November 22, 2009 "OMP" -- In a representative system of
government, the greatest threat to liberty is manipulation
of the facts required for informed citizen participation.
Anyone who cherishes freedom should be alarmed at the
ongoing success of such manipulation and outraged that its
common source traces to a purported ally.
Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on
winning the battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-
shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it
attacked a high profile California professor for his
criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine.
That ADL intimidation campaign successfully chilled debate
on campuses nationwide during several time-critical months
while a new president, promising the hope of change,
reassessed U.S.-Israeli relations. His only change�endorsing
more Israeli settlements on Palestinian land�quashed any
hope of peace.
This ADL silencing strategy offers a microcosm of how the
U.S. was induced to war in Iraq based on false intelligence.
From the provocation of September 11, 2001 until the
invasion of March 2003, war-planners ignored, dismissed or
sought to silence anyone critical of the spurious premises
offered for war.
Only later did we discover that the intelligence was fixed
around a preset agenda. Even now, Americans are unaware that
the U.S.-led invasion had long been an Israeli goal.
In similar fashion, an ADL campaign silenced on-campus
criticism of Israel�s December 2008 assault on Gaza. At the
University of California Santa Barbara, ADL-initiated
charges were lodged against sociology Professor William
Robinson. The disciplinary action dragged on until June 24th
when 100 professors and 20 department heads demanded an end
to all proceedings.
By then the damage was done�to the reputation of Professor
Robinson, to academic freedom at the University of
California and to national security as this campaign
silenced academics countrywide. While Robinson�s reputation
can be restored, the damage to national security is
irreparable.
Manipulating Thought
The ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles
coordinated the assault on Robinson after he shared with
students from his globalization website a photo essay
critical of Israel. The essay had circulated for weeks on
the Internet.
Aaron Ettenberg, a member of the Faculty Senate Charges
Committee, collaborated with Santa Barbara Rabbi Arthur
Gross-Schaefer who reviled Robinson in the local community
and urged�along with the ADL�that he be disciplined by the
university for his �anti-Semitic� behavior.
Chancellor Henry Yang was subjected to threats to withhold
funding featuring a campaign led by ADL National Director
Abe Foxman and Rabbi Marvin Heir from the Wiesenthal Center.
Professor Ettenberg had served the previous two years as
president of the local chapter of B�nai B�rith, an ADL
affiliate. Rabbi Gross-Schaefer was director of the local
chapter of Hillel, an on-campus ADL affiliate.
Mark Yudof, president of the University of California, opted
not to intervene even as this silencing campaign attracted
international attention. Yudof�s wife, Judith, is the
immediate past international president of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism representing 760
synagogues. She is also a director of Hillel.
As with the dominance of Jewish Zionists among
neoconservative war-planners, the pro-Israeli bias was all-
pervasive. Richard Blum chairs the statewide Board of
Regents for the University of California. His wife, U.S.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairs the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence. What was their reaction as this professor
was silenced? Silence.
Coincidence or Faith-Based Coordination?
Would a professor and a local rabbi have risked their
careers and their reputations absent their confidence
that�based on the shared bias of university administrators
and government officials�they could intimidate with
impunity? Absent such implied support, would this silencing
operation have dragged on for so long?
Absent their silence�with its tacit approval�what might have
been the impact of campus criticism when Israel�s assault on
the captive population of Gaza left 1300 dead, one-third
reportedly women and children? Those complicit in this
silencing campaign knew the impact on public opinion of
student protests against the Vietnam War�particularly on
California campuses.
Those concerned about anti-Semitism must explain how this
broadly coordinated intimidation campaign was allowed to
succeed. In the same way that public opinion was manipulated
prior to an invasion that launched the Global War on
Terrorism, this campaign sought to deny students the facts
required to understand Israel�s role in provoking that
terror.
Absent access to facts, how can the U.S. preserve a system
of self-governance founded on the premise of informed
consent? Without facts, how can national security be
protected from those who �fix� intelligence in order to
deploy the U.S. military for the interests of a foreign
nation?
