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By Israel Shamir

Obama’s Cairo speech was a thing of great beauty. It had the best production, best actor, best script we have seen for many years, it deserves the Oscar of Oscars. America’s ruling elites have pulled up their socks and gotten their country the best leader to improve the rundown image. Obama is a next-generation model of a leader, not yet available abroad. He is a great speaker, full of charisma, tall, slim, youthful. He proved: yes, they can. Our friend and former US presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney explained Obama phenomenon: “things don't happen like that in US politics, probably in politics any where in the world, where a veritable unknown ascends to the Senate unopposed and then is a candidate for the White House two years later. It just doesn't happen that way. Unless it is by design.”

Apparently Obama was designed to make peace with the Muslim world. A US president is not an omnipotent ruler: he is rather an actor chosen by the off-scene producer and director to act this important role. He does not write his speeches any more than Leonardo DiCaprio wrote the Romeo monologue. He does not make his politics, either. That is why his words and deeds are important: they represent the ruling elites’ will to change. This change is necessarily slow, as the huge dreadnought America can’t just be turned around on the spot.

At this time of change, of shifting priorities it is notoriously difficult to predict developments for they depend on us as well. The world needs more inward-looking America, but even a less aggressive one would be a step forward. Looking back, American hostility towards the Islamic world flared in 2001, peaked in 2003, had run its course and seems to be over. These years of war against Islam weren’t specially pleasant or profitable for America. Now the moment has come to shift priorities. The Kite Runner , a bestseller by Khaled Hosseini , offered a new scheme of things – the protagonist of the novel is a Muslim by birth and tradition, who hates Muslim clergy, likes whisky, loves America and Israel and hates Russia. The bad guy loves Hitler, is a pedophile and rapist, and yes, he is a Taliban militant. Persecution of an ethnic minority is a local equivalent of Jewish story. This book offers the integration of such non-religious Muslims into the American narrative.

Well, why not? The US is a political, not ethnic nation, and Muslims can be admitted and they often are. Though non-Americans often imagine American elites consisting of WASPs and Jews, there are people of all sorts, immigrants from all countries. This is a source of power: America can easily find a Russian to speak with Russians, or a Chinese to speak to China. Muslims are doing well in America, some of them are extremely wealthy.

This turn means downgrading for the Israeli Lobby. The Jewish Zionist right-wing has abused American patience for too long. It just so happens that they overestimated their hold on this administration. The removal of Charles Freeman  was their last, Pyrrhic victory. The arrival of starry-eyed Netanyahu preaching Amalek was a next step in their undoing. “  Amalek” is a code-word for a call to genocide, shorthand for asking Obama to slaughter Iranians down to the last child and the last cat. That was too much even for the patient Obama.

Thus, a dream came true: after a long rule by the Jewish Centre-Right, now the positions of influence have passed into the able hands of the Jewish Left. Do not think that their positions are anti-Israeli. Yes, Israeli and American Jewish right hates Obama; but Israeli left loved the speech: it could have been written by Yossi Sarid or by Uri Avnery . J-Street, a Jewish American leftist lobby organization also loved it.

It should not come as any great surprise. In an interview given to the Jewish newspaper a year ago, Obama mentioned The Yellow Wind by David Grossman as a book that influenced his view. This is a wonderful book, probably the best non-fiction by a Hebrew writer about the state of things, describing the horrors of settler rule in the occupied territories. Grossman is a Zionist Left icon, creator of the left wing of the leftist Meretz party. The divergence of America and Israel, the great and the small Jewish states, is now a fact: Barak Obama and his administration are positioned to the left of centre, while Israel and its supporters in the US are well to the right of centre.

A few years ago, Ariel Sharon, then the Prime Minister of Israel, allegedly said that the Jewish People control America. After the last elections, the new Foreign Minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman interpreted this maxim as “Israel controls America”. He was over-optimistic and over-simplistic. Maybe the US Jews occupy many positions of power, maybe they care a lot about the Middle-Eastern Jewish state, but they still have their priorities straight: America is more important, and they do not intend to lose it because of their cousins overseas.

