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Will Israel Blow Up Something and Falsely Blame It On Iran?

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According to U.S. officials, Israel is training and supporting Iranian terrorists who are trying to topple the Iranian government. Those Israeli-funded terrorists have faked documents to falsely indicate that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. 1

Israel has admitted to previous use of false flag attacks to justify war against Middle Eastern nations.

For example,   Israel admits that an Israeli terrorist cell operating in Egypt planted bombs in several buildings, including U.S. diplomatic facilities, then left behind “evidence” implicating the Arabs as the culprits (one of the bombs detonated prematurely, allowing the Egyptians to identify the bombers, and several of the Israelis later confessed) (and see this and this).

Numerous high-level government officials have warned that a false flag may be launched against Iran to start a war: 2

  • Ron Paul has warned of a “Gulf of Tonkin type incident” in Iran
  • The highly influential Brookings Institution wrote a report in 2009 called “Which Path to Persia?” which states (pages 84-85):

It would be far more preferable if the United States could cite an Iranian provocation as justification for the airstrikes before launching them. Clearly, the more outrageous, the more deadly, and the more unprovoked the Iranian action, the better off the United States would be.Of course, it would be very difficult for the United States to goad Iran into such a provocation without the rest of the world recognizing this game, which would then undermine it. (One method that would have some possibility of success would be to ratchet up covert regime change efforts in the hope that Tehran would retaliate overtly, or even semi-overtly, which could then be portrayed as an unprovoked act of Iranian aggression.)

  • A number of very high-level former intelligence officers – including several that personally briefed presidents every day on matters of national security – stated that better communications between the U.S. and Iran were needed to “reduce the danger of … covert, false-flag attack”

One of America’s top constitutional and military law experts – Jonathan Turley – writes today:

Many critics have argued that there is a concerted effort to push the United States into a war with Iran by supporters of Israel. Patrick Clawson, director of research for the highly influential pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) think tank, seemed intent to prove those rumors true this week in comments as a luncheon on “How to Build US-Israeli Coordination on Preventing an Iranian Nuclear Breakout.” Clawson casually discusses how to create a false flag operation to push the U.S. into war to overcome any reluctance by the public. We have been discussing how many leaders like Senator Joe Lieberman had begun to use the same rhetoric that led to the last two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and how the suggest timing of an attack has been tied to the presidential election.

 

In his remarks, Clawson helpfully lists a series of historical events used to push the country into war like the Gulf of Tonkin incident that gave us the Vietnam War. Clawson expressed his frustration in acknowledging that it is “[v]ery hard for me to see how the United States President can get us to war with Iran.” However, there is hope. Clawson explains that the “traditional way” to get the country into a war is through false flags or manufactured incidents where Americans are killed. Thus, he observes, “we are in the game of using covert means against the Iranians, we could get nastier about it. So, if in fact the Iranians aren’t going to compromise, it would be best if somebody else started the war.”

 

The fact that one of the leading analysis for the WINEP would feel comfortable in making such comments is itself quite chilling. It indicates that such discussions have become sufficiently regular that it has creeped into public discussion. It is a measure of the secret pressure building to push this country into a third major war despite our crippling economic conditions and losses in military personnel. The assumption in Washington is that neither Romney nor Obama could oppose such a war. Even if Obama does not publicly support Israel, the assumption is that political allies of Israel in Washington can guarantee that we would offer extensive military loans and intelligence. Even if there is a delay in such military loans and support, the assumption is that Israel can go to war with the understanding that the United States will cover a significant portion of the costs. Moreover, in his remarkably candid remarks, Clawson shows how the U.S. can easily be forced into direct combat by pushing Iran to simply kill some Americans or sink a few of our ships. Then members would be clamoring for revenge. Notably, the Israelis have been ratcheting up the war rhetoric in pushing Iran, which predictably has now reserved the right to engage in a preemptive strike not just against Israeli but U.S. interests. We would then, again, find ourselves in a war without any public debate or collective decision.

