Israel’s Hidden Faces:
A Long Day’s Night for Us All
By Dr. Alan Sabrosky*
*Alan Sabrosky (Ph.D, University of
Michigan) is a ten-year US Marine
Corps veteran and a 1986 graduate of
the US Army War College
• Far too often, issues involving Israel and its actions
are addressed in a sophisticated and complex
manner, often with little or no linkage among them.
• This is fine for professionals who are well versed in
the subject matter, and can infer detail and linkages
where none is explicitly given or made.
• But it is NOT acceptable for a general public, most of
whom are not even aware that these issues exist,
and have been exposed to a steady diet of pro-Israel
propaganda throughout most if not all of their lives.
• This is intended as a primer for that general public,
especially in the US, hoping that others may also find
useful material in it.
• This can be used in many ways, but I would focus on
state & local officials, newspapers & radio & TV
stations, and veterans groups. The classic “grass
roots” approach is the only way to circumvent the
virtual lock the Zionists have at the national level in
the political realm and the media. So let us begin.
Towards a Changing View
• I began as a supporter of Israel. I knew nothing of
the Nakba (Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
in 1948) and wouldn’t have cared much if I had
heard of it. In the years of death, ethnic cleansing
& resettlement of peoples during and after WWII,
it just didn’t matter.
• And with the USSR supporting most of the Arab
countries, US support of Israel (like Iran under the
Shah) made sense. It was only in the aftermath of
the Six Days War (1967) that things changed.
Israeli Attack on the USS Liberty
• On June 8, 1967, early in the Six-Day Middle
East War, Israeli aircraft and motor torpedo
boats attacked the USS Liberty, a US Navy
intelligence ship off the coast. Over 200 sailors
and Marines were killed or wounded. Israel
declared it had mistaken the ship for an
Egyptian horse transport, and the US
Government accepted that explanation. So did
I, until 8 years later. Then I learned.
The USS Liberty Incident
The US & Egyptian Ships What Israeli Pilots Saw
USS Liberty Under Israeli Attack
Before the Israeli Attack After the Israeli Attack
Aftermath of the Israeli Attack
Those who made it…. ….and those who didn’t.
• Separate attempts by the two carriers with the
US 6th Fleet to launch aircraft to come to the
rescue of the USS Liberty were recalled: The
first by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara;
the second personally by then-President
Lyndon Johnson. Either rescue effort would
have prevented most of the US casualties.
• It is interesting to know that even then, the US
Commander-in-Chief valued Israel more than
the lives of Americans in uniform. And isn’t it a
pity that nothing has changed?
Other Americans have been targeted
by the Israelis….here are two:
Rachel Corrie Emily Henochowicz
(murdered 2003) (Shot in face, lost eye 2010)
But the killer is 9/11, orchestrated by
Israel
• We have all heard of 19 named Arabs in 4
planes, bringing down the two tallest buildings
at the World Trade Center, striking the
Pentagon, and putting one plane into a
Pennsylvania field.
• We have not heard the rest of the story. It
begins with WTC7,and creates an evidentiary
trail leading directly to Israel and its cohorts in
the US.
WTC7 – so much more
than the proverbial
“smoking gun”
The 47-story WTC7 collapsed straight
down into its own footprint the
evening of 9/11, even though it was
not hit by a plane. This map depicts
the layout of the World Trade Center,
and the path of debris from the
impacting aircraft.
Note that smaller buildings closer to
the Twin Towers did not collapse in
that manner, even though at least one
was hit by debris from a plane and
others by debris from WTC1 & WTC2.
A striking video involves an interview
on Dutch TV with a Dutch demolitions
expert named Danny Jowenko. It
should be seen in its entirety:
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Some key images follow:
Images of WTC7
A Dutch demolitions expert
summarizes what happened to WTC7
The Implications of WTC7
• First, the controlled demolition of WTC7 means if one building at
the WTC was wired for a controlled demolition, then all three were.
• Second, the impacting civilian airliners were intended to provide a
gruesome and shocking distraction that would facilitate the actual
destruction of the buildings by other means.
• Third, any successful operation of this type requires expertise,
access to the target(s), and effective local support to facilitate post-
attack escape & evasion.
• Fourth, neither the 19 named Arabs nor any of their possible
supporters in the US or elsewhere had the expertise, access and
local support needed to do that.
• Fifth, only Israel had the required expertise, access and local
support – inside and outside of the US Government – and a positive
incentive to bring down those buildings, which was to enrage the
American public and bring the US into war against Israel’s enemies.
So much links Israel to 9/11 – Only
a public confession is missing, e.g.
