ARABS AND MUSLIM ARE VICTIMS OF ANTI SEMITISM
Conquistador
James J. Zogby, Arab News
WASHINGTON, 5 May 2004 - The Organization for Security & Cooperation in
Europe (OSCE) conference on anti-Semitism completed its first meeting
without addressing the problem in its totality.
There are, in fact, two anti-Semitisms. One has historically found
expression in the hatred and vilification of the Jewish people; the other
has manifested itself in the equally odious hatred and vilification of Arabs
and Muslims.
A decade ago I was asked to speak on this subject at a special conference
organized by Hebrew University. In light of the just completed conference, I
offer a summary of my remarks.
Historically, the animus of anti-Semitism directed against both Arabs and
Jews has been the same. It has been a largely Western Christian struggle
against two Semitic civilizations - one that it found living within its
midst and that it saw as an internal threat; the other that it confronted as
an external challenge but that it similarly defined as a threat to its
survival.
Both Jews and Arab Muslims were perceived as threats - their organizations,
their wealth, and even their corporate identities were seen as damaging to
the West. And the results have been devastating to both peoples. Both groups
have suffered a history of vilification and both have endured campaigns of
systematic violence.
Several years ago I did a study of political cartoons and other forms of
popular culture, comparing the depiction of Jews in Czarist Russia and
pre-Nazi Germany with that of the Arabs in the United States in the 1970s
and '80s. In both content and form the treatments given to each were
identical. The two most prevalent German and Russian depictions of Jews
paralleled the two most common images of the Arabs projected in US cartoons.
The fat grotesque Jewish banker or merchant found its contemporary
counterpart in the obese oil sheikh, and the images of the Arab and Jewish
terrorists differed only in their attire.
Both groups were uniformly treated as alien and hostile. They were accused
of not sharing Western values and were both viewed as prone to conspiracy.
They were both seen as usurpers of Western wealth and were defined as
threats to Western civilization. Jews were associated with capitalist greed
and anarchist violence and communism. Arab avarice was held responsible for
runaway inflation, and they were seen as the main agents responsible for
international terrorism.
In the wake of the horrors of the Holocaust, anti-Semitism against Jews is
now recognized for what it is - hateful prejudice. We have yet to learn this
lesson when it comes to Arabs and Islam.
Although some may argue that these misrepresentations of Arabs and Islam
stems from ignorance, the problem is not just ignorance, but what passes for
knowledge. The so-called media "experts" who define Islam for Western
audiences include virtually no Arabs or Muslims, and many of these
self-proclaimed experts are actually ideologues engaged in a hostile
campaign to portray Islam as a "green scare" replacing communism as the new
national threat. They depict Islam as something foreign, un-American, and
diametrically opposed to "our" values. Popular culture only reinforces these
negative images. In films, books, and television, the portrayal of Arabs and
Muslims are almost uniformly hostile.
In the absence of any positive portrayals of American Muslims in the
mainstream media, Western audiences don't see the community as multifaceted
with many positive characteristics. They only see one-dimensional
stereotypical images; and because of the media's obsession with isolated
violent acts without any discussion of context or history, the image of
Islam has come to be defined by the terrorist. The terrorist is not seen as
the exception to the religion of Islam, but the rule.
To counter this "other anti-Semitism" requires both vigilance and hard work.
When non-Arabs and non-Muslims react to anti-Arab and anti-Muslim
stereotypes with the same outrage they display toward anti-Jewish bigotry,
then we will be on the path to burying the "other anti-Semitism."
What I wrote a decade ago remains relevant, but there are a number of new
and troubling facts to this problem that must also be considered in this
discussion.
Firstly, though inevitable, it is nevertheless profoundly tragic that the
two historic victims of this anti-Semitic bigotry have fallen prey to
embracing and utilizing it in their respective political discourses.
When an Israeli Rabbi refers to Arabs as "vermin" or "poisonous snakes" that
is anti-Semitism.
When either side speaks of the "other" as a guilty collective or identifies
the other side as possessing innate negative traits - as in "Jews are
untrustworthy" or "Arabs are prone to violence" - that is anti-Semitism. It
is wrong for Americans and Europeans to speak this way and it is just as
disturbing when Arabs and Jews use such language as well.
Secondly, there are some in the West who want to stretch the definition of
anti-Semitism in an effort to silence legitimate political criticism of the
policies in the State of Israel.
They insist that any singling out of Israel is motivated by an anti-Jewish
animus. Recent charges of anti-Semitism against UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and
Mary Robinson (the Nobel Prize winner) both of whom recently criticized
Israeli occupation are examples of this terrible abuse of the anti-Semitism
charge for political purposes.
In this context, Secretary of State Colin Powell was correct to note that
"it is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the state of Israel,
but the line is crossed when Israel's leaders are demonized and vilified by
the use of Nazi symbols or racist caricatures."
True enough - but the same yardstick should also be applied to the "other
anti-Semitism" as well. All too often the language used to demonize Yasser
Arafat is nothing more than vile, hate-filled bigotry. In other words,
anti-Semitism.
