CounterPunch
June 16, 2006
The Power of the Israel Lobby: Its
Origins and Growth
Kathleen & Bill Christison
Former CIA analysts
Editors' Note:
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Ten, even five years ago, a fierce public debate over the nature and
activities of the Israeli lobby would have been impossible. It was as verboten
as the use of the word Empire, to describe the global reach of the United
States. Through its disdain for the usual proprieties decorously observed by
Republican and Democratic administrations in the past , the Bush administration
has hauled many realities of our political economy center stage. Open up the New
York Times or the Washington Post over the recent past and there, like as not,
is another opinion column about the Lobby.
CounterPunch has hosted some of the most vigorous polemics on the
Lobby. In May we asked two of our most valued contributors, Kathy and Bill
Christison, to offer their evaluation of the debate on the Lobby's role and
power. As our readers know, Bill and Kathy both had significant careers as CIA
analysts. Bill was a National Intelligence Officer. In the aftermath of the
September, 2001, attacks we published here his trenchant and influential essay
on "the war on terror". Kathy has written powerfully on our website on the topic
of Palestine. Specifically on the Lobby they contributed an unsparing essay on
the topic of "dual loyalty" which can bed found in our CounterPunch collection,
"The Politics of Anti-Semitism"
(http://www.easycarts.net/ecarts/CounterPunch/CP_Books.html)
In mid May they sent us the detailed, measured commentary, rich in
historical detail, that we are delighted to print below in its entirety. Which
is the tail? Which is the dog? asked Uri Avnery in our newsletter, a few issues
back, apropos the respective roles of the Israel Lobby and the U.S. in the
exercise of U.S. policy in the Middle East. Here's an answer that will be tough
to challenge. -- Alexander Cockburn / Jeffrey St.Clair
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, the University of Chicago and
Harvard political scientists who published in March of this years a lengthy,
well documented study on the pro-Israel lobby and its influence on U.S. Middle
East policy in March , have already accomplished what they intended. They have
successfully called attention to the often pernicious influence of the lobby on
policymaking. But, unfortunately, the study has aroused more criticism than
debate not only the kind of criticism one would anticipate from the usual
suspects among the very lobby groups Mearsheimer and Walt described, but also
from a group on the left that might have been expected to support the study's
conclusions.
The criticism has been partly silly, often malicious, and almost
entirely off-point. The silly, insubstantial criticisms such as former
presidential adviser David Gergen's earnest comment that through four
administrations he never observed an Oval Office decision that tilted policy in
favor of Israel at the expense of U.S. interests can easily be dismissed
as nonsensical. Most of the extensive malicious criticism, coming largely from
the hard core of Israeli supporters who make up the very lobby under discussion
and led by a hysterical Alan Dershowitz, has been so specious and sophomoric,
that it too could be dismissed were it not for precisely the pervasive
atmosphere of reflexive support for Israel and silenced debate that Mearsheimer
and Walt describe.
Most disturbing and harder to dismiss is the criticism of the study
from the left, coming chiefly from Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein, and
abetted less cogently by Stephen Zunes of Foreign Policy in Focus and Joseph
Massad of Columbia University. These critics on the left argue from a assumption
that U.S. foreign policy has been monolithic since World War II, a coherent
progression of decision-making directed unerringly at the advancement of U.S.
imperial interests. All U.S. actions, these critics contend, are part of a
clearly laid-out strategy that has rarely deviated no matter what the party in
power. They believe that Israel has served throughout as a loyal agent of the
U.S., carrying out the U.S. design faithfully and serving as a base from which
the U.S. projects its power around the Middle East. Zunes says it most clearly,
affirming that Israel "still is very much the junior partner in the
relationship." These critics do not dispute the existence of a lobby, but they
minimize its importance, claiming that rather than leading the U.S. into
policies and foreign adventures that stand against true U.S. national interests,
as Mearsheimer and Walt assert, the U.S. is actually the controlling power in
the relationship with Israel and carries out a consistent policy, using Israel
as its agent where possible.
Norman Finkelstein (
http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/)
summarized the critics' position in a recent CounterPunch article ("The Israel
Lobby", May 1,
http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein05012006.html), emphasizing
that the issue is not whether U.S. interests or those of the lobby take
precedence but rather that there has been such coincidence of U.S. and Israeli
interests over the decades that for the most part basic U.S. Middle East policy
has not been affected by the lobby.
Noam Chomsky (
http://www.zmag.org/Chomsky/) maintains that
Israel does the U.S. bidding in the Middle East in pursuit of imperial goals
that Washington would pursue even without Israel and that it has always pursued
in areas outside the Middle East without benefit of any lobby. Those goals have
always included advancement of U.S. corporate-military interests and political
domination through the suppression of radical nationalisms and the maintenance
of stability in resource-rich countries, particularly oil producers,
everywhere.
In the Middle East, this was accomplished primarily through Israel's 1967
defeat of Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser and his radical Arab nationalism, which had
threatened U.S. access to the region's oil resources. Both Noam Chomsky and
Norman Finkelstein trace the strong US-Israeli tie to the June 1967 war, which
they believe established the close alliance and marked the point at which the
U.S. began to regard Israel as a strategic asset and a stable base from which
U.S. power could be projected throughout the Middle East.
Joseph Massad (
http://tinyurl.com/akoqg) ("Blaming the Israel Lobby", CounterPunch,
March 25/26,
http://www.counterpunch.org/massad03252006.html)
argues along similar lines, describing developments in the Middle East and
around the world that he believes the U.S. engineered for its own benefit and
would have carried out even without Israel's assistance.
His point, like Chomsky's, is that the U.S. has a long history of
overthrowing regimes in Central America, in Chile, in Indonesia, in Africa,
where the Israel lobby was not involved and where Israel at most assisted the
U.S. but did not benefit directly itself. He goes farther than Chomsky by
claiming that with respect to the Middle East Israel has been such an essential
tool that its very usefulness is what accounts for the strength of the lobby.
"It is in fact the very centrality of Israel to U.S. strategy in the Middle
East", Joseph Massad contends with a kind of backward logic, "that accounts, in
part, for the strength of the pro-Israel lobby and not the other way around".
(One wonders why, if this were the case, there would be any need for a lobby at
all. What would be a lobby's function if the U.S. already regarded Israel as
central to its strategy?)
The principal problem with these arguments from the left is that they
assume a continuity in U.S. strategy and policymaking over the decades that has
never in fact existed.
The notion that there is any defined strategy that links Eisenhower's
policy to Johnson's to Reagan's to Clinton's gives far more credit than is
deserved to the extremely ad hoc, hit-or-miss nature of all U.S. foreign
policy.
