Entangling Foreign Alliances: Let's Get Rid of Them

It’s been a whirlwind three months for the military-industrial complex, for whom killing is a business and business as of late has been very good.  A little more than two weeks after the official October 7 kickoff of the War on Terror [really War of Sanctioned Terror Under the Pretense of Fighting Unsanctioned Terror], U.S. forces had dropped 3,000 bombs and missiles on Afghanistan.  By early November the number of expended munitions had doubled.  And this just a little more than 10 years after the Gulf War campaign when 250,000 bombs (85,000 tons) had been dropped on Kuwait and Iraq.  In the Kosovo campaign, more than 11,000 bombs had been dropped on Serb positions just by B-52 bombers alone.

And despite the most absurdly grandiose progenitors, no operation or munition is ever sufficient.  Take the 15,000-lb. Daisy Cutter bomb (BLU-82).  A truly horrifying weapon, even those not within its immediate 900-foot lethal radius can suffer massive internal injuries to body organs.  "You start bleeding from your eyes and ears – a weapon of tremendous destruction," one retired general enthusiastically gushed to MSNBC’s Bryan Williams.  Yet not long after the U.S. started dropping the 15,000-lb. bomb on Taliban positions outside Mazar-e Sharif, Northrop-Grumman proposed the development of a 30,000-lb. version of the weapon which it named Big BLU.  Even a week after the Tora Bora cave campaign ended, the Pentagon deployed 10 new "thermobaric" cave missiles (BLU-118B).  With his Eastern Alliance lackeys firmly in control of Southeastern Afghanistan and bin Laden and al-Qaida operatives having long fled the country, Undersecretary of Defense Edward Aldridge nevertheless insisted that the new bombs were “something we clearly have a need for in Afghanistan, and they’re on their way over there.” 

Since the end of the Cold War, the military-industrial complex has lumbered on like the insane robot Box who rules the Ice Caves outside the City of Domes in Logan’s Run.   Having once held a legitimate role long ago, it is now engaged in mindless edifice building and murder.  As surreal as the Pentagon’s wanderings are the reports concerning a massive espionage operation carried out against America by one of its staunchest "allies."  The reports first appeared in a four-part series on Fox News Channel’s Special Report with Brit Hume.  Conducted by reporter Carl Cameron, the series laid out the details of what could be the most massive spy operation ever carried out against America on its own soil.

More than 60 Israelis have been arrested or detained since the September 11 terrorist attacks including several active members of the Israeli armed forces who failed polygraph tests when questioned about surveillance activities against the United States.   Cameron claims that "[t]here is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that the Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are ‘tie-ins.’  But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, ‘evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.’"

The reports indicate that the gears of the espionage operation were actively turning nine months before the September 11 attacks (and even in June 2000).  Classified documents obtained by Fox News detail the arrest and detention of as much as 140 Israelis.   The investigation, about 5 years old, has uncovered hundreds of incidents in cities and towns across the U.S. where Israeli operatives posing as art students "targeted and penetrated" military bases, DEA and FBI offices, "dozens" of other government facilities, and even the private homes of law enforcement and intelligence agents.  The Israelis, when questioned, confessed to being active in Israeli "military intelligence, electronic surveillance intercept and or explosive ordinance units."

Of course the most explosive charge unearthed by Cameron was the contention that Israeli intelligence agents had uncovered information about the September 11 attacks and withheld it from the U.S.  Cameron told Brit Hume that there is "a great deal of evidence that they [U.S. investigators] say they have collected — none of it necessarily conclusive.   It’s more when they put it all together. A bigger question, they say, is how could they not have known?  Almost a direct quote"  [italics added].

Given reports in the Jerusalem Post and elsewhere, this particular exchange raised one heck of a ruckus in the Zionist corridors of power, for the following night Hume and Cameron returned with much more equivocal claims:

HUME:  There was a report, you’ll recall, that the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency, did indeed send representatives to the U.S. to warn, just before 9/11, that a major terrorist attack was imminent.  How does that leave room for the lack of a warning?

CAMERON:  What investigators are saying is that that warning from the Mossad was nonspecific and general, and they believe that it may have had something to do with the desire to protect what are called sources and methods in the intelligence community.  The suspicion being, perhaps those sources and methods were taking place right here in the United States.  

HUME:  So in other words, the problem wasn’t lack of a warning, the problem was lack of useful details?

CAMERON:  Quantity of information.