 

While Clawson adds a passing caveat that he is not advocating such an approach, his remarks are clearly designed to show how the group can get the United States into a war for Israel if only we can get Iran to kill some of our citizens or soldiers. Those people are of course expendable props in Clawson’s realpolitik.

 

By the way, Clawson has been enlisted to give his insightful analysis at the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. He is also a member of the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. The World Bank connection is particularly interesting given the history with Paul Wolfowitz who pushed the U.S. into two disastrous wars in the Bush Administration and was rewarded with being made the head of the World Bank.

 

It is the callous disconnect that is most chilling in these remarks. Thousands of U.S. soldiers have died or have been crippled for life in these wars that have left the country near bankruptcy (and increasingly hostile “allies” in Afghanistan and Iraq). Those casualties and costs, however, appear immaterial in the discussion of supporting Israel in a war against Iran.

 


1  Top American and Israeli military and intelligence officials actually say that:

2   False flag attacks have been carried out against Iran in the past.  For example, the CIA admits that it hired Iranians in the 1950′s to pose as Communists and stage bombings in Iran in order to turn the country against its democratically-elected prime minister

3 Saudi Arabia has also been supporting terrorists.

 

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Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:52 | 2838200 sessinpo
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Anyone can easily make GW's article irrevevant.

 

"Will Iran Blow Up Something and Falsely Blame It On Israel?"

 

See how it works both ways? So in other words, it is the authors interpretation and bias that is on display here. Thanks GW for exposing yourself. You do a lot of articles and if I had the time I'd love to debate you because I would tear you up so badly, you'd have to leave the internet.

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 09:07 | 2838274 alien-IQ
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Yes, and if Superman wore a dress he'd be Wonder Woman.

The problem with your theory is that Israel has a long history of this as opposed to Iran who does not. But clearly, history does not matter to you because surely "this time it's different".

You fucking dolt.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 09:54 | 2838498 maximin thrax
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Speaking of dolts - the link GW provides goes to a single incident in 1954. One instance does not a pattern make. Other nations were listed at the same link. Safe to say, given enough time and circumstance, any nation is capable of a false-flag operation. As far as Iran is concerned, it's hard to see how such an operation could help it out in this circumstance. But then again, the issue being Iran getting nuclear weapons while endlessly threatening the existence of Israel, no such false-flag by Israel is needed to get US and world assistance in retarding Iran's nuclear ambitions. Only sick and hateful people have wrapped their hopes up in the deathporn that is Israel gatting her "just deserts" from a Iranian nuke. Nobody wants to see that.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 09:47 | 2838456 Magnum
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For anyone unaware of Israel's long history of dressing up as arabs and blowing up things in order to focus blame on their enemy: The Lavon Affair (caught red handed, how many times were they NOT caught?), King David Hotel, USS Liberty, Urban Moving Systems.  And others...  Israel is the greatest terrorist nation in history and the American people are starting to wake up.  So what's Israel's next move?  Not a friendly one I'm sure.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:33 | 2838737 Leto II
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Next move?  This is what GW thinks...no nuclear carrier has ever been decommissionined.

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/01/2-minute-video-uss-enterprise-fal...

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 09:00 | 2838238 eatapeach
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Your change would indeed render irrelevance. That's the pount.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:30 | 2838132 Vooter
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If this means that we'll get to send hundreds of thousands of tattooed Jesusland subhumans to the Middle East to die for nothing, then COUNT ME IN. Throw in a couple of hundred thousand dead Israelis, and then we can have a REAL party. Remember: If you volunteer to serve in the U.S. military, you've volunteered to work as a hit man for corporate America. Enjoy!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:29 | 2838130 blindman
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CrossTalk: Bibi’s Bomb

Posted on September 28, 2012 by maxkeiser
http://maxkeiser.com/

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:07 | 2838085 tedstr
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Best and maybe only reason to vote for Obozo, he doesnt seem to give shit about Israel.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:33 | 2838144 mayhem_korner
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Did you curl up in the fetal position in a corner after saving that post...?  Maybe put some critical thinking into it next time.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:27 | 2838125 djsmps
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You are easily deceived.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:44 | 2838170 sessinpo
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Agreed. I've named Obama the Pied Piper over a month ago and it's catching on. I've noticed other using it now.

