PART ONE:
THE MOSSAD HAS LONG GIVEN
MARCHING ORDERS TO AIPAC
By Grant Smith
February 28, 2012
AIPAC’s Washington policy
conference next month is drawing intense scrutiny and unprecedented
resistance.
AIPAC has worked quietly for years to
tripwire the United States into war with Iran. Soon it will “ask”
Congress and the president to define “nuclear weapons capability” as the
threshold for war, essentially demanding an immediate attack.
Because Iran presents no
military threat to the United States, many Americans wonder exactly where such
costly and potentially disastrous policies are formulated.
Recently declassified FBI
files reveal how Israeli government officials first orchestrated public
relations and policies through the U.S. lobby. Counter-espionage investigations
of proto-AIPAC’s first coordinating meetings with the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs and the head of Mossad provide a timely and useful framework
for understanding how AIPAC continues to localize and market Israeli government
policies in America.
Although AIPAC claims it
rose “from a small pro-Israel public affairs boutique in the 1950s,” its true
origin can be traced to Oct. 16, 1948. This is the date AIPAC’s founder Isaiah
L. Kenen and four others established the Israel Office of Information (IOI) under
Israel’s U.N. mission. It was later moved under the Israeli Ministry of Foreign
Affairs.
The IOI opened offices in
New York City, Washington, and Los Angeles, which became testbeds for working
out how Israeli government leaders would promote lobbying initiatives through
public relations harnessing the power and financial support of American
organizations and supporters.
Although the FBI
nervously noted IOI founder Kenen had become a member of the Communist Party in
1937 while working as a newspaperman at the Plain Dealer in Cleveland,
he was never the subject of a criminal investigation.
Only because Kenen interacted with so many U.S. and foreign nationals who were targets of espionage, foreign counter-intelligence, and domestic security investigations (such as super-lobbyist Abraham Feinberg, Israeli diplomats, and assorted Mossad officers) did Kenen’s movements appear as cross-references in hundreds of pages of recently declassified FBI documents [.pdf].
Isaiah Kenen became a
savvy PR operative working as the director of public relations for the Israeli
United Nations delegation after he left the Plain Dealer. It is because
of Kenen’s public relations acumen and contacts that the IOI could insert
Israeli propaganda directly into establishment U.S. media.
One IOI Public Relations
Board meeting held in the Israeli Consulate General in New York on May 9, 1949,
pushed U.S. media initiatives aimed at boosting Israel’s economy. The IOI
wanted to “place a series of pieces in from eight to twelve top magazines”
including Reader’s Digest and Cosmopolitan by “making funds
available for important propaganda programs.”
New York IOI focused on
“U.N., Organizations (Jewish), and the press emanating from New York” while the
IOI Washington office covered “other embassies, Congress, Washington Press, and
the National Press Club.”
It was during a July 18,
1949, meeting that Israeli Counsel Reuven Dafni informed Isaiah Kenen and
others that Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett in coordination with Mossad founder
Reuven Shiloah and Israeli ambassador to the United States Eliahu Elath had
recently conducted a strategy session about public relations and “thrashed out”
everything except for the question of funding.
Kenen reported that his
New York IOI was ready to go. The FBI description reveals that it was already
functioning somewhat like a Mossad intelligence outpost.
IOI New York was
responsible for receiving information cables from Israel. “One member of the
staff spent much of the day decoding and stenciling” the cables. IOI offices
established secure communications crisscrossing the U.S. Dafni “reported that
his [Kenen's] office and the Washington IOI worked out a code so that
classified messages could be translated.”
It is during 1949 that
Kenen drafted a confidential strategy report about how the Israeli Ministry of
Foreign Affairs could implement Israeli policy initiatives and PR most
effectively in the United States.
The “Kenen Report”
described how the New York IOI processed Israeli government information into
news releases. IOI N.Y. “disseminates documents” into the U.S. news stream for
the “general public,” noted the FBI.
In September 1949, Kenen
initiated “the distribution of a weekly news service … sent to Anglo-Jewish
newspapers, Jewish organizations, and individuals.” The FBI noted Kenen’s
strategy of having the Israel lobby media apparatus pay for favorable coverage.
