Commentary
by Joel Skousen
World Affairs Brief, January 4, 2002 Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.joelskousen.com).
WHY ISRAEL SPIES ON THE US
A couple of major stories have broken recently about Israeli spying on the US, including a devastating exposé by Fox News reporter Carl Cameron. Cameron (incorrectly) claimed that the Israeli Mossad operates the biggest spy ring in the US. [Actually, Israel is the third largest, after Russia and China.] Of course, both the US and Israeli governments put pressure on Fox to cancel this coverage, acting in lock step, as usual. The Israeli embassy discounted the Fox story in a published denial of wrong-doing in the Jerusalem Post: "The report on Fox News contains no quoted source, it has in no way demonstrated anything more than anonymous innuendo, and should be regarded accordingly. Israel does not spy on the United States of America." Meanwhile, most Americans are outraged, not knowing how the world really works. Why would an ally who has been the recipient of so many voluntary contributions as well as taxpayer-funded foreign aid spy on its benefactor? Actually, the reasons are varied and complex, but they become much more clear when the realities of the nature of the US government and its relationship with Israel are better understood.
Americans live under the naive illusion that the US is a benign liberty-loving nation, and that its government is a champion of freedom around the world. Indeed, that is the intent of the American people, and it is also the stated, public position of its government. But the reality is far different, as far as our government is concerned. The US government has a very bad reputation around the world as a betrayer of its friends and allies who resist the US/NWO control agenda. As a result, none of our allies trust the US completely, and each engages in some form of espionage against the US in order to protect itself from US meddling. Remember the scandal in the last decade about French spying on the US? That was only peanuts compared to the US government’s use of the Echelon global spy system to eavesdrop on all French government and commercial communications. It is this complete arrogance on the part of the American government in deeming it their exclusive right to spy on the whole world that, in part, makes us the "ugly American" to other nations and induces the hatred we experienced on 9/11. This is not a hatred of our freedoms.
Israel has good reason to mistrust the US as its professed ally. Jonathan Pollard, an American Jew who was employed as a US intelligence analyst, is currently serving a life sentence for taking the US at its word. There has been a long-standing secret agreement between the US and Israel, of which Jonathan Pollard was well aware, to share intel with each other that affects the security interests of either country. Israel collects intelligence from many parts of the world (that the US cannot gain access to on the ground) and shares this important human intelligence (Humint) with the US. But the US often does not live up to its part of the agreement. Pollard became aware of information from US satellite signals intelligence (Sigint) crucial to Israel’s security. He found out that this information was not being forwarded to Israel as per US/Israeli protocols. When he brought this to the attention of his superiors, he was told to keep silent. They claimed it was a matter of "national security"--a typical tactic by government leaders to suppress illegal acts and dissent within ranks. Pollard went against the illegal demands of his superiors and provided the crucial information to Israel anyway and was prosecuted for it. His sentence of life imprisonment (an uncharacteristically severe penalty for delivering secrets to an ally) was handed down specifically to keep him locked up so that he could not reveal what he knows about illegal government operations and betrayals.
The foregoing is one of the reasons Israel spies on the US--it doesn’t trust the US to live up to its agreements. However, there are other more serious and dangerous reasons for Israel’s distrust which have much to do with dark-side US-Israeli operations. Israel’s Mossad has had a close relationship with the CIA since the early 1950’s, when Israel was battling for survival after the fragile truce of the first Arab-Israeli war. Being almost totally dependent on US military support, the Mossad was anxious to ingratiate itself to the US, and became an eager accomplice in many international operations where the CIA wanted someone else to shield them from blame and to maintain plausible deniability. The Mossad has done much of the CIA’s dirty work over the years, including international assassinations and other illegal operations in which the CIA did not want to appear directly involved.
For instance, the CIA has used Mossad agents assigned to the CIA to set up and manage overseas drug importation and money laundering centers, such as Michael Harawi did in Central America. According to various CIA and military whistleblowers, Harawi was involved with Panama’s corrupt President Manuel Noriega (a CIA lackey) in the drug-for-weapons exchanges that were carried out under the cover of the NSA’s IRAN-CONTRA operations. For a full catalog of these joint CIA/Mossad drug operations, see Rodney Stitch’s book, Drugging America (1 800-247-7389). Much of the evidence in this book, including copies of statements by the Israeli embassy confirming joint Mossad/CIA operations, can also be found in Stich’s main work, Defrauding America, which I have previously recommended.