Obviously, some level of imperial interest has dictated policy in every
administration since World War II and, obviously, the need to guarantee access
to vital natural resources around the world, such as oil in the Middle East and
elsewhere, has played a critical role in determining policy. But beyond these
evident, and not particularly significant, truths, it can accurately be said, at
least with regard to the Middle East, that it has been a rare administration
that has itself ever had a coherent, clearly defined, and consistent foreign
policy and that, except for a broadly defined anti-communism during the Cold
War, no administration's strategy has ever carried over in detail to succeeding
administrations.
The ad hoc nature of virtually every administration's policy planning
process cannot be overemphasized. Aside from the strong but amorphous political
need felt in both major U.S. parties and nurtured by the Israel lobby that
"supporting Israel" was vital to each party's own future, the inconsistent, even
short-term randomness in the detailed Middle East policymaking of successive
administrations has been remarkable.
This lack of clear strategic thinking at the very top levels of several new
administrations before they entered office enhanced the power of individuals and
groups that did have clear goals and plans already in hand such as, for
instance, the pro-Israeli Dennis Ross in both the first Bush and the Clinton
administrations, and the strongly pro-Israeli neo-cons in the current Bush
administration.
The critics on the left argue that because the U.S. has a history of
opposing and frequently undermining or actually overthrowing radical nationalist
governments throughout the world without any involvement by Israel, any instance
in which Israel acts against radical nationalism in the Arab world is,
therefore, proof that Israel is doing the United States' work for it . The
critics generally believe, for instance, that Israel's political destruction of
Egypt's Nasser in 1967 was done for the U.S. Most if not all believe that
Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon was undertaken at U.S.behest, to destroy the
PLO.
This kind of argumentation assumes too much on a presumption of policy
coherence.
Lyndon Johnson most certainly did abhor Nasser and was not sorry to see him
and his pan-Arab ambitions defeated, but there is absolutely no evidence that
the Johnson administration ever seriously planned to unseat Nasser, formulated
any other action plan against Egypt, or pushed Israel in any way to attack.
Johnson did apparently give a green light to Israel's attack plans after they
had been formulated, but this is quite different from initiating the plans.
Already mired in Vietnam, Johnson was very much concerned not to be drawn into a
war initiated by Israel and was criticized by some Israeli supporters for not
acting forcefully enough on Israel's behalf. In any case, Israel needed no
prompting for its pre-emptive attack, which had long been in the works.
Indeed, far from Israel functioning as the junior partner carrying out
a U.S. plan, it is clear that the weight of pressure in 1967 was on the U.S. to
go along with Israel's designs and that this pressure came from Israel and its
agents in the U.S. The lobby in this instance as broadly defined by
Mearsheimer and Walt: "the loose coalition of individuals and organizations who
actively work to shape U.S. foreign policy in a pro-Israel direction" was
in fact a part of Johnson's intimate circle of friends and advisers.
These included the number-two man at the Israeli embassy, a close
personal friend; the strongly pro-Israeli Rostow brothers, Walt and Eugene, who
were part of the national security bureaucracy in the administration; Supreme
Court Justice Abe Fortas; UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg; and numerous others who
all spent time with Johnson at the LBJ Ranch in Texas and had the personal
access and the leisure time in an informal setting to talk with Johnson about
their concern for Israel and to influence him heavily in favor of Israel.
This circle had already begun to work on Johnson long before Israel's
pre-emptive attack in 1967, so they were nicely placed to persuade Johnson to go
along with it despite Johnson's fears of provoking the Soviet Union and becoming
involved in a military conflict the U.S. was not prepared for.
In other words, Israel was beyond question the senior partner in this
particular policy initiative; Israel made the decision to go to war, would have
gone to war with or without the U.S. green light, and used its lobbyists in the
U.S. to steer Johnson administration policy in a pro-Israeli direction.
Israel's attack on the U.S. naval vessel, the USS Liberty (
http://www.ussliberty.org), in the midst of the war, an attack
conducted in broad daylight that killed 34 American sailors was not the act
of a junior partner. Nor was the U.S. cover-up of this atrocity the act of a
government that dictated the moves in this relationship.
The evidence is equally clear that Israel was the
prime mover in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon and led the U.S. into that morass,
rather than the other way around.
Although Joseph Massad refers to the U.S. as Israel's master, in this
instance as in many others including 1967, Israel has clearly been its own
master. Chomsky argues in support of his case that Reagan ordered Israel to call
off the invasion in August, two months after it was launched. This is true, but
in fact Israel did not pay any attention; the invasion continued, and the U.S.
got farther and farther embroiled.
When, as occurred in Lebanon, the U.S. has blundered into misguided
adventures to support Israel or to rescue Israel or to further Israel's
interests, it is a clear denial of reality to say that Israel and its lobby have
no significant influence on U.S. Middle East policy.
Even were there not an abundance of other examples, Lebanon alone, with its
long-term implications, proves the truth of the Mearsheimer-Walt conclusion that
the U.S. "has set aside its own security in order to advance the interests of
another state" and that "the overall thrust of U.S. policy in the region is due
almost entirely to U.S. domestic politics, and especially to the activities of
the 'Israel Lobby' ".
As a general proposition, the left critics' argumentation is much too
limiting.
While there is no question that modern history is replete, as they argue,
with examples of the U.S. acting in corporate interests overthrowing
nationalist governments perceived to be threatening U.S. business and economic
interests, as in Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Chile in 1973, and elsewhere
this frequent convergence of corporate with government interests does not
mean that the U.S. never acts in other than corporate interests.
The fact of a strong government-corporate alliance does not in any way
preclude situations even in the Middle East, where oil is obviously a vital
corporate resource in which the U.S. acts primarily to benefit Israel
rather than serve any corporate or economic purpose.
Because it has a deep emotional aspect and involves political, economic,
and military ties unlike those with any other nation, the U.S. relationship with
Israel is unique, and there is nothing in the history of U.S. foreign policy,
nothing in the government's entanglement with the military-industrial complex,
to prevent the lobby from exerting heavy influence on policy. Israel and its
lobbyists make their own "corporation" that, like the oil industry (or Chiquita
Banana or Anaconda Copper in other areas), is clearly a major factor driving
U.S. foreign policy.
There is no denying the intricate interweaving of the U.S.
military-industrial complex with Israeli military-industrial interests.
Noam Chomsky acknowledges that there is "plenty of conformity" between the
lobby's position and the U.S. government-corporate linkage and that the two are
very difficult to disentangle. But, although he tends to emphasize that the U.S.
is always the senior partner and suggests that the Israeli side does little more
than support whatever the U.S. arms, energy, and financial industries define as
U.S. national interests, in actual fact the entanglement is much more one
between equals than the raw strengths of the two parties would suggest.
"Conformity" hardly captures the magnitude of the relationship.
Particularly in the defense arena, Israel and its lobby and the U.S. arms
industry work hand in glove to advance their combined, very compatible
interests. The relatively few very powerful and wealthy families that dominate
the Israeli arms industry are just as interested in pressing for aggressively
militaristic U.S. and Israeli foreign policies as are the CEOs of U.S. arms
corporations and, as globalization has progressed, so have the ties of joint
ownership and close financial and technological cooperation among the arms
corporations of the two nations grown ever closer.
