11-09-2015, 06:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-09-2015, 09:05 PM by Tracy Riddle.)
The question is, was Sirhan picked as the patsy because he was a Palestinian or because he was easy to hypnotize? Or both? I think most of us agree that Oswald was chosen because he could plausibly be portrayed as a pro-Castro Communist sympathizer, former defector, Marine-trained sniper, etc.
Sirhan is a different case. He was constantly seen with other Arab-looking men, plus the Polka Dot Dress girl, who sounds somewhat Arab-looking (maybe Egyptian or Lebanese). Was someone manipulating a radical Palestinian group to take the blame for killing a US Senator? Who would want to do that? Let's look at the geopolitical situation of the time.
A year earlier (June 1967), Israel (with US connivance) had trounced the Arabs in the 6 Day War. The USS Liberty false flag attempt almost pulled the US into attacking Egypt and retaking the Suez Canal. We see here that elements within Israel and the US government were willing to attack an American target to achieve larger strategic goals. In the early 1950s, the Lavon Affair revealed again that Israel was willing to attack US and British targets (again to blame Egypt).
LBJ was extremely pro-Israel, as was the CIA's James Angleton (Beginning in 1951, Angleton was responsible for liaison with Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet agencies, "the Israeli desk", crucial relationships that he managed for the remainder of his career. - Wikipedia). There are two monuments to Angleton in Israel. By March 1968, Israel was in open combat with Palestinian groups like Fatah. Wikipedia again:
On the night of 21 March, the IDF attacked Karameh with heavy weaponry, armored vehicles and fighter jets.[SUP][16][/SUP] Fatah held its ground, surprising the Israeli military. As Israel's forces intensified their campaign, the Jordanian Army became involved, causing the Israelis to retreat in order to avoid a full-scale war.[SUP][19][/SUP] By the end of the battle, nearly 150 Fatah militants had been killed, as well as twenty Jordanian soldiers and twenty-eight Israeli soldiers. Despite the higher Arab death toll, Fatah considered themselves victorious because of the Israeli army's rapid withdrawal.[SUP][size=12][16]
[size=12]At this time, RFK was a Senator from New York representing a large Jewish constituency. We know that JFK had some strained relations with Israel (trying to prevent them from building a nuclear weapon). Despite RFK's desire to support oppressed minorities around the world, politically he had to support selling weapons to Israel. It was a fine line to walk, as many Democratic politicians know.
I'm doing a lot of speculating, but I can see a confluence of interests (CIA, international organized crime, Mossad and others), elements of which wanted to keep RFK from becoming President, hoped to turn US public opinion against the Arabs, and stimulate more US aid to Israel. This is almost 50 years ago, and the Arab-Israeli conflict was barely on most Americans' radar.
As with the JFK assassination, though, other elements in the power structure squashed the whole thing and went with the "lone nut" story instead.
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Sirhan is a different case. He was constantly seen with other Arab-looking men, plus the Polka Dot Dress girl, who sounds somewhat Arab-looking (maybe Egyptian or Lebanese). Was someone manipulating a radical Palestinian group to take the blame for killing a US Senator? Who would want to do that? Let's look at the geopolitical situation of the time.
A year earlier (June 1967), Israel (with US connivance) had trounced the Arabs in the 6 Day War. The USS Liberty false flag attempt almost pulled the US into attacking Egypt and retaking the Suez Canal. We see here that elements within Israel and the US government were willing to attack an American target to achieve larger strategic goals. In the early 1950s, the Lavon Affair revealed again that Israel was willing to attack US and British targets (again to blame Egypt).
LBJ was extremely pro-Israel, as was the CIA's James Angleton (Beginning in 1951, Angleton was responsible for liaison with Israel's Mossad and Shin Bet agencies, "the Israeli desk", crucial relationships that he managed for the remainder of his career. - Wikipedia). There are two monuments to Angleton in Israel. By March 1968, Israel was in open combat with Palestinian groups like Fatah. Wikipedia again:
On the night of 21 March, the IDF attacked Karameh with heavy weaponry, armored vehicles and fighter jets.[SUP][16][/SUP] Fatah held its ground, surprising the Israeli military. As Israel's forces intensified their campaign, the Jordanian Army became involved, causing the Israelis to retreat in order to avoid a full-scale war.[SUP][19][/SUP] By the end of the battle, nearly 150 Fatah militants had been killed, as well as twenty Jordanian soldiers and twenty-eight Israeli soldiers. Despite the higher Arab death toll, Fatah considered themselves victorious because of the Israeli army's rapid withdrawal.[SUP][size=12][16]
[size=12]At this time, RFK was a Senator from New York representing a large Jewish constituency. We know that JFK had some strained relations with Israel (trying to prevent them from building a nuclear weapon). Despite RFK's desire to support oppressed minorities around the world, politically he had to support selling weapons to Israel. It was a fine line to walk, as many Democratic politicians know.
I'm doing a lot of speculating, but I can see a confluence of interests (CIA, international organized crime, Mossad and others), elements of which wanted to keep RFK from becoming President, hoped to turn US public opinion against the Arabs, and stimulate more US aid to Israel. This is almost 50 years ago, and the Arab-Israeli conflict was barely on most Americans' radar.
As with the JFK assassination, though, other elements in the power structure squashed the whole thing and went with the "lone nut" story instead.
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