Well said - 2

Jews in Israel feel free to act brutally against Arabs, writes Israeli
journalist Ari Shavit, "believing with absolute certitude that now, with the
White House, the Senate and much of the American media in our hands, the
lives of others do not count as much as our own." [note 14]

Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, has
spoken with blunt exasperation about the Jewish-Israeli hold on the United
States: [note 15]

"I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up to them
[the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want.
The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point where I
wasn't writing anything down. If the American people understood what a grip
those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms. Our
citizens certainly don't have any idea what goes on."

As the French ambassador in London recently acknowledged, Israel -- which he
called (a quote which shocked millions -ed) "that shitty little country" --
is a threat to world peace. "Why should the world be in danger of World War
III because of those people?," he said. [note 16]

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Full article below....

A Look At The Powerful
Jewish Lobby In America
By Mark Weber
7-12-2

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power
and prominence in popular culture." -- Michael Medved, well-known Jewish
author and respected film critic.

For decades Israel has violated well established precepts of
international law and defied numerous United Nations resolutions in its
occupation of conquered lands, in extra-judicial killings, and in its
repeated acts of military aggression.

Most of the world regards Israel's policies, and especially its
oppression of Palestinians, as outrageous and criminal. This international
consensus is reflected, for example, in numerous UN resolutions condemning
Israel, which have been approved with overwhelming majorities.

"The whole world," United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan
recently said, "is demanding that Israel withdraw [from occupied Palestinian
territories]. I don't think the whole world ... can be wrong." [note 1]

Only in the United States do politicians and the media still
fervently support Israel and its policies. For decades the US has provided
Israel with crucial military, diplomatic and financial backing, including
more than $3 billion each year in aid.

Why is the U.S. the only remaining bastion of support for Israel?

Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who was awarded the 1984 Nobel
Peace Prize, has candidly identified the reason: "The Israeli government is
placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticize it is to be immediately
dubbed anti-Semitic," he said. "People are scared in this country, to say
wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful -- very powerful." [note
2]

Bishop Tutu spoke the truth. Although Jews make up only about three
percent of the US population, they wield immense power and influence --
vastly more than any other ethnic or religious group.

As Jewish author and political science professor, Benjamin Ginsberg,
has pointed out: [note 3]

"Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence in
American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life. Jews played a
central role in American finance during the 1980s, and they were among the
chief beneficiaries of that decade's corporate mergers and reorganizations."

Today, though barely two percent of the nation's population is
Jewish, close to half its billionaires are Jews. The chief executive
officers of the three major television networks and the four largest film
studios are Jews, as are the owners of the nation's largest newspaper chain
and the most influential single newspaper, the New York Times ... The role
and influence of Jews in American politics is equally marked.

Jews are only two percent of the nation's population yet comprise
eleven percent of what this study defines as the nation's elite. However,
Jews constitute more than 25 percent of the elite journalists and
publishers, more than 17 percent of the leaders of important voluntary and
public interest organizations, and more than 15 percent of the top ranking
civil servants.

Stephen Steinlight, former Director of National Affairs of the
American Jewish Committee, similarly notes the "disproportionate political
power" of Jews, which is "pound for pound the greatest of any
ethnic/cultural group in America." He goes on to explain that "Jewish
economic influence and power are disproportionately concentrated in
Hollywood, television, and in the news industry." [note 4]

Two well-known Jewish writers, Seymour Lipset and Earl Raab, pointed
out in their 1995 book, Jews and the New American Scene: [note 5]

"During the last three decades Jews [in the United States] have made
up 50 percent of the top two hundred intellectuals ... 20 percent of
professors at the leading universities ... 40 percent of partners in the
leading law firms in New York and Washington ... 59 percent of the
directors, writers, and producers of the 50 top-grossing motion pictures
from 1965 to 1982, and 58 percent of directors, writers, and producers in
two or more primetime television series."

The influence of American Jewry in Washington, notes the Israeli
daily Jerusalem Post, is "far disproportionate to the size of the community,
Jewish leaders and U.S. official acknowledge. But so is the amount of money
they contribute to [election] campaigns." One member of the influential
Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations "estimated
Jews alone had contributed 50 percent of the funds for [President Bill]
Clinton's 1996 re-election campaign." [note 6]

"It makes no sense at all to try to deny the reality of Jewish power
and prominence in popular culture," acknowledges Michael Medved, a
well-known Jewish author and film critic. "Any list of the most influential
production executives at each of the major movie studios will produce a
heavy majority of recognizably Jewish names." [note 7]

One person who has carefully studied this subject is Jonathan J.
Goldberg, now editor of the influential Jewish community weekly 'Forward.'
In his 1996 book, Jewish Power, he wrote: [note 8]

"In a few key sectors of the media, notably among Hollywood studio
executives, Jews are so numerically dominant that calling these businesses
Jewish-controlled is little more than a statistical observation ...
Hollywood at the end of the twentieth century is still an industry with a
pronounced ethnic tinge. Virtually all the senior executives at the major
studios are Jews. Writers, producers, and to a lesser degree directors are
disproportionately Jewish -- one recent study showed the figure as high as
59 percent among top-grossing films."

