- If the government of Israel does anything consistently,
beyond killing Palestinian school children, it is blackmailing other governments,
especially its cash cow, the United States. Now comes word that Israel
may release Marwan Barghouti, Arafat's heir apparent and Fatah Tanzim leader,
who is wasting away in an Israeli prison for the crime of supporting the
intifada and Palestinian nationalism, if Egypt and the United States release
two Israeli spies, Azzam Azzam and Jonathan Pollard.
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- Many Israelis are irked by Pollard's life sentence for
espionage, a fact admitted to by former Israeli PM Binyamin Netanyahu.
For some reason Pollard's conviction-he pleaded guilty to the charges-caused
considerable damage to the relationship between Israel and the United States,
mostly because Israelis believe there is no such thing as espionage. After
all, Israel has a right to do whatever it wants, especially in regard to
classified material in the United States, as the reaction of Israel and
the Strausscons to the AIPAC spy case make obvious. Of course, the "considerable
damage to the relationship between Israel and the United States" was
short-lived, as Bush and Congress now, more than ever, write blank checks
for the Israelis as they destroy the Palestinians, often with U.S. planes
and helicopters, courtesy of the American taxpayer.
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- Israeli Druze Azzam Azzam was arrested in Cairo in 1997
and sentenced to hard labor for spying on behalf of Mossad. Israel insists
Azzam is innocent (since spying for Israel is not a crime). However, the
Egyptians have a right to be paranoid of Israeli spies and agents provocateurs,
as the Lavon Affair makes obvious. It should be noted that the target of
the Lavon Affair was America (Israeli operatives fire-bombed U.S. Information
Service libraries in Cairo and other targets). Friends don't bomb friends-that
is unless the friend doing the bombing is Israel (an outlaw nation that
really does not have any sincere friends, only dupes to be exploited).
For some reason-mostly because Zionists control Congress-the United States
has remained "friends" with the self-serving and murderous Israelis,
even after they attacked a U.S. ship and killed sailors, as they did on
June 8, 1967. It takes far less provocation-in fact no provocation-for
the United States to attack Arab countries. But then the Arabs are enemies
of the Israelis and as it now stands the Israelis and their Strausscon
fellow travelers run U.S. foreign policy and will continue to do so for
at least the next four years (remember: the Democrat Clinton also kissed
Israel's posterior).
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- You'd think the United States would have told the Israelis
to screw off after Mossad attempted to kill John Gunther Dean, U.S. ambassador
to Lebanon, in 1979. Dean made the mistake of involving the Palestinians
in an effort to secure the release of American hostages. But no, they keep
coming back for more, the saps. Like a battered wife, the United States
keeps making excuses for Israel's behavior, even covering up its crimes
(for instance, Lyndon Johnson and his defense secretary, Robert McNamara,
ordered the inquiry into Israel's attack on the USS Liberty to conclude
the incident was an accident).
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- In fact, they are in denial. For instance, Susan Dryden,
a Justice Department spokesperson, called the well-documented Israel "art
student" spy ring an "urban myth," even though a 60-page
document released by the DEA provides evidence of the spy ring and the
Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive, in a March 2001 summary,
reported on "suspicious visitors to federal facilities." According
to the Jewish newspaper Forward, "one former high-ranking American
intelligence official, who asked not to be named, [said] the FBI came to
the conclusion at the end of its investigation [of an Israeli moving company]
that the five Israelis were conducting a Mossad surveillance mission and
that their employer, Urban Moving Systems of Weehawken, N.J., served as
a front."
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- Comment
- Lorie Kramer
- 1-14-4
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- According to reports of the scandal, around 120 young
Israeli citizens, posing as art students and selling paintings door-to-door,
have been arrested and deported from the United States. The door-to-door
sale of art works, it is claimed, was a front for a sophisticated spy ring:
the students would turn up at homes and offices-especially at buildings
housing federal authorities and military bases, and even went to the homes
of those employed in these offices. The students attempted to form friendships
with federal employees, photograph their offices, tap their phone lines
and infiltrate their databases.
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- So what did the battered wife do? She simply deported
the Israeli spies for "visa problems." End of problem-that is
until the next crop of spies is uncovered and the next instance of abuse
arises.
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- As Ed Blanche writes, the "mainstream US media has
been uncharacteristically silent on this bizarre episode, as it has been
in earlier instances when there were suspicions that Israeli intelligence
agencies were engaged in clandestine operations in the US." Fox News'
Carl Cameron reported extensively (and remarkably) on the above mentioned
spy ring-only to see his work relegated to the memory hole. Probably most
damning was the following Cameron comment: "There 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." In other words, our "friend"
knew about the 9/11 plot and didn't tell us about it. Friends also allow
friends to step off the curb and get run over by beer trucks.
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- Jonathan Pollard, as a convicted spy, should stay in
prison for selling out his country (since his imprisonment, Israel has
granted him honorary citizenship, thus demonstrating that compromising
the secrets of "friends" is behavior to be rewarded). Bush, however,
who said recently that he wants a Palestinian state (he meant a Palestinian
gulag), may give in to the latest attempt to free Jonathan Pollard, a pet
project of the last few Israeli prime ministers, who find nothing wrong
with spying on their "friends" (or attempting to kill their diplomats
or killing their sailors). Marwan Barghouti may very well be released.
Of course, this does not prevent Israel from assassinating him, as they
do other Palestinian leaders (this is very popular in Israel)-as they may
have done to Yasser Arafat (it is rumored Israel killed him through gradual
poisoning).
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- posted Sunday, 14 November 2004
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- http://mparent7777.blog-city.com/read/910295.htm
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