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Investigative Report / December 2, 2011

Max
Blumenthal: How Israeli Occupation Forces, Bahraini Monarchy Guards Trained U.S.
Police For Coordinated Crackdown On “Occupy” Protests

By Max
Blumenthal

This article
is cross-posted from Al-Akhbar.com
with permission from the author Max
Blumenthal

New York – In October, the Alameda County Sheriff’s
Department turned parts of the campus of the University of California in
Berkeley into an urban battlefield. The occasion was Urban
Shield 2011, an annual SWAT team exposition organized to promote “mutual
response,” collaboration and competition between heavily militarized police
strike forces representing law enforcement departments across the United States
and foreign nations.

At the time, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department was preparing for an
imminent confrontation with the nascent “Occupy” movement that had set up camp
in downtown Oakland, and would demonstrate the brunt of its repressive capacity
against the demonstrators a month later when it attacked the encampment with teargas and rubber bullet rounds,
leaving an Iraq war veteran in critical condition and dozens injured. According to Police Magazine, a law enforcement trade publication,
“Law enforcement agencies responding to…Occupy protesters in northern California
credit Urban Shield for their effective teamwork.”

Training alongside the American police departments at Urban Shield was
the Yamam, an Israeli Border Police unit that claims to
specialize in “counter-terror” operations but is better known for its extra-judicial
assassinations of Palestinian militant leaders and long record of repression
and abuses in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. Urban Shield
also featured a unit from the military of Bahrain, which had just crushed a
largely non-violent democratic uprising by opening fire on protest camps and arresting
wounded demonstrators when they attempted to enter hospitals. While the
involvement of Bahraini soldiers in the drills was a novel phenomenon, the
presence of quasi-military Israeli police – whose participation in Urban Shield
was not reported anywhere in US media – reflected a disturbing but
all-too-common feature of the post-9/11 American security landscape.

The Israelification of America’s security apparatus, recently unleashed in
full force against the Occupy Wall Street Movement, has taken place at every
level of law enforcement, and in areas that have yet to be exposed. The
phenomenon has been documented in bits and pieces, through occasional news
reports that typically highlight Israel’s national security prowess without
examining the problematic nature of working with a country accused of grave
human rights abuses. But it has never been the subject of a national discussion.
And collaboration between American and Israeli cops is just the tip of the
iceberg.

Having been schooled in Israeli tactics perfected during a 63 year experience
of controlling, dispossessing, and occupying an indigenous population, local
police forces have adapted them to monitor Muslim and immigrant neighborhoods in
US cities. Meanwhile, former Israeli military officers have been hired to
spearhead security operations at American airports and suburban shopping malls,
leading to a wave of disturbing incidents of racial profiling, intimidation, and
FBI interrogations of innocent, unsuspecting people. The New York Police
Department’s disclosure that it deployed “counter-terror” measures against
Occupy protesters encamped in downtown Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park is just the
latest example of the so-called War on Terror creeping into every day life.
Revelations like these have raised serious questions about the extent to which
Israeli-inspired tactics are being used to suppress the Occupy movement.

The process of Israelification began in the immediate wake of 9/11, when
national panic led federal and municipal law enforcement officials to beseech
Israeli security honchos for advice and training. America’s Israel lobby
exploited the climate of hysteria, providing thousands of top cops with
all-expenses paid trips to Israel and stateside training sessions with Israeli
military and intelligence officials. By now, police chiefs of major American
cities who have not been on junkets to Israel are the exception.

“Israel is the Harvard of antiterrorism,” said former US Capitol Police Chief Terrance W. Gainer, who
now serves as the US Senate Sergeant-at-Arms. Cathy Lanier, the Chief of the
Washington DC Metropolitan Police, remarked, “No experience in my life has had more of an impact
on doing my job than going to Israel.” “One would say it is the front line,”
Barnett Jones, the police chief of Ann Arbor, Michigan, said of Israel. “We’re in a global war.”

Karen Greenberg, the director of Fordham School of Law’s
Center on National Security and a leading expert on terror and civil liberties,
said the Israeli influence on American law enforcement is so extensive it has
bled into street-level police conduct. “After 9/11 we reached out to the
Israelis on many fronts and one of those fronts was torture,” Greenberg told me.
“The training in Iraq and Afghanistan on torture was Israeli training. There’s
been a huge downside to taking our cue from the Israelis and now we’re going to
spread that into the fabric of everyday American life? It’s counter-terrorism
creep. And it’s exactly what you could have predicted would have happened.”

Changing the way we do business

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is at
the heart of American-Israeli law enforcement collaboration. JINSA is a
Jerusalem and Washington DC-based think tank known for stridently
neoconservative policy positions on Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians and
its brinkmanship with Iran. The group’s board of directors boasts a Who’s Who of
neocon ideologues. Two former
JINSA advisors who have also consulted for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu, Douglas Feith and Richard Perle, went on to serve in the Department
of Defense under President George W. Bush, playing influential roles in the push
to invade and occupy Iraq.

Through its Law Enforcement Education Program (LEEP), JINSA claims to have
arranged Israeli-led training sessions for over 9000 American law enforcement
officials at the federal, state and municipal level. “The Israelis changed the
way we do business regarding homeland security in New Jersey,” Richard Fuentes,
the NJ State Police Superintendent, said after attending a 2004 JINSA-sponsored Israel trip and a
subsequent JINSA conference alongside 435 other law enforcement officers.

