Does Israel Interfere in American Elections?
Ask Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
Does anyone
remember what the Mueller investigation was all about? It was to
determine whether the team surrounding candidate and then
president-elect Donald Trump had colluded with a foreign power, presumed to be Russia.
It did not discover any
such collaboration to get Trump elected president, but it did discover a
foreign nation that had directly intervened with key players
surrounding president-elect Trump to get them to do it a favor. That
country was Israel, but somehow the media never quite managed to pull it
all together even if leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky was able to, saying
“…if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli intervention in US elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done, I mean, even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies…”
This is how
Jewish power works on behalf of the Jewish state. It is done right out
in the open, at least if one knows where to look, and it operates by
what the intelligence community would refer to as misdirection. That
means that you never talk about Israel itself, except in a positive,
laudatory fashion, you never mention Jewish power in America, and,
finally, you have in reserve some fabricated threats that can be
surfaced to dominate discussion and render Israel’s malign activity
invisible.
Currently, the Russian threat is the enemy du jour.
Even though we now know that “Russiagate” never existed in any serious
form, it continues to be hyped by both the Democratic Party and by the
accommodating media as the over-the-horizon threat to American
democracy. It is now being claimed, minus any real evidence, that the
Kremlin has a plan to ruin the upcoming 2020 election by way of
nationwide tampering with the voting machines and the electronic
tallying procedures. Oddly enough, the states, where the voting actually
takes place, have not noticed
any attempted Russian interference. As the story goes, if the Russians
are successful, no one will have any confidence in the results and the
American republican experiment will collapse in ruins.
No one is, of
course, asking why Moscow would want to change a United States that, for
all its power, is so politically inept and corrupt from top to bottom
that it found itself unable to stage a coup in Venezuela. If the U.S.
government collapses, it might well be replaced by something more
authoritarian and, dare I say, more efficient, that would certainly pose
a greater threat to Russia, so why would Putin want that?
Nevertheless, many people who should know better are hyping the threat. I sometimes peruse the Defense One website, a warmhearted place funded by defense contractors where all those people who want to blow up the world can share bon mots and grin about all the money they are making.
Last week I noted a particularly loathesome article on the site “Here’s what foreign interference will look like in 2020,” written by one Uri Friedman,
who I presume to be – inevitably – an Israeli. Uri is very upset about
all those evil countries that will be/might be interfering in the
election, to include Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela,
Syria, North Korea and the United Arab Emirates – though he does exclude
the one country that is most likely to interfere, which is, of course,
Israel. Uri is described as a “a senior associate editor at The
Atlantic, where he oversees the Global Channel.” The Atlantic is in fact
a media black hole, where all semi-literate journos of a globalist
persuasion go to die.
Uri begins with the sub-headline,
“The incentives for foreign countries to meddle are much greater than in 2016, and the tactics could look dramatically different”
followed by:
“Russia is ‘doing it as we sit here.’ This stray line, buried in seven hours of testimony on Capitol Hill, wasn’t just Robert Mueller’s way of rebutting the charge that his investigation into the Kremlin’s interference in the 2016 presidential election amounted to a two-year, $32 million witch hunt. It was also a blunt message to the lawmakers arrayed before him, the journalists hunting for a bombshell, and the millions of Americans monitoring the proceedings: We’re all here fighting the last war, when we really should be bracing ourselves for the coming one. The Russians ‘expect to do it during the next campaign,’ the special counsel continued, and ‘many more countries are developing capability to replicate’ Moscow’s model.”
Friedman states
that “It’s unclear whether the Russian government will reprise most
infamous and innovative act in 2016: the hacking and leaking of emails
from the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign” before moving
on to the details of Moscow’s alleged subversion. He considers all
allegations about Russia to be truthful even when they were never
proven. The Democratic National Committee never cooperated with the FBI
after their supposed hack, but instead used their own very suspect firm
to do the investigation. And the Mueller investigation took that report
at face value in spite of the company’s very clear conflict of interest.
