Anti-Zionists: The New Heretics
By Jeff Gates
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"Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it."? George
Santayana
How quickly we forget. With the Inquisition still fresh in memory,
America's Founders embraced democracy as a means to protect liberty from
the manipulations of faith. That's why facts were enshrined at the core
of self-governance grounded in the rule of law. The duplicity at the
heart of the U.S.-Israeli relationship puts that founding principle at risk.
For seven terrifying centuries, heretics were punished under canon law.
In 1633, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was condemned for "grave
suspicion of heresy" when he showed that the Sun?not the crown?was the
center of the universe despite what the King's subjects?with help from
the Church?had been induced to believe.
With the merger of church and state in the 4th Century Roman Empire,
anyone daring to dispute papal authority?by challenging with facts the
One True Faith?was condemned as both a heretic and an enemy of the
state. That practice continues in modern times.
Anti-Zionist Jews
The New Heretics are those few who challenge America's faith in its
"special relationship" with an extremist enclave granted nation state
recognition in 1948 by a Christian-Zionist president, Harry Truman.
Critics of this enclave invite condemnation as "anti-Semites," a modern
form of social excommunication.
Defenders of the Zionist Faithful were forced to become more vigilant in
monitoring this heresy after Israeli troops used U.S.-provided arms and
munitions to kill more than 1,400 Palestinians in Gaza, one-third of
them reportedly children.
That well-timed attack, planned for more than a year, was scheduled
between Christmas and the January 20th presidential inaugural. Within 48
hours of ending its assault, Israel had dispatched an army of bloggers
to counter anti-Zionist websites. By early February, the Anti-Defamation
League was bemoaning a "pandemic of anti-
." The massacre fueled outrage worldwide even as the ADL portrayed that
anger as "anti-Semitism."
By early March, Israeli policy was being described as a threat to
international peace and security, a violation of international human
rights and a crime against humanity. By associating the U.S.?its
ally?with this behavior, the U.S.-Israeli "special relationship" fueled
anti-American hatred, fanned the flames of extremism and set the stage
for more terrorism. Meanwhile a wave of modern-day excommunications
swept college campuses:
* At Hampshire College in Massachusetts, students urged the school to
divest from firms whose operations support the Israeli occupation of
Palestine. When Israeli policies were compared to apartheid-era South
Africa, Zionist Law Professor Alan Dershowitz condemned the students as
"rabidly anti-Israel" (enemies of the state).
* At Canada's Ottawa College, Students Against Israeli Apartheid were
prohibited from displaying a poster condemning Zionist policies that
president Jimmy Carter had already condemned in his 2007 book,
Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.
* At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Professor William
Robinson (Jewish) was attacked as an anti-Semite in an ADL-coordinated
silencing campaign. His heresy: sharing with students a photo-essay
critical of Israeli policy that had circulated for weeks online. [See
"Treason in Plain Sight?" and "The ADL Thought Police."]
Media-Manipulated Mindsets
Meanwhile Pope Benedict XVI attacked an Argentine cleric whose
excommunication he had lifted. As head of the Roman Catholic Church,
Benedict claimed he was unaware that Bishop Richard Williamson had
challenged key facts of the Holocaust. When condemned by the Pontiff,
Williamson apologized. The Vatican insisted he recant, a concept lifted
directly from the Inquisition.
Critics suspect this early February dispute was meant to distract
attention from the carnage in Gaza and create sympathy for Israel by
evoking memories of the Holocaust. No media outlet mentioned that this
German Pope, the first since 1523, previously led the Vatican's
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a direct descendant of the
Church's 16th century tribunal, the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the
Universal Inquisition.
haim_saban.- media magnate The Media Czar Haim Saban an
"Israeli-American " who wields influence to advance Zionist goals.
The fiercest condemnation of the bishop's reluctance to recant came not
from Rome but from Angela Merkel in Berlin who was elected German
Chancellor in 2005. No media outlet mentioned that in 2003 Zionist media
mogul Haim Saban acquired control of ProSiebenSat.1, Germany's second
largest broadcaster.
While wielding a major opinion-shaping media outlet during Merkel's
ascendancy as Germany's first female chancellor, Saban described himself
as an "Israeli-American" and "a one-issue guy and my issue is Israel."
Steve Rattner, Saban's financial adviser, explained the motive for his
media acquisition: "He thinks Germany is critical to Israel." Rattner
re-emerged as president Barack Obama's auto industry "car czar" before
resigning in mid-July due to a pension fund scandal.
To put these media-dependent developments in historical perspective
requires a grasp of how?in the Information Age?warfare is waged not on a
traditional battlefield but in the shared field of consciousness. In the
public's shared mindset?where consensus opinions are created, shaped and
sustained?facts are routinely displaced with what "the mark" can be
induced to believe.
That's why national security agencies must monitor media czars such as
Saban who is candid about using his influence to advance Zionist goals.
In June 2006, a Saban-led group acquired Univision, the largest
Spanish-language broadcaster in the U.S. With Latinos the
fastest-growing voting bloc in the U.S., Univision is critical to
Israel's ability to sustain its control of U.S. foreign policy.
