08-11-2009, 05:03 PM
Paul Rigby Wrote:A new generation is now in place: For IF Stone and MS Arnoni, read Glenn Greenwald & Noami Klein. Nor is this confined by any means to the defence of Israel at the deepest level (as even the most cursory inspection of the career of Alexander Cockburn, the man who blew details of Arnon Milchon's role as Mossad disinformationist, reveals.) What the Chomsky deception illustrates so powerfully is the densely intertwined connection between the Anglo-American MIC, Israel, and western spookery, a relationship far more profound than superficial examination of the neo-cons would have us believe.
Until you get to subjects like 9/11 and Dallas '63, Greenwald is very fine. In today's posting at Salon, he offers a brief reminder of why Arnon Milchon's bosses, not to mention the US MIC, used the memory of JFK, not to mention the absurdity of the official account of his murder, to assist in the ousting of Bush I and the installation of the infinitely pliant nullity from Arkansas:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_.../08/israel
Is using aid to Israel as leverage becoming a mainstream idea?
Quote:When is the last time there were serious discussions like this in the establishment media about cutting off aid to Israel if they refused to cease taking actions that harmed American interests? That was probably 1992, when then-Secretary of State Jim Baker repeatedly tried to link continued American aid and loan guarantees to Israeli cessation of settlement expansions and increased good faith in negotiating a peace agreement with the Palestinians -- which caused a major political backlash in the U.S., fueled by what then-NYT-reporter Tom Friedman described as "a number of pro-Israeli Senators." It's amazing how little has changed vis-a-vis American debates over Israel in the 17 years since then.
Stone's JFK boasted a veteran Mossad man - take a peek at Milchon's role, for example, in Muldergate, the South African government's attempt to creat a global propaganda network in support of Apartheid - as the film's executive producer? Absolutely: Alexander Cockburn was quite correct.
Like the Clay Shaw case upon which it was loosely based, JFK the film was a classic example of conceding ground the better to sustain a citadel - in both instances, the Z-fake.