Unless those complicit are held accountable, how will
American youth learn the essential role of free and open
debate on topics of direct relevance to their lives?
In a representative system of government, the greatest
threat to liberty is manipulation of the facts required for
informed citizen participation. Anyone who cherishes freedom
should be alarmed at the ongoing success of such
manipulation and outraged that its common source traces to a
purported ally.
Psychological warfare targets knowledge as a means to
manipulate thought, opinion and emotion (the �hearts and
minds�) and thereby influence behavior. At the center of
such disinformation is the displacement of facts with false
beliefs meant to prod decision-making toward a preset goal.
Thus the false reports of Iraqi WMD, Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda,
Iraqi mobile biological weapons laboratories and so forth.
Thus the high profile assault on a high-profile center of
learning to silence a professor who threatened to replace
manipulated beliefs with confirmed facts.
Where U.S. policies toward Israel are at stake, facts are
routinely suppressed to shape debate. Such strategic deceit
systematically undermines U.S. national security.
Treason in Plain Sight
Intimidation campaigns have long been a key tool for
organized crime and for those whose undisclosed agenda can
succeed only when shielded from public scrutiny. Those
complicit in such �psy-ops� know their agenda could not
prevail in an open debate. They also know that if their
treachery is detected they face charges of treason, a
capital crime.
That�s why this form of treason instead targets knowledge to
corrupt the facts required for informed choice. That focus
denies those targeted a meaningful choice while leaving
intact the appearance of open debate. Meanwhile the
perpetrators seek refuge behind the very freedoms they
undermine�freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion.
In this case, pro-Israeli operatives silenced on-campus
criticism of Israel while Israel committed dozens of war
crimes and crimes against humanity. Evidence of those crimes
was depicted in the Internet-posted photo essay that the ADL
attacked as �anti-Semitic.�
What was the strategic result? That assault on Gaza marked
yet another violent provocation guaranteed to catalyze a
violent reaction (aka �terrorism�), adding plausibility to
the narrative of �militant Islam.� The result made the U.S.
appear guilty by its association with this criminality.
We then compounded our complicity by covering up the facts
when the Congress, dominated by the Israel lobby,
overwhelmingly approved a resolution portraying as
�irredeemably biased� a chronicle of those war crimes in
�The Goldstone Report,� a comprehensive account by an
eminent Jewish jurist. [See How the Israel Lobby Took
Control of U.S. Foreign Policy
http://criminalstate.com/2009/07/how-the-israel-lobby-took-
control-of-us-foreign-policy/]
The U.S. was doubly damaged. We not only discredited
ourselves, we also endangered our national security by
condoning criminality destined to provoke more violence
directed at our troops.
When such psy-ops campaigns are detected, defenders of
democracy must fight back by making the perpetrators
transparent and their common motivation apparent. This is
how Israel wages war on the U.S. from inside the U.S.�by
deceiving us to wage its wars and by provoking others to
hate us due to our alliance with religious extremists and
their apartheid policies.
Duplicity has long been a weapon deployed to �wage war by
way of deception.� That�s the operative motto of the Mossad,
the intelligence and foreign operations branch of the Jewish
nationalists who have dominated Israeli politics since a
Christian-Zionist president erred in 1948 by recognizing as
a legitimate �state� this enclave of Jewish extremists and
ultra-nationalists.
Israel specializes in what the Pentagon calls unconventional
warfare. Such warfare is only �unconventional� for the
targeted population (us). For militant Zionists, this is how
war is waged. When your numbers are few and your ambitions
vast, deceit becomes an essential force-multiplier.
In the Information Age, why would anyone expect war to be
waged in any way other than by deception? Where else but in
plain sight could such warfare be waged?
For freedom to prevail against such psy-ops requires a shift
in strategic focus. A robust defense would make this
manipulation transparent in real time before deception can
work its intended impact on public opinion.
The dominance of pro-Israelis in mainstream media
complicates that task. Media complicity was essential to
succeed in the deceit that took the U.S. to war and that now
seeks to obscure Israeli war crimes.
