[R-G] [BillTottenWeblog] Barack Obama: "America's First Jewish President"

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by James Petras

Information Clearinghouse (December 12 2008)

Obama asks Shimon Peres: "What can I do for Israel?"
-- Haaretz (November 17 2008)


The UN Special Rappateur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
(Richard Falk) has said Israel's policies there amount to a crime
against humanity ... He said the UN must act to protect the Palestinian
population suffering what he called 'collective punishment' ... He said
the International Criminal Court should also investigate whether the
Israeli civilian leaders and military commanders for the Gaza siege
should be indicted and prosecuted for violations of international
criminal law.
-- BBC News (December 10 2008)


We need to ratchet up tough but direct diplomacy with Iran, making very
clear to them than their development of nuclear weapons would be
unacceptable, that their funding of terrorist organizations like Hamas
and Hizbullah, their threats against Israel are contrary to everything
we believe in ... We may have to tighten up those sanctions ... and give
them a clear choice ... whether they want to do this the hard way or the
easy way.
-- President-Elect Obama on NBC Meet the Press (December 07 2008)


According to a nationally prominent Zionist spokesperson, former
Congressman, Federal Judge, White House Counsel to President Bill
Clinton and early backer of Obama, Abner Mikvner, "Barack Obama is the
first Jewish President". Mikvner's affirmation reflects both Obama's
one-sided and longstanding commitment to the State of Israel and loyalty
to the Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC) in the United States, as well
as the long-term and successful effort of a network of financially and
politically powerful Jewish Zionists to 'embed' Obama to their 'Israel
First' political apparatus. What is striking about the latter is the
demeaning and arrogant claims made by some leading Jewish Zionist about
their 'central roles' in the making of Obama's professional and
political careers - in effect denying the President-Elect any credit for
his own academic or professional success. (Historically this has been
mirrored in the continuous claims of some American Jews to have fought
and won the battle of Civil Rights in the 1960s on behalf of African
Americans - essentially denying black Americans any independent
political role in their own struggle.) Even their personal flattery
about his 'wisdom', 'brilliance' and 'intellectual acuity' is always
linked with his unconditional support of the State of Israel. One can
envision how quickly his Zionist colleagues would replace their plaudits
with crude insults regarding his intelligence if he suggested Israel end
its starvation blockade of Gaza ...  Needless to say the Zionists know
their man, as they confidently proclaim, he is a cautious and prudent
politician, who measures power before he speaks, especially as he has
filled the White House, economic councils and security apparatus with
Zionist zealots.

The Making and Re-Making of Obama

The Chicago Jewish News, a nationally prominent Israel-First propaganda
organ, published a lengthy article on 'Obama and the Jews' by Pauline
Dubkin (October 24 2008), which quotes approvingly a 'long-time Jewish
observer of the political scene', who declared that, "Jews made him
(Obama). Wherever you look there is a Jewish presence."

This is not merely the usual arrogant self-aggrandizing boasts of a
Zionist power broker, with which we are constantly bombarded on so many
political topics, this reflects an important part of what Obama has
become, especially in advancing his latter day political ambitions. The
Zionist self-promoters (ZSP), ever ready to take credit for any success
(no matter how notorious and immoral) - Wall Street speculators, Ivy
League professors, Pentagon militarists, cultural gurus and even the key
patrons of art forms like jazz and constantly rewrite history (or
biography in the case of Obama) to maximize their self-importance in all
aspects of American life. The ZSP conveniently fail to mention in their
articles that Obama's white Gentile grandmother gave him the
intellectual nurturing and encouragement and diligently petitioned for
scholarships for him to attend elite private schools, which formed the
basis for his intellectual skills to write, speak and reason as an
educated man. The ZSP exclude from their 'revisionist and Judaized'
biography of Obama, the central importance of Reverend Jeremiah Wright
who transformed Obama from an elite Ivy university graduate into an
effective social activist. Obama was able to participate and get
involved in community organizing in Chicago's African-American
neighborhoods because of Wright's endorsement and broad credibility. If
it were not for Reverend Wright, Obama would never have had a social
base or organizational experience to engage in Chicago politics. It is
only after Obama had gained these skills and popular appeal that the
Zionist politicos noticed him and went to work on his ego and ambitions,
recruiting him to their pro-Israel agenda and financing his political
career.

