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Treason in high places: Pentagon zionists, AIPAC and Israel
James Petras
Rebelión
The FBI investigation into Israeli espionage agents in the Pentagon is
part of a major struggle between prominent Zionists in the Pentagon
and the US security apparatus. Ever since the Bush regime came to
power there has been a fierce political and organizational war between
the Pentagon Zionists and their militarist collaborators, on the one
hand, and the professional military and intelligence apparatus, on the
other. This conflict has manifested itself in a series of major issues
including the war in the Middle East, the rational for war, the
relationship between Israel and the US, the strategy for empire, as
well as tactical issues like the size of military force needed for
colonial wars and the nature of colonial occupation. From 9/11/2001 to
the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon Zionists and the civilian
militarists had the upper hand: they marginalized the CIA and
established their own intelligence services to “cook the data”, they
pushed through the doctrine of sequential wars, beginning with
Afghanistan and Iraq and projecting wars with Iran, Syria, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries. The Pentagon Zionists
increased Israel's power in the Middle East and promoted its
expansionist colonization of Palestine, at the expense of US soldiers,
budget busting expenditures and CIA objections.
The US military and security apparatus has retaliated. First by
debunking Zionist lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, then
by exposing the role of Zionist client Ahmed Chalabi as a double agent
for Iran, followed by a two-year investigation of Pentagon Zionists
passing documents to Israeli military intelligence and the secret
police, the Mossad.
More is at stake than a turf war between the ‘Israel First’ Pentagon
crowd and their opponents in the US military, diplomatic corp and
intelligence agencies. The fundamental issue is the freedom of the US
people to decide or at least influence their political leaders and
their appointees without being subject to the manipulation and control
by a foreign government (Israel) and their highly placed agents in
positions of power.
Israel has for decades subverted US foreign policy to serve its
interests through the organized power of major Jewish organizations in
the US. What is new in the current Pentagon spy case is that rather
than pressuring from the outside to secure favorable policies for
Israel, the Israel loyalists are in top positions within the
government making strategic decisions about US global policy and
providing their Israeli handlers with secret documents pertaining to
top level discussions in the White House on questions of war and
peace. Today the politics of Pentagon and AIPAC espionage is
especially dangerous – because what is at stake is a new US and/or
Israeli war on Iran which will ignite the entire Middle East.
The move to high-level spying by top Zionist policy-makers like
Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams, Paul Wolfowitz and others in the Bush
Administration is the culmination of a long series of strategic
policies promoted by AIPAC designed to enhance Israeli expansionist
goals in the Middle East.
Wolfowitz, Feith, Abrams, Perle, Rubin et al were the most zealous
promoters of the war against Iraq. They worked closely with other
Zionist ideologues like Bush speechwriter David Frum to promote the
notion of “axes of evil”, to engage in a sequence of wars against
Muslim regimes hostile to Israeli colonial policy in Palestine and
beyond. Wolfowitz, Feith set up the parallel ‘intelligence’ agency
(the Office of Special Planning) run by fellow Zionist Abram Shulsky
using Chalabi to provide phony data on Iraq to precipitate that war.
An army of ‘Israel First’ academic and journalist ideologues wrote,
spoke and acted to justify the US attack on Iraq as the first part of
a regional war to destroy any and all regimes critical of Israeli
expansionism. Cohen, Rubin, Kristol, Foxman, Ledeen and many others
provided “expert” propaganda on why US soldiers should kill and be
killed for Greater Israel. Almost daily meetings and consultations
took place between the top Zionists officials and the Israeli military
and intelligence leaders in the offices of Feith and other Zionists.
The Pentagon offices of Feith and Wolfowitz appeared to be an upscale
bordello for high ranking Israeli officials. Judging from the
subsequent policies it is clear that Pentagon Zionists took their cues
from their Israeli counterparts – Israel was given greater funding,
unlimited access to US policy makers and information pertaining to US
policy in the Middle East. Meantime US intelligence and military
officials were marginalized, their objections to Israeli positions
blown away, their very presence seen as obstacles to realizing
Sharon's vision of a Greater Israeli – sharing (?) domination over the
Middle East.