In 2001, I’ve compared the US Jews with the elder sister in Raymond Chandler's Big Sleep, who covers up the crimes of her wild kid sister. Probably you remember it as one of the best American movies of all times, scripted by William Faulkner, directed by Howard Hawks, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall . As the cover up continues, the young sister comes to believe that she has immunity and keeps on her killing spree. Eventually her crimes endanger the seemingly secure position of the elder sister. It is not a day too early for misguided Lauren to call for Bogart and to rein in the crazed youth , before she will bring the house down on the heads of her blind supporters, I wrote. Eight years later, comes Bogart Obama.

Do not expect that American Jews will weep and run to Israel. The Jewish position in the US remains strong, and Obama reiterated their Zionist- lite narrative: after the Holocaust of six million Jews, (and don’t you ever dare to doubt it!) the long-suffering Jewish people came to the land of their ancestors, and America’s ties with them are “unbreakable”. However, the right-wing Jewish Lobby, or “American Likudniks ” as they were called, suffered a defeat. Now we can say that Bernie Madoff’s undoing was not an accident but a direct attack on their ability to influence politics: many right-wing Jewish individuals and organisations have lost their surplus meddling money.

A warning shot across the bow was fired a few days ago, when a survivor of Israeli 1967 attack on the USS Liberty was awarded a Silver Star for valour , as we have reported. The mainstream US media (mainly Jewish-owned and edited) intentionally omitted this news, as Google search of “silver star Halbardier ” shows. A careful reader could find it on a US military info site and that was it. The average American reader or TV viewer was deprived of this news, though oh boy, was it newsworthy: after forty two years of denial, the US top brass admitted that its best ally Israel intentionally and knowingly attacked their intelligence ship with torpedoes and strafing aircraft, killing and wounding two thirds of the crew, while president Lyndon B. Johnson covered up the massacre and let it be.

This media silence was as important as the news: it served as a warning that the administration has to act in agreement with media lords; otherwise its deeds will never reach the American people. Despite his blog and informal contacts with hundreds of thousands Americans, Obama has no means to speak effectively to his citizens but via the media. And right-wing media can be cruel enemy, as this piece from NYPost attests.

Many friends of Palestine, including Noam Chomsky, found fault in the Cairo speech. Surely Obama did not go as far as we would like. His supporters are Zionists- lite , not some indifferent gentiles. Still wonderful that he went that far. He promised to remove his troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, to rebuild Afghanistan, to spend some money on development. He confirmed that Iran has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. He called upon Israel to deal with Palestinians justly. Let him survive this speech and continue to push on. Yes, Obama is carefully designed and promoted by the elites, but it does not mean he has no free will. Many kings and leaders were elected thanks to Jewish money or influence, and changed their attitude afterwards. Joseph Stalin became a Soviet leader thanks to Kamenev and Zinoviev , two powerful Bolshevik Jews, but some years later he had them shot, and the Soviet Jewish Lobby was taken a few pegs down. This still can happen with Barak Obama.

Israel Shamir, a leading Russian-Israeli writer, is a champion of the "One Man, One Vote, One State" solution seeking to unite Palestine & Israel in one democratic state. Shamir's work and that of his contributors speaks to the aspirations of both the Israelis and the Palestinians seeking an end to the bloodshed, true democracy and lasting peace. Visit his web site at; http://www.israelshamir.net/


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1. 06-06-2009 16:59
George Washington on Israel
George Washington on Israel 
 
 
"A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification." ~George Washington Farewell Address 
 
 
"The nation which indulges toward another habitual hatred or habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interests." ~ George Washington 
 
 
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none." ~ Thomas Jefferson
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2. 07-06-2009 03:58
Honesty
Thank you - this was so honest, so lacking in inflammatory rhetoric, just honest opinions that should be obvious and should appear everywhere in the media - and it is dangerous to write and say such things in Europe and (soon) America. 
 
That a low-key editorial like this is rare and dangerous to write is the best testament to Jewish power over the West.
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3. 07-06-2009 06:58
USS Liberty Incident mentioned by Israel
Text of fax broadcast: 
 
USS LIBERTY INCIDENT: THE MISSING PIECE OF THE MIDDLE EAST PEACE PUZZLE 
8 June 2009 
 
June 8th 2009 marks forty-two years since the deliberate and unprovoked Israeli attack on the USS Liberty during the 1967 Six Day War. Congressman Devin Nunes recently presented the Silver Star to USS Liberty survivor Terry Halbardier for his exceptional gallantry under fire, and this magnificent -- albeit belated -- gesture has only renewed the resolve of the USS Liberty Veterans Association (LVA) to establish and preserve historical truth and to pursue justice. 
 
