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Are the Kennedys Cursed By Mossad?

1. By Alex J. Hidell

Assassination of President Kennedy

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Few hours after the assassination, the official version of the event is broadcast, asserting that Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed John Kennedy. Oswald strenuously denies these charges. Oswald says to Capt. Will Fritz on Nov. 24, 1963 at 11:15 A.M., ‘I did not kill President Kennedy or officer Tippit’

Then several minutes later (11:21 A.M.) Oswald is assassinated by Jacob Rubenstein an Orthodox member of the Jewish faith, who dies of cancer 37 months later in a Dallas jail. Jack Ruby (born Jacob Rubenstein) maintains that he had murdered Oswald. Ruby says ‘out of patriotism to avenge President Kennedy and to spare his widow, Jacqueline Kennedy, the ordeal of appearing at Oswald’s court trial.’

Later Ruby says to his defense lawyer William M. Kunstler that he killed Oswald “for the Jews.” On each of the occasions Kunstler talked to him, Jack Ruby repeated that ‘I did this that they wouldn’t implicate Jews.’(See: Kunstler, My Life as a Radical Lawyer, 1994, p. 158) and during Kunstler’s last visit Ruby handed him a note in which he reiterated that his motive was to ‘Protect American Jews from a pogrom that could occur because of anger over the assassination.’ Jack Ruby had a long-standing relationship with the major crime syndicates. On his prison death bed, when a friend asked him to tell the truth before he dies, Ruby said: ‘Listen, you know me well, and you know that I am a reasonable businessman. I wouldn’t have done it if I did not have to.’

Who, then, made Jack Ruby to kill Lee Harvey Oswald? The most likely suspect is Meyer Lansky.

Mayer Lansky

Mayer Lansky (1902-1983)

According to the Jewish News of Greater Phoenix (March 5, 1999): Meyer Lansky saw life entirely through a Jewish filter. During Prohibition, Lansky got his start in bootlegging and reached the height of prosperity and influence during the 1940s and 1950s, when he transformed illegal gambling from a neighborhood racket into an interstate enterprise. He pulled the strings of a national crime syndicate that, according to some, made more money than General Motors. In his own eyes, he was an American and Jewish patriot. In the legends and studies of Jewish gangsterdom, there are two Meyer Lanskys. The older version has him as the criminal mastermind, the brain behind the mob. The more recent version sees Lansky as an entrepreneur catering to necessary,

if illicit, human needs, as an embattled Jew, with the Cossacks hard on his heels. When battling investigating U.S. senators, Lansky voices his conviction that he’s facing a bunch of anti-Semites.

There’s no doubt the FBI, CIA and Mossad utilized Lansky’s organized crime empire for their purposes, especially in assassinating those political leaders both domestic and foreign that stand in way of the New World Order.

(And where do you fit in someone like international war criminal and confessed Zionist Henry Kissinger?)

Oops there goes “Share the Wealth” Roosevelt, Rockefeller, JP Morgan Banker Basher U.S. Senator Huey P Long.

Fare ye well Majority Leader U.S. Congressman Warren Commission critic Hale Boggs. And lest we forget Senator Paul Wellstone, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Chile’s Salvador Allende ad nausem.

The Zionist controlled media makes the Mafia appear all Italian, when in reality the true puppet master was Meyer Lansky, an Israeli Mossad Zionist patron, and his Jewish mafia organized crime partners.

The SopranoTV series and the movie God Father etc. indoctrinates the American mind with the notion that the Mafia(organized crime) is a bunch of nasty Italians-dagos. They the Zionist controlled media hide the fact that organized crime, and the “Enemy Within” is Zionism.

And today whom are these Zionists that control our media, our Congress, our trillion $ foreign policy, pull off the 9-11 false flag operation and gets us invading Afghanistan and Iraq, killing at this point over 1.2 million people, and ruining the countless lives of our American soldiers?

And cui bono-who benefits?

The bankers that control the Federal Reserve System, and of course Israel-that’s who benefits-certainly not the American, Afghanistan and Iraqi people.

But then again, we just can’t blame all these killings. all these assassinations on Mossad-Zionism.

JFK’s coverup had to also involve Lyndon Johnson, high military Brass, J Edgar Hoover, and possibly Richard Nixon. It had to involve CIA, and possibly George H Bush.