That about sums
up Friedman’s rather lengthy and convoluted argument, though he does
omit any consideration of how many foreign elections the United States
government acting through its intelligence agencies interferes in each
year. Or indeed how much CIA Director John Brennan and the FBI’s James Comey themselves interfered in the 2016 election on behalf of Hillary Clinton. But he does speculate that
“This is the shoe that didn’t drop in 2016. A Senate Intelligence Committee report released in July found that while there’s no evidence that votes were altered or vote tallies manipulated during the past U.S. presidential election, the Russians likely targeted election systems in all 50 U.S. states, including research on ‘election-related web pages, voter ID information, election system software, and election service companies.’ In a couple of cases, the Russians succeeded in breaching state election infrastructure. Among the theories aired in the report about Moscow’s motivations is that it was cataloging ‘options or clandestine actions, holding them for use at a later date.’”
In other words,
Friedman actually concedes that Russia didn’t do anything and the
evidence that it is planning an attack for 2020 is thin to non-existent.
But here in the United States, other foreign agents are hard at work to
remove the two Muslim women elected to the House of Representatives in
2018 “for Jewish reasons.”
Philip Weiss of Mondoweiss reports how the tale of powerful Detroit region-based Jews raising money and pulling in political markers to try to defeat Rep. Rashida Tlaib has been circulating on the web. Per Weiss, Ron Kampeas of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported on a gathering of Jewish power brokers
in Detroit three weeks ago, arranged by a leading Jewish organization,
at which they vowed to raise money to get rid of Tlaib because she
supports a boycott of Israel. Tlaib is a Muslim woman and is a U.S. born
and raised Palestinian-American.
Tlaib responded to the story on twitter:
“This type of hate never succeeds when the truth is on our side. Palestinians *are* dehumanized. Those who want to suppress the truth by trying to discredit me can #bringit. My sidy [grandmother in Palestine] taught me of the days where everyone lived side by side in peace & that is what I will fight for.”
The meeting was
held at Bloomfield Hills Michigan branch office of the Jewish
Federation, the largest Jewish group in the United States. It included
many local Jewish leaders and potential political donors who are clearly
not bothered by dual loyalty, but it did not appear to include anyone
who actually lives in Tlaib’s district. Nevertheless, consensus was
quickly established that “the Palestinian-American freshman in the 13th
District [Tlaib] has got to go.”
One participant
declared “We in this community will go against Rashida Tlaib” while
another described how there had already been an approach to Brenda Jones,
the Detroit City Council president, who had been defeated in 2018 by
Tlaib. Money was being raised for her campaign, according to another
participant.
The thinking in
the room was that the African-American community in the 13th
Congressional District would support a single black candidate — likely
Jones — and that candidate would also be able to draw on considerable
pro-Israel support for funding and favorable media coverage.
There was some
pushback, with a rabbi telling Kampeas that a Jewish organized effort to
remove Tlaib would be “catastrophic.” He observed that it would be such
an open and blatant demonstration of Jewish power that it would be a
major setback to the effort to keep younger, more liberal Jews, who are
suspicious of power politics, engaged.
The rabbi was
being naïve. Removing politicians who are not fully on board with the
Israel agenda is normal practice and has been for many years. Just ask Senators William Fulbright and Chuck Percy or Congressmen Paul Findley, Pete McCloskey, and Cynthia McKinney.
Criticizing Israel means not being reelected to Congress next time
around, and it is not because Israel is greatly loved by voters. It is
because Jewish-American citizens who are protective of Israel are
willing to organize and collect money to support alternative candidates
in any congressional district in the country, even where they do not
reside, just as they plan on doing to Tlaib. Their goal is to defeat
anyone who dares to say anything against Benjamin Netanyahu
and his gang of war criminals or, even worse, suggest that Palestinians
just might be human beings and might actually have rights.
Israel has the
most powerful foreign policy lobby in Washington but it operates as
freely as it does by pretending that it has no power at all, that
American involvement in the Middle East is driven by U.S. interests.
That is complete nonsense and has been so for over fifty years as the
Lobby has tightened its grip. Until more congressmen like Rashida Tlaib
get elected and begin to speak out, the corrupt status quo will, unfortunately, continue to prevail.
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This article was originally published on The Unz Review.
Philip M. Giraldi,
Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a
501(c)3 tax deductible educational foundation (Federal ID Number
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