The Israelis control the policy in the Congress and the Senate. – Senator J. William Fullbright, 10/07/1973
All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. – Israeli general Yitzhak Brick
Brick’s comments fly in the face of narratives fed to the press by the Biden administration saying that the White House is frustrated by Israel’s complete disregard for human life in Gaza but finds itself powerless to influence its ally’s actions in a more humanitarian direction…This is of course a load of bullshit. The Biden administration could end all this with one phone call, in the same way it commanded Israel to restore Gaza’s communications in October after the IDF cut the enclave off from the world, and in the same way Israel’s 1982 assault on Lebanon was halted with a phone call from President Reagan…The ongoing massacre in Gaza is happening because the US empire wants it to happen.
Who’s in charge here? Can geopolitical analysis fully explain the homicidal violence sometimes perpetrated upon their own servicemen or the gleeful sadism with which American leaders have so consistently supported and protected Israel? 
Perhaps – bear with me – conspiracy theory may help, explicated by some scenes from The Godfather Part Two:
Michael Corleone has moved to Nevada, where Senator Geary, expecting the usual bribes, insults Italians. Michael arranges for Geary to be implicated in the murder of a prostitute and fixes the problem in return for his political support. Geary then staunchly defends the Corleone family before a Senate committee on organized crime.
The movie succeeds in part because of the profound archetypal family themes – but also because we all suspect that the political system actually works this way.
BTW, one of the film’s major characters is the gangster Hyman Roth (based on the real-life Meyer Lansky). After being refused asylum and entry to – wait for it – Israel (as was Lansky) on tax evasion charges, Roth returns to the U.S., where a Corleone gunman promptly murders him. You can’t make this shit up.
And this is where Jeffrey Epstein comes in, he of the “suicide” that absolutely no one believes happened.
Former Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe, claims in Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales that Epstein, his girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell and her father, publisher Robert Maxwell, were all Israeli espionage agents who provided young girls to prominent politicians and celebrities for sex, recorded the incidents and then blackmailed them to attain information for Israel. Ben-Menashe worked for Mossad from 1977 to 1987 and claims to have been involved with both the October Surprise and the Iran–Contra affair. He was arrested in 1989 in the U.S. on charges of arms dealing and was acquitted only after a jury accepted that he was acting on behalf of the Israeli state. Later, Ben-Menashe also claimed that Robert Maxwell (who “fell” from his yacht) had been assassinated by Mossad for trying to blackmail it. The fact that his 1991 funeral was attended by no less than six serving and former heads of Israeli intelligence as well as several high-ranking Israeli politicians and prime ministers does not refute that claim.
Epstein, lest we forget, was connected. Prior to his 2008 sentencing for soliciting sex from a minor, Alexander Acosta – then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida – signed off on a lenient sentence. Acosta later told Trump transition officials prior to his nomination for Secretary of Labor that his decision to approve the “sweetheart deal” came after he had been told to back off in the Epstein case because Epstein “belonged to intelligence.” Whitney Webb of MintPress News writes that “the Ant-Defamation League’s long-time top funders have close ties to Epstein and his sexual blackmail network…”
The MintPress investigation asserts that the
…sexual blackmail operation involving minors and connected to intelligence agencies — was one of many such operations that have taken place for decades, developing from the nexus forged between the CIA, organized crime and Israeli intelligence shortly after World War II.
