Jewish Clubbiness at the Top

by on November 6, 2008 12
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Huffington Post gives a platform to Beth Dozoretz, a member of the AIPAC executive committee who has Israeli gov't connections and helped deliver the Marc Rich pardon back when, to say the country needs Larry Summers as Obama's next Treasury Secretary. Not a word about his strong Israel credentials, nor hers, nor that he's Jewish and she's Jewish and there's a Jewish tradition of excellence. Oh my, it feels clubby. Maybe we really do run the Establishment now...

About Philip Weiss

Philip Weiss is Founder and Co-Editor of Mondoweiss.net.
Posted in American Jewish Community, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics

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  1. Madrid says:
    November 6, 2008 at 8:00 pm

    I believe I've learned more about this country's elite by reading Phil's blog this year, than I had in a lifetime.

  2. samuel burke says:
    November 6, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    and youre proud of the financial mess that the masters of the universe have wrought upon amerika?

    lets just wait and see how the natives feel when they wake up from their debt induced stupor.

  3. anon says:
    November 6, 2008 at 8:11 pm

    This is like talking to a son who is bipolar about his meds.

  4. Dan Kelly (higginslads) says:
    November 6, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    "I believe I've learned more about this country's elite by reading Phil's blog this year, than I had in a lifetime."

    Me too! I've been doing my best to spread the word about Phil's blog to everyone I know (and people I don't know). I want people to understand what's happening in this country, and unfortunately, much more often than not, I am met with bewilderment, or silence.

    Just now I'm posting articles about Rahm Emanuel on facebook, in an attempt to illustrate his dual loyalty and how his decision-making is impacted by his affinity for Israel. But I don't think too many people understand. People in this country are so handicapped by the left-right paradigm, the Democrat versus Republican mantra, the idea that simply changing a president every four or so years makes a great deal of difference, without looking any further, like, say, at who the president surrounds himself with, how he's voted in the past, etc. The "establishment" has this country by the balls.

  5. DB says:
    November 6, 2008 at 8:45 pm

    Why the **** would anyone who is pro-Israel care who is Treasury Secretary because of Israel? The Treasury Secretary has exactly zero influence on policy re Israel.

  6. Dan Kelly (higginslads) says:
    November 6, 2008 at 9:26 pm

    "Why the **** would anyone who is pro-Israel care who is Treasury Secretary because of Israel? The Treasury Secretary has exactly zero influence on policy re Israel."

    The Treasury Secretary has tremendous influence on monetary policy. Wars are able to be continually funded by a country (the U.S.) with enormous international debt obligations and with less and less tangible wealth, because of the malfeasance of the Fed and its officials. Israel and its advocates would be quite interested in this, indeed.

  7. peters says:
    November 6, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    are you saying that summers will not care about our mushrooming debt because it will ultimately fund war for israel? is that really possible?
    can someone who knows about these things please enlighten us why it matters that summers is treasury sec?

  8. peters says:
    November 6, 2008 at 9:41 pm

    are you saying that summers will not care about our mushrooming debt because it will ultimately fund war for israel? is that really possible?
    can someone who knows about these things please enlighten us why it matters that summers is treasury sec?

  9. JOHN DICKERSON says:
    November 6, 2008 at 9:44 pm

    D.B. POSTED: "Why the **** would anyone who is pro-Israel care who is Treasury Secretary because of Israel? The Treasury Secretary has exactly zero influence on policy re Israel."
    ————————————-

    FROM WIKIPEDIA-

    Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence

    The Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence is a position within the United States Department of the Treasury responsible for directing the Treasury's efforts to cut the lines of financial support for terrorists, fight financial crime, enforce economic sanctions against rogue nations, and combat the financial support of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The Under Secretary is appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The current Under Secretary, confirmed on July 21, 2004, is Stuart A. Levey.[1]

    ENTIRE ARTICLE-

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_Secretary_of_the_Treasury_for_Terrorism_and_Financial_Intelligence

  10. Glenn Condell says:
    November 6, 2008 at 10:31 pm

    HuffPo is home ground for the Lobby. They pretended Lebanon wasn't happening and they run mind-numbingly dull op-eds by Haim Saban's wife, whose maternal concern for all the world's unfortunates stops at the security fence in Palestine.

    Pravda for progs.

  11. Dan Kelly (higginslads) says:
    November 6, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    "are you saying that summers will not care about our mushrooming debt because it will ultimately fund war for israel? is that really possible?"

    I'm not predicting what Summers or any other Fed guy is going to do. For all I know, the debt will be corrected, though that certainly couldn't happen with the wars still going on.

    Will he care? I don't know what his position is on running up national debts. There is a whole school of thought out there that basically says that the debt doesn't matter. This may have been more in vogue when the dollar was all-powerful, but it is still spoken in some circles.

    The point of my post was just to emphasize that the Treasury Secretary has enormous influence over financial policy, and financial policy most certainly does affect war and peace, and, as we know, recent American wars have been conceived in and fought for Israel.

    I don't know what Summers would do. I doubt he'd say anything about the corrupt fiat currency system we now employ. Whether he'd keep printing dollars out of thin air in order to finance more war is an open question.

  12. D. says:
    November 7, 2008 at 1:17 am

    Speaking of HuffPo, I remember when it was starting out Justin Raimondo was invited to be a columnist. That didn't last long.

    But there's always room for voices like Dozoretz.

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