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Wesley Clark: “N.Y. Money People” Pushing War with Iran
While it is well known that Israeli politicians, in and out of government, are pushing for a hard line on Iran, the role of American Jewish groups on this issue is less clear.
The Jewish Daily Forward reported last Friday that “American Jewish groups have also stepped up their advocacy efforts regarding Iran, though they generally press for aggressive diplomatic steps without pushing for military action. These groups have lavishly praised the Bush administration in recent days, after the U.S. Treasury Department banned an Iranian bank from doing business with American entities.”
The bank in question is the state-owned Bank Sepah, described by a Treasury official in remarks to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency as “the financial linchpin of Iran’s missile-procurement network.”
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Premier Shimon Peres have raised the possibility of an Israeli military retaliation against Iran should it attack Israel. And they have gone further, pointing out that Israel is equipped with a nuclear arsenal.
Former Democratic presidential candidate General Wesley Clark — who is likely to run again in 2008 — threw himself into a political storm when he told Arianna Huffington, “New York money people” are pushing the U.S. into war with Iran, noting, “you just have to read what’s in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided, but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office seekers.”
“The phrase ‘New York money people’ struck unpleasant chords with many pro-Israel activists,” the Forward reports. “They interpreted it as referring to the Jewish community, which is known for its significant financial donations to political candidates.”
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, told the Forward, “He is a friend of Israel and is not an antisemite,” adding, “but some of the things he said are very, very unfortunate.”
Clark followed up with a letter to Foxman saying, “I will not tolerate antisemitic conspiracy webs to permeate the honest debate Americans must have about how best to confront Iran.’’
Clark made a point in the last campaign of noting his pride in the fact his own father was Jewish.
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Yes, there will be a firestorm over saying anything against the chosen people! They control all the world money. The House of Rothschild goes back a long way. They play on the Holocaust, only they forget the other half, the non-Jewish. Why they get the green light to do whatever they please to others, beats me. People also forget that the British and Americans were the ones that refused to let them escape, therefore, forcing them into the concentration camps and gas chambers. I guess nobody wanted them in their country either. I see no reason that they should get preferential treatment. How about even-handed treatment! I am against EVIL, no matter who is being evil!
Posted by: Ranselar VanDerpoel on 01/17/07 at 11:39 AM
Whatever you want to call these people, "money people" or something else, they are 100% right. We must hammer Iran. We must never let the Iranian savages get the bomb.
Posted by: Ames Tiedeman on 01/17/07 at 2:41 PM
Dissarm the bloody lot of you. You are all mad. If anyone has a bomb they should stand inline with the monkeys at the zoo, that would confirm your level of intelligence.
Posted by: Red on 01/18/07 at 4:13 AM
Ames, I wonder what you would , if this country was threatened by China in the same manner that we threaten these small countries? It doesn't make rational sense to say that huge countries like ours needs millions of nukes, but very small countries shouldn't have them to stave off attack by us. We are the world terrorists at present. We've been spreading terrorism for a long time, the School of the Americas, now Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, covert operations, black ops and other such conduct is actually state sponsored terrorism. I think the people in this country need a reality check! Have you all gone MAD?
Posted by: Ranselar VanDerpoel on 01/18/07 at 6:38 AM
Ken, meet Ranselar.
Posted by: Matt S on 01/18/07 at 7:03 AM
We must move beyond the idea of a "Chosen People"... it leads to fascist policies. Sadly, most economics are driven by direct and indirect ways of killing people. When and if we wake up to the reality we are all One, we will have peace.
Posted by: david a on 01/18/07 at 12:11 PM
VanDerpoel is right. At present, using FEAR as effective motivator (An Evil Boy called BinLaden will strike again from his super-cave in the Pakistani mountain.. what a kids-grade BS!) International Bankers subordinated to Holly Rome, a known hater of US Liberties and Protestant rebellion which denied Papal Empire cash flow they enjoyed prior to rebellion, Holly Rome is financing top 4 and more candidates for the next US president, making sure the infringing of American civil liberties will continue unobstructed… We the morons called Americans are sacked into High $ depth scheme, which along with 5 Trillion Dollars of additional National Debt US got itself in since Bush become a president, cause a lien on each of us to be over 300K per head … The 14th amendment which many states never even ratified, allows elitist in the shade to do that … wake up America, cut your credit cards in half or participate in creation of the new society that will make slaves out of your children!