The combined weight of so many Jews in one of America's most
lucrative and important industries gives the Jews of Hollywood a great deal
of political power. They are a major source of money for Democratic
candidates.

Reflecting their role in the American media, Jews are routinely
portrayed as high-minded, altruistic, trustworthy, compassionate, and
deserving of sympathy and support. While millions of Americans readily
accept such stereotyped imagery, not everyone is impressed.

"I am very angry with some of the Jews," complained actor Marlon
Brando during a 1996 interview. "They know perfectly well what their
responsibilities are ... Hollywood is run by Jews. It's owned by Jews, and
they should have a greater sensitivity about the issue of people who are
suffering." [note 9]

A Well-Entrenched Factor

The intimidating power of the "Jewish lobby" is not a new
phenomenon, but has long been an important factor in American life.

In 1941 Charles Lindbergh spoke about the danger of Jewish power in
the media and government. The shy 39-year-old -- known around the world for
his epic 1927 New York to Paris flight, the first solo trans-Atlantic
crossing -- was addressing 7,000 people in Des Moines, Iowa, on September
11, 1941, about the dangers of US involvement in the war then raging in
Europe. The three most important groups pressing America into war, he
explained, were the British, the Jews, and the Roosevelt administration.

Of the Jews, he said: "Their greatest danger to this country lies in
their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our
radio, and our government." Lindbergh went on:

"For reasons which are understandable from their viewpoint as they
are inadvisable from ours, for reasons which are not American, [they] wish
to involve us in the war. We cannot blame them for looking out for what they
believe to be their own interests, but we must also look out for ours. We
cannot allow the natural passions and prejudices of other peoples to lead
our country to destruction."

In 1978, Jewish American scholar Alfred M. Lilienthal wrote in his
detailed study, The Zionist Connection: [note 10]

"How has the Zionist will been imposed on the American people?... It
is the Jewish connection, the tribal solidarity among themselves and the
amazing pull on non-Jews, that has molded this unprecedented power ... In
the larger metropolitan areas, the Jewish-Zionist connection thoroughly
pervades affluent financial, commercial, social, entertainment, and art
circles."

As a result of the Jewish grip on the media, wrote Lilienthal, news
coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict in American television, newspapers
and magazines is relentlessly sympathetic to Israel. This is manifest, for
example, in the misleading portrayal of Palestinian "terrorism." As
Lilienthal put it: "One-sided reportage on terrorism, in which cause is
never related to effect, was assured because the most effective component of
the Jewish connection is probably that of media control."

One-Sided 'Holocaust' History

The Jewish hold on cultural and academic life has had a profound
impact on how Americans look at the past. Nowhere is the well-entrenched
Judeocentric view of history more obvious than in the "Holocaust" media
campaign, which focuses on the fate of Jews in Europe during World War II.

Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer, a professor at Hebrew
University in Jerusalem, has remarked: [note 11]

"Whether presented authentically or inauthentically, in accordance
with the historical facts or in contradiction to them, with empathy and
understanding or as monumental kitsch, the Holocaust has become a ruling
symbol of our culture ... Hardly a month goes by without a new TV
production, a new film, a new drama, new books, prose or poetry, dealing
with the subject, and the flood is increasing rather than abating."

Non-Jewish suffering simply does not merit comparable attention.
Overshadowed in the focus on Jewish victimization are, for example, the tens
of millions of victims of America's World War II ally, Stalinist Russia,
along with the tens of millions of victims of China's Maoist regime, as well
as the 12 to 14 million Germans, victims of the flight and expulsion of
1944-1949, of whom some two million lost their lives.

The well-financed Holocaust media and "educational" campaign is
crucially important to the interests of Israel. Paula Hyman, a professor of
modern Jewish history at Yale University, has observed: "With regard to
Israel, the Holocaust may be used to forestall political criticism and
suppress debate; it reinforces the sense of Jews as an eternally beleaguered
people who can rely for their defense only upon themselves. The invocation
of the suffering endured by the Jews under the Nazis often takes the place
of rational argument, and is expected to convince doubters of the legitimacy
of current Israeli government policy." [note 12]

Norman Finkelstein, a Jewish scholar who has taught political
science at City University of New York (Hunter College), says in his book,
'The Holocaust Industry,' that "invoking The Holocaust" is "a ploy to
delegitimize all criticism of Jews."[note 13] "By conferring total
blamelessness on Jews, the Holocaust dogma immunizes Israel and American
Jewry from legitimate censure. ... Organized Jewry has exploited the Nazi
holocaust to deflect criticism of Israel's and its own morally indefensible
policies." He writes of the brazen "shakedown" of Germany, Switzerland and
other countries by Israel and organized Jewry "to extort billions of
dollars." "The Holocaust," Finkelstein predicts, "may yet turn out to be the
'greatest robbery in the history of mankind'."