In every way, the two nations' military industries work together very
easily and very quietly, to a common end. The relationship is symbiotic, and the
lobby cooperates intimately to keep it alive; lobbyists can go to many in the
U.S. Congress and tell them quite credibly that if aid to Israel is cut off,
thousands of arms-industry jobs in their own districts will be lost. That's
power. The lobby is not simply passively supporting whatever the U.S.
military-industrial complex wants. It is actively twisting arms very
successfully in both U.S. Congress and the U.S. administration to perpetuate
acceptance of a definition of U.S. "national interests" that many Americans
believe is wrong, as does Noam Chomsky himself.
Clearly, the advantages in the relationship go in both directions:
Israel serves U.S. corporate interests by using, and often helping develop, the
arms that U.S. manufacturers produce, and the U.S. serves Israeli interests by
providing a constant stream of high-tech equipment that maintains Israel's vast
military superiority in the region.
But simply because the U.S. benefits from this relationship, it cannot be
said that the U.S. is Israel's master, or that Israel always does the U.S.
bidding, or that the lobby, which helps keep this arms alliance alive, has no
significant power. It's in the nature of a symbiosis that both sides benefit,
and the lobby has clearly played a huge role in maintaining the
interdependence.
The left's arguments also tend to be much too conspiratorial.
Norman Finkelstein, for instance, describes a supposed strategy in which
the U.S. perpetually undermines Israeli-Arab reconciliation because it does not
want an Israel at peace with its neighbors, since Israel would then loosen its
dependence on the U.S. and become a less reliable proxy. "What use", he asks,
"would a Paul Wolfowitz have of an Israel living peacefully with its Arab
neighbors and less willing to do the U.S.'s bidding?"
Not only does this give the U.S. far more credit than it has ever deserved
for long-term strategic scheming and the ability to carry out such a conspiracy,
but it begs a very important question that neither Norman Finkelstein nor the
other left critics, in their dogged effort to mold all developments to their
thesis, never examine: just what U.S.'s bidding is Israel doing nowadays?
Although the leftist critics speak of Israel as a base from which U.S.
power is projected throughout the Middle East, they do not clearly explain how
this works.
Any strategic value Israel had for the U.S. diminished drastically with the
collapse of the Soviet Union. They may believe that Israel keeps Saudi Arabia's
oil resources safe from Arab nationalists or Muslim fundamentalists or Russia,
but this is highly questionable.
Israel clearly did us no good in Lebanon, but rather the U.S. did Israel's
bidding and fumbled badly, so this cannot be how the U.S. uses Israeli to
project its power.
In Palestine, Norman Finkelstein himself acknowledges that the U.S. gains
nothing from the occupation and Israeli settlements, so this can't be where
Israel is doing the U.S.'s bidding. (With this acknowledgement, Finkelstein,
perhaps unconsciously, seriously undermines his case against the importance of
the lobby, unless he somehow believes the occupation is only of incidental
significance, in which case he undermines the thesis of much of his own body of
writing).
Owning the Policymakers
In the clamor over the Mearsheimer-Walt study, critics on both the left
and the right have tended to ignore the slow evolutionary history of U.S. Middle
East policymaking and of the U.S. relationship with Israel.
The ties to Israel and earlier to Zionism go back more than a century,
predating the formation of a lobby, and they have remained firm even at periods
when the lobby has waned. But it is also true that the lobby has sustained and
formalized a relationship that otherwise rests on emotions and moral
commitment.
Because the bond with Israel has been a steadily evolving continuum, dating
back to well before Israel's formal establishment, it is important to emphasize
that there is no single point at which it is possible to say, this is when
Israel won the affections of America, or this is when Israel came to be regarded
as a strategic asset, or this is when the lobby became an integral part of U.S.
policymaking.
The left critics of the lobby study mark the Johnson administration as
the beginning of the US-Israeli alliance, but almost every administration before
Johnson's, going back to Woodrow Wilson, ratcheted up the relationship in some
significant way and could justifiably claim to have been the progenitor of the
bond.
Significantly, in almost all cases, policymakers acted as they did because
of the influence of pro-Zionist or pro-Israeli lobbyists: Wilson would not have
supported the Zionist enterprise to the extent he did had it not been for the
influence of Zionist colleagues like Louis Brandeis; nor would Roosevelt; Truman
would probably not have been as supportive of establishing a Jewish state
without the heavy influence of his very pro-Zionist advisers.
After the
Johnson administration as well, the relationship has continued to grow in
remarkable leaps.
The Nixon-Kissinger regime could claim that they were the administration
that cemented the alliance by exponentially increasing military aid from an
annual average of under $50 million in military credits to Israel in the late
1960s to an average of almost $400 million and, in the year following the 1973
war, to $2.2 billion.
It is not for nothing that Israelis have informally dubbed almost every
president since Johnson with the notable exceptions of Jimmy Carter and the
senior George Bush as "the most pro-Israeli president ever"; each one has
achieved some landmark in the effort to please Israel.
The US-Israeli bond has always had its grounding more in soft emotions
than in the hard realities of geopolitical strategy. Scholars have always
described the tie in almost spiritual terms never applied to ties with other
nations.
A Palestinian-French scholar has described the United States' pro-Israeli
tilt as a "predisposition", a natural inclination that precedes any
consideration of interest or of cost. Israel, he said, takes part in the very
"being" of American society and therefore participates in its integrity and its
defense.
This is not simply the biased perspective of a Palestinian. Other scholars
of varying political inclinations have described a similar spiritual and
cultural identity: the U.S. identifies with Israel's "national style"; Israel is
essential to the "ideological prospering" of the U.S.; each country has
"grafted" the heritage of the other onto itself. This applies even to the worst
aspects of each nation's heritage.
Consciously or unconsciously, many Israelis even today see the U.S.
conquest of the American Indians as something "good", something to emulate and,
which is worse, many Americans even today are happy to accept the "compliment"
inherent in Israel's effort to copy us.
This is no ordinary state-to-state relationship, and the lobby does not
function like any ordinary lobby. It is not a great exaggeration to say that the
lobby could not thrive without a very willing host that is, a series of
U.S. policymaking establishments that have always been locked in to a mindset
singularly focused on Israel and its interests and, at the same time, that
U.S. policy in the Middle East would not possibly have remained so singularly
focused on and so tilted toward Israel were it not for the lobby.
One thing is certain: with the possible exceptions of the Carter and the
first Bush administrations, the relationship has grown noticeably closer and
more solid with each administration, in almost exact correlation with the growth
in size and budget and political clout of the pro-Israel lobby.