Just like 9-11 was more than just a Mossad “False Flag”. The coverup has to involve the highest echeolns of George W Bush’s adminstration. Mossad and CIA are keys that open up and oil the evil empires, but remember none of this dirty work could be accomplished without the Zionist control of the press.

Control of the press is the key to the inner key. Otherwise, Richard Perles, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, Douglas J. Feith, David Wurmser, Senator Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Attorney Michael B. Mukasey, N.Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff, U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hallerstein etc. would be questioned by a true press, and Larry King Live on whether these individuals’ allegiance is to the U.S. Constitution or to Zionism. And from these press questions on to testimony before a federal Grand Jury about Skull and Bones.

And so it goes.

Assassination of Robert Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy

(1925-1968) On June 5th, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy, the younger brother of President Kennedy and the likely Democratic candidate for President, having just won the California primary, was shot in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a Palestinian born in Jerusalem. Sirhan was convicted of the killing and is serving a life sentence.

Shortly before his assassination in June ’68, Bobby Kennedy told his press secretary, Frank Mankiewitz, that if he wins the election, he’ll reopen the inquiry into the assassination of his brother.

Professor Philip Melanson at the University of Massachusetts which hosts the RFK Assassination Archives, maintains that the archives contain evidence that more bullets were fired than could fit into the magazine of Sirhan’s gun. In the 1994 interview with Paul Nellen

Professor Melanson says that: ‘My theory about Sirhan’s involvement is that he was definitely firing a gun and therefore should have been convicted of some kind of attempted murder if in fact they couldn’t prove diminished responsibility. But I see Sirhan basically as a pawn. My view is that while he was there shooting he didn’t mastermind a plot to kill RFK.’

There’s also the irrefutuable testimony and report by the Los Angeles coroner Thomas Noguchi that power burns prove Robert Kennedy was shot less than 1.5 inches from behind his brain. Witnesses testified that Sirhan was always in front of Bobby Kennedy, and no closer than 2 to 6 feet.

Death of Carolyn and John Kennedy

Carolyn Bessette Kennedy

(1966-1999)

On July 16, 1999 the son of President Kennedy, John Kennedy, Jr. his wife Carolyn and her sister Lauren Bessette were killed in an airplane accident. John Kennedy, Jr. was the only Kennedy to ever acknowledge a conspiracy in his father’s death; not only to acknowledge it, but was taking concrete steps to disclose it. Just days prior to his death, the NBC Dateline announced that he was considering entry into politics. After the crash of John F. Kennedy Jr’s airplane, his friends (In Memory of JFK Jr., AngelFire.com) commented that: Since President Kennedy was assassinated, his enemies have labored to create a world that favors prejudice over reason, gossip over truth and ignorance over knowledge. We always feared for the safety of his son, but we underestimated their ruthless disregard for human life. We will never underestimate them again.

Israel’s prominent journalist Barry Chamish says that: ‘… one cannot ignore the strange demise of JFK Jr. Four persons saw the explosion that downed his plane. Yes, I’m sure he was murdered. And yes, the Israeli political establishment had a motive for involvement. The latest Kennedy to die violently was the only American editor to expose (in the March 1997 issue of his magazine George) the conspiracy behind Rabin’s assassination. And he had every intention of continuing his exposes’ until he got to the bottom of the matter.

We don’t know what drove him to stand alone in seeking the truth, but it may have had much to do with the information contained within Michael Piper’s (2004) book the Final Judgment.’

In this book, Piper claimed President Kennedy was assassinated by Mossad for Kennedy’s efforts to stop Israel from obtaining nuclear weapons.

Barry Chamish goes on to say that: ‘… we are waking up to the ugly reality of the kind of leadership we are saddled with. But I take the opposite view of Piper: my research says America corrupted Israel and not the other way around. And, probably unlike Piper, I am seeking the truth so that one morning the rotten murderers Americans and Israelis call their political leaders, will not make my country hopelessly unable to defend itself against even more rotten forces.’

After the third Camelot death the suspicions of the foul play began to mount and media started to promote the notion that the Kennedy family is cursed.

Congressman

Representative Paul Findley The first public personality to think the unthinkable was the Illinois Representative Paul Findley, who in March, 1992, said in The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, ‘It is interesting to note that in all the words written and uttered about the Kennedy assassination, Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, has never been mentioned.’