Given the high level of structural collaboration and integration of US
Pentagon Zionists and US Jewish organizations with the Israeli state,
the boundaries of what is United States policies and interests and
what are Israeli prerogatives and interests are blurred. From the
perspective of the Pentagon Zionists and their organized Jewish
supporters, it is “natural” that the US spends billions to finance
Israeli military power and territorial expansion. It is “natural” to
transfer strategic documents from the Pentagon to the Israeli State.
As Haaritz states, “Why would Israel have to steal documents when they
can find out whatever they want through official meetings?” The
routinization of espionage via official consultations between Israeli
and US Zionist officials became public knowledge throughout the
executive branch. Only it wasn't called espionage, it was referred to
as ‘exchanging intelligence’, only the Israelis sent ‘disinformation’
to the Pentagon Zionists to serve their interests while the latter
passed on the real policies, positions and strategies of the US
government.
The history of the key Zionists in the Pentagon reveals a pattern of
disloyalty to the US and covert assistance to Israel. Harold Rhode and
William Luti, both fanatical Pentagon Zionists under Feith , Wolfowitz
and I. Lewis Libby have been under investigation by the FBI for
passing documents to Israel. Rhode had his security clearance
suspended recently. CIA operatives in Baghdad reported he was
constantly on his cell phone to Israel reporting on US plans, military
deployments, political projects, Iraqi assets and a host of other
confidential information. Michael Ledeen, another influential Zionist
policy maker who worked in the Pentagon lost his security clearance
after he was accused of passing classified material to a ‘foreign
country (Israel). In 2001 Feith hired Ledeen to work for the Office of
Special Plans which handled top secret documents. Feith himself was
fired in March 1983 from the National Security Council for providing
Israel with classified data. The FBI investigated Wolfowitz for having
provided documents to Israel on a proposed sale of US weapons to an
Arab country.
It is clear that Israeli agents, not simply Zionists ideologues,
infest the top echelon of the Pentagon. The question is not merely a
question of taking this or that policy position in favor of Israel but
of working systematically on a whole range of issues to further
Israeli power over and against US imperial interests.
What is surprising is not the current investigation over Israeli spies
in the Pentagon but why they have not been arrested, indicted and
sentenced a decade or two earlier.
The problem of American Jewish organizational collaboration with
Pentagon espionage - namely the role of the AIPEC as an accomplice in
the current spy case - is not exceptional. In their books, former
Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky ( The Other Side of Deception, 1994),
and Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon (Robert Maxwell: Israel's
Superspy, 2002) describe how the Israeli security forces have
recruited overseas Zionist Jews, who are called sayanim, to serve as
back-up supporters and collaborators in Israeli overseas operations.
AIPAC is not merely a pro-Israel ‘lobby’ but a long-standing listening
post and gatherer of public and confidential government information
for Israel. At a more ‘philosophical’ level there is an insidious
belief widely held among the leaders of major Jewish organizations
like AIPAC that the basic question for all Jews is whether the “policy
is good for the Jews” - narrowly defined to mean the interest of the
State of Israel and its current rulers. In pursuit of “Defending
Israel at all costs” it is very likely that some of these officials go
over the line into wartime espionage.
President Bush has declared that he is a “wartime President” – the US
is officially involved in a colonial war of aggression against the
Iraqi people. In these circumstances, espionage in time of war is a
capital offense… even if the spymasters are Israelis. It is no wonder
that the Zionist and Israeli propaganda machine is working overtime to
undermine the espionage investigation.
After the first announcement by CBS television, the rest of the mass
media gave prominent space to Israeli and AIPEC denials. More
seriously the CBS broadcast deliberately harmed the FBI spy
investigation into the links between the Pentagon and AIPEC. The FBI
blames CBS's revelations concerning Franklin when, the latter had
already confessed and was working with the FEDS to implicate AIPAC and
Israeli agents. Zionist ideologues in the US mass media and the
Israeli press try to downplay the incident – first through vehement
denials and subsequently to reducing the case of treason to a question
of a routine exchange of information by a single “lower level”,
bumbling but fanatically pro-Israel Gentile functionary. They forget
to mention he was hired and directed by Douglas Feith and Paul
Wolfowitz to be their expert on Iran deeply involved in handling top
secret documents and formulating policy on Iran.