• Many key Bush Administration officials came
from PNAC (Project for a New American
Century). All were Zionists (Israeli partisans).
They wrote about the need for a “catalytic
event” to mobilize the American people.
• Eight months after coming into office, they got
their catalytic event on 9/11, followed by the
wars their agenda required.
• The company providing 24/7 electronic & personal
security to the WTC, Kroll Associates, was owned &
operated by Zionists, as was the WTC itself as of July
2001.
• The owners and their immediate relatives seem to
have been uncharacteristically absent on the
morning of 9/11. Hundreds of American Jews died at
the WTC & the Pentagon, but as best as can be
determined, only 3 Israelis out of some 4,000
normally there, plus 2 more on the planes.
• The senior fatality among WTC personnel was a
retired Irish-American FBI agent in his first days on
his job as Director of Security.
• A private Israeli-owned security company
called ICTS, registered in the Netherlands,
provided security services (sometimes
through a wholly owned subsidiary) to all
three airports from which the four hijacked
planes departed.
• ICTS also provided security at the airports in
Paris & Amsterdam, from which the so-called
“shoe” & “underwear” bombers respectively
departed.
• Bergen, NJ residents saw five people on a white van
filming the attacks and visibly celebrating. They had
set up their cameras before the first plane hit.
Police arrested them. All were Israelis. Bomb-sniffing
dogs reacted as if they had detected explosives,
although officers were unable to find anything. The
FBI seized the van for further testing.
• All 5 were later released at the instigation of Israeli &
American Jewish leaders, some in the US
Government. Details are still classified.
• A second van was stopped on the approaches to the
George Washington Bridge. As CBS’s Dan Rather said
in his live report:
– "Two suspects are in FBI custody after a truckload of
explosives were discovered around the George
Washington Bridge. That bridge links New York to New
Jersey over the Hudson River. Whether the discovery of
those explosives had anything to do with other events
today is unclear, but the FBI, has two suspects in hand,
said the truckload of explosives, enough explosives were in
the truck to do great damage to the George Washington
Bridge...“
Those suspects and the incident then seem to have
disappeared from the record.
• NORAD (North American Air Defense
command) and its fighters were conspicuously
tardy. They should have intercepted the 4
aircraft within minutes but did not do so, due
to a linked series of failures to (1) get timely
FAA reports of the deviating aircraft, (2)
scramble fighters from the closest bases, (3)
intercept at maximum speed, and (4) redeploy
already airborne fighters to do the intercepts.
• Several PNAC alums and their counterparts
were in positions to affect that outcome.
And as for the 9/11 Commission….
• A fatally flawed commission, not least because of its
pro-Israel staffing.
• Many implausible details were accepted or allowed
to stand without comment, such as the delivery by a
well-dressed man of an intact passport to a detective
at the base of the Twin Towers – a passport used to
identify one of the named hijackers, that somehow
survived the plane’s impact, the ensuing explosion
and fire, and an 800-foot fall unaffected by wind.
• The 9/11 Commission’s Executive Director
Philip D. Zelikow evidently ensured that
nothing deflecting attention from the 19
named Arabs, or toward Israel, would make
the final report, whose reading defies belief.
• He also told an audience at the University of
Virginia on September 10, 2002 that the real
reason for his urging war with Iraq regardless
of 9/11 was “the threat against Israel.” His
concerns and loyalties are at least consistent.
So just what is the US supporting?
• History, policy, and governmental actions tell
only part of the story, of course.
• The attitudes and values prevalent in Israel
are also important, and almost unknown in
the US.
• Here are some of both that speak volumes.
Attack on Gaza: Israel’s Way of
War
• The Israeli assault on Gaza in December 2008
– January 2009 is a classic case in ruthlessness
applied to a densely populated urban area. In
the operation, some 1,400 Palestinians were
killed – nearly a third of whom were women
and children who had no conceivable military
role – and approximately 5,400 more were
wounded.
Israel denied any excesses or
significant casualties among
noncombatants. The
evidence says otherwise.
Differing estimates are presented here
from: (1) B’Tselem, an Israeli Human B’Tselem Palestinian Israeli
Rights organization; (2) its Palestinian Centre Military
counterpart; and (3) the official Israeli
military estimate. Palestinian 1385 1417 1166
TOTAL
You will note that the Palestinian
organization has a lower figure of Combatants 330/375 236 709
combatants killed than the other two,
but is still very close to that of
B’Tselem. Both consider police officers Non- 762 926 295
to be different from combatants, while Combatants
the Israeli military makes no such
distinction. Women 107 116 49
Also the two Human Rights groups Children/ 318 313 89
have nearly identical counts of women
and children killed, while the Israeli Minors
military minimizes those losses, Police 248 255 n/a
perhaps considering families of dead
police officers to be militants, too. Officers
The first Israeli attacks
Israel opened its attack on Gaza with
simultaneous strikes on numerous
Palestinian police stations, including
the graduating class of a Palestinian
police academy. Nearly a third of the
so-called “militants” killed were police
officers and young cadets.