Jews in Israel feel free to act brutally against Arabs, writes
Israeli journalist Ari Shavit, "believing with absolute certitude that now,
with the White House, the Senate and much of the American media in our
hands, the lives of others do not count as much as our own." [note 14]

Admiral Thomas Moorer, former Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of
Staff, has spoken with blunt exasperation about the Jewish-Israeli hold on
the United States: [note 15]

"I've never seen a President -- I don't care who he is -- stand up
to them [the Israelis]. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they
want. The Israelis know what is going on all the time. I got to the point
where I wasn't writing anything down. If the American people understood what
a grip those people have got on our government, they would rise up in arms.
Our citizens certainly don't have any idea what goes on."

Today, the danger is greater than ever. Israel and Jewish
organizations, in collaboration with this country's pro-Zionist Christian
fundamentalist "amen corner," are prodding the United States -- the world's
foremost military and economic power -- into new wars against Israel's
enemies.

As the French ambassador in London recently acknowledged, Israel --
which he called (a quote which shocked millions -ed) "that shitty little
country" -- is a threat to world peace. "Why should the world be in danger
of World War III because of those people?," he said. [note 16]

In summation:

Jews wield immense power and influence in the United States.

The "Jewish lobby" is a decisive factor in US support for Israel.

Jewish-Zionist interests are not identical to American interests. In
fact, they often conflict.

As long as the "very powerful" Jewish lobby remains entrenched,
there will be no end to the systematic Jewish-Zionist distortion of current
affairs and history, the Jewish-Zionist domination of the U.S. political
system, Zionist oppression of Palestinians, the bloody conflict between Jews
and non-Jews in the Middle East, and the Israeli threat to peace.

Notes

1. Quoted in Forward (New York City), April 19, 2002, p. 11. 2. D.
Tutu, "Apartheid in the Holy Land," The Guardian (Britain), April 29, 2002.
3. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State (University of
Chicago, 1993), pp. 1, 103. 4. S. Steinlight, "The Jewish Stake in America's
Changing Demography: Reconsidering a Misguided Immigration Policy," Center
for Immigration Studies , Nov. 2001.
http://www.cis.org/articles/2001/back1301.html 5. Seymour Martin Lipset and
Earl Raab, Jews and the New American Scene (Harvard Univ. Press, 1995), pp.
26-27. 6. Janine Zacharia, "The Unofficial Ambassadors of the Jewish State,"
The Jerusalem Post (Israel), April 2, 2000. Reprinted in "Other Voices,"
June 2000, p. OV-4, a supplement to The Washington Report on Middle East
Affairs. 7. M. Medved, "Is Hollywood Too Jewish?," Moment, Vol. 21, No. 4
(1996), p. 37. 8. Jonathan Jeremy Goldberg, Jewish Power: Inside the
American Jewish Establishment (Addison-Wesley, 1996), pp. 280, 287-288. See
also pp. 39-40, 290-291. 9. Interview with Larry King, CNN network, April 5,
1996. "Brando Remarks," Los Angeles Times, April 8, 1996, p. F4 (OC). A
short time later, Brando was obliged to apologize for his remarks. 10. A.
Lilienthal, The Zionist Connection (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1978), pp. 206,
218, 219, 229. 11. From a 1992 lecture, published in: David Cesarani, ed.,
The Final Solution: Origins and Implementation (London and New York:
Routledge, 1994), pp. 305, 306. 12. Paula E. Hyman, "New Debate on the
Holocaust," The New York Times Magazine , Sept. 14, 1980, p. 79. 13. Norman
G. Finkelstein, The Holocaust Industry (London, New York: Verso, 2000), pp.
130, 138, 139, 149. 14. The New York Times, May 27, 1996. Shavit is
identified as a columnist for Ha'aretz, a Hebrew-language Israeli daily
newspaper, "from which this article is adapted." 15. Interview with Moorer,
Aug. 24, 1983. Quoted in: Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and
Institutions Confront Israel's Lobby (Lawrence Hill, 1984 and 1985), p. 161.
16. D. Davis, "French Envoy to UK: Israel Threatens World Peace," Jerusalem
Post, Dec. 20, 2001. The French ambassador is Daniel Bernard.6/02



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