The Israeli officials claim that Mossad and military intelligence
solemnly pledged to stop spying on the US after the Jonathan Pollard
case. “We have never spied on the US since…”, they claim. In fact over
800 Israeli spies posing as ‘art’ students and tourists were expelled
after 9/11 and several Mossad agents posing as movers in New Jersey
and Tennessee were expelled.
The arrogance of Israeli power in then US, which Sharon publically
boasted about, is largely based on the simple principle embraced by
all Zionist zealots whether they are Ivy league academics or
neo-fascist felons (like Elliot Abrams) is “What's good for Israel is
good for the US”. “Good for Israel” today means bloody US wars against
Israel's adversaries, unconditional support for Israeli expansion and
pillage of Palestine and now spying on the US for the good of Israel.
Guided by this slogan it is easy to see how everything in the US that
might be of use to Israeli intelligence whether it be documents,
directives or strategic debates about big wartime issues taking place
in the White House are fair game for transmission to Israeli
intelligence.
Rather than face the evidence, the Zionist ideologues have taken to ad
hominum attacks on their espionage agent as merely a middle level
official who didn't influence policy. They overlook the fact that he
was the ‘delivery boy’ for his Zionist bosses who actually do make
policy and work with top echelons of the Israeli state in
‘coordinating’ US policy to fit Israel's needs. The power of the
Israeli-US Zionist propaganda machine is so overwhelming that the FBI
had to investigate for 2 years, make endless wiretaps, videos and
photos, interview dozens of government and not-government officials
before they could prepare to make the charges. Despite being taped and
photographed in the act of taking top secret documents, AIPEC
officials deny everything and then hire a string of high-powered
defense lawyers. Already the pro-Zionists mass media suggest that
Zionist-AIPEC spying is really a case of ‘mishandling sensitive
documents’ – a case of putting top secret documents in the wrong
mailbox. Really!
In less than two days the pro-Israel mass media buried the story, and
a series of ‘news reports’ were published featuring AIPEC denials,
Israeli ridiculing their Pentagon mole as a fanatical idiot (Haaretz)
and launching a counter attack questioning the motives of the
investigation and the FBI counter-espionage service. The media
published stories from anonymous “insiders” who purportedly spoke of
the FBI dropping espionage charges in favor of charges of “mishandling
a classified document” or even simply dropping the case altogether.
They claim that the spy handing over a classified document to Israeli
interests didn't know it was a crime, a case of an innocent,
well-intentioned error of judgment. This piece of propaganda has been
thoroughly discredited when it was revealed that the Israeli agent
(Franklin) confessed and has been cooperating with the FBI for the
past months.
Nothing captures the power and pervasive and corrosive influence of
the US-Zionist apparatus on US politics as much as the absolute
silence of both major candidates faced with a high-level security
lapse and potentially damaging spy investigation. John Kerry, the
Democratic candidate trailing Bush in the polls refuses to expose the
Zionist Pentagon's ‘security failures’ despite national security being
at the center of his campaign. The reason is very clear: Kerry is tied
to the AIPEC-Israel-US Zionist political machine and he is willing to
sacrifice US security for the Zionist vote even when faced with the
issue of Israeli espionage in a time of war.
The Republicans went one step further – sending their top politicos to
an AIPEC political extravaganza organized in New York two days after
AIPEC was cited by the FBI as the Israeli intermediary in the passing
of secret documents. At no time in recent modern history has any
governing or opposition party engaged in public festivities with an
organization engaged in foreign espionage. The explanation is the
unprecedented and unique political situation that exists in the US
today – the extraordinary power that a small, economically dependent
state exercises over a global imperial state via its wealthy organized
political-religious agents.
