US admits Israel is arming and training terrorist groups to create terror
“The hypocrisy is deeper than this. By any
measure the US has long used terrorism. In
‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law
against international terrorism- in every
version they produced, the lawyers said the
US would be in violation.” -- Lt. General William Odom, former NSA Director
...Definitely not as I do! Any attempts at resistance will be met with overwhelming force and terror! This seems to be the credo for powerful forces in today's world - double standards on a massive scale. The history of false-flag operations and terrorism is long and bloody and involves most of the leading powers of the day. Despite their claim to the so-called doctrine of exceptionalism, today's preeminent power has proven itself exceptional only in terms of the great frequency of using this tool. When you are prepared to sacrifice well over 5,000 of your own countrymen in just two incidents 60 years apart (the two 'Pearl Harbors') on the altar of your global strategic objectives, then the only real difference between you and the individual 'suicide-vest' wearer is that you are simply much better at the game!
Admitting this terrible truth in a rare moment of honesty, former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski testified to the Senate that the war on terror is "a mythical historical narrative." A recent post of mine put it this way: "This is where the phony war on terror has reached: Repeat after me - Our violence good, Theirs bad!" Meanwhile, the whole world waits with bated breath and trepidation for the coming false-flag attack, with massive casualties which will usher in the war on Iran and the igniting of the Middle-East fuse leading to the inevitable start of WWIII, with both Russia and China coming to the party. Of course, the tactic has now been overused to such a degree that many across the planet are now savvy - perhaps too many for the ruse to succeed this time around. We shall see!
Those living in that corner of the world may be more affected by this election cycle than by any other in recent memory, as the incumbent will quite likely accede to the pressure being brought to bear by the junior partner and attack as early as this summer, should the polls indicate an impending defeat. Should he fail to achieve the second term, the new White House occupant (from the other party) will almost certainly make the same error in either the first, or at latest the second year of the new term!
Recent history has lulled those on one side into a false sense of security, one in which they view the fireworks from the comfort of their living rooms just as with any other reality show. Something tells me that this time will be quite different - so that yesterday's viewers may be tomorrow's participants in the upcoming new and updated edition of War Follies! The video shows that state-driven terror is now acknowledged by even mainstream media, while the articles lay out some of what may be next!
Mainstream Reports: The U.S. and Israel Support Terrorists
America and Israel Support Iranian Terrorists, According to Reports
Senior U.S. officials say – according to NBC news – that Israel is training and supporting Iranian terrorists:
I noted last month that the U.S. is as well:
The Mujahideen e Khalq (MEK) … along with its political arm, the National Council of Resistance in Iran (NCRI), is listed by the U.S. State Department as a terrorist organisation.Glenn Greenwald notes:
Interestingly, the Bush Administration – and especially Dick Cheney – helped to fund the MEK (see confirming articles here and here).
And the New York Times, Washington Post and others are reporting that Rudy Giuliani, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, former national security adviser Fran Townsend and former Attorney General Michael Mukasey are supporting the MEK as well.
There are numerous Muslims inside the U.S. who have been prosecuted for providing “material support for Terrorism” for doing far less than these American politicians are publicly doing on behalf of a designated Terrorist group.Indeed, high-level U.S. and Israeli officials have admitted that they carry out terrorism.
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Yet here we have numerous American political figures receiving substantial fees from a group which is legally designated under American law as a Terrorist organization. Beyond that, they are meeting with the Terrorist leaders of that group repeatedly …. And, after receiving fees from the Terrorist group and meeting with its Terror leaders, these American political figures are going forth and disseminating pro-MEK messages on its behalf and working to have it removed from the Terrorist list.
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What they are providing to MEK is the definitive “material support.”