During a 2004 LEEP trip, JINSA brought 14 senior American law enforcement
officials to Israel to receive instruction from their counterparts. The
Americans were trained in “how to secure large venues, such as shopping malls,
sporting events and concerts,” JINSA’s website reported. Escorted by Brigadier
General Simon Perry, an Israeli police attaché and former Mossad official, the
group toured the Israeli separation wall, now a mandatory stop for American cops
on junkets to Israel. “American officials learned about the mindset of a suicide
bomber and how to spot trouble signs,” according to JINSA. And they were
schooled in Israeli killing methods. “Although the police are typically told to
aim for the chest when shooting because it is the largest target, the Israelis
are teaching [American] officers to aim for a suspect’s head so as not to
detonate any explosives that might be strapped to his torso,” the New
York Times reported.

Cathy Lanier, now the Chief of Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police
Department, was among the law enforcement officials junketed to Israel by JINSA.
“I was with the bomb units and the SWAT team and all of those high profile
specialized [Israeli] units and I learned a tremendous amount,” Lanier reflected. “I
took 82 pages of notes while I was there which I later brought back and used to
formulate a lot of what I later used to create and formulate the Homeland
Security terrorism bureau in the DC Metropolitan Police department.”

Some of the police chiefs who have taken part in JINSA’s LEEP program have
done so under the auspices of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a
private non-governmental group with close ties to the Department of Homeland
Security. Chuck Wexler, the executive director of PERF, was so enthusiastic
about the program that by 2005 he had begun organizing trips to Israel sponsored by PERF, bringing
numerous high-level American police officials to receive instruction from their
Israeli counterparts.

PERF gained notoriety when Wexler confirmed that his group coordinated police raids in 16 cities
across America against “Occupy” protest encampments. As many as 40 cities
have sought PERF advice on suppressing the “Occupy” movement and
other mass protest activities. Wexler did not respond to my requests for an
interview.

Lessons from Israel to Auschwitz

Besides JINSA, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has positioned itself as an
important liaison between American police forces and the Israeli
security-intelligence apparatus. Though the ADL promotes itself as a Jewish
civil rights group, it has provoked controversy by publishing a blacklist of
organizations supporting Palestinian rights, and for condemning a proposal to
construct an Islamic community center in downtown New York, several blocks from
Ground Zero, on the basis that some opponents of the project were entitled to
“positions that others would characterize as irrational or bigoted.”

Through the ADL’s Advanced Training School course on Extremist and Terrorist
Threats, over 700 law enforcement personnel from 220 federal and local agencies
including the FBI and CIA have been trained by Israeli police and intelligence
commanders. This year, the ADL brought 15 high-level American police officials
to Israel for instruction from the country’s security apparatus. According to
the ADL, over 115 federal, state and local law enforcement executives have
undergone ADL-organized training sessions in Israel since the program began in
2003. “I can honestly say that the training offered by ADL is by far the most
useful and current training course I have ever attended,” Deputy Commissioner
Thomas Wright of the Philadelphia Police Department commented after completing an ADL program this year. The ADL’s
relationship with the Washington DC Police Department is so cozy its members are
invited to accompany DC cops on “ride along” patrols.

The ADL claims to have trained over 45,000 American law enforcement officials
through its Law Enforcement and Society program, which “draws on the
history of the Holocaust to provide law enforcement professionals with an
increased understanding of…their role as protectors of the Constitution,” the
group’s website stated. All new FBI agents and intelligence analysts are
required to attend the ADL program, which is incorporated into three FBI
training programs. According to officialFBI recruitment material, “all new special agents must visit
the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to see firsthand what can happen when law
enforcement fails to protect individuals.”

Fighting “crimiterror”

Among the most prominent Israeli government figure to have influenced the
practices of American law enforcement officials is Avi Dichter, a former head of Israel’s Shin Bet internal
security service and current member of Knesset who recently introduced
legislation widely criticized as anti-democratic. During the Second Intifada, Dichter ordered
several bombings on densely populated Palestinian civilian areas, including one
on the al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza that resulted in the death of 15 innocent
people, including 8 children, and 150 injuries. “After each success, the only
thought is, ‘Okay, who’s next?’” Dichter said of the “targeted” assassinations
he has ordered.

Despite his dubious human rights record and apparently dim view of democratic
values, or perhaps because of them, Dichter has been a key figure in fostering
cooperation between Israeli security forces and American law enforcement. In
2006, while Dichter was serving at the time as Israel’s Minister of Public
Security, he spoke in Boston, Massachusetts before the annual convention of the
International Association of Chiefs of Police. Seated beside FBI Director Robert
Mueller and then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, Dichter told the 10,000
police officers in the crowd that there was an “intimate connection between
fighting criminals and fighting terrorists.” Dichter declared that American cops were actually “fighting
crimiterrorists.” The Jerusalem Post reported that Dichter was
“greeted by a hail of applause, as he was hugged by Mueller, who described
Dichter as his mentor in anti-terror tactics.”