Of course careful reading of the transcripts of Cameron’s investigation reveals that his last-minute equivocation doesn’t change anything.  Backpedaling aside, Cameron’s work raises many more questions than it answers, particularly about two Israeli companies that could have been in the thick of any espionage operations.  Those companies are Amdocs Ltd., a corporation which produces and has access to records of almost every phone call placed in the U.S. and Comverse Infosys, a corporation which has been granted a monopoly on the production and administration of wiretapping systems for U.S. law enforcement agencies.         

A great tempest has been whipped up about the "fact" that the Cameron investigation had been mostly exculpatory about the possible role of the Israeli government in misusing Amdocs Ltd.’s records of U.S. phone calls.  This is to take advantage of the rather sketchy nature of Cameron’s report in certain places (no doubt representing further equivocation to placate the Zionists).  Both Cameron and Hume have noted the suspicions of U.S. investigators that certain September 11 spy suspects (read:  Israelis) had been tipped off to the direction of the investigation by phone call information supplied to them by Amdocs.  No one in their right mind believes that Amdocs unilaterally sent its employees from Israel to the U.S. to spy on Arabs or Americans.  Such behavior by a ostensibly private company (with no nexus to profits) is incomprehensible.  To report such a tip-off of suspects and then nonchalantly declare no government involvement in such a scheme is to engage in an intellectually dishonest collective leg pulling.

The plot sickens with Comverse Infosys.  Comverse, like Amdocs, is an Israeli firm that sells wiretapping equipment and software to U.S. law-enforcement agencies.  Comverse equipment records and saves wiretapped calls to computer memory before forwarding them to law enforcement agents.  The problem is that Comverse’s software is anything but secure – the wiretaps can be easily accessed by unauthorized parties.  None of this would be such a problem if not for the fact that Comverse is not much more than a de facto arm of the Israeli government, receiving as much as 50% of its research budget from the Israeli Ministry of Industry and Trade (IMIT).  In yet another underplayed bombshell, Cameron adds that investigators from DEA, INS, and FBI told him that "to pursue or even suggest Israeli spying through Comverse is considered career suicide."  Oh, so the Israeli government really isn’t involved here either, is it Carl, old boy?   That sure clears things up.    Cameron reports that the FBI is deeply divided over Comverse.  Its Quantico, Virginia office, staffed by a few key players who awarded the wiretapping contract to Comverse, has seen those same players curiously leave the office to go to work for Comverse.  Many FBI sources say those same players were asked to resign from the FBI under "troublesome circumstances" that are still being investigated by the Justice Department.  Meanwhile, agents still investigating the September 11 attacks have seen that, time and again, suspects they were just about to wiretap suddenly and uncharacteristically change their behavior and modes of communication, apparently from being tipped off that they were under surveillance.

There’s been no concurrent reports on Israeli spying on non-Fox networks or any analysis whatsoever by the establishment pundit crowd of the four Cameron reports.  In alternative sources, Justin Raimondo [here, here, here, here, and here] has been alone in producing the best analysis anywhere.  What makes his columns so effective is his steadfast refusal to allow Cameron’s opportunistic backpedaling from obscuring the shocking details of the espionage operations.  The one glaring chink in Raimondo’s armor is his fantasy that if the story of withheld information about the September 11 attacks gets out to the American public, Israel will be "finished as our principal ally in the Middle East."  Zowie!   Talk about naive.

‘That [Blank] Little Country’

Such naivete would not likely be shared by the current (and no doubt soon to be erstwhile) French ambassador to Britain, Daniel Bernard.  Bernard was attending a private dinner at the home of Conrad Black when he was overheard telling some members of the gathering that all the current troubles in the world could be traced to "that sh-tty little country Israel."  "Why," Bernard asked, "should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people?"  The comments were reported by Black’s wife Barbara Amiel in a column in the Daily Telegraph.  Amiel used the remark as evidence that “anti-Semitism and its open expression has become respectable at London dinner tables.”   Amiel’s conclusion is absurd and, given her own fanatically Zionist leanings, likely a vindictive pretense for getting the French diplomat in hot water over his undiplomatically expressed views.  It’s quite a stretch to label Bernard’s remark about "those people" as anti-Semitic since he was referring to Israelis collectively and not Jews in general.  Unfortunately, as a result of Amiel’s smear campaign, Bernard’s career as a diplomat is likely over, he being the latest victim of Zionist thought police.

