Are the Zionists Beginning to “Lose It” in America?

By Andrew I. Killgore

Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia’s 8th District, just across the Potomac River from Washington, DC, won his June 8 primary race against challenger Andy Rosenberg by a vote of 59 to 41 percent. The outcome is significant because Rosenberg was openly supported by the Israel Lobby.

The pro-Israel Washington Post, the leading newspaper in the nation’s capital, heavily played an accusation by a former pollster for Moran that the congressman privately had made an anti-Semitic remark. Moran denied the accusation, which his dismissed pollster declined to reveal.

An even more significant attack on the Israel Lobby was an almost-unheard-of editorial by the local Falls Church News Press. “This election is not about Moran’s ability to lead, or about news headlines [i.e., in The Washington Post] accusing him of questionable public statements or personal finances,” the paper stated. “It’s about a cabal of powerful Washington, DC-based interests backing the Bush administration’s support of right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s handling of the Middle East conflict trying to up-end an outspoken and powerful Democratic opponent.”

Equally persuasive evidence of Israeli slippage in American public esteem was contained in the April 14 edition of the Zionist Front Page Magazine. FPM reported that students at the finest graduate schools in America are turning against Israel. The research was done by the Luntz Research Companies. The FPM article initially appeared on its Web site, but seems to have since disappeared.

The results of the research, apparently commissioned by Israeli interests, is seriously troubling to the Zionists. “The problem is simple and its severity cannot be overstated,” the researchers concluded. “Tomorrow’s leaders are increasingly hostile to the Jewish state. The students at the finest graduate schools in America are turning against Israel in alarming numbers. What’s at stake is nothing short of American foreign policy toward Israel in the years to come…to be brutally frank, if current trends are not averted, America’s core commitment and alliance with Israel may not survive.”

The Luntz study was based on face-to-face interviews with students under age 30 who are attending America’s top graduate schools, majoring in journalism, government, business and law. The students are described as opinion leaders by the year 2020. “They will see Israel as a burden,” the study warned, “and one that is not worth carrying.”

The war on Iraq has cast serious doubt on the judgment if not on the basic motivations of what has become known as “the civilians at the Pentagon,” the cabal of neocons/Zionists. At a minimum they are Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, the sinister/slick Richard Perle, former chairman of the advisory Defense Policy Board, and the ubiquitous Douglas Feith, under secretary of defense.

Wolfowitz viewed Iraq as a potential threat to Israel, not to the United States.

Wolfowitz has been regarded by the Zionist-leaning media as an intellectual ever since he was director of the State Department’s prestigious Policy Planning Staff in 1981 and 1982. For years he has pumped for bringing down Saddam Hussain because he viewed Iraq as a potential threat to Israel, not because Iraq constituted a threat to the United States.

Feith has been caught up in trouble over the Iraqi war. It was he who established the small Office of Special Plans (OSP), a renegade “intelligence” organization which cherry picked outlandish bits and pieces from reports to make a phony case against Iraq. He invited noisome “consultant” Michael Ledeen to contribute to OSP, and some reports have Ledeen linked to Israeli intelligence.

So Wolfowitz, Perle and Feith are linked to the disastrous Iraq war, which has so far consumed the lives of more than 850 young U.S. soldiers. It doesn’t stop there, however. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, also is a passionate neocon/Zionist who fed fake OSP intelligence to the neocon vice president, who then fed it to President George W. Bush.

If the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shocked the nation into readiness to attack Iraq, the disastrous proportions of the Iraq war have made Americans look back and reflect. Attention has focused on a white paper written in 1996 for then-Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu by Feith, David Wurmser and the ever present Perle, called: “A Clean Break! A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.”

The realm the neocons sought to secure was not the United States, but Israel. American policy would be so manipulated that the United States would use its military power to fight Israel’s enemies—of which Iraq was the first. The fact that the “Clean Break” paper gave no thought to the dire consequences that might ensue for the United States brings into question the basic loyalty of the three neocons who drafted it.

Finally, the director of the Washington-based Palestine American Congress, Said Hamad, recently told the writer that his organization now has an infinitely easier time than it did in the past in getting Americans to listen to the Palestinian side of the Arab-Israeli dispute. So, at last, American public opinion finally does seem to be turning against the Zionists.

Andrew I. Killgore is publisher of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.