Tell it like it is.
10/1/2010 8:57:00 PM
On Oct 1, 3:51 pm, "Tell it like it is."
<DanielAlbertDesfos...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Oct 1, 7:21 am, drahcir <s...@sgscc.com> wrote:
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> > On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 21:52:29 -0700 (PDT), "iconocl...@yahoo.com"
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> > <coaster132...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >The Israel Lobby Swims The Atlantic
> > >by Grant Smith, August 18, 2010
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> > <snip>
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> > > A secret executive report [.pdf]
> > >subpoenaed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigation
> > >into the American Zionist Council, or AZC (AIPAC’s parent
> > >organization), reveals the lobby’s careful tracking of and
> > >satisfaction with most mainstream U.S. media coverage about the Dimona
> > >nuclear weapons facility:
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> > HEAVVENS!!! THe AZC was TRACKING US media???? HOW TERRIBLE!!!
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> > Oh, wait, I must sit down. Ah, there, that's better - upon reading the
> > next phrase, I started to feel faint. Do my eyes deceive me, or does
> > it say that after the results of the tracking were assessed they were
> > <gulp> SATISFIED with most mainstream US media. Unbelievable!!!!!
> > Despicable!!!!. Tracking, then satisfaction, why, who would ever do
> > such a thing? I mean besides anyone interested in media coverage, of
> > course.
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> > Grant reminds me of this National Lampoon article I read years ago. It
> > started with a picture of a housewife with a crazed look on her face.
> > She was carrying a platter with what appeared to be the Thanksgiving
> > turkey on it. The headline, in bold, read: WOMAN COOKS DEAD TURKEY IN
> > OVEN. THEN FEEDS TO FAMILY!!!!
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I saw the same article in a Zionist newspaper criticizing
Thanksgiving Day in America.
Drahcir,
Have you read The Hounds of the Baskerville or
are you too busy hounding Iconoclast?
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> > Grant is a dweeb struggling to make his mark in journalism, but
> > without the goods. THe only ones he'll convince he has the goods are
> > morons like HHW.
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> > Hey H, why do you suppose the AZC was tracking the US media in the
> > first place? After all, a few days ago you poasted another ridiculous
> > article about how jews control nearly 100% of US media. Seems like
> > wasted effort, no?
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> > >“The nuclear reactor story inspired comment from many sources:
> > >editorial writers, columnists, science writers and cartoonists. Most
> > >of the press seemed finally to accept the thesis that the reactor was
> > >being built for peaceful purposes and not for bombs. Some columnists
> > >felt that the U.S. should have awaited more information before
> > >‘ventilating its suspicions’. Drew Pearson’s syndicated column
> > >justified Israel’s secrecy; William Laurence in the New York Times
> > >stressed Israel’s peaceful intent, in contrast to Arthur Krock who
> > >wanted the reactor placed under international safeguards. Arab
> > >protagonists in this country – including those in the State Department
> > >who raised all the fuss initially – used the occasion to try to cast
> > >doubt on Israel’s friendship toward the U.S.”
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> > >The observant now know that Israel’s massive, clandestine nuclear
> > >arsenal remains a thorn in the side of U.S. nonproliferation efforts.
> > >Building it required many unfriendly acts, such as materials theft and
> > >covert financing from U.S. donors. The Israeli nuclear arsenal story
> > >remains curiously under-reported in America, though not throughout the
> > >rest of the world. But have media outlets such as The Atlantic
> > >received assistance from Israel and its lobby for publishing helpful –
> > >but equally misleading – content?
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> > >The unqualified answer is yes.
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> > >In the early 1960s the AZC’s Magazine Committee [.pdf] met regularly
> > >with writers to prepare articles for top U.S. magazines such as
> > >Reader’s Digest, the Saturday Evening Post, and Life. In its program
> > >[.pdf] for “cultivation of editors” and “stimulation and placement of
> > >suitable articles in the major consumer magazines,” the committee
> > >pushed lighter subjects with prepared texts such as the thirteenth
> > >anniversary of Israel’s founding while killing investigative pieces at
> > >such publications as the Christian Science Monitor. The committee
> > >confronted two major news items challenging Israel: fallout from the
> > >“Lavon Affair” (a cover-up of failed false-flag Israeli terrorist
> > >attacks on U.S. government facilities in Egypt) and American peace
> > >proposals calling for the return of some expelled Palestinian refugees
> > >to their homes and property in Israel. The Israeli government and its
> > >U.S. lobby invested heavily in arguing against the return of
> > >Palestinian refugees through The Atlantic, according to yet another
> > >secret AZC report [.pdf]:
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> > >“The Atlantic Monthly in its October issue carried the outstanding
> > >Martha Gellhorn piece on the Arab refugees, which made quite an impact
> > >around the country. We arranged for the distribution of 10,000
> > >reprints to public opinion molders in all categories. Acting on
> > >information that anti-Israel groups were bombarding the Atlantic with
> > >critical letters, we stimulated a letter campaign designed to
> > >counteract their impact. …
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> > >“Interested friends are making arrangements with the Atlantic for
> > >another reprint of the Gellhorn article to be sent to all 53,000
> > >persons whose names appear in Who’s Who in America…
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> > >“The November issue of the Atlantic carried a special 64-page
> > >Supplement on Israel, with articles by some of Israel’s top names. …
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> > >“Our Committee is now planning articles for the women’s magazines for
> > >the trade and business publications.”
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> > >The Jewish Agency, an Israeli quasi-governmental organization with pre-
> > >legislative review powers and access to Israeli government tax
> > >revenues, laundered overseas tax-exempt charitable relief funds into
> > >U.S. public relations and lobbying through its American section. The
> > >AZC was incapable of independently raising its own revenue and
> > >received $5 million ($36 million in 2010 dollars) from the Jewish
> > >Agency over two years for public relations and lobbying. The Jewish
> > >Agency received AZC bi-monthly media action reports. Up to $6,300
> > >($45,360 today) was budgeted for reprints of “The Arabs of Palestine,”
> > >which erroneously concluded that “Palestinian refugees will merge into
> > >the Arab nations, because the young will insist on real lives instead
> > >of endless waiting.” It is clear from contemporary news reports and
> > >the heavily redacted Senate record that the AZC and the Jewish Agency
> > >seriously violated IRS regulations and the 1938 Foreign Agents
> > >Registration Act.
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> > >The Senate investigation ultimately failed in its efforts to regulate
> > >secret foreign media manipulation and lobbying. The AZC transformed
> > >into AIPAC, and today The Atlantic is virtually alone among remnants
> > >of the battered magazine industry in its return to profitability.
> > >Jeffrey Goldberg’s prolific work no doubt helps propel that bottom
> > >line. But readers should remember the origin of deceptive waves of
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