“The report further
states that frequent conferences were held with representatives of the Jewish
agencies and the American Zionist Council to
discuss public relations policies and techniques. It states how 104 National
Jewish Agencies in New York receive releases and constantly ask for news
editorial advice, feature material, and photographs and had cooperated in
helping produce some of the more important publications by buying and distributing
large quantities.”
Who is giving who orders here? Note pushy attitude....
Kenen described core IOI
functions, while foreshadowing his impending move to Washington. “He collects
intelligence, meeting press attaches of other embassies, publicity men of
national political parties, Congress and government officials…. Washington is a
city of personal contact. The Washington office is a goodwill and intelligence
outpost for the government. It is not an office of information in the sense of
production and distribution.”
Like the AIPAC of today, IOI was highly attentive to Israeli military objectives.
In January1950 the IOI
strategized how to effectively quash U.S. arms sales to Arab states. IOI Press
Relations Board coordinator Moshe Keren “had discussed with Jewish
organizations the serious situation arising out of Egypt receiving arms; that
the balance of power in the Middle East was completely changed by this move and
it would be advisable to contact the major papers.”
Kenen agreed with the
Foreign Ministry/Mossad strategy but differed on tactics. Kenen highlighted the
advantages of a more indirect approach, suggesting that action instead be
initiated at the U.N. Security Council or that an explosive news story be
leaked that could overturn U.S. arms-sale policy in a way not traceable back to
IOI.
Kenen thought it might be
dangerous to directly fight U.S. Cold War objectives of buying friends in the
Middle East through arms sales. According to Kenen, it “would be difficult to
get support from the papers since the question of armaments was part of the East-West
complications.”
The FBI report frankly
categorized Kenen’s exchange as an example of “efforts being made by the
Israelis to change the policies of the United States State Department.” A
crackdown ensued.
The 1938 Foreign Agents
Registration Act (FARA) required that Kenen and all other IOI operatives
disclose their funding from the Israeli government and major propaganda
programs. FARA also mandated that individual communications such as news
releases, pamphlets, and even editorials be clearly identified as originating
from the Israeli government or their designated foreign agents.
The IOI wanted to fly
underneath this radar. Beginning in 1948 the Justice Department continually
cited IOI for incomplete reports and failing to even disclose the existence of
a large IOI operation in California.
The FBI forwarded to the
Justice Department multiple examples of stealth IOI propaganda pieces that
failed to display mandatory foreign-agent declaration stamps. Under pressure,
Kenen decided it was time to go off the FARA grid and move to Washington.
Kenen formally negotiated
his departure from the Israel Office of Information in 1951 as a bid to begin
lobbying entirely through Israeli-financed U.S. citizen-based
organizations.
The major impetus was to
more effectively push aid legislation, according to his autobiography.
“Israelis began looking for a lobbyist to promote the necessary legislation …
would I leave the Israeli delegation for six months to lobby on Capitol Hill?
There were other questions. Should I continue my registration as an agent of
the Israel government? Was it appropriate for an embassy to lobby? Embassies
talked to the State Department, and American voters talked to their
congressmen.” Kenen asked the Justice Department FARA office to de-list him as
a foreign agent when he registered as a domestic lobbyist in February 1951.
Kenen ignored a
subsequent Justice Department order that he continue registering as an
Israeli foreign agent.
Throughout the 1950s the
Israeli-government-funded Jewish Agency in Jerusalem secretly paid Kenen by financing his
newsletter, the Near East Report, which the FBI Washington Field Office
characterized as “a violently anti-Arabic, pro-Israel, pro-Zionist publication”
of an “obvious propaganda nature”
[.pdf].
Under Kenen’s leadership,
AIPAC established its own Washington, D.C., New York, and California offices,
taking over so many Israeli Foreign Ministry functions that the IOIs became
redundant and were eventually shut down. Kenen and Israeli lobbying organizations
adopted a tactic of “reconstituting” themselves through new corporate shells in
order to continue operations whenever they were threatened by public
revelations of money laundering, espionage investigations, and Justice
Department orders to register as foreign agents.
AIPAC continues to use
many of the indirect public relations tactics
pioneered by Kenen, albeit much less skillfully.
A 2004 attempt to funnel
purloined U.S. classified intelligence to The Washington Post in order
to portray Iran as engaged in “total war”
against the United States backfired, leading to Espionage Act indictments
against AIPAC employees and an embarrassing defamation suit
currently in the D.C. Court of Appeals.
