659 Sheldon Adelson vets Republican candidates. Cameron's 'Torah' government

Sheldon Adelson vets Republican candidates. Cameron's 'Torah' government

Newsletter published on 29-04-2014

(1) Sheldon Adelson vets Republican candidates for President
(2) James Petras: Israel Buys the US Congress
(3) Oliver Stone: Jewish control of Media keeps focus on Holocaust.
Lobby controls US foreign policy
(4) Alison Weir: Lobby is funded by tax-deductible donations. Haim Saban
& Sheldon Adelson buy Dems & GOP
(5) Cameron's 'Torah' government - Stuart Littlewood

(1) Sheldon Adelson vets Republican candidates for President

The Monster on the Hill

Uri Avnery

Gush Shalom

April 5, 2014

http://zope.gush-shalom.org/home/en/channels/avnery/1396615738/

THERE IS nothing better than a scandal every week. A juicy scandal
excites people, engages the media, takes our minds off matters like war
and peace, occupation and apartheid. Like panem et circenses (bread and
entertainment) in ancient Rome.

This week we had several scandals to occupy us. Ehud Olmert, a former
prime minister, was convicted of taking huge bribes when he was the
mayor of Jerusalem. He was paid for approving a monstrous building
complex on the highest hill of West Jerusalem, visible from a great
distance.

As if this was not enough, Sylvan Shalom, a cabinet minister with half a
dozen functions, was suspected of sexual assault. A former secretary
remembered that 15 years ago he had attacked her in his hotel room.

With such exciting news to deal with, who can spare the time and energy
to think about the crisis in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, which
never really started at all? The public knows well enough that these
negotiations are a farce set in motion by an American administration
which does not have the guts to stand up to the hirelings of the Israeli
government in Congress and impose anything on Binyamin Netanyahu.

INDEED, IF anyone had any illusions about American politics, they were
dispelled this week.

The casino mogul, Sheldon Adelson, organized a public display of his power.

He summoned to his Las Vegas betting paradise the four most probable
Republican candidates for the next presidential elections, in order to
choose one of them. All the invitees heeded the summons, of course.

It was a shameless exhibition. The politicians groveled before the
casino lord. Mighty governors of important states did their best to sell
themselves like applicants at a job interview. Each of them tried to
trump the others in promising to do the Mogul's bidding.

Flanked by Israeli bodyguards, Adelson grilled the American hopefuls.
And what was he demanding from the future president of the United
States? First of all and above everything else, blind and unconditional
obedience to the government of another state: Israel.

Adelson is one of the richest Jews in the world. He is also a fanatical
rightist – not only an American rightist, but also an Israeli one.

While he is now looking for the best American president money can buy,
he has already chosen his Israeli stooge. He has done something
unprecedented in Israeli history: created an instrument to impose his
ultra-right views on the Israeli people.

For this purpose he has invested large sums of money in a daily
newspaper of his creation. It is called "Israel Hayom" (Israel today),
and is literally priceless: it is distributed for nothing all over the
country. Its readership is now the largest in the country, threatening
the existence of the former No. 1, "Yedioth Ahronoth" and killing the
next one, "Maariv".

The sole purpose of Adelson's paper is to serve Binyamin Netanyahu,
personally and politically, unconditionally and unreservedly. This is
such a blatant intervention in Israeli politics by a foreign billionaire
that it is causing a reaction: all Knesset factions, both rightist and
leftist (except the Likud, of course) have signed a demand to put an end
to this corruption of democracy.

CURIOUSLY ENOUGH, the Zionist movement was founded in a casino. That was
the name of the hall in Basel, Switzerland, where the First Zionist
Congress took place in 1897. But it had nothing to do with betting. The
Stadtkasino was just a centrally-located hall.

Since then, casinos had become betting places, connected in the public
mind with the Mafia. Nowadays they seem to be kosher in the US, though
strictly forbidden in Israel.

Las Vegas has now become the capital of American politics. Everything
Adelson does is done openly, proudly, shamelessly. I wonder how ordinary
Americans react to this spectacle of one billionaire - especially a
Jewish one - choosing their next president for them.

We are told that anti-Semitism is on the rise in Europe and and across
the globe. In the crazy mental world of the anti-Semites, Jews control
the cosmos. And here we have a Jew, straight out of the pages of the
Protocols of the Elders of Zion, trying to appoint the ruler of the
mightiest country on the planet.

Adelson has failed in the past. Last time, he spent huge sums of money
on one hopeless candidate, and then on the winning Republican nominee,
who was soundly trounced by Barack Obama, a liberal, black abomination.
But nobody can be sure that this will happen again. For Adelson, the
slogan could well be: "If money does not work, try more money!"

THE BASIC problem is that the American political process is totally
corrupt. There is no other way to put it.

In order to become the nominee of one major party, and then to be
elected president, one needs enormous sums of money. Since the major
battlefield is TV, and candidates have to pay for it, these sums get
bigger and bigger.

It is nice to think that ordinary citizens can raise these sums with
their modest donations, but that is an illusion. Donations of these
dimensions can only come from the rich, especially from the very, very
rich. (Americans don't like this revealing word anymore and speak of
"the wealthy". But that is sheer whitewashing.)

The very rich were once called millionaires, then multi-millionaires,
and now billionaires. Adelson is a multi-billionaire.

A billionaire does not donate a fortune for a presidential candidate for
nothing. That's not how he became a billionaire in the first place. Once
he gets his man elected, he demands his pound of flesh, many pounds.

I am told that Adelson wants internet betting to be prohibited, so that
ordinary, honest-to-goodness casinos can flourish. But I have no doubt
that his right-wing Zionist passions come first. If he succeeds in
installing his favorite in the White House, the US will become totally
subservient to the extreme right-wing in Israel. He might as well put
Netanyahu in the Oval Office. (Now there's an idea! It just needs a
small amendment to the constitution. How much can that cost?)

That would have been OK with me, if Adelson really understood anything
about the Israeli-Arab conflict. With the typical arrogance of the very
rich, he thinks that he does. Yet it seems that he has not the slightest
idea about the roots of the conflict, its history and the acute dangers
lurking in our future.

If Adelson could dictate our future, it would spell disaster for our
country.

OUR OWN political system is not quite as corrupt as the American one,
but it is bad enough.

Israeli parties which participate in elections get free TV time
according to their size in the last Knesset, with a minimum time
reserved for new parties. But that is far from enough for an election
campaign.

Parties are limited in the amount of money they may accept from donors
and in the amount they are allowed to spend. The state comptroller
exercises strict control.

And so we come back to Olmert.

No ambitious politician contents himself with the amounts allowed. Many
of them look for tricks to circumvent the comptroller, sometimes
reaching the limits of legality, often going beyond. Olmert himself has
been suspected several times in the past of using illegal money, but he
always succeeded in wriggling out.

Contravening the law in this way is a criminal offence, but in the past,
the Israeli public did not really condemn it too vigorously. The general
attitude was "politicians will be politicians."

