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The recent arrest of Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin on charges that he handed over vital U.S. secrets to Israel recalls the wave of stories about Israeli spies in the U.S. in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Weeks after the attacks, the Washington Post ran a story saying that at least 60 Israelis had been rounded up and deported back to Israel — under the same legal rubric that permitted the round-up of suspected Islamists. A year later, the London Telegraph reported:
“Up to 200 young Israelis, some of them former members of military intelligence units, have been arrested in America in the past year, a leaked government report disclosed yesterday.”
What were the Israelis up to? In December 2001, the Fox News network ran a four-part series that started out with this jaw-dropping statement:
“There is no indication that the Israelis were involved in the 9-11 attacks, but investigators suspect that they Israelis may have gathered intelligence about the attacks in advance, and not shared it. A highly placed investigator said there are ‘tie-ins.’ But when asked for details, he flatly refused to describe them, saying, ‘evidence linking these Israelis to 9-11 is classified. I cannot tell you about evidence that has been gathered. It’s classified information.'”
Writing in The Scotsman, Neil Mackay told the shocking story of how a group of Israeli agents were apprehended hours after 9/11:
“There was ruin and terror in Manhattan, but, over the Hudson River in New Jersey, a handful of men were dancing. As the World Trade Centre burned and crumpled, the five men celebrated and filmed the worst atrocity ever committed on American soil as it played out before their eyes.
“Who do you think they were? Palestinians? Saudis? Iraqis, even? Al-Qaeda, surely? Wrong on all counts. They were Israelis – and at least two of them were Israeli intelligence agents, working for Mossad, the equivalent of MI6 or the CIA.
“Their discovery and arrest that morning is a matter of indisputable fact. To those who have investigated just what the Israelis were up to that day, the case raises one dreadful possibility: that Israeli intelligence had been shadowing the al-Qaeda hijackers as they moved from the Middle East through Europe and into America where they trained as pilots and prepared to suicide-bomb the symbolic heart of the United States. And the motive? To bind America in blood and mutual suffering to the Israeli cause.”
The young Israelis worked for a moving company whose owner soon fled to Israel (just like Naor Gilon, the Israeli embassy official who met with Franklin, is hightailing it back home). Found in their possession was a large amount of cash, multiple passports, knives such as those used by the 9/11 hijackers, and “fresh pictures of the men standing with the smouldering wreckage of the Twin Towers in the background. One image showed a hand flicking a lighter in front of the devastated buildings, like a fan at a pop concert.”
An Israeli connection to 9/11? If their intelligence services were watching the hijackers and didn’t tell us, then their activities amount to complicity.
Go here to read the dozens of “mainstream” news stories about Israel’s vast spy operation in the U.S. — and its connection to the events surrounding the worst terrorist attack in American history.
A recent news story on the Franklin spy scandal reports that the current investigation into Israeli covert activities in the U.S. was begun “since at least 2002” — coinciding with the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Go here to purchase the book that details of Israel’s cloak-and-dagger shenanigans on American soil — The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection.
Under Kennedy’s watch, a Liberal Democrat party that positions itself as the lone defenders of English civil liberty and peace, while unabashedly embracing a market economy, has scored phenomenal by-election upsets, snatching away safe Labour-held seats once thought to be impregnable. He sounds like a sincere convert. In a Guardian profile, Kennedy summons language to explicate his party’s core values that would stir any Classical Liberal heart: “The first guiding principle is a mindset, I think—a gut philosophical instinct—to see society in terms of the individual, first and foremost, rather than the interests of the state.”
Hear, hear!
Michelle Malkin has not one but two posts on the stunning silence emanating from the right wing of the “blogosphere” when it comes to the Larry Franklin-AIPAC spy caper. She writes:
“So far, the commentariat and blogosphere (both left and right sides) have been curiously quiet about the news that Pentagon official Larry Franklin was arrested for improperly passing classified information to AIPAC.”
She then goes on to cite “colleagues I respect and admire” who are “downplaying” Franklin’s treason. Why, even the New York Sun is “continuing to pooh-pooh” Franklin’s alleged actions.
I have news for Malkin: the New York Sun is to Israel what the Daily Worker was to the old Soviet Union.
Is that really such a big secret?
If you follow the links in Malkin’s post, you discover that those “colleagues” she “respects and admire” are none other than two of the biggest apologists for Israel on the American Right: David Frum and Joel Mowbray.
Malkin finds “the apologists and apathetic” to be “troubling,” but she ought to wake up and smell the friggin’ coffee — the so-called “conservative” movement has been functioning as Israel’s amen corner in the U.S. for quite some time now, and that she finds this troubling shows that she’s just not paying attention.
When it comes to the Franklin affair, we hear not a peep out of the usually loquacious Instapundit; the cat seems to have got Roger L. Simon‘s tongue; someone pulled the plug on Powerline, David Horowitz & Co. have nothing to say, and even Charles Johnson, the failed musician who has now taken up hate-mongering over at “Little Green Footballs” — usually barking at the moon at the least provocation — is maintaining an embarrassed silence about a spy who sold out America for Israel.
What gets me is that these are the same people who have the nerve to bray about “patriotism” — and habitually condemn others as less than loyal to this country. But only when it suits their political agenda.
Quiere Ud. que cubramos más las noticias de latinoamérica? Mándeme los links que tiene sobre el imperialismo (americano o otro), intervencionismo, guerra y guerrilla…y también unas otras cosas que cree que les interesen los hablantes de inglés. Claro que estoy buscando links en español que no pueda encontrar en inglés en otro lugar. Los resumaré en el inglés y los fijaré aquí en Antiwar.com una vez por semana — si recibo bastante noticias.
Gracias!
Antiwar.com contributor Aaron Glantz has a new book, How America Lost Iraq, hitting the shelves shortly.
You can catch Aaron and his book at the following locations:
Los Angeles: Friday May 20, 7:00pm, Skylight Books, 1818 N. Vermont St
San Francisco: Wednesday May 25, 7:30pm, Books Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street
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