A year after Dichter’s speech, he and then-Secretary of the Department of
Homeland Security Michael Chertoff signed a joint memorandum pledging security collaboration
between America and Israel on issues ranging from airport security to emergency
planning. In 2010, Homeland Security Secretary Napolitano authorized a new joint memorandum with Israeli Transport and
Road Safety Minister Israel Katz shoring up cooperation between the US
Transportation Security Agency – the agency in charge of day-to-day airport
security – and Israel’s Security Department. The recent joint memorandum also
consolidated the presence of US Homeland Security law enforcement personnel on
Israeli soil. “The bond between the United States and Israel has never been
stronger,” Napolitano remarked at a recent summit of AIPAC, the leading outfit of
America’s Israel lobby, in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The Demographic Unit

For the New York Police Department, collaboration with Israel’s security and
intelligence apparatus became a top priority after 9/11. Just months after the
attacks on New York City, the NYPD assigned a permanent, taxpayer-funded liaison officerto Tel Aviv. Under the leadership of Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly, ties between the NYPD and Israel have deepened by the
day. Kelly embarked on his first
trip to Israel in early 2009 to demonstrate his support for Israel’s ongoing
assault on the Gaza Strip, a one-sided attack that left over 1400 Gaza residents
dead in three weeks and led a United Nations fact-finding mission to conclude
that Israeli military and government officials had committed war crimes.

Kelly returned to Israel the following year to speak at the Herziliya Conference, an annual gathering of
neoconservative security and government officials who obsess over supposed
“demographic threats.” After Kelly appeared on stage, the Herziliya crowd was
addressed by the pro-Israel academic Martin Kramer, who claimed that Israel’s blockade of Gaza was helping to reduce
the numbers of “superfluous young men of fighting age.” Kramer added, “If a
state can’t control these young men, then someone else will.”

Back in New York, the NYPD set up a secret “Demographics Unit” designed to spy on and monitor Muslim
communities around the city. The unit was developed with input and intensive
involvement by the CIA, which still refuses to name the former Middle East
station chief it has posted in the senior ranks of the NYPD’s intelligence
division. Since 2002, the NYPD has dispatched undercover agents known as
“rakers” and “mosque crawlers” into Pakistani-American bookstores and
restaurants to gauge community anger over US drone strikes inside Pakistan, and
into Palestinian hookah bars and mosques to search out signs of terror
recruitment and clandestine funding. “If a raker noticed a customer looking at
radical literature, he might chat up the store owner and see what he could
learn,” the Associated Press reported. “The bookstore, or even the
customer, might get further scrutiny.”

The Israeli imprimatur on the NYPD’s Demographics Unit is unmistakable. As a
former police official told the Associated Press, the Demographics
Unit has attempted to “map the city’s human terrain” through a program “modeled
in part on how Israeli authorities operate in the West Bank.”

Shop ‘til you’re stopped

At Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport, security personnel target
non-Jewish and non-white passengers, especially Arabs, as a matter of policy.
The most routinely harassed passengers are Palestinian citizens of Israel, who
must brace themselvesfor five-hour interrogation sessions and strip
searches before flying. Those singled out for extra screening by Shin Bet
officers are sent to what many Palestinians from Israel call the “Arab room,”
where they are subjected to humiliating questioning sessions (former White House
Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala encountered such mistreatment during a visit to Israel last year). Some
Palestinians are forbidden from speaking to anyone until takeoff, and may
be menaced by Israeli flight attendants during the flight. In one
documented case, a six-month-old was awoken for a strip search by Israeli Shin
Bet personnel. Instances of discrimination against Arabs at Ben Gurion
International are too numerous to detail – several incidents occur each day –
but a few of the more egregious instances were outlined in a 2007 petition the Association for Civil Rights in Israel filed with
the country’s Supreme Court.

Though the Israeli system of airline security contains dubious benefits and
clearly deleterious implications for civil liberties, it is quietly and rapidly
migrating into major American airports. Security personnel at Boston’s Logan
International Airport have undergone extensive training from Israeli intelligence personnel, learning to
apply profiling and behavioral assessment techniques against American citizens
that were initially tested on Palestinians. The new procedures began in August,
when so-called Behavior Detection Officers were placed in security queues at Logan’s heavily trafficked
Terminal A. Though the procedures have added to traveler stress while netting
exactly zero terrorists, they are likely to spread to other cities. “I would
like to see a lot more profiling” in American airports, said Yossi Sheffi, an Israeli-born risk analyst at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Transportation and
Logistics.

Israeli techniques now dictate security procedures at the Mall of America, a
gargantuan shopping mall in Bloomington, Minnesota that has become a major
tourist attraction. The new methods took hold in 2005 when the mall hired a
former Israeli army sergeant named Mike Rozin to lead a special new security
unit. Rozin, who once worked with a canine unit at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel,
instructed his employees at the Mall of America to visually profile every
shopper, examining their expressions for suspicious signs. His security
team accosts and interrogates an average of 1200 shoppers a year,
according to the Center for Investigative Reporting.

One of the thousands who fell into Rozin’s dragnet was Najam Qureshi, a
Pakistani-American mall vendor whose father accidentally left his cell phone on
a table in the mall food court. A day after the incident, FBI agents appeared at
Qureshi’s doorstep to ask if he knew anyone seeking to harm the United States.
An army veteran interrogated for two hours by Rozin’s men for taking video
inside the mall sobbed openly about his experience to reporters. Meanwhile,
another man, Emile Khalil, was visited by FBI agents after mall security stopped
him for taking photographs of the dazzling consumer haven.

“I think that the threat of terrorism in the United States is going to become
an unfortunate part of American life,” Rozin remarked to
American Jewish World. And as long as the threat persists in the public’s mind,
Israeli securitocrats like Rozin will never have to worry about the next
paycheck.