This attitude changed when, for the first time, it appeared that
politicians were accepting bribes not for the good of their party, but
for the good of themselves. The first major scandal of this kind,
uncovered by my magazine in 1976, concerned Asher Yadlin, a Labor Party
leader who had just been appointed Governor of the Bank of Israel. It
appeared that he took the bribe for himself instead of the party, and
went to prison. Since then, many such cases have been uncovered. Several
ministers have been sent to prison. One has already served his prison
term and is back playing a central role in the Knesset. Ariel Sharon and
Avigdor Lieberman escaped from indictments by the skin of their teeth.

(I have already told the story about a former education minister, who
was told by a colleague: "Congratulate me! I was acquitted!" To which he
drily replied: "Curious. I have never been acquitted!")

Olmert is the latest one, and overshadows all the others because he was
a prime minister. The country is shocked. But his long career has been
spotted with indictments, from which he was always saved by his lawyers.
At first he took money for his election campaigns. Later on he took
money for himself.

THERE IS no way to roll back the corruption of the political process in
the US – or here – without completely changing the electoral system. As
long as huge sums are needed to get elected, corruption will reign supreme.

Until such a reform takes place, the Adelsons and the Olmerts will
corrupt democracy.

And the Monster on the Hill in Jerusalem will stand as a warning.

(2) James Petras: Israel Buys the US Congress

  James Petras <jpetras@binghamton.edu> 3 November 2013 00:10

Israel Buys the US Congress: Sabotaging the US-Iran Peace Negotiations

James Petras

Global Research, November 02, 2013

http://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-buys-the-us-congress-sabotaging-the-us-iran-peace-negotiations/5356541

"Pro-Israel Policy groups such as AIPAC work with unlimited funding to
divert US policy in the region (Middle East)" Jack Straw, Member of
Parliament and former Foreign Secretary of the British Labor Party

"The United States should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran to spur the
country to end its nuclear program" Sheldon Adelson, biggest donor to
the Republican Party and major fundraiser for pro-Israel political
action committees, speech at Yeshiva University, New York City, October
22, 2013.

Introduction

The question of war or peace with Iran rests with the policies adopted
by the White House and the US Congress. The peace overtures by newly
elected Iranian President Rohani have resonated favorably around the
world, except with Israel and its Zionist acolytes in North America and
Europe. The first negotiating session proceeded without recrimination
and resulted in an optimistic assessment by both sides. Precisely
because of the initial favorable response among the participants, the
Israeli government escalated its propaganda war against Iran. Its agents
in the US Congress, the mass media and in the Executive branch moved to
undermine the peace process. What is at stake is Israel's capacity to
wage proxy wars using the US military and its NATO allies against any
government challenging Israeli military supremacy in the Middle East,
its violent annexation of Palestinian territory and its ability to
attack any adversary with impunity.

To understand what is at stake in the current peace negotiations one
must envision the consequences of failure: Under Israeli pressure, the
US announced that its 'military option' could be activated – resulting
in missile strikes and a bombing campaign against 76 million Iranians in
order to destroy their government and economy. Teheran could retaliate
against such aggression by targeting US military bases in the region and
Gulf oil installations resulting in a global crisis. This is what Israel
wants.

We will begin by examining the context of Israel's military supremacy in
the Middle East. We will then proceed to analyze Israel's incredible
power over the US political process and how it shapes the negotiation
process today, with special emphasis on Zionist power in the US Congress.

The Context of Israeli Military Supremacy in the Middle East

Since the end of World War II, Israel has bombed, invaded and occupied
more countries in the Middle East and Africa than previous colonial
power, except the US. The list of Israel's victims includes: Palestine,
Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Sudan and Yemen. If we include
countries where Israel has launched quasi-clandestine terrorist attacks
and assassinations, the list would be greatly expanded to include a
dozen countries in Europe and Asia – including the US through its
Zionist terror network.

Israel's projection of military power, its capacity for waging offensive
wars at will, is matched by its near-total impunity. Despite their
repeated violations of international law, including war crimes, Israel
has never been censored at an international tribunal or subjected to
economic sanctions because the US government uses its position to veto
UN Security Council resolutions and pressure its NATO-EU allies.

Israel's military supremacy has less to do with the native
techno-industrial 'brilliance' of its war-mongers and more to do with
the transfers and outright theft of nuclear, chemical and biological
technology and weapons from the US (Grant Smith "Ten Explosive US
Government Secrets of Israel" IRMEP). Overseas Zionists in the US and
France have played a strategic (and treasonous) role in stealing and
illegally shipping nuclear technology and weapon components to Israel,
according to an investigation by former CIA Director Richard Helms.

Israel maintains huge nuclear, chemical, and biological weapon
stockpiles refusing any access to international arms inspectors and is
not obliged to abide by the non-proliferation treaty, because of US
diplomatic intervention. Under pressure from the local 'Zionist power
configuration' (ZPC), the US government has blocked any action which
might constrain Israel's production of weapons of mass destruction. In
fact the US continues to provide Israel with strategic weapons of mass
destruction for use against its neighbors – in violation of
international law.

US military aid and technology transfers to Israel exceed $100 billion
dollars over the past half century. US diplomatic and military
intervention was crucial in rescuing Israel from defeat during the 1973
war. US President Lyndon Johnson's refusal to defend the unarmed
intelligence ship, the USS Liberty in 1967, after it had been bombed and
napalmed by Israeli fighter planes and warships in international waters,
constituted a tremendous victory for Israel thanks to Johnson's Zionist
advisers. Because of its impunity, even in killing American servicemen,
Israel has been given a free hand to wage aggressive wars to dominate
its neighbors, commit acts of terrorism and assassinate its adversaries
throughout the world without fear of retaliation.

Israel's uncontested military superiority has converted several of its
neighbors to quasi-client collaborators: Egypt and Jordan have served as
de facto allies, along with the Gulf monarchies, helping Israel repress
the region's nationalist and pro-Palestinian movements.

The most decisive factor in the rise and consolidation of Israel's power
in the Middle East has not been its military prowess but its political
reach and influence via its Zionist agents in the US. Washington's wars
against Iraq and Libya, and its current support of the mercenary assault
against Syria, have destroyed three major secular nationalist opponents
of Israel's hegemonic ambitions.

As Israel accumulates more power in the region, expanding its
colonization of Palestinian territory, it looks eastward toward
destroying the last remaining obstacle to its colonial policies: Iran.

For at least two decades, Israel has directed its overseas agents - (the
ZPC) – to destroy the government of Iran by destabilizing its society,
assassinating its scientists, bombing its military establishments and
laboratories and strangling its economy.

After the ZPC successfully pushed the US into war against Iraq in 2003 –
literally shredding its complex secular society and killing over a
million Iraqis - it turned its sights on destroying Lebanon (Hezbollah)
and the secular government of Syria as a way to isolate Iran and prepare
for an attack. While thousands of Lebanese civilians were slaughtered in
2006, Israel's attack of Lebanon failed, despite the support of the US
government and the ZPC's wild propaganda campaign. Hysterical at its
failure and to 'compensate' for its defeat at the hands of Hezbollah and
to 'boost morale', Israel invaded and destroyed much of Gaza (2008/9) –
the world's largest open air prison camp.