Racism is a pollutant. It must be confronted because it distorts human
interaction, destroys reasoned political discourse and presents a confused
portrait of reality. The root of the Arab-Israeli conflict is not the
supposed evil "nature" of Arabs or Jews. It is a conflict born of the denial
of rights, occupation and violence.
For all sides to continue to portray the conflict in racist terms, or to
generalize its nature using language, which implies collective guilt,
prolongs the conflict, adds news victims and makes a political resolution
more difficult.
As an effort to detoxify the discussion, the OSCE conference was one-half
right. There is anti-Jewish bigotry in Europe. But is there not also growing
anti-Muslim sentiment as well? Next year's meeting must focus on both
anti-Semitisms, not as a finger-pointing exercise in mutual recrimination,
but as a real effort to address a real problem that has, for at least a
millennium, taken too many victims, Arabs and Jews alike.
- Dr. James J. Zogby is the president of Arab American Institute. For
comments or information, contact jzo...@aaiusa.org or http://www.aaiusa.org
AnonMoos
which strictly-speaking applies only to purely linguistic matters --
and is also found in the fixed expression "anti-Semitic", which is a
19th-century genteel and ultra-polite Victorian drawing-room euphemism
for "Jew-hating" (invented in 1879 by the non-Jewish Jew-hater Wilhelm
Marr, by the way); this word has always and only meant "Jew-hating".
Outside of these two contexts, "Semitic" basically has no meaning
whatsoever, and should be completely avoided (in modern sound
scientifically-accurate usage, the term "Semitic" is used to describe
_languages_, but is never used to describe peoples or ethnic groups,
unless perhaps in a strictly historical way to describe tribesmen of
1000 B.C.). If you're trying to weasel around and manipulate some
kind of semantics in order to pretend that Arabs can't hate Jews, then
that's utterly lamely feebly pathetically ludicrous.
"Conquistador" <pinksp...@earthlink.net>
> Arabs and Muslims Are Victims of Anti-Semitism
> James J. Zogby, Arab News
> There is anti-Jewish bigotry in Europe. But is there not also growing
> anti-Muslim sentiment as well?
Yes there is -- but if you try to call it "anti=Semitism" then you're
indulging yourself in weaseling semantics, and are deliberately and
intentionally trying to muddle and obfuscate the situation (rather than
seeking to add clarity to the issues). Shame on Zogby! Shame! Shame!
--
سنقاتل لأجل
حريتنا ولن
نعطى الجزية
ولسنا صاغرين
Murderers are not martyrs! http://symbolictruth.fateback.com/
Patricia Heil
amigocabal
Masterminds Of
Global Terrorism?
By Laura Knight-Jadczyk
Cassiopaea.org
6-9-3
The other day I was scanning the news reports and came across a rather
mundane item that really got me to thinking. It simply read:
<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3484.htm>Cloudcroft, New
Mexico Police Chief Stops Israelis With Suspicious Cargo
By Michael Shinabery
Staff Writer
Alamogordo Daily News
CLOUDCROFT, NM -- That they were speeding through the school zone first got
his attention.
That they had Israeli driver's licenses and expired passports made him
suspicious.
Cloudcroft Police Chief Gene Green stopped the 2-ton van on Thursday, for
speeding. Initially, Green thought the truck was commercial because of
exterior markings. But when he found it was out of Chicago, he asked for
documentation such as logs books and manifests.
"They said this is a U-Haul truck and handed me a rental agreement (for)
in-town delivery only in Illinois, (which) had expired two days before,"
Green said. He called for backup, and Otero County Sheriff's Deputy Billy
Anders, who patrols the Sacramento Mountains, arrived, along with Capt.
Norbert Sanchez and Det. Eddie Medrano.
"We got them out and started digging a little deeper," Green said, "got
permission to search the truck. They claimed they were hauling furniture
from Austin to Chicago." When officers advised the men they were not exactly
en route from one town to another, Green said the two men claimed they were
Deming bound. "But they couldn't give us an address in Deming they were
going to," he said. "Once we got into the truck, they had some junk
furniture I wouldn't have given to Goodwill."
Also inside the vehicle were, Green said, "50 boxes" they claimed was a
"private" delivery, but the men insisted they had no "idea what was in
them."
At that point, the officers called for drug-sniffing and bomb-sniffing dogs.
The men were turned over to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and
U- Haul recovered the truck.
Contents of the boxes remain unknown, pending investigation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3484.htm
Well, don't that just beat all? Yet another "moving company" with Israeli
drivers with bad papers, and nobody even noticed...
Well, I noticed.
Not only did I notice, I remembered a strange story about a similar event:
On May 7, 2002, local police authorities pulled over a Budget rental truck
in Oak Harbour, Washington near the Whitney Island Naval Air Station. The
driver and his passenger were Israeli nationals, one of which had entered
the country illegally. The other had an expired visa. Tests performed on the
vehicle revealed that there were traces of TNT on the gearshift and RDX
plastic explosives on the steering wheel. But no actual explosives were
reported to have been found in the truck. [Fox News, 5/13/02]
A report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer the following day reported that
the FBI performed follow-up tests on the truck which turned-up negative. One
source speculated that perhaps the original tests had actually detected just
cigarette residue, and not explosives. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5/14/02,
Jerusalem Post, 5/14/02].