A former AIPAC public
relations director’s stealth attempt to have vocal think-tank critics of the
Israel lobby fired also fizzled due to broad exposure of the plot on the
Internet.
Today the constant
reverberations of AIPAC’s drumbeat for war emanating from mainstream broadcast
and print media increasingly hit an obstacle course of debunking and outright ridicule on the
Internet.
The Freedom of
Information Act continues to put a steady
stream of documents into the public record revealing how ~ just as in
its formative IOI phase ~ AIPAC continues to function more as an arm of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Mossad than a legitimate
charity.
Though they tried, U.S.
counter-intelligence and law enforcement officials failed to counteract or
properly regulate AIPAC’s stealth foreign agency during the Cold War. Today the
lobby’s pursuit of Israeli interests threatens to plunge the entire Middle East
into war and burn the delicate tendrils of global economic recovery.
Evidence of the Israeli
government directing AIPAC today is self-evident as Shimon Peres and Benjamin
Netanyahu crank AIPAC’s handles to winch themselves uninvited into U.S. election-year politics.
It only remains to be
seen whether sufficient numbers of concerned Americans will angrily rise from
the sidelines to confront AIPAC before its foreign principals maneuver America
into a disastrous war for Israel.
PART TWO:
AIPAC: OBAMA AND GINGRICH
GET READY TO GROVEL
1. It’s
coming goys and girls, it’s coming. In just a few days an orgy of truly
unbelievable proportions will take place in what used to be the capital of
these United States. This year probably for the first time in the history of
this disgusting display of servility to a foreign power, an opposition
presidential candidate will be speaking during an election year in which an
incumbent is running. AIPAC actually changed their
policy to allow this happen.
So, not only will orgy
participants get to see the Israeli Vice President for American Affairs
(IVPFAA) treat these monsters as if they were gay Johns who hired him to climb
into the back of a limo, they will also get to see the thoroughly corrupt Newt
Gingrich show that he can take it even deeper.
The first quote is
from Grant Smith, the founder of the Institute
for Research Middle Eastern Policy, which
has recently filed a court brief that
alleges that “AIPAC has never abandoned its original role as an arm of the
Israeli government in the United States” and this has AIPAC all in a tizzy.
Grant Smith, in an
article entitled “The Mossad Has Long Given Marching Orders to AIPAC” (See
Above) concludes:
Though they tried, U.S. counter-intelligence and law enforcement officials failed to counteract or properly regulate AIPAC’s stealth foreign agency during the Cold War. Today the lobby’s pursuit of Israeli interests threatens to plunge the entire Middle East into war and burn the delicate tendrils of global economic recovery. Evidence of the Israeli government directing AIPAC today is self-evident as Shimon Peres and Benjamin Netanyahu crank AIPAC’s handles to winch themselves uninvited into U.S. election-year politics. It only remains to be seen whether sufficient numbers of concerned Americans will angrily rise from the sidelines to confront AIPAC before its foreign principals maneuver America into a disastrous war for Israel.
The second quote is from
another very important article by Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer, who, as
far as I can tell, has been trying diligently to actually serve the American
public since he retired from that horrible outfit some years ago.
I’ve read this guy for
years and listened to him and he’s very measured in his statements and bases
his stated views on facts, not wild speculation ~ which makes him stand out
quite a bit from ALL of the speakers at a typical AIPAC COT.
His article entitled “AIPAC Declares War” (posted below) is
about the efforts of Senator Joe Lieberman (Mossad, CT) to ensure that the US
gets involved in a war with Iran. BTW, Lieberman is also speaking at the COT
that starts this Sunday. Please read the quote and read the entire article.
Many
Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that it is disgraceful that a
small country like Israel should be able to dictate U.S. foreign policy in a
key part of the world, but the current situation is actually far worse than
that. This is the case of a foreign government’s lobby consisting largely of
American citizens using its clout to avoid registering as a foreign agent while
narrowing the policy options through its friends in Congress and the media in
such a way as to make war inevitable. Some might call it treason.
I do.
2. Call
your congressional representatives and ask them if they are attending this
conference. AIPAC loves to brag about all the congressmen and senators who
attend the conference. So call yours, find out if they are attending, if the
person on the phone says yes, tell them that in that case you will never vote
for the congressman or senator again. Ever.
