Copyright (c) 1997 - Ingrid A. Rimland
"'Jewish Power' typifies a kind of book which is becoming ever more common - admit the fact of Jewish power but deny any suggestion of disloyalty or outright conspiracy.
Written by the son of former UN ambassador and Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, 'Jewish Power' contains a revealing but ultimately misleading look at the Jewish political presence in the US, especially from 1967 to present.
1967 is indeed the key date. Goldberg provides valuable information on the first great round of American Jewish organizing at the time of the First World War and its aftermath, but does not delve too deeply - and with good reason - into the Zionist presence at the Paris Peace conference or the stranglehold exercised by Rabbi Stephen Wise or Justice Brandeis over President Woodrow Wilson.
Instead, he leads the reader to believe that a powerful Jewish lobby is a past Six Day War creation - of comparatively recent origin.
Superficially, this is plausible. As Goldberg correctly points out, American military aid was minimal until the advent of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. It was really Richard Nixon, of all people, who created the 'special relationship' in foreign policy by making Israel the bulwark of America's anti-Communist policy in the Middle East. American foreign aid to Israel mushroomed under Nixon and Kissinger.
Confirming what many right wing authors have also demonstrated, Goldberg shows in detail that Jewish radicals such as Abraham Maslow and Isaiah Minkoff working through the American Jewish Congress and other Jewish organizations were the driving force in overturning the 1952 McCarran Act, which severely restricted immigration to the United States and limited it to white, Northern European nations.
The Jewish power of the purse and its effects on American pro-Israeli politics is intricately delineated. Goldberg shows how Jewish 'neo-conservatives' broke with the traditionally liberal, Jewish-financed Democratic Party to make support of Israel the No. 1 issue around which American Jews should rally. The effect of the rise to power of Israeli's right wing Likud coalition in 1977 of reinforcing this 'Israel above all else' mentality is also shown.
AIPEC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee), the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and the other mainstream Jewish pro-Zionist organizations and their peculiar characteristics are also described.
The ins and outs of Jewish organizations have always been a mystery to outsiders, and here it is that 'Jewish Power' is particularly useful.
First, there are the Defense organizations. These are the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith. Predictably, Goldberg treats these as purely virtuous groups devoted solely to protecting Jews from bigotry or attack - anywhere in the world.
Then there is the organization of the local Jewish committees through the 'CRC's or Community Relations Councils and their umbrella organization, the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council.
Most important of all is the financing of the various Jewish organizations through the massive funding of the United Jewish Appeal. This half-century old mechanism has, in Goldberg's own words, '. . . been the central engine during all the other parts of the machine called the organized American Jewish community.'
The United Jewish Appeal operating on a 4 billion annual budget leaves no doubt that Jews are an internationally organized nation. Every year, $300 million are donated by the UJA to the Jewish Agency for Palestine. The Jewish Agency, a division of the World Zionist Organization, is directly responsible for the settlement and expansion of the Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River.
'Jewish Power' is written from a transparently philo-semitic perspective. It argues from its opening pages that Jews, in organizing to put their group interests apart from and above their interests apart from and above their interests as American citizens, are only exercising their rights in a participatory democracy. It makes no mention of the early Jewish objections to Zionism, particularly in Great Britain where the Balfour Declaration was issued, as tainting Jews with double loyalty. Any reader of Mr. Goldberg's book will be able to determine that the fear was well founded.
'Jewish Power' concedes what cannot be denied while avoiding unpalatable conclusions. Thus, in discussing Jewish control of the media, Goldberg allows that the media are, indeed, permeated with Jews but argues that this presents no issue of bias other than peripheral ones which Jews consciously strive to overcome in accordance with strict journalistic objectivity.
He even tries to persuade the reader that Jewish journalists, such as Mike Wallace, are sometimes too harsh on Israel for this very reason. This sounds good but fails to explain why facts highly damaging to Israel, such as the Nazi-Zionist collaboration of the 1930s, are never brought up, whereas the Holocaust, the purported 'gassing' of six million Jews is brought up constantly.
