More Disinformation from Israel
Biden caves to Jewish pressure, as usual
By Philip Giraldi
September 23, 2022:
Information Clearing House
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Joe Biden ran for
president in 2020 with a pledge to restore
the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)
with Iran, which Donald Trump had withdrawn
from in May 2018 under pressure from
Republican Party Jewish donors, most notably
underwritten by an estimated $100 million
coming from now deceased Sheldon Adelson’s
Las Vegas casino fortune. The JCPOA might
plausibly be regarded as the only major
diplomatic success for the Barack Obama
Administration, which featured Biden as Vice
President, and it was good for the US due to
its curb on proliferation, as well as being
a benefit for the entire Middle East region
as it made less likely a “weapons of mass
destruction” arms race involving the
Egyptians and Saudis.
Predictably, however,
the pledge did not please the state of
Israel. For three decades, Israel has been
urging the United States to use force to
eliminate what it refers to as the Iranian
nuclear weapons program, a program that does
not exist and might never have existed. The
nuclear weapons threat raised by Israel
might be seen as a disinformational wedge
issue to bring about the complete
destruction of the Iranian military
capability by the United States. Israel
seeks to exploit its influence over the US
government and media to bring that about.
To be sure, weakening
Iran and possibly even replacing its
government is the most compelling issue for
Israel and its powerful US domestic lobby,
but the Israeli plan is much broader than
that, to make the United States the junior
partner providing the money and weapons in
an effort to militarily dominate the Middle
East. Knowing that both Donald Trump and Joe
Biden were willing to concede actual US
national interests in response to Israeli
pressure, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
and his replacement Yair Lapid have sent
waves of top-level officials to cajole both
Congress and the White House into giving
Jerusalem whatever it wants.
This flow of
“experts” arriving with their maps and
charts in hand has increased as the
realization that a politically weak and
clueless Joe Biden will cave under even the
slightest pressure has grown. Biden has
demonstrated particular gutlessness in his
recent failure to seek a full investigation
and consequences for the Israeli Army murder
of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen
Abu Akleh, deferring to Israel’s complete
unwillingness to establish some form of
accountability and Prime Minister Lapid’s
declaration that the current level of his
army’s use of force against the Palestinians
will continue. Biden has also backed down on
rejoining the JCPOA, declaring that the
issue is now “off the table.” Secretary of
State Tony Blinken has confirmed that
decision, declaring that any new arrangement
with Iran is “unlikely.”
Preceding the
Administration’s decision to ignore American
interests in deference to Israeli concerns,
there were frequent visits to Washington by
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and
also by other senior officials who arrived
in DC to sell a product. The latest pitch
involves the Iranian threat and the
continuation of a free hand to attack
neighboring Syria but there also has been a
bizarre drive to have the US State
Department declare that the Palestinian
civic and human rights organizations that
Israel has been shutting down are “terrorist
organizations.” Even though a US
intelligence and law enforcement agency
review has declared that not to be the case,
the Biden team is predictably waffling under
Israeli pressure. This is how State
Department spokesman Ned “Pencil Neck” Price
responded to a question regarding the
Israeli claims: “Our Israeli partners have
in recent days provided us with additional
information. They provided this information
not only to the department but also to a
range of our interagency partners. We are
continuing to review this and that process
is ongoing.” Price added that he didn’t want
to “prejudge” the information. Pretty
gutless Ned, huh? Even for you,
who also excused the killing of Abu
Akleh, saying “it was a horrific tragedy,
but not one that should be prosecuted. This
was not an intentional, targeted killing.
This was the tragic result of a gunfight in
the context of an Israeli raid in the West
Bank.” Interestingly, Ned surely knew that
there was no gunfight anywhere near where
she was killed, which makes him a liar as
well as a man bereft of any morality. And I
love the fact that Ned declares we Americans
are “partners” with Israel. Junior partners,
clearly.
Israel has never
provided any actual hard intelligence to
back up its claims, though it has several
times been caught fabricating evidence.
Senator Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy
Advisor Matt Duss
tweeted after the latest round of
pressure to call the Palestinians
“terrorists” that “This isn’t about intel
sharing or security. It’s political pressure
to justify political repression. The admin
knows, as our allies do, that the
designations are false. The question is
whether [the Biden Administration is]
willing to do anything about it.”
One should consider
that what for Israel, the United States,
Russia, Ukraine and nearly everyone else
what is passed off as intelligence is
anything but. It is instead more often than
not a tightly woven argument to convince
other countries, the public and the media
that something that is supportive of one’s
policies is true and should be considered
corroborative. This is how we the people
have now come to see global events through
the prism of an official lie factory.
Another recent ploy by Israel to enable its
continued bombardment of neighboring Syria
is a tale of how Israeli intelligence has
developed information that Iran is using
Syria
to construct technically sophisticated
weapons that will be used against the
Israelis. Defense Minister Benny Gantz,
speaking in New York City last Monday,
claimed that Iran has used “10 military
facilities in Syria to produce advanced
missiles and weapons for its proxies.”
One might observe
that Gantz’s use of a map to show where the
alleged facilities are located was
convincing of nothing as it was a graphic
produced by the Israeli government, somewhat
like the dreck that is flowing out of
Ukraine at the moment. And there is a bit of
logical inconsistency in the tale in that
Iran has its own arms industry and does not
need to build weapons in Syria. There is
also the question of why is Gantz speaking
in New York? The answer is obvious. Israel
is speaking to a gullible American audience
about the alleged Iranian threat and Syrian
culpability. Predictably, nothing was said
about Israel’s recent war crime bombing of
the international airport in Aleppo.
And there’s more, as
there always is with Israel. The Israeli
government is also running full speed with
brand new claims about an alleged
secret Iranian nuclear weapons program.
The information was presented to the US and
German governments by Prime Minister Yair
Lapid with the claim that it “proves the
Iranians are cheating as we speak.” Lapid
told the Germans that the Biden
Administration had hardened its stance
against Iran vis-à-vis the JCPOA
negotiations in response to the new
information. What the new intelligence
consists of might lead to some speculation,
but Israel’s claims along those lines have
been frequent for the past twenty years and
also regularly found to be both malicious
and fabricated.
Finally, who says
that the Israelis and their rabid Jewish
supporters in the United States don’t have a
sense of humor?
A story making the rounds in the Jewish
media in the US and featured in the Jewish
News Syndicate asks the question “[Why] 21
years later, [the] US still doesn’t
recognize Iran’s role in 9/11.?” The
discussion features Caroline Glick and David
Wurmser, two noted neocons and Israel-firsters.
Wurmser is of course described as “an expert
on Middle East affairs” rather than as a
Zionist extremist while Glick, who lives in
Israel, is among the most rabid journalists
calling for “deterrence and containment” of
Iran, with the US military doing the heavy
lifting. Glick also recalls 9/11, stating
that “America’s willful blindness to Iran’s
role in global terrorism, including in the
September 11 attacks, is part of the
collective amnesia about the events of
September 11.” When I stopped laughing, I
continued reading to see if the two
honorable Zionists would also mention the
Israeli art students who were all over the
place spying on the US and the five Israeli
dancing Shlomo “movers” who clearly had
prior knowledge of what was about to take
place and were seen celebrating the sight of
the burning twin towers. And then there was
the quote by then Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu concerning 9/11 that “We
[Israelis] are benefitting from one thing,
and that is the attack on the twin towers
and Pentagon, and the American struggle in
Iraq.” So, Israel actually had a motive.
Makes you wonder… Who really did 9/11?
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 #52-1739023) that seeks a more
interests-based U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East. Website is
councilforthenationalinterest.org,
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