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Council on foreign relations help legitimize Sharon
February 23, 2001
THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
Zionist Center - Siegman, Kipper, Berger and a kind of Jewish propaganda
mafia
The Council on Foreign Relations, New York-power elite-based but in recent
years integrating more with the Washington government and corporate elite,
has been for quite some time, to put it bluntly, a rather tricky and chicanery
Israeli-oriented Zionist center when it comes to matters relevant to Israel.
The Council's primary agenda when it comes to the Middle East in recent years
has been to push hard the "peace process" -- thus permanently entrap the Palestinians
while at the same time buttressing in power the corrupt Arab "client regimes",
especially in Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt and Arafat's camp. A related agenda
of course has been to help legitimize the genocidal policies toward Iraq coupled
with "containment" of those countries not now in the American orbit.
It's really the same basic agenda as the U.S. government and military of
course; but persued through the powerful and rich "private sector" and thus
somewhat hidden beyhind a false veneer of academic, intellectual, and journalistic
credibility.
Various top American Jewish propagandists have been dispatched to the Council
over the years -- foremost among them Henry Siegman, former President of the
American Jewish Congress, who for many years coordinated the work of the Council
regarding matters Israeli and Middle Eastern. In recent years the notorious
Judith Kipper has organized various activities relating to the Middle East
for the Council and is now in charge of its "Middle East Forum" -- notorious
because over the years she has used sex and intrique to con various to Arab
personalities into revealing their secrets and their weaknesses. Kipper's
sexual escapades are indeed legend in some circles. Her possible links to
the CIA and maybe the Mossad have long discussed in private.
Ariel Sharon has quickly set in motion a very sophisticated and high-powered
propaganda machine designed to legitimize both himself and his policies. This
began in fact before the actual election during the days when it was obvious
Sharon was going to become Prime Minister and form the next government. Sharon's
appearance by closed-circuit TV hook-up between Israel, New York, and Washington
on 24 January, arranged by Judith Kipper and "the Council", was a significant
step in making Sharon "Kosher" for the American elite, including some of the
rightly skeptical and troubled American Jewish leaders.
For many years now Judith Kipper has worked tirelessly to coordinate efforts
with the powers that be in Washington, Henry Kissinger among them, as well
as in region. There is a long list of Arab personalities who were weak and
stupid enough, some would say craven and depraved enough, to succumb to her
political designs and sexual overtures. Many of the past journalistic organizations
she has been associated with, ABC News included, have become aware of Kipper's
role and either ended or greatly diminished their relationships with her.
But many others in Arab business and political circles, as well as some journalists,
among them the Saudi-sponsored Raghida Dergham, have either been seduced by
or played along with Kipper, never telling their readers and viewers whom they
were dealing with and what they were lending themselves to.
Of course, the audience, the questionners, and the journalists allowed to
participate in this "Discussion with Ariel Sharon" were all carefully chosen
by Kipper and the Council to further their goals and protect Sharon from anything
too difficult. A few on-the-take and on-the-make Arab types were included
in the largely Jewish/Zionist audience. Both the hosts were well-connected
Israeli-approved Jews -- in New York journalist Marilyn Berger and in Washington
Kipper herself -- making sure everything went well for Sharon who very much
was seeking the enhanced visibility and credibility just at the time it was
given to him by "the Council".
Ms. Berger began the affair stating that "Ariel Sharon is a genuine Israeli
military hero". "Sharon's biography", Berger continued, "is a sketch of Israel's
history itself." The hour-long "Discussion with Ariel Sharon" as it took place
on 24 January is only viewable through Microsoft's Media Player rather than
the more popular Real Player -- how fitting for the power elite, and one has
to wonder how much this little cozy arrangement may have cost Bill Gates.
http://www.foreignpolicy2000.org/livestreams/2001/sharon-56k.asx
MER FLASHBACK - More Than 3 Years Ago:
Washington Scene (an ongoing series):
THE CIA, WASHINGTON, AND THE MIDDLE EAST
ROGER TAMRAZ IS HARDLY ALONE
MER - Washington - 9/21/97:
Certain things don't get publicly published very much in today's Washington;
but behind-the-scenes the talking about these matters can be quite substantial.
After all there are some rules of the Washington road if you want to ever cover
the White House or the Pentagon for the national media; not to mention if you
want to be
invited to the annual National Press Club dinner!