“Occupy” meets the Occupation

When a riot squad from the New York Police Department destroyed and evicted
the “Occupy Wall Street” protest encampment at Zuccotti Park in downtown
Manhattan, department leadership drew on the anti-terror tactics they had
refined since the 9/11 attacks. According to the New York Times, the
NYPD deployed “counterterrorism measures” to mobilize large numbers
of cops for the lightning raid on Zuccotti. The use of anti-terror techniques to
suppress a civilian protest complemented harsh police measures demonstrated
across the country against the nationwide “Occupy” movement, from firing tear
gas canisters and rubber bullets into unarmed crowds to blasting demonstrators
with the LRAD sound cannon.

Given the amount of training the NYPD and so many other police forces have
received from Israel’s military-intelligence apparatus, and the profuse levels
of gratitude American police chiefs have expressed to their Israeli mentors, it
is worth asking how much Israeli instruction has influenced the way the police
have attempted to suppress the Occupy movement, and how much it will inform
police repression of future upsurges of street protest. But already, the
Israelification of American law enforcement appears to have intensified police
hostility towards the civilian population, blurring the lines between
protesters, common criminals, and terrorists. As Dichter said, they are all just
“crimiterrorists.”

“After 9/11 we had to react very quickly,” Greenberg remarked, “but now we’re
in 2011 and we’re not talking about people who want to fly planes into
buildings. We’re talking about young American citizens who feel that their
birthright has been sold. If we’re using Israeli style tactics on them and this
stuff bleeds into the way we do business at large, were in big trouble.”

This article
is cross-posted from Al-Akhbar.com
with permission from the author Max
Blumenthal.

You can read more of Max Blumenthal at MaxBlumenthal.com. He is the author of
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1. Soj  |  December 2nd, 2011 at
9:36 pm

Just reading this makes me wince. What kind of world is this?

2. EL BARTO  |  December 2nd,
2011 at 9:40 pm

My favorite part of the article:

According to official FBI recruitment material, “all new special agents
must visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to see firsthand what can happen
when law enforcement fails to protect individuals.”

expanded racist state security would’ve prevented the holocaust!

3. helplesscase  |  December 2nd,
2011 at 10:27 pm

Fantastic article. This is all part of the end-run of neoliberalism:
staggering debt, no protections, no meaningful participation in government,
and the only thing that gets money is the ever-expanding
military-industrial-security-prison-predator drone complex.

4. gc  |  December 2nd, 2011
at 11:43 pm

First thing I thought of while reading this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cobbett#Prison:_1810.E2.80.931812

Another example of an empire hiring the agents of a client state to train
its own forces, resulting in abuses being inflicted on that empire’s own
citizens. (Though back in 1810 the foreign agents did the abusing
themselves.)

Well, the neocons always said we should become more like the British
empire!

5. G.A.  |  December 3rd, 2011 at
3:56 am

The way private organizations like ADL are beginning to heavily influence
state institutions is enough to make one squirm. Even if they’re having good
intentions it’s setting a nasty precedent, and it’s just trouble brewing.

6. G.A.  |  December 3rd,
2011 at 3:57 am

Great article, by the way. Really enjoyed it.

7. DeeboCools  |  December 3rd, 2011 at
7:37 am

I normally avoid all the talk of US/Israel/Palestine because the debate is
always full of emotion on both sides that I have no stake in. But let me try
to follow the story as it is…

The US gives aid, weaponry and preferential treatment to Israel on the
premise that Israel is the only democracy in the middle east and harbors human
rights and liberty. When Israel attacks Palestinians, or it’s own people and
is called out on it, it pretends that human rights abuses are actually acts of
self-defense of its right to statehood.

Pro-Israel Americans claim that if you don’t support Israels “self defense”
that you are threatening it’s existence- making yourself an Anti-zionist, and
Anti-zionism is Anti-Jew. Even if you, the Anti-zionist are yourself a jew or
jewish-american, you are simply attacked as a “self-hating Jew.”

Is there no way to be an anti-zionist in America without being called a
racist? Hell, I’m more than that, I’m anti-Israel. They are bad people whose
relationship with America, my country, is toxic and deleterious. I don’t
consider “jew” an ethnicity really(ooooh does that make me a Nazi,
anti-zionist, or ordinary bigot? take your pick)

The same is true with our relationship with Saudi Arabia and other
regressive regimes- the difference here is that Saudi’s aren’t coming onto our
land and training our own police officers on our dime.

When former marines drawn from the poorest sections of America are
protesting financial crime and inequality after having fought for wall street
and Israel’s interests, and then are fired upon by paramilitary weaponry by
police officers who’ve been trained by Israel, I have to take it personally.

The United States and Israel are guilty of crimes against the Palestinians,
the Israelis, and ordinary Americans.

“Fucking Nazis. Nothing ever changes.”- Walter Sobchak

8. William  |  December 3rd,
2011 at 8:15 am

This should be a must-read for all US citizens.

9. John  |  December 3rd, 2011 at
12:42 pm

…According to official FBI recruitment material, “all new special agents
must visit the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to see firsthand what can happen
when law enforcement fails to protect individuals.”…

…and then they start practicing their Gestapo methods… LOL.

What’s with the Jews anyway? They did it to us in WW2, now we gonna do it
to YOU ALL! We have every moral right!

Fuck that.

