Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and
Pardons
By James Petras
By James Petras
We work so hard to establish ourselves and to get
where we are and to have somebody (Jonathan Pollard) screw it up… and then have
Jewish organizations line up behind this guy and try to make him out a hero of
the Jewish people, it bothers the hell out of me…
— Admiral Sumner Shapiro, US Navy Rear Admiral who served as
Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence (1978-82), Washington Post,
6/16/2008
We … feel obligated to go on record with the facts
regarding Pollard in order to dispel the myths that have arisen from the clever
public relations campaign… aiming at transforming Pollard from greedy, arrogant
betrayer of the American national trust into Pollard committed Israeli patriot.
— Sumner Shapiro, William Studeman, John Butts and Thomas Brooks,
former Directors of Naval Intelligence cited in Ronald Olive, Capturing
Jonathan Pollard: How one of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was
Brought to Justice, Annapolis Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 248.
November 30, 2015 "Information
Clearing House" - Over two decades ago, Harvard political
science professor, Samuel Huntington, argued that global politics would be
defined by a ‘clash of civilizations’. His theories have found some of the most
aggressive advocates among militant Zionists, inside Israel and abroad.
During the past month, the Israeli regime has been slaughtering and
wounding thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and Israel. The
Israeli state terrorists, who commit mass murder in Palestine, are part of a
movement that sees an inevitable mortal final battle between Zionism and the
Islamic and Western world.
Many Western democratic leaders have questioned Huntington’s prognosis and
discreetly refuted the Zionist belief that different faiths and cultures cannot
live and work together.
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, leading Western Zionist ideologues
have argued that, while liberal values should be reaffirmed, the US and EU
leaders must recognize ‘malign global Islamic trends’. Influential Western
Zionist journalists and ideologues, who dominate the mass media, argue that
‘hardline Islamism’ is on the rise, even in previously moderate Muslim
countries like Turkey, Malaysia and Bangladesh… These ideologues (for example
Gideon Rachman of the Financial Times) systematically avoid commenting on the
rise of hardline Zionism in its most racist form in Israel and the conversion
of formerly moderate Zionist organizations into willing accomplices of Israeli
state terror against a captive people.
Together, these developments in Israel and among the major Zionist
organizations in the US and the European Union have limited the space for
critics of the ‘clash of civilizations’ dogma.
State terror assaults, such as those taking place daily in Palestine,
incite tensions between Zionists and non-Zionists – and that is their intent.
Larger structural and systemic forces are at work and are driving Zionist
radicalization. One of the most pernicious is the way in which wealthy US and
EU Zionist individuals and organizations, in particular the Presidents of the 52
Major American Jewish Organizations, have used their economic power to spread
the most intolerant forms of Judaism into the rest of the Western World.
The effects are now visible in the major political institutions and media
of the US, England and the Continent. Previously, France was held up as an
example of a successful multi-cultural nation – a dubious assumption as any
historian of colonial France can testify. But that image is rapidly changing.
Influential Zionists have fomented widespread Islamophobia and authored
legislation restricting free speech which has outlawed criticism of Israel as
‘anti-Semitism’.
French civil libertarians have noted that political and social space has
increasingly narrowed for ‘non-Zionists’, especially for anyone critical of
Israel’s state terrorism. In other words, there is immense pressure in France
to ‘keep quiet’ or self-censor in the face of Zionist racist brutality – so
much for Les Droits de L’Homme et Du Citoyen.
For over a decade, Zionist influence, especially from Israel’s far-right
Netanyahu regime, has eroded the French version of ‘moderate Zionism’,
replacing it with a more doctrinaire, exclusivist and authoritarian version.
World-wide condemnation of Israel’s massacre of over 4,000 entrapped
Palestinians in Gaza, the world largest prison camp, led the Netanyahu regime
to resort to a virulent Zionist version of ‘identity politics’ to rally support
for the slaughter – or enforce silence among the horrified. Israeli Cabinet
ministers recently denounced US President Obama and Secretary of State Kerry as
‘anti-Semites’ for their administration’s negotiations over Iran. Numerous
prestigious rabbis have blessed the killing of unarmed Palestinians. A
prominent Israeli jurist, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked urged the killing of
Arab women so they would not give birth to ‘little snakes’.