The Zionist re-write of his biography has gone curiously unchallenged by
Obama. To suit his new mentors, the Israel-First ideologues and
financial backers, he has willfully discarded and insulted his former
mentors, as well as any current policy advisers and political colleagues
who doesn't adhere to the Zionist line of unconditional support for
Israel. Two cases come immediately to mind. When leading Zionist
ideologues objected to the presence of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Robert
Malley, among Obama's foreign policy advisors, the Zionists in Obama's
inner circle immediately marginalized them with his approval. When the
notorious torture-promoting Zionofascist Harvard Law Professor, Alan
Dershowitz raised a howl about former US President Jimmy Carter (a
principled critic of Israel's apartheid policies) speaking at the
Democratic Party Convention (following a century-long political
tradition of honoring former presidents) the Zionist operatives
blatantly humiliated the elderly Carter by denying him even a
five-minute speech - with Obama's approval. 'Professor' Dershowitz
publicly crowed about his success and power over the Democratic nominee
Obama in censoring the former President.

The conversion and promotion of Obama as an Israel-Firster is an
excellent case study of the methods the ZPC has used to build a near
invincible power base in the US political system. The construction of
the ZPC is not the result of a cabal with a preplanned centrally
controlled operation. Obama's conversion began through an ideologically
diverse, individual, family and community-based effort. As Obama rose
from local to national political office, Zionist promotion evolved from
local into a nationally organized and concerted effort including
campaign funding, business career appointments and paid propaganda and
indoctrination junkets to Israel.

The ZPC offers positive inducements for the 'recruitable' and threats of
retaliation and intimidation via media slanders and systematic public
pillory through most Jewish communal organizations for the public
political critics of Israel who remain recalcitrant and refuse to toe
the Israel-First line.

Turning Obama into an Israel-Firster, according to the Chicago Jewish
News article, began during his studies at Harvard Law School where he
was 'spotted' by a Zionist professor, Martha Minow, as "smart,
promising, and politically ambitious" and a likely recruit. The
professor proudly recounts how she contacted family members, including
her father, a major Democratic powerbroker, and fellow Zionists who ran
a law firm in Chicago and recommended they hire the Obama. In brief, the
first step in Zionist recruitment was using a prestigious academic post
for initial contact, followed by a promise of career advancement through
a professional network.

The next step was to introduce Obama to an association of 'friends and
neighbors in the Jewish Community including prominent Zionist financial
supporters. Obama's early promoters played a key role in convincing him
that his political future depended on Zionist allies and that support
depended on his total commitment to an Israel-First agenda. As Obama's
ties with his Zionist-liberal backers in the Democratic Party thickened,
his links to black community organizing and his pastor and former
mentor, the progressive African-American minister, Reverend Jeremiah
Wright weakened. By the end of the 1990s, Obama was firmly embedded in
the liberal Zionist Democratic Party network and through it he teamed up
with two key Zionist figures who were crucial to his presidential
campaign: David Axelrod, Obama's chief political strategist since 2002
and the chief architect and tactician of his presidential campaign in
2008 and Bettylu Salzman, daughter of Phillip Klutznick, a billionaire
real estate developer, slumlord and zealous Israel-Firster.
Salzman/Klutznick admits she never would have bankrolled and promoted
Obama simply because of 'his smarts' or liberal politics if he hadn't
pledged his commitment to Israel's interests. She states, "Obviously I'm
not going to support someone who is opposed to Israel and what it stands
for. He's right on all the issues when it comes to Israel. He is in
exactly the same place (Hillary) Clinton is, maybe stronger. He's a
clearer thinker." (Chicago Jewish News, October 24 2008) While Obama
served in the Illinois Senate, he shared an office with an Orthodox Jew
and fanatical Israel-Firster, Ira Silverstein, who boasts of his role in
'educating' Obama about Jewish Orthodoxy and more important "shared
pro-Israel feelings" to the point that ... "When Silverstein sponsored
numerous resolutions condemning PLO bombings Obama eagerly signed on as
a co-sponsor". (ibid)