Critics argued that it would make no sense for U.S. authorities to use a
method of testing that could be skewed by cigarette residue. The website
whatreallyhappened.com remarked:
'The specific claim is made that residue from a cigarette lighter confused
the tests for TNT and RDX. That doesn't explain why the trained
bomb-sniffing dog, who surely knows the difference between explosives and
cigarettes [else he would false-positive every smoker, ashtray, and
convenience store he came across] gave the first indications of explosives
in the truck that led to the tests in the first place. Likewise, were the
chemical tests unable to discriminate between tobacco and TNT/RDX, which are
chemically quite different from tobacco combustion products, they would give
false positive results for every vehicle ever tested in which smokers had
ever ridden. Given the likelihood of finding tobacco residues in any car,
such tests would have to be designed to tell the difference. The same is
true for other products from non- electric cigarette lighters, the vast
majority of which are butane.'
The same website also provided references to three documents with detailed
information on the tests used to detect TNT and RDX. None of the documents
indicated that the presence of cigarette residue might induce inaccurate
test results. [International Society for Optical Engineering 1984; Cold
Regions and Research Engineering Laboratory 5-1996; Security Management
n.d.]
I also remembered another peculiar item: the so-called
<http://cooperativeresearch.org/wot/sept11/911mossad.html>Urban Moving
Company that some researchers suggest was a cover for Mossad.
Many observers have suggested that Israel had foreknowledge of the 9/11
terrorists attacks. Some have even argued that they may have been behind the
attacks, and it seems that the funny stories about Israelis with trucks and
bad papers just keep popping up here and there.
On September 11, five employees of Jewish owned Urban Moving Company were
detained as a result of witness accounts that they were taking pictures of
the flaming ruins of the World Trade Center and celebrating!
Yes indeedy! Shortly after the collapse of the towers a witness called the
police and reported that the 5 individuals were, 'going to unusual lengths
to photograph the World Trade Center ruins' and they were obviously and
blatantly 'making light of the situation.' The witness stated that these men
were on the roof of the office of their employer, Urban Moving Company, and
were posing, dancing, and laughing. [New York Times 10/8/01; Bergen Record
9/12/01; Ha'aretz 9/17/01; Gotham Gazette 11/2/01]
After their indiscreet celebration on the roof of the building, the five
Israelis headed down to a nearby parking lot where they mounted the roof of
their truck and resumed their photographing and celebrating. Another witness
called the police and told them that the men were smiling, dancing, and
giving each other high-fives while viewing the destruction of the symbol of
Free Enterprise in America. [Gotham Gazette 11/2/01; ABC News, 6/21/02]
A few hours later, the five Israelis were stopped by police while driving
their truck. One individual had $4,700 in cash hidden in his sock, while
another had two foreign passports. They were also found to be in the
possession of a box- cutter, which they presumably had because of their job
as professional movers. [New York Times 10/8/01; Gotham Gazette 11/2/01; ABC
News, 6/21/02]
On September 14, Dominic Suter, the owner of the moving company, left the
country very abruptly after FBI agents indicated that they wanted a second
interview with him. According to ABC Newsí 2020 [ABC News 6/21/02], 'Three
months later 2020's cameras photographed the inside of Urban Moving, and it
looked as if the business had been shut down in a big hurry. Cell phones
were lying around; office phones were still connected; and the property of
dozens of clients remained in the warehouse. The owner had also cleared out
of his New Jersey home, put it up for sale and returned with his family to
Israel.' [New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, 12/13/01; Gotham
Gazette 11/2/01; ABC News, 6/21/02; Forward, 3/15/02]
Shortly after the arrest of the men, FBI officials suspected that the Urban
Moving company was an Israeli intelligence front. Vince Cannistraro, a
former chief of operations for counterterrorism, told ABC News that the FBI
was concerned that the moving company had been 'set up or exploited for the
purpose of launching an intelligence operation against radical Islamists in
the area, particularly in the New Jersey-New York area.' [ABC News, 6/21/02]
The five employees that were taken into custody were all former members of
the Israeli Army. After being transferred to jail, the FBIís Criminal
Division sent the case to the Counterintelligence Section on account of
suspicions that they were Israeli spies. They were then detained for more
that two months. Some of them spent 40 days in solitary confinement. [New
York Times 11/21/01; ABC News, 6/21/02]
Naturally, several individuals attempted to research this item. One
high-ranking U.S. intelligence source told Forward magazine that
intelligence agentsí investigation of Urban Moving Company led them to
believe it was a front for the Israeli Mossad. It should be noted that, at
present there is no publicly available information that conclusively
confirms this allegation. However the above described incident, reported by
various news sources, certainly casts a very dark shadow of suspicion on the
company and its employees.
It seems that Urban Moving Company was not an isolated phenomenon.