Political correctness aside, such recognition of the threat war Zionism poses to world peace is definitely more prevalent in Europe than in America where there is, in at least some way, a much less contrived discussion of the roots of the Middle-East problem.   True, Europe has a plethora of totalitarian regulations against "hate" speech and "hate" crimes.  But America, with its backstage management of political discussion, creates only the appearance of being freer.  Not 4 days after the entire Cameron investigation was posted on Fox News Channel’s Web site, it was inexplicably pulled.  In the aftermath of the Cameron investigation, the Jewish Telegraph Agency reported that Fox was in negotiations with (among others) Israeli government officials over its news content.  Zionism, as a imperialist war ideology, has got to be on a roll when its representatives get to dictate to a large American news organization what the content of its news reporting will be.  [Tonight – Friday Dec. 28 – Fox, almost as if to atone for the "sin" of Cameron’s reports, is running a long, fawning interview with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, a cold-blooded murderer and war criminal who should have been locked behind bars years ago.  It speaks volumes about the current state of Israeli politics that this thug is now prime minister of a supposedly civilized nation.]    

Worlds Apart

The great contrast to relative European sophistication on the Israel question is found in American Protestant Evangelical Christians.  Led by dogmatic Zionist blockheads such as Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, James Dobson, and Gary Bauer, and influenced by know-nothing Zionist gas bags such as Cal Thomas, Joe Farah, and Rush Limbaugh, few demographic groups match Evangelical ignorance of the origin and dynamics of the Middle-East conflict.  Yet no other portion of the electorate has so significantly tipped the balance of U.S. policy in favor of Israel to the point of giving it a blank check for the commission of bloodshed, violence, and destruction, all horrifically carried out in the name of God.  Evangelicals, with their purely selfish interest in preserving their Holy Land tours to worship physical artifacts, have become the "useful idiots" of both the military-industrial complex and War Zionism.  As the demographic group large enough to bring about positive changes – yet unflaggingly supporting the status quo – they remain the largest demographic obstacle to true Mideast peace.  Marx disowned Marxists, and one has to wonder what Christ would think of the fantastically self-serving group who wear His mantle among American Evangelical Protestants.       

It’s the Meddling, Stupid

The upshot of all this is that Americans will continue to have to arrive at airports three to four (even five) hours early for their flights, be subject to extensive and invasive searches of their persons and baggage – the latest absurd iteration being the humiliating removal and x-raying of smelly shoes.  The economic costs of all this (especially the cost in terms of precious time consumed waiting in lines) will be enormous.  And yet what will have been accomplished?  NBC news broadcast a segment on December 26 showing that enough plastic explosive to fill a hard-shell sunglasses case can bring down any jumbo jet and was completely undetectable by ANY technology that will be implemented in airports in the foreseeable future.  In other words, by our rubber stamp on our government’s world meddling, we have fatuously brought the Intifada to our shores and if we don’t change course we will quickly come to live in an increasingly fortified, barbed-wire, fenced-in, guard-patrolling, checkpoint state just like Israel (and even all those measures won’t protect us from smart, determined terrorists).  Americans certainly don’t want this.       

The Only Way Out:  End the Wealth Transfer

Here’s a modest proposal.  Let’s unconditionally end all government foreign aid to Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pakistan, the Palestinians, and any other nation or government who currently receives it.  If private parties wish to contribute funds to any cause, fine.  But as long as government dollars flow in the direction of any country, an entangling foreign alliance is created and trouble is sure to follow.  This is an easy argument and foreign aid is a difficult sell to the vast majority of Americans, especially if the issue is framed effectively.  The way the argument should be couched is, "Voluntary foreign aid, ‘yes;’ tax dollars ‘no.’  We don’t have a federal budget large enough for every ethnic group to argue for aid to their home nation.  What would these nations do if the U.S. never existed?"

During the next presidential election perhaps there should be a national referendum on the question.  The referendum would ideally be prefaced by George Washington’s famous quote from his Farewell Address about the dangers of political connections with foreign nations (quoted in my last column).

There’s no doubt that such a referendum would be a horrifying development for the military-industrial complex and gentile and Jewish war Zionists who make a very comfortable living ensconced in their countless government agencies, policy institutes, defense contracting firms, anti-terrorism consultancy firms, ad nauseum.  This evil crowd knows that a national vote would never go their way and one can only wonder what sort of bogeyman they would dust off in the days leading up to such a referendum.  The defeat they’d suffer would be sweet beyond description.  Let’s all make 2002 a year in which we begin to work feverishly to bring their wonderful defeat to fruition.  Shalom and happy new year!!

January 3, 2001