His remark was dismissed as anti-Semitic and the conspiracy it implied was simply added to the plethora of other mutually contradicting, often self-contradictory and mostly implausible conspiracy theories advanced in the wake of the President Kennedy murder.

Governor

Three months after the death of John Kennedy, Jr., in October 1999, the Governor of Minnesota called national attention to the unexplained events surrounding the murder of President John F. Kennedy and the series of violent deaths of the other members of the Kennedy family and expressed an opinion, shared by many, that the official explanation of the murder of President Kennedy in the ‘Warren Report is no longer tenable.’

Walter Cronkite

Walter Cronkite’s comment was that: ‘I can’t think of any group – with the exception of Israeli intelligence that would have been able to keep the JFK assassination under wraps for so long.’

Rector

Rector of the Glasgow University Mordechai Vanunu

In the July 26, 2004 interview, Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli nuclear scientist previously associated with the Israel’s Dimona Nuclear Project said that assassination of President Kennedy was due to,‘pressure Kennedy exerted on Israel government not to develop nuclear weapons.’

In December, 2004 Mordechai Vanunu was elected rector of the Glasgow University (Guardian, December 17, 2004), but was arrested on December 24, 2004 when attempting to exit Israel.

Avner Cohen’s Archival Research

Israel Nuclear Facilities – Dimona, Eilabun, Kfar Zekharya, Nahal Soreg, Yodefat (Federation of American Scientists, Center for Non-Proliferation Studies)

Mordechai Vanunu’s claim is supported by Avner Cohen’s (1998) book Israel and the Bomb. His book is based on archival research during which he discovered President Kennedy’s letter, located in the Israel State Archive in Jerusalem, which the American ambassador delivered to Prime Minister of Israel Levi Eshkol on July 5, 1963. In this letter President Kennedy requests that, …these visits should be in accord with international standards, thereby resolving all doubts as to the peaceful intent of the Dimona project.’

Avner Cohen describes this letter as, ‘unprecedented American ultimatum to Israel,’ demanding dismantling of Israel’s nuclear development program.

The date President Kennedy set for commencement of inspections of the Dimona nuclear facilities (November, 1963), coincides with the date of his assassination (November 22, 1963). Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnston who succeeded JFK as the President of the United States, did not insist on the inspections of the Dimona nuclear facilities.

References:

1. Cohen, A. (1998) Israel and the bomb.New York: Columbia University Press.
2. Debord, G. (1996) Commentaires sur la societe du spectacle. Paris: Gallimard.
3. Klein, E. (2003) The Kennedy curse. New York: St. Martin Press.
4. Kunstler, W. M. (1994) My life as a radical lawyer. New York: Carol Publishing.

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Dorothy Kilgallen and Jack Jacob Ruby Rubenstein

Whatever information Kilgallen learned and from whatever source, many researchers believe it brought about her strange death. She told attorney Mark Lane: “They’ve killed the President, [and] the government is not prepared to tell us the truth . . . ” and that she planned to “break the case.” To other friends she said: “This has to be a conspiracy! . . . I’m going to break the real story and have the biggest scoop of the century.” And in her last column item regarding the assassination, published on September 3, 1965, Kilgallen wrote:“This story isn’t going to die as long as there’s a real reporter alive – and there are a lot of them.”

But on November 8, 1965, there was one less reporter. That day Dorothy Kilgallen was found dead in her home. It was initially reported that she died of a heart attack, but quickly this was changed to an overdose of alcohol and pills. (Crossfire, p. 425)

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, on 22nd November, 1963. Kilgallen took a keen interest in the case and soon became convinced that Kennedy had not been killed by Lee Harvey Oswald. Kilgallen had a good contact within the Dallas Police Department. He gave her a copy of the original police log that chronicled the minute-by-minute activities of the department on the day of the assassination, as reflected in the radio communications. This enabled her to report that the first reaction of Chief Jesse Curry to the shots in Dealey Plaza was: “Get a man on top of the overpass and see what happened up there”. Kilgallen pointed out that he lied when he told reporters the next day that he initially thought the shots were fired from the Texas Book Depository.