A Special Relationship with Fanatics
The Pentagon warned six decades ago that Jewish extremists
sought military and economic dominance over the entire
Middle East. As the Joint Chiefs of Staff cautioned Harry
Truman:
�All stages of this program are equally sacred to the
fanatical concepts of the Jewish leaders. The program is
openly admitted by some leaders, and has been privately
admitted to United States officials by responsible leaders
of the presently dominant Jewish group�The Jewish Agency.�
Other than religious fanatics, who would deny
Americans�including college students�the facts required to
make informed choices on an issue as critical as taking the
U.S. to war in the Middle East? Other than pro-Israeli
publishers and broadcast media owners, who would have the
motivation to report as �facts� the phony intelligence that
was fixed around Israeli goals?
If not Israel and its Zionist advocates�both Christians and
Jews�who would have the means, motive, opportunity and,
importantly, the stable nation state intelligence required
to corrupt the intelligence that took the U.S. to war? Or to
silence academic critics just when those who induced the
invasion of Iraq intensified their efforts to expand this
war to Iran and now Pakistan?
If the behavior described is not treason, what is? If this
is treason, why have those complicit not been charged? Is
Professor Ettenberg still employed by the university? If so,
why? Have rabbis Gross-Schaefer and Heir been dismissed from
their positions of influence? If not, why not?
Why hasn�t the ADL�s Abe Foxman been indicted? Did he confer
with the Yudoffs during this silencing campaign? Has a
federal grand jury been impaneled to consider charges of
treason? Foxman was invited to the White House for the
October 28th signing of the ADL�s �model hate crimes� bill.
Will that federal legislation now be deployed to lawfully
intimidate critics?
Have mainstream publishers and media owners been
investigated for their complicity in this national scale
fraud on public opinion? If not, why not? Is the Federal
Communications Commission moving to revoke the broadcast
licenses of those who used the public airwaves to deceive
the public? If not, why not?
Are news reports correct that an investment firm run by
Richard Blum made more than $100 million on the rising value
of its stock in a top defense contractor? Did his firm also
invest in media outlets that sold us this war?
In an irony of epic proportions, ADL�s amendment to federal
hate crimes law was tacked onto an appropriations bill for
the Department of Defense. Will the ADL now seek to portray
as �anti-Semitic� those who document for a long-deceived
military the common source of the psy-ops that took U.S.
forces to war in the Middle East?
Will those who repeat the Joint Chiefs� warning about
religious fanatics be targeted for federal prosecution? Will
allegations of hate be deployed to silence debate? Is
treason now lawful?
Jeff Gates is author of Guilt By Association, Democracy at
Risk and The Ownership Solution. Author, educator, attorney,
merchant banker and adviser to policy-makers worldwide and
U.S. Veteran.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24032.htm
Zionist Control of Britain�s Government: 1940-2009
By William A. Cook
November 20, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- �After so
many years of setting the tone, bribing UK politicians and
controlling the BBC they (Zionists) are used to being
untouchable.� (Gilad Atzmon, �Britain Must de-Zionist Itself
Immediately,� Nov. 17, 2009, MWC News).
This week the British people listened to the Daily Mall�s
Peter Oborne present, on Channel 4, his devastating account
of the Jewish lobby�s control of their government. Now we
know that virtually all the principal politicians in the UK
of both parties, like their brothers across the lake in our
House and Senate, take �contributions� from the Israeli
lobby machine ensuring that the Anglo-American mid-east
policies follow the dictates of the Israeli government.
Gilad Atzmon responded to this report in his article
�Britain must de-Zionise itself immediately,� noting that
this control has been in place for so many years the lobby
feels �untouchable.�
How many years are �many� one might ask? In 1941, the High
Commissioner of Palestine, Harold MacMichael, Senior
Palestine Mandate officer for the British Mandate forces in
Palestine, sent the following �Top Secret� �Memorandum on
the Participation of the Jewish National Institutions in
Palestine in Acts of Lawlessness and Violence� to the
Secretary of State, dated October 16th, a report prepared by
The Palestine Police, Criminal Investigation Department:
The memorandum illustrates�indeed, brings into full
limelight�the fact that the Mandatory is faced potentially
with as grave a danger in Palestine from Jewish violence as
it ever faced from Arab violence, a danger infinitely less
easy to meet by the methods of repression which have been
employed against Arabs. In the first place, the Jews � have
the moral and political support � of considerable sections
of public opinion both in the United Kingdom and the United
States of America � all the influence and political ability
of the Zionists would be brought to bear to show that the
Jews in Palestine were the victims of aggression, and that a
substantial body of opinion abroad would be persuaded of the
truth of the contention.