Jewish Power is a safety valve production. It provides a semi-plausible explanation for a proliferation of very visible Jewish power in recent decades while obscuring the well-documented but less visible exercise of the same power in the past.
Thus, the enormous role in the part WWI communist revolutions world-wide, the role of the Jews at the Paris Peace Conference, the '(New) Deal' of FDR, the behind-the-scenes Jewish stage managing at the Nuremberg Trial, the forced exodus of the British Mandate in Palestine, are all passed over in silence.
'Jewish Power' is not, as Mr. Goldberg alleges, a comparatively new phenomenon. What is significant about 'Jewish Power' today is that it no longer faces the old opposition. In this sense, 'Jewish Power' reveals far more by its title than by its content."
Now you say, "What does all that have to do with me and my children today? What does it have to do with the loss of my job, the breakdown of values in my community, uzzis in my neighborhood and condoms in my children's schools? It is all fine and good to expose esoteric ethnic connections in a scholarly book review, but it has no relevance at all to where I, as the head of my household, am struggling to put bread on my family's table while my entire life is crashing round my ears. What Jews did during World War I, World War II or even during the Six Days War is ancient history."
It isn't. You are living it today. Americans have basically allowed themselves to have their minds be circumcised.
Christians now worship Christ the Jewish rebel in "Judeo-Christianity"-fashion. Bookstores are packed with Jewish-authored books, giving a Jewish, often Talmudic viewpoint.
Publishers, even Gentile publishers, such as St. Martin's Press, are being pressured not to publish books by well-known Gentile authors like David Irving because what Irving has to say does not fit the Jewish agenda. If authors are lucky to be published at all in sanitized versions, book reviews regularly shred their works that dare to give a point of view that does not cater to the point of view of the controlling Jewish culture.
Movies and television serve that agenda as well. The theater is in on it with "Fiddler on the Roof." Text books are being pushed in public schools advancing a Holocaust curriculum. Oprah Winfrey had to eat humble pie for booking a guest who was critical of Jews.
Even our language is no longer our own - what with "schlock", "schmuck", "schmalz" and "schlemiel" - all negative, derogatory words that stereotype a culture that once belonged to us.
In other words, America has now been "yiddish-ized" - a little pun intended here for those of you who speak German! What's more, YOU KNOW THAT PEOPLE KNOW when you see angry utterance such as the "Jew-nited States of America" or the "American Jews Media".
And where does it all come from? From lack of spiritual and moral vigilance, that's where - right at the very top.
Consider these two passages taken from the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, April 1997 issue. The first is from a Letters to the Editor, written by a Palestinian who grew up in Britain:"During 1996, I went to Washington no fewer than five times and met people, heard lectures, and even talked with officials at the US Congress. To my dismay, I found that nothing in my previous experience had prepared me for the frenetic pro-Zionism which seems to saturate America. It was like being strapped into an invisible straitjacket, designed to prevent all action, all comment, all thought even, that can remotely be construed as critical of Israel.
The sight of so many Americans fawning mindlessly on Israelis leaders and personalities was most unedifying. And the major casualty of this orgy of blind support is, of course, the truth."
The second is an item from the Jewish Telegraph Agency, March 10, 1997. It says that". . . (i)n exchange for their (Jews') dollars, many of them got overnight stays at the White House. Of the 938 people who stayed during Clinton's first term, about one-third were Jewish, according to a JTA analysis of documents released by the White House."
Why do I have the feeling that I am not telling you anything new?
Let me close with a little vignette by the Jew Charlie Chaplin as written up by Richard Grenier in a recent Washington Times issue, and let's that be your Thought for the Day:". . . . Chaplin, in Switzerland, flew into a rage. He'd admitted freely in the past that he had Jewish 'characteristics,' but he wasn't Jewish, absolutely not.
Years before he'd confessed: 'I think I might have Jewish blood. I notice that my characteristics are very Semitic, my gestures certainly are.' He added helpfully, 'My thinking is certainly along money lines.'
His most memorable speech was at the Pennsylvania Hotel in New York in 1942. The American people, he said, were finally beginning 'to understand the Russian purges, and what a wonderful thing they were . . .'"
Ingrid