Kilgallen also had a source within the Warren Commission. This person gave her an 102 page segment dealing with Jack Ruby before it was published. She published details of this leak and so therefore ensuring that this section appeared in the final version of the report. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the leak and on 30th September, 1964, Kilgallen reported in the New York Journal American that the FBI “might have been more profitably employed in probing the facts of the case rather than how I got them”

A week after the assassination, Kilgallen wrote:

1. The case is closed is it? Well I’d like to know how in a big smart town like Dallas, a man like Jack Ruby – operator of a striptease honky tonk -could stroll in and out of police headquarters as if it were a health club at a time when a small army of law enforcers was keeping a “tight security guard” on Oswald.
   Security! What a word for it.
   I wouldn’t try to speak for the people of Dallas, but around here, the people I talk to really believe that a man has the right to be tried in court.
   When that right is taken away from any man by the incredible combination of Jack Ruby and insufficient security, we feel chilled.
   Justice is a big rug. When you pull it out from under one man, a lot of others fall too.
   That is why so many people are saying there is “something queer” about the killing of Oswald, something strange about the way his case was handled, and a great deal missing in the official account of his crime.
   The American people have just lost a beloved President.
   It is a dark chapter in our history, but we have the right to read every word of it. It cannot be kept locked in a file in Dallas.

Kilgallen’s reporting brought her into contact with Mark Lane who had himself received an amazing story from the journalist Thayer Waldo. He had discovered that Jack Ruby, J. D. Tippet and Bernard Weismann had a meeting at the Carousel Club eight days before the assassination. Waldo, who worked for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, was too scared to publish the story. He had other information about the assassination. However, he believed that if he told Lane or Kilgallen he would be killed. Kilgallen’s article on the Tippit, Ruby and Weissman meeting appeared on the front page of the Journal American. Later she was to reveal that the Warren Commission were also tipped off about this gathering. However, their informant added that there was a fourth man at the meeting, an important figure in the Texas oil industry.

Kilgallen published several articles about how important witnesses had been threatened by the Dallas Police or the FBI. On 25th September, 1964, Kilgallen published an interview with Acquilla Clemons, one of the witnesses to the shooting of J. D. Tippet. In the interview Clemons told Kilgallen that she saw two men running from the scene, neither of whom fitted Oswald’s description. Clemons added: “I’m not supposed to be talking to anybody, might get killed on the way to work.”

Kilgallen was keen to interview Jack Ruby. She went to see Ruby’s lawyer Joe Tonahill and claimed she had a message for his client from a mutual friend. It was only after this message was delivered that Ruby agreed to be interviewed by Kilgallen. Tonahill remembers that the mutual friend was from San Francisco and that he was involved in the music industry. Kennedy researcher, Greg Parker, has suggested that the man was Mike Shore, co-founder of Reprise Records.

The interview with Ruby lasted eight minutes. No one else was there. Even the guards agreed to wait outside. Officially, Kilgallen never told anyone about what Ruby said to her during this interview. Nor did she publish any information she obtained from the interview. There is a reason for this. Kilgallen was in financial difficulties in 1964. This was partly due to some poor business decisions made by her husband, Richard Kollmar. The couple had also lost the lucrative contract for their radio show Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick.. Kilgallen also was facing an expensive libel case concerning an article she wrote about Elaine Shepard. Her financial situation was so bad she fully expected to lose her beloved house in New York City.

Kilgallen was a staff member of Journal American. Any article about the Jack Ruby interview in her newspaper would not have helped her serious financial situation. Therefore she decided to include what she knew about the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Murder One. She fully expected that this book would earn her a fortune. This is why she refused to tell anyone, including Mark Lane, about what Ruby told her in the interview arranged by Tonahill. In October, 1965, told Lane that she had a new important informant in New Orleans.

Kilgallen began to tell friends that she was close to discovering who assassinated Kennedy. According to David Welsh of Ramparts Magazine Kilgallen “vowed she would ‘crack this case.’ And another New York show biz friend said Dorothy told him in the last days of her life: “In five more days I’m going to bust this case wide open.” Aware of what had happened to Bill Hunter and Jim Koethe, Kilgallen handed a draft copy of her chapter on the assassination to her friend, Florence Smith.

On 8th November, 1965, Kilgallen, was found dead in her New York apartment. She was fully dressed and sitting upright in her bed. The police reported that she had died from taking a cocktail of alcohol and barbiturates. The notes for the chapter she was writing on the case had disappeared. Her friend, Florence Smith, died two days later. The copy of Kilgallen’s article were never found.

