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Israeli Mossad: Masterminds of Global Terrorism?:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2003/07/11/israeli-mossad-masterminds-of-global-terrorism.php

Lekh teda · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/cel.htm

Lekh teda · Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2003 12:41 pm Post subject:

http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/freedom.htm

abu afak · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 12:03 am Post subject:

AP “Israeli spying” Story an “Urban Myth” According to Justice Department

The Associated Press on March 5th recycled a hoax story (U.S. Deports Israelis Amid Warnings of Espionage Activities) charging that a massive Israeli spy ring has been operating in America, and that “authorities have arrested and deported dozens of young Israelis since early last year who represented themselves as art students in efforts to gain access to sensitive federal office buildings ...” An even more fanciful version of this story, involving, besides art students, alleged Israeli telephone tapping and compromise of the 9/11 investigation, was reported in December on Fox News by Carl Cameron.

All these stories are bogus – Cameron’s was refuted in earlier CAMERA Updates (Fox News Recycles Bogus anti-Israel Story and Fox News’s Carl Cameron Recycles More Rubbish) and in a Newsmax article (When in Doubt, Blame Israel).

Now, in a brief but damning exposé, the Washington Post has revealed that the Drug Enforcement Administration report that had been cited as proof of Israeli student spying is, in fact, no report at all. According to the Post, it is instead an unofficial draft by a disgruntled DEA official: “allegations ... of a massive U.S. probe of Israeli spies appear to have been circulated by a single employee of the Drug Enforcement Administration who is angry that his theories have not gained currency ... [and who] appears to be leaking a memo that he himself wrote.”

Affirming that “a wide array of U.S. officials yesterday dismissed reports that the U.S. government had broken up an Israeli espionage ring ...”, the Post quoted Justice Department official Susan Dryden, who characterized the allegations as “an urban myth that has been circulating for months...” and Immigration official Russell Bergeron, who characterized the arrests of young Israelis as “routine, normal cases ... I have no knowledge of any espionage-related issues with these people.”

Despite the definitive discrediting of these Israeli spying allegations, one can be certain that the bogus stories will continue to circulate on the internet and to be cited by anti-Israel propagandists.

The full Washington Post article is reprinted below:

Reports of Israeli Spy Ring Dismissed
By John Mintz and Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, March 6, 2002; Page A06

A wide array of U.S. officials yesterday dismissed reports that the U.S. government had broken up an Israeli espionage ring that consisted of young Israelis attempting to penetrate U.S. agencies by selling artwork in federal buildings.

"This seems to be an urban myth that has been circulating for months," said Justice Department spokeswoman Susan Dryden. "The department has no information at this time to substantiate these widespread reports about Israeli art students involved in espionage."

Several officials said the allegations – first reported by a French online publication and later by other news organizations – of a massive U.S. probe of Israeli spies appear to have been circulated by a single employee of the Drug Enforcement Administration who is angry that his theories have not gained currency.

This week, the Paris-based "Intelligence Online" service quoted from what it said was a 61-page report by a federal task force, led by the DEA, which said that 120 Israelis posing as art students had been deported as part of an espionage crackdown and that the spy scandal had been hushed up.

But two law enforcement officials said the disgruntled DEA agent, who disagreed with the conclusion of FBI and CIA intelligence experts that no spying was taking place, appears to be leaking a memo that he himself wrote.

Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman Russell Bergeron said several dozen Israelis in their twenties were arrested and deported in the first nine months of 2001 for being employed without proper INS work papers. A law enforcement official said some were investigated for possible fraud charges.

"These were routine, normal cases," Bergeron said. "I have no knowledge of any espionage-related issues with these people."

DEA spokesman Thomas Hinojosa said that multiple reports of suspicious activity on the part of young Israelis had come into the agency's Washington headquarters from agents in the field. The reports were summarized in a draft memo last year, but Hinojosa said he did not have a copy and could not vouch for the accuracy of media reports describing its contents.

http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=6&x_article=147

Copyright © 2002 by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. All rights reserved. This column may be reprinted without prior permission.