Israeli-Jewish judges have exonerated IDF soldiers, police, and settlers for
killing Palestinian children – even unarmed teenaged Arab girls hysterical over
their brutal humiliation. And world public opinion is ordered to ‘move along,
look away, nothing for you to see here…’
All the major overseas Jewish organizations have marched in step. In the
United States, a country with a democratic constitution and centuries-old Bill
of Rights, self-styled ‘mainstream Zionists’ have defended Israeli spies and
criminals, as well as un-extraditable swindlers, and organized nation-wide
networks of university, professional and business organizations to demand the
firing of colleagues and to suppress free speech and free assembly of Israel’s
critics.
First and foremost, major Zionist organizations and leaders have stoked the
fire of anti-Muslim and anti-Arab racist rhetoric, which has become commonplace
in the mass media and among Republican candidates engaged in the current
Presidential nomination campaign.
The convergence of these developments in Israel and among the Zionist power
configuration in North America, Europe and the Middle East is fueling the idea
of a ‘clash of civilizations’.
The ideological marriage of Herzl and Huntington is fast eroding the former
reality of Jewish and non-Jewish integration and intermingling across the
globe. The alternative to a plural civilization is more primitive and brutal
injustice, violence and death.
Contemporary Manifestations of Zionist Power: The
Release of the Most Damaging Spy-Traitor in US History
On November 20, 2015, former Naval Intelligence Analyst, Jonathan Pollard,
the American-Jewish spy for Israel, was freed by the Obama regime under Zionist
pressure after repeated refusals by three Republican and one Democratic President
and over the objections of the heads of all 27 major US intelligence agencies.
The significance of this release has to be viewed against the history of
Pollard’s crimes.
Fabricating Lies to Justify Obama’s Release of Pollard
The mass media and the 52 Presidents of the Major American Jewish
Organizations (AIPAC, ADL, etc…), claim that 1) Pollard committed espionage
against US security for ‘altruistic reasons’ — a deep concern for Israel’s
security and because US intelligence agencies had refused to share crucial
information with Israel’s intelligence counterparts (out of anti-Semitism), 2)
the information Pollard handed over had no lasting harm and did not endanger US
security, and 3) Pollard’s punishment was ‘excessive’, his ‘repentance’ was
sincere and his example precluded any future Israeli espionage activity against
the US. These assertions are completely false.
Pollard was a mercenary, spying against the US out of greed. He lived a
decadent, expensive lifestyle and had demanded the Israelis pay him a total
package of over $250,000 for his work. The Israeli Embassy was known to have
paid Pollard, a US Naval Analyst, to spy against the United States government.
Court records reveal that he collected over $50,000 for ‘expenses’ during his
espionage career, including expensive jewelry, and a monthly stipend of $2500.
Court records furthermore reveal that he offered to sell additional secret
documents to Pakistan, Apartheid South Africa, Australia, Russia and some
Middle East countries. He collected dozens of box-loads of confidential
documents, many of which had nothing to do with the ‘security of Israel’, but
were deemed essential to US global security, including a top secret ten volume
set of National Security Agency high level codes exposing the most advanced
means and methods of espionage and the main targets of intelligence collection.
Some of his ‘vacuumed-up’ treasure trove included the identity of US
intelligence operatives and assets in Warsaw pact countries and the Soviet
Union. The 27 US intelligence agencies have consistently opposed Pollard’s
release because his sale of this information to the Israelis led to the capture
and execution of US operatives after Israel handed over this top-secret
information to the Soviet Union in exchange for allowing Soviet Jews to
immigrate to Israel in massive numbers. Needless to say, this treason crippled
US intelligence operations and led to deaths. US military and intelligence
officials view Pollard as having ‘blood on his hands’. So much for the
‘altruistic American Zionist keen on helping insecure, little Israel.’ Years of
Zionist propaganda and lobbying have obscured this aspect of Pollard’s crimes.
Excessive Punishment or Excessive Leniency?
Far right Israeli Cabinet Ministers and liberal American Jews, supporters
and opponents of Pollard, pundits and editorialists argue that the life
imprisonment given to Pollard was out of proportion to the crime of treason.