Some of her friends believed Kilgallen had been murdered. Marc Sinclaire was Kilgallen’s personal hairdresser. He often woke Kilgallen in the morning. Kilgallen was usually out to the early hours of the morning and like her husband always slept late. When he found her body he immediately concluded she had been murdered.

1. Kilgallen was not sleeping in her normal bedroom. Instead she was in the master bedroom, a room she had not occupied for several years.
2. Kilgallen was wearing false eyelashes. According to Sinclaire she always took her eyelashes off before she went to bed.
3. She was found sitting up with the book, The Honey Badger, by Robert Ruark, on her lap. Sinclaire claims that she had finished reading the book several weeks earlier (she had discussed the book with Sinclaire at the time).
4. Kilgallen had poor eyesight and could only read with the aid of glasses. Her glasses were not found in the bedroom where she died.
5. Kilgallen was found wearing a bolero-type blouse over a nightgown. Sinclaire claimed that this was the kind of thing “she would never wear to go to bed”.

Did Jack Jacob Ruby Rubenstein inform Dorothy Kilgallen that he had orders to kill Lee Harvey Oswald from Mayer Lansky the Israeli Mossad Jewish Mafia gangster?

The Mossad Role in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy

http://www.john-f-kennedy.net/mossadandtheassassination.htm

In March, 1992, Illinois Representative Paul Findley said in The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, “It is interesting – but not surprising – to note that in all the words written and uttered about the Kennedy assassination, Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad, has never been mentioned.”

Considering that the Mossad is quite possibly the most ruthless and efficient intelligence agency in the world, it is peculiar that they have never been scrutinized in relation to the Kennedy assassination, especially when practically every other entity in the world (short of Elvis impersonators) has been implicated. But that all changed in January, 1994 with the release of Michael Collins Piper’s Final Judgment. In this book, Piper says, “Israel’s Mossad was a primary (and critical) behind the scenes player in the conspiracy that ended the life of JFK. Through its own vast resources and through its international contacts in the intelligence community and in organized crime, Israel had the means, it had the opportunity, and it had the motive to play a major frontline role in the crime of the century – and it did.”

Their motive? Israel’s much touted Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who ruled that country from its inception in 1948 until he resigned on June 16, 1963, was so enraged at John F. Kennedy for not allowing Israel to become a nuclear power that, Collins asserts, in his final days in office he commanded the Mossad to become involved in a plot to kill America’s president.

Ben-Gurion was so convinced that Israel’s very survival was in dire jeopardy that in one of his final letters to JFK he said, “Mr. President, my people have the right to exist, and this existence is in danger.”

In the days leading up to Ben-Gurion’s resignation from office, he and JFK had been involved in an unpublicized, contentious debate over the possibility of Israel getting nuclear capabilities. Their disagreement eventually escalated into a full-fledged war of words that was virtually ignored in the press. Ethan Bronner wrote about this secret battle between JFK and Ben-Gurion years later in a New York Times article on October 31, 1998, calling it a “fiercely hidden subject.” In fact, the Kennedy/Ben-Gurion conversations are still classified by the United States Government. Maybe this is the case because Ben-Gurion’s rage and frustration became so intense – and his power so great within Israel – that Piper contends it was at the center of the conspiracy to kill John Kennedy. This stance is supported by New York banker Abe Feinberg, who describes the situation as such: “Ben-Gurion could be vicious, and he had such a hatred of the old man [Joe Kennedy, Sr., JFK's father].” Ben-Gurion despised Joe Kennedy because he felt that not only was he an anti-Semite, but that he had also sided with Hitler during the 1930′s and 40′s. [We will touch upon this aspect of the story in an upcoming article entitled The CIA and Organized Crime: Two Sides of the Same Coin].

Anyway, Ben-Gurion was convinced that Israel needed nuclear weapons to insure its survival, while Kennedy was dead-set against it. This inability to reach an agreement caused obvious problems. One of them revolved around Kennedy’s decision that he would make America his top priority in regard to foreign policy, and not Israel! Kennedy planned to honor the 1950 Tripartite Declaration which said that the United States would retaliate against any nation in the Middle East that attacked any other country. Ben-Gurion, on the other hand, wanted the Kennedy Administration to sell them offensive weapons, particularly Hawk missiles.