Posted by: Reality on 10/07/07 at 8:12 PM
David is right. Do your homework on Jesuits, Vatican Gestapo-alike Order, which led by Supreme Jesuit General killed JFK and had never hesitated to kill a rebellious (white) Pope himself, if they dear rebel against their ideas. If interested Google Peter-Hans Kolvenbach General of the Society of Jesus & Georgetown University, Cardinal Spelman, etc. Vatican has been sucking people blood and money for 1600 years and is the richest entity on the planet. Money means power and while power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Civil liberties is all we have – DO NOT trade them for security which coming form the mouth of traitors has Zero value or there would be no 911 and hijacked plains heading towards the pentagon for 45min without a single fighter jet being scrambled by NORAD when the protocol calls NORAD to be alerted by FAA if a flight controller and his supervisor cannot contact pilot of the suspicious plan in 1min. Don’t fell for the BS – protect your freedom and civil liberties!
Posted by: John S on 10/07/07 at 8:25 PM
Bless you my child... Your efforts are futile and you are a little ants – No meter what NOW we will succeed! Viva Vatican, New World Order and Vatican Ruling of the world from Rebuild Temple of Solomon right there in Jerusalim Iran will burn soon weather you liek it or not ... grow the boys, we can use them in balte ...ho, ho , ho.../!
Posted by: Vatican on 10/07/07 at 8:33 PM
[Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Vice Premier Shimon Peres have raised the possibility of an Israeli military retaliation against Iran should it attack Israel.]
Who has a problem with that?
[And they have gone further, pointing out that Israel is equipped with a nuclear arsenal.]
Isn't that why we refer to it as a "Nuclear Deterrent"?
I'm no fan of nuke weapons, but if there's any good that can be said about them, it's that their presence may well have prevented more than one conventional war.
General Wesley Clark might also have noted that a majority of Democratic Senators, including majority leader Harry Reid, joined with most of the Republicans on Sept. 26 to urge Bush to declare Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist group.
Posted by: So? on 10/08/07 at 12:22 PM
It just goes to show you the hate in the Democratic Party and the Jews. It is time for a third party of peace. Vote Green. Say no to war and destruction.
Posted by: Ms. Green on 10/08/07 at 2:23 PM
"It just goes to show you the hate in ... the Jews." Ms. Green?
That sounds more like a sales pitch for joining the Nazi party, if you ask me.
I have an ancestral line who were Jews, and according to old adolph's reckoning, that would make me one.
I guess by your reckoning, that makes me hate filled, but your reckoning would be just as wrong as old adolph's.
Posted by: So? on 10/08/07 at 2:39 PM
Israel wanted the USA to take out Iraq because they had the biggest army and made Israel uneasy. Now they want the USA to take out Iran as well. No more blood for Israel. Israel is a liability to Christian America. The Arabs have the oil. Israel has none. We are fools to fight Jewish wars. Let us be friends with the Arabs, no more 911's and we will get cheap oil. A significant reason why we fight wars for the Jews is the money they give to the politicians.
Posted by: Alban on 10/08/07 at 2:44 PM
So?, give it a rest. Your brothers in Israel have inherited the mantle of the Nazi's in their treatment of the Palestinians, according to the European Union and the World Council of Churches. Say no to hate, be Green.
Posted by: Ms.Green on 10/08/07 at 2:50 PM
To judge from you, Ms. Green...
Green = Hate
Believe I'll pass on Green and opt for brotherhood instead
Posted by: So? on 10/09/07 at 8:48 AM
Greens Demand Transparency from Israel on Nuclear Weapons
WASHINGTON - July 8,2004 - Green Party leaders are calling on the Bush Administration to put pressure on Israel to open up its nuclear weapons program to international scrutiny.
Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency, has demanded that Israel cooperate with the effort to rid the Middle East of nuclear weapons, but the Israeli government has refused to acknowledge that it possesses such arms.
"Israel may already have as many nuclear warheads as Great Britain," said Julia Willebrand, co-chair of the International Committee of the Green Party of the United States. "Israel is not formally listed among the countries which have acquired WMDs. Western governments have allowed Israel to maintain its 'nuclear ambiguity' stance too long, provoking suspicions that the U.S. might have shared nuclear technology with Israel."
Israel's treatment of Palestinians -- those who are Israeli citizens as well as those in the territories -- is comparable in many ways to South African apartheid, and has resulted in a cycle of violence and lack of security for both Israelis and Palestinians," said a member of the Green Party of Wisconsin. "A stable and just resolution of the conflict requires the full realization of the human rights of Palestinians and Israelis.” Real environmentalists and progressives vote Green.
Posted by: Ms. Green on 10/09/07 at 10:27 AM
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Clark is getting ready for the firestorm that inevitably encompasses anyone even remotely critical of Israel policy.
Posted by: ken on 01/17/07 at 8:05 AM