
That statement indeed was a political bomb, and it almost certainly took Colbert by surprise. In response to this claim, the Jewish Press declared:
âStone was obviously pulling the old anti-Israel, leftist line about how AIPAC is controlling Washington (much the way the âJewsâ control Hollywood) â and in his haste to save face apparently forgot the difference between contributing to political campaigns and hacking DNC computers.â[2]
Well, obviously Stone struck a nerve, for we all know by now that AIPAC has had and continues to have a tremendously powerful influence on U.S. foreign policy. Once again, this is not conspiracy stuff. The scholarly studies on this issue are just an embarrassment to riches:
Paul R. Pillar, Intelligence and U.S. Foreign Policy: Iraq, 9/11, and Misguided Reform (New York: Columbia University Pres, 2011).
Michael MacDonald, Overreach: Delusions of Regime Change in Iraq (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014).
John M. Schuessler, Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics, and American Democracy (New York: Cornell University Press, 2015).
John J. Mearsheimer, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011).
Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).
Murray Friedman, The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy (New York: Farrar & Straus, 2007).
Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack: The Definitive Account of the Decision to Invade Iraq (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004).
Michael Isikoff and David Corn, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (New York: Random House, 2006).
But the simple question is this: do we have enough evidence which points to the idea that Israel has been meddling in U.S. elections and foreign affairs? Yes.
In 1987, Jewish American Jonathan Jay Pollard was sent to prison for life for spying for Israel. In 1995, Israel publicly denied that Pollard was a spy, but recanted that statement three years later. BBC News itself declared,
âIsrael has officially acknowledged for the first time that an American Jew, Jonathan Pollard, who was arrested in the United States 13 years ago, was one of its spies. Pollard, a former intelligence analyst for the United States Navy, is serving a life sentence in North Carolina for passing classified military documents to Israel. Until now, the Israeli authorities had always denied that Pollard was working under their direction.â[3]
For years the Israelis ârefused to tell the United States what Pollard gave them.â[4] Then in 2010 Netanyahu made it clear that Pollard was an Israeli spy who was working for the Israeli government, âfor which Israel took full responsibility.â Yet even after this admission, Ambassador Michael Oren said he hoped for Pollardâs earliest release.[5]
In 2005, Steve J. Rosen and Keith Weissman, who served for twenty-three years as top officials for American Israel Public Affairs (AIPAC), were accused of similar charges. As the trial was nearing, both the Israel Lobby and the defense team âdescribed the proceedings as a frame-up, the result of an intra-bureaucratic struggle within the government, and a plot by anti-Semites in Bushâs Justice Department to carry out a Washington pogrom.â[6]
Neither man was convicted, thanks again to their Jewish friends: âWhile most of the more cautious elements in the Jewish community are staying well away from this case, the radicals, such as Rabbi Avi Weiss and his AMCHA Coalition for Jewish Concerns, who have previously devoted their efforts to freeing Jonathan Pollard, have now turned their attention to Rosen and Weissman.â[7]
Neoconservative Daniel Pipes declared that âwe worried about the ramifications for us [meaning Jews] if [Rosen] were found guilty.â[8] He ended the article by congratulating both Rosen and Weissman. Pulitzer winner Dorothy Rabinowitz also praised them, characterizing their actions as âactivities that go on every day in Washington, and that are clearly protected under the First Amendment.â[9]
The implication seems to be that Americans spying for Israel are protected by the First Amendment. In fact, âseveral prominent Neocons have been investigated on credible charges of spying for Israel: Perle, Wolfowitz, Stephen Bryen, Douglas Feith, and Michael Ledeen.â[10]
âIn 1970 Perle was recorded by the FBI discussing classified information with the Israeli embassy. In 1981 he was on the payroll of an Israeli defense contractor shortly before being appointed Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security PolicyâŠDuring his tenure in the Reagan administration, Perle recommended purchase of an artillery shell made by Soltan, an Israeli munitions manufacturerâŠ
âAt the present time, Perle is on the board of directors of Onset Technology, a technology company founded by Israelis Gadi Mazor and Ron Maor with research companies and investment funds. He was also a close personal friend of Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.â[11]
Similarly, âFeith has been suspected of spying for Israel. In 1972 Feith was fired from a position with the National Security Council because of an investigation into whether he had provided documents to the Israeli embassy. Nevertheless, Perle, who was Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy, hired him as his âspecial counsel,â and then as his deputy. Feith worked for Perle until 1986 when he left government service to form a law firm, Feith and Zell, which was originally based in Israel and best known for obtaining a pardon for the notorious Marc Rich during the final days of the Clinton administration.â[12]
In 1997, Army tank engineer David A. Tenenbaum âgave classified military information on Patriot missiles and armored military vehicles to Israeli officials,â which was sent âto every Israeli military liaison official posted to the command over the last 10 years.â[13]
The Israel government, of course, âdenied that any inappropriate activity had taken place.â166 David Bar Illan, chief spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, put out a statement, saying, âThere has been no improper contact between Tenenbaum and anybody or institution of the Israeli Government.â According to the affidavit, âTenenbaum admitted to divulging non-releasable classified information to every Israeli liaison officer.â[14] So Tenenbaum admitted, but Israel denied.