It’s really easy to call
them. Shas Party members might have difficulty with the directions below, but
the rest of you should find this really, really easy.
IT IS MUCH EASIER THAN
DYING
IN STUPID, USELESS AND
ENDLESS WARS.
Here’s a simple flow
chart for contacting your congressman and senators by phone.
Do you know what State
you live in? If the answer is yes, then:
(If the answer is no,
then I suggest listening to Coast to Coast.)
1. For
your congressman’s info, go here. You will see a map.
Click on your state. Each congressman for each district in your state is listed
along with his phone number. Call the number. Ask to speak to the congressman.
You will be told you can’t cause the person is not there, in a meeting, under
arrest or whatever.
Tell them to please
deliver a message to the congressman. The person will say they will. Say that
you are a constituent of that congressman and ask if the congressman is going
to the AIPAC Policy conference that weekend.
No matter what the answer
is politely but firmly explain that if the congressman does attend that you
will never vote for that person again and will go out of your way to vote for
whomever runs against him or her.
2. For
your senators, go here. The
Senators names are listed by alphabetical order. If you don’t know who your
senators are, you can sort the list to have them shown by state. The option to
do that is right under the headline that says “Senators of the 112th Congress.”
Call them and follow the directions above.
3. “The
Right of Return is Not for Sale”
PART THREE:
AIPAC DECLARES WAR,
By Philip Giraldi
February 23, 2012
This is the case of a foreign government’s lobby consisting
largely of American citizens using its clout to avoid registering as a foreign
agent while narrowing the policy options through its friends in Congress and
the media in such a way as to make war inevitable.
Some might call it treason.
Such people should be marginalized before they send off another
wave of young Americans to die on their behalf.
The American people don’t particularly want a new war
in the Middle East, but apparently Congress and Washington’s most powerful
lobby do. Thirty-two senators have co-sponsored a resolution that will
constrain the White House from adopting any policy vis-à-vis Iran’s “nuclear
weapons capability” that amounts to “containment.”
The senators include the familiar figures of Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, both of whom have persistently called for military action. They and the other senators have presented their proposal in a particularly deceptive fashion, asserting that they are actually supporting the White House position, which they are not.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta repeated on Feb. 16 that Iran
does not have and is not currently building a nuclear device. Before Christmas,
he stated clearly that the “red line” for the United States is actual Iranian
possession of a nuclear weapon.
Even Israel’s intelligence services
agree
that Iran is not building a bomb.
What we are seeing play out in Congress is the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) position, which is that Iran has already
crossed a “red line.” The AIPAC argument will no doubt be spelled out in more
detail next month at the group’s annual convention in the nation’s capital, a
meeting that will be addressed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and
will attract nearly all of Washington’s power brokers.
ED: Do you remember the last time Nutanyapoo visited Washington?
THIRTY THREE standing ovations!
Rejection of containment in this context and as spelled out in
the resolution means that the United States will be forced to go to war if Iran
attains the capability to put together a nuclear weapon.
Indeed, one might argue that the United States should be at war
already, based on the resolution.
“Capability” is one of those particularly useful expressions
that is extremely elastic and can be interpreted subjectively. By most
standards, Iran already has the technical know-how to make a nuclear bomb and
has most of the materials on hand to put one together, assuming it can enrich
the uranium it possesses to the required level.
The Iranians may not, in fact, have the engineering skills to do
so, and the task of creating a small, sophisticated device that can be mounted
on a ballistic missile is certainly far beyond their current capabilities and
probably unachievable given the costs involved and the poor state of their
economy.
ED: Perhaps they had the engineering skills in the past but the
Mossad assassination of their nuclear scientists could have set things back
somewhat.
There are about 50 countries in the world that have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon if they chose to do so, making Iran far from unique but for its persistence as a thorn in the side of Israel and Israel’s powerful lobby in the United States.
In other words,
Iran does not have to actually
produce a nuclear weapon
produce a nuclear weapon
for it to be subject to attack
by either Israel or the United States.
by either Israel or the United States.
It only has to continue to be an
irritant for Israel.
The new threat of war takes the Bush doctrine of preemption to a
whole new level. Some sources in the Obama administration are anonymously warning that war
with Iran is nearly certain and are predicting it to break out in late summer.