That isn't to say that there are problems on the right but the left is going after the ignorant.  It isn't any wonder that the left is shooting, counting on the no brainers.

The most blatent example is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQrrmjBg5w

 

What a joke the democrat party is. They can't survive without lies, neither party can but the democrats are leading the way in that category.

 

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:02 | 2838077 eatapeach
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Justin Raimondo on this:

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2012/09/27/bibis-crazy-un-speech/

It's good throughout, but here's a choice bit:

Netanyahu went on to cite the nonexistent “record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons” – an odd claim, since Iran hasn’t attacked a single one of its neighbors since the Battle of Thermopylae. The country did fight one war in modern times, when it was attacked by Iraq, which was being backed by the United States. However, it’s necessary to remember that war propaganda has no need of facts: only emotionally-charged evocations of rage – and fear:

“Given this record of Iranian aggression without nuclear weapons, just imagine an Iran with nuclear weapons. Who among you would feel safe in the Middle East? Who’d be safe in Europe? Who’d be safe in America? Who’d be safe anywhere?”

That this alleged champion of “modernity” should base his case on fearmongering should come as no surprise: hasn’t fear been the leitmotif of all the “modern” ideologies of aggressive nationalism? Fear of the Other, of the barbarian at the gates – the “savage” who, at the first opportunity, will tear your throat out with his bare teeth – is what keeps ideologues like Netanyahu and his American co-thinkers in business.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 09:01 | 2838240 The Alarmist
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Well, they did send that airliner out over the Gulf to threaten that Navy ship ....

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:01 | 2838074 clam
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Are you some kind of a marxist?

Everytime I read your column ,I get a little queasy.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:42 | 2838175 kaiserhoff
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He's a shill for the fat fucks in Washington.  Ask him if he supports Ron Paul's budget.

Watch him shit a brick.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:47 | 2838174 kaiserhoff
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Damn fat finger

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:23 | 2838109 mayhem_korner
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He's a special kind of marxist...the kind unaware of how he uses selective information and non-disprovable theory in order to coerce collective irrationalism and conformist behavior.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:56 | 2838063 Eugend66
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War is Bad, Zionism is WORSE !

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:47 | 2838187 sessinpo
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War is bad.

Ignorance and anti semitic racism like you display is worse.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 10:25 | 2838682 Panafrican Funk...
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http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/

Know the difference.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 15:14 | 2839788 mayhem_korner
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"Zionism" is a political label.  Tell us the difference between "Jews" and "Israelites"...I will be shocked if you can.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:00 | 2838073 kaiserhoff
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Becoming a slave in your own land, because you didn't have guts enough to fight is worse.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:09 | 2838087 falak pema
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who is threating your own land apart from Big Government and Big Finance gone mad? 

Know your enemy, it ain't Iran. And Ben Laden was son of Saudi, bedfellow to Big Oil; Big Uncle Sam's supposed  BEST friends. With friends like that... 

So who is the enemy you point to; is it not the MIC of USA that creates Frankenstein abroad, to fight the Soviets then to trash afterwards?

Even the Frankensteins have pride. Maybe the MIC will invent a new model without pride and  incredible blow back. 

Hope and Pray they do; until the "other side" finds a way around it. Its a game where the people never win. They end up as slaves for MIC in dead end places like Afgh.... To serve a cause that only feeds the MIC insatiable machine.