Justin Raimondo writes that if Rabinowitz is right in saying that the actions of Jewish spies are covered by the First Amendment, then âwe are all in big trouble,â since it would mean that organized Jewry is betraying the American people. In 2004, the FBI came to the same conclusion.[15] In fact, in 2003 the FBI decided not to hire Jews for Arabic translation jobs, since they tended to present an opposite story of the actual event.
In 2004, a former intelligence official who was familiar with the latest FBI probe and who had recently left government work told the Los Angeles Times, âThere is a huge, aggressive, ongoing set of Israeli activities directed against the United States. Anybody who worked in counterintelligence in a professional capacity will tell you the Israelis are among the most aggressive and active countries targeting the United States.â[16]
The shocking fact is that âthe FBI has investigated several incidents of suspected intelligence breaches involving Israel since the Pollard case, including a 1997 case in which the National Security Agency bugged two Israeli intelligence officials in Washington discussing efforts to obtain a sensitive U.S. diplomatic document. Israel denied wrongdoing in that case and all others, and no one has been prosecuted.â[17]
Yet World Net Daily, a thoroughly Zionist outlet, accused the FBI of fostering anti-Semitism.[18] Since the Pollard affair, the FBI has suspected Israel of espionage, gathering enough evidence that they had continuing reason for suspicion through to the Clinton administration.[19] Even the Washington Post declares that there were âpossible espionageâ cases in which Israel was of major concern, especially âamong those who translate and oversee some of the FBIâs most sensitive, top-secret wiretaps in counterintelligence and counterterrorist investigations.â[20]
The FBIâs suspicions were firmly based on documentation, considering that they had formerly had historical confrontations with Israel and Jewish spies. Even in December of 2008, Israeli traitor Ben-Ami Kadish, then 85 years old, was arrested and pleaded guilty for passing classified documents to Israel in the 1980s. To Judge William H. Pauley III, this was a disgrace to our security, because Kadish should have been charged years ago for many more charges.[21]
Again, in 2009, scientist Stewart Nozette, who worked for years in NASA, was caught spying for Israel. The New York Times article was titled âThe Scientist Who Mistook Himself for a Spy.â[22] These acts of disloyalty are quite embarrassing, yet pointing out serious cases in which the United States is being wounded from within by the Israeli regime is like finding yourself in the middle of World War III.
Even in Britain in 2010, senior officials (particularly a senior Mossad agent) in Israel were accused of forging British passports used in a plot to kill a Hamas leader in the United Arab Emirates. âPolice in Dubai have already said they are â99% certainâ the Mossad was behind Mabhouhâs killing, and [David] Milibandâs remarks represented the first official endorsement of that view by a western government.â[23] Miliband is British Foreign Secretary.
But involvement in espionage is just the tip of the iceberg. Ludwig Fainberg was a notorious mobster; âaccording to the FBI, he was the middleman for an international drugs and weapons smuggling conspiracy linking Colombian drug lords with the Russian Mafia in Miami. Fainbergâs claim to fame was that in the mid-1990s, he ventured onto a high-security naval base in the far northern reaches of Russia. His mission was to negotiate the purchase of a Russian Cold War-era diesel submarineâcomplete with a retired naval captain and a twenty-five-men crewâfor the Colombian cartel. The price tag: a cool $5.5 millionâŠFrom 1990 until he was arrested and charged in Miami in February 1997 for smuggling and racketeering, Fainberg ran an infamous strip club called Spokyâs.â[24]
It has also been documented that the Mossadâthe Israeli secret serviceâwas responsible for the murder of Jewish media mogul Robert Maxwell. After Jewish journalist Seymour Hersh wrote The Sampson Option: Israel, America and the Bomb, which shows that Maxwell had secret ties with the Israeli secret service, which then decided to do away with Maxwell to prevent him from ever revealing those ties.[25]
In 2001, the FBI charged Irving D. Rubin, chairman of the Jewish Defense Leagueâan organization âwhose aim was to defend Jews with âall necessary means,â including the use of violenceâ[26]âwith conspiracy to bomb private and government property, particularly the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City, California, and the office of U.S. Representative Darrell Issa, an Arab-American.[27]
However, Neocon hawks and warmongers have never touched on these vitally crucial issues. Instead of discussing events like these, Neoconservatives prefer to highlight Islamic suicide bombings, keeping the average Americanâs focus on hating or fearing the Muslim world and away from their own subversive actions at home.