According to a small local newspaper in Pennsylvania, The Mercury, three
Israeli employees working for Moving Systems, Inc. were detained by police
on October 11, 2001, after being caught illegally dumping garbage from their
moving truck into the dumpster of a restaurant. The suspects had fled the
seen after being confronted by the restaurantís manager, who immediately
reported the incident to the police. [The Mercury 10/17/01]
The Mercury reported: 'The area was searched by township police, and the
vehicle was spotted parked on the curb in front of John Kennedy Ford on
Ridge Pike, just west of Industrial Way. An officer proceeded to make
contact with the occupants of the truck by knocking on the cab, according to
reports.
A Middle Eastern [an Israeli according to Executive Intelligence Review
3/29/02] man, later identified as Ron Katar, 23, exited the sleeper area of
the cab and said that the operator - Elmakias - was across the street as he
pointed toward the Don Rosen Porsche dealer, reports said.
Elmakias and a white female, Ayelet Reisler, 23, were approaching the
vehicle from the dealership, but the female then began walking in a
different direction, acting as if she were not with Elmakias, according to
reports. . . .
Elmakias said that his destination was New York and that he was also coming
from New York. He said he was in Plymouth because he was supposed to make a
pickup from a male in the morning and pointed toward the Storage USA
facility on Belvoir Road and West Ridge Pike, police said. Elmakias could
not, however, provide a name or telephone number of the customer.' [The
Mercury 10/17/01]
A search of the truck turned up detailed video footage of the Sears Towers
along with several other suspicious articles. It was also discovered that
the driver of the truck had falsified his driver log.
As of this date, no ties to Israeli intelligence have been made. [The
Mercury 10/17/01]
Then, of course, there was the "Art Scandal."
It seems that Israeli ëart studentsí - Israelis posing as ëart studentsí
selling their art [actually made in China], - were suspected of spying for
Israel. They were detained by the FBI and later deported to Israel on
account of visa violations. The FBI first took notice of them in January of
2001.
A highly detailed DEA report that was acquired by French intelligence
analysts documented 180 cases of Israeli art students infiltrating DEA
facilities. It provided names, drivers' license numbers, addresses and phone
numbers of the Israelis. [DEA report 6/01; Insight 3/11/02]
Despite official confirmations of the report, other U.S. officials denied
its existence. In response, Intelligence Online released the document to
CreativeLoafing.com who published it on the Internet for the public. [DEA
report 6/01] The Associated Press also reported that it had a copy [AP
3/9/02] The report acknowledged that the art students 'may well be an
organized intelligence-gathering activity.' [DEA report 6/01; AP 3/5/02; Sun
Sentinel 3/7/02]
Bill Carter, a spokesman for the FBI, said, 'After an agency reported
suspicious activities by those so-called students, the FBI conducted an
investigation and determined that there was no credence to the assumption
that this was an Israeli spying operation. None of the Israelis were charged
with espionage and they were all deported by the INS for visa violations.'
[Forward 3/15/02]
Now, here is where things get VERY INTERESTING!
You see, five of the so-called Israeli Art Students that weren't really art
students, had been living at 4220 Sheridan St in Hollywood, Florida.
What is so interesting about that address?
It just so happens that four of the five so-called 9/11 hijackers that were
on AA Flight 11 [Mohammed Atta, Abdulaziz Al-Omari, Walid and WaÔl Al-
Shehri] and one of the five hijackers [Marwan Al-Shehhi] from UA Flight 175
had at one time or another also resided in Hollywood, Florida.
Where in Hollywood?
Why, it just happens that Mohammed Atta, the presumed lead hijacker had
lived at 3389 Sheridan St, only a few blocks away from the Fake Israeli Art
Students! [Le Monde 3/5/02; Reuters 3/5/02; Jane's Intelligence Digest,
3/15/02; Salon, 5/7/02]
Well, don't that just beat all! And to think, Florida Senator Bob Graham was
having breakfast with Pakistani ISI chief
<http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/mahmoud_ahmed.htm>Mahmoud-Ahmad on the
morning of September 11 - the same ISI chief who was later linked to
Mohammed Atta by virtue of the fact that he transferred a LOT of money to
the guy.
Hmmm... I smell a rat somewhere!
Of course, the Israelis have a good reason for this: they were
"investigating terrorists!" We are assured by German news sources that:
'between December 2000 and April 2001 a whole horde of Israeli
counter-terror investigators, posing as students, followed the trails of
Arab terrorists and their cells in the United States. In their secret
investigations, the Israelis came very close to the later perpetrators of
Sept. 11. In the town of Hollywood, Florida, they identified the two former
Hamburg students and later terror pilots Mohammed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi
as possible terrorists. Agents lived in the vicinity of the apartment of the
two seemingly normal flight school students, observing them around the
clock.' [Der Spiegel 10/1/02]
I guess they didn't observe them "around the clock" enough to see when they
were getting on those planes that were hijacked. A failure of intelligence?
What's more, this truly pathetic "explanation" doesn't explain the joy of
the Israelis at the collapse of the World Trade Center Towers, nor why Bob
Graham was <http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/mahmoud_ahmed.htm>having
breakfast with the guy who paid off Mohammed Atta...
