|
CounterPunch
March 10,
2003
Smearing Sy Hersh
Richard Perle,
Ex-patriot?
By KURT NIMMO
Seymour Hersh is a rarity in America these days
-- an investigative journalist.
"Hersh is not a nice man in the
Washington sense," writes Eric Alterman of Salon, "he
does not know how to make small talk, flatter his bosses, spin
his defeats and conceal his fierce competitiveness. He is simply
the best investigative reporter alive and expects his work to
speak for itself."
Because Hersh does what he does so well,
the chicken hawk Richard
Perle called him a terrorist on CNN the other day.
That's right. Perle equated Hersh with
Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "Sy Hersh is
the closest thing American journalism has to a terrorist,"
Perle told Wolf Blitzer.
Perle slandered Hersh because the award
winning journalist wrote in the March 17th issue of the New Yorker:
"There is no question that Perle believes that removing
Saddam from power is the right thing to do. At the same time,
he has set up a company that may gain from a war."
I have not read the
New Yorker article, so I can't comment on it. I don't
know if Perle set up a company situated to profit from his boss'
plan to mass murder possibly a half million Iraqis or not. But
if Hersh said it, there must be something to it. Hersh is known
for his meticulous research. He conducts interviews, double checks
facts. Seymour Hersh does not make things up. Due to his professionalism
Hersh has won more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including
the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four
George Polk Awards.
On the other hand, Perle and the neocons
are liars.
One big lie is that Mohammed Atta met
with Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an official at Baghdad's embassy
in Prague. US intelligence agencies went over records of Atta's
travels and concluded that during the period in question he was
in Virginia Beach, not in Prague. Perle knew this was a fabrication.
He attempted to pass it off on the American people as truth.
There are many other lies, as well, but I will not bother you
with enumeration.
That's how the neocons make their case
before the American people -- through deceit, half-truth, fabrications,
and outright lies. It should be a crime. But for now he is allowed
to bend the ear of George W. Bush and prod the half-wit dictator
into destroying America.
When Perle was working for Senator Scoop
Jackson, he was investigated by the Justice Department and found
to have violated US policies relating to unlawful transmission
of sensitive classified US information to Israel.
"An FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap
recorded Perle discussing classified information with someone
at the Israeli embassy," writes Paul Findley (They Dare
To Speak Out, Chicago, Ill, Lawrence Hill Books 1989)."He
came under fire in 1983 when newspapers reported he received
substantial payments to represent the interests of an Israeli
weapons company. Perle denied conflict of interest, insisting
that, although he received payment for these services after he
had assumed his position in the Defense Department, he was between
government jobs when he worked for the Israeli firm."
In other words, Richard Perle was spying
for Israel.
Perle should be expatriated immediately
-- or made to share a cell with Jonathan Pollard, the spy who
spent 18 months collecting and selling classified American intelligence
to Israel from his position in U.S. Naval Intelligence. So pleased
were the Israelis with the information passed on to them, two
of the four government officials who had dealt with Pollard were
promoted (Col. Aviem Sella, Pollard's primary contact, was given
full control of a major Israeli Air Force base). So arrogant
are the Israelis that Sharon asked Bush to pardon and release
Pollard.
If these are our friends, who needs enemies?
Okay, I'm going to use a word that will
upset some of you -- Zionist. These days if you use the word
Zionist you're going to be immediately accused of anti-Semitism.
I receive hate email for using this word on occasion. You'd think
I'm making excuses for the Holocaust (which is another subject
that can get you in hot water, especially in France where you
can go to prison for questioning the official verson of historical
events). I'm not slandering Jews, I'm simply reporting the facts.
Here's an indisputable fact:
Richard Perle is a Zionist.
Now what exactly does this mean? It means
Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and others
in the Bush administration -- are Israeli nationalists. "Wolfowitz
and fellow Jewish neo-cons Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have
emerged as the Pentagon's Paladins," writes Ann Pettifer,
"their aim being to subdue the Islamic world through decisive,
pre-emptive use of American military superiority."
"Only in Washington does one get
a true sense of the obsession of these Pentagon civilians,"
writes Hugo Young, a Guardian columnist. "Conversationally,
it is common talk that some of them, not including Rumsfeld,
are as much Israeli as American nationalists. Behind nervous,
confiding hands come sardonic whispers of an American outpost
of Likud. Most striking of all, however, is how unmentionable
this is in the liberal press."
Ain't that the truth.
But then the corporate press in America
rarely criticizes the Zionists. Notice how Perle can jump from
one TV news show to another and nobody mentions his spying for
the Israelis or working for an Israeli arms manufacturer. Nobody
mentions his "dual loyalties," which are common knowledge
in Washington. Nobody calls him a traitor. Nobody in the corporate
media dares -- that is if they want to keep their jobs.
Perle can insult the Germans and French
at the same time and the corporate media looks the other way.
In fact, he is allowed to denigrate the whole of Europe. "I
think Europe has lost its moral compass. Many Europeans have
become so obsessed by the prospect of violence they have failed
to notice who we are dealing with," he told the Guardian.
Gee, Richard. Maybe the Germans remember
the horror of American Flying Fortresses dumping gasoline bombs
on Dresden in 1945, an act of barbarity that resulted in the
murder of 100,000 people. Maybe the French recall the Nazi occupation.