Among these usually unpublished matters are details of the CIA's involvement
in such key areas as the Middle East, along with the names of those -- both
individuals and institutions -- who work closely with the CIA and/or are agents
of "the Agency". The recent notoriety of Lebanese oil-man Roger Tamraz has
unusually lifted the CIA veil abit. The popular media hasn't said too much
about it, but it seems that for more than 20 years Mr. Tamraz has been a "CIA
asset" providing considerable inside information and gossip about many things
going on in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Russia.
The CIA tried dutifully to keep this part of Tamraz's dealings secret;
but bits and pieces have leaked out. The larger reality is that Washington
is in fact seeded with persons thought to be connected to the CIA in one way
or another; and whose careers or business interests it seems have been rewarded
accordingly. One need not be an actual card-carrying agent entitled to a
pension; there are plenty of less direct ways to be "connected" to the Agency
in today's Washington; as the case of Mr. Tamraz makes clear.
There's the notorious Judith Kipper, now at the Center for Strategic and
International Studies (CSIS) after various jaunts and assignments taking her
repeatedly to the Middle East since the 1970s. Among other things she is thought
to hold the recent record for sleeping with Arab diplomats and officials hoping
to squeeze what she could out of them. Kipper is Jewish and there is also much
suspicion her connections extend to Mossad, which of course closely cooperates
with the CIA, and which has a long history of using woman and sex to get what
it wants. As for CSIS, it was once connected to Georgetown University, but
more than a decade ago the stink became too prevalent and Georgetown said good
bye insisting that its name be taken off the door.
Then there's Jim Zogby of the "Arab-American Institute" (AAI), long suspected,
along with others in his family, of having ties of various kinds to the CIA
over a long period of time. And indeed, Zogby has a long list of actions and
interventions that not so surprisingly conform to what the Americans have wanted
said and done over the years. Considerable money has flowed to Zogby and his
Institute -- which incidentally is widely despised in many Arab American circles
-- in the recent "Peace Process" years. Among so many other similar things,
Zogby was quick to publicly applaud the Clinton Administration back in its
first months for appointing such "even-handed" officials to deal with the Middle
East, including former Israeli lobbyist Martin Indyk, now Assistant Secretary
of State for the Middle East!
And one should add to the list former government officials Ambassador Andrew
Killgore and Dick Curtiss who in a sense masquerade these days as independent
publishers of a monthly publication known as WASHINGTON REPORT ON MIDDLE EAST
AFFAIRS while in actuality they are suspected of continuing to work closely
with both the State Department and the CIA, as well as with a number of key
Arab "client regimes", most especially the Saudis who have quietly provided
them considerable funds over the years.
All this is just the proverbial tip of the iceberg of course. And it should
not be very surprising that hard irrefutable "evidence" is quite hard if not
impossible to come by -- such things are considered "national security" and
very highly classified. In recent years the CIA has even taken to destroying
records regarding the
Middle East rather than risking them becoming public even many decades later.
Even so, over many years the circumstantial evidence in some cases becomes
practically overwhelming; and the fact that these matters are openly talked
about privately by Washington insiders is as well-known as the possible affair
the new Secretary of State is said to be having with her youngish press spokesman
(something else you're not likely to find clearly mentioned in The Washington
Post or on the News Hour). Incidentally, the CIA has become very active in
recent years in Gaza and the West Bank, and key persons associated with Yasser
Arafat's "Authority", including Nabil Shaath and Jabril Rajoub, are known to
have close and growing connections with "The Agency".
[Note on 2/23/01: Jabril Rajoub is currently again in Washington at the
invitation of the Director of the CIA, George Tenant, and Nabil Shaath was
here earlier in the month. Ways to keep the "Palestinian Authority" in power,
and a possible transition from Yasser Arafat both because of his age and because
he did not produce the full results promised to those who have paid and armed
him for the past decade, are known to be high on the current CIA and Mossad
Agendas].
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February 2001
PERES UNMASKS AND JOINS SHARON (February 27, 2001) Was it the Likud Party, or the Labor Party, that authorized more illegal
settlements in the occupied territories since the Gulf War and the Madrid Peace
Conference?
PERES AND COLLEAGUES "SLITHER ON THEIR BELLIES" (February 26, 2001) For those who still needed proof of the cravenness and duplicity of Israel's
Labor Party, the party that spawned "Peace Now" and "Oslo" among other gross
deceptions, it came today.
Defectors say Iraq tested Nuclear Bomb (February 25, 2001) When Iraq was more overtly building nuclear weapons, the Israelis struck
in 1981 destroying the Osirak reactor near Baghdad that could have provided
the crucial processed uranium fuel.
