- Obama asks Shimon Peres: "What can I do for Israel?"
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- Haaretz, November 17, 2008
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- The UN Special Rappateur on Human Rights in the Palestinian
Territories (Richard Falk) has said Israel's policies there amount to a
crime against humanityHe said the UN must act to protect the Palestinian
population suffering what he called 'collective punishment'He said the
International Criminal Court should also investigate whether the Israeli
civilian leaders and military commanders for the Gaza siege should be indicted
and prosecuted for violations of international criminal law.
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- BBC News, December 10, 2008
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- We need to ratchet up tough but direct diplomacy with
Iran, making very clear to them than their development of nuclear weapons
would be unacceptable, that their funding of terrorist organizations like
Hamas and Hizbullah, their threats against Israel are contrary to everything
we believe inWe may have to tighten up those sanctionsand give them a clear
choicewhether they want to do this the hard way or the easy way.
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- President-Elect Obama on NBC Meet the Press, December
7, 2008
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- December 12th, 2008 "<http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/>Information
Clearinghouse" -- -- According to a nationally prominent Zionist spokesperson,
former Congressman, Federal Judge, White House Counsel to President Bill
Clinton and early backer of Obama, Abner Mikvner, "Barack Obama is
the first Jewish President". Mikvner's affirmation reflects both Obama's
one-sided and longstanding commitment to the State of Israel and loyalty
to the Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) in the United States, as well
as the long-term and successful effort of a network of financially and
politically powerful Jewish Zionists to 'embed' Obama to their 'Israel
First' political apparatus. What is striking about the latter is the demeaning
and arrogant claims made by some leading Jewish Zionist about their 'central
roles' in the making of Obama's professional and political careers
in effect denying the President-Elect any credit for his own academic or
professional success.
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- (Historically this has been mirrored in the continuous
claims of some American Jews to have fought and won the battle of Civil
Rights in the 60's on behalf of African Americans essentially denying
black Americans any independent political role in their own struggle.)
Even their personal flattery about his 'wisdom', 'brilliance' and 'intellectual
acuity' is always linked with his unconditional support of the State of
Israel. One can envision how quickly his Zionist colleagues would replace
their plaudits with crude insults regarding his intelligence if he suggested
Israel end its starvation blockade of Gaza Needless to say the Zionists
know their man, as they confidently proclaim, he is a cautious and prudent
politician, who measures power before he speaks, especially as he has filled
the White House, economic councils and security apparatus with Zionist
zealots.
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- The Making and Re-Making of Obama
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- The Chicago Jewish News, a nationally prominent Israel-First
propaganda organ, published a lengthy article on 'Obama and the Jews' by
Pauline Dubkin (October 24, 2008), which quotes approvingly a 'long-time
Jewish observer of the political scene', who declared that, "Jews
made him (Obama). Wherever you look there is a Jewish presence."
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- This is not merely the usual arrogant self-aggrandizing
boasts of a Zionist power broker, with which we are constantly bombarded
on so many political topics, this reflects an important part of what Obama
has become, especially in advancing his latter day political ambitions.
The Zionist self-promoters (ZSP), ever ready to take credit for any success
(no matter how notorious and immoral) Wall Street speculators, Ivy
League professors, Pentagon militarists, cultural gurus and even the key
patrons of art forms like jazz and constantly rewrite history (or biography
in the case of Obama) to maximize their self-importance in all aspects
of American life. The ZSP conveniently fail to mention in their articles
that Obama's white Gentile grandmother gave him the intellectual nurturing
and encouragement and diligently petitioned for scholarships for him to
attend elite private schools, which formed the basis for his intellectual
skills to write, speak and reason as an educated man. The ZSP exclude from
their 'revisionist and Judaized' biography of Obama, the central importance
of Reverend Jeremiah Wright who transformed Obama from an elite Ivy university
graduate into an effective social activist.