Univision is the fifth largest television network in the U.S., reaching
98% of Spanish-speaking households through 62 television stations, 90
affiliate stations and more than 2,000 cable affiliates. [See "How the
Israel lobby took control of U.S. foreign policy."]
For a system of self-governance reliant on informed consent, it is
difficult to overstate the threat to democracy when policy-making is
filtered through the pro-Israeli bias of media-owning Zionists. In
addition to emerging as a reliable EU advocate for Israeli policies,
Merkel threatened to arrest Williamson for Holocaust denial on a EU-wide
warrant. A search of her phone records would doubtless uncover a
discussion with a key supporter, Haim Saban.
Zionists and the lawmakers they groom are well positioned to advance a
modern-day Inquisition?as when Bishop Williamson simultaneously faced
arrest in Europe and expulsion from Argentina, the site of a seminary he
directed and home to the largest Jewish population in Latin America.
The People In Between
In October 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates coined a generic phrase
to describe the most perilous combatants when waging what he called
"unconventional warfare." A former C.I.A. Director, he portrayed this
enemy as "the people in between." Between Galileo and the facts was
Church doctrine deployed to displace science with beliefs or, in
modern-day parlance, with consensus opinion. Between the German people
and the ballot box was Haim Saban for whom the election of Angela Merkel
was critical to Israel. Next is Univision.
To gain credence (believability) for the displacement of facts with
beliefs requires that the public's shared mental environment be fed a
steady diet of supportive impressions. Thus the agenda-advancing
assistance when "unrelated" events emerge in the same timeframe to
reinforce the intended orthodoxy. For example, following the Israeli
assault on Gaza, news reports in February included several high profile
accounts, including:
* The suspension of U.K. diplomat Rowan Laxton for allegedly making
anti-Semitic remarks while riding an exercise bike in a London gymnasium.
* Reports of police protection provided in Dubai to Andy Ram, an Israeli
tennis star, reinforcing the media-induced narrative that Israelis were
at risk.
* A White House announcement that the Obama administration would attend
a planning session for a 2009 World Conference Against Racism but may
boycott it.
These narrative-advancing impressions were reinforced by the release in
2008 of eight Holocaust-themed films, including The ReaderExtras, a
comedy series in which she played herself, an actor congratulated her on
her role in a Holocaust-related film, to which she responded: starring
Kate Winslet who received a high profile Academy Award for best actress
in a leading role. She even joked about the influence wielded by
pro-Israelis in Hollywood and popular culture. In a 2005 filming of
"I don't think we need another film about the Holocaust, do we? It's
like, how many have there been? We get it. It was grim. Move on. No, I'm
doing it because I've noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust,
[you're] guaranteed an Oscar. I've been nominated four times?never won.
The whole world is going, `Why hasn't Winslet won one?' That's it.
That's why I'm doing it. Schindler's bloody List. The Pianist. Oscars
coming out of their ass!"
Duplicity ? From Antiquity to Modernity
Framers of the U.S. Constitution viewed democracy as a form of
governance that resides not in a royal court or the papacy but in a
mindset shared by its participants. Where else could self-governance
reside? Thus the key role envisioned for media as an "in-between" domain
essential to convey the facts required for informed consent. Absent
widespread access to unbiased information, liberty would succumb to the
exploitation of those skilled at preying on ignorance and beliefs. On
that key point, the Framers were proven correct.
Thus the perils when those who mean to live free rely on media with an
undisclosed bias. It is precisely such "people in between" that
routinely displace facts with what an unsuspecting public ("the mark")
can be deceived to believe. In an Information Age, such fraudulent
behavior is not akin to treason, that agenda-advancing duplicity is
treason. Haim Saban is unusual only in conceding the pro-Israeli bias he
brings to his media operations.
This duplicitous modus operandi works the same in modernity as in
antiquity. The impact on informed consent is identical regardless
whether the media-enabled deceit is a false belief in Iraqi WMD, a
consensus faith in the infallibility of unfettered financial markets, or
a shared opinion that this Zionist enclave is a democracy and an ally
rather than what the oft-recurring fact patterns confirm: an enemy within.
Such treachery is at least as old as the use of canon law to silence
critics of Church doctrine. The only modern component of this deceitful
craft is the global reach of contemporary media and its capacity to
manipulate minds and emotions on an unprecedented scale.
A 1578 handbook for inquisitors explained that its harsh penalties were
"for the public good in order that others may become terrified and
weaned away from the evils they would commit." The New Heretics
chronicle the costs of the U.S.-Israel relationship in blood, treasure,
insecurity and credibility. Those who yearn for freedom from such
manipulation can no longer afford America's entangled alliance with an
extremist enclave notorious for waging war by way of deception.
Jeff Gates: A widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker,
educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders
worldwide, Jeff Gates' latest book is Guilt By Association?How Deception
and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008). His previous books include
Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The
Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. For
two decades, an adviser to policy-makers worldwide. Counsel to the U.S.
Senate Finance Committee (1980-87) .
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