Lacking military capacity to attack Iran on its own, Israel directed its
agents to manipulate the US government to start a war with Teheran. The
militarist leaders in Tel Aviv have unleashed their political assets
(ZPC) throughout the US to work to destroy Iran – the last formidable
adversary to Israel supremacy in the Middle East.

The Israeli-ZPC strategy is designed to set the stage for a US
confrontation with Iran, using its agents in the Executive branch as
well as its ongoing corruption, bribery and control of the US Congress.
ZPC control over the mass media enhances its propaganda campaign:
Everyday the New York Times and the Washington Post publish articles and
editorials promoting Israel's war agenda. The ZPC uses the US State
Department to force other NATO states to likewise confront Iran.

Israel's Proxy War with Iran: US Political Pressure, Economic Sanctions
and Military Threats

Alone, Israel's 'war' with Iran would not amount to much more than its
cyber sabotage, the periodical assassinations of Iranian scientists
using its paid agents among Iranian terrorist groups and non-stop
brow-beating from Israeli politicians and their 'amen crowd'. Outside of
Israel, this campaign has had little impact on public opinion. Israel's
'was' on Iran depends exclusively on its capacity to manipulate US
policy using its local agents and groups who dominate the US Congress
and through the appointments of officials in key positions in the
Departments of Treasury, Commerce, and Justice , and as Middle East
'advisors'. Israel cannot organize an effective sanction campaign
against Iran; nor could it influence any major power to abide by such a
campaign. Only the US has that power. Israel's dominance in the Middle
East comes entirely from its capacity to mobilize its proxies in the
United States who are assigned the task of securing total submission to
Israel's interests from elected and appointed government officials –
especially in regard to Israel's regional adversaries.

    Strategically placed, 'dual US-Israeli citizens' have used their US
citizenship to secure high security positions in the Government directly
involved in policies affecting Israel. As Israelis, their activities are
in line with the dictates of Tel Aviv. In the Bush administration
(2001-2008) high placed 'Israel Firsters' dominated the Pentagon (Paul
Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith), Middle East Security (Martin Indyk, Dennis
Ross), the Vice President's office ('Scooter' Libby), Treasury (Levey)
and Homeland Security (Michael Chertoff). In the Obama administration
the 'Israel Firsters' include Dennis Ross, Rahm Emanuel, David Cohen,
Secretary of Treasury Jack "Jake the Snake" Lew, Secretary of Commerce
Penny Pritzker and Michael Froman as Trade Representative among others.

Israel's Proxy Power within the Executive branch is matched by its
dominance of the US Congress. Contrary to some critics, Israel is
neither an 'ally' or 'client' of the US. Evidence of the gross asymmetry
of the relation abounds over the past half century. Because of these
powerful proxies in Congress and the Executive branch, Israel has
received over $100 billion dollar tribute from the US over the past 30
years, or $3 billion plus a year. The US Pentagon has transferred the
most up-to-date military technology and engaged in several wars on
Israel's behalf. The US Treasury has imposed sanctions against
potentially lucrative trading and investment partners in the Middle East
(Iran, Iraq and Syria) depriving US agricultural and manufacturing
exporters and oil companies of over $500 billion in revenues. The White
House sacrificed the lives of over 4,400 US soldiers in the Iraq War – a
war promoted by Israel's proxies at the behest of Israel's leaders. The
State Department has rejected friendly and profitable relations with
over 1.5 billion Muslims by backing the illegal settlement of over half
million Jewish colonists on military-occupied Palestinian land in the
West Bank and Jerusalem.

The strategic question is how and why this one-sided relation between
the US and Israel persists for so long, even as it goes counter to so
many strategic and elite US interests? The more immediate and pressing
question is how this historically lopsided relation effects contemporary
US-Iran sanctions and nuclear negotiations?

Iran and the Peace Negotiations

Undoubtedly the newly elected Iranian President and his Foreign Minister
are prepared to negotiate an end to hostilities with the US by making
major concessions ensuring the peaceful use of nuclear energy. They have
stated they are open to reducing or even ending the production of highly
enriched uranium; reducing the number of centrifuges and even allowing
intrusive, unannounced inspections, among other promising proposals. The
Iranian government proposes a roadmap with end goals as part of the
initial agreements. The European Union's Foreign Secretary Lady Ashton
has commented favorably on the initial meeting.

The US Administration has given conflicting signals following the
Iranian overtures and the opening meeting. Some individual comments are
guardedly positive; others are less encouraging and rigid.
Administration Zionists like Jack 'Jake' Lew, the Treasury Secretary,
insists sanctions will remain until Iran meets all US (read 'Israeli')
demands. The US Congress, bought and controlled by the ZPC, rejects the
promising Iranian overtures and flexibility, insisting on military
'options' or the total dismantling of Iran's legal and peaceful nuclear
program – ZPC positions designed to sabotage the negotiations. To that
end, Congress has passed new, more extreme, economic sanctions to
strangle the Iran's oil economy.

How Israel's Political Action Committees Control the US Congress and
Prepare War with Iran

The Zionist Power Configuration uses its financial firepower to dictate
Congressional policy on the Middle East and to ensure that the US
Congress and Senate do not stray one iota from serving Israel's
interests. The Zionist instrument used in the purchase of elected
officials in the US is the political action committee (PAC).

Thanks to a 2010 US Supreme Court decision, Super PACs-linked to Israel
spend enormous sums to elect or destroy candidates – depending on the
candidate's political work on behalf of Israel. As long as these funds
do not go directly to the candidate, these Super PACs do not have to
reveal how much they spend or how it is spent. Conservative estimates of
ZPC- linked direct and indirect funds to US legislators run close to
$100 million dollars over the past 30-year. The ZPC channels these funds
to legislative leaders and members of Congressional committees dealing
with foreign policy, especially sub-committee chairpersons dealing with
the Middle East. Unsurprisingly, the largest Congressional recipients of
ZPC money are those who have aggressively promoted Israel's hard-line
policies. Elsewhere around the world, such large scale payoffs for
legislative votes would be considered blatant bribery and subject to
felony prosecution and imprisonment for both parties. In the US, the
purchase and sale of a politician's vote is called 'lobbying' and is
legal and open. The legislative branch of the US government has come to
resemble a high-price brothel or white slavers' auction – but with the
lives of thousands at stake.

The ZPC has purchased the alliance of US Congress people and Senators on
a massive scale: Of 435 members of the US House of Representatives
(sic), 219 have received payments from the ZPC in exchange for their
votes on behalf of the state of Israel. Corruption is even more rampant
among the 100 US Senators, 94 of whom have accepted pro-Israel PAC and
Super PAC money for their loyalty to Israel. The ZPC showers money on
both Republicans and Democrats, thus securing incredible (in this era of
Congressional deadlock), near unanimous ('bipartisan') votes in favor of
the 'Jewish State', including its war crimes, like the bombing of Gaza
and Lebanon as well as the annual $3 billion dollar plus US tax-payer
tribute to Tel Aviv. At least 50 US Senators have each collected between
$100 thousand and $1 million in ZPC money over the past decades . In
exchange, they have voted for over $100 billion in tribute payments to
Israel … in addition to other 'services and payments'. The members of
the US Congress are cheaper: 25 legislators have received between
$238,000 and $50,000, while the rest got peanuts. Regardless of the
amount, the net result is the same: Congressional member pick up their
script from their Zionist mentors in the PACs, Super PACs and AIPAC and
back all of Israel's wars in the Middle East and promote US aggression
on behalf of Israel.