Fully embedded in the Zionist Power Configuration of Chicago, Obama was
advised by the Axelrods, Klutznicks and other key strategists to make
the obligatory ritual pilgrimage to Israel and pay obeisance to its
leaders in the course of his Senate campaign. During his trip to Israel,
two years later in 2006, Obama was accompanied and guided by the
executive vice-president of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan
Chicago. Under Zionist guidance, Obama 'connected' with the Israeli
state, totally ignoring the plight of the Palestinians who were being
savagely repressed by the Israel Army and assaulted on a daily basis by
Zion-Fascist settlers. Obama returned a thoroughly committed Zionist
African-American politician.

With the Israeli-ZPC certificate of approval, Obama's financial base of
support widened to include some of the wealthiest pro-Israel Jewish
Americans in the Midwest including Lester Crown, whose son, James Crown
headed Obama's financial campaign in Illinois. According to Crown
(pater), "From the time I met him, the times we talked about Israel and
we talked about it several times, he has been an ardent backer of
Israel's defense position (sic), Israel's security position". (Ibid)

To those Zionfascists who demand that Israel annex all of Palestine and
expel 'the Arabs' and were disturbed by Obama's passing reference to a
two-state solution, Crown assured them that Obama's proposal was couched
in such outrageously impossible demands for concessions from the
Palestinians that it was a dead letter.

Not all Jews accept this view of a Zionist-embedded Obama: Some racists
reject him as an untrustworthy and unqualified 'Schvartze' because of
his 'very close intimate relationship' with Reverent Jeremiah Wright.
The Zionist-influenced mass media took their cue from the far-right and
orchestrated a hate campaign against Reverend Wright and his links to
Obama. The 'liberal Zionists', who strategized and ran Obama's
presidential campaign, easily convinced Obama to publicly dissociate
himself from his former minister and mentor of the 1980s. Obama
complied. However, the alliance of the Republican Right and Zionfascists
demanded Obama make a public denunciation of the Minister. The liberal
Zionists prepared the script, which Obama recited, issuing a vicious
condemnation of Reverend Wright and specifically listed Wright's defense
of the sovereignty and self-determination of the Palestinians as one of
his 'crimes'.

Obama had crossed the River Jordan. His capitulation to the
Zionofascists was the inevitable consequence of his intimate and
longstanding ties to his liberal-Zionist backers. The public purging and
scourging of a renowned African-American Christian theologian of the
oppressed was only the beginning of the Zionist makeover of Obama as the
first Jewish (or better Zionist) President of the United States. It was
followed by further purges of any 'centrist' or 'realist' establishment
adviser, who might at any time in the past have issued the mildest
criticism of Israel's policies or even praised or associated with any
other critic of Israel or the Jewish Lobby in the US. It was 'guilt by
association'.

The Zionofascists soon pressed their campaign to force Obama's
liberal-Zionists to purge Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Cold Warrior National
Security Adviser to former President Jimmy Carter, Samantha Power,
author and lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University and Robert Malley, a former Clinton adviser for their
perceived crimes against Zionism. Brzezinski was accused of advocating
what he called "an even-handed Middle East policy", something clearly
'anti-Semitic' in the eyes of the unconditional supporters of Israel who
dominate the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations
(PMAJO). Worse still he praised the Walt-Mearsheimer book critical of
the Israel Lobby, a capital offense in the eyes of most of the Jewish
political spectrum. Power and Malley also transgressed the Israel-First
line. Although Brzezinski later recanted his praise of Professors Walt
and Mearsheimers' study, he and the other members of the 'objectionable
three' foreign policy specialists were marginalized and excluded from
having any input on policy issues related to Middle East.