They claim that, after 30 years, he was ‘overdue’ for release.
The severity of the punishment is determined by the crime and the damage
caused. In case of treason and espionage committed by US officials, (especially
for money), the sentence is always severe. The leaders of the John Anthony
Walker Naval spy ring were given multiple life sentences in 1985 and there are
many other similar cases.
Among the documents Pollard handed over to his Israeli handlers (operating
out of the Israeli Embassy), was US intelligence on strategic installations in
Syria, Lebanon and Iraq. No doubt, this provided Israel with strategic
coordinates to bomb major security facilities in those countries as well as
facilitated their brutal invasion and occupation of Lebanon in the 1980s.
Pollard’s treachery led to the death of thousands of civilian lives in Lebanon
and facilitated the wars in Iraq and Syria. The damage to those countries and
to innocent people would not have been considered by the judge in Pollard’s
life sentence – but it must be considered here, in understanding the enormity
of his crimes. Pollard has boasted that he was operating out of a ‘racial
imperative’ to protect Israel.
Pollard did not serve a life sentence. In fact, while in prison he became
an Israeli citizen, a salaried officer in the Israeli armed forces and, after
divorcing his American wife (who had also engaged in espionage for pay and
served several years in prison), he re-married a Canadian-Israeli woman. This
sheds a different light on the ‘severity’ of a life sentence for treason.
Pollard did not serve this ‘life sentence’. He was paroled in November 2015
(to the cheers of his adoring Jewish-American fans) demonstrating the wealth
and power of American Zionists and their ability to buy the support of US
politicians, domestic and foreign notables and the entire Israeli-Jewish
political spectrum-and push aside the objections of the heads of the three
major US armed services and intelligence agencies.
Israeli public opinion overwhelmingly supports Pollard and regards him as a
‘role model’ for other US Zionists in official positions. Contrary to Israeli lies,
several other major Israeli spy operations occurred in the US after Pollard,
including the case involving AIPAC officials, Rosen and Weissman, and Pentagon
analyst Larry Franklin during George W. Bush’s administration.
In stark contrast to the freeing of an Israeli spy responsible for
endangering the security of thousands of US operatives abroad and millions of
innocent civilians, two authentic American political prisoners, who have fought
for the rights of minorities, rot in jail with no prospect of freedom. Leonard
Peltier, a Native American leader has spent 38 years in the highest security
prison and Mumia Abu-Jamal, an African-American leader from Philadelphia, whose
33 years in prison have been on death row or brutal solitary confinement. Both
were framed by perjured evidence in a parody of justice, which has revolted
millions around the world. Neither threatened US security. Over the years,
numerous witnesses, legal authorities and academics have testified regarding
the miscarriage of justice that characterized their ‘show trials’ and have
pleaded for their humanitarian release.
Unlike Pollard, and despite decades of worldwide campaigns for their
release, Peltier and Abu-Jamal will probably die entombed in prison. Unlike
Pollard, their cases were never about treason, selling information and greed.
They have worked hard for justice within their communities, hence earning the
hatred of the police state. They fought to serve their oppressed American
communities, rather than an oppressive and racist Israeli elite – determined to
oppress and erase the native Palestinian population.
The decisive factor has been the political power of Pollard’s supporters,
the US Zionist Power Configuration, which leads President Obama and 430 US
members of Congress by the nose. Through their media connections, they can lie
about Pollard’s case and his motives. They can minimize the consequences of his
treason and twist the arms of obedient politicians to support a traitor.
Despite the fact that scores of high-ranking US intelligence and military
officials have repeatedly attested to the damage inflicted by Pollard on the
US, campaign finance hungry politicians recite the Zionist line that Pollard’s
treason did not warrant a harsh sentence!