The most outspoken and influential legislators get the biggest chunk of
Zionist payola: Senator Mark Kirk (Bombs over Teheran!) tops the 'pigs
at the trough' list with $925,000 in ZPC payoffs, followed by John
McCain (Bombs over Damascus!) with $771,000, while Senators Mitch
McConnell, Carl Levin, Robert Menendez, Richard Durban and other
Zionophilic politicos are not shy about holding out their little begging
bowls when the pro-Israel PAC bagmen arrive! Florida Congresswoman
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen tops the 'House' list with $238,000 for her 100%
pro-Israel record as well as for being more war-mongering than even
Netanyahu! Eric Cantor got $209,000 for championing 'wars for Israel'
with American lives while cutting Social Security payments to US seniors
in order to increase military aid to Tel Aviv. House Minority Whip Steny
Hoyer, got $144,000 for 'whipping the few wobbly' Democrats back into
Israel's 'camp'. House Majority Leader John Boehner was paid $130,000 to
do the same among the Republicans.

The ZPC has spent huge amounts to punish and destroy a dozen or so
dissident legislators who had stood up to Israel's wars and grotesque
human rights record. The ZPC has poured millions into individual
campaigns, not only financing opposition candidates who pledged
allegiance to the Israel but mounting scurrilous character
assassinations of Israel's critics in office. These campaigns have been
mounted in the most obscure parts of the US, including in majority
African-American districts, where local Zionist interests and influence
are otherwise absolutely nil.

There are no comparable PACs, Super PACs, party leaders, or civic
organization that can contest the power of Israel's Fifth Column.
According to documents archived by the courageous researcher, Grant
Smith of IRMEP, when it comes to Israel, the US Justice Department has
adamantly refused to enforce its own federal laws requiring the
prosecution of US citizens who fail to register as foreign agents while
working for a foreign country – at least since 1963. On the other hand,
the ZPC, through the so-call 'Anti-Defamation League', has successfully
pressured the Justice Department, the FBI and NSA to investigate and
prosecute law-abiding, patriotic US citizens critical of Israel's land
grabs in Palestine and the Zionist corruptors of the US political system
on behalf of their foreign master.

The corruption and degradation of US democracy is made possible by the
equally compromised and corrupted 'respectable press'. Media critic,
Steve Lendman, has pointed out the direct link between Israel and the
mass media in his investigation of the New York Times. The leading
('fair and balanced') journalists reporting on Israel have strong family
and political ties to that country and their articles have been little
more than propaganda. Times reporter Ethan Bronner, whose son served in
the Israel Defense Forces, is a long-time apologist for the Zionist
state. Times reporter Isabel Kershner, whose 'writing' seem to come
straight out of the Israeli Foreign Office, is married to Hirsh Goodman
an adviser to the Netanyahu regime on 'security affairs'. The Times
bureau chief in Jerusalem, Jodi Rudoren, lives comfortably in the
ancestral home of a Palestinian family dispossessed from that ancient city.

The Times unflinching pro-Israel posture provides a political cover and
justification for the corrupted US politicians as they beat the war
drums for Israel. It is no surprise that the New York Times, like the
Washington Post, is deeply engaged in disparaging and denouncing the
current US-Iran negotiations – and providing ample space for the
one-sided rhetoric of Israeli politicians and their US mouthpieces,
while studiously excluding the more rational, pro-rapprochement voices
of experienced former US diplomats, war-weary military leaders and
representatives of the US business and academic communities.

To understand Congress' hostility to the nuclear negotiations with Iran
and their efforts to scuttle them through the imposition of ridiculous
new sanctions, it is important to get to the source of the problem,
namely the statements of key Israeli politicians, who set the line of
march for their US proxies.

In late October, 2013, Former Israeli Defense Intelligence Chief Amos
Yadlin spoke of 'having to choose between 'the bomb' or the bombing' – a
message which immediately resonated with the 52 Presidents of the Major
American Jewish Organizations (Daily Alert, October 24, 2013). On
October 22, 2013, Israel's Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, called
for harsh new sanctions on Iran and insisted that the US use them as
leverage to demand that Iran agree to entirely abandon its peaceful
nuclear energy and enrichment program. Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon
affirmed that 'Israel will not accept any deal that allows Iran to
enrich uranium'. It is Israel's position to threaten war (via the US) if
Iran does not submit to unconditional surrender of its nuclear program.
This defines the position of all the major pro-Israel PACs, Super PACs
and AIPAC. They in turn proceed to dictate policy to their
'lick-spittles' in the US Congress. As a result, Congress passes even
more extreme economic sanctions on Iran in order to sabotage the ongoing
negotiations.

Those who have received the biggest Zionist pay-offs from the pro-Israel
PACs are the most vociferous: Senator Mark Kirk ($925,379), author of a
previous sanctions bill, demands that Iran end its entire nuclear and
ballistic missile program (!) and declared that the US Senate "should
immediately move forward with a new round of economic sanctions
targeting all remaining Iranian government revenue and reserves"
(Financial Times, 10/18/13, p. 6). The US House of Representatives (sic)
has already passed a bill sharply limiting Iran's ability to sell its
main export, oil. Once again, the Israel- ZPC – Congressional axis seeks
to impose Israel's war agenda on the American people! In late October
2013, Secretary of State Kerry was 'grilled' for 7 hours by Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu with the craven Kerry promising to promote
Israel's agenda on dismantling Iran's nuclear enrichment program.

To counter the campaign to strangle Iran's oil economy, promoted by
Israel's flunkeys in the Congress, the Iranian government has offered
generous contracts to the US and EU oil companies (Financial Times
10/29/2013, p 1). Existing nationalist provisions are being removed.
Under the new terms, foreign companies book reserves or take equity
stakes in Iranian projects. Iran hopes to attract at least $100 billion
dollars in investments over the next three years. This stable country
boasts the world's largest gas and the fourth largest oil reserves.
Because of the current US (Israel)-imposed sanctions, production has
fallen from 3.5 million barrels per day in 2011 to 2.58 million barrels
per day in 2013. The question is whether 'Big Oil', the giant US and EU
companies have to power to challenge the ZPC-stranglehold over US-EU
sanction policy. So far, the ZPC has dominated this critical policy and
marginalized 'Big Oil' using threats, blackmail and coercion against US
policymakers. This has effectively shut out US companies from the
lucrative Iranian market.

Conclusion

As the US and the 5 other countries attempt to negotiate with Iran, they
face enormous obstacles overcoming Israel's power over the US Congress.
Over past decades Israel's agents have bought the loyalties of the vast
majority of Congress people, training them to recognize and obey the
whistles, signals and script from the war mongers in Tel Aviv.

This 'Axis of War', has inflicted enormous damage on the world resulting
in the deaths of millions of victims of US wars in the Middle East,
Southwest Asia and North Africa. The gross corruption and widely
recognized bankruptcy of the US legislative system is due to its slavish
submission to a foreign power. What remains in Washington is a debased
vassal state despised by its own citizens. If the ZPC controlled
Congress succeeds once again in destroying the negotiations between the
US and Iran via new war-like resolutions, we, the American people, will
have to pay an enormous price in lives and treasure.