Control of Obama's Middle East policy was taken over by Dennis Ross, a
virulent Zionist advocate of Israel's ultra-militaristic policies,
including an armed preemptive attack on Iranian nuclear and military
installations. Ross is an unconditional supporter of the Israeli
starvation siege of the 1.5 million residents of the Gaza Strip and
fully backed Israel's savage air attacks against civilian targets in
Lebanon. Obama's appointment of Ross is the clearest guarantee to all
Zionists, liberal, orthodox or fascist, that US policy in the Middle
East will continue to be subordinated to the interests of the Israeli
State and its military.

Obama's purge of any and all moderate voices on Middle East policy, his
placement of fanatical Israel-Firsters in most key positions in his
campaign and new Administration reflects his long-term, deep immersion
into the Zionist Power Configuration. The result is a "Jewish President"
- in the sense that most key White House, economic and security
appointments reflect pre-election Zionist power in the making,
indoctrination and scripting of the Obama candidacy.

The Configuration of the 'Jewish President'

One of Obama's longest supporters, Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, provides a
clue to Obama's affinity for Zionist appointments. According to Rabbi
Wolf, "Obama is embedded in the Jewish world". While the Rabbi is
presumptuous to assume that all Jews subscribe to his own Israel-First
views, he is absolutely correct if he is referring to the Jewish-Zionist
world.

Nothing better explains Obama's selection of demonstrably failed
economists and security officials than his long-term, large-scale links
to the ZPC.

Obama started with the appointments of dual US-Israeli citizen, Illinois
Congressman Rahm Emmanuel and Zionist David Axelrod to top White House
posts, as well as Lawrence Summers (long-time Harvard ally of the
Judeo-fascist, torture advocate Alan Dershowitz) as chief White House
economic adviser. Summers is a life-time Israel-Firster, who used his
presidency at Harvard University as a bully pulpit to attack a
student-faculty group critical of Israeli policies in the Occupied
Terrtories. As the former Treasury Secretary under the Clinton regime he
was a key architect of the speculator-dominated financial system, which
is currently in total collapse. In line with the 'Jewish Presidency',
Obama named one of the foremost, unconditional Israel-Firsters to be his
key Middle East policymaker - Dennis Ross, a leading Zionist ideologue
and co-author of a presidential position paper advocating pre-emptive
war with Iran. Ross is the pivotal Zionist figure in Obama's entourage
and his appointment is the guarantee for the 52 Presidents of the Major
American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO) that the Obama regime will follow
and support with American guns and American tax-payer money every
Israeli war crime, assault or invasion on its Arab and Parsi-speaking
regional neighbors. Ross, Axelrod, Summers, Emmanuel and their craven
followers in Congress together with the AIPAC and the entire Zionist
community-based network will ensure that Obama is inextricably
'embedded' in their agenda. They will not allow the publication or
support of any intelligence investigation, judicial inquiry or United
Nations report, which challenges Israel's occupation of Palestine and
promotion of pre-emptive war with Iran based on the fabrication of data
about its so-called nuclear threat. Each and every recently appointed
Zionist has condemned the United Nations and International Atomic Agency
reports refuting Israel's phony claims of an Iranian nuclear weapons
program. They will make sure that newly appointed National Security
Adviser, General James Jones will never bring up or make public his
highly critical internal report based his on-site investigation of
Israel's crimes against the civilian Palestinian population in the
Occupied Territories.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President Obama and Defense
Secretary Gates are so deeply 'embedded' in the Zionist network and so
deeply infused with the Israel-First ideology that ZPC 'pressure' will
not be necessary. The three are, in effect, Zionized Zombies, eager to
fawn and truckle, even to grotesque excesses, at every wink and gesture,
signaling military handouts, UN vetoes and repeated provocative acts of
war against Iran. They have even exceeded President Bush in their
eagerness to please their Zionist mentors by recognizing Jerusalem as
the 'undivided' capital of the Jews - effectively denying the rights of
the Palestinian residents.