Is that fighting for freedom? 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:45 | 2838182 kaiserhoff
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I was talking about Pubama.  I have nothing against the Persians, who are simply Aryans, stuck with a criminal Stalinist government, much like my home state of Illinois.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:20 | 2838102 mayhem_korner
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know your enemy

 

Know your enemy, indeed.  Who is your enemy?  And to whom are you an enemy

In y'all's efforts to unveil the "true" enemy, you implicitly place yourselves at some mythical epicenter of goodness.  And so you are just fishing around the edges as to who the real enemy is...and you don't even realize it.

http://theultimateadversary.com/

"know your enemy" = "know thyself"

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:38 | 2838162 falak pema
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perfect reasoning from Buddhist perspective; difficult to accept in the mindset of the western world which is less introspective and more hands on; wanting to cut Gordian knots; irrespective of consequences. 

But those who benefit from both worlds can find balance. Our bodies and our minds are our true continents and the only thread in life we don't control is TIME; something we don't know when we are young and exuberant! 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:45 | 2838181 mayhem_korner
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You are talking about something completely different than I am.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:41 | 2838044 Disenchanted
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Why is the USA concerned with the Nutty-Yahoo and his insanities? Lets have a look at some real history...

How it became possible for the USA to be embroiled in the whole mess.

 

 

History of the US-Israel Relationship, Part I Alison Weir July 11, 2012  
How the "Special Relationship" was created

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:22 | 2838023 orangegeek
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Same tactics, difference situation.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:19 | 2838018 skippy9
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Anyone that still believes anything a "US government official" says has their head up their ass.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:02 | 2837988 BlackholeDivestment
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...so it has come down to Jacob's trouble. Of course you know ...this means war. Lol

For those not in agreement with our Father in Christ, or the image of The Sustaining Mercy,  or Life/The Light, there is (darkness) death etc..., the black hole, nothing, just ''BOOM!''.

Humanity has no defence against ''that stinking thinking'', of ''Boom'' ''chica Boom'', beyond the combination of the mental and physical attempt to escape (death) judgment. We are in a condition (Red. lol) of lethal ''disagreement''. That's just life. Lol. We are talking ''live'' or ''die'' ...here. Lol. If Possible all flesh would be destroyed by the Suicide Vampire Squid of the Great Wal Mart of China etc... That is the foundation of the (short term) spirit of evil, the ''law'' that (seals) the host in agreement with aborting (life) humanity. That has always been with us and something humanity has always had to deal with. This is evil kicking our butt(s). The spirit of evil has a definite grip and claim of dominion that defines the host, from a single person to a group, and we are all just subject to the affect(s) of contempt from the day we are born.

Have we reached the point of history where contempt is beyond any ''Red Line''? YES! That is obviously now the case being made by Israel, like anyone of us when we know our mortality etc,,, is about to be realized.

Israel is the burnednsome stone, like facing old age etc... and, the foot that seeks to dash against Israel, the fallen foot, well, that foot has the modern boot on, and the bucket under Israel is about to be kicked by the evil spirit that (seeks) destroys (if possible) all flesh. There is nothing Israel (or anyone) can do but attempt to survive. The question is not, ''in that attempt to survive, does that mean somebody will die? rather, the reality upon this generation is, ''have we reach the point where in order for Israel (the body) to live, how many people must be sacrificed attempting to affectively establish an eternal body (Israel)? Lol. 

The answer is obvious...

We are all going to witness Israel's (attempt to survive) defense against death. This is understandable, lol.

The time is now upon this generation for mass destruction events, big bucked kicking. Lol. A lot of (many more) humans shall suffer and perish soon ...because of Israel's attempt to cheat death. We are surely at a ''new age''.  Everyone knows it, and the events we have been witnessing certainly do not hold hope for escaping the judgment to come upon this generation, which has seen Israel risen (like a new born in the eye of the beast) as a nation and Jerusalem restored to Israel.