All critics of the lobby study have failed to note a critical point
during the Reagan administration, surrounding the debacle in Lebanon, when it
can reasonably be said that policymaking tipped over from a situation in which
the U.S. was more often the controlling agent in the relationship to one in
which Israel and its advocates in the U.S. have increasingly determined the
course and the pace of developments.
The organized lobby, meaning AIPAC (
http://tinyurl.com/k3q6a) and the several formal Jewish American
organizations, truly came into its own during the Reagan years with a massive
expansion of memberships, budgets, propaganda activities, and contacts within
Congress and government, and it has been consolidating power and influence for
the last quarter century, so that today the broadly defined lobby, including all
those who work for Israel, has become an integral part of U.S. society and U.S.
policymaking.
The situation during the Reagan administration demonstrates very
clearly the closeness of the bond. The events of these years illustrate how an
already very Israel-centered mindset in the U.S., which had been developing for
decades, was transformed into a concrete, institutionalized relationship with
Israel via the offices of Israeli supporters and agents in the U.S.
The seminal event in the growth of AIPAC and the organized lobby was
the battle over the administration's proposed sale of AWACS aircraft to Saudi
Arabia in 1981, Reagan's first year in office. Paradoxically, although AIPAC
lost this battle in a head-on struggle with Reagan and the administration, and
the sale to the Saudis went forward, AIPAC and the lobby ultimately won the war
for influence.
Reagan was determined that the sale go through; he regarded the deal as an
important part of an ill-conceived attempt to build an Arab-Israeli consensus in
the Middle East to oppose the Soviet Union and, perhaps even more important, saw
the battle in Congress as a test of his own prestige.
By winning the battle, he demonstrated that any administration, at least up
to that point, could exert enough pressure to push an issue opposed by Israel
through Congress, but the struggle also demonstrated just how exhausting and
politically costly such a battle can be, and no one around Reagan was willing to
go to the mat in this way again. In a real sense, despite AIPAC's loss, the
fight showed just how much the lobby limited policymaker freedom, even more than
20 years ago, in any transaction that concerned Israel.
The AWACS imbroglio galvanized AIPAC into action, at precisely the time
the administration was subsiding in exhaustion, and under an aggressive and
energetic leader, former congressional aide Thomas Dine, AIPAC quadrupled its
budget, increased its grassroots support immensely, and vastly expanded its
propaganda effort.
This last and perhaps most significant accomplishment was achieved when
Thomas Dine (
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1119)
established an analytical unit inside AIPAC that published in-depth analyses and
position papers for congressmen and policymakers. Thomas Dine believed that
anyone who could provide policymakers with books and papers focusing on Israel's
strategic value to the U.S. would effectively "own" the policymakers.
With the rising power and influence of the lobby, and following the
U.S. debacle in Lebanon which began with Israel's 1982 invasion and ended
for the U.S. with the withdrawal of its Marine contingent in early 1984, after
the Marines had become involved in fighting to protect Israel's invasion force
and 241 U.S. military had been killed in a truck bombing the Reagan
administration effectively handed over the policy initiative in the Middle East
to Israel and its American advocates.
Israel and its agents began, with amazing effrontery, to complain that
the U.S. failure to clean up in Lebanon was interfering with Israel's own
designs there from which arrogance Reagan and company concluded, in an
astounding twist of logic, that the only way to restore stability was through
closer alliance with Israel.
As a result, in the fall of 1983 Reagan sent a delegation to ask the
Israelis for closer strategic ties, and shortly thereafter forged a formal
strategic alliance with Israel with the signing of a "memorandum of
understanding on strategic cooperation".
In 1987, the U.S. designated Israel a "major non-NATO ally", thus giving it
access to military technology not available otherwise.
The notion of demanding concessions from Israel in return for this favored
status such as, for instance, some restraint in its settlement-construction in
the West Bank was specifically rejected.
The U.S. simply very deliberately and abjectly retreated into policy
inaction, leaving Israel with a free hand to proceed as it wished wherever it
wished in the Middle East and particularly in the occupied Palestinian
territories.
Even Israel, by all accounts, was surprised by this demonstration of
the United States' inability to see beyond Israel's interests.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin had attempted from early in the Carter
administration to push the notion that Israel was a strategic Cold War asset to
the U.S. but, because Israel did not in fact perform a significant strategic
role for the U.S. and was in many ways more a liability than an asset, Carter
never paid serious attention to the Israeli overtures.
Menachem Begin feared that the United States' moral and emotional
commitment to Israel might ultimately not be enough to sustain the relationship
through possible hard times, and so he attempted to put Israel forward as a
strategically indispensable ally and a good investment for U.S. security, a move
that would essentially reverse the two nations' roles, altering the relationship
from one of Israeli indebtedness to the U.S. to one in which the United States
was in Israel's debt for its vital strategic role.
Carter was having none of this, but the notion of strategic cooperation
germinated in Israel and among its U.S. supporters until the moment became ripe
during the Reagan administration. By the end of the Lebanon mess, the notion
that the U.S. needed Israel's friendship had so taken hold among the Reaganites
that, as one former national security aide observed in a stunning upending of
logic, they began to view closer strategic ties as a necessary means of
"restoring Israeli confidence in American reliability".
Secretary of State George Shultz wrote in his memoirs years later of the
U.S. need "to lift the albatross of Lebanon from Israel's neck". Recall, as
Shultz must not have been able to do, that the debt here was rightly Israel's:
Israel put the albatross around its own neck, and the U.S. stumbled into Lebanon
after Israel, not the other way around.
AIPAC and the neo-conservatives who rose to prominence during the
Reagan years played a major role in building the strategic alliance. AIPAC in
particular became in every sense of the word a partner of the U.S. in forging
Middle East policy from the mid-1980s on. Thomas Dine's vision of "owning"
policymakers by providing them with position papers geared to Israel's interests
went into full swing.
In 1984, AIPAC spun off a think tank, the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy (WINEP), that remains one of the pre-eminent think tanks in
Washington and that has sent its analysts into policymaking jobs in several
administrations.
Dennis Ross (
http://tinyurl.com/qhq3p), the senior Middle
East policymaker in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton,
came from the Washington Institute and returned there after leaving government
service. Martin Indyk (
http://tinyurl.com/anrad), the Institute's
first director, entered a senior policymaking position in the Clinton
administration from there.
Today, John Hannah (
http://tinyurl.com/pjqyq), who has
served on Vice President Cheney's national security staff since 2001 and
succeeded Lewis Libby last year as Cheney's leading national security adviser,
comes from the Institute.
AIPAC also continues to do its own analyses in addition to the Washington
Institute's. A recent Washington Post profile of Steven Rosen (
http://tinyurl.com/mdflq), the former senior AIPAC foreign policy
analyst who is about to stand trial with Keith Weissman (
http://tinyurl.com/jvalg) for receiving and passing on classified
information to Israel, noted that two decades ago Steven Rosen began a practice
of lobbying the executive branch, rather than simply concentrating on Congress,
as a way, in the words of the Washington Post article, "to alter American
foreign policy" by "influencing government from the inside". Over the years, he
"had a hand in writing several policies favored by Israel".