June 8th also marks four years since the LVA formally submitted its report, War Crimes Committed Against U. S. Military Personnel, June 8, 1967, to the Secretary of the Army in his capacity as Executive Agent for the Secretary of Defense. (See http://www.gtr5.com/evidence/warcrimes.pdf) Thus far there has been no reply to this administrative gambit, which is a violation of rules and procedures and simple norms of human conduct. In the final analysis, the US Congress has the clearly enumerated mandate "To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations" according to Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution of the USA. 
 
Contrary to rampant Zionist propaganda, there has never been a full, fair and impartial investigation into the attack on the USS Liberty. The hasty US Navy Court of Inquiry had been "an entirely shipboard investigation" according to its president, the late Admiral Isaac Kidd. The Liberty's doctor, Captain Richard Kiepfer, said of this ex-parte investigation, "Never before in the history of the United States Navy has a Navy Board of Inquiry ignored the testimony of American military eye-witnesses and taken, on faith, the word of their attackers." 
 
When US Bankruptcy Court Judge A. Jay Cristol's 2002 book The Liberty Incident denigrated the Liberty survivors and their petitions for redress of their grievances, the legal counsel of the Court of Inquiry felt compelled to break his decades-long silence and formally repudiated the court's falsified findings as well as the judge and his book. (See http://www.gtr5.com/Witnesses/boston.pdf) Captain Ward Boston also alleged that President Johnson ordered the cover-up, and that this immoral command was carried out by Admiral John McCain, the father of the senator from Arizona. Senator McCain endorsed the judge's deceitful book. 
 
The USS Liberty incident and cover-up constitute a hot political potato especially for AIPAC driven politicians who shun constituent requests to take up the cause of the USS Liberty survivors. One wonders how any member of Congress could give a cold shoulder to the Liberty crew and still be fit for the duty of care of our twenty year olds in far-flung places like Iraq and the Persian Gulf. After all, Zionist Neoconservatives maintain that aircraft carriers are old fashioned and expendable and a costly drag in their quest for world domination. Is this why carriers have been placed within range of Iran's supersonic anti-ship missiles? Is this how warmongers break eggs for their omelets? 
 
The old paradigm of public relations trumping truth and justice prevents the asking of many questions from which vitally important lessons can be learned. For example, why the distribution problems with the 1980 book Assault on the Liberty, written by survivor Lieutenant Commander James M. Ennes, Jr.? Or, why did Menachem Begin call the Six Day War a "war of choice" and not of necessity? Or, why did the CIA predict a "turkey shoot"? Or, why did former President Carter point to the "peculiar confluence of Syrian and Israeli interests"? Or, the ultimate question, why would Israel find it necessary to attack a ship of an important ally? The short answer is: water, and the land on top of it. 
 
The USS Liberty was a state-of-the-art electromagnetic surveillance ("spy") ship that could not only overhear all electronic signals in the airwaves but also record them and transmit them almost in real time back to the National Security Agency, thus bypassing the traditional raw data collection process and the attendant risks of filtered data for political motives. The attack occurred on the fourth day of the war, when the only remaining objective point of the IDF was Syria's Golan Heights. Unlike the current crisis in the Persian Gulf region, Israel felt no need for formal help from the USA. 
 
Some have speculated that Liberty's eavesdropping capability would have tipped off Washington about an impending attack on the Golan, which would have been problematic for the Israelis in view of the great pressure to call a cease fire; but there were many other indicators of Israel's intent. It was already plainly obvious to many international observers that the IDF was shifting troops to the northern front. 
 
Others say the attack was a false flag operation to put the blame on Egypt and draw the USA into the war; but Moshe Dayan had already declared air supremacy on the morning of the first day of the war. So an air attack by Egypt would have lacked plausibility, and any such ruse would have been abandoned under the circumstances that obtained. One simply cannot say Egypt no longer has an air force and then three days later say Egypt conducted an air attack on the USS Liberty! 
 
Still others say the Israelis wanted to hide ongoing atrocities against Egyptian prisoners of war just over Liberty's immediate horizon; but bad publicity rarely prevents the Israelis from doing what they do. The USS Liberty crew was not engaged in journalism and their data collections were kept secret as a matter of policy. Releasing such putative information would have been impossible because of the pressures of the Zionist lobby. 
 
