Today’s Times has a long profile of Donald Diamond, an Arizona developer with close ties to the McCain campaign, raising questions about Diamond’s influence and McCain’s role in Diamond’s real estate deals. I’m guessing it’s 2000 words. Not a word mentioning that Diamond, 80 (and a WW2-era veteran), is a giant supporter of–
Israel. Here’s Diamond at an AIPAC event. Here he is leading a young men’s trip to Israel. Here he is being honored at the American-Israel Friendship League benefit. Once he was the local Jewish Federation’s Man of the Year. I am told Diamond is one of AIPAC’s biggest fundraisers in Arizona, "their man man in the Southwest."
Can you imagine the Times covering a big NRA guy’s support for a
presidential candidate and suppressing his love for guns, and the
policy implications of same? Of course not. But this is only the Middle
East, which has got the world on a boil… And of course the Times did the same thing with Sheldon Adelson… Our journalism is broken.
But Witty tells us this type of journalism is superior because they "fact-check" and are "guided by ethical codes of conduct." Thank God we have the New York Times Editors and other Israeli Lobby propagandists to properly vet what we get to read. God forbid Christian America ever discover that small sliver of people among us who seem to have their fingers on every conceiveable big government ripoff from Abrahamson….to Zygi Wilf.
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In the link from jewishtucson.org, here's the biography of the featured speaker at the AIPAC event which Diamond attended:
"The keynote speaker, Ambassador Marc Ginsberg, is a former U.S. ambassador to Morocco (the first U.S. Jewish ambassador to a Middle Eastern nation) and a senior global affairs commentator for Fox News. His younger brother’s death in the recent Israeli war made Ginsberg more committed to Israel’s 59-year cause. Calling himself “a truly dedicated Zionist,” he has taken up the AIPAC flag to play a crucial role in helping Republicans and Democrats partner for a strategy to stay involved in the Middle East."
So Ginsberg represented the U.S. as ambassador, while his younger brother lived in Israel, joined the IDF, and died in "the recent Israeli war" (presumably, in Lebanon in 2006). Now that he's left public service, he freely confesses to being "a truly dedicated Zionist," working with AIPAC to "help Republicans and Democrats … stay involved in the Middle East."
The dual loyalty is right in your face here. 'Ambassador' Ginsberg is working more for Israel's interests than America's … and, one might suppose, was doing so all along. He was appointed by Clinton, at a time when Madeleine Albright's deputies at State Department were almost exclusively Jewish males. Americans are expected to observe this ethnic gang hijacking of their government, and discreetly remain silent as their own interests are sold out? Sorry, no can do.
As Phil points out, the Slimes is still doing it, via the selective blindness of its reporting. "Nobody here but us Americans," etc. Donnie Diamond must be rubbing his palms in glee at the prospect of all the new "truly dedicated zionist" ambassadors that McCain will appoint.
Nothing that might suggest to thinking
Americans that the wealthiest, most powerful
American Jews have an agenda that trumps
any loyalty to this most philo-Semitic of
countries can be permitted by the MSM.
I would give the Times PRAISE for disclosing the conflict of interest of office, rather than of ideas and personal sympathies and philanthropy.
NO DUAL LOYALTY HERE:
19:20 22/04/2008
"U.S. arrests American suspected of giving nuclear secrets to Israel"
By Reuters
"U.S. authorities arrested an American engineer on Tuesday on suspicion of giving military secrets involving nuclear weapons, fighter jets and air defense missiles to Israel during the 1980s, the Justice Department
said.
Ben-Ami Kadish, a Connecticut-born U.S. citizen who worked at an Army engineering center in New Jersey,"
what about the other 5,349,000?
CNN TV just reported Kadish worked with the same man Jonathan Pollard did. Now, if only CNN would update us on the AIPAC spy case…
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"I would give the Times PRAISE for disclosing the conflict of interest of office, rather than of ideas and personal sympathies and philanthropy." – R. Witty
You would … in fact, you just DID. But you're missing the point of double standards.
If one of McCain's elite fundraisers were (say) a Lebanese-American businessman, active in Lebanese charities and political affairs, the Times would be all over the story of "McCain's Lebanese connection." They would be questioning what it implied about McCain's commitment to Israel — just as they question how Obama's family background, childhood years in Indonesia, and his pastor's sermons bear on his commitment to Israel.
But when the fundraiser is Jewish-American, active in Israeli affairs and Israel lobbying, the Times is silent. The implication is that activism for Israel is as all-American as joining the Lions Club or coaching Little League — not even worthy of comment. Whereas you and I both know that if McCain is elected, Diamond will call in his chips on behalf of Israel. That's newsworthy, don't you think? We can make that projection, because Phil supplied some missing facts about Diamond. Most Times readers won't have an inkling — the pro-Israel influence on McCain is hidden in plain sight.
But the biggest free pass of all is the MSM radio silence on the shameful role McCain's father, Admiral John McCain Jr., played in the coverup and whitewash of Israel's attack on the USS Liberty. From the affadavit of Ward Boston, Jr., Captain, JAGC, USN (Ret.):
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Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., then Commander-in-chief, Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR), at his headquarters in London, had charged Admiral Kidd (in a letter dated June 10, 1967) to “inquire into all the pertinent facts and circumstances leading to and connected with the armed attack; damage resulting therefrom; and deaths of and injuries to Naval personnel.”
The late Admiral Isaac C. Kidd, president of the Court, and I were given only ONE WEEK to gather evidence for the Navy’s official investigation into the attack, despite the fact that we both had estimated that a proper Court of Inquiry into an attack of this magnitude would take at least six months to conduct.
Admiral Kidd and I both felt it necessary to travel to Israel to interview the Israelis who took part in the attack. Admiral Kidd telephoned Admiral McCain to discuss making arrangements. Admiral Kidd later told me that Admiral McCain was adamant that we were not to travel to Israel or contact the Israelis concerning this matter. Regrettably, we did not receive into evidence and the Court did not consider any of the more than sixty witness declarations from men who had been hospitalized and were unable to testify in person.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/ul-boston.html
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It appears that the McShame family has been carrying water for Israel for decades now. I hope the USS Liberty veterans swiftboat this corrupt martinet from here to hell … while the Slimes pretends they don't exist.
Jim Haygood,
If the U.S. government "knew" that the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty was intentional, then why did they later order the U.S.S. Pueblo off the coast of North Korea, with which we are still technically at war, without a proper armed escort? They still believed that International Law was enough protection for a ship in International Waters–just as if the Liberty's cruise had been UNEVENTFUL. The only explanation is that it was accepted that the Liberty Imbroglio was an unfortunate wartime accident, and that International Law was still enough guarantee for the safety of the Pueblo. The cruises of the intelligence ships were ended as too dangerous ONLY after the Pueblo was captured, not after the Liberty was attacked.
In addition, in the months after the Liberty Imbroglio, Israel lost TWO of their own warships through gross stupidity–the destroyer Elat and the submarine Dakar–with their entire crews. Obviously the Israelis can behave like idiots regardless of whether the victims are Americans or Israelis.
Johnson and McCain's daddy kept all this a secret from the American people. That should tell you something.