In the Reagan years, AIPAC's position papers were particularly welcomed
by an administration already more or less convinced of Israel's strategic value
and obsessed with impeding Soviet advances. Policymakers began negotiating with
AIPAC before presenting legislation in order to help assure passage, and
Congress consulted the lobby on pending legislation.
U.S. Congress eagerly embraced almost every legislative initiative proposed
by the lobby and came to rely on AIPAC for information on all issues related to
the Middle East. The close cooperation between the administration and AIPAC soon
began to stifle discourse inside the bureaucracy. Middle East experts in the
State Department and other agencies were almost completely cut out of
decision-making, and officials throughout government became increasingly
unwilling to propose policies or put forth analysis likely to arouse opposition
from AIPAC or Congress.
One unnamed official complained that "a lot of real analysis is not even
getting off people's desks for fear of what the lobby will do"; he was speaking
to a New York Times correspondent, but otherwise his complaints fell on deaf
ears.
This kind of pervasive influence, a chill on discourse inside as well
as outside policymaking councils, does not require the sort of clear-cut,
concrete pro-Israeli decisions in the Oval Office that David Gergen (
http://tinyurl.com/eouef) naively thought he should have witnessed
if the lobby had any real influence.
This kind of influence, which uses friendly persuasion, along with just
enough direct pressure, on a broad range of policymakers, legislators, media
commentators, and grassroots activists to make an impression across the
spectrum, cannot be defined in terms of narrow, concrete policy commands, but
becomes an unchanging, unchallengeable mindset, a sentimental environment that
restricts debate, restricts thinking, and determines actions and policies as
surely as any command from on high. When Israel's advocates, its lobbyists, in
the U.S. become an integral part of the policymaking apparatus, as they have
particularly since the Reagan years and as they clearly have been during
the current Bush administration there is no way to separate the lobby's
interests from U.S. policies.
Moreover, because Israel's strategic goals in the region are more clearly
defined and more urgent than those of the United States, Israel's interests most
often dominate.
Noam Chomsky himself acknowledges that the lobby plays a significant
part in shaping the political environment in which support for Israel becomes
automatic and unquestioned. Even Chomsky believes that what he calls the
intellectual political class is a critical, and perhaps the most influential,
component of the lobby because these elites determine the shaping of news and
information in the media and academia. On the other hand, he contends that,
because the lobby already includes most of this intellectual political class,
the thesis of lobby power "loses much of its content".
But, on the contrary, this very fact would seem to prove the point, not
undermine it. The fact of the lobby's pervasiveness, far from rendering it less
powerful, magnifies its importance tremendously.
Indeed, this is the crux of the entire debate. It is the very power of
the lobby to continue shaping the public mindset, to mold thinking and, perhaps
most important, to instill fear of deviation that brings this intellectual
political class together in an unswerving determination to work for
Israel.
Is there not a heavy impact on Middle East policymaking when, for instance,
a lobby has the power to force the electoral defeat of long-serving congressmen,
as occurred to Representative Paul Findley in 1982 (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Findley) and Senator Charles Percy
in 1984 (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_H._Percy) after
both had deviated from political correctness by speaking out in favor of
negotiating with the PLO?
AIPAC openly crowed about the defeat of both men both Republicans
serving during the Republican Reagan administration, who had been in Congress
for 22 and 18 years respectively.
Similarly, does not the media's silence on Israel's oppressive measures in
the occupied territories, as well as the concerted, and openly acknowledged,
efforts of virtually every pro-Israeli organization in the U.S. to suppress
information and quash debate on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, have an
immense impact on policy?
Today, even the most outspoken of leftist radio hosts and other
commentators, such as Randi Rhodes, Mike Malloy, and now Cindy Sheehan, almost
always avoid talking and writing about this issue.
Does not the massive effort by AIPAC, the Washington Institute, and
myriad other similar organizations to spoon-feed policymakers and congressmen
selective information and analysis written only from Israel's perspective have a
huge impact on policy?
In the end, even Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein acknowledge the power
of the lobby in suppressing discussion and debate about Middle East policy. The
mobilization of public opinion, Finkelstein writes, "can have a real impact on
policy-making which is why the Lobby invests so much energy in suppressing
discussion". It is difficult to read statement except as a ringing
acknowledgement of the massive and very central power of the lobby to control
discourse and to control policymaking on the most critical Middle East policy
issue.
Interchangeable Interests
The principal problem with the left critics' analysis is that it is too
rigid. There is no question that Israel has served the interests of the U.S.
government and the military-industrial complex in many areas of the world by,
for instance, aiding some of the rightist regimes of Central America, by
skirting arms and trade embargoes against apartheid South Africa and China
(until the neo-conservatives turned off the tap to China and, in a rare
disagreement with Israel, forced it to halt), and during the Cold War by
helping, at least indirectly, to hold down Arab radicalism.
There is also no question that, no matter which party has been in power,
the U.S. has over the decades advanced an essentially conservative global
political and pro-business agenda in areas far afield of the Middle East,
without reference to Israel or the lobby. The U.S. unseated Mossadegh in Iran
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossadegh) and Arbenz in Guatemala
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbenz) and Allende in Chile (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende), along with many
others, for its own corporate and political purposes, as the left critics note,
and did not use Israel.
But these facts do not minimize the power the lobby has exerted in
countless instances over the course of decades, and particularly in recent
years, to lead the U.S. into situations that Israel initiated, that the U.S. did
not plan, and that have done harm, both singly and cumulatively, to U.S.
interests.
One need only ask whether particular policies would have been adopted in
the absence of pressure from some influential persons and organizations working
on Israel's behalf in order to see just how often Israel or its advocates in the
U.S., rather than the United States or even U.S. corporations, have been the
policy initiators. The answers give clear evidence that a lobby, as broadly
defined by Mearsheimer and Walt, has played a critical and, as the decades have
gone on, increasingly influential role in policymaking.
For instance, would Harry Truman have been as supportive of
establishing Israel as a Jewish state if it had not been for heavy pressure from
what was then a very loose grouping of strong Zionists with considerable
influence in policymaking circles? It can reasonably be argued that he might not
in fact have supported Jewish statehood at all, and it is even more likely that
his own White House advisers all strong Zionist proponents themselves
would not have twisted arms at the United Nations to secure the 1947 vote
in favor of partitioning Palestine if these lobbyists had not been a part of
Truman's policymaking circle.
Truman himself did not initially support the notion of founding a state
based on religion, and every national security agency of government, civilian
and military, strongly opposed the partition of Palestine out of fear that this
would lead to warfare in which the U.S. might have to intervene, would enhance
the Soviet position in the Middle East, and would endanger U.S. oil interests in
the area. But even in the face of this united opposition from within his own
government, Truman found the pressures of the Zionists among his close advisers
and among influential friends of the administration and of the Democratic Party
too overwhelmingly strong to resist.
