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One of the former AIPAC staffers once accused of illegally sharing
classified information with Israeli officials lashed out at the FBI Thursday
following comments from an FBI's informant that anti-Semitism had been a
motivation for the case.
"Within the counter-intelligence bureaucracy of the United States government,
there is a virulent ideology about Israel and Jews," Steven Rosen, one of the
two former officials from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee charged
in the case, told The Jerusalem Post. "What these guys believe is that there's a
Jewish cabal, a Jewish conspiracy."
Larry Franklin, who supplied Rosen with classified information as part of an FBI
sting, was quoted Thursday in The Washington Times as saying that anti-Semitism
"was part of this investigation and may have been an initial incitement of this
investigation."
He said FBI investigators "asked me about every Jew I knew" in the Office of the
Secretary of Defense, where he worked as an Iran analyst and came into contact
with Rosen and his co-worker Keith Weisman in their capacity as employees of
AIPAC, which dismissed them after the charges were filed. Those charges were
dropped by the government this spring.
The 12-year sentence imposed on Franklin for passing on classified information
was subsequently reduced to probation.
"One agent said to me, 'How can an Irish Catholic from the Bronx get mixed up
with all these...,' and I finished the sentence for him: 'Jews?' And I proceeded
to tell him that Christ and all the apostles and even his mom were Jewish,"
Franklin also told the Times. "So it was that sort of thing. And just sarcastic
turns of the phrase from time to time. You know, I felt dirty sometimes."
The FBI did not respond to a Post request for comment by press time and the
Times reported that FBI Assistant Director John Miller declined to address the
charges of anti-Semitism.
"We have no way to respond to third-hand characterizations of partial statements
allegedly made by unnamed FBI employees several years ago," the Times quoted
Miller as saying. "If Mr. Franklin would like to make a formal complaint about
the conduct of any FBI employee, there is a process to do."
Franklin also couldn't be reached by the Post for comment.
Rosen, though, said he had heard statements similar to Franklin's from other
individuals questioned in the multi-year probe, which lead to charges being
filed in 2005.
He took issue with the questions the FBI asked about why AIPAC officials such as
himself were in touch with the Israeli Embassy or why US officials were in touch
with AIPAC.
"Why is that suspect? How could AIPAC not be in touch with the embassy of
Israel?" he asked. "They were trying to put a stigma on the very idea of
government officials talking to AIPAC."
But Morris Amitay, who was executive director of AIPAC from 1974 to 1980, had a
different take on the FBI questioning, which he himself also underwent.
He recalled being asked, in connection to his former AIPAC role, "Why would you
have contact with anyone at the Israeli Embassy?"
But he chalked that up to "ignorance on the part of the FBI" and "a complete
lack of sophistication," rather than pervasive anti-Semitism.
"I think I was being asked stupid questions, not malicious questions," he said,
adding that the interest of law enforcement officials in Israeli ties stems
largely from the case of Jonathan Pollard, a former US Navy analyst who is
serving a life sentence for passing secrets to Israel. Some officials have
maintained that Pollard worked in collaboration with another, never-found, spy.
Still, Rosen said the Jewish community needs to do more to counter the attitude
toward Jews and Israel found in US counter-intelligence agencies.
"There needs to be a systemic campaign" against these attitudes, he declared.
"The organized community as a whole has left this job undone and it's time to do
the job."
Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, said, "We've
been aware that there is a layer of bigotry. Government service is not immune."
He pointed to meetings and complaints the ADL has pursued with government
agencies, including the CIA and the Pentagon, over the treatment Jewish staff
have received, particularly those with ties to Israel and Israelis who have had
problems getting security clearances.
Rosen also expressed satisfaction that Franklin was going public with his
experience, particularly since Franklin is not Jewish.
2. from Steven
Shamrak
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:20:11 -0400
From: Steven Shamrak <stevenshamrak.e@gmail.com>
Muslimization of the World. Arab Israelis make up about 20% of the population of
Israel. Total fertility rate in Israel: 2.8 for Jews (2.69 in 2005, 2.67 in
2000), 3.9 for Muslims (4.03 in 2005, 4.57 in 2000). Many thousands of Muslims
enter Israel illegally or through marriage every year
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
Between 3.8 and 4.3 million Muslims live in Germany, or 5% of the total
population. 2) Most are of Turkish and/or Kurdish origin.
Europeans are Financing Israeli Traitors. The Dutch embassy in Tel Aviv has
financed the group Breaking the Silence to the tune of 20,000 euros. The group
recently recorded and published accounts of soldiers' actions in Gaza during
Operation Cast Lead.