I was reminded of my own graduation
from Marine boot camp, standing there
in my new uniform with my family and
friends across the parade ground. It
was a time of celebration.
But in Gaza, the Israeli strike force –
mostly American-made, with American
munitions – came, and left this
carnage. Had I survived something like
this at my Marine Corps graduation, I
would want the perpetrators (to quote
Rahm Emanuel) dead, dead, dead….
Then there were “militants” who disguised themselves
as children....the one on the right masquerading as a
four year old girl was especially devious
….compounded by the widespread use by Israel of white phosphorus and
cluster bombs (both provided by the US) in a densely populated urban area,
the former a war crime – and therefore its Israeli perpetrators war
criminals. The image on the left is a UN school under attack; the other is a
woman whose husband & baby daughter were killed by the white
phosphorus shells that burned her. A Jerusalem Tribunal seems to be in
order….
And we wonder why they,
and so many others, hate
the US
Every international tribunal and agency
that investigates Israel & Palestine,
including one headed by a Jewish judge
from South Africa, has strongly
condemned Israel for this onslaught,
among many others.
Joining the condemnation are many
traditional US allies. This, too , few
Americans understand.
But the US Government continues to
exercise its veto in the UN Security
Council to protect Israel from any
international sanctions. On February
18, 2011, the US used its veto against
all 14 other members. This happens
often. In recent years, the US has used
its veto power more than the other 4
permanent members combined –
almost always on behalf of Israel.
An article of faith
A key issue is the extent to which an
orthodox or ultra-orthodox version of
Judaism permeates an otherwise
largely secular Israeli society.
The former Israel Defense Forces' chief
rabbi, Brig. Gen. Avichai Rontzki, told
students in a pre-army yeshiva
program in 2009 that soldiers who
"show mercy" toward the enemy in
wartime will be "damned".
His views were controversial, but he
was NOT repudiated by the Israeli
government, and he completed his full
4-year term.
His replacement is somewhat less
extreme, but Rontzki’s views are still
popular in Israel, especially with
Jewish settlers and the ultra-orthodox.
So this is faith? (An Israeli
girl inscribes her own
message of hate)
One of the most extreme examples to
emerge is a controversial book called
The King’s Torah, written by two
settler rabbis. One chilling edict is that:
The prohibition 'Thou Shalt Not
Murder' applies only "to a Jew who
kills a Jew," write Rabbis Yitzhak
Shapira and Yosef Elitzur of the West
Bank settlement of Yitzhar. Non-Jews
are "uncompassionate by nature" and
attacks on them "curb their evil
inclination," while babies and children
of Israel's enemies may be killed since
"it is clear that they will grow to harm
us."
Many in Israel condemned it. Many
also supported it. Most Americans
heard nothing about it. Guess why..
Then there is the Wall….
One of the great ironies is that two
decades after the Berlin Wall fell, Israel
has been constructing an “Apartheid
Wall” around and within occupied
Palestine, to protect Jewish settlers and
contain Palestinian resistance.
It has been noted that The most obvious
historical parallel to the barrier is the
Berlin Wall, which was 96 miles long….
Israel's barrier, still under construction,
is expected to reach at least 403 miles in
length….The average height of the
Berlin Wall was 11.8 feet….compared
with the maximum current height of
Israel's Wall -- 25 feet …. four times as
long and in places twice as high as the
Berlin Wall.
For the US, what was bad in Europe is
fine in Palestine, if Israel wants it.
....And the Jewish Settlers
There are perhaps a half-million Jewish
settlers, many from the US & Russia, in
Palestine. Not all are religious fanatics,
racist or violent. But the most extreme
ultra-orthodox beliefs, blatant racism
and an affinity for violence have fertile
ground in the settlements, all of them
on Palestinian lands illegally, except,
of course, to Israel and the US
Government.
Their influence in Israel is significant
and rising, the tip of an Israeli society
that is far more racist, militarist and
intolerant than South Africa during
apartheid – a point many black South
Africans have made repeatedly, but
which somehow is never considered
“newsworthy” by the mainstream
media (MSM) in the US.
And as if that were not
enough, here is the Israel
we support and enable
Israeli expansion of settlements
continues in East Jerusalem and the
West Bank. Their usual practice is for
armed police to enter a Palestinian
area at night and evict the residents,
then bring in Jewish settlers and
protect them.