Michael Hoffman points out that âwhen a Jewish bus is bombed by a Palestinian, graphic photos of the carnage and interviews with survivors are immediately beamed around the world. But when Palestinians are massacred by the Israeli army, the killings are perpetrated in secret, behind the veil of a âclosed military zone.ââ[28] If the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to be resolved, we cannot afford double standards.
Pointing out terrorism in other countries is one thing, and acting in the manner of terrorism is another issue altogether. Mearsheimer and Walt write:
âZionists used terrorism when they were trying to drive the British out of Palestine and establish their own stateâfor example, by bombing the King David Hotel in Jerusalem in 1946 and assassinating UN mediator Folke Bernadotte in 1948, among other actsâand the United States has backed a number of âterroristâ organizations in the pastâŠAmerican presidents have also welcomed a number of former terrorists to the White House (including PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, and Israeli Prime Ministers Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, who played key roles in the main Zionist terror organizations), which merely underscores the fact that terrorism is a tactic and not a unified movement.â[29]
This brings us to our conclusion: it is really silly to say that Russia is an enemy of the United States when U.S. officials are still making diabolical pacts with the Israeli regime and even Saudi Arabia. It just doesnât add up, and it is interesting to see that even a person like Oliver Stone is realizing that the press, the media and other news outlets are essentially shooting themselves in the toes when they are not reporting the real thing.
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[1] Quoted in David Israel, âOliver Stone Tells Colbert Israel Had More Influence than Russia on 2016 Election,â Jewish Press, June 14, 2017.
[2] Ibid.
[3] âIsrael Admits It Spied on US,â BBC, May 12, 1998.
[4] âNetanyahu and Foe Tangle over Pollard,â Daily News, January 19, 1999.
[5] âNetanyahu: Pollard was an Israeli Spy,â Haaretz, June 26, 2010.
[6] Justin Raimondo, âAIPAC on Trial,â American Conservative, May 7, 2007.
[7] Ibid.
[8] Daniel Pipes, âStanding with Steven J. Rosen,â DanielPipes.org, May 5, 2009.
[9] Raimondo, âAIPAC on Trial,â American Conservative, May 7, 2007.
[10] MacDonald, Cultural Insurrections, 152.
[11] Ibid., 177.
[12] Ibid., 181.
[13] Keith Bradsher, âArmy Engineer Gave Military Data to Israel,â NY Times, Feb. 20, 1997; âCivilian Engineer Gave Military Secrets to Israelis,â Washington Post, Feb. 20, 1997.
[14] Ibid.
[15] âFBI Suspects Israel Has Mole in PentagonâCBS,â Washington Post, August 27, 2004; Curt Anderson, âAlleged Leak to Israel Probed for a Year,â Washington Post, August 28, 2004.
[16] Bob Drogin and Greg Miller, âIsrael Has Long Spied on US, Says Officials,â LA Times, September 3, 2004.
[17] Ibid.
[18] Paul Sperry, âFBI: Jews Need Not Apply for Arabic Linguist Job,â WorldNetDaily.com, October 9, 2003.
[19] J. Michael Waller and Paul M. Rodriguez, âFBI Probes Espionage at Clinton White House,â Insight Magazine, May 6, 2000.
[20] James V. Grimaldi, âTwo FBI Whistle-Blowers Allege Lax Security, Possible Espionage,â Washington Post, June 19, 2002.
[21] Benjamin Weiser, âMan, 85, Avoids Jail Time for Giving Military Secret,â NY Times, May 29, 2009.
[22] Robert Mackey, âThe Scientist Who Mistook Himself for a Spy,â NY Times, October 21, 2009.
[23] Julian Borger, âBritain Expels Mossad Agent over Forged Passport Plot,â Guardian, March 23, 2010.
[24] See Victor Malarek, The Natashas: Inside the New Global Sex Trade.
[25] See Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, Robert Maxwell, Israelâs Superspy.
[26] Murray Friedman, Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 102.
[27] Tom Tugen, âJDL Head Arrested,â JewishJournal.com, December 13, 2001.
[28] Hoffman and Lieberman, The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians, 66.
[29] Mearsheimer and Walt, The Israel Lobby, 63.

Jonas E. Alexis has degrees in mathematics and philosophy. He studied education at the graduate level. His main interests include U.S. foreign policy, the history of the Israel/Palestine conflict, and the history of ideas. He is the author of the book, Kevin MacDonald’s Metaphysical Failure: A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Critique of Evolutionary Psychology, Sociobiology, and Identity Politics. He teaches mathematics in South Korea.
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