Questions like this arise for virtually every presidential
administration. Would Jimmy Carter, for instance, have dropped his pursuit of a
resolution of the Palestinian problem if the Israel lobby had not exerted
intense pressure on him? Carter was the first president to recognize the
Palestinian need for some kind of "homeland", as he termed it, and he made
numerous efforts to bring Palestinians into a negotiating process and to stop
Israeli settlement-building, but opposition from Israel and pressures from the
lobby were so heavy that he was ultimately worn down and defeated.
It is also all but impossible to imagine the U.S. supporting Israel's
actions in the occupied Palestinian territories without pressure from the lobby.
No conceivable U.S. national interest served even in the United States'
own myopic view by its support for Israel's harshly oppressive policy in
the West Bank and Gaza, and furthermore this support is a dangerous liability.
As Mearsheimer and Walt note, most foreign elites view the U.S. tolerance of
Israeli repression as "morally obtuse and a handicap in the war on terrorism",
and this tolerance is a major cause of terrorism against the U.S. and the West.
The impetus for oppressing the Palestinians clearly comes and has always come
from Israel, not the United States, and the impetus for supporting Israel and
facilitating this oppression has come, very clearly and directly, from the
lobby, which goes to great lengths to justify the occupation and to advocate on
behalf of Israeli policies.
It is tempting, and not at all out of the realm of possibility, to
imagine Bill Clinton having forged a final Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement
were it not for the influence of his notably pro-Israeli advisers. By the time
Clinton came to office, the lobby had become a part of the policymaking
apparatus, in the persons of Israeli advocates Dennis Ross and Martin Indyk,
both of whom entered government service from lobby organizations.
Both also returned at the end of the Clinton administration to
organizations that advocate for Israel: Ross to the Washington Institute and
Indyk to the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy, which
is financed by and named for a notably pro-Israeli benefactor.
The scope of the lobby's infiltration of government policymaking councils
has been unprecedented during the current Bush administration. Some of the left
critics dismiss the neo-cons as not having any allegiance to Israel; Finkelstein
thinks it is naïve to credit them with any ideological conviction, and Zunes
claims they are uninterested in benefiting Israel because they are not religious
Jews (as if only religious Jews care about Israel). But it simply ignores
reality to deny the neo-cons' very close ties, both ideological and pragmatic,
to Israel's right wing.
Both Norman Finkelstein and Stephen Zunes glaringly fail to mention the
strategy paper (
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1438.htm) that
several neo-cons wrote in 1996 for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
laying out a plan for attacking Iraq these same neo-cons later carried out upon
entering the Bush administration. The strategy was designed both to assure
Israel's regional dominance in the Middle East and to enhance U.S. global
hegemony.
One of these authors, David Wurmser (
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1392), remains in government
as Cheney's Middle East adviser one of several lobbyists inside the
henhouse. The openly trumpeted plan, crafted by the neo-cons, is to "transform"
the Middle East by unseating Saddam, and the notion, also openly touted, that
the path to peace in Palestine-Israel ran through Baghdad grew out of the
neo-cons' overriding concern for Israel.
Both Norman Finkelstein and Stephen Zunes also fail to take note of the
long record of advocacy on behalf of Israel that almost all the neo-cons (Paul
Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, Meyrav Wurmser, Elliott
Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Michael Rubin, Michael Chertoff, John Bolton, and their
cheerleaders on the sidelines such as William Kristol, Robert Kagan, Norman
Podhoretz, Midge Decter, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney,
Daniel Pipe, Paula Dobriansky, Morris Amitay, Eleana Benador, Max Boot, Stephen
Cambone, Lynne Cheney, Thomas Donnelly, Eric Edelman, David Frum, Reuel Marc
Gerecht, Robert Joseph, Danielle Pletka, Abram Shulsky, Henry Sokolski, Kenneth
Timmerman, Dov Zakheim, Robert Zoellick, Natan Sharansky, Richard Mellon Scaife,
Charles Krauthammer, Henry Kissinger, Lawrence Kadish, Jeffrey Gedmin, Brenda
Schaffer and numerous right-wing, pro-Israeli think tanks in Washington) have
compiled over the years.
The fact that these individuals and organizations are all also advocates of
U.S. global hegemony does not diminish their allegiance to Israel or their
desire to assure Israel's regional hegemony in alliance with the U.S.
The claimed interchangeability of U.S. and Israeli interests and
the fact that certain individuals for whom a primary objective is to advance
Israel's interests now reside inside the councils of government proves the
truth of the Mearsheimer-Walt's principal conclusion that the lobby has been
able to convince most Americans, contrary to reality, that there is an essential
identity of U.S. and Israeli interests and that the lobby has succeeded for this
reason in forging a relationship of unmatched intimacy.
The "overall thrust of policy" in the Middle East, they observe quite
accurately, is "almost entirely" attributable to the lobby's activities. The
fact that the U.S. occasionally acts without reference to Israel in areas
outside the Middle East, and that Israel does occasionally serve U.S. interests
rather than the other way around, takes nothing away from the significance of
this conclusion.
The tragedy of the present situation is that it has become impossible
to separate Israeli from alleged U.S. interests that is, not what should
be real U.S. national interests, but the selfish and self-defined "national
interests" of the political-corporate-military complex that dominates the Bush
administration, Congress, and both major political parties. The specific groups
that now dominate the U.S. government are the globalized arms, energy, and
financial industries, and the entire military establishments, of the U.S. and of
Israel groups that have quite literally hijacked the government and
stripped it of most vestiges of democracy.
This convergence of manipulated "interests" has a profound effect on
U.S. policy choices in the Middle East. When a government is unable to
distinguish its own real needs from those of another state, it can no longer be
said that it always acts in its own interests or that it does not frequently do
grave damage to those interests.
Until the system of sovereign nation-states no longer exists and that
day may never come no nation's choices should ever be defined according to the
demands of another nation. Accepting a convergence of U.S. and Israeli interests
means that the U.S. can never act entirely as its own agent, will never examine
its policies and actions entirely from the vantage point of its own long-term
self interest, and can, therefore, never know why it is devising and
implementing a particular policy.
The failure to recognize this reality is where the left critics' belittling
of the lobby's power and their acceptance of U.S. Middle East policy as simply
an unchangeable part of a longstanding strategy is particularly dangerous.
* Kathleen McGrath Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has
worked on Middle East issues for 30 years. She is the author of "Perceptions of
Palestine" and "The Wound of Dispossession".
* Bill Christison was a senior
official of the CIA. He served as a National Intelligence Officer and as
Director of the CIA's Office of Regional and Political Analysis. He is a
contributor to "Imperial Crusades", CounterPunch's history of the wars on Iraq
and Afghanistan.