This dark-side relationship between the CIA and the Mossad is still ongoing. As recently as November of 2001, Israeli operatives were thwarted as they attempted to carry out a terror attack on the Mexican Congress. A Mexican newspaper La Vox De Aztlan, carried the story that "two men, one of them a former Israeli Colonel and Mossad agent, were arrested INSIDE the Mexican congress carrying 9mm pistols and dynamite, but were released following intense pressure from the Israeli Embassy." This was happening at a time when Mexico’s new President Fox (who has deep ties to the American NWO crowd) was having great difficulty getting the PRI opposition to go along with his support of President Bush’s phony war on terrorism. Fox was booed by members of the Mexican Congress when he tried to rally support for America. I suspect that the Israelis were engaged in an agent-provocateur exercise on behalf of the CIA to induce the recalcitrant Mexican left to get on board the anti-terrorist bandwagon.
But the dark-side partnership with the Mossad hits America even closer to home. The CIA and FBI have contracted much of the government’s illicit wire tapping to the Mossad. Why? Because (until the passage of the infamous US Patriot Act) it was illegal for the CIA and FBI to be tapping the communications of innocent Americans. So, they would assign the Mossad to do it. Is it little wonder that the Mossad would turn that same wire tapping equipment around and tap the communications of the CIA, FBI and high government officials? Not at all. They do it all the time. Some of the best leaks about Bill Clinton’s misconduct came from Israeli surveillance, at a time when our own government agencies were protecting him.
The important thing to realize is that Israel and the US are joint partners and partial adversaries at the same time. Israel does a lot of the dirty work for the US, and in so doing Israel gets a huge junk of underground cash each year--cash which finances illegal operations inside Israel and which also lines the pockets of Israeli politicians loyal to the CFR globalist leaders who run America. Israeli agents and government officials also see enough of the dark side of US operations to know that the dark side of the American government is ruthless and needs constant watching in order to keep from being stabbed in the back. Just as Mafia chiefs spy on each other for personal protection, competing corrupt governments in the quest for survival in the lethal NWO do the same.
ISRAEL’S BOYCOTT OF ARAFAT DOESN’T LAST
Despite Ariel Sharon’s campaign promise to never negotiate with Arafat under fire, Israel has yet to cut off talks as they claimed they would. Indeed, a significant difference has developed between the words "talks" and "negotiations." The terms used to be one and the same. Now, Israeli representatives are allowed to "talk" about preconditions for a cease-fire, but not about the substance of their differing positions--that would be "negotiating," which is not allowed. In reality, there is no such difference. The substantive items form the basis of contention between the two camps, and at least some of them are discussed every time the two sides get together. There can be no separating this substance from the proceedings. Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres continues to act as if he is bound by no restrictions at all. He has had several meetings with Palestinian representative Abu Ala in direct opposition to the government’s official policy. Sharon continues to excuse Peres’ conduct rather than reign him in or dismiss him.
While the Israeli government continues to claim that Yasser Arafat is "irrelevant," the ongoing protection of Arafat’s corrupt regime continues. I suspect that the hard Israeli stance on Arafat was meant only to force him to be more conciliatory. This tactic of threatening Arafat with irrelevancy appears to have had some effect, since Arab violence on Israelis is down. Then again, Israeli military restrictions have been heavy during this period, as well, so it is hard to tell cause from effect. According to the reliable Israeli news service, Arutz-7, "Sharon acknowledged that there has been a decrease in terrorism, but attributed it to the IDF's initiated operations and not to a change in Arafat's policy. Sharon reiterated that there will be no ‘diplomatic negotiations’ with the PLO under fire, rather ‘negotiations for a cease-fire.’" Note the quibbling over words to avoid the appearance of betraying his promises.
Israel is beginning to lift the restrictions in most Arab towns, so we will know within a few days if the slowdown in violence is real. In any case, it will never be permanent. Cease-fires, in the Soviet doctrine of unconventional warfare (of which Arafat is a disciple), are only a maneuver to buy time or gain advantage. Public statements of compliance or conciliation are also to be used only for effect. While Chairman Arafat continues to pledge that he is arresting and outlawing terrorist organizations, the arrests are only temporary and never fully restrict the terrorist leader’s abilities to guide his group. Last week Arafat proclaimed to the international press that he had clamped down on the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) which claimed responsibility for the murder of Israeli Minister Rechavam Ze’evi. Then he turned around and sponsored a celebration of the PFLP’s 34th anniversary.