"Go back, we don't want you" (February 24, 2001) General Colin Powell, now combining even more closely than usual the Pentagon
with the State Department, was afraid to go to Gaza; and rightly so.
The Hebron MASSACRE - 7 long years ago (February 24, 2001) Abraham's dysfunctional family has had unbelieveable historical ramifications
for which the focal point today is Hebron, site of Abraham's burial place,
a religious site to both Jews and Muslim alike who are today quite literally
at each other's throats.
Council on foreign relations help legitimize Sharon (February 23, 2001) The Council on Foreign Relations, New York-power elite-based but in recent
years integrating more with the Washington government and corporate elite,
has been for quite some time, to put it bluntly, a rather tricky and chicanery
Israeli-oriented Zionist center when it comes to matters relevant to Israel.
Iraq - The great Cover-Up (February 23, 2001) As terrible as what the Israelis, with their superpower American ally (and
European connivance), are doing to the Palestinians, what has been and is being
done to the Iraqis and the Chechnyans is also truly appauling.
Arab expulsion admitted by Sharon Ally (February 22, 2001) One day maybe Israel -- like South Africa and Chile before it -- will have
some kind of "truth finding" commission to try to purge itself of the past.
Protests in Jordan (February 22, 2001) If it weren't for the Hashemite Regime in today's Jordan, yesterday's Transjordan,
and before that the East Bank of Palestine, the Israelis would never have been
able to vanquish the Palestinian people in days past and would never be able
to do to the remaining Palestinians what is happening today.
Powell and Sharon - Street protests? (February 21, 2001) Clearly, the US is rushing to court
unpopularity across the world, contrary
to expectations that the Bush national
security establishment would conduct
itself with a degree of sophistication.
"This is only the beginning" (February 21, 2001) The crippling is not just physical. Psychologically, culturally, economically,
and even morally, the Palestinian people are being twisted and tortured beyond
all recognition of their former selves.
Gaza Ghetto, Gaza Concentration Camp, Gaza Prison (February 19, 2001) For four months, the Gaza Strip has been effectively isolated from the world.
Over 1 million Palestinians are caged in an area of not more than 365km2.
Locked in an Orwellian eternal war (February 19, 2001) President Bush Jr didn't seem so confident the other day as he told the
world of the newly increased bombing of Iraq. But he made it clear that "until
the world is told otherwise" the Americans are convinced they run the world
and it is up to them to decide whom to bomb, whom to favor, whom to take out,
whom to reward.
Arafat collapsing (February 16, 2001) The Arafat Regime is collapsing. Here are some of the details, twisted
somewhat of course because the reports are from Israel's best newspaper, Ha'aretz,
in view of the fact that Palestinian and Arab news sources are unable and unwilling
to provide such insights.
The realization, "perhaps the dream" (February 16, 2001) Out of the cycle of violence the
gradual, hesitant understanding -
perhaps the dream - will grow, that
the only way is through a struggle
to create a land of Israel/Palestine
that is undivided in both physical
and human terms, pluralistic and open;
a land in which civilized relations,
human touch, intimate coexistence and
a link to a common homeland would be
stronger than militant tribalism and
the separation into national ghettoes.
"Collective suicide" or Zionism united? (February 15, 2001) If there is a national unity government,
it will be evident that the differences
between Labour as the main branch of the
left and the Likud as the main branch of
the right are not that big.
Death and assissination (February 14, 2001) It didn't take long for the Israelis, now Sharon-led, to start creating
the escalating provocations that will then bring about still more Palestinian
rage which will then give the Israelis the excuse they seek to pulverize the
Palestinians still harder, possibly destroying the regime they earlier created,
and possibly leading to another Palestinian "nakbah" (disaster).
Israelis strike, Palestinians without strategy (February 13, 2001) The Israelis have had a long-term strategy for a very long time; and they
have pursued it regardless of what party was in power and who happened to be
Prime Minister of the moment.
Dozens of Palestinians wounded (February 12, 2001) Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinians
in the
West Bank Monday as Israel's rightwing Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon sought
to
forge a unity government.
"Holy war" is forever (February 12, 2001) Fifty four years ago when an international commission of that day was hearing
from Jews and Arabs about what the new U.N. should do about Palestine there
was testimony from very credible and very establishment Jewish Zionist sources
opposing creation of a "separatist Jewish State" precisely because it would
bring about an unending conflict with the Palestinian Arab population.