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- Obama was able to participate and get involved in community
organizing in Chicago's African-American neighborhoods because of Wright's
endorsement and broad credibility. If it were not for Rev. Wright, Obama
would never have had a social base or organizational experience to engage
in Chicago politics. It is only after Obama had gained these skills and
popular appeal that the Zionist politicos noticed him and went to work
on his ego and ambitions, recruiting him to their pro-Israel agenda and
financing his political career.
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- The Zionist re-write of his biography has gone curiously
unchallenged by Obama. To suit his new mentors, the Israel-First ideologues
and financial backers, he has willfully discarded and insulted his former
mentors, as well as any current policy advisers and political colleagues
who doesn't adhere to the Zionist line of unconditional support for Israel.
Two cases come immediately to mind. When leading Zionist ideologues objected
to the presence of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert Malley, among Obama's
foreign policy advisors, the Zionists in Obama's inner circle immediately
marginalized them with his approval. When the notorious torture-promoting
Zionofascist Harvard Law Professor, Alan Dershowitz raised a howl about
former US President Jimmy Carter (a principled critic of Israel's apartheid
policies) speaking at the Democratic Party Convention (following a century-long
political tradition of honoring former presidents) the Zionist operatives
blatantly humiliated the elderly Carter by denying him even a five-minute
speech with Obama's approval. 'Professor' Dershowitz publicly crowed
about his success and power over the Democratic nominee Obama in censoring
the former President.
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- The conversion and promotion of Obama as an Israel-Firster
is an excellent case study of the methods the ZPC has used to build a near
invincible power base in the US political system. The construction of the
ZPC is not the result of a cabal with a preplanned centrally controlled
operation. Obama's conversion began through an ideologically diverse, individual,
family and community-based effort. As Obama rose from local to national
political office, Zionist promotion evolved from local into a nationally
organized and concerted effort including campaign funding, business career
appointments and paid propaganda and indoctrination junkets to Israel.
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- The ZPC offers positive inducements for the 'recruitable'
and threats of retaliation and intimidation via media slanders and systematic
public pillory through most Jewish communal organizations for the public
political critics of Israel who remain recalcitrant and refuse to toe the
Israel-First line.
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- Turning Obama into an Israel-Firster, according to the
Chicago Jewish News article, began during his studies at Harvard Law School
where he was 'spotted' by a Zionist professor, Martha Minow, as "smart,
promising, and politically ambitious" and a likely recruit. The professor
proudly recounts how she contacted family members, including her father,
a major Democratic powerbroker, and fellow Zionists who ran a law firm
in Chicago and recommended they hire the Obama. In brief, the first step
in Zionist recruitment was using a prestigious academic post for initial
contact, followed by a promise of career advancement through a professional
network.
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- The next step was to introduce Obama to an association
of 'friends and neighbors in the Jewish Community including prominent Zionist
financial supporters. Obama's early promoters played a key role in convincing
him that his political future depended on Zionist allies and that support
depended on his total commitment to an Israel-First agenda. As Obama's
ties with his Zionist-liberal backers in the Democratic Party thickened,
his links to black community organizing and his pastor and former mentor,
the progressive African-American minister, Reverend Jeremiah Wright weakened.
By the end of the 1990's, Obama was firmly embedded in the liberal Zionist
Democratic Party network and through it he teamed up with two key Zionist
figures who were crucial to his presidential campaign: David Axelrod, Obama's
chief political strategist since 2002 and the chief architect and tactician
of his presidential campaign in 2008 and Bettylu Salzman, daughter of Phillip
Klutznick, a billionaire real estate developer, slumlord and zealous Israel-Firster.
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- Salzman/Klutznick admits she never would have bankrolled
and promoted Obama simply because of 'his smarts' or liberal politics if
he hadn't pledged his commitment to Israel's interests. She states, "Obviously
I'm not going to support someone who is opposed to Israel and what it stands
for. He's right on all the issues when it comes to Israel. He is in exactly
the same place (Hillary) Clinton is, maybe stronger. He's a clearer thinker."