The two leaders thus engaged in a brutal letter exchange, but Kennedy wouldn’t budge. Ben-Gurion, obsessed by this issue, slipped into total paranoia, feeling that Kennedy’s obstinance was a blatant threat to the very existence of Israel as a nation. Piper writes, “Ben-Gurion had devoted a lifetime creating a Jewish State and guiding it into the world arena. And, in Ben-Gurion’s eyes, John F. Kennedy was an enemy of the Jewish people and his beloved state of Israel.” He continues, “The ‘nuclear option’ was not only at the very core of Ben-Gurion’s personal world view, but the very foundation of Israel’s national security policy.”

Ben-Gurion was so preoccupied with obtaining nuclear weapons that on June 27, 1963, eleven days after resigning from office, he announced, “I do not know of any other nation whose neighbors declare that they wish to terminate it, and not only declare, but prepare for it by all means available to them. We must have no illusions that what is declared every day in Cairo, Damascus, and Iraq are just words. This is the thought that guides the Arab leaders … I am confident … that science is able to provide us with the weapons that will serve the peace and deter our enemies.”

Avner Cohen, in Israel and the Bomb, published by Columbia University Press, reinforces this sense of urgency by writing, “Imbued with lessons of the Holocaust, Ben-Gurion was consumed by fears of security … Anxiety about the Holocaust reached beyond Ben-Gurion to infuse Israel’s military thinking.” He further adds fuel to this point by pointing out, “Ben-Gurion had no qualms about Israel’s need for weapons of mass destruction,” and “Ben-Gurion’s world view and his decisive governing style shaped his critical role in instigating Israel’s nuclear progress.”

Kennedy, on the other hand, was adamant in his refusal to promote Israel’s ascension to the nuclear stage. Avener Cohen, in Israel and the Bomb, stresses, “No American president was more concerned with the danger of nuclear proliferation than John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He was convinced that the spread of nuclear weapons would make the world more dangerous and undermine U.S. interests.” Cohen continues at the end of this passage, “The only example Kennedy used to make this point was Israel.”

Realizing that Kennedy would not change his mind, Ben-Gurion decided to join forces with Communist China. Both countries were greatly interested in creating nuclear programs, and so began their secret joint dealings. Working in unison through intermediary Shaul Eisenberg, who was a partner of Mossad gun-runner and accountant Tibor Rosenbaum, Israel and China proceeded to develop their own nuclear capabilities without the knowledge of the United States.

If you find this scenario improbable, I strongly urge you to read Gordon Thomas’ excellent book, Seeds of Fire, where he exposes how the Mossad and CSIS (Chinese secret service) have conspired on many occasions to not only steal American military secrets, but to also doctor U.S. intelligence programs such as the Justice Department’s PROMISE software. This instance, I am afraid to say, is but the first where echoes of the JFK assassination can still be felt today reverberating through our post 9-11 world. The danger of Israel developing the Bomb in unison with China became a highly volatile situation, and was closely monitored by the CIA.

Intent on pursuing this path, the Israeli’s constructed a nuclear facility at Dimona. When Kennedy demanded that the U.S. inspect this plant, Ben-Gurion was so incensed that he erected another PHONY facility that held no evidence of nuclear research and development. (Does this scenario sound eerily familiar to the game we’re playing with Saddam Hussein in Iraq right now?) Fully aware of their shenanigans, though, JFK told Charles Bartlett, “The sons of bitches lie to me constantly about their nuclear capability.”

Avner Cohen, in Israel and the Bomb, reiterates this claim by saying that Ben-Gurion had taken the nuclear issue so closely to heart that he, “concluded that he could not tell the truth about Dimona to American leaders, not even in private.”

Dr. Gerald M. Steinberg, political science professor at Bar-Ilan University’s BESA Center for Strategic Studies in Tel Aviv, weighs in by saying, “Between 1961 and 1963, the Kennedy administration placed a great deal of pressure on Ben-Gurion in the effort to pressure for acceptance of international inspection of Dimona and Israeli abdication of their nuclear weapons. This pressure apparently did not alter Israeli policy, but it was a contributing factor to Ben-Gurion’s resignation in 1963.”

To convey how serious this situation had become in modern terms, look at what is happening in Iraq with United Nations security teams inspecting the royal palaces and bunkers for nuclear weapons and materials. This matter is so urgent that our nation is on the verge of war. Forty years earlier, the heat that JFK was placing on Ben-Gurion was equally as strong as what George Bush is laying on Saddam Hussein today.