That would be just before the presidential election, a time in
which Obama will be seeking desperately to seize the high ground on Israel’s
security from whomever the Republicans nominate.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will not even have to mimic
Colin Powell by going to the United Nations to seek authorization for an attack
using false and fabricated information. Everyone can agree that the mullahs do
not actually have a weapon and may not even want to acquire one, but it’s fine
to bomb them anyway. The U.S. Senate approves, so off we go to another
misadventure in the Middle East
Without a doubt, President Obama is to blame for this shameful
state of affairs for showing every sign of weakness whenever confronted by
Netanyahu and AIPAC.
We should almost certainly expect nothing less than a personal
and presidential kowtow at the AIPAC conference next month, a complete
surrender that Netanyahu will no doubt receive in his usual ungracious fashion.
Even President George W. Bush was able to stand up to the
Israelis and forbid an attack
on Iran, but now the United States has boxed itself into a corner
diplomatically speaking, without any real ability to influence Tel Aviv to
cease and desist.
Israel’s prime minister is continuously ramping up the
rhetoric, calling Iran a
threat to the entire world and suggesting that his country will soon retaliate
against recent Iranian-directed terrorist attacks.
The bombing in New Delhi and attempted bombings in Tbilisi and
Thailand targeting Israelis are a major escalation of the tit-for-tat terrorism
between Israel and Iran. Israel has killed four Iranian scientists using
Mujahedin-e Khalq agents and possibly relying on intelligence provided by
Washington.
Israel’s involvement in recruiting Jundallah-Balochi militants
using officers pretending to be
American CIA, referred to as a false-flag operation, was recently revealed in
the U.S. media, though the story quickly disappeared from sight, as is almost
invariably the case when dealing with Israel.
But Iran is now signaling that it too has surrogates and is
willing to respond in kind. An interesting subplot is the location of two of
the attacks in India and Georgia. Iran certainly has covert resources among
India’s large Muslim population and also within the significant Azeri minority
in Georgia.
Israel has been courting India and sees a strategic relationship
developing, with the two united against Muslim insurgency. Israel also has a
not-so-secret military and intelligence base in Georgia and has recently
expanded into nearby Azerbaijan, where it has established an intelligence
listening post at an airbase.
Iran is surrounded by Israeli operational initiatives and is now
signaling that it has had enough and is prepared to strike back. A
back-and-forth series of assassinations is particularly dangerous, as it could
produce the type of incident that Israel could exploit to preemptively attack,
not unlike the fallout from the assassination of a certain archduke in Serbia
in 1914.
ED: Ferdinand was assassinated by a Jewish zealot.
The conflict would undoubtedly ignite the region and inevitably
involve the United States, particularly if Congress and the media have any say
in the matter.
The United States is powerless to prevent such an outcome in
spite of a clear national interest to do so. President Obama has insisted,
probably sincerely, that he doesn’t want a war and maintains that he is willing
to talk to Iran. But he has nevertheless refused to do so despite several
overtures from Tehran to start a dialogue, preferring to deal through
surrogates.
He has told the Israelis repeatedly that they should not attack
Iran, but he keeps insisting that “all options are on the table” in dealing
with the mullahs, completely confusing the issue for most observers.
What is needed is a clear signal from the White House that the
U.S. interest is that there should not be a war and that Washington will not get
involved no matter who starts it.
If the Israelis know they will have to go it alone, they will
not attack.
Unfortunately, in an election year, such a position is unlikely
because the White House will want to present itself as a close friend of Israel
and tough against “rogue” states like Iran.
You might well ask how the United States wound up in such a
pickle. Many Americans are beginning to wake up to the fact that it is
disgraceful that a small country like Israel should be able to dictate U.S.
foreign policy in a key part of the world, but the current situation is
actually far worse than that.
This is the case of a foreign government’s lobby consisting
largely of American citizens using its clout to avoid registering as a foreign
agent while narrowing the policy options through its friends in Congress and
the media in such a way as to make war inevitable.
Some might call it treason.
Such people should be denounced and marginalized before they
send off another wave of young Americans to die on their behalf while beggaring
the rest of us, but instead, senators and representatives will be lining up to
cheer them in a month’s time.
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and
James Madison must be spinning in their graves.
Originally published on Antiwar.com.
"The most appalling aspect of the senators' remarks is that their zeal to please Netanyahu and his backers in the US has overridden their constitutional responsibility to put the security of the United States above all other considerations.”
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