{"id":100062,"date":"2018-06-13T21:52:09","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100062"},"modified":"2018-06-13T21:52:09","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:52:09","slug":"understanding-jewish-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=100062","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Jewish Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><a class=\"td-modal-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shutterstock_39861574-600x351.jpg\" data-caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"entry-thumb lazyloading td-animation-stack-type0-2\" title=\"shutterstock_39861574-600x351\" src=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shutterstock_39861574-600x351.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shutterstock_39861574-600x351.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/shutterstock_39861574-600x351-320x187.jpg 320w\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" data-was-processed=\"true\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_top td-rec-hide-on-p td_uid_33_5b21c18a1dc6d_rand td_block_template_1\"><\/div>\n<p>By Kevin Barrett<br \/>\nVeterans Today<\/p>\n<p>Philip Giraldi spoke on the \u201cZionism\u201d panel I moderated at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/noliesradio.org\/deeptruth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Deep Truth Conference<\/a>\u00a0last weekend. Click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/noliesradio.org\/deeptruth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">HERE<\/a>\u00a0to watch all the panels\u2014you can get the ticket by donating any amount.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Philip Giraldi like most other \u201crespectable\u201d voices tried to avoid using the J-word. But as it has become increasingly clear that the pathology behind Zionism has Jewish roots, more and more people are waking up and speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>The best book ever on the Jewish question, the book that woke me up, is Laurent Guy\u00e9not\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Yahweh-Zion-Jealous-Promised-Civilizations\/dp\/0996143041\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1515033229&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=guyenot+yahweh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">From\u00a0<em>Yahweh to Zion<\/em><\/a>. My interview with Laurent Guy\u00e9not, posted below, provides an introduction.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013<a href=\"http:\/\/truthjihad.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kevin Barrett<\/a>, Veterans Today Editor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"lazyloading\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W8zETlezw9M?feature=oembed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"392\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-was-processed=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Understanding Jewish Power:\u00a0Who has helped create a war-addicted America?<\/h2>\n<h3>By Philip Giraldi,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/pgiraldi\/understanding-jewish-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Unz Review<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><em>Phil Giraldi is a former CIA Case Officer and Army Intelligence Officer who spent twenty years overseas in Europe and the Middle East working terrorism cases. He holds a BA with honors from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in Modern History from the University of London.<\/em><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_1\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">I recently was asked to speak at an online conference entitled\u00a0<strong><em>Deep Truth: Encountering Deep State Lies<\/em><\/strong>. My panel addressed\u00a0<strong><em>Understanding Zionism: Deconstructing the Power Paradigm<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0and my own topic was\u00a0<strong><em>How Jewish Power Sustains the Israel Narrative<\/em><\/strong>. Working on my presentation, I was forced to confront the evolution of my own views on both the corruption of government in the United States and the ability of powerful domestic lobbies to deliberately distort the perception of national interests to benefit foreign countries even when that activity does terrible damage to the U.S.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_2\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">My personal journey began half a century ago. I became part of the U.S. national security state after being drafted for the Vietnam War when I graduated from college in 1968. I was at the time, vaguely pro-war, having bought into the media argument that international communism was mounting a major threat in southeast Asia. I also found the anti-war student movement distasteful because I was acquainted with many of its spokesmen and knew that they were chiefly motivated by a desire to avoid the draft, not due to any perception that the war itself was wrong or misguided. I knew a lot about the Punic Wars but precious little about former French Indochina and I suspect that those chanting \u201cHo-ho-Ho Chi Minh\u201d might have known even less that I did.