In Israel and the Bomb, Avner Cohen reinforces this point. “To force Ben-Gurion to accept the conditions, Kennedy exerted the most useful leverage available to an American president in dealing with Israel: a threat that an unsatisfactory solution would jeopardize the U.S. government’s commitment to, and support of, Israel.”

The pressure on Ben-Gurion was so immense that he ended up leaving office. But Kennedy, in true pit-bull style, didn’t let up on Ben-Gurion’s successor, Levi Eshkol, as Avner Cohen reports. “Kennedy told Eshkol that the U.S. commitment and support of Israel ‘could be seriously jeopardized’ if Israel did not let the U.S. obtain ‘reliable information’ about its efforts in the nuclear field. Kennedy’s demands were unprecedented. They amounted, in effect, to an ultimatum.” Cohen concludes this thought by asserting, “Kennedy’s letter precipitated a near-crisis situation in Eshkol’s office.”

In the end, as we’re all aware, Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963; but less known is that China conducted its first nuclear test in October, 1964. What makes this event more profound is Piper’s claim that even though Israel said its first nuclear tests took place in 1979, they actually occurred in October, 1964 along with the Chinese! If this is true, other than August, 1945 when the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, October 1964 may possibly be the most dangerous month in 20th century history.

Let’s return, though, to JFK’s assassination and the direct results of it in regard to the Jewish lobby, American foreign policy, and the militarization of Israel. To understand how powerful the Israeli lobby is in this country, venerable Senator J. William Fulbright told CBS Face the Nation on April 15, 1973, “Israel controls the U.S. Senate. The Senate is subservient, much too much; we should be more concerned about U.S. interests rather than doing the bidding of Israel. The great majority of the Senate of the U.S. – somewhere around 80% – is completely in support of Israel; anything Israel wants; Israel gets. This has been demonstrated time and again, and this has made [foreign policy] difficult for our government.”

Do you hear what Senator Fulbright said? This isn’t a crazy conspiracy theorist or a KKK anti-Semite. It’s a much-respected U.S. Senator saying that about 80% of the Senate is in Israel’s hip pocket. Adding clout to this argument is Rep. Paul Findley, who was quoted in The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs in March, 1992, “During John Kennedy’s campaign for the presidency, a group of New York Jews had privately offered to meet his campaign expenses if he would let them set his Middle East policy. He did not agree … As the president, he provided only limited support of Israel.”

To understand how important Kennedy’s decisions were during his short-lived presidency, we need to look at the issue of campaign finance. Considering how influential the Israeli lobby is in the U.S. Senate (hearkening back to the words of Senator Fulbright), they had to have been enraged when President Kennedy genuinely wanted to cut the knees out from under the current campaign finance methods because it made politicians so reliant upon the huge cash inlays of special-interest groups. Regrettably, Kennedy did not have the time to implement this program, and to this day our political system is still monopolized by lobbyists from the very same special-interest groups. One can only imagine what changes would have occurred in regard to our foreign policy had Kennedy eradicated these vipers and blood-suckers from the halls of Congress.

Tragically, Kennedy’s ideas never came to fruition, and his heated battle with Prime Minister Ben-Gurion over whether Israel should be allowed to develop a nuclear program was ultimately lost. The reason why is that Lyndon Baines Johnson, who Kennedy intended to drop from his ticket in 1964 due to his extreme dislike for, had a complete reversal in foreign policy. As you will see, not only did Israel’s nuclear program move ahead unchecked; they also became the primary beneficiary of our foreign aid.

But this absolute turnaround would not have occurred if Kennedy would not have been assassinated. Up until LBJ became president, Kennedy dealt with the Middle East in a way that most benefited the U.S. His primary goal – and one which would most keep the peace – was a balance of power in the Middle East so that each and every nation would be secure. This decision adhered to the Tripartite Declaration which the U.S. signed in 1950. But under the Johnson administration, this fragile balance was overturned, and by 1967 – only four years after Kennedy’s assassination – the U.S. was Israel’s main weapons supplier, and OUR best interests were put well behind those of Israel!

As Michael Collins Piper writes: “The bottom line is this: JFK was adamantly determined to stop Israel from building the nuclear bomb. LBJ simply looked the other way. JFK’s death did indeed prove beneficial to Israel’s nuclear ambitions and the evidence proves it.”