10. Zhu Bajie  |  December
3rd, 2011 at 2:11 pm

Doesn’t the Holocaust Memorial show FBI men what they can do TO people?

Is there an American Indian Holocaust Memorial somewhere in DC?

11. John  |  December 3rd, 2011 at
2:38 pm

American Indian Holocaust?

They couldn’t get rights. Holocaust™ was registered first by Israel
Inc.

12. Loonesta  |  December
3rd, 2011 at 3:08 pm

The word “holocaust” is a Roman word which means “furnace”, and this may
explain its significance in the context of the inhumanly horrific and abusive
treatment of Jews (and others) by Hitler & Co. during WWII. You really
can’t have a holocaust w/out some burning in there some place. Overuse makes
the word into utter nonsense and depreciates the memory of its tragic
association w/ an almost-genocided people.

13. Mudplanet  |  December 3rd,
2011 at 4:53 pm

“Israel is the Harvard of antiterrorism,”

should read “the Harvard of state terrorism,”

14. G.A.  |  December 3rd,
2011 at 5:25 pm

@ 10.

You know, in holocaust a population usually decreases. Sadly, in a time of
trollery the intelligence level definitely decreases 10-fold, as for example
the intelligence of an intestinal-troll such as myself who’d make some stupid
fucking comment thinking it would get past the Almighty Exiled Censor. How
foolish I was–no, stupid is the word. Thank you for improving my comment,
Exiled.

15. enzian  |  December 3rd, 2011
at 5:39 pm

“Overuse makes the word into utter nonsense and depreciates the memory of
its tragic association w/ an almost-genocided people”

so, you’re agreeing here that what happened to the american Indians is a
holocaust then?

i know, it’s a bullshit semantic argument, but the fact is, the holocaust
has been taken over (was in some sense created, shaped as a concept) by folks
like the ADL who put shrines, excuse me, museums in major cities and then
insist that only Jews be represented – compare this to, say, modern day
Dachau, where the Germans take pains to represent all of the victims. the
holocaust is one of israel’s main political arguments, a sort of nonsensical
plea that if they didn’t have their own little apartheid state they’d be in
that position all over again.

which incidentally is one reason israelis have a complicated relationship
with america – there’s not really supposed to be a place where Jews are widely
integrated and successful as a diaspora group; it doesn’t fit into the zionist
worldview. and yet here it is, preventing israel’s total economic collapse
year after year.

16. Rehmat  |  December 3rd,
2011 at 6:04 pm

LOL – The anti-Iran government of David Cameron was is satisfied with the
capability of UK’s own secret service (MI5) and has invited Israeli Mossad to
train MI5 operatives. Israeli daily, YNet had reported on May 12, 2011 that
Mossad officials participated in a security drill at London’s Olympics park.
The drill stimulated a scenario based on 1972 Munich Olympics, where atheletes
were held hostages by (Palestinian) terrorists. The Munich hostage-taking was
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17. az  |  December 3rd, 2011 at
6:11 pm

It’s a War of Terror.

18. az  |  December 3rd, 2011
at 6:33 pm

@Loonesta. Thank you. All the zionism-related comments are kind of
discomforting. At this point, the whole thing with Israel is that the US
sponsors its military-industrial complex, which builds settlements out in the
West Bank, where people pay a fraction of the taxes they would pay in Israel
proper. As a result, Israel loses tax revenue while increasing military
expenditures, which is what their protests earlier this year were all about.
This whole arrangement doesn’t really benefit anyone unless you’re a
politician in Israel/America, a defense contractor, or one of those
religious/political (Zionist?) nuts who get off on Israeli expansion and
subjugation of other people. (In the last case, it doesn’t actually benefit
you but at least you get off on it.)

19. super390  |  December 3rd, 2011
at 7:55 pm

When Israel moved rightward, it suddenly ceased to be the extrusion of
hated Jew-socialism that the US right despised. It became the White Army That
Does Anything To Win, unlike those pansy Pentagon losers in ‘Nam. It became
the Great White Hope.

So just as right-wingers believed (honestly, look at their agitprop) that
the human race is infested with poor inferiors who irrationally hate the truly
productive Western man who is the only force for good, the Zionists hitched
that onto the belief that the world is full of jealous lazy anti-Semites who
irrationally hate “entrepreneurial” Jews. The former defines the sacred duty
of the right-wing fantasy government: to protect property owners and their
special privileges at all costs. Now this irrational, murderous protection has
been extended to Jews by a massive lobbying effort that practically merges
Israel and capitalism as a single indivisible Good. Zionist expansionism is
the last-gasp proof that Anglo-American greedism will still triumph over the
mud races. Conversely, crime (against property) and terrorism (against Israel
and America) thus really are one single attack by the inferiors against the
Master Race.

That special murderous gleam that comes into the eyes of cops, Klansmen and
Afrikaners when attacking certain groups is the flame of tribal identity. To
say that the Holocaust is really not that damn unusual in a world full of
genocide has become as much an attack on that identity as saying that our
military isn’t really fighting for our best interests or that Christians ought
to be pacifists who give away stuff instead of conquering or that our bosses
will pollute us all to death for a few extra pennies.

