Three major U.S. power figures are linked to the charity run out of a 6th Avenue fabric store that is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars to settler militias in the West Bank: James Tisch, the ceo of Loews, Michael Milken the banker/philanthropist, and Alan C. (Ace) Greenberg, the former ceo of Bear Stearns.
The three men are named in a long list of apparent donors to the Central Fund for Israel that the fund attached to its 2004 federal filing as a 501(c)3 charity. CFI gives a lot of money to humanitarian causes and to schooling in the illegal settlements, but a good portion of the $8 million it raised on its last statement goes to meeting the "urgent security needs" of West Bank settlers. We can't say just what the James and [wife] Merryl Tisch foundation, Milken's foundation, and Ace Greenberg are doing for CFI. But they're on CFI's federal filing. So are several local Jewish federations, the principal body of fundraising for Israel in the Jewish community; Aish Ha'torah, which was behind the anti-Islam Obsession video given out in the presidential campaign; and the Zionist Organization of America.
A few months back Jeffrey Goldberg wrote a J'accuse in the Times aimed at rich Jews giving money to fund the settlements. He didn't name names and he made these guys out to be a shadowy network behind the gates of Boca Raton country clubs. The truth is that the settlements have drawn on support from the heart and soul of the American Jewish leadership. That's why Barack Obama was very quiet about settlements during the recent presidential campaign. He wanted to do nothing to alienate important donors to the Democratic Party, many of whom probably share Tisch, Milken and Greenberg's feelings about Israel. But as Jeffrey Goldberg has said, it's time to have this issue out: which side are you on?
It needs to be emphasized: these men are not outliers. Ace Greenberg was on Charlie Rose recently, talking about dog breeding and other delights. Here's a piece on his recent trip to Washington to the Jewish Federation, for whom he raises millions. Another apparent donor to CFI is the Alan B. Slifka Foundation. Slifka is highly presentable. A big philanthropist/Ethical Culture/Yale grad he is known for coexistence type stuff-- he set up a center for communal coexistence at Brandeis. A Harvard Business School grad, he set up the Abraham Fund.
In short, the Jewish establishment is deeply implicated in the illegal settlements. CFI, with whom these guys are linked, is run by a guy who says the two-state solution is a threat to Israel's existence. Where do Milken, Slifka, Tisch and Greenberg stand?
--Phil Weiss and Adam Horowitz
Personally, I think they stand with SOG, the Streicher wannabe who unfortunately has never earned any military combat medals in the cause unlike Streicher, though on Phil's blog (supported by the death of USA military for free speech), he is always there, like his counterpart hero, Streicher.
Not many books have been written about Streicher. We do know his defense of free speech was based on the Talmud. Here's a bit about SOG's mentor:
http://astore.amazon.com/germanpropaga-20/detail/0815411561
If you want to read some of SOG's own version of the Poisonous Mushroom, I suggest you go back through Phil's blog and collect
SOG's comments verbatim.
Of course, you will remain berift of pictures. But it really doesn't take much imagination to imagine SOG's view of the world from his
colorful text comments.
If, on the extremely slight chance anybody entering Phil's blog has
actually served in the USA military, or indeed, any of their near kin, just look at SOG's (Bill Pearlman's) vision: This is what you sacrificed your treasure and blood for.
I'm gonna give Phil a rare accolade for this, because he is applying a classic jewish startegy (mirror your opponent) but for a change he is applying it against the jewish elite.
The Zionist political economic oligarchs can count on the never-ending efforts of mobilized American Jewish Zionists to propagandize the American public at all times and in every way. See Mizrahi Rejects Anti-Arab Bait.
Don't overlook the net-reported connections between 22 year old arms merchant Efraim Diveroli and Ha Torah Miami. See link to isteve.blogspot.com
This is the full four-hour tape of Alex Jones' show of a day or two ago, which includes a long and uncensored interview with Hamid Gul. There are some remarkable statements there, for instance, according to Gul, the Jewish hostages were killed by the Indian commandos, not by the 'terrorists':
link to rss.nfowars.net
The Gul interview occupies the first hour, but I am afraid you have to download the whole four hour audio file and it's 50 mb. It's certainly worth listening to Gul, and after the first hour you can just stop it.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045787.html
Racism is all we have, now it is blatant, and jews should hop on board
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045787.html
Racism is all we have, now it is blatant, and jews should hop on board
What's racism about what she said? Don't the Pals. and their Jewish supporters say the same thing: "Jews, your national solution is elswhere, in Israel, not in Judea and Samaria. Get out. Dismantle your communities." Right?
Maybe if we term Arab communities in Israel "settlements", it all becomes clearer.
yeah, and while we're at it, why don't we set up false equivalences between every bunch of western imperialist bandits and their victims?
let me just make myself clear here: it is obvious to me that zionist israel is just another u.s. imperialist pawn. What is not obvious is who runs the U.S., even from a marxist point of view. Marxists have understandably been reluctant to admit that even finance capitalism can be run on a caste basis, which is what Jewish rule effectively is.
What troubles me is the selective appllication of U.S. law. Several U.S. Islamic charities have had their funds seized, and their directors prosecuted, for allegedly supporting terrorism overseas.