War preparations continue (February 11, 2001) The Arafat Regime, the "Authority", is near collapse -- not just financially,
but credibility wise as well.
The Israeli government is near "unity" -- with General Sharon in charge.
The PA is about to collapse (February 10, 2001) How ironic history can be. After generations of struggle and such suffering
the regime that rules the Palestinians is now in the hands of Ariel Sharon
representing Israel, the U.S. Congress representing the financial levers of
the American Empire, and the European governments which in this situation operate
on the pretense that they are better than either of the above.
Rocking Israel to its Biblical core (February 9, 2001) Well if King David was a nebbish (modern translation might be "nerd"), one
has to wonder how history will record Ariel Sharon, the man with such a past
whom the Jews of Israel have just overwhelming elected their leader.
Sharon maneuvers for starting position (February 9, 2001) It's time for serious political confusion and disinformation now. As the
armies prepare themselves for the clashes likely to come in one form or another,
the politicians maneuver for new starting positions.
Clinton pardoned Mossad spy for Israelis (February 9, 2001) The Israelis adore Bill Clinton, as all the pollsters know. Deep down
even the common everyday Israelis know he was their man in the White House.
The many crimes of Ariel Sharon (February 8, 2001) Some incorrigible optimists have suggested that only a
right-wing extremist of the notoriety of Likud leader
Ariel Sharon will have the credentials to broker any
sort of lasting settlement with the Palestinians.
Sharon wastes no time - Arafat bows (February 7, 2001) We will give him the benefit of the doubt.
If he comes with good ideas that will bring
us closer to the peace process, why not?
The world has seen many such situations before.
Holy war for Jerusalem (February 7, 2001) We're on the way now to a new and expanded struggle, maybe even a religious
war, Jerusalem the focalpoint.
The cold logic of Sharon (February 7, 2001) Many Israelis just stayed home. Others cast a blank vote. But a considerable
minority thrust Ariel Sharon into the greatest electoral landslide in that
country's history -- obviously as well an overwhelming majority of those who
did vote.
Sharon wins and Peres wants in (February 6, 2001) He may be a brutish thug, he may fit the definition of war criminal, he
may be a Jewish racist -- but now he is also the Prime Minister-elect of Israel,
overwhelmingly swept into power in a way few imagined possible just a year
ago.
All sides now committed to escalation (February 6, 2001) Now the real craziness begins. The Palestinians are committed to heating things
up to demonstrate their resolve and their capabilities. The Israelis are committed
to "stopping the violence" which means clamping the boot down on the Palestinians
even more harshly.
The legacy of Ariel Sharon (February 5, 2001) This is a place of filth and blood which will forever
be associated with Ariel Sharon. In Israel today, he
may well be elected prime minister.
BBC casts doubt of Pan AM convictions (February 5, 2001) In advance of whatever the Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi is going to produce
as "evidence" of innocence today, the BBC has published the following story
quoting the very Scottish law professor who arranged the trial in The Netherlands
casting great doubt about the veracity of the verdict reached:
What's left of Israel's left (February 5, 2001) What's left of Israel's left is in a fractured and demoralized state of
affairs. Not only is Ariel Sharon about to become Israel's Prime Minister,
but in all likelihood he is to be swept into power tomorrow in a landslide
unprecedented in Israel's history.
The Pan Am 103 Verdict (February 3, 2001) The papers are filled with pictures of happy relatives of the victims of
the 1988 bombing of PanAm 103. A Libyan, Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi,
was just found guilty of the bombing by a Scottish court in the Hague, his
co-defendant, Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, being acquitted... What's wrong is that the evidence against Megrahi is thin to the point of transparency.
Rivers of blood (February 2, 2001) The bloodiness and racism of Sharon's past is fact. And these two articles
help bring that past forward to the present.
Waiting for Sharon (February 2, 2001) They believe a Sharon victory will be a boon for their cause.
'He will expose the true face of Israel,' says an activist
in Yasir Arafat's Fatah movement in Nablus, 'and force the
world, including the US, to address its real responsibilities
to the peace process...
Israeli Arabs boycott Barak, await Sharon (February 1, 2001) As the extreme right-wing revolution in Israel nears, as Ariel Sharon and
friends prepare to take over political power, the "Israeli Arab vote" will
not be enough to save Ehud Barak, and in fact it will not even be mobilized
on his behalf this time, though Yasser Arafat and his friends have surely tried.
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