(Chicago Jewish News, October 24, 2008) While Obama served in the Illinois
Senate, he shared an office with an Orthodox Jew and fanatical Israel-Firster,
Ira Silverstein, who boasts of his role in 'educating' Obama about Jewish
Orthodoxy and more important "shared pro-Israel feelings" to
the point that "When Silverstein sponsored numerous resolutions condemning
PLO bombings Obama eagerly signed on as a co-sponsor." (ibid)
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- Fully embedded in the Zionist Power Configuration of
Chicago, Obama was advised by the Axelrods, Klutznicks and other key strategists
to make the obligatory ritual pilgrimage to Israel and pay obeisance to
its leaders in the course of his Senate campaign. During his trip to Israel,
two years later in 2006, Obama was accompanied and guided by the executive
vice-president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago. Under
Zionist guidance, Obama 'connected' with the Israeli state, totally ignoring
the plight of the Palestinians who were being savagely repressed by the
Israel Army and assaulted on a daily basis by Zion-Fascist settlers. Obama
returned a thoroughly committed Zionist African-American politician.
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- With the Israeli-ZPC certificate of approval, Obama's
financial base of support widened to include some of the wealthiest pro-Israel
Jewish Americans in the Midwest including Lester Crown, whose son, James
Crown headed Obama's financial campaign in Illinois. According to Crown
(pater), "From the time I met him, the times we talked about Israel
and we talked about it several times, he has been an ardent backer of Israel's
defense position (sic), Israel's security position." (Ibid)
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- To those Zionfascists who demand that Israel annex all
of Palestine and expel 'the Arabs' and were disturbed by Obama's passing
reference to a two-state solution, Crown assured them that Obama's proposal
was couched in such outrageously impossible demands for concessions from
the Palestinians that it was a dead letter.
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- Not all Jews accept this view of a Zionist-embedded Obama:
Some racists reject him as an untrustworthy and unqualified 'Schvartze'
because of his 'very close intimate relationship' with Reverent Jeremiah
Wright. The Zionist-influenced mass media took their cue from the far-right
and orchestrated a hate campaign against Reverend Wright and his links
to Obama. The 'liberal Zionists', who strategized and ran Obama's presidential
campaign, easily convinced Obama to publicly dissociate himself from his
former minister and mentor of the 1980's. Obama complied. However, the
alliance of the Republican Right and Zionfascists demanded Obama make a
public denunciation of the Minister. The liberal Zionists prepared the
script, which Obama recited, issuing a vicious condemnation of Rev. Wright
and specifically listed Wright's defense of the sovereignty and self-determination
of the Palestinians as one of his 'crimes'.
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- Obama had crossed the River Jordan. His capitulation
to the Zionofascists was the inevitable consequence of his intimate and
longstanding ties to his liberal-Zionist backers. The public purging and
scourging of a renowned African-American Christian theologian of the oppressed
was only the beginning of the Zionist makeover of Obama as the first Jewish
(or better Zionist) President of the United States. It was followed by
further purges of any 'centrist' or 'realist' establishment adviser, who
might at any time in the past have issued the mildest criticism of Israel's
policies or even praised or associated with any other critic of Israel
or the Jewish Lobby in the US. It was 'guilt by association'.
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- The Zionofascists soon pressed their campaign to force
Obama's liberal-Zionists to purge Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Cold Warrior
National Security Adviser to former President Jimmy Carter, Samantha Power,
author and lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
and Robert Malley, a former Clinton adviser for their perceived crimes
against Zionism. Brzezinski was accused of advocating what he called "an
even-handed Middle East policy", something clearly 'anti-Semitic'
in the eyes of the unconditional supporters of Israel who dominate the
Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO). Worse still
he praised the Walt-Mearsheimer book critical of the Israel Lobby, a capital
offense in the eyes of most of the Jewish political spectrum. Power and
Malley also transgressed the Israel-First line. Although Brzezinski later
recanted his praise of Professors Walt and Mearsheimers' study, he and
the other members of the 'objectionable three' foreign policy specialists
were marginalized and excluded from having any input on policy issues related
to Middle East.