Well, it gets deeper: In addition to the close proximity of the Israeli ëart
studentsí to the Florida-based hijackers, other ëart studentsí in Texas,
California, and Arkansas were operating close to several of the other
hijackers suspected of taking part in the 9-11 attacks. [DEA report 6/01]
And if that doesn't just crumble your cookies, how about the fact that six
of the students had mobile phones that had been purchased by a former
Israeli vice consul in the U.S.? [Le Monde 3/5/02]
The passports of the students revealed that they had been visitors in
several different countries including, Thailand, Laos, India, Kenya, Central
and South America, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands and Canada. [Insight
3/11/02]
In spite of the findings of the DEA report, the students were deported back
to Israel on account of visa violations. [AP 3/5/02]
Now, let me try to understand this: at that point in time when every single
American citizen was subject to being a suspected terrorist, a gang of
Israelis with "SPY" practically branded on their foreheads, were simply
shipped home with NO QUESTIONS ASKED?!
EXCUUUSE ME?!
We had to stand in line for four hours - with our dog and children - at the
Miami Airport to have our luggage searched by hand, to be scanned,
inspected, questioned, suspected, and in every way insulted by privacy
violations - and these thugs just went home to do the happy dance?
Is the U.S. government complicit in Israeli spying activities? Are the
Israelis spying on Americans with the permission of America's own elected
officials? Ooops! sorry. Lost my head. I forgot for a moment and thought we
had elected officials. Now I remember: America is the new Banana Republic
with fixed elections, courtesy of the Bush gang.
Well, anyway, back to the problem at hand: It just so happens that Israeli
suspects appear to know when they are being investigated.
In several investigations of Israeli suspects, the suspects quickly modified
their behavior after U.S. enforcement agencies began wiretapping them. This
suggests that the suspects may have known that they were being monitored.
[Fox News 12/12-13/01]
In other words, either somebody very high in the U.S. government is warning
them when those silly lower level bureaucrats get nosey. Either that, or
there is a major mole in the U.S. intelligence services.
According to Executive Intelligence Review, 'A well-placed Washington source
has alerted EIR that there is growing suspicion among U.S. government law
enforcement and intelligence agencies that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon has dispatched special operations teams into North America. The
warning came in the context of a discussion about the recent deportation of
five Israelis who were detained on Sept. 11 for suspicious behaviorÖ
"Portions of the funds garnered from the illegal operations, according to
sources, are funneled to offshore bank accounts of Israeli Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon. Some of these dirty funds were reportedly diverted to Sharon's
election campaigns. This Israeli mafia apparatus receives technical support
via a number of Israeli communications firms, that subcontract with major
American telephone companies and government law enforcement agencies' [EIR
12/13/01]
What does seem to be true is that, in spite of the U.S. federal agency
claims that "there is no Israeli spy network," several of the same federal
agencies have in the past year taken steps to protect themselves against
espionage! It seems that things were getting mighty sticky because the U.S.
Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive officially warned
federal employees in March 2001 about the art students and urged them to
report any contact with such art students! The warning read, 'These
individuals have been described as aggressive. They attempt to engage
employees in conversation rather than giving a sales pitch.' [Insight
3/11/02; AP 3/9/02; Forward 3/15/02]
What seems to be emerging as the obvious solution to this mystery is that
there is both high level U.S. government complicity AND a major mole in the
U.S. intelligence services.
DEA communications employees were put on alert. According to John Sugg, 'a
Dec. 18 e-mail among DEA communications employees makes clear that the
agency underwent self-scrutiny as the ëresult of the Fox network expose on
Israeli counterintelligence activitiesí.' [Creative Loafing, Atlanta
3/27/02]
Pentagon and DOD ended practice of awarding foreign companies contracts
involving sensitive projects. The World Tribune [World Tribune 3/12/02]
reported, 'Israeli nationals could be banned from participating in U.S.
defense contracts under new regulations that seek to keep foreigners out of
sensitive projects.' The article revealed that these restrictions were
specifically targeted at 'IT' and other 'computer-related' contracts.
Pete Nelson, the deputy director for personnel security in the Pentagon,
stated, 'Some foreign nationals ó those in the most sensitive positions ó
may not be permitted to remain in those positions. As we review our security
requirements as a nation, we need to ensure all people with access to
sensitive IT [information technology] systems are cleared and properly
vetted for the material to which they have access.'
On December 13, 2001 the EIR's Washington Bureau Chief Bill Jones asked
Colin Powell, 'There were 60 Israeli citizens who have been picked up in the
post- Sept. 11 sweep, many of whom, if not all of whom, are connected to
Israeli intelligence. Are you concerned about such intelligence operations
on U.S. soil, and have you taken up this issue with your counterpart in
Israel?'
