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NEO-CON NATION WITH
MICHAEL COLLINS PIPER
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Pro-Zionist neo-cons from across the
religious spectrum who have time and time again pushed
the interests of Israel over those of the United States.
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Elections
Put Pro-Israel
Neo-Cons Back on Top
Secretive
political action committee amasses
massive slush fund used to buy victories
By Michael Collins
Piper
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Republican Party’s takeover of the House
of Representatives in the recent election also
ushers in a consolidation of pro-Israeli political
influence over Congress unlike ever before. Then,
too — not coincidentally — it heralds
a new era in which secret campaign contributions
by big-money interests are now holding sway in
an unprecedented way.
 Exemplifying
these new developments is the rapid-fire rise
of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), a deeply religious
Orthodox Jew and pro-Israeli “neo-conservative”
hard-liner who is expected to be named House majority
leader in the forthcoming GOP-controlled Congress.
Although
the majority leader post is officially the No.
2 slot in the House of Representatives, the truth
is, Cantor will hold tremendous behind-the-scenes
power in the Republican caucus — greater
than even Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), who is slated
to become speaker of the House (and with whom
Cantor has never been on the best of terms).
Cantor’s
particular influence stems from his control —
along with another pro-Israeli hardliner, former
Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) — of a secretive
and well-funded political action committee, the
American Action Network (AAN), run by Cantor’s
close advisor and former chief of staff, Rob Collins.
Cantor’s
AAN operation is believed to have raised up to
$25 million this past year and spent at least
$16 million in waging independent expenditures
on behalf of Cantor-approved Republican candidates
in the recent election.
On
Oct. 25 even The Washington Post was
moved to describe AAN as “mysterious”
and described Collins as one of “a small
circle of operatives with the coveted expertise
of actually running such secretive organizations.”
Collins himself has said, “I have a weird
gift for raising money.”
That
gift has given new power to Cantor, who played
a major part though AAN in orchestrating the GOP
victory, bankrolled by well-heeled contributors
whose names are not required to be revealed to
the Federal Election Commission.
It
is no coincidence that two other, similar fundraising
ventures — American Crossroads and Crossroads
GPS, both run by former George W. Bush operative
Karl Rove — share offices with Cantor’s
AAN.
Ellen
Miler of the Sunlight Foundation said the massive
spending by such groups in the 2010 elections
is the “how-to” for the 2012 election.
“It’s
how to use corporate money, how to use secret
money, to buy elections,” she said. “It’s
going to be no holds barred.” While most
members of Congress generally rely on campaign
contributions from within their own districts,
examination of Cantor’s reported contributions
indicate that his political fortunes have relied
extensively on a great deal of money supplied
by Jewish contributors from across the country.
Cantor
is able to tap into those same sources to fund
his AAN operation on behalf of pro-Israel Republicans.
So, Cantor’s access to tens of millions
of dollars in secret cash contributions makes
this young congressman particularly influential,
today and in the future.
The
influx of so many new GOP “conservatives”
elected with Cantor’s help will also expand
the influence of the Republican Study Committee
— of which Cantor is a member — which
is composed of more than a hundred GOP congressmen,
all of whom are vociferous allies of the Jewish
lobby.
The
RSC’s executive director, Paul Teller —
who described himself to The Washington Post
as the RSC’s “token Jew” —
formerly served on the staff of Rep. Mike Pence
(R-Ind.). Pence once described how every time
the subject of Israel was mentioned on the House
floor, he rushed there to hear what was being
said. Now Pence is reportedly hoping to parlay
his peculiar devotion to Israel into a 2012 presidential
campaign.
The
Republican victory also brings control of at least
two key House committees into the hands of pro-
Israeli lawmakers.
The
House Foreign Affairs Committee’s new chair
is Cuban-born Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. She has long
been one of the loudest advocates for Israel in
Washington. Upon her election to Congress in 1988
and for years afterward, she was touted as “the
first woman of Hispanic origin elected to the
House,” but then the truth came out: Ros-Lehtinen
was the granddaughter of Sephardic Jews from Turkey
who migrated to Cuba.
Slated
to chair the Homeland Security Committee is Rep.
Peter King (R-N.Y.) who — although an Irish
Catholic who attended the University of Notre
Dame — is a boisterous voice for Israeli
interests.
Abroad,
the consequences of the GOP victory are being
noted in the context of Israel’s concerns.
In
Israel, Danny Danon, a hardliner in Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party, expressed
delight: “The huge influx of newly elected
representatives and senators to Washington includes
dozens of strong friends of Israel who will put
the brakes on the consistently dubious, sometimes
dangerous policies of President Obama these past
two years.”
Meanwhile,
Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to the
United States, Prince Turki al-Faisal, slated
to become Saudi foreign minister, warned in a
speech in Washington following the election that
he foresees a return of the “neo-conservative
philosophy” and that the election “will
give more fodder for these warmongers to pursue
their favorite exercise, war-making.”
The
Arab diplomat bluntly declared that “neo-con
advisors, American conservatives and Zionist extremists”
have promoted policies that “continually
throw a wrench into the progress of peace.”
He
said that “particularly in the Congress,
the bipartisan support for Israel has been enormous;
it’s not just Republicans. My concern is
really with the people who speak up for a more
aggressive type of policy, as espoused by neo-conservatives.
They will interpret these elections as, if you
like, a return to what they would consider to
be their view on foreign policy in general and
. . . particularly on the Middle East.”
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. . ..Michael Collins Piper can
be heard every week day night live on
the Internet at republicbroadcasting.org.
He is the author of Final
Judgment, the controversial
“underground bestseller”
documenting the collaboration of Israeli
intelligence in the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. He is also the author
of The
High Priests of War,
The
New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America
, The
Judas Goats: The Enemy Within,
Dirty
Secrets: Crime, Conspiracy & Cover-Up
in the 20th Century,
The
GOLEM: Israel's Hell Bomb,
and Target:
Traficant. These
works can be found at America
First Books and FIRST
AMENDMENT
BOOKS: 1-888-699-NEWS.
He has lectured on suppressed
topics in places as diverse as Malaysia,
Japan, Canada, Russia and Abu Dhabi. |
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(Issue #47, November 22, 2010, AMERICAN
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