On the other hand, three egregious improbabilities best explain why the Zionists' need for secrecy required such bold action to put out the USS Liberty's "Big Ear." 
 
First, the IDF overran the "Little Maginot Line" atop the Golan Heights -- with rows upon rows of concrete reinforced bunkers -- in less than twenty-four hours, a highly improbable feat which the western press quickly dubbed a "miracle." But had the USS Liberty been able to proceed unmolested on its NSA mission, a more mundane explanation for the taking of the Golan 1 2 3 would have been found; namely, highly irregular command, control and communications from a compromised Syrian High Command. Khalil Mustafa, now either a political prisoner in Syria or a "disappeared" person, arrived at this same conclusion in his 1980 book Suqut ul Julan (The Fall of the Golan). In fact, the only miracle to occur during the Six Day War was the USS Liberty's staying afloat after a torpedo hit; even then it was clear the Israelis wanted no survivors as they machine-gunned the life rafts while waiting in vain for the listing ship to sink. But their high priority work had already been done when the first jet sorties put rockets at the bases of all of Liberty's antennae. Only then was the Golan operation good to go. 
 
Second, the Syrian Defense Minister at the time of the Six Day War, Hafez al Asad, later became the only man in world history to attain leadership of his nation after losing a significant portion of its sovereign territory! Asad rose from humble circumstances to start a dynasty and on the road to success he crossed paths with Mafioso regime-change specialist Sam Giancana, a lieutenant of David Ben Gurion's friend Meyer Lansky and a frequent flyer to Beirut during the Johnson administration. Besides recruiting fresh talent, Sam pursued his avid interest in the botany of the Beqaa valley. He instinctively knew the importance of a diversified portfolio! The USA's King of Syria-in-waiting in France, Abdel Halim Khaddam, was right in the middle of all this; whereas the current President of Syria, Bashar al Asad, an ophthalmologist turned president only by the accidental death of his brother Basil, was and is out of the loop. Khaddam, the governor of the largest city on the Golan during the Six Day War and later President Hafez al Asad's right hand man for three decades, is now a multi-billionaire residing in a palace in France under the Zionist Neoconservative-friendly regime of Nicolas Sarkozy. As Sam would have put it, "Analyze that!" 
 
Third, the Asad Dynasty is of the Alawite faith, an offshoot sect of the Shiite faith. The Alawites of Syria are a very small minority ruling a mostly Sunni nation, a circumstance that is best explained by the quiet meddling of a foreign power in the internal affairs of Syria. Now that Blair and Bush have put such emphasis on the difference between Sunni and Shiite, wouldn't it be wise to pay more respect to the President of Syria? Syrians once again found the formal practice of balloting inadequate and in May 2007 filled the streets of major cities with an outpouring of acclaim for their leader, a show of respect unknown in the USA since the funeral of JFK! 
 
Syrians know their leader Bashar al Asad cannot be bought. And Hafez al Asad knew that by dancing with the devil he would make the Zionists bite off more than they can chew, let alone digest. It only remains for Americans to know that the USS Liberty incident is all about the Golan Heights and corruption leading to collusion between certain elements within the governments of Israel and Syria. Their hidden agenda leaves the United Nations bereft of its true purpose, and shamefully undermines the integrity of the USA, whose treaty obligations are the "supreme Law of the Land" and require implementation of Security Council Resolution 242. 
 
As Liberty survivor John Hrankowski said, "The story behind the story of the USS Liberty is the missing piece of the Middle East peace puzzle." He did not flee from his station at a boiler that penetrating rockets threatened to explode. Won't Congress lend him an ear? 
 
The USS Liberty Incident: The Missing Piece of the Middle East Peace Puzzle 
http://www.show-the-house.com/id5.html 
 
Stephen M. St. John 
Post Office Box 449 
New York, New York 10185
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4. 18-06-2009 05:23
makes sense
well said. if you go to google and search Avigdor Lieberman in the news you will see only the Jerusalem Post reports his planned trip to the U.S., which was yesterday. All U.S. media reports are after the fact, they are few and far between and vague to a fault. Not at all like the circus when Ahmadinejad went to the UN. The silence for the self-proclaimed fan of Joe Stalin is appalling, disturbing and a whole lot more.
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