Powell responded: 'I'm aware that some Israeli citizens have been detained,
and I've been in touch with the Israeli government as to the fact that they
have been detained, in making sure that they have rights of access to
Israeli diplomatic personnel here in the United States. With respect to why
they are being detained, and the other aspects of your question, whether
it's because they are in intelligence services or what things they were
doing, I will defer to the Department of Justice and the FBI to answer that;
because, frankly, I deal with the consular parts of that problem, not the
intelligence or law-enforcement parts of that problem.' [Fox News 12/17/01;
EIR 12/28/01]
Justice Department Susan Dryden, spokesperson, referring to the numerous
articles citing the leaked DEA report, claimed, 'At this time, we have no
information to support this.' [Le Monde 3/5/02; AP 3/9/02; Fox News Service
3/5/01] Ms. Dryden went even further to say that the story was 'an urban
myth that has been circulating for months. The department has no information
at this time to substantiate these widespread reports about Israeli art
students involved in espionage.' [Washington Post, 3/6/02]
According to one independent journalist who was investigating the ëart
studentsí a CIA officer had told him, 'Weíve just closed the book on it. And
I recommend that you do the same.' [Salon, 5/7/02]
Whoa! Now what's THAT supposed to mean? Is that a threat?! Again I ask why
law-abiding American citizens must submit to the loss of all their
constitutional freedoms while very suggestive evidence exists that Israel
may be complicit in the 9-11 attacks - from which THEY AND THE BUSH GANG
ALONE BENEFITTED - is "closed" to scrutiny?
One official of the present administration stated that the 'evidence linking
these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that
has been gathered. It's classified information.' [Fox News 12/12-13/01]
Which brings up the question as to why the Bush Administration is not only
blocking an unbiased investigation into the events of September 11, but are
also stalling on releasing the reports that HAVE been assembled? What do
they REALLY have to hide?
Well, maybe the following provides a clue:
Pro-Israeli director of the Middle East Forum Daniel Pipes wrote an op-ed
piece asserting that the whole espionage story was just a ëmyth.í In spite
of all the above evidence, he claimed the story was baseless and amounted to
little more than fodder for the ëconspiracy theorists.í [New York Post
3/11/02]
Critical media coverage of investigations into Israelis has been virtually
non-xistent. The major media, with the exception of Fox News, completely
ignored the Israeli spy scandal. But Fox soon canned the story under
pressure for pro-Israeli lobbies.
Well, that's not a surprise considering that Jews control the media in the
U.S. As Kevin MacDonald has written:
The rise of Jewish power and the disestablishment of the specifically
European nature of the U.S. are the real topics of
<http://www.csulb.edu/%7Ekmacd/Preface.htm>CofC. The war to disestablish the
specifically European nature of the U.S. was fought on several fronts. The
main thrusts of Jewish activism against European ethnic and cultural
hegemony have focused on three critical power centers in the United States:
The academic world of information in the social sciences and humanities, the
political world where public policy on immigration and other ethnic issues
is decided, and the mass media where 'ways of seeing' are presented to the
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By all accounts, ethnic Jews have a powerful influence in the American
mediaófar larger than any other identifiable group. The extent of Jewish
ownership and influence on the popular media in the United States is
remarkable given the relatively small proportion of the population that is
Jewish. [<http://www.csulb.edu/%7Ekmacd/Preface.htm>The Culture of Critique:
An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century
Intellectual and Political Movements
I guess warnings to "close the book" carry a lot of weight. Salon reported,
'Oddly, four days after the Cameron investigation ran, all traces of his
report -- transcripts, Web links, headlines -- disappeared from the
Foxnews.com archives. [Normally, Fox leaves a story up for two to three
weeks before consigning it to the pay archive.]
Asked why the Cameron piece disappeared, spokesman Robert Zimmerman said it
was ëup there on our Web site for about two or three weeks and then it was
taken down because we had to replace it with more breaking news. As you
know, in a Web site you've got x amount of bandwidth -- you know, x amount
of stuff you can put stuff up on [sic]. So it was replaced. Normal course of
business, my friend.í Ö
When informed that Cameron's story was gone from the archives, not simply
from the headline pages [when you entered the old URL, a Fox screen appeared
with the message ëThis story no longer existsí], Zimmerman replied, ëI don't
know where it is.í [Salon, 5/7/02]
Le Monde, attempted 3 times to acquire the transcripts from Fox. The
requests were ignored until February 26, when Fox explained that there was
some sort of ëproblemí preventing them from sending it. The ëproblemí was
not explained. [Le Monde 3/5/02; see also Salon, 5/7/02]
Several pro-Israeli organizations put pressure on Fox to halt its probe and
retract its story.
In response to the Fox News stories, the Israeli embassy stated the
following, 'The report on Fox News contains no quoted source, it has in no
way demonstrated anything more than anonymous innuendo, and should be
regarded accordingly. Israel does not spy on the United States of America.'
[Jerusalem Post, 5/14/02]
In response to the DEA report that was publicized by Intelligence Online, a
spokesperson at the Israeli embassy in Washington claimed, 'No one in the US
is taking this story seriously. I categorically deny the claims and my
embassy has received no complaints from the US. . . . I am not aware of a
single Israeli who has been charged with espionage.' [Independent 3/6/02]
Forward, after initially denying the allegations of an Israeli spy ring,
acknowledged its existence in mid March 2002, [Forward, 12/21/01] but
claimed, 'far from pointing to Israeli spying against US government and
military facilities, as reported in Europe last week, the incidents in
question appear to represent a case of Israelis in the United States spying
on a common enemy, radical Islamic networks suspected of links to Middle
East terrorism.' [Forward, 3/15/02]
This, of course, begs the question as to why 9-11 occurred if the "Israeli
spy-ring" was "on top of things," so to say. It also begs the question as to
why individuals who are suggestively implicated in such a spy ring were
doing the Happy Dance when the WTC towers fell?