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- Control of Obama's Middle East policy was taken over
by Dennis Ross, a virulent Zionist advocate of Israel's ultra-militaristic
policies, including an armed preemptive attack on Iranian nuclear and military
installations. Ross is an unconditional supporter of the Israeli starvation
siege of the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip and fully backed Israel's
savage air attacks against civilian targets in Lebanon. Obama's appointment
of Ross is the clearest guarantee to all Zionists, liberal, orthodox or
fascist, that US policy in the Middle East will continue to be subordinated
to the interests of the Israeli State and its military.
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- Obama's purge of any and all moderate voices on Middle
East policy, his placement of fanatical Israel-Firsters in most key positions
in his campaign and new Administration reflects his long-term, deep immersion
into the Zionist Power Configuration. The result is a "Jewish President"
in the sense that most key White House, economic and security appointments
reflect pre-election Zionist power in the making, indoctrination and scripting
of the Obama candidacy.
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- The Configuration of the 'Jewish President'
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- One of Obama's longest supporters, Rabbi Arnold Jacob
Wolf, provides a clue to Obama's affinity for Zionist appointments. According
to Rabbi Wolf, "Obama is embedded in the Jewish world." While
the Rabbi is presumptuous to assume that all Jews subscribe to his own
Israel-First views, he is absolutely correct if he is referring to the
Jewish-Zionist world.
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- Nothing better explains Obama's selection of demonstrably
failed economists and security officials than his long-term, large-scale
links to the ZPC.
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- Obama started with the appointments of dual US-Israeli
citizen, Illinois Congressman Rahm Emmanuel and Zionist David Axelrod to
top White House posts, as well as Lawrence Summers (long-time Harvard ally
of the Judeo-fascist, torture advocate Alan Dershowitz) as chief White
House economic adviser. Summers is a life-time Israel-Firster, who used
his presidency at Harvard University as a bully pulpit to attack a student-faculty
group critical of Israeli policies in the Occupied Terrtories. As the former
Treasury Secretary under the Clinton regime he was a key architect of the
speculator-dominated financial system, which is currently in total collapse.
In line with the 'Jewish Presidency', Obama named one of the foremost,
unconditional Israel-Firsters to be his key Middle East policymaker
Dennis Ross, a leading Zionist ideologue and co-author of a presidential
position paper advocating pre-emptive war with Iran. Ross is the pivotal
Zionist figure in Obama's entourage and his appointment is the guarantee
for the 52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO)
that the Obama regime will follow and support with American guns and American
tax-payer money every Israeli war crime, assault or invasion on its Arab
and Parsi-speaking regional neighbors.
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- Ross, Axelrod, Summers, Emmanuel and their craven followers
in Congress together with the AIPAC and the entire Zionist community-based
network will ensure that Obama is inextricably 'embedded' in their agenda.
They will not allow the publication or support of any intelligence investigation,
judicial inquiry or United Nations report, which challenges Israel's occupation
of Palestine and promotion of pre-emptive war with Iran based on the fabrication
of data about its so-called nuclear threat. Each and every recently appointed
Zionists has condemned the United Nations and International Atomic Agency
reports refuting Israel's phony claims of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.
They will make sure that newly appointed National Security Adviser, General
James Jones will never bring up or make public his highly critical internal
report based his on-site investigation of Israel's crimes against the civilian
Palestinian population in the Occupied Territories.
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- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama and
Defense Secretary Gates are so deeply 'embedded' in the Zionist network
and so deeply infused with the Israel-First ideology that ZPC 'pressure'
will not be necessary. The three are, in effect, Zionized Zombies, eager
to fawn and truckle, even to grotesque excesses, at every wink and gesture,
signaling military handouts, UN vetoes and repeated provocative acts of
war against Iran. They have even exceeded President Bush in their eagerness
to please their Zionist mentors by recognizing Jerusalem as the 'undivided'
capital of the Jews effectively denying the rights of the Palestinian
residents.