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nancygoldbergny · Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2003 7:42 am Post subject: ISRAEL & 911 - STOP ISRAEL

http://antiwar.com/israelfiles2.html

http://www.nowarforisrael.com

http://www.boycottisraeligoods.org

http://www.duke.org

Alpha

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/middle-east-and-asia/2003/09/28/israeli-company-says-workers-warned-2-hours-before-911.php

Subj: Re: Israeli Company Says Workers Warned 2 Hours Before 911
Date: 9/27/03 10:50:34 AM Pacific Daylight Time

To: RePorterNoteBook

The reason I asked for you to resend (the article which you did below along with your commentary which is right on) is because this Zionist (Jew) Lally Weymouth was on C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" yesterday (as you can watch by clicking on the first link after arriving at the following URL) spinning and truth distorting about the Israelis giving warning to the employees at the World Trade Center before the 9/11 attack as I would like to send her your write-up (to her lweymouth@newsweek.com address) as she is the daughter of Washington Post publisher Katherine Graham (note how the Alexander Cockburn article referenced below after your write-up mentioned that the Washington Post is owned by a Jewish family as Lally Weymouth also mentioned that her brother is involved with the publishing of the Washington Post-her Zionist bias for Israel in this "Washington Journal" segment is incredible for a publication like Newsweek which she is the diplomatic correspondent for as Newsweek has an association with the Washington Post):

http://www.c-span.org/search/basic.asp?ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&BasicQueryText=weymouth&image1.x=39&image1.y=10

Check this excellent format via www.whatreallyhappened.com:

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/spyring.html

Look at how JINSA suppressed the story (as JINSA Zionist extremists Richard Perle, Doug Feith, John Bolton, and Paul Wolfowitz who used to be even if he claims not to be now, wanted regime change in Iraq and beyond, so did they have anything to do with 9/11 along with their Likud cronies in Israel?):

http://www.rense.com/general18/jinsa.htm

In a message dated 9/27/03 9:22:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, RePorterNoteBook writes:

Israeli Company Says Workers Warned 2 Hours Before 911

RePortersNoteBook memo: This story showed up a couple of years ago. It is interesting that it's back. Are they trying to explain it away? After reading all the comments on the Internet.

Also the first two arrests on 911 were Israeli nationals. About a week later on the David Letterman Show, Dan Rather reported his disgust of "Middle Easterners" jumping on top of a truck from the George Washington Bridge in celebration. He knew they were Israelis who were arrested on the spot. The first group were a bunch of Israelis on a terrace a few blocks form the World Trade Center, video taping the falling of the twin towers and laughing about it. This bizarre behavior prompted a resident in an adjacent building to call the police. When these arrests happened CBS and the rest of the mainstream press did report it accurately, by pointing out they were Israeli nationals. Now the new vernacular is "Middle Easterners." I wonder why?

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Israel's Odigo Says Workers Warned 2 Hours Before 911

Yuval Dror
Ha'aretz Daily
9-21-3

Odigo, the instant messaging service, says that two of its workers received
messages two hours before the Twin Towers attack on September 11 predicting
the attack would happen, and the company has been cooperating with Israeli
and American law enforcement, including the FBI, in trying to find the
original sender of the message predicting the attack.

Micha Macover, CEO of the company, said the two workers received the
messages and immediately after the terror attack informed the company's
management, which immediately contacted the Israeli security services,
which brought in the FBI.

"I have no idea why the message was sent to these two workers, who don't
know the sender. It may just have been someone who was joking and turned
out they accidentally got it right. And I don't know if our information was
useful in any of the arrests the FBI has made," said Macover. Odigo is a
U.S.-based company whose headquarters are in New York, with offices in
Herzliya.

As an instant messaging service, Odigo users are not limited to sending
messages only to people on their "buddy" list, as is the case with ICQ, the
other well-known Israeli instant messaging application.

Odigo usually zealously protects the privacy of its registered users, said
Macover, but in this case the company took the initiative to provide the
law enforcement services with the originating Internet Presence address of
the message, so the FBI could track down the Internet Service Provider, and
the actual sender of the original message.
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(1) My Life as an “Anti-Semite” by Alexander Cockburn
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(1) My Life as an “Anti-Semite” by Alexander Cockburn

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 19:18:42 EDT From: RePorterNoteBook@aol. com

My Life as an “Anti-Semite”

Alexander Cockburn

http://www.counterpunch.com

{this item appears to have been scanned in. In places, the text jumps
from frame to frame. But the item is not available except by
subscription - one must be grateful even for this version}

Right in the wake of then-House majority leader Dick Armey’s ex plicit
call in mid-2002 for two million Palestinians to be booted out of the
West Bank, and East Jerusalem and Gaza as well, came yet one more of
those earnest articles accusing a vague entity called “the left “ of
anti--Semitism. This one was in Salon, by a man called Dennis Fox,
identified as an associate professor of legal studies and psychology at
the University of Illinois. Salon titled Fox’s contribution, ”The shame
of the pro-Palestinian left:Ignorance and anti-Semitism are undercutting
the moral legitimacy of Israel’s critics “.