August 23, 2001: According to German newspapers, the Mossad gave the CIA a
list of 19 terrorists living in the US and said that it appeared that they
were planning to carry out an attack in the near future. It is unknown if
these are the same exact 19 names as the actual hijackers or if the number
is a coincidence. However, at least four names did refer to actual 9/11
hijackers: Nawaf Alhazmi, Khalid Almihdhar, Marwan Alshehhi, and Mohamed
Atta. [Die Zeit, 10/1/02, Der Spiegel, 10/1/02, BBC, 10/2/02, Haaretz,
10/3/02]
The Mossad appears to have learned about this through their "art student"
spy ring; the same "art student spy ring" that the U.S. government warned
their agencies to beware.
So what's the story? Is there an Israeli spy ring that the U.S. is trying to
circumvent? Or is there an Israeli spy ring that tries to cooperate with the
U.S.? If they are cooperating, that begs the question as to why the
purported "warning and list" was not treated as particularly urgent by the
CIA and also were not passed on to the FBI.
Would that constitute a "failure of intelligence?" Or criminal negligence?
The next item, however, suggests complicity.
It is not clear if this warning influenced the adding of Alhazmi and
Almihdhar's names to a terrorism watch list on this same day, and if so, why
only those two. [Der Spiegel, 10/1/02]
These details create additional problems since Israel continues to deny that
there were any Mossad agents in the US. [Haaretz, 10/3/02] and the US has
denied knowing about Mohammed Atta before 9/11, despite other media reports
to the contrary and despite the fact that Florida Senator Bob Graham was, on
the morning of September 11, 2001, having breakfast with the
<http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/mahmoud_ahmed.htm>Pakistani ISI chief who
was later directly linked to Mohammed Atta.
None of this matter is cut and dried. On September 10, 2001, the Army School
of Advanced Military Studies issued a report written by elite US army
officers, which was made public just prior to 9/11. The report gave the
following description for the Mossad: "Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has
capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab
act." [Washington Times, 9/10/01]
Hmmm... I guess that the Bush Gang didn't read that particular item of
Intell. They were too busy reading the "cooked intell" that said Saddam
Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, I guess.
At this point, things take a strange turn. With all the questions about an
Israeli Spy Ring being brought up again and again, a neat solution has been
found: They aren't really Israelis! They are Islamic terrorists PRETENDING
to be Israelis!
EIR reported that a number of the Israelis that were detained after the
terrorist attacks 'have been linked to suspected ëIslamicí terrorist cells
in southern California' [EIR 1/11/02]
As it happens, we had our own experiences with a "Moving Company" with what
turned out to be extremely questionable status:
<http://globemovers.com/contact-globe-movers.html>Globe Movers, purportedly
owned by a couple named Baruch (Barry) and Megan Karpick. I will be
chronicling this in an upcoming chapter of
<http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/france1.htm>The French Connection, but let
me just say that the recent months - as a consequence of this very
disturbing interaction - have really made me think about the Jewish/Islamic
question in a different way.
Here is another interesting item along that line from awhile back that ought
to give us pause:
On January 12, 2000, 11 Islamic preachers were detained in India prior to
boarding a flight headed for Dhaka, Bangladesh on suspicions of being
terrorists. Although, the Indian official eventually cleared the clerics to
leave, officials in Bangladesh indicated that they would not grant them
visas.
The Muslims, who all had Israeli passports, were allowed to board a flight
to Israel ñ under Israeli pressure. An Indian intelligence analyst, Ashok
Debbarma, explained to The Week, 'It is not unlikely for Mossad to recruit
11 Afghans in Iran and grant them Israeli citizenship to penetrate a network
such as Bin Laden's. They would begin by infiltrating them into an Islamic
radical group in an unlikely place like Bangladesh.' He added that Israel
obvious concern for the men, and the haste with which they were flown back
indicated a possible 'aborted operation.' [The Week, 2/6/00]
There is another spin being put on the whole thing:
In March 2003, the U.S. State Department published a fact sheet, in which it
reported, 'In the United States, approximately 80% of ecstasy seized in 2000
came from or through the Netherlands. Israeli trafficking syndicates are
currently the primary source to distribution groups operating in the United
States, smuggling through express mail services, via couriers aboard
commercial airline flights, or more recently, through air freight
shipments.' [U.S. Department of State, 3/20/03, also cited in the Haíaretz,
4/6/03]
So now, they could be Islamic terrorists disguised as Jews, or they could be
a maverick Jewish drug ring. But in NO CASE can they possibly be Israeli
spies that are spying against the U.S.
Now, let's go back a minute to the fact that Senator Bob Graham was having
breakfast with the Pakistani ISI chief on the morning of September 11, 2001.
