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Jan. 24, 2005 Lawrence Franklin, one-time official in the Pentagon, who worked as a specialist on Iran, under Douglas J. Feith, the resigned Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, was sentenced by US District Judge T. S. Ellis to 12 years, 7 months in prison for passing classified information to pro-Israel operatives of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Under the weight of the threat of 25 years’ imprisonment, he pleaded guilty in October as the consequence of a plea bargain whereby he would be sentenced to just 12 years instead, in exchange for testifying against the two members of AIPAC, Steven Rosen, with AIPAC since 1982, and Keith Weissman, with AIPAC since 1993. Lawrence Franklin also orally communicated classified information to Naor Gilon, a high-ranking official in the Israeli embassy in Washington, who was reluctant to take hard copy. Daniel Ayalon, the Israeli ambassador to the US, denies that the Franklin case has anything to do with Israel, insisting that it is strictly an internal problem in the US. In informal Jewish parlance, a Gentile who is hired to work on the Sabbath, when Jews are debarred by Mosaic law from working, is known as a “Sabbath Goy”, though, in Hebrew, a “goy” is a Gentile nation rather than a Gentile individual, and this term has come to mean “any willing Gentile servant of Jewish interests”, including people like Franklin. When the news broke that Rosen and Weissmann were implicated, AIPAC dismissed them, apparently for the sake of appearances, but thus far, I haven’t heard anything about a probe into the depth of AIPAC’s involvement in receiving classified information and possible espionage. In fact, quite the contrary, a whole gaggle of congressmen, many of whom are beneficiaries of campaign donations that AIPAC can persuade Jewish organizations to lavish upon them, popped up, like so many jacks-in-boxes, to vouch for AIPAC’s integrity. Later, charges were brought against Rosen and Weissman, who are awaiting trial themselves, which is scheduled to begin in April, 2006. Franklin has not yet been imprisoned, remaining free until he gives his testimony against Rosen and Weissmann, at which time he may be eligible for further sentence reductions. If the late Senator William Fulbright is to be believed, Israel controls the US Senate, at least on Middle East policy, through the agency of AIPAC, whose power flows, not so much from the contributions it can wrest from the Jewish community, but from the tight relations between AIPAC and the major American news media, which, by and large, are dominated by Jews. The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Time, Fortune, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report and many, many others are run by Jews. Naturally, many of these Jews have Zionist aims and close links to Israel. An example would be the now-disgraced Richard Perle, who was chief engineer of the Iraqi invasion, while sitting on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, the board of the American Enterprise Institute and also Hollinger International, the publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post any many other publications. One can see why no one in Washington is clamoring for an investigation of AIPAC. It’s hard to believe that Rosen and Weissmann acted sua sponte, without the approval of the committee, though. I personally cannot see any reason whatsoever for a confrontation between the US and Iran. The talk of defusing the proliferation of nuclear weapons is pure nonsense. Russia has thousands of nuclear warheads at its disposal. Why should it disturb an American if Iran manages to stockpile a dozen or so. The so-called “mad mullahs” are not so mad as to presume to imagine they could attack the US. They may bluster, but they are canny, intelligent men who understand what’s going on. I can appreciate that there is a good reason for a confrontation between Israel and Islam in general, including Iran. After all, Israel invaded and occupied Palestine, without a particle of justification except for that sham called the Jewish Bible. But that is an Israeli problem, not an American problem. The US-Israel alliance is a one-way street: the US gives and Israel takes. With allies like that, who needs enemies? If Iran won a war against Israel, it wouldn’t bother me in the least. All of these facts are so obvious that it is almost incomprehensible to me that someone can adopt the attitude that Franklin is reputed to have. He “hates” Iran and is working for the “good” of America, even though he has circumvented the law technically. It sounds more credible to me that he is pro-Israel messenger boy “on the take”. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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