- WASHINGTON - One of the most
disturbing developments in the United States is how easily the leadership
of the once liberal and progressive American Jewish community has been
nearly completely co-opted into supporting the terribly militant, racist,
and neo-apartheid policies of the 'Jewish State' of Israel.
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- Of course there are many individual Americans who are
Jewish who do speak and write in opposition to what the Israelis are doing;
and in fact in opposition to what the 'organized' Jewish community is doing.
But on the national stage there is no significant independent Jewish organization
or spokesperson to turn to. Indeed those few that pretend to be such are
actually front-organizations manipulating liberal American Jews in coordination
with various political groups in Israel.
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- Over the years the Israeli Labor Party when in opposition
has used infiltrated and and funded front groups like 'Peace Now' and 'Tikkun'
to support their own policies and to try to get 'liberal 'American Jews
to harmlessly channel their money and energy to them. This additional tragic
reality has substantially inhibited the growth of any truly independent
movement among American Jews to take the one crucial step that the Israelis
do fear: A clear call from credible American Jews to end the unprecedented
U.S. arming and funding of Israel.
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- The previous generation of American Jews much better
understood the historical dangers of Revisionist Zionism and the neo-fascist
movement fathered by Zeev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin. Today this movement
is called 'The Likud" and today it is headed by Ariel Sharon and in
firm control of Israel as never before.
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- Indeed, upon taking the oath of office at Prime Minister
Sharon had the picture of Jabotinsky, not Theodore Herzl, on the wall behind
him. This collective letter that follows was signed by American Jews, including
Albert Einstein, in 1948, upon the first visit to the U.S. by Menahem Begin
after the creation of Israel.
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- One other very important contemporary reality. Many of
the 'neo-cons' who are now in the highest positions of the American government
are among the supporters of Revisionist Zionism. The number three official
at the Pentagon, Douglas Feith, whose role in Iraq is central, as well
as the man put in charge of the Middle East at the National Security Council,
Elliott Abrams, and many associated with them in the Bush Administration,
are at the top of this list. Even Secretary of State Colin Powell has privately
referred to Feith's office at the Pentagon as 'The Gestapo':
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