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_3\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Because I spoke some Russian, I wound up in an army intelligence collection unit in West Berlin for three years where I and my fifty or so comrades did absolutely nothing but drink and party. It was my introduction to how government really works when it was not working at all and it did provide me with GI Bill money to go to grad school. After my PhD came a relatively easy transition to CIA given the fact that my degree was so obscure that no one but the government would hire me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_4\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">The journey from an army unit that was asleep at the wheel to the CIA, which was in full downsizing crisis mode post-Vietnam, was educational. Whereas the army was too bloated and complacent even to fake it, the Agency was fully capable of creating crises and then acting like the defender of American interests as it worked to resolve the various situations that it had invented. The war against Eurocommunism, which I was engaged in, was hyped and billed as the next great threat against the American way of life after the Vietnam blunder, swallowing up resources pointlessly as neither France, nor Spain nor Italy ever came close to entering the Red orbit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_5\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">As I climbed up the CIA ladder I also noticed something else. There was the equivalent of a worldwide conspiracy to promote threats to keep big national security-based government well-funded and in place. When I was in Turkey I began to note considerable intelligence liaison reporting coming from the Israelis and others promoting their own agendas. The material was frequently fictional in nature, but the danger was that it was being mixed in with more credible reporting which gave it traction. U.S. government consumers of the reporting would inevitably absorb the dubious viewpoint being promoted that Arabs and Iranians were fundamentally untrustworthy and were in bed with the Soviets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_6\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">There was considerable negative reporting on Saddam Hussein also coming out of Israel and motivated by his support of the Palestinians. Some of this ultimately surfaced in the Pentagon\u2019s Paul Wolfowitz-Doug Feith assessments of \u201cintelligence that had been missed\u201d which eventually became pretexts for the catastrophic Iraq War. I later learned that both Feith and Wolfowitz had a virtually revolving door of Israeli intelligence officials and diplomats running through their Pentagon offices in the lead-up to that war.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_7\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">It did not take much to connect the dots and realize that Israel, far from being a friend and ally, was the principal catalyst for the many missteps that the United States has made in the Middle East. U.S. policy in the region was being deliberately shaped around Israeli concerns by American Jews ensconced in the Pentagon and White House who certainly knew exactly what they were doing. No one should blame the Israelis for acting in their own self-interest, but every loyal American should blame the Libbys, Feiths and Wolfowitzes for their willingness to place Israeli interests ahead of those of their own country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_8\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">After my departure from government in part over my disagreement with the Iraq War, this willingness to place the United States in peril to serve the interests of a foreign country began to bother me, and there is no country that manipulates the U.S. government better or more persistently than Israel. I gradually became involved with those who were pushing back against the Israel Lobby, though it was not generally referred to in those terms before Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer produced their seminal work\u00a0<strong><em>The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_9\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">It does not take a genius to figure out that the United States is deeply involved in a series of seemingly endless wars pitting it against predominantly Muslim nations even though Washington has no vital interests at stake in places like Syria, Libya and Iraq. Who is driving the process and benefiting? Israel is clearly the intended beneficiary of a coordinated effort mounted by more than 600 Jewish organizations in the U.S. that have at least as part of their programs the promotion and protection of Israel. Ironically, organizations that promote the interests of a foreign government are supposed to be registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) but not a single pro-Israel organization has ever done so nor even been seriously challenged on the issue, a tribute to their power in dealing with the federal government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_10\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Those who are in the drivers\u2019 seat of the Israel promotion process are what some would describe as the Israel Lobby but which I would prefer to call a subset of the Jewish Lobby, which in itself is supported by something I would designate Jewish Power, an aggregate of Jewish money, control over key aspects of the media and entertainment industries plus easy access to corrupted politicians desirous of positive press and campaign donations. This penetration and control of the public discourse has resulted in the creation of what I would refer to as the official \u201cIsrael narrative,\u201d in which Israel, which claims perpetual victimhood, is reflexively referred to as \u201cthe only democracy in the Middle East\u201d and \u201cWashington\u2019s closest ally and friend,\u201d assertions that are completely false but which have been aggressively and successfully promoted to shape how Americans view the Israeli-Arab conflict. Palestinians resisting the Israeli occupation are invariably described as \u201cterrorists\u201d both in the U.S. and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_11\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Jewish Power is a funny thing. If you read the Jewish media or the Israeli press, to include\u00a0<strong><em>Forward, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Haaretz<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0or the\u00a0<strong><em>Jerusalem Post<\/em><\/strong>, you will find frequent references to it, nearly always seen as completely laudable. Bottom feeder Professor Alan Dershowitz of