This is what happened to the woman
in the picture and her family, losing a
home of nearly a half-century. She and
friends returned the next day to try to
salvage something from the ruin of
their life. This is what she met; the
picture was taken by a friend.
Lovely, right? This is what the US
protects with its pledges of eternal
support for Israel….The face of an
Israel it dares not let Americans see.
So why do most Americans know
nothing about these things?
• Accurate portrayals and graphics that leave no doubt
about what Israel has done, to the US and to others,
are rarely seen in the US.
• The US Government generally, like the 9/11
Commission itself, studiously avoided any evidence
pointing to Israeli involvement.
• Few in Washington, D.C.– any branch, either party or
independents, elected or appointed -- dare stand up
& criticize Israel for anything.
And just WHO is in charge
here?
Few Americans therefore even suspect
what much of the world knows: Israel,
through the ownership of the
mainstream media (MSM) and the
leverage exercised by a hydra-headed
pro-Israel lobby, effectively controls
the US Government, especially a
Congress that has long been
considered “Israeli controlled
territory.”
This is particularly true of candidates
for the Presidency. No one today can
be a serious contender for President
from either major party without what
have become obligatory pledges of
fealty to Israel and laudatory
appearances before major Jewish
audiences.
But I remember when that was not so,
and when our President was expected
to serve US & not Israeli interests….
The same holds for the
Administration, no matter
which party is in power
Almost all of the key US officials
dealing with the Middle East were and
are Jewish, many with dual citizenship.
(The “neo-conservatives” began as
Jewish Democrats dissatisfied with
President Carter, but now include
some who are not Jewish.) Those who
are not are strongly pro-Israel, a
virtual condition of their appointment,
confirmation and support by a
Congress whose members compete
for Israeli approval – or keep silent.
Ha’aretz, an Israeli newspaper,
remarked in late 2009 that “Every
appointee to the American
government must endure a thorough
background check by the American
Jewish community.“ No surprise to
Israelis, nor to anyone in the US policy
community, but a great surprise to
most Americans – if they ever heard or
read about it.
• Anyone in the US pointing this out, or even
criticizing Israel in any way, is immediately
assailed as an anti-Semite or (if Jewish) a self-
hating Jew, no matter how ridiculous the
charges might be in reality.
• This is not surprising. Israel’s politicians and
supporters have no choice. Like lawyers who
find themselves defending a hopelessly guilty
client with both law and evidence against
them, they pound the table and hurl vile
accusations, hoping to quiet the accusers.
• But it is important to understand that the
current concept of anti-Semitism has nothing
to do with bigotry towards Jews or Judaism.
• Indeed, the entire debate over Israel is not
one of “Jew versus anti-Semite” as Israel’s
supporters would have everyone else believe.
It is one of Zionists (supporters of Israel, not
all of them Jewish) versus Israel’s critics, a
growing number of whom are themselves
Jewish, including some Israelis.
• What “anti-Semitism” means now is any criticism of
Israel, or its foreign or domestic policies and actions,
or its treatment of Palestinians, or of any individual
in the US or elsewhere who supports Israel.
• The “new” charge of anti-Semitism is therefore
intended to shield Israel in the face of activities that,
to Israel & its supporters, are “existential threats” to
“delegitimize” it, and not an elementary quest for
justice and peace, which to most Israelis means only
their hegemony.
But what is this about Zionist control
of the US mainstream media (MSM)?
• Raising the subject of Zionist (pro-Israel, most but not all Jewish) control
of the media truly excites Israel’s supporters, not because it is anti-Semitic
but because it is (at least to them) an unspeakable truth.
• Information is power, and the overwhelmingly Zionist-owned MSM makes
sure that Americans see, hear and read what Israel wants them to do.
• This, plus the enormous financial leverage provided by a brigade of Jewish
political action committees (PACs) in the US, gives them effective control
of both public opinion and the US Government.
TV Networks,
CEO Media Company Ranking Movie Companies
This is what it looked like & Publishers
HBO, TNT, TBS,
in 2001-2002…. Gerald Levin AOL Time Warner
Largest media CNN, TCM,
conglomerate in the U.S. Warner Brothers,
Time Inc.