Over the past 20 years I’ve learned there’s a quick way of figuring out
just how badly Israel is behaving. You see a brisk uptick in the number
of articles here accusing the left of anti-Semitism. These articles
adopt varying strategies, but the most obvious one is that nowhere in
them is there much sign that the author feels it necessary to concede
that Israel is a racist state whose obvious and provable intent is to
continue to steal Palestinian land, oppress Palestinians, herd them into
smaller and smaller enclaves and ultimately drive them into the sea or
Lebanon or Jordan or Dearborn or the space in Dallas-Fort Worth airport
between the third and fourth runways (the bold Armey plan) .

Eschewing these realities, the author feels entirely at liberty to
stigmatize the left as stained with anti-Semitism. The real problem is
most Jews here just don’t like hearing bad things said about Israel,
same way they don’t like reading articles about the Jewish lobby here.
Mention the lobby and someone will rush into print saying “Cockburn toys
with the old anti-Semitic canard that the Jews control the press “.

Back in the 1970s when muteness on the topic of how Israel was treating
Palestinians was near total in the United States, I’d get the
“anti-Semite “ slur hurled at me once in a while for writing about such
nono stuff as Begin’s fascist roots in Betar, or the torture of
Palestinians by Israel’s security forces. I minded then, as I mind now,
but overuse has drained the term of much clout. The other day I even got
accused of anti-Semitism for mentioning that the Jews founded Hollywood,
which they most certainly did, as Neil Gabler recently recounted in a
very funny, pro-Semitic book.

The encouraging fact is that despite the best efforts of the Southern
Poverty Law Center to prove that the Nazis are about to march down Main
Street, there’s remarkably little anti-Semitism in the US, and none that
I’ve ever been able to detect on the American left, which is of course
amply stocked with Jews. It’s comical to find people like Fox trudging
all the way back to the 60s to dig up the necessary anti-Semitic jibe.

Being called an anti-Semite these days isn’t what it once was. The term
has been relentlessly cheapened. As Michael Neumann writes in his piece
in The Politics of Anti-Semitism, anti-Semitism is “action or propaganda
designed to hurt Jews not because of anything they could avoid doing but
because they are what they are “.

But nowadays people don’t flourish the charge of anti-Semitism because
they’ve heard someone quoting the Protocols or saying that the Jews kill
Christian babies.

“The encouraging fact is that despite the best efforts of the Southern
Poverty Law Center to prove that the Nazis are about to march down Main
Street, there’s remark-ably little anti-Semitism in the US. ”

”Anti-Semitism “ has become like a flit gun to squirt at every
inconvenient fly on the window pane. I saw 2002 as a year when the
Israel lobby was worrying that the grip of the gag rule might be
loosening a trifle. Now, the original gag rule was adopted by the US
House of Representatives in 1836, resolving that “all petitions,
memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or
to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery, shall, without
being either printed or referred, be laid on the table, and that no
further action whatever shall be had thereon “.

The parallel gag rule these days concerns Israel, a collective agreement
by our legislators and the larger political community that any
discussion of the conduct of any government of Israel, of the
relationship of the United States to Israel, of the power of the
pro-Israel lobby in the United States, be kept as near to zero as is
possible.

In the 1970s and early 1980s when I began writing on these issues, the
gag rule was riding high, amid general agreement in respectable circles
that Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was on the money when she
declared flatly that there was no such thing as a Palestinian. Back then
Joan Peters got an enthusiastic reception for her book From Time
Immemorial, which advanced the mad thesis that Palestinians in Israel
were all relatively recent immigrants from adjacent Arab countries.

Things have improved since then, though not for the Palestinians, who in
those days had UN Resolution 242 to comfort them, instead of the
mini-Bantustans promised them in George Bush’s “road map “. Here in the
US there’s general agreement that there are people who can be fairly
called Palestinians, though beyond this concession there’s no agreement
about anything.