Meanwhile, high-profile Jewish billionaires fund a settler movement which is illegal under international law, as well as contrary to four decades of U.S. policy — and NOTHING HAPPENS. The U.S. Treasury's Stuart Levey, who's all over money transfers to the Islamic world like white on rice, remains discreetly silent. Hell, he might have contributed a few bucks to the pot himself.
The ability of Jewish billionaires to subvert U.S. policy with legal impunity carries a deep whiff of corruption. But with Rahm Emanuel as a point man in the Obama administration, it's like deja vu all over again. One hopes that the Blago/Chicago corruption investigation will nail his zionist ass.
There is a real problem with the degeneration of marxism in the USA. This degeneration can certainly be attributed to Jews (Frankfurt School especially, an example easy to study).
But were they doing this for their own interests, or just to defend capitalism by turning marxism into a repellent freudian mess, which is what the OSS (precursor of the CIA) brought them to the USA after WW1 specifically to do? This just brings us back to the same old question, which marxists as they currently seem to be cannot answer: is 'finance capital' itself specifically Jewish? Since the last big financial collapse, we have been treated to a spectacle of Jewish bankers being treated like kings while non-Jewish industrialists are ridiculed, which makes a whole new interpretative problem for our jaded, faded, largely Jewish 'left'.
whoops – for "WW1" read "WW2"
There is a good recent essay in Counterpunch on the USA's witch hunt against Arab-American charities shut down for giving aid to the helpless Palestinian people.
Off-topic post on dual loyalty:
Article in Haaretz "U.S. Army sends American-Israeli woman to Afghanistan"
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1046049.html
This article is another example of problems arising with dual loyalty. A US Army reservist with dual Israeli and American citizenship is petitioning the Israeli Foreign Ministry to help her avoid a posting to Afghanistan. I'm not sure what would be the most morally correct solution. A strong case could be made that she would be in greater danger there than other Americans. On the other hand, someone has to fill that billet, and she is legally obligated to go. Is it fair to whoever might have to go in her place, especially if they have already done one or more stints in Iraq or Afghanistan? It is patently obvious that Congress needs to pass a law that no one with dual citizenship should be allowed to draw a federal government paycheck. That would avoid these kinds of dilemmas in the future and, incidentally, prevent dual citizens like Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, and Richard Perle from being exposed to temptation.
Thats a good start, Phil…
C.M.: You are going to eliminate a hell of a lot of dual-national Irish and Mexicans (and other Latin Americans) from government service in that case, and the powerful Latin American lobby may very well take care of that one.
Other people have lobbies, too, and their dual-national status isn't considered troublesome, because they don't belong to the people who are labeled "foreigners" everywhere, especially in their homeland.
Also, considering the fact that Jihad considers categories like "citizenship" irrelevant, that woman is a special target in the eyes of the Jihad whatever citizenship she carries and whatever uniform she wears. She should, if necessary, answer the call of the United States because she has already volunteered to do so–wherever it may call upon her to serve–by becoming a reservist.
"Jihad considers categories like "citizenship" irrelevant, that woman is a special target in the eyes of the Jihad"
– now you are just inventing global jihad hordes, like the sleeziest warmonger.
She has been a reservist for 30 years, been collecting a nice tidy sum
for all that time, probably about $800 a month, at least. For basically going to summer fat camp a few weeks a year. Why give
her options no straight American would ever get? Just one more special relationship with which to burden normal Americans? Her chances of being spied and hurt because she is an Israeli in American uniform are next to none. Besides, she was not conscripted, so she took that risk. Nobody enlisting in the US Army
ever does so thinking they will ever pay the death price. BTW, the Irish chance to immigrate to the USA is very slim ever since the 1965
Immigration Act.
Actually, the whole thing stinks to high heaven of Uriah the Hittite. I'd bet dollars-to-donuts that someone noticed the woman's name, her retirement date, pulled her file, and deliberately decided to send the Little Old Jewess into harm's way. You don't go from REMF to CIB magically. People have deserted for less.
"The whole thing stinks to high heaven"? Let me offer you one of george dubya's homely proverbs: "He who smelt it, dealt it."
Yep. An anti-semite did it all right. What else could it possibly be?
Singled her right out of the herd.
Private Benjamin, 30 years later, now Command Sergeant Benjamin. I don't envy anyone called to duty in Afghanistan or Iraq, but the idea that she doesn't have relevant experience after 30 years in the reserves is bogus. I'm shocked to hear that Israeli law might prohibit a dual Israeli/American citizen from serving in the military in Iraq. Let's see, did that law get enacted after Wolfowitz, Feith, Perle last went to Iraq? The only good news I take from this episode is that her efforts to get the Israeli Foreign Ministry to intervene at the Pentagon in her behalf are exposed. If the Pentagon bends to that pressure, I hope that will get much broader exposure, since it says a lot. It's like Prince Harry serving in Afghanistan, only in reverse.
Support troops don't suddenly become Combat Infantry.
Someone's doing her an extra special favor.
The only people who get pulled back into a combat zone after 30 years in the Reserves are Golden Boy Special Forces types who are needed for dialects in interrogation, they pop in, ask the ONE relevant person the ONE question which absolutely must be answered, and pop right out again.
Euro – who gives a fuck?
There's nothing illegal about the settlements. They are in a disputed area. If Palestinians had ever agreed to a peace deal, then the "illegal settlement" statements might hold water.