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Indeed, as Georgetown Law Professor David Cole noted, these activities on behalf of MEK are clearly prosecutable as “material support for Terrorism” under the standard advocated by the Bush and Obama DOJs and accepted by the Supreme Court in the Holder v. Humanitarian Law case of 2009, which held that even peaceful advocacy on behalf of a Terrorist group can be prosecuted if done in coordination with the group (ironically, many of these paid MEK supporters have long been advocates of broad application of “material support statutes” (when applied to Muslims, that is) and have even praised the Humanitarian Law case). If we had anything even remotely approaching equal application of the law, [U.S. politicians who have aided MEK] would be facing prosecution as Terrorist-helpers.
Then there’s long been the baffling question of where MEK was getting all of this money to pay these American officials. Indeed, the pro-MEK campaign has been lavishly funded. As the CSM noted: ”Besides the string of well-attended events at prestigious American hotels and locations, and in Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, the campaign has included full-page advertisements in The New York Times and Washington Post — which can cost $175,000 apiece.” MEK is basically little more than a nomadic cult: after they sided with Saddam Hussein in his war with Iran, they were widely loathed in Iran and their 3,400 members long lived in camps in Iraq, but the Malaki government no longer wants them there. How has this rag-tag Terrorist cult of Iranian dissidents, who are largely despised in Iran, able to fund such expensive campaigns and to keep U.S. officials on its dole?
All of these mysteries received substantial clarity from an NBC News report by Richard Engel and Robert Windrem yesterday. Citing two anonymous “senior U.S. officials,” that report [states that] the Terrorist group “is financed, trained and armed by Israel’s secret service.” These senior officials also admitted that “the Obama administration is aware of the assassination campaign” but claims it “has no direct involvement.” Iran has long insisted the Israel and the U.S. are using MEK to carry out Terrorist attacks on its soil, including the murder of its scientists, and NBC notes that these acknowledgments “confirm charges leveled by Iran’s leaders” ….
There are a number of vital questions and conclusions raised by this. First, it would be mean that the assurances by MEK’s paid American shills … that “they are unarmed” are totally false: whoever murdered these scientists is obviously well-armed. Second, this should completely gut the effort to remove MEK from the list of designated Terrorist groups; after all, murdering Iran’s scientists through the use of bombs and guns is a defining act of a Terror group, at least as U.S. law attempts to define the term. Third, this should forever resolve the debate in which I was involved last month about whether the attack on these Iranian scientists constitutes Terrorism; as Daniel Larson put it yesterday: “If true, the murders of Iranian nuclear scientists with bombs have been committed by a recognized terrorist group. Can everyone acknowledge at this point that these attacks were acts of terrorism?”
Fourth, and most important: if this report is true, is this not definitive proof that Israel is, by definition, a so-called state sponsor of Terrorism? Leaving everything else aside, if Israel, as NBC reports, has “financed, trained and armed” a group officially designated by the U.S. Government as a Terrorist organization, isn’t that the definitive act of how one becomes an official “state sponsor of Terrorism”?
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Of course, as I documented in my last book, those who are politically and financially well-connected are free to commit even the most egregious crimes; for that reason, the very idea of prosecuting Giuliani, Rendell, Ridge, Townsend, Dean and friends for their paid labor on behalf of a Terrorist group is unthinkable, a suggestion not fit for decent company …. The term Terrorism is so completely meaningless, manipulated and mischievous: it’s just a cynical term designed to delegitimize violence and even political acts undertaken by America’s enemies while shielding from criticism the actual Terrorism undertaken by itself and its allies. The spectacle whereby a designated Terrorist group can pay top American politicians to advocate for them even as they engage in violent Terrorist acts, all while being trained, funded and aided by America’s top client state, should forever end the controversy over that glaringly obvious proposition.
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
And the former director of the National Security Agency said:
- 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)
By any measure the US has long used terrorism. In ‘78-79 the Senate was trying to pass a law against international terrorism – in every version they produced, the lawyers said the US would be in violation.Note: I am not defending Muslim terrorists or picking on the U.S. and Israel. Many nations – including Muslim countries – have carried out terrorist attacks. I am simply pointing to the hypocrisy, double standards and imperial arrogance of America and Israel.
If the U.S. and Israel sponsor terrorism, then Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser was correct when he told the Senate in 2007: the war on terror is “a mythical historical narrative”.
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