By 2002 it was getting harder and harder to foster the impression that
General Sharon was a man of peace, imbued with a constructive vision of
communal relations in the Holy Land. As the dust rose above demolished
homes on the West Bank and the enduring terror of the occupation
provoked retaliatory terror in the form of the ghastly, futile suicide
bombings, the predictable warnings against antiSemitism began to appear
in the liberal and left press. Then, it’s clear, the Israel lobby
decided to enforce the gag rule, by working successfully for the ouster
of two members of Congress who had defied it.

A torrent of money from out of state American Jewish organizations
smashed Earl Hilliard, the first elected black congressperson in Alabama
since Reconstruction, and you could have heard a mouse cough. Hilliard
had made the fatal error of calling for some measure of evenhandedness
in the Middle East. So he was targeted by AIPAC and the others. Down he
went, defeated in the Democratic primary by Artur Davis, a black lawyer
who obediently sang for his supper on the topic of Israel.

Then it was Cynthia McKinney’s turn.

An excellent liberal black congresswoman, McKinney hadn’t been cowed by
the Israel-right-or-wrong lobby and had called for a proper debate on
the Middle East, and for a real examination of the lead-up to 9/11. The
sky duly fell in on her. American Jewish money showered upon her
opponent, Denise Majette. Buckets of sewage were poured over McKinney’s
head in the Washington Post, and Cynthia Tucker, the black editorial
inhouse pundit at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, declared McKinney to
be “a fringe lunatic, well outside the congressional mainstream “.

Tucker asserted McKinney is “incapable of aiding any cause “ and had the
final pious effrontery to declare:”The plight of the Palestinians and
their desire for an independent homeland is a serious cause deserving of
thoughtful, mainstream advocates. Hilliard wasn’t one and neither is
McKinney. ”

McKinney’s opponent in the primary, Denise Majette, was a former judge
best known for her ardent support of Alan Keyes, a black aspirant for
the Republican nomination whose prime plank was opposition to abortion.
Normally a foe of choice would have brought the women’s movement racing
to the rescue. Not in McKinney’s case.

McKinney saw what happened to Hilliard, and that American Jewish money
was pumping up Majette’s challenge. So she went to Arab-American groups
to try to raise money to fight back. This allowed Tom Edsall to attack
her in the Washington Post as being in receipt of money from pro-terror
Muslims. Lots of nasty looking Arab/Muslim names suddenly filled
Edsall’s stories.

Down went McKinney.

Then it was Rep. James Moran’s turn, in hot water over his head for
having remarked in a March 3 town hall session last spring with his
constituents that, as quoted in the Virginia-area newspapers, ”if it
were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war
with Iraq, we would not be doing this “.

The House and Senate Democratic leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle,
hastened to denounce Moran’s remarks, and six Jewish House Democrats
took it upon themselves to advise Moran not to run for re-election in
2004. Should he do so, ”we cannot and will not support his candidacy “.
Moran was forced to give up on his positions as Democratic Party leader
in the mid-Atlantic region. The game plan is clearly what it was with
Hilliard of Alabama and McKinney of Georgia: breathe a word about
justice for Palestinians, and you’ll lose your seat. Moran is running
for reelection. And the decision will belong to the voters.

One reason Moran got attacked so hysterically is that Jewish nerves were
raw on precisely the point he raised, the role of Jewish opinion here in
pressing for the attack on Iraq. It was one thing for Pat Buchanan to
raise the issue of dual loyalty in the American Conservative, but when
Tim Russert started to press Richard Perle to assure the American
people, or at least the audience of “Meet the Press “ ((by no means the
same) , that he was advocating an attack on Iraq in the interests of the
United States, not some other power, we knew the gag rule had most
definitely slackened, if only for a moment. Suddenly researchers from
“Nightline “ ((one called me on the matter) and other mainstream outfits
rushed for copies of “ A Clean Break:A New Strategy for Securing the
Realm “, the 1996 briefing plan for Benjamin Netanyahu prepared by such
pro-Israel hawks as Perle, Douglas Feith and others high in the Bush
Administration, advocating attack on Iraq. It was now okay for reporters
(Robert Kaiser in the Washington Post, for example) to describe the
Jewish neocon lobby for war, starting with Perle, Wolfowitz and Feith,
and heading on down the list to Elliott Abrams, running the
Israel-Palestine portfolio at the National Security Council.

