Most of McCain’s Jewish Braintrust Has Ties to JINSA, of Iraq War Fame

by on September 5, 2008 2

The Forward has an irresponsible piece of journalism about McCain's Jewish supporters. I use that harsh term because while the reporting is interesting and contains some new facts, there is no effort to talk about the goals of McCain's supporters re Israel/Jerusalem. The other night Giuliani said that McCain is for an undivided Jerusalem. That's nowhere in this piece. Though to its credit, it demonstrates that three out of the five men it mentions have connections to JINSA, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, which the Forward admits became a haven to neocons. There is no mention of JINSA's goals re Jerusalem, no mention of the fact that Colin Powell said that the Iraq war was hatched in good measure by JINSA. The piece demonstrates the state of Jewish introspection visavis Iraq--heads in the sand. You'd think that the Forward might have challenged any of these guys' commitment to the two-state solution.

About Jerry Slater

Jerome Slater is a professor (emeritus) of political science and now a University Research Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has taught and written about U.S. foreign policy and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for nearly 50 years, both for professional journals (such as International Security, Security Studies, and Political Science Quarterly) and for many general periodicals. He writes foreign policy columns for the Sunday Viewpoints section of the Buffalo News. And his website it www.jeromeslater.com.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics

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  1. Ed says:
    September 5, 2008 at 3:43 pm

    McCain epitomizes all the worst characteristics of the Bush-Cheney-Clinton generations:

    1) its anti-Christian, Government-is-God, statist worship (self evident);

    2) its willingness to put expedience above principles (how many issues has McCain flip-flopped on in just this campaign alone? Off the top of my head: a) religion, now pandering to pseudo “Christian” Right he once described as “agents of intolerance”; b) immigration — now supposedly opposed to amnesty he backed in Senate a few short months ago; c) war — now claims to believe war is hell, before wanted 100 year presence in Iraq; d) money/greed — before called $5 million per year “middle class,” now picks more populist running mate.

    3) its utter lack of morality — dumped his first family to marry multi-millionaire tart heiress who could advance his career.

    4) and on top of all that is the Bush-Cheney-Clinton-McCain generation’s willingness to collaborate with/sell out America to Zionists, as outlined by McCain’s associates above, the Iraq war, Zionist-occuped Washington, etc, etc.

    All in all, not a very enviable track record, either for McCain personally, or for the “Silent” generation and the succeeding Bush/Clinton Boomers.

    It’s time for a change. Let’s put these shameless, venal reprobates and their utter lack of morals and principles behind us.

  2. MRW. says:
    September 5, 2008 at 4:33 pm

    ISRAEL NATIONAL NEWS.COM
    Federal News-Website of Israel
    Published: 03/26/03, 3:19 AM

    This War is for Us
    by Ariel Natan Pasko

    Of course this war against Iraq and Saddam Hussein is for us. … – i.e., the Jews and Israel. Chazal – our sages – throughout the ages have explained the Torah, telling us that everything that happens in the world is for the benefit of the Jewish People.

    Simply put another way, if all the world is a stage, then the Jews – and especially those in the Land of Israel – are the lead actors on the stage of history, and the goyim – the nations, i.e. the gentiles – have supporting roles, while the evil-doers are props and background scenery. As our tradition states, G-D – the great playwright – created the world for the sake of the Jewish People, and it is our responsibility to implement the Torah … in it.

    Stop and think for a moment: the last Gulf War in 1991 ended erev – just before – Purim. This Gulf War began motzei – just after – Shushan Purim. Get the picture? In between, "The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor." (Book of Esther 8:16)

    Read the Purim story in Megilat Esther again, it is a rags to riches story on a national scale. Haman, the proto-typical anti-Semite, plans mass murder of the Jews and in the end pays with his life, the life of his ten sons – all hanged – and the Jews kill 75, 800 members of the anti-Semitic – i.e. Nazi – party of the time.

    This is not so different from the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, when 23 Nazi war criminals were tried. Originally 11 were to have the death penalty imposed if found guilty. Everybody in those days thought that they would be shot – as is customary in military executions – or get the electric chair – as was common in the United States. But when the judges announced the verdict of guilty, they also said that hanging would be the method of execution. Two hours before the execution, they found Hermann Goering dead in his cell. He had committed suicide. That left only 10 Nazis to execute.

    There is more to this story than meets the eye. In Megilat Esther (9:7-9), when it describes the execution of Haman's ten sons, their names are listed in a vertical column. If you look at the Hebrew closely, you'll notice extra-small letters in three of the names. The first name, Parshandata, has a small tav. The seventh name, Parmashta, has a small shin. The tenth name, Vayzata, has a small zayn. Hebrew letters are also used as numbers, as well as for dates in the Jewish calendar. Tav, shin, zayn numerically means 707, corresponding to the year 5707, which began with Rosh HaShanah – the Jewish New Year – on September 25, 1946. On October 16, 1946, as foreshadowed in the names of Haman's ten sons, ten Nazi leaders were hanged as war criminals. And if that doesn't impress you, out of nowhere, with the rope around his neck, Julius Schtreicher – editor of Der Sturmer, the Nazi propaganda newspaper – shouted out with flaming hatred in his eyes, just as the trap door opened, "Purimfest 1946!" It was reported in the international press of the day.

    As I said earlier, of course this war is for the Jews and Israel, and instead of hiding from the accusation, … we should gratefully acknowledge what the Master of the Universe is doing to our enemies for us. Saddam Hussein, Yasser Arafat, Bashar Assad, Osama Bin-Laden, and the other dictators, terrorists and mullahs of the region, are the modern day Hamans and Hitlers.

    Great things are yet to come. …

    Ariel Natan Pasko is an independent analyst and consultant. He has a master´s degree in international relations und policy analysis. He also has degrees in economics, politics, Jewish history and Jewish thought. His articles of commentary & analysis appear in numerous news/views and think-tank websites, in newspapers, and can be read at http://www.geocities.com/ariel_natan_pasko.

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