People who visited his island or flew on his plane (the “Lolita Express”) include Trumpus; Mark Zuckerberg; businessmen Leon Black, Reid Hoffman, Joi Ito and Les Wexner; actors Kevin Spacey, Chelsea Handler and Chris Tucker; media gatekeepers Katie Couric and George Stephanopoulos; Mohammed bin Salman; Elon Musk; Bill Gates; John Glenn; Alan Dershowitz (a hard-core Zionist, the lawyer who negotiated Epstein’s unprecedented 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement, and a major player in the ongoing scandals and lawsuits); U.S. Virgin Islands Governor John de Jongh; banker Jes Staley; Bill Clinton; Itzhak Perlman; Stephen Hawking; Lord Peter Mandelson; Prince Andrew; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, numerous U.S. senators including Majority Leader George Mitchell – and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In January, a huge list of Epstein’s associates, employees, friends and victims was released. Of the nearly 90 names included in the documents, four were apparently so sensitive that they were redacted. Granted, no one’s presence on this list necessarily implies anything. But we take note that one of the allegations states:
[Epstein made] her available for sex to politically-connected and financially-powerful people…to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information.
It’s an old story, says Republican Congressman Tim Burchett:
Why in the world would good conservatives vote for crazy stuff like what we’ve been seeing out of Congress? Here’s how it works. You’re visiting, you’re out of the country or out of town or you’re in a motel or at a bar in DC and, whatever you’re into – women, men, whatever — comes up and they’re very attractive and they’re laughing at your jokes. And you’re buying them a drink. Next thing you know, you’re in the motel room with them naked.
And next thing you know, you know you’re about to make a key vote. And what happens? Some well-dressed person comes out and whispers in your ear, “Hey, man, there’s tapes out on you.” Or, “Were you in a motel room or whatever with whoever?” And then you’re like, “You really ought not be voting for this thing.”
…if it’s women, drugs, booze, it’ll find you. And they say, and in most elected offices, and that’s what people of power and influence do…I’ve been in this game my whole life. I spent 16 years in the state legislature in Tennessee and eight years as county mayor. And now I’m in my fifth year in Congress…the stakes are higher. But the game is still the same.
What has any of this got to do with mythology, aside from the ubiquitous celebrities who have replaced the old gods in our imaginations? Like many myths, these are stories that we tell ourselves about other people – so we can take a safer look at ourselves. And to the extent that they do not support the dominant paradigms (Joseph Campbell’s fourth function of mythology) of progress, good intentions and heroic individualism, they contribute to another role of mythology: to bring the shadow forward, out of the unconscious.
Many the characters in this drama were, or thought they were master media manipulators. I’m only using reports like this, this, this, this, this, this and especially this, which suggests that the Israeli impact on recent U.S. elections has been far greater than anything the Russians may have done, so that we may speculate about what drives people like Biden, and perhaps Kennedy.
Or Bill Cinton. Webb interviewed Ben- Menashe, who claimed:
…the Israelis feared that Mr. Clinton, when he was campaigning for President, will be a repeat of Mr. Carter. He wanted to press them for peace with the Palestinians…I think Mr. Epstein was sent early on to catch up with President Clinton…I believe his biggest client was Mr. Clinton…and he had a few other congressmen and…but Clinton was his biggest catch.
Webb writes:
Of particular importance are Epstein’s relationship to the Clinton Foundation and the alleged role of Epstein’s Virgin Islands-based hedge fund and the Clinton Foundation in money laundering activity…during Clinton’s reign as governor a small town called Mena, nestled in the Ozark Mountains west of Arkansas’ capital Little Rock, would be propelled into the national spotlight as a hub for drug and arms smuggling and the training of CIA-backed far-right militias…Under the close watch of the CIA, then led by William Casey, the Mena Intermountain Regional Airport was used to stockpile and deliver arms and ammunition to the Nicaraguan Contras. The arms were sometimes exchanged for cocaine from South American cartels, which would then be sent back to Mena and used to fund the covert CIA operation…Clinton split with many other state governments in sending a contingency of the Arkansas National Guard to Honduras to train the Nicaraguan Contras…Bill Clinton was eventually blackmailed by the state of Israel and his administration was also targeted by Israeli espionage as part of the “Mega” spy scandal. Epstein’s involvement in the Clinton administration and his visits to the White House date back to Clinton’s first year in office.