UK Admitted anti-Israel Funding. A British government spokesman, Martin Day,
speaking with Al-Arabiya television, said that the UK government was taking
steps towards freezing settlement activities in east Jerusalem. He said his
government was financing some projects aimed at halting Jewish settlement
activities and the projects in order to save Palestinian houses and
neighbourhoods from demolition. The UK government was also financing finance
organisations that monitor settlement activities. (They are so exceedingly
considerate when dealing with Muslims, the Jewish state and interference into
its affairs. It is a totally different matter when dealing with international
anti-Semites affairs is totally different matter to the international
anti-Semites!)
USA Funds Palestinian Squatters on Jewish Land
The United States admitted this week for the first time that it helped fund the
illegal construction of a Palestinian building in a park located on the edge of
the former Shadma military base in the West Bank 's Gush Etzion region. Some
$281,000 was provided for the park by the United States Agency for International
Development, an independent federal agency.
3.
Yoram
Ettinger:
Jewish Occupation or Roots in Judea and Samaria?
Straight from the Jerusalem Cloakroom #226, July 31, 2009
Yoram Ettinger, Jerusalem
http://yoramettinger.newsnet.co.il/Front/NewsNet/reports.asp?reportId=271300
1. President Obama's claim, enunciated during his June 4, 2009 speech at Cairo
University, that "the aspiration for a Jewish homeland is rooted in a tragic
history [The Holocaust] that cannot be denied," ignores thoroughly-documented
Jewish roots in the Land of Israel in general and in Judea & Samaria in
particular.
2. World renowned travelers, historians and archeologists of earlier centuries,
such as H. B. Tristram (The Land of Israel, 1865), Mark Twain (Innocents Abroad,
1867), R.A. MacAlister and Masterman ("Palestine Exploration Fund Quarterly"),
A.P. Stanley (Sinai and Palestine, 1887), E. Robinson and E. Smith (Biblical
Researches in Palestine, 1841)), C.W. Van de Velde (Peise durch Syrien und
Paletsinea, 1861), Felix Bovet (Voyage en Taire Sainte, 1864), as well as
Encyclopedia Britannica and official British and Ottoman records (until 1950)
refer to "Judea and Samaria" and not to the "West Bank." The latter term was
coined by the Jordanian occupation of Judea and Samaria following the 1948/9
War.
3. The term "Palestine" was established by Greek Historian Herodotus, and
adopted by the Roman Empire, in an attempt to erase "Judea" from human memory.
"Palestine" was a derivative of the biblical Philistines, arch rivals of the
Jewish nation, non-Semites who migrated to the area from the Greek islands and
from Phoenicia in the 12th century BCE ("Plishtim" the invaders - is the
Hebrew word for "Philistines").
4. Most Arabs (Semites from the Arabian Peninsula), who reside between the
Jordan River and the Mediterranean, have their origin in a massive 19th-20th
century migration from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and other Moslem countries.
5. Almost all Arab towns and villages in Judea and Samaria have retained
biblical Jewish names, thus reaffirming Jewish roots there. For example:
*A-Dura is biblical (and contemporary) Adora'yim, site of King Rehoboam's and a
Maccabees' fortress.
*A-Ram is biblical Haramah, Prophet Samuel's birth and burial site.
*Anata is biblical (and contemporary) Anatot, the dwelling of the Prophet
Jeremiah.
*Batir is biblical (and contemporary) Beitar, the headquarters of Bar Kochba,
the leader of the Great Rebellion against the Roman Empire, which was crashed in
135CE.
*Beit-hur is the biblical (and contemporary) Beit Horon, site of Judah the
Maccabee's victory over the Assyrians.
*Beitin is biblical (and contemporary) Bethel, a site of the Holy Ark and
Prophet Samuel's court.
*Bethlehem is mentioned 44 times in the Bible and is the birth place of King
David.
*Beit Jalla is biblical (and contemporary) Gilo, where Sennacherib set his camp,
while besieging Jerusalem.
*El-Jib is biblical (and contemporary) Gibeon, Joshua's battleground known for
"Sun, stop thou in Gibeon and the moon in the valley of Ayalon," Joshua 10:12.
*Hebron - named after Hevron, Moses' uncle and Levy's grandson ? was King
David's first capital for 7 years, the burial site of the 3 Jewish Patriarchs
and 3 Jewish Matriarchs.
*Jaba' is the biblical (and contemporary Geva, site of Jonathan's (son of King
Saul) victory over the Philistines.
*Jenin is the biblical (and contemporary) Ein Ganim, a Levite town within the
tribe of Issachar.
*Mukhmas is biblical (and contemporary) Mikhmash, residence of Jonathan the
Maccabee and site of King Saul's fortress.
*Seilun is biblical (and contemporary) Shilo, a site of Joshua's tabernacle and
the Holy Ark and Samuel's youth.
*Tequa' is biblical (and contemporary) Teqoah, hometown of the Prophet Amos and
currently known for its home grown Ginger.
*Etc.
Are these sites "occupied" by the Jewish State or are they the epitome of Jewish
moral high-ground and Statehood?
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