John F. Kennedy Pushed for Inspection of Israel Nuclear Facilities

[Scott Kaiser]

(yes, the CIA spied on the Jewish state, with or without forged passports).

[Jim DiEugenio]

Thanks for that clarification Magda.

And thanks for the link Scott, it includes one of Kennedy's letters to Ben Gurion.

[Scott Kaiser]

You're welcome Jim.

[Scott Kaiser]

http://m.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contrib...YyM0VDREU=

[Jim DiEugenio]

This is how Israel got the bomb.

They stole it from America.

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/09/11/ho...-the-bomb/

And neither LBJ or Nixon gave a hoot.

[Tracy Riddle]

LBJ was probably the most pro-Israel President in US history, as we see in his cover-up of (and perhaps complicity in) the USS Liberty attack in 1967. James Angleton was also very tight with Israeli intelligence. They built a memorial to him in Jerusalem.

I still can't shake the fact that the patsy they blamed for killing RFK was a Palestinian, and they tried to associate him with people in the al-Fatah movement. That wasn't just an accident given everything going on in the Middle East at the time.

[Scott Kaiser]

I still can't shake the fact that the patsy they blamed for killing RFK was a Palestinian

That's interesting, I never thought about it like that.

[Jim DiEugenio]

LBJ was probably the most pro-Israel President in US history, as we see in his cover-up of (and perhaps complicity in) the USS Liberty attack in 1967. James Angleton was also very tight with Israeli intelligence. They built a memorial to him in Jerusalem.

I still can't shake the fact that the patsy they blamed for killing RFK was a Palestinian, and they tried to associate him with people in the al-Fatah movement. That wasn't just an accident given everything going on in the Middle East at the time.

I agree with you about LBJ, but let us not forget that this was followed up by that idiot Nixon appointing a Jew, Kissinger, as his National Security Advisor. I mean talk about inappropriate.

It makes me laugh when people say that well, geez, all US presidents tried to stop Israel from getting the bomb. They are simply wrong. In Roger Mattson's book I reviewed for Consortium News, they admit that the last president who really tried to stop Israel from getting the bomb was Kennedy. I mean Kissinger told Nixon to make that deal with Golda Meir even though Kissinger suspected what happened at Numec in Apollo! Which amounts to rewarding Israel for thievery and lying to us.

But you are right about Angleton and LBJ. With those two in charge of things, there was no way Kennedy's even handed approach was going to continue there.

What a terrible mistake.

[Richard Coleman]

"I agree with you about LBJ, but let us not forget that this was followed up by that idiot Nixon appointing a Jew, Kissinger, as his National Security Advisor. I mean talk about inappropriate."

Uh, let me get this straight. A Jew ("Jewish person" would be a tad friendlier) is disqualified from a government position on the sole ground that s/he is Jewish? Do you meant to imply that any non-Jew would have been better....like Allen Dulles maybe? Are there any other jobs that would be "inappropriate" for a Jewish person to have? Should this be enshrined in law?

Kissinger was a horror, no question. Not because he was Jewish but because he was Kissinger. (How much of Kissinger's support for the Pinochet coup and subsequent regime in Chile was due to his Jewishness?) Shame on you Jim, I thought you were better than this.

[Jim DiEugenio]

That is not what I mean.

What I mean is that Kissinger's conduct of his so called shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East very clearly favored Israel throughout. There have been books written about this, but Kissinger made it clear to Israel that he favored them in the conflict and they could rely on him and Nixon when push came to shove.

So what I mean is Nixon erred in appointing someone who was Jewish and could not be trusted to be neutral.