To accept even some of these allegations is to throw the whole “Russiagate” narrative into the trash, if we haven’t already, and along with it the notion that the Russians influenced the 2016 election in any meaningful way. Along with that, we should jettison the liberal (and just as binary as the conservative) version of the American myth of innocence which assumes that all the nation’s problems are caused by “them”, whether they be Putin, Trumpus or MAGA Republicans.
It is quite naïve to ignore the evidence that all powerful (or paranoid) nations, especially Israel, spy on each other and attempt to influence each other’s elections. At times, the U.S., which has interfered in dozens of foreign elections, has had its own reasons to suppress the news of Israeli espionage in this country or the common knowledge that Israel has nuclear weapons.
At other times, as in the case of Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. has chosen not to, or has not been able to suppress such news. In 1984, Pollard sold thousands of highly classified secrets and disclosed the names of many people who had cooperated with U.S. intelligence agencies. In 1985 he confessed to spying for Israel and received a life sentence. In I987 Israel acknowledged its role and formally apologized, but it did not admit to paying him until 1998. Many celebrities including George Schulz, Henry Kissinger, Dershowitz, 39 congresspersons, 18 retired senators and of course Netanyahu, lobbied for his release, which occurred in 2015. Now residing in Israel, he recently called for some of the families of those taken captive by Hamas on October 7th to be imprisoned because they dared to criticize their government.
Conspiracy students have long debated the case of the five “dancing Israelis” on 9/11/2001. American antisemites, reflecting 2,000 years of European bigotry, have long blamed “the Jews” (but, curiously, not Israel) for all the nation’s ills. Who can forget the Charlottesville racists in 2017, chanting “Jews will not replace us!” But when Israeli leaders speak openly about their special relationship with the U.S., as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon did on 10/3/2001 (note the date), perhaps we should pay attention:
Don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We the Jewish People control America, and the Americans Know it.
BTW, can we all please acknowledge that to criticize Zionism (an ideology) or Israel (a political state) is not antisemitism (hatred of a religious group), and move on?
Is Israel an expendable puppet or does the tail wag the dog? Or is it all one empire? Which comes first? Israel compelled to enforce American imperialism because it can’t afford to detach itself from the U.S. money teat? Or American politicians, who have – at the least – been addicted to a similar money flow, or – at worst – have become, willingly or not, agents of Israeli intelligence?
Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice. – Israeli General Moshe Dayan
And since the 60th anniversary of John Kennedy’s assassination has recently passed – just when you thought you’d heard all the theories – Sam Husseini summarizes a very long and detailed debate in his article Israel and the Kennedy Assassinations.
The majority opinion among assassination researchers has always centered on the CIA. The following speculations move the dial over to Israel’s role, although we certainly can’t ignore the long-term connections between both of these criminal enterprises. Jefferson Morley, for example, writes that the CIA’s James Angleton played a key role in enabling Israel to obtain nuclear weapons.
Mordechai Vanunu exposed Israel’s nuclear weapons arsenal in 1986 (and subsequently was kidnapped and spent 18 years in an Israeli prison, including 11 in solitary). In 2004 he claimed that JFK was killed due to “pressure he exerted on Israel’s then head of government, David Ben-Gurion, to shed light on Dimona’s nuclear reactor.”
Since his exposé of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, Mr. Vanunu has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize a total of seventeen times. He lives in the sanctuary of a Christian Church in Israel, but this refuge has not stopped his political persecution. Since his release, he has been arrested four times, and he is now facing 21 charges of contravening a lawful direction, a charge that carries a penalty of two years in prison for each count. For more, read Moredechai Vanunu and Israel’s Plans to Wage Nuclear War on Iran: History of Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal.