Quite obviously, MacMichael understands that the Mandatory
has little power at home over the zealous actions of the
Zionists as they manipulate public and political opinion
even as they expand their terrorism against the British
Mandate government in Palestine. This is an untenable
position to be in, responsible for government control and
security of those under its authority, i.e. Palestinians as
well as Jews, and knowing that the Jews are set on driving
the British out of Palestine, and knowing that the home
government can offer little help.
The Zionists and their �gangs,� a euphemism for well
equipped and well trained military forces, launched a full
scale terrorist rebellion against the British by robbing
banks, indiscriminate killing of British police, and the
assassination of British minister-resident Lord Moyne in
1944. By the end of World War II things got even worse: �The
Haganah carried out anti-British military
operations�liberation of interned immigrants from the Atlit
camp; the bombing of the country�s railroad network;
sabotage raids on radar installations and bases of the
British police mobile force; sabotage of British vessels �
and the destruction of all road and railroad bridges on the
borders.� All of this terrorism was conducted against the
Mandate Government while the home government remained silent
under the pall of Israeli Zionist propaganda (Meir Pa�il,
�From Hashomer to the Israel Defense Forces: Armed Jewish
Defense in Palestine,� World War II).
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/source/History/resist.htm.
But recording the acts of terrorism does not do justice to
the conditions the Mandate government faced. MacMichael
describes the reality of the forces aligned against the
police in Palestine.
A second matter which deeply impressed me is the almost Nazi
control exercised by the official Jewish organizations over
the Jewish community, willy nilly, through the
administration of funds from abroad, the issue of labor
certificates in connection with the immigration quota, the
forced contributions to funds and the power of the
Histadruth. � The community is under the closed oligarchy of
the Jewish official organizations which control Zionist
policy and circumscribe the lives of the Jewish community in
all directions�
Perhaps one of the most frightening observations MacMichael
makes comes at the very end of his dispatch: �As matters now
stand it seems to me inevitable that the Zionist Juggernaut
which has been created with such intensity of zeal for a
Jewish national state will be the cause of very serious
trouble in the Near East.� Prophetic words indeed.
The memorandum provided by the Palestine Police Department
includes approximately 50 0 pages of seized documents from
the Jewish Agency and related organizations. These documents
reveal the intention of the Zionists that controlled
operations in Palestine as they worked to force into
existence a Jewish State. �We regard it as our duty to
caution you against any attempt to decide on an anti-Zionist
solution � We regard it as a duty to utter another warning.
Do not postpone the political solution for ten years � The
Jews are a nation. The land of Israel belongs to the people
of Israel. The Jewish State will be established. It is
better that it should be established with your help and for
your benefit, than against you� (The Jewish Resistance
Movement, March 25th, 1946, Rhodes House Archives).