The time to act is now. It is time to stand up and expose the role
played by the Israeli PACs, Super PACs and the 52 Major American Jewish
Organization in corrupting Congress and turning "our" elected
representatives into flunkeys for Israel's wars. There has been a
deafening silence from our noted critics –few alternative media critics
have attacked Israel's power over the US Congress. The evidence is
openly available, the crimes are undeniable. The American people need
real political leaders with the courage to root out the corrupted and
corruptors and force their elected members in the House and Senate to
represent the interest of the American people.

(3) Oliver Stone: Jewish control of Media keeps focus on Holocaust.
Lobby controls US foreign policy

From: ReporterNotebook <RePorterNoteBook@Gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Apr
2014 00:00:31 -0400
Subject: Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free
Holocaust debate

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/oliver-stone-jewish-control-of-the-media-is-preventing-free-holocaust-debate-1.304108

Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust
debate

Outspoken Hollywood director says new film aims to put Adolf Hitler, who
he has called an 'easy scapegoat' in the past, in his due historical
context.

By Haaretz Service | Jul. 26, 2010 |

Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the
Holocaust, prominent Hollywood director Oliver Stone told the Sunday
Times, adding that the U.S. Jewish lobby was controlling Washington's
foreign policy for years.

In the Sunday interview, Stone reportedly said U.S. public opinion was
focused on the Holocaust as a result of the "Jewish domination of the
media," adding that an upcoming film of him aims to put Adolf Hitler and
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin "in context."

"There's a major lobby in the United States," Stone said, adding that
"they are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most
powerful lobby in Washington."

The famed Hollywood director of such films as "Platoon" and "JFK," also
said that while "Hitler was a Frankenstein," there was also a "Dr
Frankenstein."

"German industrialists, the Americans and the British. He had a lot of
support," Stone told the Sunday Times, adding that "Hitler did far more
damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."

Referring to the alleged influence of the powerful Jewish lobby on U.S.
foreign policy, Stone said that Israel had distorted "United States
foreign policy for years," adding he felt U.S. policy toward Iran was
"horrible."

"Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," Stone said, insisting that
Americans did not "know the full story."

Stone's comments to the Sunday times echo previous remarks by the
Hollywood director, regarding what he perceives as the distorted view of
figures such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin in U.S. media.

Earlier this year, Stone, speaking at the at the Television Critics
Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena said that "Hitler is an
easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply."

"He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect ...
People in America don't know the connection between World War I and
World War II," Stone said, adding that through his documentary work he
has been able to "walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes to
understand their point of view."

"We're going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them.
We want to move beyond opinions ... Go into the funding of the Nazi
party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through
IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated,"
Stone said.

(4) Alison Weir: Lobby is funded by tax-deductible donations. Haim Saban
& Sheldon Adelson buy Dems & GoP

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/06/40096-alison-weir-what-will-obama-do/

Alison Weir : What will Obama do?

ALISON WEIR JUNE 28, 2013 7

Alison Weir : What will Obama do? ALISON WEIR   JUNE 28, 2013   7

The term "Israel lobby" fails to do justice to the extraordinary scope
and composition of this special interest group. Below is a small
sampling of the American organizations that work on behalf of Israel.
Virtually all have multi-million dollar budgets; a few have endowments
in the hundreds of million dollars and most of them are funded by
tax-deductible donations.

by Alison Weir

Alison Weir is the President of the Council for the National Interest
(CNI) and Executive Director of If Americans Knew.

President Obama's actions are unlikely to stray outside the parameters
the Israel lobby is willing to accept. But there is growing movement
that is challenging the lobby's stronghold on U.S. politics.

Whenever a US president begins a term of office many people round the
world are curious about what policies he may pursue on Israel-Palestine.
They wonder if he will once again call on Israel to reduce its
settlement activities as almost every president has done at least once.

Will he condemn Israeli aggression, or only Palestinian rockets? Will he
push a "peace process" in which virtually all the American mediators are
Israel partisans[1] or will a few non-Zionists be permitted to play a role?

As Barack Obama began his second term as president, these questions came
up again. But these are the wrong questions. Instead, to predict what he
will do, one only needs to ask what the Israel lobby is likely to require.

The president won't always do what the lobby demands – on rare occasions
he may deviate a bit from its dictates– but a large percentage of the
time he will dutifully do what the lobbyists command.

In other words, in order accurately to analyse American policies in the
Middle East, to predict how they will change or not and to develop
effective ways to revamp them in the directions that are so urgently
needed for humanitarian relief and real peace, it is essential to
understand the decisive role the Israel lobby plays in the United States.

Presidents and politicians from both major parties have long been
extremely aware of this lobby. It may greatly improve or impede their
chances of winning an election, of passing legislation, of receiving
positive press coverage, of, quite simply, going on to bigger and better
things.

Through the years the lobby for Israel has been a decisive factor in the
defeat of Republicans Paul Findley, Pete McCloskey (at one time a
Presidential contender) and Charles Percy (another Presidential
contender) and Democrats Adlai Stevenson, William Fulbright, Earl
Hilliard, Cynthia McKinney and quite likely many more.[2]

Politicians from both parties attend the annual convention of its major
lobbying arm, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and
pledge their loyalty to this foreign country. President Barack Obama,
whose early and major backing came from members of the Israel lobby[3],
gave his first post-nomination speech at the AIPAC convention.

Yet, despite the lobby's inordinate power, most Americans are only
minimally aware of it. For decades surveys have shown that the large
majority of Americans don't wish to take sides on Israel-Palestine, a
reflection of a public that is uninformed about how much of our tax
money goes to Israel and how decisively our government is, indeed,
taking a side.

This widespread lack of awareness about the role of the Israel lobby in
determining American policies is particularly startling given that the
movement on behalf of Israel has been active in the United States for
over 100 years and that it played a significant role in Israel's
creation.[4]

By the 1920s it was able successfully to promote its policies over those
recommended by the US State Department; by the 1940s it had added
Pentagon policies to those it could overrule and both presidential
candidates Harry Truman and Thomas Dewey were currying its favour[5]; by
1967 it was able to push its cover story on Israel's lethal attack on
the US naval ship Liberty over opposition by high ranking admirals, the
director of the CIA and the Secretary of State[6]; and by 1977 the head
of AIPAC could state with accuracy: "We have never lost on a major
issue."[7]

Half a century ago the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigating
lobbying activities found an illicit cycle in which the Israel lobby
succeeded in procuring money for Israel, some of this was then secretly
funneled back into these groups, which then used this money to lobby for
still more American tax dollars to Israel.

The hearings concluded that Israel operated "one of the most effective
networks of foreign influence" in the United States.[8] Yet, since the
media reported on this so little, most Americans are unaware of these
extremely grave findings.