My congratulations to the Israel Lobby for this genetic re-engineering of
the redneck mentality to turn Israel into a sacred extension of America,
Christianity and free enterprise that must be defended at all costs and
probably will be in the near future. Too bad that Israel, with its Orwell-ware
economy and real estate bubble and police state normalization, has acted as a
prototype for all the worst the Israeli/American neocon sect is now
sucessfully enacting in the US. Now that our countries are indistinguishable
right down to the protest movements being attacked by the same training
manuals, Netanyahu’s closing of opposition media, his Jim Crow moves against
Israeli Arabs, his ethno-front’s ads telling Israelis living in the US that
their kids won’t “really be Jews” because their liberal Jew spouses
contaminated them, and his party’s cultivation of US Christian extremists as
potential reinforcements in the illegal settlements all point to things we
will see soon in the US.

20. Rehmat  |  December 3rd,
2011 at 8:28 pm

az -the Zionist regime doesn’t care for the taxes as it gets $3 billion
military aid from the US which is 25% of its total annual budget ($12 billion
vs Iran’s $6 billion).

interestingly, ABC’s Ben Knight believes that Israel is doomed by religious
Jews who hate to be part of work force and not that much from rise in the
population of native Muslims and Christians …..

THIS IS NOT A SPACE FOR ANTISEMITIC LINKS FUCKWAD

21. Stu Daniel Jackson  |  December
4th, 2011 at 6:34 am

Max I would like to say how refreshing it is to see open and honest
criticism of ones own homeland forces! So many times does the truth get
obscured by pride and prejudice! I also believe you may be the man to bring
this age old battle of race and persecution not to an end but a workable light
so guilt, fear and hate can be swept to the side and real issues tackled!
Thank you for having the guts to show your soul’

22. Hanspy  |  December 4th,
2011 at 8:19 am

“After 9/11 we had to react very quickly,” Greenberg remarked, “but now
we’re in 2011 and we’re not talking about people who want to fly planes into
buildings. We’re talking about young American citizens who feel that their
birthright has been sold. quote Greenberg

So, he is afraid for those? Why is he? Is the USA not taking there
birthrights away?
When do those man learn that with starting to beat up
there own ppl, there wil come a time the ppl wil beat up you. And whan i see
police officer/s beating up MY kid in a peacefull protest what is alowed. i
wil go after those . Even when it wil kill me. Thats the way terrorist are
born. And that is a thing leaders seem to forget.

23. Gatorade  |  December 4th, 2011
at 8:28 am

God damn that’s fucked up. I was never really surprised through all of the
terrible security revelations, like torture, yeah I figured they’d do that,
nsa spying on americans, sure open secret whatever. But this is so fucked, god
damn

24. az  |  December 4th, 2011
at 8:52 am

$3 billion really isn’t a lot of money, considering the intensive nature of
the IDF. For example, the US military budget for 2012 has a low-ball figure of
$1 trillion. That’s 83 times what you say Israel’s total budget is, for a
country that has a population that is approximately 60 times smaller. That’s
beside the point though, which is that outward expansion doesn’t benefit
Israel in any way, as it’s a drain on resources that doesn’t bring back any
substantial benefits. The point I’m making here is that it’s basically a
sociopath state by the way it’s laid out, because despite a lot of lobbying
for aid, the only benefactors in Israel are politicians, defense contractors,
and religious/political assholes all of whomever are sociopaths. I guess it’s
gotten to the point where it doesn’t really help America either, just a stupid
self-perpetuating process of money being thrown into a fire, but what can you
do eh.

25. Sean the
Sorcerer  |  December 4th, 2011 at 1:01 pm

The Fuhrer (peace be upon him) will no doubt roll in his grave at this, but
since the Israelis seem to be the only paler-hued tribe left on the planet
that is willing to stand up to the savage dark hordes and carve out more
territory for their people, I think it’s time we granted them, like the
Japanese before them, the status of “honorary Aryans.”

26. Zhu Bajie  |  December
4th, 2011 at 2:10 pm

You know, 100 years ago, the entire Middle East was one country, the
Ottoman Empire. It had lots of problems but it had some virtues. Most of the
current problems in the Middle East step from the partition. I strongly
suspect Churchill, Balfour, et al., founded Israel because they wanted Western
Jews to be their middlemen, like Indians in Africa, etc.

27. G.A.  |  December 4th, 2011 at
3:43 pm

@ 26. Too bad the Arabs didn’t feel that way about the whole partition of
Ottoman empire business.

28. G.A.  |  December 4th,
2011 at 3:45 pm

@ 10. I don’t know why I got censored. Truth is, there’s now double the
number of native Americans than there were at the arrival of Mayflower. That’s
hardly the result of “american indian genocide.”

29. Rehmat  |  December 5th, 2011
at 11:54 am

On December 2, 2011 – I LOVE JEWS I DREAM ABOUT JEWS EVERY DAY AND EVERY
NIGHT AND I AM TRYING TO GET THE JEWS’ ATTENTION. I WET MY BED. IS THAT WHY I
AM OBSESSED WITH JEWS?

30. dogbane  |  December 5th,
2011 at 12:57 pm

Radley Balko, the libertard who constantly trashed the #OWS movement and
said almost nothing about the police crackdown as it happened, is now talking
about the militarization of America’s police forces now that it’s not going to
upset Master Koch anymore; and it’s above the fold at Huffington:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/radley-balko/police-militarization-use-of-force-swat-raids_b_1123848.html

31. crazy_inventor  |  December
5th, 2011 at 6:11 pm

> there’s now double the number of native Americans than there were at
the arrival of Mayflower. That’s hardly the result of “american indian
genocide.”