Nothing speaks to the dominance of the ZPC over US political life -
domestic and foreign - than the election of their meticulously groomed
first 'Jewish President' - and the subsequent takeover of strategic
economic and security posts in his administration.

Conclusion

The ascent of a minority of ambitious power-driven political operatives
acting first and foremost for a militarist colonial power in a strategic
region of the world economy represents the biggest threat to world peace
and to US democratic values in recent history.

Think about it: Not only do the Zionists and their embedded clones rule
the White House, they also have the political apparatus (left, liberal,
center and right) to silence, insult, witch hunt and isolate any critic
of their agenda, their organizations and of the State of Israel. When
confronted by a critic the entire apparatus brays in unison about
'anti-Semitism' and follows up with severe civil sanctions. As Obama's
career under his Zionist handlers illustrates, they are capable of
hurling repulsive denunciations against his former African-American
mentor and spiritual councilor, Reverend Wright; capable of publicly
humiliating and pushing aside a former President and Obama supporter,
Jimmy Carter; capable of isolating and 'sanitizing' former top foreign
policymakers from earlier Democratic Administration like Brzezinski,
simply for pointing out Israeli crimes against humanity (although such
observations are made daily in the European press and political circles).

The apparatus combines the carrot (embedding and promoting Obama) and
the stick (stigmatizing Carter): It all depends on whether an
individual, politician, academic, writer or journalist is 'useful' (that
is, an unconditional supporter) or 'harmful' (that is, critical) to the
State of Israel.

The Obama experience illustrates how a small, close knit, well-organized
and well financed minority operating through prestigious professional
posts and powerful economic enterprises can penetrate major political
institutions, capture upwardly mobile politicians and 'turn' them into
willing accomplices in promoting wars on behalf of a foreign colonial
militarist power. If in the past we have experienced Zionist thuggery
mugging our freedom of speech in civil society, think of what we can
expect when these thugs have complete control of the White House. The
'First Jewish President' of the United States indeed! Where does that
leave the American people, their rights, their interests and their
country's independent foreign policy?

Epilogue

In early December 2008, Israel's right wing party, Likud, under the
leadership of 'Bibi' Netanyahu, met and nominated its slate of
candidates for the upcoming national elections (February 12 2009). The
majority of candidates nominated represent what most Israeli journalists
call the 'hard right' or what might be accurately described as
Zionfascism. The Likud Party majority favors the expulsion of all
Palestinians (that is non-Jews) from Greater Israel, the military
seizure of Gaza, the end of any pretense of peace negotiations and the
immediate bombing of Iran.

Currently Likud and its fascists have the support of a plurality of
Israeli Jews. If they win, it is a virtual certainty they will receive
the automatic support of all the principle respectable pro-Israel Jewish
organizations in the US, who follow the line that: "It is not ours to
question whom the Israelis vote for office. It is our duty to back the
State of Israel."

The election of an Israeli-fascist regime will up the ante in
Washington. Does Obama's embedding in the Zionist apparatus include
support for Jewish fascism , the total ethnic cleansing of Palestine and
their unilateral decision to 'nuke' Iran? Three weeks into his
presidency Obama will face his biggest Middle East challenge, which will
define the nature of US policy in the region.

Obama has recently suggested that Washington would nuke Iran to protect
Israel - which has never yet signed a treaty with the US - to which the
Bush Administration replied contemptuously that it would be very hard to
convince American parents in Kansas that their sons should risk nuclear
incineration for the sake of a small country in the Middle East. Clearly
Obama is a greater war monger on issues involving Israel then even Bush:
It comes with being a "Jewish President".

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James Petras, a former Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University,
New York, owns a 50-year membership in the class struggle, is an adviser
to the landless and jobless in Brazil and Argentina, and is co-author of
Globalization Unmasked (Zed Books). Petras' forthcoming book, Zionism,
Militarism and the Decline of US Power, is due from Clarity Press,
Atlanta, in August 2008. He can be reached at: jpetras at binghamton.edu.
Visit his website.

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