Reuven Pedatzer, in a review of Avner Cohen’s Israel and the Bomb, in the Israeli Newspaper Ha’aretz on February 5, 1999 wrote, “The murder of American president John F. Kennedy brought to an abrupt end the massive pressure being applied by the U.S. administration on the government of Israel to discontinue their nuclear program.” He continues, “Kennedy made it quite clear to the Israeli Prime Minister that he would not under any circumstances agree to Israel becoming a nuclear state.” Pedatzer concludes, “Had Kennedy remained alive, it is doubtful whether Israel would today have a nuclear option,” and that, “Ben-Gurion’s decision to resign in 1963 was taken to a large extent against the background of the tremendous pressure that Kennedy was applying on him concerning the nuclear issue.”

If you’re still not convinced; how about some numbers? In Kennedy’s last fiscal budget year of 1964, Israeli aid was $40 million. In LBJ’s first budget of 1965, it soared to $71 million, and in 1966 more than tripled from two years earlier to $130 million! Plus, during Kennedy’s administration, almost none of our aid to Israel was military in nature. Instead, it was split equally between development loans and food assistance under the PL480 Program. Yet in 1965 under the Johnson administration, 20% of our aid to Israel was for the military, while in 1966, 71% was used for war-related materials.

Continuing in this same vein, in 1963 the Kennedy administration sold 5 Hawk missiles to Israel as part of an air-defense system. In 1965-66, though, LBJ laid 250 tanks on Israel, 48 Skyhawk attack aircrafts, plus guns and artillery which were all offensive in nature. If you ever wondered when the Israeli War Machine was created, this is it! LBJ was its father.

According to Stephen Green in Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations with a Militant Israel, “The $92 million in military assistance provided in fiscal year 1966 was greater than the total of all official military aid provided to Israel cumulatively in all the years going back to the foundation of that nation in 1948.”

Green continues, “70% of all U.S. official assistance to Israel has been military. America has given Israel over $17 billion in military aid since 1946, virtually all of which – over 99% – has been provided since 1965.”

Can you see what’s happening here? Within two years of JFK’s assassination, Israel went from being a weak, outmatched member of the volatile Middle Eastern community that was not allowed to develop nuclear weapons to one that was well on its way to becoming a undeniable military force on the world stage. John Kennedy adamantly put his foot down and refused to allow Israel to develop a nuclear program, while LBJ bent over backward to facilitate and bolster them. Or, as Seymour Hersh wrote in The Samson Option, “By 1968, the president had no intention of doing anything to stop the Israeli bomb.”

The result of this shift in focus from the Kennedy to Johnson administration is, in my opinion, the PRIMARY reason behind our current troubles in the Middle East which culminated in the 9-11 attacks and our upcoming war with Iraq (and beyond). I have a great deal of confidence in this statement, for as Michael Collins Piper points out, here are the results of John F. Kennedy’s assassination:

1) Our foreign and military aid to Israel increased dramatically once LBJ became president.

2) Rather than trying to maintain a BALANCE in the Middle East, Israel suddenly emerged as the dominant force.

3) Since the LBJ administration, Israel has always had weaponry that was superior to any of its direct neighbors.

4) Due to this undeniable and obvious increase in Israel’s War Machine, a constant struggle has been perpetuated in the Middle East.

5) LBJ also allowed Israel to proceed with its nuclear development, resulting in them becoming the 6th largest nuclear force in the world.

6) Finally, our huge outlays of foreign aid to Israel (approximately $10 billion/year when all is said and done) has created a situation of never-ending attacks and retaliation in the Middle East, plus outright scorn and enmity against the U.S. for playing the role of Israel’s military enabler.

In Israel’s, and especially David Ben-Gurion’s eyes then, what were their alternatives – to remain weakened (or at least balanced) in relation to their neighbors and handcuffed by JFK’s refusal to bow to their will, or KILL the one man standing in their way to becoming dominant in the Middle East, the recipient of huge amounts of military aid, and one of the premier nuclear forces in the world? It’s something to think about. Also, while these thoughts are running through your head, ask yourself this question. If Kennedy, LBJ, and all subsequent administrations would have adhered to the 1950 Tripartite Declaration and did everything in their power to maintain balance in the Middle East instead of pushing Israel to the forefront, would our Towers have been attacked on 9-11, 2001, and would we be on the verge of a possibly catastrophic war today? It’s certainly something to ponder.

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