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- Nothing speaks to the dominance of the ZPC over US political
life domestic and foreign - than the election of their meticulously
groomed first 'Jewish President' and the subsequent takeover of strategic
economic and security posts in his administration.
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- Conclusion
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- The ascent of a minority of ambitious power-driven political
operatives acting first and foremost for a militarist colonial power in
a strategic region of the world economy represents the biggest threat to
world peace and to US democratic values in recent history.
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- Think about it: Not only do the Zionists and their embedded
clones rule the White House, they also have the political apparatus (left,
liberal, center and right) to silence, insult, witch hunt and isolate any
critic of their agenda, their organizations and of the State of Israel.
When confronted by a critic the entire apparatus brays in unison about
'anti-Semitism' and follows up with severe civil sanctions. As Obama's
career under his Zionist handlers illustrates, they are capable of hurling
repulsive denunciations against his former African-American mentor and
spiritual councilor, Reverend Wright; capable of publicly humiliating and
pushing aside a former President and Obama supporter, Jimmy Carter; capable
of isolating and 'sanitizing' former top foreign policymakers from earlier
Democratic Administration like Brzezinski, simply for pointing out Israeli
crimes against humanity (although such observations are made daily in the
European press and political circles).
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- The apparatus combines the carrot (embedding and promoting
Obama) and the stick (stigmatizing Carter): It all depends on whether an
individual, politician, academic, writer or journalist is 'useful' (i.e.,
an unconditional supporter) or 'harmful' (i.e., critical) to the State
of Israel.
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- The Obama experience illustrates how a small, close knit,
well-organized and well financed minority operating through prestigious
professional posts and powerful economic enterprises can penetrate major
political institutions, capture upwardly mobile politicians and 'turn'
them into willing accomplices in promoting wars on behalf of a foreign
colonial militarist power. If in the past we have experienced Zionist thuggery
mugging our freedom of speech in civil society, think of what we can expect
when these thugs have complete control of the White House. The 'First Jewish
President' of the United States indeed! Where does that leave the American
people, their rights, their interests and their country's independent foreign
policy?
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- Epilogue
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- In early December 2008, Israel's right wing party, Likud,
under the leadership of 'Bibi' Netanyahu, met and nominated its slate of
candidates for the upcoming national elections (February 12, 2009). The
majority of candidates nominated represent what most Israeli journalists
call the 'hard right' or what might be accurately described as Zionfascism.
The Likud Party majority favors the expulsion of all Palestinians (i.e.
non-Jews) from Greater Israel, the military seizure of Gaza, the end of
any pretense of peace negotiations and the immediate bombing of Iran.
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- Currently Likud and its fascists have the support of
a plurality of Israeli Jews. If they win, it is a virtual certainty they
will receive the automatic support of all the principle respectable pro-Israel
Jewish organizations in the US, who follow the line that: "It is not
ours to question whom the Israelis vote for office. It is our duty to back
the State of Israel."
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- The election of an Israeli-fascist regime will up the
ante in Washington. Does Obama's embedding in the Zionist apparatus include
support for Jewish fascism , the total ethnic cleansing of Palestine and
their unilateral decision to 'nuke' Iran? Three weeks into his presidency
Obama will face his biggest Middle East challenge, which will define the
nature of US policy in the region.
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- Obama has recently suggested that Washington would nuke
Iran to protect Israel which has never yet signed a treaty with the
US to which the Bush Administration replied contemptuously that it
would be very hard to convince American parents in Kansas that their sons
should risk nuclear incineration for the sake of a small country in the
Middle East. Clearly Obama is a greater war monger on issues involving
Israel then even Bush: It comes with being a "Jewish President"
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- James Petras, a former Professor of Sociology at Binghamton
University, New York, owns a 50-year membership in the class struggle,
is an adviser to the landless and jobless in Brazil and Argentina, and
is co-author of Globalization Unmasked (Zed Books). Petras' forthcoming
book, Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power, is due from Clarity
Press, Atlanta, in August 2008. He can be reached at:
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- jpetras@binghamton.edu.
- http://petras.lahaine.org
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