Beyond the immediate shame of a US president caving in to Israeli pressure
with regard to this spy, there is the issue of the flagrant double standard:
Why do Israeli spies (or American Zionist traitors) evoke the unconditional
support of the entire US Zionist apparatus? Why do thousands of rabbis,
hundreds of movie executives and media moguls and scores of billionaires (talk
about the 0.01%!) campaign on behalf of this arrogant, greedy thief? Why does
Pollard merit a totally different standard of justice, in stark contrast to the
vast majority of American minorities – who can rot in dungeons even when
clearly innocent? Why does a self-described Israeli (who renounced his US
citizenship in jail), who sold vital national secrets to fund a decadent
life-style and for what he described as a ‘race imperative’ merit such favors
while hundreds of thousands of poor US citizens are routinely denied leniency –
let alone mercy? Clearly, the interests of Israel, a foreign regime, carry much
greater weight within the US judicial system than millions of American
minorities…
Cyber Crimes of Our Times: Billionaire Israeli
Swindlers and the Chinese Military
For over three years, the Obama administration, the NSA and the Secretary
of Defense, Ashton Carter have fed their media mouthpieces breathless
denunciations against China for cyber-theft. Ever week, there are lurid stories
about the theft of confidential US industrial, military and political
intelligence committed by the Chinese. The Obama regime has followed up his
charges of ‘cybertheft” by threatening to confront China in the South China
Sea, apply sanctions and raise the military ante in the Pacific against the
world’s most dynamic economic superpower.
Assistant Secretary of State, Victoria Nuland (Nudelman-Kaplan) has claimed
that Chinese cyber theft is a top national security threat requiring an
immediate military-security response. US officials have provided no evidence
that Chinese officials, at any level, are involved in espionage. Moreover, they
have presented no proof that cyber theft is a policy of the Chinese government!
There has been no evidence that these alleged thefts have damaged US companies
or security interests. Nevertheless, US hostility toward China has been
justified by unproven accusations and are used to increase the possibility of a
major confrontation.
Contrasted with the ‘allegations’ against the Chinese, three ‘Israeli
businessmen’ have been officially charged by US prosecutors with running a
multi-billion dollar cyber-hacking scam within the US over the past five years.
Dubbed the biggest financial hack in US history, the story hardly made
headlines in the US media and was conveniently buried by subsequent ‘terror
attacks’ in Europe.
The case is instructive. Three Israelis (one a US-Israeli dual citizen)
hacked-attacked ten of the largest US financial institutions, including JP
Morgan Chase and Fidelity Investments, as well as the Wall Street
Journal … downloading protected information on over 100 million
Americans – the biggest hack-attack in US history. Gery Shalon, Ziv Orenstein
and Joshua Samuel Aaron employed hundreds of employees in Israel and elsewhere
running a mega-cybercriminal enterprise.
According to the Financial Times (11/11/2015, p1), “the
hacks took place from 2012 to mid-2015 and were aimed at aiding stock market
manipulation that generated tens of millions of dollars.” In addition to
selling ‘pumped-up’ stocks to millions of customers of the companies they had
hacked, Shalom et al. launched cyber attacks to launder
millions (more likely billions) for illegal drug and counterfeit software
dealers, malicious malware distributors, illegal online casinos and an illegal
‘bitcoin exchange’ known as ‘Coin.mx.’ Someone within the financial security
apparatus of the US government (white collar crime unit) must have tipped them
off. They are safe in Israel; the Netanyahu regime has yet to act on a US
extradition order, although they are reportedly under ‘house arrest’ in their
villas.
In contrast to the on-going bellicose rhetoric, which Washington has
directed against China’s alleged hackers, Washington has been ‘very reluctant’
to press the issue of extraditing the cyber-thieves with its ‘special partner’
in Tel Aviv.
Israeli super-hackers launched virulent attacks against major US financial
institutions and American investors with apparent impunity, following the
practice of Israeli info-tech operatives who have raided US military,
technology and industrial sites for years.
While the US sends air squadrons and an armada of warships to Chinese
waters over a few sand-bars, and brays about arresting Chinese researchers (who
it later released with no charges) for alleged cyber-theft, it cannot persuade
its ‘closest strategic ally’, Israel, to hand over a trio of formally charged
swindlers. Instead, the US increased its annual $3 billion in military aid and
provides an open market for Israeli ‘security’ products based on stolen US
technology!