The op-ed pages duly began to vibrate with predictable charges from
people like Lawrence Kaplan of The New Republic that all this talk of
dual loyalty and Israel’s agenda was nothing but rank anti-Semitism. To
his credit, Michael Kinsley, editor of Slate, ran a piece saying that
uproar raised by American Jews was probably evidence that Moran was on
the money, and that when it came to testimonies to the power of the
Jewish lobby, none was more publicly boastful on the matter than AIPAC.

Moran himself was plummeting, whirling in the familiar downward spiral
of contrition and self-abasement. But did his remark about “strong
support “ for attack on Iraq in the Jewish community have any basis in
reality? What about American Jewish organizations? In the fall of 2002
the Forward reported that some Jewish groups, such as the Workmen’s
Circle, were angry at the way the Conference of Presidents of Major
American Jewish Organizations had been hijacked by the prowar faction
and by its mad-dog president, Mort Zuckerman, who was openly howling for
war in his own publication, U. S. News &World Report, as “the only
appropriate and acceptable course “. In mid-September 2002, Michelle
Goldberg began a piece on this topic in Salon with “Once a pillar of the
American peace movement, mainstream Jewish groups and leaders are now
among the strongest supporters of an American invasion of Baghdad. ” On
October 11 the Forward reported that a draft resolution of the 52-member
Conference supported “measures necessary to ensure Iraqi disarmament “.
Jack Rosen, president of the American Jewish Congress, was quoted by the
Forward as saying “the final statement ought to be crystal clear in
backing the President having to take unilateral action if necessary
against Iraq to eliminate weapons of mass destruction “.

Abe Foxman of the ADL called the resolution “a consensus document “, and
the Forward cited him as saying he would support a position that backs
the President in “whatever he decides he needs to do “.

Of course there were Jewish groups, not least in the big peace
coalitions, that were strongly and effectively antiwar. In January the
American Jewish Committee released a poll claiming that a majority of
American Jews - 59 percent - approved of US military action against Iraq
to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

Thirty-six percent opposed such action. These findings, the AJC also
emphasized, were comparable to the attitudes of the general American
population. It’s at the elite level that the Jewish voices one heard
were overwhelmingly pressing for war. Back once more to Moran. What was
the precise nature of his supposedly “antiIsrael “ record that the
rabbis in his district were now seeking to avenge? In a speech to the
American Muslim Council, Moran, who has traveled extensively in the
Midor, given the broader Christian evangelical alliance with Sharon, in
the Republican Party either.

It’s supposedly the third rail in political and cultural life here even
to have a discussion of Zionist influence in the media. Obviously, Jews
don’t “control “ the media. All the same, Jewish families are
proprietors of some of the most powerful newspapers in the country. Is
it likely that this has no bearing on their coverage of the Middle East?
So, it’s reasonable to point out that Jewish families control the New
York Times and Washington Post and to put up for discussion whether this
affects the editorial stance of both newspapers. But it is also true
that the most rabid of all papers in its Israel-right-or-wrong stance is
the Wall Street Journal, which is not Jewish owned and whose most
influential editor was Robert Bartley, a midwestern Christian.

The economic and political commentator (and former denizen of The Wall
Street Journal editorial page) Jude Wanniski remarked in his web
newsletter

It’s supposedly the third rail in political and cultural life here even
to have a discussion of Zionist influence in the media.

Middle East, said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was coming to
Washington “probably seeking a warrant from President Bush to kill at
will with weapons we have paid for “. True enough. In a 1996 Jerusalem
Post op-ed, Moran described an Israeli border policeman beating an
unarmed Palestinian. ”The unarmed youth was held on the ground while
police officers armed with guns and clubs climbed over each other’s
backs to land their own blows on his body “, Moran wrote. ”Most of the
witnesses to this scene said it happens all the time. When Israeli
police and Palestinians are concerned there is no justice or fair play.
Might makes right. I witnessed the police laughing and making
self-congratulatory gestures after the beating. ”

How encouraging to know that an elected US representative had the sinew
to describe such a scene, sinew lacking in most US reporters deployed in
Israel. But, alas, such indignation, in Nancy Pelosi’s words about
Moran’s remarks in Virginia, has “no place in the Democratic Party “ -
at the time of the Billy Graham uproar that even if Jews don’t control
the media overall, it is certainly true to say that they control
discussion of Israel in the media here.

Some time in the spring of 2002 I wrote an item for a column I was doing
at the time for New York Press. Later, the column went up on our
CounterPunch website (counterpunch. org) , which has around 50, 000
regular visitors a day.

