- During the 1960 Christmas season, Americans flocked to
the theaters to see Exodus, a 3-1/2 hour epic featuring romance, handsome
freedom fighters and the triumph of Jewish destiny over Arab evil-all set
against a Yuletide backdrop of Biblical prophecy as heroic Jews returned
to their promised land.
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- Many moviegoers failed to realize that Exodus was not
fact but fiction adapted from a 1958 Leon Uris novel, the biggest bestseller
since Gone with the Wind. Directed by Otto Preminger and starring a young
Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint, the film featured Lee J. Cobb, Rat Pack
member Peter Lawford and Italian crooner Sal Mineo, a teen heartthrob who
received an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of a Jewish émigré.
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- Then as now, Americans are easily swayed by sympathetic
portrayals of an extremist enclave granted nation-state recognition by
Harry Truman. A Christian-Zionist who had famously read the Bible cover-to-
cover five times by age 15, Truman was a True Believer in the prophecy
that the Messiah could not return until the Israelites returned to their
ancestral home.
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- Truman White House counsel Clark Clifford routinely reminded
the widely unpopular president that his 1948 campaign was woefully short
of funding that the Jewish-American community-with that recognition- was
eager to provide. In May 1948, General George C. Marshall, Truman's Secretary
of State, argued vigorously against recognition of this Zionist enclave
as a legitimate sovereign nation. Truman heard similarly strong objections
from the diplomatic corps, the fledgling Central Intelligence Agency and
the Joint Chiefs of Staff whose analysis of the perils proved prophetic.
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- Marshall, the senior U.S. military officer in WWII, was
outraged that Clifford, then in charge of Truman's campaign, would put
domestic political expedience ahead of U.S. foreign policy interests. Marshall
assured Truman that he would vote against him if he granted the Zionists
sovereign status. He also directed State Department personnel never again
to speak to Clifford.
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- In March 1948, a Joint Chiefs paper titled "Force
Requirements for Palestine" predicted that the "Zionist strategy
will seek to involve [the U.S.] in a continuously widening and deepening
series of operations intended to secure maximum Jewish objectives."
Those objectives included an expansionist agenda for Greater Israel that
envisioned the taking of Arab land, ensuring armed clashes in which the
U.S. was destined to become embroiled.
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- The Joint Chiefs listed the Zionist objectives as: Initial
Jewish sovereignty over a portion of Palestine Acceptance by the great
powers of the right to unlimited immigration The extension of Jewish sovereignty
over all of Palestine, The expansion of "Eretz (Greater) Israel"
into Transjordan and portions of Lebanon and Syria, and The establishment
of Jewish military and economic hegemony over the entire Middle East.
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- Akin to the fictional portrayal in Exodus, those Zionists
lobbying Truman assured him they would remain within the initial boundaries.
We now know that was a lie. They also promised that the Zionist state would
not become what it soon became: a theocratic and racist enclave- albeit
widely marketed as the "only democracy in the Middle East." To
remove all doubt as to the extremist nature of the Zionist project, the
Joint Chiefs assessment added ominously:
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- "All stages of this program are equally sacred to
the fanatical concepts of the Jewish leaders. The program is openly admitted
by some leaders, and has been privately admitted to United States officials
by responsible leaders of the presently dominant Jewish group--The Jewish
Agency."
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- Deceit from the Outset
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- A beguiling combination of manipulated beliefs and outright
lies remain at the core of the U.S.-Israeli "special relationship."
The deceit deployed to advance the Zionist project remains obscured by
a pro-Israeli bias in media and reinforced by pro-Israeli influence in
popular culture.
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- The rewards are real for those who offer aid and comfort
to this trans-generational duplicity. As Truman's whistle-stop train traversed
the nation, grateful Zionists refueled his campaign coffers with a reported
$400,000 in cash ($3.5 million in current dollars). Those funds helped
transform his widely anticipated loss into a clear victory with support
from pro-Israeli editorial boards that-after recognition-boosted Truman's
sagging popularity.
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- Clark Clifford was rewarded with his career goal as a
top-paid Washington lawyer. As a "made man," he remained a reliable
asset. During the G.H.W. Bush presidency, his prominence provided cover
for a massive bank fraud involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
In 2009, Hollywood released an action thriller (The International) featuring
the same storyline involving the International Bank of Business and Credit.
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- Neither Clifford nor Altman had experience in banking
when their law firm enabled what prosecutors charged was a global criminal
operation. The U.S. press called the scheme the biggest bank fraud in history.
This $20 billion transnational operation even included a pop culture component.
Clifford's young protégé and law partner, Robert Altman,
was married to Lynda Carter, the star of Wonder Woman, a 1970s fantasy-adventure
television series.
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- The real fantasy in this long-running fraud lies in identifying
why U.S. lawmakers continue to befriend and defend a "nation"
that has for so long-and so consistently-deceived and betrayed its most
loyal ally. As a badly miscast Eva Marie Saint asks in her most memorable
line in Exodus: "When will it ever end?"
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- The greatest wonder will be if, based on the well-documented
history of this duplicity, those lawmakers urging continued support for
these fanatics are not charged with treason. [See: "How the Israel
Lobby Took Control of U.S. Foreign Policy"]
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- To restore its national security, the U.S. must shake
off its entangled alliance with this extremist enclave. "Shaking off"
is the literal translation of "intifada." Those who comprehend
the trans- generational nature of this deception are quickly reaching that
conclusion. The others may be waiting for the movie, American Intifada.
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