Keep in mind that this man, Mahmoud Ahmad, was later linked directly to
Mohammed Atta, the purported "head terrorist" of the 9-11 attacks. With that
in mind, read the following report in which Pakistan's ex spy chief "blames
Mossad" for the 9-11 attacks:
Wednesday, 26 September 2001 15:05 (ET)
By ARNAUD DE BORCHGRAVE, UPI Editor at Large
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan, Sept. 26 (UPI) -- The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on
the United States were perpetrated by renegade U.S. Air Force elements
working in conjunction with Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service,
according to the retired Pakistani general who is closest to the Taliban and
Osama bin Laden.
Gen. Hameed Gul, head of Inter Services Intelligence, the equivalent of a
CIA-cum-FBI combination, during the war against the Soviet occupation of
Afghanistan, spent two weeks in the war-torn country immediately prior to
Sept. 11. He has been acting as "strategic adviser" to Pakistan's extremist
religious political parties. Four religious leaders left his house in the
army's principal garrison town as this reporter arrived at 9:30 p.m.
Tuesday. The interview lasted 90 minutes.
Already countless millions of Muslims believe that the World Trade Center
and Pentagon suicide attacks were part of a Mossad plot to force the United
States into confrontation with the Muslim world.
[Notice in the next line that what Gul is saying is pronounced to be
"disinformation" that those poor, misguided Muslims will actually believe!]
Now Gul has added a new disinformation wrinkle to the plot. And what Gul
says or writes is taken at face value by religious leaders and is repeated
in thousands of mosques at Friday prayers.
In an exclusive interview with United Press International, the
fundamentalist general said it is now clear that there was also a plot by
U.S. Air Force officers against the Pentagon.
[Actually, we have been saying that almost from the beginning. See our
report on <http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/boeing.htm>The Pentagon Strike.]
"The twin towers were first attacked at 8:45 a.m.," he said, "and four
flights were diverted from their assigned air space, and yet Air Force jets
didn't scramble until 10 a.m. That smacks of a small-scale Air Force
rebellion, a coup attempt against the Pentagon perhaps? Radars are jammed,
transponders fail. No IFF -- friend or foe identification -- challenge ...
This was clearly an inside job. (President) Bush was afraid and rushed to
the shelter of a nuclear bunker.
"(Bush) clearly feared a nuclear situation. Who could that have been? Will
that also be hushed up in the investigation, like the Warren report after
the Kennedy assassination?"
Gul said that his friend bin Laden had sworn to him on the Koran that he was
not involved.
"From a cave inside a mountain or a peasant's hovel," Gul asked, how could
bin Laden mount such a sophisticated operation? "Let's be serious," he said
with a smile. "Mossad and its American associates are the obvious culprits,"
he added by asking, "Who benefits from the crime?"
Asked why Israel would benefit, Gul replied, "Israel knows it has a short
shelf-life before it is overwhelmed by demographics (and it) has now handed
the (Bush administration) the opportunity it has been waiting for to
consolidate America's imperial grip on the Gulf and acquire control of the
Caspian basin by extending its military presence in Central Asia."
[...] Bush 43 doesn't realize he is being manipulated by people who
understand geopolitics. He is not leading but being led. All he can do is
think in terms of the wanted-dead-or-alive culture which is how Hollywood
conditions the masses to think and act."
"Bush 43" is actually Washington shorthand for distinguishing President
George W. Bush from his father. President George W. Bush is the 43rd
president: George Bush Sr. was the 41st.
Gul admitted that he turned against America when the United States walked
away from Afghanistan following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989.
"We were all pro-American (during the war) but then America left us in the
lurch and everything went to pieces, including Afghanistan."
[...]
Asked to consider the possibility that bin Laden -- or OBL as he is referred
to in Pakistani conversations -- was lying to him and is indeed guilty as
charged by the United States, Gul said, "If Taliban are given irrefutable
evidence of his guilt, I am in favor of a fair trial. In America one is
entitled to a jury of peers. But he has no American peers. The Taliban would
not object, in the event of a prima face case, to an international Islamic
court meeting in The Hague. They would extradite Osama to the Netherlands."
[United Press International]
This abbreviated collection of data (believe me, there is a TON of material
out there on this subject) does seem to support the idea that MOSSAD may,
indeed, have been responsible for the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center
and that the Bush Reich was not only complicit in ordering the U.S. military
and intelligence services to "stand down," but that they were directly
involved in the plot as the evidence of the link between Bob Graham and
<http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/mahmoud_ahmed.htm>Mahmoud Ahmad
demonstrates.
And, of course, though each group is playing the other as in Spy vs. Spy,
there are many things that Israel ought to consider in the volatile climate
of burgeoning anti-Semitism around the world.
Never mind that Bush and Co, and American Intell organizations have been
stirring the pot for years. Just as people were "angry" and wanted an
"answer" to 9-11, what kind of answer will be given when the heat is turned
up on the Bush Reich? Just imagine what would happen if suddenly, all the
fingers pointed to Israel and MOSSAD as the masterminds of Global Terrorism?
amigocabal
Patricia Heil
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