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Part time lecturer of modern
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Department of History
Shepherd College
Shepherdstown, West
Virginia
Office: White Hall, room 316
email:
lfrankli[AT]shepherd.edu
Tel: 1-304-876-5329
Pro-Israel Lobbying Group
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Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/910d054d54919318AIPAC spies weave a tangled web
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dacdfa0c7476745cNew Hampshire reactor is going "Chernobyl"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2833d754eb9f7035U.S. is arming anti-Iran terrorists
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ebd9ea9cd2dd3479Jail the Jewish Cabal
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c6618bf51fd07b24Israeli spy investigation suppressed
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a8e555341f1add0eSpy case reveals Jews are running U.S. policy on Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d8a9ecd34b6a04ceNigger to address AIPAC
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0b436d3334d47ca9Israeli spy rejects plea deal
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/97ccfbaddb7bfbc9The State Department's extreme makeover
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c49481cb0ad82dd7Neocons Blast Bush's Inaction On 'Spy' Affair
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66c094aea035ebb0Larry Franklin fires lawyer
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/41cbd48d495e9adaIsrael punished CBS by giving it false documents on Bush
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/deb03f6b8c1b757aIsraeli 'Mordechai Vanunu': End Israeli nukes first
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d6bb72e81c271bd1Poll: Jews are spies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6e5c760794906c19Israel's beloved MEK terrorist 'Alireza Jafarzadeh'
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dcda82bb62db433aJews: Everyone telling truth is an Anti-Semite
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/96124f77ea592c60Be scared of Jew godfather Norman Podhoretz, not Osama
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a6bda38e4a9140dcAIPAC spy affair concerns Iran more than Israel
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2554b7fa4e351681AIPAC spy case involves intelligence on Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7561b44ac54c74e8Israeli military attache met with Larry Franklin
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3454d526137a305aPentagon: Jews own America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3120d8151cd5a368How AIPAC controls America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e4a024c8afde7761Inside the Israel espionage investigation
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/741880df63a475d3Jew spin on Israeli spy affair
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0f192576d6fc1c0fUgly picture: SISMI, Mossad, CIA, MI6
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/948249a9d349a557U.S. is just a province of Israel
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a977aee0625a0c27Headquarter of Zionist-Azaris
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7c0d09570b3db598I can just hear the Presidential conversation. "Did I say Iraq backed
al-Qaeda?" he
asks with a boyish grin. "Oh, heck, I meant Iran. I always get
those two mixed up".
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/af556b3d179dce63Axis Of Spies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3103b787cf2776bbPoor Jew-lover 'Larry Franklin'
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9cda15866350834aNest of Spies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a7b75a6373579dc3Steven Rosen, Keith Weissman - AIPAC terrorists
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dceea4f86f10ba21Behind the Israeli mole affair
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c2732ff27082c23cLarry Franklin hates Iran passionately
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dee5ee0251596b4aReport on Iran Key to spying inquiry
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9cfc3f608ab89480Jews spy on Jews on Iran, interesting!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ad309bd67eaee0adMossad agent & fabricator
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/725fe51e0622dd38'Michael Ledeen' is a dangerous animal
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a2787c6cc58a1255Jews: antagonize Iran so they get frustrated
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6ace909d2455efebWho is the head of Azari-Skinheads?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2eabab1a44d66a76A chat with the leader of azari-skinheads
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/209847dd5106b91eJew "Brenda Shaffer" leader of Zionist-azaris
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8118481c689e3b17Things are getting ugly for dirty Jews & Azari-Skinheads
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/beb62a7027360cfcHeadquarter of Azari-Skinheads target of spy probe
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7c0d09570b3db598Leader of Azari-Skinheads exposed
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/91cbf23a753966c0CIA & Mosad planners give support to Azari-Skinheads
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c8d6e023b8131c18After setting-up Azari-Skinheads, Brenda Shaffer is now working on
Nukes
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/9ff5968c586ab548Know thy enemy
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fa5337ab80d46979What are Iran's domestic priorities?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d51856c6861897b0Lawmakers met with Iranian exile scrutinized over
intelligence
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d9bd00a0920b05bfUS-UK & Paki Islamic terror networks
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b2b8c392d0ba345dThe American hand in Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/658f0dc1ee0e6ca6AIPAC can place you by the elbow of the President
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/72bed98236d4a4b1Who's Behind the Coming War With Iran?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f4ba4adbeeacf972Jew lobbyists charged with classified leaks
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f0459ee06d09c030Israelis bragged about Pentagon spy Larry Franklin
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c26251e6e9ea8487Israeli spy ring update - Israeli art students & movers
story
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/04066a14eb8ba1d9The Plame/AIPAC-gate Connection
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1f56a3e0bcf41b75Neocon History: How Jews took over America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8577f89e1d225111Iran Policy Committee: Pentagon Mouthpiece, Israeli Ally, MEK
Supporter
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/97c8cbcf1dea31ecJew agent Mohammad Parvin
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e991ff4cd34e10c4ZioNazis really love & care for Iranians!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4435aed741ab5bbcResistance in the Middle East is Not a “Discontinuous Event”
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cc09b92c91832e98Michael Rubin - Learn about Jews who care about Iran!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d449965360da1f42Info on Michael Rubin
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf71dd4df1b4694eLebanese Maronite shit "Michael Maloof" & Moonies try to connect
Al-Qaida (CIA) to
Shias
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/69943c4d47321c3eJEW 'Kenneth Pollack', author of "Persian Puzzle", is part of JEWPAC
espionage
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2e5d8e9ecb097405U.S. Expands Aid to Iran's Democracy Advocates Abroad
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4e18974eb616facePlanners of strategy to use Zionist-Azaris to destabilize
Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/910d054d54919318Network of Middle East "experts"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0c5bdbd69470096aJews plot against Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/78f0b1ef3f34d906NPR is another Jew-FOX
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/35ee68371040cbb5The emergence of a new Axis: Los Angeles-Tel Aviv-Tehran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb9a65a1c9a973f7New Front Sets Sights On Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/603696d3c99d0219The coalition of Iran-haters
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/93a5a9f3c615118bJINSA - How JEW occupied America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2fab08bcc3d07f86Guilty plea planned in secrets case
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a2deb00b2bef79adLarry Franklin guilty in Israeli espionage case
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/ac5aecd8041997afIsraeli-Arab "Psychological Operation"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/12c70fc875d4be34Israelis urge U.S. to stop Iran's nuke goals
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2a78206b45d2cd5dMother of all scandals - With friends like this...