“There are a number of stories sloshing around the news now “, I wrote,
”that have raised discussion of Israel and of the posture of American
Jews to an acrid level. The purveyor of anthrax may have been a former
government scientist of Jewish ethnic extraction with a record of
baiting a colleague of Arab origins, acting with the intent to blame the
anthrax on Muslim terrorists.

“Rocketing around the web and spilling into the press are many stories
about Israeli spies in America at the time of 9/ 11. On various accounts
of unknown reliability, they were trailing Atta and his as-

“As the dust rose above demolished homes on the West Bank and the
enduring terror of the occupation provoked retalia-tory terror in the
form of the ghastly, futile suicide bombings, the predictable warnings
against anti-Semitism began to ap-pear in the liberal and left press. ”

Associates, knew what was going to happen but did nothing or were simply
spying on US facilities. Some posing as art students have been expelled,
according to the AP. Finally, there’s Sharon’s bloody repression of the
Palestinians, and Israel’s apparently powerful role in Bush’s foreign
policy. ” You’d have thought I’d urged America’s youth to immerse
themselves in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. People wrote in
demanding that I acknowledge the Israeli spy ring story had been
“discredited “. I declined to do so, citing some very good columns by
Justin Raimondo on the antiwar. com site, also the work of reporter John
Sugg of the Atlanta-based Creative Loafing alternative weekly chain, and
Jane’s Intelligence Digest. I could also have mentioned Carl Cameron’s
four-part series on Fox News, altogether the single most comprehensive
overview of Israel’s secret war, and Le Monde, as well as Insight, the
magazine supplement of the Washington Times.

Jane’s put it well, remarking in a March 15 dispatch:”It is rather
strange that the US media, with one notable exception, seems to be
ignoring what may well prove to be the most explosive story since the
September 11 attacks - the alleged breakup of a major Israeli espionage
operation in the United States which aimed to infiltrate both the
Justice and Defence departments and which may also have been tracking
Al-Qaeda terrorists before the aircraft hijackings took place. ”

At the time I was driving a 1985 Ford Escort (diesel wagon) across the
country from South Carolina. As I headed off down the road from
Greenville, SC, towards Birmingham, AL, my cellphone rang. It was a
fellow from The New Republic called Frank something or other, who said
he wanted to quiz me about some recent remarks of mine about the
Internet being awash with anti-Israel material. Amid the crackle and
hiss of the ether and the roar of the interstate it was hard to hear
Frank through the no-hands speaker on my dashboard, but eventually I
caught his purpose and asked him flatly, in more-or-less these words,
”Frank, is your purpose to accuse me of disseminating anti-Semitic
libels, under the guise of relaying rumors on the Internet? ” Frank
allowed jovially as how that was indeed his intent.

I told him that in my opinion the stories about Israeli spies, as
categorized in a US inter-agency report, as discussed on Fox News, by
the French site Intelligence Online and various other news sources
including the British Jane’s, were legitimate topics of comment, as were
the stories about anthrax dissemination involving an anti-Arab
researcher.

We went back and forth on such issues until the static got too bad.
Later I retrieved a magnanimous message from Frank Foer, as his name
turned out to be, saying that he was conferring with associates about
whether to deal with me in The New Republic. So I assumed that at some
point Cockburn would be stigmatized yet again as the purveyor of
anti-Semitic filth.

Eventually Foer’s piece, for the online New Republic, tumbled into my
inbox, where I read it after enjoying some spectacular barbecue at
Dreamland in Birmingham, AL. After a pro forma linking of my name with
that of Louis Farrakhan, Foer conceded that I had in the past denounced
expressions of anti-Semitism but that was now moot given the fact that
in an allusion to Gabler’s book on Hollywood I had pointed out that Sam
Goldwyn, Bill Fox and another mogul had all grown up within 50 miles of
each other in Galicia. In Foer’s view this was not the mere relaying by
me of an interesting fact but a culpable demonstration of anti-Semitism.