Meanwhile the American negotiator, Anthony Zinni, arrived back in Israel--a sure sign that the Bush administration sees that their goal of a negotiated cease-fire is close at hand. According to Arutz-7, "US envoy Gen. Anthony Zinni arrived in Israel today on a four-day mission to meet with Israeli and Arab leaders. US State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that Zinni will pressure Yasser Arafat to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure operating in areas under his jurisdiction. Zinni will call on Israel to ease restrictions on the Arab
population. When asked if the US still supports the idea of a seven-day period of quiet before the implementation of the Mitchell agreement, Boucher declined to respond." Here is yet another indication that the US wants a cease-fire at any cost. The "peace process" is a one-way street leading only toward accommodations for a Palestinian state--which will result in more war, not peace.ASHCROFT USES EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE TO COVER FOR FBI CRIMES
NY Times columnist William Safire has been aiming his big guns at the Bush White House for days now. In his latest salvo, he correctly chides the Bush Justice department for continuing the cover-up of both Clinton era crimes and ongoing FBI criminal links with the Mafia. Sadly, he doesn’t understand the motives behind these continued cover-ups. Here are some relevant quotations [with my commentary in brackets and emphasis added]:
"Stephen (the Rifleman) Flemmi is a gangster who spent a generation as a valued informant for the FBI in Boston. He is now awaiting trial for 10 murders he is charged with committing while on the FBI payroll. Also charged is his FBI handler, John Connolly Jr., accused of tipping off Flemmi and his mobster boss before police were dispatched to pick them up. The boss, accused of 19 murders, is still a fugitive. Six years ago the Rifleman claimed that the FBI had promised him immunity from prosecution for his killings [true--a key element in the feds’ ability to control and use corrupt people to do their bidding] — allegedly including a couple of his girlfriends — but Federal Judge Mark Wolf, in a landmark decision, ruled that nobody in law enforcement had the power to sanction murder. [His ruling will probably be overturned on appeal]
"The New England FBI's long-running abuse of power is ‘the greatest failing in federal law enforcement history,’ according to James Wilson, chief counsel to the House Government Reform Committee. Evidence of this sustained miscarriage of justice was the 30-year imprisonment of Joe Salvati, whom FBI officials are said to have known to be innocent of the crime for which he was convicted — but they remained silent to protect Mafia sources [more than ‘sources’--these are partners in criminal dark side activities]. John Ashcroft's Department of Justice does not want Congress to air out this long, shameful story...Accordingly, the Bush Justice Department induced the president to sign an order asserting executive privilege over its ‘deliberative documents’ that would inform the public of answers to questions like: Why did Justice decline to indict an FBI supervisor who admitted taking money from Flemmi's gang? Why did Justice help defend a hit man in California who killed a man while in the witness protection program? Much of this systemic perversion of justice took place decades ago, but the Ashcroft-Mueller crowd is determined to keep the embarrassing institutional history hushed up. That's why department lawyers recently adopted a policy of refusing all documents relating to its declinations to prosecute." [In reality, the reason for the continued cover-up is because the dark side of government is still in control and Ashcroft and FBI director Mueller are part of the system. These leaders project Christian identities only as a cover to keep conservatives believing.]
ARGENTINA CONTINUES TO UNRAVEL
It’s like watching an international soap opera. As I predicted last week, Argentina’s interim President Rodríguez Saá, a Peronist, resigned in the face of a huge backlash of middle class protesters after trying to pacify the extreme left by proposing to undo tax reform, float a third parallel currency, and undermine people’s dollar denominated savings. Middle Class women brought out their pots and pans (that is why they are called Caserolazos) to pound on in deafening protests. Acting president Rodríguez Saá abruptly turned power over to his next in line, President of the Senate Ramón Puerta--another Peronist. Even though the Peronist party is once again in charge, there is a huge amount of infighting going on as they battle for control. Puerta decided he couldn’t handle the behind the scenes power struggles and resigned abruptly, as well. This move dropped the task of selecting a new president into the lap of the leader of the House of Representatives, Eduardo Caamaño.After much back-room haggling, the Congress finally selected Eduardo Duhalde, a long-time Peronist who, ironically, lost last year’s election by a huge margin to former president Fernando De la Rua. Duhalde is a populist, which means he appeals to whatever the people want--(as long as it is socialist). He announced that he would form a "government of national unity," a typical maneuver used in contentious parliamentary systems, like Argentina and Israel, to give the illusion of control shared equally between two large opposing groups. In reality, only one group dominates--the one farthest to the left.
Predictably, Duhalde is backtracking on everything Rodríguez Saá promised to the radical left. He is talking about guaranteeing the value of people’s dollar-denominated savings, which should pacify the middle class at least. But now the Caserolazos protesters will be replaced by another round of working class demonstrations incited by the Marxist labor unions. You can never make all groups happy. To please the globalists Duhalde is now talking about "restructuring the debt" rather than outright reputation--that will make points with President Bush and the money crowd. I interpret all this to mean the globalist "Powers that Be" got to the Peronists and explained to them "how the world works" and how they better behave if they want to survive. It seems to me that somebody was working behind the scenes to ensure that a NWO-friendly president would emerge out of the latest caucus. Duhalde may survive globalist pressures if he plays along, but I’m not sure the radical left will let him rule in peace.
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