The term "Israel lobby" fails to do justice to the extraordinary scope
and composition of this special interest group.  Below is a small
sampling of the American organisations that work on behalf of Israel.
Virtually all have multi-million dollar budgets; a few have endowments
in the hundreds of million dollars and most of them are funded by
tax-deductible donations:

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC): $100 million
endowment, [9] $60 million annual revenues.[10]
The American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF): $26 million annual
revenues.[11]
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP): $23.5 million net
assets. $9.4 million annual revenues.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL): $115 million net assets,[12] $60 million
annual revenues.[13]
International Fellowship of Christians and Jews (aka Stand for Israel):
$100 million annual revenues.[14]
The Israel Project: $11 million annual budget.[15]
Friends of the Israeli Defense Forces (FIDF): $80 million net
assets,[16] $60 million annual revenues.[17]
Hadassah (Women's Zionist Organization of America): $400 million net
assets, $100 million annual revenues.
The Jim Joseph Foundation: $837 million net assets.[20]
The Avi Chai Foundation: $615 million total assets.[21]
Jewish Federations: $3 billion annual revenues.[22]
Jewish Community Relations Councils, in cities all over U.S.: Boston
annual revenues $2.5 million; Louisville annual revenues $7-10 million;
Detroit $734,000, New York $4.5 million, etc.[23]
Hillel: Over $26 million.[24]
JINSA Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs: $3 million annual
revenues.
Center for Security Policy: $4 million annual revenues.[25]
Foreign Policy Initiative (PNAC 2.0): $1.5 million annual revenues.[26]
MEMRI Middle East Media Research Institute: $5.2 million.[27]
Birthright: $55 million.[28]
David Project: $4.4 million.[29]
CAMERA Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America: $3.5
million.[30]

In addition to these nonprofit organisations, there are dozens of
political action committees (PACs) that donate to political candidates
on the basis of their positions on Israel. Most of these disguise their
purpose by using such deceptive names as "Northern Californians for Good
Government," "National Action Committee," "American Principles," etc.

While other issue-based PACs almost always announce their focus
publicly[31], in 2012 only two of the pro-Israel PACs made any reference
to Israel in their names.[32] While US media frequently discuss the gun
rights lobby, the largely uncovered pro-Israel PACs gave almost twice as
much money to candidates – and the donations went to both parties.[33]

In addition, there are numerous individuals who play an extremely
important role in the Israel lobbying effort. Two examples are political
campaign mega-donors Haim Saban and Sheldon Adelson. Saban donated $12.3
million to the Democratic Party in 2002 alone and has contributed
millions more to pro-Israel organisations.

Adelson, a billionaire casino magnate, set a new record in political
donations by giving $70 million in the 2012 elections, nearly triple the
previous highest amount. He also funds such pro-Israel organisations as
Birthright Israel which takes thousands of young Jewish Americans on
recruiting visits to Israel.

In other cases, it is individuals with a different kind of power – the
power to affect which information reaches the American public and which
does not. One example is Eric Weider, whose Weider History Group
publishes eleven history magazines in the United States, the largest
history magazine publisher in America (and, according to its website,
the world).[34]

Given this reality, President Obama's actions are unlikely to stray
outside the parameters the Israel lobby is willing to accept. While the
media are making a great deal over the very mild apology Israel made to
Turkey for having murdered nine of its citizens, crediting Obama with
this alleged break-through, none of the news reports seem to mention
that Israel has largely failed to apologise to the US for the death of
19-year-old dual American Turkish citizen, Furgan Dogan, who was killed
with five bullets, one to his face at point blank range.[35]

It is also relevant to note that an AIPAC-drafted letter signed by 76
out of 100 Senators  was sent to President Obama on the eve of his visit
to Israel in March.[36]

Congressional actions can also be expected to remain within what the
Israel lobby directs, though here, too, there may be rare occasions
where the lobby seems to have lost – such as the confirmation of Chuck
Hagel for Secretary of Defence.

However, the alleged triumph that some pro-Palestinian writers are
proclaiming for Hagel's appointment is a bit overblown. Before he was
allowed to take his position, he was made to grovel humiliatingly before
his Congressional interrogators, retract acceptable statements he had
made earlier in his life and all but swear devotion to Israel (like all
top government officials seemingly must do).

This degrading spectacle surely made it clear to Hagel that he better
watch his step in the future and made it even clearer to ambitious
Americans of all ages that they must be extremely careful about any
statements they make about Israel and its lobby if they are to achieve
their political ambitions.

Despite the power of the lobby, however, the situation is not as bleak
as the above may suggest. There is a highly diverse movement in the US
that opposes this lobby and it is steadily growing.

The Left, which for decades was largely silent on Israeli abuses of
human rights, has finally become active on the issue. Similarly, both
traditional conservatives and libertarians frequently oppose aid to
Israel and this opposition is becoming more outspoken. While this stance
is often motivated by fiscal considerations, in many cases it is also
fuelled by outrage at Israeli cruelty and by genuine empathy with
Palestinians.

The money being mobilised on this side is only a small fraction of the
other and some of the groups within this movement could arguably be
considered simply a more reasonable and compassionate arm of the Israel
lobby in that their advocacy is often framed according to what "is good
for Israel" while failing to address the inherent injustice of an ethnic
state imposed on a multicultural region.

Nevertheless, there is no doubt that the opposition to current US
policies is growing increasingly important. The tide may not yet have
turned but it is certainly in the slowing phase that must come first.

To use another oft-quoted and particularly apt metaphor, lobbies thrive
in the dark. More and more people in the US and elsewhere are shining
light on this one, steadily reducing its power.

While there are numerous deeply significant issues, an increasing number
of individuals are deciding to focus on this one, the core issue of the
Middle East and the cause of war after war, including the current "war
on terror" and demonisation of Muslims.

To use the framing posed by journalist Glenn Greenwald, an expanding
number of people are refusing to prioritise domestic issues over the
killing of Arab and Muslim children on the other side of the world.

Therefore, despite the enormous power of the Israel lobby in the US,
this growing movement is quite likely to overcome the obstacles
confronting it and to join history's other successful movements against
oppression.

The main question is how long this will take, and how many more
massacres, and possibly wars, will occur in the interim.