If Israel can get anything it wants from its Zionist patriots in high
places in the US government, then why engage in espionage? There are
several explanations.
The hand delivery of documents by Franklin can be seen as a time
saving and security-wise move. If discovered, Franklin's mentors can
simply deny involvement – he was acting on his own, an argument put
forth in the Israeli press. The idea of Franklin as some kind of
‘loose cannon’ does not explain why he was hired, retained and given
delicate assignments and praised by the senior Zionists (Feith,
Wolfowitz, Ledeen and Abrams) up to the time of his exposure. Secondly
the document transferred provided Israel with very timely information
on a major top-level debate: US policy toward Iran, more particularly
who was for or against a military assault on Teheran. This allows
Israel to plan its own military strategy knowing in advance
Washington's possible response and directing its higher up Pentagon
collaborators how to prepare the ground for acceptance of Israeli
aggression. Fundamentally Israel wanted to be in the
White House decision making loop at every stage of Middle East
policymaking via Wolfowitz, Feith et al and via confidential
documentary accounts which the Mossad could analyze directly. There
was a ‘need’ for espionage, because the Mossad does not merely rely on
one source of information, nor does it operate only on one track. It
has direct formal and ‘informal’ relations (spying) with ‘friendly’
government policy-makers. It operates on many levels, legal and
illegal, through Zionist collaborators as well as overseas agents,
through agents with false passports and though local Zionist sleepers,
who can be activated for specific tasks…
Conclusion
Investigations and evidence are usually enough to proceed with
indictments, interrogations and the pursuit of the leaders and foreign
handlers in a major espionage case, especially in wartime. Thousands
of innocent South Asians, Arabs and Muslims have been picked up and
jailed on the most flimsy excuses (“suspicions”). But in the case of
Israeli-AIPEC-Pentagon espionage the normal legal processes are
inoperative.
The question of espionage prosecution depends on political power - a
struggle between the Israeli State backed by the major Presidential
candidates and parties, the Zionist-American political machines and
their mass media acolytes on the one hand and, on the other hand the
FBI, professional intelligence apparatus (CIA, DIA), state prosecutor
and his investigatory staff and few stray political voices. The
so-called progressive movements and policy critics are strangely
silent: Even as they speak out against war, they fail to denounce an
espionage case which is intimately related to the next Middle Eastern
war – an Israeli attack on Iran. Why don't progressive Jews denounce
AIPAC espionage to further a new war in Iran? A signed statement “Not
in our name” would clearly separate them from these agents of foreign
wars. Three days after the initial expose, the mass media have buried
the story. The FBI is delaying any announcements. The prosecuting
attorney is under tremendous one-sided political pressure. Lacking any
mass media outlets the US republic is a helpless giant, tied in knots
by malicious dwarfs, unable to defend itself, unable to define its own
policy interests. The latest report from the FBI tells us that
self-confessed Israeli agent was preparing to lead the authorities to
his contacts in the Israeli government when CBS blew open the case.
Was CBS aware of the danger to the Israeli secret services and was it
trying to undermine the investigation? No doubt some sort of official
statement will be made, perhaps even an indictment will be made of the
middle level functionary on secondary charges and the FBI may even
dare to interview Wolfowitz and Feith on their knowledge of the
espionage network with predictable consequences. However if there is
anything beyond an interview, the Zionist media will charge
“anti-Semitism”, a “Second Dreyfuss” case, which will probably end the
current investigation.
The ‘underground’ struggle between the Pentagon Zionists and the US
security apparatus will continue. If Bush is re-elected, Wolfowitz
will most likely become Secretary of Defense. If Kerry is elected, the
closet Zionist, Richard Holbrooke, will take charge of the Pentagon.
American citizens will have to face a serious question: If the
security services are incapable of defending our country from foreign
espionage in high places – What is to be done?
In either case we face an imminent Zionist designed and promoted
military attack on Iran, which is likely to lead to a general
conflagration which can only benefit the neo-fascists who run the
state of Israel. And you are afraid of being called an anti-Semite for
opposing the Israel's espionage and regional wars.
August 31, 2004
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