The Mandate Criminal Investigation Department was headed by
Richard Catling. Catling�s memorandum begins with an
understanding of the �intricate Jewish political, social and
economic structure in Palestine.� A series of appendices
chart these structures marking in passing that �� the
Palestine Royal Commission Report of 1937 understood �The
Agency (Jewish) is obviously not a governing body; it can
only advise and cooperate in a certain wide field.� But
allied as it is with the Vaad Leumi, and commanding the
allegiance of the great majority of the Jews in Palestine,
it unquestionably exercises, both in Jerusalem and in
London, a considerable influence on the conduct of
government.� Catling�s frustration with the actual control
of the Jews over British policy in Palestine glares through
this document: �This powerful and efficient organization
amounts in fact, to a government existing side by side with
the Mandatory Government��
The Zionist controlled Jewish Agency actively undermined the
legal authority in Palestine even as it operated to
undermine support for that government in Britain, placing UK
forces in harms way as they attempted to fulfill their
authorized responsibilities in Palestine. It also
demonstrates the determination of the Agency�s leadership in
undermining the very nation that gave it a means of
establishing a �homeland� in Palestine through the Balfour
Declaration. The wording of that declaration is rarely
presented in its full form: �His Majesty�s government view
with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home
for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to
facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly
understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish
communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status
enjoyed by Jews in any other country.� The declaration did
not intend to establish a Jewish State. Indeed, the wording,
�national home,� was used intentionally instead of �state.�
Additionally, the first draft referred to the principle
�that Palestine should be� reconstituted �as the national
home of the Jewish people.� In the final text, the word
�that� was replaced with �in� to avoid committing all of
Palestine to the Jews only.
Now perhaps we can answer the question, �How many years has
the British government been under the control of the Zionist
influence?� Three score and ten, the biblical age. Perhaps
it�s time that Britain is reborn, free from the shackles
that bind it to this corrupt power that flouts international
law, wantonly commits crimes against humanity, and in brazen
arrogance tells the Nations United to shove its demands to
comply with the civilized communities of the world.
(Note: Sir Richard C. Catling�s files have been released to
this writer by the chief Archivist of the Rhodes House
Library of the Bodleian Libraries at Oxford University. Some
of the material presented above comes from the
�Introduction� of a yet to be published book due out this
coming spring.)
William A. Cook is a Professor of English at the University
of La Verne in southern California and serves as editor and
writer for multiple Internet publications. His published
books include Tracking Deception: Bush Mid-East Policy, Hope
Destroyed, Justice Denied: The Rape of Palestine, and The
Chronicles of Nefaria, a novella. www.drwilliamacook.com.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24022.htm
--
A government, of Israel, by Israel, and, for: Israel.
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the
light:
for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. The light shineth
in darkness;
and the darkness comprehended it not. The light of the body is
the eye:
if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full
of light.
But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of
darkness.
If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great
is that darkness!
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead,
and Christ shall give thee light. For my yoke is easy, and my
burden is light.
Incidentally, the source of much of what you post is the public organ of one
of the planet's most press-restrictive regimes, where anything critical of
the ruling class is potentially lethal.
I don't think I've ever seen you mention that, or show the slightest degree
of discomfort at the idea. It only seems to be a problem for you when it's
done outside of that country.
Distraction (from the point) Technique(s)
The Point Isn't "Capital Punishment" or the laws of a "Sovereign Nation"
Why don't we just recognize the entire world can legitimately
lay claim to israel as, israel perverted itself in the land to
such an extent as to become indistuinguishable from the indigenous
inhabitants of the land
Legalizing Treason
Are Hate Crime Laws A Threat To Liberty?
By Jeff Gates
November 22, 2009 "OMP" -- In a representative system of
government, the greatest threat to liberty is manipulation
of the facts required for informed citizen participation.
Anyone who cherishes freedom should be alarmed at the
ongoing success of such manipulation and outraged that its
common source traces to a purported ally.
Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on
winning the battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-
shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it
attacked a high profile California professor for his
criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine.
That ADL intimidation campaign successfully chilled debate
on campuses nationwide during several time-critical months
while a new president, promising the hope of change,
reassessed U.S.-Israeli relations. His only change-endorsing
more Israeli settlements on Palestinian land-quashed any
hope of peace.
This ADL silencing strategy offers a microcosm of how the
U.S. was induced to war in Iraq based on false intelligence.
From the provocation of September 11, 2001 until the
invasion of March 2003, war-planners ignored, dismissed or
sought to silence anyone critical of the spurious premises
offered for war.
Only later did we discover that the intelligence was fixed
around a preset agenda. Even now, Americans are unaware that
the U.S.-led invasion had long been an Israeli goal.