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/60273e3841b24fa5AIPAC, AEI are trying to whip up an anti-Iran frenzy
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a44a185017d7a9a1White House manipulation of the media
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9da14f43b85eebaThe Exorcism of the New York Times
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4bb62103d6c6f358Grand Strategy For the Middle East
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bec2fec22e9ebf7aThe report they forgot: Feith, Rhode, Franklin, Ghorbanifar &
SISMI
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3bf51ba5c456a651Larry Franklin/AIPAC/Lewis Libby/Judith Miller/Valerie Plame
Wilson
http://www.franklingate.comPlame
affair/PlameGate/CIA leak scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affairWhite House Staff "Starting Lineup" Biographies
http://www.gwu.edu/~action/buildbio.htmlClumsy forgeries, Italian style
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4a805cdf34b2b015Historic opportunity
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a13e9901a9e9b597Indictment gives glimpse into Israeli operation
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3b21cac1f464b907Indictments put focus on JewCons
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/b8bb0fa7742cf0d1Fallout from PlameGate runs deep
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/1bf18fcce356b6ebThe first Jacobin falls
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a057d899e75f0279JEW Irv Lewis 'Scooter' Libby indicted
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/66853cb8c2a9e981Very dark days for the White House: Andrew Card, WH Chief of
Staff
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/071dcac6f8530582Aide to Cheney appears likely to be indicted; Rove under
scrutiny
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fb1de4ed7251e42bCover-Up Issue Is Seen as Focus in Leak Inquiry
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f8a438a900ef766eMichael "P2" Ledeen’s fingers in the yellowcake forgery
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a8e9166c36eb579Michael "P2" Ledeen; faster, please!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d8d134f253c6702dFixing and forging intelligence
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4c6663c968fd5f6cFitzgerald has decided to seek indictments, those near inquiry
say
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2b64050fa07440eaA CIA cover blown, a White House exposed - How JEW screws
America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/433a0266bf2c99d0Larry Franklin, Karl Rove, a whole lot of JEWS, & the Espionage
Act
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/daf24178eb29563fThe Politics of 'Creative Destruction'
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/40d87f1189d15dcdWhite House JEW cabal: Colonel Wilkerson
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/dd9285a9efc88835White House cabal - dumb, but smart Feith
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/354075c6e822593bNew York Times LIES exposed
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/5abb8776ce90451eIs the New York Times an Israeli spy nest?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f3a8bb8928b50b97Exorcism of the New York Times
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4bb62103d6c6f358White House manipulation of the media
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9da14f43b85eebaStifling neo-crazy media sycophants
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/8790e709a9a122b4Grand Strategy For the Middle East
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bec2fec22e9ebf7aTurkish-Israeli espionage in America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d6c6099bc646741bTurkey, Israel and the U.S. (The Axis of Satan)
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4315a88c84ef1278JEW exposed - Let justice be done
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7743Living in fascist states of America
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/85d98a73d14b359bPoetic justice - White House "spin" spins out of control
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9a5be43e43bcc2fLarry Franklin-Plame connection
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/cbc77a30a4b0072fGaffney’s gripe
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/57532e69ef10fb8cJEW: we didn't Know Larry Franklin was spying for us!!!
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bf821b9b3c785f6fAIPAC, AEI are trying to whip up an anti-Iran frenzy
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a44a185017d7a9a1JEW-gate - a criminal conspiracy
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7490GLADIO revealed: SISMI-CIA-MI6-Mossad and fake nuke
documents
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c482c86bb25b8e9cThe IAEA, New York Times and the New World Order
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/39dfff306dfba6cfThe New York Times, Nuclear Weapons and Iran: Stupidity, Laziness or Déjà
vu All Over
Again?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/f2718b3d938eaed2The Exorcism of the New York Times
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4bb62103d6c6f358Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d7ba3e0a9c3a0c64Grand Strategy For the Middle East
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bec2fec22e9ebf7aCracks in the JEW fortress? Judith Miller, Lewis Libby, John Bolton,
& AIPAC
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/c15c2b39abf7529fBeneath spy 'outing' lies story of many JEW lies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2ea0ee4fcfc89f5bJudy Miller the neocon and $1.2 million book deal
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/eb657b913add5b6bJudy Miller and the AIPAC spy case
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/04722ec8d2dce7b2Lies of Judith Miller of Jew York Tiems
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/d7ba3e0a9c3a0c64Disgraced neo-crazy media sycophant Judith Miller
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/009482f7d2fcd131Getting rid of Jayson Blair and Judith Miller was a good beginning, but
the NYT still
has "reporters" publishing as "facts" neo-crazy (and eco-wacko)
propaganda.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a8c72c78d5b0182dJudith Miller is no longer spreading neo-crazy lies and misleading
statements on the
front page of the New York Times. However, David E.
Sanger is still on the job.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6f573bd90d5e1ee1As always, the New York Times has spearheaded the propaganda war with an
article by
Jew Richard Bernstein and Jew Steven Weisman which lays out the
sketchy case against
Iran.
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/533df1a6e9c70757A Dear Judy letter from Scooter Libby--with Admiration
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/86107957029306c3How the CIA paid for Jew Miller's stories
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3cce00b07f899feeWhite House manipulation of the media
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e9da14f43b85eebaFixing and forging intelligence
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/4c6663c968fd5f6cThe first Jacobin falls
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a057d899e75f0279Nocon's zealotry is blowing up in their faces
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/802d8922e9609257Indictment gives glimpse into Israeli operation
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/3b21cac1f464b907Israel and the neocons: The Lewis Libby affair
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/db8281ff44bd388eWhite House cabal - dumb, but smart Feith
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/354075c6e822593bJEW Michael "P2" Ledeen linked to forged uranium documents
http://groups.google.ca/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0a3aed650f66d629GLADIO at work: Michael "P2" Ledeen, Silvio "P2" Berlusconi, Nicolo "P2"
Pollari,
SISMI, & Stephen Hadley linked to uranium lies
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/04709af68e51b02eMichael "P2" Ledeen exposed; yet he's not arrested! "American
Justice"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/db7fad39c1c29cf0New York Times censorship: Why Dr. Khodr's letter is not
published?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e278ec3a05a77e83Western nation's use of "torture" is now called "abuse"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/7bbaa3eb12fca947JEW spies consider suing the AIPAC
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/fd1603eaf91c78abAIPAC statement on the U.S. administration's policy on Iran
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0c5663f63d76e5c0Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda war
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/111b222eb6a82d3eHow To Sell a War; ask John Rendon
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/04fb9da4e49937f6A JEW conspiracy so vast…the Plame plot thickens
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/e0790a3ef011067cThe Simon Wiesenthal Center: A Bastion of JEW propaganda
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/6d9f7ea3b19c28faHow to sell War to the masses
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bd3077c988854883Saddam apologist turned anti-Saddam
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/2e7a780269016f19Double Talk & Biological Warfare
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/96e539085f95a552Jewish propaganda agent: Benador Associates
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/bedf5c550a880efcScholarship or Sophistry?
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/a115d9c0e44bfdf1Network of Middle East "experts"
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.iranian/msg/0c5bdbd69470096a