[1] Even Aaron David Miller admitted they acted as "Israel's lawyer" –
Miller, Aaron David. "Israel's Lawyer." Washington Post 23 May 2005,
posted by Matt Miller Opinion Writer. Online at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/22/AR2005052200883.html
[2] Findley, Paul. They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions
Confront Israel's Lobby. Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill, 1985. Online at
http://archive.org/stream/They-Dare-To-Speak-Out-Paul-Findley/They_Dare_to_Speak_Out_Paul_Findley_djvu.txt
and Mearsheimer, John J., and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
[3] Yearwood, Pauline Dubkin. "Obama and the Jews." Chicago Jewish News
24 Oct. 2008.
Online at http://www.chicagojewishnews.com/story.htm?sid=212226&id=252218
[4] Weir, Alison. "Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of
How the United States Was Used to Create Israel." IfAmericansKnew.org.
2012. Web. http://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/history.html
[5] Weir, "Against Our Better Judgment"
[6] http://www.ussliberty.org/supporters.htm
[7] The Power Peddlers, by Russell Warren Howe and Sarah Hays Trott,
Doubleday, p. 292.
http://ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/history.html
[8] Smith, Grant. "Where Did AIPAC Come From?" Antiwar.com. N.p., 09
Oct. 2007. Web. http://antiwar.com/orig/gsmith.php?articleid=11727 and
Neff, Donald. "Ulbright Called for U.S. Defense Pact With Israel But Was
Labeled Anti-Semite." Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
August-September (1997): 96. Online at
http://www.wrmea.org/wrmea-archives/188-washington-report-archives-1994-1999/august-september-1997/2677-middle-east-history-it-happened-in-august-.html
[9] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/25/washington/25lobby.html?_r=1
In 2009, the Economist reported: "AIPAC has an annual budget of around
$60m, more than 275 employees, an endowment of over $130m and a new $80m
headquarters building on Capitol Hill."
http://www.economist.com/node/14753768
[10]
http://firststreetresearch.cqpress.com/2012/03/08/aipac-still-commands-attention-among-movers-and-shakers/
[11] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3265
[12]
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10657
[13]
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10657
[14] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3889
[15]
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspx?c=ewJXKcOUJlIaG&b=7717007&ct=11735981#.UbKK4uuhU0o
[16] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3734
[17] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3734
[18] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7699
[19] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=7699
[20]
http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/CA/Shimon-Ben-Joseph-Foundation-Dba-Jim-Joseph-Foundation.html
[21] http://207.153.189.83/EINS/133252800/133252800_2010_07b9bf0d.PDF
[22] http://www.jewishfederations.org/about-us.aspx
[23]
http://www.jewishlouisville.org/images/JCL/Financials/annual_report_2011-12.pdf
http://www.faqs.org/tax-exempt/MI/Jewish-Community-Relations-Council-Of-Metropolitan-Detroit.html#revenue_a
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=10095
http://jcrcny.org/images/00_media/about/jcrc-ny2011form990.pdf
[24] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=4540
[25]
http://www.politico.com/static/PPM152_100828_centerforsecuritypolicy.html
[26]
https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2011_09_EO/26-4392915_990_201012.pdf
[27] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=8188
[28]
http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=11247
[29]
https://bulk.resource.org/irs.gov/eo/2011_02_EO/16-1616489_990_200912.pdf
[30] http://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=5429
[31] http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/industry.php?txt=Q11&cycle=2012 and
http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/industry.php?txt=Q13&cycle=2012
[32] http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/industry.php?txt=Q05&cycle=2012
[33] http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/sector.php?cycle=2012&txt=Q05
[34] Weir, Alison. "The Empire Behind World's Largest History Magazine
Chain: How American History Magazine Censored Palestine." CounterPunch
Dec. 6, 2012. Online at  http://ifamericansknew.org/media/weider.html
[35] Lynch, Colum. "U.N. Panel Endorses Report Accusing Israel of
Executions aboard Aid Flotilla." Washington Post 30 Sept. 2010, A
Section. Online at
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092907110.html?wprss=rss_print/asection
[36] "Did Your Favorite Progressive Senator Sign AIPAC Letter To Obama
Telling Him To Stand Up For Occupation? Here Is The List." MJ Rosenberg,
Mar. 2013. Online at
http://mjayrosenberg.com/2013/03/19/did-your-favorite-progressive-senator-sign-aipac-letter-to-obama-telling-him-to-stand-up-for-occupation-here-is-the-list/

(5) Cameron's 'Torah' government - Stuart Littlewood

http://mycatbirdseat.com/2013/06/camerons-torah-government/

Cameron's 'Torah' government

STUART LITTLEWOOD JUNE 29, 2013 20

The unbearable shame

by Stuart Littlewood

Ten years ago Tam Dalyell, the 'Father of the House' (i.e. the most
senior member of the House of Commons in the British Parliament),
sparked a huge row by accusing the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, of
"being unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers" .

In an interview with Vanity Fair, Dalyell named Lord Levy (Blair's
personal envoy on the Middle East), Peter Mandelson (whose father was
Jewish), and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary (who has Jewish
ancestry), as three of the leading figures who had influenced Blair's
policies on the Middle East. He told The Telegraph: "If it is a question
of launching an assault on Syria or Iran…. then one has to be candid."
Blair, he said, was also indirectly influenced by Jewish people in the
Bush administration, including Richard Perle, a Pentagon adviser, Paul
Wolfowitz, the deputy defence secretary, and Ari Fleischer, the
President's press secretary.

Dalyell's remarks were sad and unfounded, said Lord Janner, chairman of
the Holocaust Education Trust. "Tony Blair is his own man. He will
follow advice if he considers it correct and not otherwise. He has been
a good friend of the Jewish people and the Jewish state."

Dalyell was misguided, said Rabbi Dr Jonathan Romain, a spokesman for
Britain's Reform Synagogues. "Concerning Iraq it was crystal clear that
Tony Blair was not swayed by popularity or anyone else but by his own
deep convictions. It is also obvious that the majority of President
Bush's circle are Christian Evangelicals rather than Jews."

Ned Temko, the American-born editor of the Jewish Chronicle, said: "I
just think these sort of comments are offensive and are a profound
misunderstanding of the way foreign policy is made in the United States
or here."

Dalyell also told The Scotsman on Sunday
<http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/dalyell-zionist-cabal-runs-policy-on-israel-1-1385178>:
"Blair and Straw have become far too close to these people and Lord
Levy, who is an unaccountable ambassador in the Middle East, is part of
this group. They are acting on an extremely Zionist, Likud-nik agenda.
In particular I am concerned that some of them are pushing for an attack
on Syria, for reasons of Israeli security. "

MP Louise Ellman, a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Committee Against
Anti-Semitism, said: "This absurd proposition implies a Jewish plot in
high places…"

Former Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind, a senior member of
Scotland's Jewish community, was rudely dismissive: "We all know that
Tam gets bees in his bonnet and eight times out of 10 they are nuts but
the other two are brilliant. This is, I'm afraid, one of the nutty ones."

Next day the Guardian reported that Dalyell could face an investigation
for inciting racial hatred
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2003/may/05/iraq.politics>. Eric Moonman,
president of the Zionist Federation, was seeking advice on whether there
was a case for referral. "I believe there is," he said.

Today it is obvious that old Tam was neither nutty nor misguided. He
joined the dots and saw the danger, as did many others.

"So many Jews that the Tory party should be known as the Torah party"

Meanwhile the Jewish cabal flourishes. A week ago Ian Livingston was
handpicked by prime minister David Cameron for the trade minister job.
Cameron, who had previously broken with traditional wisdom and appointed
the first Jewish ambassador to Israel, was reported by an ecstatic Times
of Israel as having now decided to bring into the government possibly
its most committed Jew yet, and certainly its most outspoken supporter
of Israel, which Livingston called "the most amazing state in the world."

Livingston is not elected. He's appointed… and created a Lord to make it
look kosher.

The newspaper went on to name other top Jewish figures in the
Conservative party such as co-chairs Lord Feldman and Grant Shapps MP,
senior treasurer Howard Leigh, a member of the Jewish Leadership
Council; and former party treasurers Richard Harrington MP and Lord
Fink, another member of the JLC.

"There are so many Jews at the top of Britain's Conservative party,
Prime Minister David Cameron once quipped, that it should be known as
the Torah party rather than the Tory party," crowed the paper.