The reason for the differential response is not the nature of the ‘crimes’
– it is who commits the crimes! Israeli dominance of US politics via the
unconditional support of its US Zionist power configuration ensures impunity
for Israeli citizens, including the ability to delay or postpone the
extradition of notorious multi-billion cyber thieves! Washington feels free to
accuse China, without proof of official Chinese complicity, despite
overwhelming evidence, while it cannot persuade its close ‘friend’ Israel to
extradite criminals. Netanyahu, backed by his Israeli-Jewish public will decide
if, when and where to extradite. When it comes to shielding Israeli or
American-Israeli criminals from American justice, Israel treats its ally in
Washington like an enemy.
Zionist political clout is evident in Washington’s judicial leniency toward
other mega-swindlers with ties to Israel. Michael Milken contributed millions
of (swindled) dollars to Israeli and US Zionist programs and won a ‘get out of
jail’ card despite his conviction for major financial scams. He served 2 years
out of a 10-year sentence and was granted a ‘humanitarian release’ because he
was ‘dying’ of extensive terminal metastatic prostate cancer. So far, Michael’s
quarter century of miraculous remission from ‘terminal metastatic prostate
cancer’ constitutes a first in the annals of urologic cancer! He has gone on to
re-constitute his fortune and prominence, while welfare mothers who took a few
extra dollars rot in jail.
Ivan Boesky, another uber-Zionist and mega-donor to Israel was a swindler
of gargantuan proportions. He raked in hundreds of millions a year. He was
tried, convicted and sentenced to a mere 42 months in prison. He was out in
less than 24 months, thanks to the support of ….
Marc Rich, a mega- billionaire rogue trader who broke US sanctions against
trading with enemies, was also a self-described agent for the Israeli Mossad.
Despite having been convicted in absentia in US courts for fraud, (he had
skipped bail for Switzerland), President ‘Bill’ Clinton pardoned the ‘absentee
felon’ in abstentia– a historical first for a criminal who had never spent a
day in the jail. Mrs. Rich’s $100,000 donation to the Hilary Clinton New York
senatorial campaign probably did little to influence the President’s sense of
mercy…..
However, ‘Bernie’ Madoff, a $50 billion dollar swindler’ who gave huge
amounts of illicit earnings to Zionist charities and projects in Israel was
convicted and sentenced to over 100 years in prison. Unlike the above mentioned
‘untouchables’, Madoff will never breathe free again because he made the
unforgivable mistake of mostly swindling other Jews, ardent Zionists and even
ripping off a number of pro-Israel foundations. His differential treatment
stems from his poor choice of victims rather than the crimes… Otherwise he
might now be enjoying a comfortable villa in Israel than a cold cell in
Pennsylvania.
Conclusions
Israeli capacity to manipulate and influence the American judicial process
is based on 52 powerful front organizations – organized in the Presidents of
the Major American Jewish Organizations. This situation has made a mockery of
the American court system and feeds the cynicism and bitterness of the average
American. Zionist officials and allies occupy strategic position within the
White House and judiciary.
Through their influence in the mass media, they converted a grotesque
mercenary spy, like Jonathan Pollard, into an altruistic, Israeli-Jewish
patriot, celebrated throughout Israel and within US Zionist circles. Veteran
American intelligence and military official who opposed his release have been
painted with the broad brush of ‘anti-Semite’. The formidable Zionist power
configuration, nurtured and financed by mega-swindlers, successfully secured
his release. Zionist dominance essentially guarantees that the US will treat an
indicted Israeli cyber-thief with extreme tact, supplicating the Israeli
government for their extradition, while going ballistic over an alleged Chinese
hacker.
Few progressive web sites or even the micro-Marxist journals confront these
issues, more out of moral cowardice (self-censorship) than ignorance. Instead
they bleat general clichés and ‘radical rhetoric’ about ‘US imperialism’ and
the ‘rise of the right’ without identifying the precise social and political
identity of the forces who move national policy. In a word, the Zionist Power
Configuration gets more than a ‘free ride’. Across the political spectrum it
continues to campaign on behalf of Israeli spies and Zionist financial
swindlers. This corruption of the American judicial system and the betrayal of
American trust have far-reaching consequences and undermine efforts to
effectively address major national problems.
James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of
Sociology at Binghamton University, New York.
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