Rick Sterling’s article summarizes JFK’s strong criticisms of Israel and the changes in U.S. policy that were instituted after his assassination. Lyndon Johnson told an Israeli diplomat: “You have lost a very great friend. But you have found a better one.” He ended American support for a resolution to address the Palestinian refugee issue. In 1967, the foreign policy establishment quietly gave the Israelis the green light to invade several Arab countries, and in the process, very nearly started a nuclear war. The result was the conquest of Gaza and the West Bank, a second Nakba and the turning of the remaining Palestinian population into prisoners. During that conflict, after the unprovoked Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, the U.S. media covered up the investigation. The Cleveland Jewish News notes:
LBJ soon abandoned pressure on Israel to come clean about the Dimona reactor. He increased arms sales to Israel and in 1968…the United States became Israel’s main supplier of weapons…
Here are two interesting articles:
— The Debate Over Israel as ‘US Aircraft Carrier’
— The Myth of Israel as ‘US Aircraft Carrier’ in Middle East
When we move farther out on the spectrum, into the realm of more alternative views, we proceed with caution and a sense of humor, invoking the principle that even a broken clock is right twice a day – and this principle that I made up: If even one-tenth of what these people say is true, then we’re all screwed. You can read other articles on the Kennedy/Israel subject here, here, here, here and here.
The speculations extend into the present moment, as many activists, searching for a real alternative to Biden, have been deeply disappointed that RFK Jr, alone on the national level, can articulate a complex anti-imperialist vision while staunchly defending Israel. After five weeks of massacres in Gaza, he told a crowd that it is antisemitic to call Israel an apartheid state. You can’t make this shit up.
Perhaps you can’t make this up either: After October 7th, the media was filled with headlines calling the event “Israel’s 9/11”. The interpretations ranged from this, which spoke of “…fueling a sense of patriotism unseen in years…” to this, which noted, “Both the U.S. and Israel were stunned to experience the ultraviolence they mete out to others”. At either extreme, the comparison was between American Innocence and Israeli innocence.
By late November, however, after the world had observed two months of mass murder, after the news that Netanyahu had been supporting Hamas financially for years, darker comparisons to 9/11 surfaced. The NYT itself proclaimed that “Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago”. Such an admission from this trusted gatekeeper immediately reminded the conspiracy community of allegations that shortly before 9/11, unnamed investors had made fortunes by “short-selling” stocks of certain companies that would be directly impacted by the attacks on the World Trade Center.
On December 7th, the 82nd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor (another event in which some researchers claim the U.S. had advance knowledge), the Senate voted 13-84, rejecting a resolution to withdraw the 900 U.S. troops who have occupied Syrian oil fields since 2014, and Blinken sanctimoniously marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (adopted by the U.N. right in the middle of the Nakba). That day, even more damning reports surfaced, claiming (here and here) that there had been “a deluge” of short-selling on the Israeli stock market just days before October 7th.
By then, by their own admission, it was clear that the Israeli leadership’s long-term intention was to cleanse Gaza of its entire population. Looking backwards, perhaps only the shock of another “unprovoked” attack could have motivated the world to avert its eyes from this ongoing war crime, to keep Netanyahu in office – and to enable Genocide Joe to request another $106 billion in military aid for Ukraine and Israel, or send American soldiers to fight Russia. Cynically confident that most voters agreed with them, the Republicans (imagine: the Republicans as good guys!) were still holding up Biden’s request.
On December 12th, Biden lied to the media once again, repeating that he had personally seen the pictures of the 40 babies allegedly beheaded by Hamas on October 7th: “They’re animals. They’re animals. They exceeded anything that any other terrorist group has done of late that I — in memory.” It was a claim that even the Israeli military had admitted a month before that it could not confirm. You can’t make this shit up, although Genocide Joe, for some mysterious reason, keeps trying. Is he cynical? Is he protecting someone? Or is he simply cognitively impaired?
On the 14th, dozens of Biden administration staffers, masked to protect their jobs, held a vigil outside the White House calling for a cease-fire. But Congresspersons and Senators, awash in AIPAC money and 
aware that there are military contractors in nearly every Congressional district, easily passed a record $874.2 billion defense bill, plenty of which is destined for Ukraine and Israel.
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