Harvard\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NVKr5lLUR4A\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NVKr5lLUR4A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently boasted<\/a>\u00a0that \u201cJews should not apologize for being so rich, controlling the media or influencing public debate\u2026they have earned it\u2026never apologize for using your strength\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_12\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">For many Jews like Dershowitz, Jewish power is something to be proud of, but they also believe that it should never be noticed or examined by non-Jews. Gentile criticism of Jewish collective behavior is something that must continue to be forbidden, just as the expression \u201cIsraeli Lobby\u201d was largely taboo before Walt and Mearsheimer. Israeli partisans regularly engage in the defamation of individuals, including myself, who do not conform to the taboos as anti-Semites or holocaust deniers, labels deliberately used as weapons to end discussion and silence critics whenever necessary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_13\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">So why do I think that we have to start talking about Jewish Power as opposed to the euphemism Israel Lobby? It is because the wars in the Middle East, which have done so much to damage the United States and were at least in part arranged to benefit Israel, have been largely driven by wealthy and powerful Jews. If America goes to war with Iran, as is increasingly likely, it will be all about Israel and it will be arranged by the political and financial services Washington-Wall Street axis, make no mistake.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_14\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">To my mind, Israel is America\u2019s number one foreign policy problem in that it is able and willing to start potentially catastrophic wars with countries that it has demonized but that do not threaten the U.S. And those doing the manipulating are bipartisan Jewish oligarchs with deep pockets that support the multitude of pro-Israel organizations, think tanks and media outlets that have done so much to corrupt America\u2019s political process. Hollywood producer Haim Saban, a principal Democratic Party supporter, has said that he is a one issue guy and that issue is Israel. Principal GOP funder casino magnate\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jun\/08\/sheldon-adelson-trump-middle-east-policy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/jun\/08\/sheldon-adelson-trump-middle-east-policy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sheldon Adelson<\/a>, who served in the U.S. Army in World War 2, has said that he regrets that service and would have preferred to be in the Israel Defense Forces. They as well as others, including fund manager Paul Singer and Home Depot\u2019s Bernard Marcus, are Jews laboring on behalf of the self-proclaimed Jewish State while the neoconservatives, fiercely protective of Israel, are also nearly all Jewish. Asserting that the fact that they are Jews acting for a Jewish state should be irrelevant as they are also doing what is good for America, as is commonly done by their apologists, is logically inconsistent and borders on absurdity. As for the frequently cited Bible belt Christian-Zionists who support Israel, they are, to be sure, numerous, but they do not have the access to real power in the United States that Jews have.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_15\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">Jewish Power is also what has in part driven the United States into a moral cesspit. Israeli snipers shoot dead scores of unarmed Gazan demonstrators and hardly anyone in Washington has anything to say about it. America\u2019s Ambassador to Israel, an Orthodox Jewish lawyer named David Friedman who has multiple ties to Israel\u2019s illegal settlements, uses his position to defend Israel, ignoring U.S. interests. Last week he held a press conference in which he\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/us-envoy-to-reporters-keep-your-mouths-shut-on-criticizing-israel-over-gaza\/?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=eb576208-0bec-493c-9f6c-ea1f850ecb57\" href=\"http:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/us-envoy-to-reporters-keep-your-mouths-shut-on-criticizing-israel-over-gaza\/?eType=EmailBlastContent&amp;eId=eb576208-0bec-493c-9f6c-ea1f850ecb57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">told reporters<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cshut their mouths\u201d in their criticism of Israel\u2019s slaughter of Gazans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"p_1_16\" class=\"container\"><span class=\"contents\">When a young Palestinian nurse is deliberately targeted and killed while treating a wounded man, it\u00a0<a title=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2018\/06\/heralded-palestinians-afterthought\/\" href=\"http:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2018\/06\/heralded-palestinians-afterthought\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hardly appears<\/a>\u00a0in the U.S. media. Arab teenagers are shot in the back while running away from Israeli gunmen while a young woman is sentenced to prison for slapping an Israel soldier who had just shot her cousin and was invading her home. Heavily armed Israeli settlers run amok on the West Bank, beating and killing Arabs and destroying their livelihoods. That is what Israel and its Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are all about and that is precisely the kind of a nation that America should not want to become, but unfortunately the role of Washington as Israel\u2019s obedient poodle has our once great country moving in the wrong direction. This has all been brought about by Jewish Power and it is time to wake up to that fact and address it squarely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2018\/06\/13\/giraldi\/\">http:\/\/www.veteranstoday.com\/2018\/06\/13\/giraldi\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}