And to make the Prime Minister feel thoroughly at home in his Torah
party a Jewish scholar, after tracing Cameron's ancestry, claimed he
could be "a direct descendant of Moses or, at least, a cousin".

In case our American friends are puzzled by this Torah/Tory business,
'Tory' is an old 17th century name for the modern Conservative party
founded in the 1830s.

While nobody is suggesting, I hope, that Jews have no place in our
law-making, it is not unreasonable to wish the number to reflect their
presence in the population. Three years ago The Jewish Chronicle
published a list of Jewish MPs in Britain's parliament, naming 24. The
Jewish population in the UK at that time was – and probably still is –
around 280,000 or just under 0.5%. There are 650 seats in the House of
Commons so, on a proportional basis, Jews could expect 3 seats. But with
24 they were 8 times over-represented. Which meant, of course, that
other groups were under-represented.

The UK's Muslim population is about 2.4 million or nearly 4%. Similarly,
their quota would be 25 seats but they had only 8 – a serious shortfall.
If Muslims were over-represented to the same extent as Jews (i.e. 8
times) they'd have 200 seats. Imagine the hullabaloo.

Israeli flag-waving a stepping-stone to high office

Over-representation in the House of Commons is only part of the picture.
Many more Jews have been inserted into the House of Lords and other
non-elected and unaccountable positions. An even bigger worry is the
huge number of non-Jewish Zionists that have infiltrated every level of
political and institutional life. They swell the pro-Israel lobby to
such an extent that it is believed to account for 80% of the
Parliamentary Conservative Party, which now rules with the Liberal
Democrats as their junior coalition partner.

Too many pro-Israel MPs speak and act as if they'd rather wave the
Israeli flag than the Union Jack. These 'Israel-firsters' never condemn
the regime's illegal occupation, apartheid-style policies, war crimes
and refusal to sign up to nuclear non-proliferation, inspection and
safeguards. They lock Britain (and British foreign policy) into Israel's
sickening ambitions and immorality. Defending the indefensible, as they
do, inevitably raises questions for our national security, a deadly
serious issue given the sheer number of Zionists now in British public
life and the enemies they have made across the world, and continually
provoke.

The Jewish Chronicle, in its 2006 special report 'Team Cameron's big
Jewish backers', revealed the support that enabled Cameron to suddenly
burst into the political limelight, almost unknown, to take the
Conservative leadership. With no significant achievement under his belt
he was then able to manoeuvre, with the help of his backers, into
Britain's PM slot.

He is also a self-declared Zionist and voted for the war in Iraq, so how
trustworthy does that make him? In a speech to Jewish fundraisers in
London last year he declared: "There is no contradiction between being a
proud Jew, a committed Zionist and a loyal British citizen." How can
someone who so closely aligns himself with a belligerent foreign
military power like Israel hope to convince us that he's 100 percent
loyal to Britain and her interests, while once again drawing us
unwillingly into conflict with Israel's enemies, this time Iran and
Syria, with whom we have no quarrel?

Cameron's Foreign Secretary, William Hague, has been a member of
Conservative Friends of Israel since he was 15. Hague once said: "The
unbroken thread of Conservative Party support for Israel that has run
for nearly a century from the Balfour Declaration to the present day
will continue."

Alistair Burt, a former officer of the Parliamentary group of
Conservative Friends of Israel, is Foreign Office minister for the
Middle East. And David Lidington, who has spoken of being a "staunch
defender" of the State of Israel, is Foreign Office minister for Europe.

So the key stooges are safely installed and activated.

Powerless to deliver justice

It is said that becoming a Friend of Israel is a necessary
stepping-stone to high office. Consequently fans of Israel are embedded
at all levels in the fabric of British political life and at the heart
of the Government.

When a group of concerned academics wrote to the Committee on Standards
in Public Life complaining about Israel's "deep penetration", they were
told it was not something the committee could investigate. A closer look
revealed that some members of the committee had close links with Friends
of Israel.

How do these Israeli flag wavers think it looks, standing shoulder to
shoulder with religious fanatics and psychopaths who horribly persecute
the Christian and Muslim communities of the Holy Land? It is especially
offensive to see them endorsing a pseudo democracy that dishes out
thuggish treatment even to children who, says the UN, are arrested by
Israeli military and police and systematically subjected to degrading
treatment, and often tortured. Read the report and weep
http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/crc/docs/co/CRC-C-ISR-CO-2-4.pdf?utm_source=Mondoweiss+List&utm_campaign=dc16ddd294-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b86bace129-dc16ddd294-398413317.

Thanks to its misplaced admiration for Israel, the British government
fails to intervene and stand up for justice. The disgrace is unbearable.
Here is just one of many appalling examples. Right now Christians in
that once beautiful country are under imminent threat of losing their
land, their livelihood, and their way of life because an emergency law
cooked up by the illegal occupier Israel, and upheld by an Israeli
court, allows the Israelis to seize territory in the Cremisan Valley
near Bethlehem. This brazen land-grab opens the way for the hated
separation wall (ruled illegal by the International Court of Justice) to
be extended across the valley, connecting two Israeli settlements built
on stolen Palestinian land in the eastern suburbs of Jerusalem.

The onward construction of the barrier will divide a Salesian Catholic
monastery from the neighbouring Salesian Catholic convent, confiscate
most of the convent's property, and cut off 58 Palestinian families from
their agricultural lands – including vineyards, olive groves, and
pastures. The barrier will also separate families and surround an
elementary school on three sides, forcing young children to pass through
a checkpoint to go to class.

The ICJ (International Criminal Justice) required the wall to be
dismantled, not extended. And it reminded all States party to the Fourth
Geneva Convention that they are under an obligation "to ensure
compliance by Israel with international humanitarian law as embodied in
that Convention". That was 9 years ago. The world is still waiting. The
States never act. Compliance never happens. Non-compliance is rife, and
highly profitable to Israel.

And Israel's allies, including Britain, perversely reward its
non-compliance. Across the West Bank, continuing restrictions on
Palestinian access to agricultural lands have led to the slow
abandonment and eventual confiscation of those lands by Israeli authorities.

As I write, Israel's Knesset have approved the first reading of the
Prawer Plan to remove 40,000 indigenous Bedouin people from their
ancestral homeland in the Negev. This evil scheme clears the way for the
$4 billion "Blueprint Negev" project intended to transform the Negev
into a majority-Jewish area even though the Bedouin have lived there for
thousands of years.

At the same time one of Israel's most dangerous lunatics, Avigdor
Lieberman (chairman of the foreign affairs and defence committee), is
calling for Israel, after imposing a vicious 7-year blockade, to conquer
the Gaza Strip and carry out "a thorough cleansing", just because Hamas
still hasn't succumbed to Israel's illegal occupation of the Palestinian
homeland.

Britain could, at a stroke, bring Israel to heel and force the regime to
conform to international law or face massive trade penalties. But the
prancing posers who pass for our leaders have sold out.

Cameron's 'Torah' party rules!

Stuart Littlewood is writer-photographer in the UK. His articles are
published widely on the web. He is author of the book Radio Free
Palestine, which tells the plight of the Palestinians under occupation.