Get ready to endure hardship, The Great Tribulation. There is a Temple risen upon the Mount which defines the contempt for Israel. That reality was there before Israel was restored as a new world order among the nations. There shall be no peace agreement made that will ever ''change'' the Truth of that lethal reality. We are all going to face it.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 15:08 | 2839774 mayhem_korner
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Phenomenal post.  Brilliant.  Thanks.  Great to hear from someone who sees through the superficial layer of what really ails the world.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:03 | 2838078 Dulcinea
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Not sure that I follow all of your comments but I would agree that we are on the cusp of The Great Tribulation.  It is foretold to start December 2012 here:

http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com/home/

 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 08:47 | 2838188 falak pema
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Ahmed of Iran was saying the same thing at the UN as you are, about things foretold; he pointed to the Mahdi whose arrival on earth is "imminent".

I don't know s*** all in this domain; so I'll refrain from adding to the metaphysics of the situation. I prefer being Don Quixote there where you sing to his other half by your avatarial inspiration! 

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:08 | 2838004 BigDuke6
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Ok I'm gonna puff on a big dooby to get with ya....
But are you saying prince William is the Antichrist ?

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:21 | 2838020 BlackholeDivestment
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...is that what he's going by now ''Prince William''? Lol. Thought it was ''The Artist'' ...err something because of a contract with''The Devil''. LMAO.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjeW0PVGMcI

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 06:51 | 2837984 I am on to you
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Then ,GW, lets hope Netanyahu blows up Netanyahu!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 06:06 | 2837956 redd_green
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Oh NOOOO that would Neeever happen.   (09/11/2001, World Trade Center).    The Israeli government is good. The Israeli  government is the US best ally.    (and the same horse crap over and over)

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:06 | 2838003 tonyw
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Read "Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq" by Stephen Kinzer to get an overview of the US's appalling record. It's a long series of brutally imposed foreign `regime changes' fully endorsed by the US government whilst proclaiming democracy, freedom etc.

The US government understands all too well that if it allowed democracy to flower in the countries it controlled, those nations would begin acting in accordance with their own interests, not those of the US.

Know that false flags are standard practice.  For example, the US/Israel created the Stuxnet (and others) virus/bot to infect PCs in Iran and now they are claiming that Internet attacks are coming from Iran - well just maybe these are another form of flase flag attacks??

But of course they hate us for our freedoms, don't they??

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 12:18 | 2839237 omniversling
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i'm told that they hate you for your freedom to freedomise and democratise any country a/ with oil or a banking system not yet converted to fractional reserve fiat ponzi, or b/ thinking of introducing any means of international exchange based on currency other than US petrobucks, such as Gahdaffis gold dinar, using drones and and sanctions and cybertools...

 

but I may have misunderstood.....

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 04:59 | 2837921 The Alarmist
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Well, the economy is kind of sputtering along, and QE1...? doesn't seem to be doing much, so why not WWIII? Better the enemy we know (us) than the alien expeditionary force that would certainly wipe us all out.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 06:38 | 2837908 NuYawkFrankie
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PENCIL-NECK WARMONGER ALERT:

 

CLAWSON, LIEBERMAN (Fifth Columnist US Senator) et al -

The International Criminal Court at The Hague awaits.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 04:22 | 2837901 Gringo Viejo
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You know who's responsible for Americans being indolent, ignorant, passive, swine dontcha? THE JEWS!

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 12:28 | 2839263 FeralSerf
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"You know who's responsible for Americans being indolent, ignorant, passive, swine dontcha? THE JEWS!"

Are you referring to (Zionist) Eddie Bernays' successful campaign?

"If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without them knowing it."

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 06:44 | 2837977 lakecity55
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Will Israeli Zionists Use A False Flag?

Fixed it.

Possibly, to wit:

USS Liberty

A top Leader in espionage against the United States.

Anyone can be a Zionist.

Not all Jews are Zionists.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 06:09 | 2837959 redd_green
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Never associate the Jewish people as a whole, with what the crooks who run the Israeli government do.  Love people, hate governments.

Fri, 09/28/2012 - 07:14 | 2838010 tonyw
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Agree, the 99% are just as manipulated by those who would benefit in Israel as the US....

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