ISRAEL LOBBY SAYS PENTAGON 'INFILTRATED'

ISRAEL LOBBY SAYS PENTAGON 'INFILTRATED'
HOSTILITY TO ZIONISM SEEN AS 'MAJOR THREAT'

http://www.americanfreepress.net/htm...iltrated_.html

By Michael Collins Piper
Aleading voice of the pro-Israel lobby is pushing for an old-style
"witchhunt"-under the guise of "homeland security"-to
identify (and expel) individuals in the U.S. government and our
military who are suspected of being hostile to Israel.
The call for a witch-hunt is based on the outlandish thesis that
"Islamo-fascists" and Muslim "jihadist" operatives and, perhaps
more particularly, their "sympathizers"-however loosely
defined-have infested America's defense, national security and
federal law enforcement community.
The witch-hunt was proposed in the fall 2006 issue of the
small-circulation-but highly influential-Journal of International
Security Affairs published by the Jewish Institute for National
Security Affairs (JINSA). JINSA has been one of the frontline forces in
the fanatically pro-Israel "neo-conservative" circles directing
foreign policy under George W. Bush.
Not only Vice President Dick Cheney, but also UN Ambassador John
Bolton, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and
Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy Board-to name
just a few big Bush administration names-have all been associates of
JINSA.
University of Pennsylvania Prof. Edward Herman has described JINSA as
"organized and [run] by individuals closely tied to the Israeli lobby
and can be regarded as a virtual agency of the Israeli government."
What first appears as commentary in JINSA's Journal often leads to
very real policies carried out by the Bush administration alone and
sometimes in concert with Capitol Hill which some critics have been
known to cynically call "Israeli occupied territory."
The JINSA call for a witch-hunt came in the context of a series of
commentaries on "21st Century Allies . . . and Adversaries" for the
United States and Israel, which two nations, of course, are seen in the
JINSA world view as virtual extensions of one another.
Zionist publications regularly assert that "anti-Israel" sentiments
must automatically be seen as "anti-American" and even as
"anti-Christian" in nature, a theme first loudly propagated by the
American Jewish Committee's Commentary magazine.
The commentaries, not surprisingly, named such countries as Iran,
Syria, Russia and Venezuela, as possible "adversaries" for the
U.S.-Israel Axis. However, it was an article by Walid Phares-who is
associated with a Zionist lobby front known as the Foundation for the
Defense of the Democracies-which made the suggestion that there are
very real "adversaries" on American soil, at high levels in the
American military and intelligence establishment. In his article
"Future Terrorism-Mutant Jihads," Phares asked:
"How deeply have jihadist elements infiltrated the U.S. government
and federal agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, and
various military commands, either through sympathizers or via actual
operatives?"
Although posed as a loaded question, Phares's implication was clear:
he believes such a "threat" exists. The JINSA writer then
proclaimed the need for a "national consensus" that requires
"confronting these forces" based on "knowledge of their
ideologies, objectives and determination."
Since there are few Muslim Americans or even Arab Americans in any
substantial numbers in the FBI, Homeland Security, the Department of
Defense, etc, the suggestion that "jihadist" elements have
"infiltrated" our government might seem silly to the average
American.
But in the fevered minds of JINSA and hard-line Zionist elements, the
real concern is that there are growing numbers of people high up in the
FBI and the CIA and in the military who are getting "fed up" with
Zionist power in America. Top military leaders openly dismissed the
need for war against Iraq and Iran, both wars of which have been
long-time policy plans of the Zionist lobby. And all of this, in the
view of the JINSA sphere, constitutes effective collaboration with and
sympathy for the dreaded "jihadists."
For example, on May 11, 2005, the New York-based Forward, a leading
Jewish community newspaper, reported that Barry Jacobs of the
Washington office of the American Jewish Committee said he believed
there are high-ranking officials inside the U.S. intelligence community
who are hostile to Israel and are waging war against pro-Israel
lobbyists and their neo-conservative allies in the inner circles of the
Bush administration.
Citing the ongoing FBI investigation of espionage by officials of the
American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the leading
pro-Israel lobby group, Forward reported that Jacobs believes, in
Forward's summary, that "the notion that American Jews and Pentagon
neo-conservatives conspired to push the United States into war against
Iraq, and possibly also against Iran, is pervasive in Washington's
intelligence community."
Obviously, with such thoughts running rampant in pro-Israel circles, it
is inevitable a leading pro-Israel policy group such as JINSA would
raise the specter of "infiltration" by those who are seen as
"sympathizers" and suggest that they be purged from their positions
in government agencies.
So the threat of a witch-hunt happening is real. Despite differences
between the Bush administration and its Democratic foes, both come
together in one realm: satisfying the Israeli lobby which funds both
Democrats and Republicans alike through a network of political action
committees and exercising its clout on Capitol Hill through pressure
groups such as the APIAC, the American Jewish Committee, the American
Jewish Congress and the Anti-Defamation League.
It is ironic that JINSA should be the source of a demand for an
investigation of foreign agents and sympathizers inside the American
government. The founder of JINSA, Stephen Bryen, a former Senate aide
on Capitol Hill, faced certain indictment on charges of espionage for
Israel until pressure on the Justice Department forced Justice to back
off.
Not only Bryen, but several others in the JINSA sphere were under FBI
investigation on similar charges relating to their possible misuse of
American defense and intelligence information on Israel's behalf.
They include:
· Richard Perle, investigated in the 1970s when he was a top aide to
then-Sen. Henry Jackson;
· Douglas Feith, who-although later promoted to a high post in the
Bush administration in 2001-was fired from the National Security
Council of President Ronald Reagan; and
· Paul Wolfowitz, now head of the World Bank and former deputy
secretary of defense in the Bush administration, investigated in the
1970s by the FBI on suspicion of passing classified information to
Israel.
(Issue #47, November 20, 2006)

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