As a Native American, I am compelled to refute the above statement.

American Holocaust: D. Stannard (Oxford Press, 1992) – “over 100 million
killed”

http://espressostalinist.wordpress.com/genocide/native-american-genocide/

The biggest killers were smallpox, measles, influenza, whooping cough,
diphtheria, typhus, bubonic plague, cholera, and scarlet fever.

All imported by the Europeans colonists.

32. Rehmat
|  December 5th, 2011 at 7:40 pm

Antony Loewenstein, a Jewish-Australian journalist, bla bla bla bla bla

33. pat knapp  |  December 5th,
2011 at 10:38 pm

you’re pretty far on this corruption. don’t let trolls try and distract
you, that troll shit’s real. i would try to tell you what you should do your
stories on but as a troll, I really should keep my fucking mouth shut and just
ask my mom to bring me another bag of chips. baggerbrained bozos are so
jealous of ows that we trolls secretly think it’s cool to watch them get
pepper-sprayed, all we can do since we baggertards are such bootlicking
cowards is whine about ows. we’re pretty pathetic. wish someone would run me
over with a lawnmower

34. David Crockett  |
December 6th, 2011 at 5:47 am

@ crazy_inventor. 100 Million killed….REALLY??? You sir are a BEEEEEEEP!
THE ALMIGHTY EXILED CENSOR DETECTS A SWAMP-TROLL IN OUR MIDST. CURRENTLY
ACTIVATING TROLL-OFF SPRAY. RESUMING SHORTLY. WE APOLOGIZE FOR THIS
INTERRUPTION.

35. Chris  |  December 6th, 2011 at
10:18 am

The world needs to wake up fast before there are more Dixie land trolls
like start ranting about “Jews” and “Bolsheviks” and “Gays” start impregnating
our fine white Goy/Dixieland womens, but this time on a global scale.

36. domenico dario
|  December 6th, 2011 at 1:04 pm

Jerusalem, The Nation Called Israel And Biblical Israel – Their
Fate
GEE, I WISH I COULD POST FOR FREE MY BULLSHIT ON THIS SITE, BUT I
GUESS I CAN’T

37. Rehmat  |  December 6th, 2011 at 6:19
pm

Holy Wailing Wall – was never Jewis..WHOOPS, I FORGOT THAT THE GREAT HOLY
EXILED WAILING TROLL COMMENT WALL IS NOT A PLACE FOR ME TO POST MY BULLSHIT
FOR FREE…

THE ALL-KNOWING ALL-SEEING AEC FORBIDS IT

38. DrunktankDan  |  December
6th, 2011 at 6:32 pm

So, any other longtime exholes just love reading the comments on the off
chance that a first time troll to this site will get his comments censored
(hilariously)?

And then there is the subsequent libertard rage: “I stand up for the
constitution and the first ammendment guarantees my right to troll privately
owned website content!”

When that gets censored the last and saddest phase is when they squeal
about it on their own blog.

It’s all very predictable and it makes me laugh my ass off every time.

39. George
Washington  |  December 6th, 2011 at 9:43 pm

Greetings earthlings. Yabba dabba doo. I mean you harm, I mean you harm.
There’s a Rothschild gumdrop in my elbow.

40. Eileen K.  |  December
6th, 2011 at 10:48 pm

America’s state and local police forces are NOT supposed to be militarized.
Their duty is to protect innocents from predation by criminals, not plsying
soldier. As for the Israeli and Bahraini forces who were brought here to train
police who’ve never before engaged in Gestapo tactics in these tactics, these
psychopaths are PERSONA NON GRATA and must be kicked out IMMEDIATELY. The US
Bill of Rights explicitly forbids such barbarism, snd those perpetrating these
atrocities must be prosecuted for them.

41. Jews Against Israel  |
December 7th, 2011 at 12:52 am

It is important to remember that the policies of the Israeli government in
no way represent the sentiment of Jews worldwide. As a Jew, I am enraged that
the state of Israel behaves so hideously and inhumanely and that such behavior
only helps spread anti-semitism like wild fire. It is too easy in threads such
as this to think that all Jews are to blame for Israel, but we’re not. Many of
us fight hard to curb the worldwide influence of the hateful and dangerous
state of Israel. Many of us would be happy to see Israel behave according to
the same standards we set for any other developed nation. They should not
receive special treatment.

42. Anonymous  |  December
7th, 2011 at 9:35 am

So when is Blumenthal going to correct his article to remove the fake quote
by Karen Greenberg, since she never actually said it, let alone to him?

43. DtD  |  December 7th, 2011 at
11:04 am

@41

Foreal dude!

That must be such a pain in the fucking ass.

Oh wait, I am an American. I constantly have to deal with the same shit. My
countries foreign policy is atrocious, but it does put us in a position of
global influence and power, and I would be lying if I said that I didn’t take
advantage of the perks of global dominance (those 2 dollar sock bundlepacks
and 30 dollar grams of coke are pretty nice)

44. fancylad  |  December
7th, 2011 at 12:01 pm

I am a sand-troll who thinks that I and my PR company can coopt the
comments section here to advance the agenda of my client. I do this for a
living. If it wasn’t for LexaPro, I might find this sort of work
soul-destroying. But on LexaPro, I think Jeffrey Goldberg is dashingly
handsome!