Then he got down to business, focussing on the paragraph quoted above,
where I’d brought up the Israeli spy story and the anthrax conundrum.
”To be fair “, he wrote, ”Cockburn doesn’t exactly endorse these
theories â*|. Indeed, when I reached Cockburn to ask him about these
conspiracies, he insisted he was just reporting what was already in
circulation. â*˜I don’t think I said they are true. I don’t know there’s
enough exterior evidence to determine whether they are true or not. ’”

“But, of course, ” Foer crowed, , ”that last sentence is the giveaway.
There most certainly is enough exterior evidence to determine whether
the stories are true or not. The answer is that they are not. They are
wild rumors circulating, if at all, in some of the least credible
corners of the Internet. No respectable media outlet has given these
stories credence. Merely by stating that these ideas are in circulation,
merely by saying it’s impossible to judge their veracity, Cockburn
confers these ideas with legitimacy. ” Case proved. . But â*| “some of
the least credible corners of the Internet “? No one from The New
Republic likes antiwar. com and Justin Raimondo, and maybe he was
throwing in Fox News but surely not Le Monde and Jane’s Intelligence
Digest.

“Consider, for example, ” Foer went on, ”the story about the mad Jew
scientists out to ruin the Muslims. I searched for it on the Lexis-Nexis
news database

[Assaad’s ] honor we created this beast;; it represents life lower than
yeast. ’ The camel, it notes, each week will be given â*˜to who did the
least’. The poem also doubles as an ode to each of the participants who
adorned the camel, who number at least six and referred to themselves as
â*˜the camel club’. Two - Dr. Philip M. Zack and Dr. Marian K. Rippy -
voluntarily left Fort Detrick soon after Assaad brought the poem to the
attention of supervisors. ”

Foer also missed the complete account on the anthrax investigation
posted on Salon. com, in a story dated January 26, 2002. Not to mention
the Philadelphia Inquirer story, dated FebCounterPunch. . . . It’s been
our experience that we’ve had differences with our writers. It’s a
strength of the magazine that it accommodates a range of perspectives.
’” Isn’t it great to have an editor whose first instinct is to stand up
for a 20-year veteran of The Nation’s columns! “There are some
perspectives that shouldn’t be accommodated “, Foer concluded.

So you should know that these days it’s clear evidence of anti-Semitism
to have written an item that pisses off someone at The New Republic,
with which I have had combative relations for the past 30 years, as
would anyone with a moral fiber in his body. Could anyone sink lower
than Foer? Detrick scientist, Dr. Philip Zack, who was videotaped going
into the lab at night after hours, and who was at the center of the
anti-Assaad clique.

According to the Courant, ”Assaad said he was working on the Saturday
before Easter 1991, just after the Persian Gulf War had ended, when he
discovered an eight-page poem in his mailbox.

The poem, which became a court exhibit, is 47 stanzas - 235 lines in
all, many of them lewd, mocking Assaad. The poem also refers to another
creation of the scientists who wrote it - a rubber camel outfitted with
all manner of sexually explicit appendages. The poem reads:â*˜In but
came up with nothing - not one single mention of the story in a
mainstream news outlet. ” Foer hadn’t tried very hard. A quick
punch-through on Google brought four rather lengthy and detailed stories
in the “mainstream “ media on the harassment of Dr. Ayaad Assaad, a
former Fort Detrick scientist, who was driven out of his job by people
whose hatred of Arabs seemed to verge on the psychotic. The Hartford
Courant ran two long stories:one report on how many samples of deadly
anthrax and other bioterror toxins had gone missing from the Army’s Fort
Detrick facility, and another on the campaign against Dr. Assaad - the
connecting tissue being another Fort

The game plan is clearly what it was with Hilliard of Alabama and
McKinney of Georgia: breathe a word about justice for Palestinians, and
you’ll lose your seat.

February 28, 2002. He also blithely ignored major media coverage of the
Israeli spy story. Why should he dally with fact when he was hurrying to
issue judgement:”Cockburn’s column goes way beyond legitimate criticism
of Israel. It’s akin to the rantings of pitchfork Pat Buchanan, whose
anti-Semitism The Nation has condemned. So you would expect the magazine
to take a tough stance on the anti-Semitism in its own backyard. But
when I asked The Nation’s editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, about Cockburn,
she could only lamely distance herself from the piece:â*˜This didn’t
appear in The Nation. I don’t read Yes!Eric Alterman adduced as a proof
of my anti-Semitism the fact that I had been rude, more than once, about
Irving Howe. Puts me up there with the Cossacks, doesn’t it?

You’ll find this piece along with essays by Jeffrey St Clair, Edward
Said, Michael Neumann, Jeffrey Blankfort, Yury Avnery and others, in The
Politics of AntiSemitism, published by CounterPunch/ AK Press October l.
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