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Jack Abramoff, “Super Zionist” |
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by Kurt Nimmo Another Day in the Empire Entered into the database on Friday, January 06th, 2006 @ 11:12:12 MST |
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As usual, the corporate media is ignoring the larger picture, this
time in regard to the criminal Jack Abramoff. Sure, Abramoff is a political
sleazoid who “defrauded his Indian tribal clients of millions of dollars
and used improper influence on members of Congress,” as the Washington
Post explains. “Tribes represented by the lobbyist contributed millions
of dollars in casino income to congressional campaigns,” including the
Bush administration and the poster child of the Republican party, Tom DeLay,
aka The Hammer. But, as the blogger Juan
Cole, professor of History at the University of Michigan, tells
it Abramoff represents something far more sinister and threatening: he is a
“super-Zionist,” according to Mike
Issikoff of Newsweek, and not only did he spread his illicitly gained
money around the halls of Washington, but the illegally occupied territories
of the West Bank as well. “Abramoff’s dense network of illicit finances and phony charities
might end some political careers in the United States,” writes Cole. “But
the investigation into his activities by the FBI also shed light on the ways
in which rightwing American Jews have often been involved in funding what are
essentially terrorist activities by armed land thieves in Palestinian territory….
Indeed, it was this terror funding of Israeli far right militiamen that tripped
Abramoff up, since the FBI discovered that he had misled Indian tribes into
giving money to the Jabotinskyites, and then began wondering if he had defrauded
the tribes in other ways.” In other words, as Cole points out, the “Super
Zionist” Abramoff scammed a long ago “dispossessed indigenous people”
to fund the current dispossession of another people. In fact, Abramoff’s sleaziness is so brazen and off the charts as to
be quite remarkable. As Issikoff reported last May, Abramoff funneled $140,000
from a charity to benefit inner-city youths to rabid Zionist Israeli settlers
in the West Bank colonial outpost of Beitar Illit. “Among the expenditures,”
Issikoff notes, “purchases of camouflage suits, sniper scopes, night-vision
binoculars, a thermal imager and other material described in foundation records
as ’security’ equipment,” but as we know (consistently underplayed
by the Zionist-friendly corporate media) this sort of equipment is used by the
rabid land-grabbing settlers to attack and often kill Palestinians, including
Palestinian children. In other words, Jack Abramoff—if the FBI allegations
are correct—is guilty of facilitating mass murder of Palestinian Arabs,
not surprising since that’s what “super Zionists” do and have
done for more than sixty years. Abramoff spokesman Andrew Blum told Issikoff that his boss “is an especially
strong supporter of Israel and has tried to find ways to help Israelis and others
to be less susceptible to terrorist attacks.” Of course, “terrorist
attacks” is code for the Palestinians defending themselves (and retaliating)
against the encroachment and violence of Jack’s sociopathic friends who
invade and shoot up Arab villages with Uzis (often courtesy of the Israel Defense
or rather Occupation Forces) and “shoot solar panels on roofs of buildings,
torch automobiles, shatter windowpanes and windshields, destroy crops, uproot
trees, abuse merchants and owners of stalls in the market,” and other
various forms of terrorist activity (see B’Tselem
for more disgusting details). It should be no secret to those who pay attention that extremely (and fanatically)
strong supporters of Israel control the foreign policy of the United States
government. Unfortunately, a whole lot of Americans don’t pay attention.
It takes an Israeli commentator to point out the unvarnished truth: the Straussian
neocons, Akiva Eldar wrote in Haaretz, “are walking a fine line between
their loyalty to American governments and Israeli interests.” Uri Avnery,
Israeli peace activist, believes there is little difference between the neocons
and the Jabotinsky Zionists in Israel. “I have absolutely no proof that
the Bushies got their ideas from [Ariel Sharon]. But the style is the same,”
writes Avnery. Of course, all of this is about as obvious as the nose on your
face, regardless of the herculean efforts of the corporate media to obfuscate
the truth. Jack Abramoff, “super Zionist,” is emblematic of the indisputable
fact that Jabontinsky Likudites have subverted our government, although the
corporate media would have you believe all of this is simply a garden variety
corruption scandal. Moreover, it should come as no surprise that the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee is able to steal American secrets and fork them
over to Israel and this act of treason is essentially little more than a blip
in the corporate media news cycle. As Juan
Cole notes elsewhere, AIPAC has a virtual stranglehold over the government
in the United States: All this can happen because there is a vacuum in U.S. political discourse.
A handful of special interests in the United States virtually dictate congressional
policy on some issues. With regard to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the American
Israel Public Affairs Committee and a few allies have succeeded in imposing
complete censorship on both houses of Congress. No senator or representative
dares make a speech on the floor of his or her institution critical of Israeli
policy, even though the Israeli government often violates international law
and UN Security Council resolutions (it would violate more such resolutions,
except that the resolutions never got passed because only one NSC member,
the U.S., routinely vetoes them on behalf of Tel Aviv.) As the Labor Party
in Israel has been eclipsed by the Likud coalition, which includes many proto-fascist
groups, this subservience has yoked Washington to foreign politicians who
privately favor ethnic cleansing and/or aggressive warfare for the purpose
of annexing the territory of neighbors. In essence, the “proto-fascist groups” in Israel and burrowed deeply
inside the Bush administration are in the process of subverting the U.S. Constitution
and Bill of Rights, as the NSA “scandal” regarding massive snooping
of Americans indicates. Unfortunately, most Americans are blissfully unaware
of the true nature of these crimes, as they are unaware of the obvious fact
the “war” in Iraq was waged in the name of Israel, a small outlaw
nation where people who think and act like Jack Abramoff are the rule and not
the exception. |