Maybe there's still thousands of Dutch, Italians, Poles, and
other Europeans alive who remember none too fondly the systematic
and engineered mass murder of the Second World War. No doubt,
as well, there's plenty of Jews who remember the monstrosity
of Hitler's concentration camps.
I bet if you asked them if Saddam Hussein
is Hitler reborn they would laugh in your face.
Actually, Saddam is not a threat to a
single person in the United States. Perle and the Zionist neocons
know this, of course. They also know that Iraq is not a serious
threat to Israel, especially after a decade of war and sanctions
have reduced Iraq to one of the poorest countries in the world.
"We don't lose sleep over Iraq's military threat to us,"
Lt Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Israel's Chief of Staff, told the New York
Times.
So why are the Zionists pushing for a
US invasion of Iraq?
First, the Zionists believe that bad
relations between the US and Arab nations is good for Israel.
It's no mistake Iraq and Iran were specifically fingered as part
of an "axis of evil," nations the Bushites have singled
out for invasion and "democratization." Sharon told
fellow Zionist and U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton last
month he wants Syria and Libya attacked next. As if to make sure
he received the correct marching orders, Bolton also met with
Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Housing and Construction
Minister Natan Sharansky.
The Israeli Zionists don't care if perpetual
war destroys the American economy. It does not bother them if
Americans will die in the thousands.
Second, the Zionists are itching to "transfer"
-- i.e., to ethnically cleanse -- as many Palestinians from the
West Bank and Gaza as possible. Israel will do this while the
US is busy slaughtering Iraqis. "Israel should have exploited
the repression of the demonstrations in China, when world attention
focused on that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the
Arabs of the territories," Netanyahu told students at Bar-Ilan
University in 1989. Americans may be clueless about the intentions
of Zionists toward the Palestinians, but in Israel ethnic cleansing
is a popular subject of discussion. Fifty percent or more of
Israelis think ethnic cleansing is a good idea. This from a nation
that supposedly remembers the Holocaust.
"The idea of transfer is as old
as modern Zionism and has accompanied its evolution and praxis
during the past century," remarks Israeli historian Benny
Morris. Moreover, the Palestinian "demographic threat"
was something that "once left Golda Meir sleepless at night
and now serves as the subject of obsession for Israeli conferences
and nervous policy analysts," notes Will Youmans.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, and their fellow
travelers from the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
(JINSA), the Center for Security Policy (CSP), the American Enterprise
Institute (AEI) and the Hudson Institute -- as well as defense
contractors and conservative foundations bankrolled by far-right
American Zionists -- are calling the shots on Bush's invasion
of Iraq.
It has nothing to do with the security
of the American people. It has everything to do with Israel and
the Likudites.
The Zionists in the Bush administration
are pulling a fast one on the American people. It's criminal
behavior. It should not be tolerated. The Zionist plan to bomb
and kill Arabs across the Middle East will result in dismal failure
and pointless mass murder. It will destroy America. It will wreck
our economy and kill our sons. Perle and his cronies are mountebanks,
swindlers, hypocrites.
If Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz,
Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams, and all the other Zionists embedded
in the Bush administration -- love Israel so much, they should
pack their bags and go there.
If they won't go on their own, they should
be forced to leave.
In the meantime, their treacherous deceits
need to be exposed.
Kurt Nimmo
is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las Cruces, New
Mexico. Visit his excellent online
gallery. He can be reached at: nimmo@zianet.com
We highly recommend regular visits to
Nimmo's website, Another
Day in the Empire
Yesterday's
Features
The Black Commentator
All
About Clarence
Ben Granby
Nightmare
in Rafah
Fidel Castro
Bush's
War on the Dark Corners of the World
Niranjan Ramakrishnan
Riding
the Tiger in India: Will the World's Largest Democracy Become
a Religio-Fascist Purgatory?
Linda Heard
Make Way for Reality Politics
Alex Lynch
Tragedy of the Ridiculous War
Paul D'Amato
Obey
the US or Pay the Price
Ron Jacobs
Peace Treaties, Nukes and North Korea
Shulamit Aloni
Murder
Under the Cover of Rigtheousness
Keep CounterPunch Alive:
Make
a Tax--Deductible Donation Today Online!
home / subscribe
/ about us / books
/ archives / search
/ links /
CounterPunch Available Exclusively
to Subscribers:
- CounterPunch Special:
The Persecution of Gershon Legman by Susan Davis: Smut, the Post Office, Commies
and the FBI;
- Reeling Democrats: Is Pelosi the Answer?
- Gandhi v. Hitler: the Secret Race for the Nobel
Prize;
- Sullying Mario Savio's
Memory;
- Lynching Then and Now;
- Earn While You Learn: Chris Whittle and Child Labor;
The Case of the Pompous
Professor;
- The Class Struggle in
Boston: All that
Effort, But What Did They Get?
Remember, the CounterPunch website is
supported exclusively by subscribers to our newsletter. Our worldwide
web audience is soaring , with about seven million hits a month
now. This is inspiring, but the work involved also compels us
to remind you more urgently than ever to subscribe and/or make
a (tax deductible) donation if you can afford it. If you find our site useful please: Subscribe
Now!
Or Call Toll Free 1 800 840 3683
home / subscribe
/ about us
/ books
/ archives
/ search
/ links
/
|