45. super390  |  December 7th, 2011
at 7:04 pm

What we’re looking at is an economic model – Neoconomics. The parallels
between Israel, Blair’s UK and Bush’s USA ever since the Likud’s US-written
“Clean Break” manifesto:

1. Tax cuts for rich, and govt spends less and less on poor despite larger
and larger budgets.

2. “War on Terror” turns parasitic war industries into heroes whom other
governments eagerly turn to for evil surveillance tech and, as I now learn,
torture and suppression expertise. Note: in order to make the sale, you must
continue to be seen as a victim who’s successfully fighting back.

3. Bubble money from the above policies is fenced via exotic investment
vehicles into real estate rackets: the Israeli settlements, the British
townhouse bubble, and the US McMansion scam.

4. This is the key – right-wingers hate price inflation, but worship asset
inflation. If the money from the war scams went to the workers, it would lead
to evil price inflation. But if wages are suppressed, and banks are
deregulated to make up the difference by simply lending the workers far more
than they can possibly pay back, then housing construction and prices explode
– which escapes notice from the Consumer Price Index.

5. Britain’s townhouse bubble collapsed because there was no room to put
more of them and the prices went into the millions. America’s bubble collapsed
because the McMansions had to be put further and further away, and then we had
$4 gas and couldn’t afford to commute back to civilization. But Israel? It
just steals more Arab land and builds more settlements.

So the prototype of neoconomics worked while the copies failed… but finally
Israel is beginning to seize up from the distortions that supported the
settlements.

The greatest crime of neoconomics? We have no idea how to replace it after
it fails. We are truly at the end of our rope, too spoiled by the bubbles to
know how to make real goods again, bereft of institutions like unions and bank
regulation that moderated the predatory cycles of capitalism. We literally can
do nothing but wait for a new rising empire to come along and give us new
orders, like Europe waited from 1918 to 1945.

46. Bobby  |  December 8th,
2011 at 12:42 pm

This story is true and was covered by Gary Null on the progressive radio
network about Dec. 4 or so. Mr. Null stated that Israel is the brain in
America’s empty skull. Whew!!

47. Jeffrey Ellis  |  December 8th,
2011 at 12:43 pm

Hi, I am what is called a “desert troll” from the list-serv you read about on Salon.com, I have a message for the readers of this article
[hat-tip to Josh Block, you rawq blawq!]. See, if I accuse you on the left of
“McCarthyite” or “Swift Boat” tactics, Josh “rawqin’” Block assures me that
this will shame Leftists who are soooo easily spinelessly shamed by soulless
assholes and desert trolls like myself. So I’m going to say that, then pretend
that Adam Sewer-rat didn’t completely fuck up and isn’t staring down the
barrel of unemployment, and I’m gonna BEEEEEEEEEP! THIS IS THE ALMIGHTY EXILED
CENSOR HERE. LISTEN, I JUST GOT OFF THE HORN WITH YAHWEH, AND HE AGREES WITH
ME THAT YOU DESERT TROLLS REALLY OUGHTA LAY OFF THE COMMENTS SECTIONS TELLING
PEOPLE TO LAY OFF ADAM SERWER. YAHWEH’S NOT HAPPY, REAL SHITTY MOOD NOW. BUT I
GUESS HE’S ALWAYS IN A SHITTY MOOD. EXCEPT WHEN HE DID THAT THING TO THAT DUDE
JOB. THAT PUT A SMILE ON YAHWEH’S USUALLY DOUR FACE. KINDA CREEPY, I KNOW.

48. no way  |  December 8th,
2011 at 1:34 pm

“draws on the history of the Holocaust to provide law enforcement
professionals with an increased understanding of…their role as protectors of
the Constitution.”

So pepper spraying non-violent protestors protects the constitution????

49. Jeffrey Ellis  |  December 8th,
2011 at 1:42 pm

Bobby @46 — Ah, yes, Gary Null, that wack job who doesn’t believe in AIDs,
promotes phony cancer cures (he’s been outed by Quackwatch)? Yes, by all means
use him as a source — it only confirms your ignorance.

50. Jeffrey Ellis  |
December 8th, 2011 at 1:48 pm

#47 — I want to thank the Almighty Exiled Censor for improving my retarded
comments and replacing them with the ingenious screed that was attributed to
my name. I don’t know who did, but if I have any integrity, I will thank the
Almighty Exiled Censor and get down on my knees immediately.

51. Jeffrey Ellis  |  December 8th,
2011 at 2:16 pm

This is clearly a site that attracts nut trollers, and sabotages any clear
and honest sock puppet debate. My outraged troll won’t be back here. But his
apprentice troll probably will.

52. Bobby  |  December 8th,
2011 at 4:20 pm

Jeff,can’t you just speak plainly, if you really have something to say. I’m
one of those cases that likes to read others opinions.

53. Rehmat  |  December 9th, 2011 at 5:42
am

I WILL SHUT MY FUCKING MOUTH AND FEAR AND RESPECT THE GODS OF
TROLL-BASHING

54. Terry Moore  |  December
10th, 2011 at 12:06 pm

Great Article Mr. B. When I was living in southern Calif. in the 1980′s our
San diego police chief and many other cities chief went over to Israel for
training . Then the police brutality started. shoot first ask questions
later.

55. Jennifer  |  December 11th,
2011 at 4:39 pm

@ super390: don’t you mean “necronomics”?

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December 11th, 2011 at 10:37 pm

Fascism is priapism with a loaded gun.

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