ABC, ESPN, A&E,
CEOs and Directors of companies can Lifetime, Miramax
Walt Disney 2nd largest media Films, Caravan
change as often as Boards of Michael Eisner
Company conglomerate Pictures,
Directors vote. Touchstone
Pictures
CBS, Paramount,
But if we could “freeze frame” the MTV, Nickelodeon,
Showtime, Country
CEOs of the largest U.S. Media Music Television,
companies in mid 2002, covering the Nashville Network
3rd largest media
Sumner Redstone Viacom Inc. Cable, Infinity
aftermath of 9/11, the attack on conglomerate
Broadcasting
Afghanistan and the lead-in to the (radio), Pocket
war in Iraq, we would find that ten Books, Free Press,
Schribner, Simon &
outspoken Zionists ran the vast Schuster
majority of U.S. television networks Universal Studios,
Edgar Bronfman, Sr 4th largest media USA Networks,
and other media companies including Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
Vivendi Universal
conglomerate Houghton Mifflin
movies, radio, and publishing at that Publishers
time. Fox Television
Network, 20th
Murdoch’s News 5th largest media Century Fox Films,
Rupert Murdoch
Corporation conglomerate Fox 2000, New
Note that all except Rupert Murdoch York Post, TV
are Americans and Jewish; Murdoch Guide
Premier independent TV
is an Australian, apparently with one Robert Perelman
New World
program producer in the
Jewish grandparent, but a fervent & Entertainment
US
influential Zionist nonetheless. David Geffen, Jeffrey
Katzenberg, Steven DreamWorks SKG
Spielberg
….and media conglomerates owned or
led by Zionists in 2011 control:
• All of the major networks (ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC).
• All of the major national newspapers (New York Times, Wall
Street Journal, Washington Post, USA Today).
• All three weekly news magazines (Time, Newsweek, US News
& World Report).
• All major political journals (Nation, National Review, New
Republic, Weekly Standard).
• Most of the major film studios in Hollywood & New York City.
• Most of the major publishing houses.
• Many ISPs (internet service providers).
• The silence of the media on WTC7 and so many of
the anomalies associated with 9/11 is deafening. The
natural tendency of the media is to investigate any
alleged governmental misdeeds with relish, seeing
therein prestige and profits.
• That the media did NOT do that with 9/11, and has
generally either ignored or disparaged other efforts
to do so, is because its ownership and management
knew, suspected or feared that any evidentiary trail
would lead directly or indirectly to Israel and its US
support base.
And lobbies, lobbies everywhere….
• Israel has so many PACs and supporting groups
that it has a “Conference of Presidents of Major
Jewish Organizations” to coordinate the
activities of its current list of 51 members.
• AIPAC (the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee) which focuses on the US
Government (especially the Congress), is just
one of those 51 members, although arguably
the most potent because of its focus on
Washington.
• The Israeli Government sponsored ICIC
Hasbara (public diplomacy) offers a wide
range of services.
• The Hasbara Fellowships program extends this
to campuses.
• “StandWithUs” continues this, with a strong
pro-settler spin.
• The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) assails any
effort to hold Israel accountable for its
actions, seeing “anti-Semites” (their own
witches, perhaps?) everywhere.
• Campus Watch
• Jihad Watch
• UN Watch
• Plus a host of funded “policy” <sic.> and
“research” <sic.> centers, often at otherwise
legitimate Institutes and study centers, in
Washington and elsewhere, catering to both
liberals and conservatives of any and all
political persuasions
Epilogue: Costs & Consequences
The price the US pays…..
For the joy and satisfaction of
providing unlimited and unquestioning
support of Israel, we have had a
national tragedy (9/11); have waged
two needless wars (Afghanistan &
Iraq); and are being goaded into a third
equally needless war against Iran (with
Syria to follow) by the same people
who brought us the others.
As of 2/2011, these wars have cost the
US some $1.2 trillion, exclusive of the
losses at the WTC and the assistance
we have provided Israel. Our casualties
to date are approximately 67,000
killed and wounded. Both figures will
rise sharply following an attack on Iran.
And there is the erosion of our
freedom under the misbegotten
“Patriot Act” and its offspring….
And what we have done to others
• Our price does not include all of the death &
suffering & destruction we have caused at Israel’s
instigation.
• We have shattered two countries already, and aside
from the internal damage to them, there are literally
millions of dead, wounded & dispossessed refugees
in Afghanistan & Iraq, more of them in Pakistan, and
of course the long-suffering Palestinians.
Where we go….
• Depends on what kind of a legacy we wish to
leave to our grandchildren and to posterity:
– The US can be a protector, enabler and ally of first
and last resort to an Israel few would support if
they truly knew what is was and did, spending our
lives and treasure in support of its ambitions; or
– The American people can realize that they have
been misled & betrayed from within and without,
take back their government, and treat Israel as
the rogue it is – a criminal state we have fostered.
CHOOSE CAREFULLY & WELL