In similar fashion, an ADL campaign silenced on-campus
criticism of Israel's December 2008 assault on Gaza. At the
University of California Santa Barbara, ADL-initiated
charges were lodged against sociology Professor William
Robinson. The disciplinary action dragged on until June 24th
when 100 professors and 20 department heads demanded an end
to all proceedings.
By then the damage was done-to the reputation of Professor
Robinson, to academic freedom at the University of
California and to national security as this campaign
silenced academics countrywide. While Robinson's reputation
can be restored, the damage to national security is
irreparable.
Manipulating Thought
The ADL and the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles
coordinated the assault on Robinson after he shared with
students from his globalization website a photo essay
critical of Israel. The essay had circulated for weeks on
the Internet.
Aaron Ettenberg, a member of the Faculty Senate Charges
Committee, collaborated with Santa Barbara Rabbi Arthur
Gross-Schaefer who reviled Robinson in the local community
and urged-along with the ADL-that he be disciplined by the
university for his "anti-Semitic" behavior.
Chancellor Henry Yang was subjected to threats to withhold
funding featuring a campaign led by ADL National Director
Abe Foxman and Rabbi Marvin Heir from the Wiesenthal Center.
Professor Ettenberg had served the previous two years as
president of the local chapter of B'nai B'rith, an ADL
affiliate. Rabbi Gross-Schaefer was director of the local
chapter of Hillel, an on-campus ADL affiliate.
Mark Yudof, president of the University of California, opted
not to intervene even as this silencing campaign attracted
international attention. Yudof's wife, Judith, is the
immediate past international president of the United
Synagogue of Conservative Judaism representing 760
synagogues. She is also a director of Hillel.
As with the dominance of Jewish Zionists among
neoconservative war-planners, the pro-Israeli bias was all-
pervasive. Richard Blum chairs the statewide Board of
Regents for the University of California. His wife, U.S.
Senator Dianne Feinstein, chairs the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence. What was their reaction as this professor
was silenced? Silence.
Coincidence or Faith-Based Coordination?
Would a professor and a local rabbi have risked their
careers and their reputations absent their confidence
that-based on the shared bias of university administrators
and government officials-they could intimidate with
impunity? Absent such implied support, would this silencing
operation have dragged on for so long?
Absent their silence-with its tacit approval-what might have
been the impact of campus criticism when Israel's assault on
the captive population of Gaza left 1300 dead, one-third
reportedly women and children? Those complicit in this
silencing campaign knew the impact on public opinion of
student protests against the Vietnam War-particularly on
California campuses.
Those concerned about anti-Semitism must explain how this
broadly coordinated intimidation campaign was allowed to
succeed. In the same way that public opinion was manipulated
prior to an invasion that launched the Global War on
Terrorism, this campaign sought to deny students the facts
required to understand Israel's role in provoking that
terror.
Absent access to facts, how can the U.S. preserve a system
of self-governance founded on the premise of informed
consent? Without facts, how can national security be
protected from those who "fix" intelligence in order to
deploy the U.S. military for the interests of a foreign
nation?
Unless those complicit are held accountable, how will
American youth learn the essential role of free and open
debate on topics of direct relevance to their lives?
In a representative system of government, the greatest
threat to liberty is manipulation of the facts required for
informed citizen participation. Anyone who cherishes freedom
should be alarmed at the ongoing success of such
undermine-freedom of speech, press, assembly and religion.
how Israel wages war on the U.S. from inside the U.S.-by
of the presently dominant Jewish group-The Jewish Agency."
Other than religious fanatics, who would deny
Americans-including college students-the facts required to
make informed choices on an issue as critical as taking the
U.S. to war in the Middle East? Other than pro-Israeli
publishers and broadcast media owners, who would have the
motivation to report as "facts" the phony intelligence that
was fixed around Israeli goals?
If not Israel and its Zionist advocates-both Christians and
Jews-who would have the means, motive, opportunity and,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24032.htm
The memorandum illustrates-indeed, brings into full
limelight-the fact that the Mandatory is faced potentially
operations-liberation of interned immigrants from the Atlit