Mark Glen
The New Mafia - The NeoCons!
Wed Oct 22 19:14:36 2003
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"The New Mafia" is an excerpt of the work by the author "Not My Words, but Theirs: A Christian American's Defense of Middle Eastern Culture and its People." The website for the book may be accessed at http://www.notmywords.com . The author may be reached at mglenn@mediamonitors.org 

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Now consider the upset that occurs today when someone suggests that there is a criminal conspiracy, much like the Italian Mafia that is operating again, only on a bigger scale, and instead of being run by the Italians, it is run by Israelis. The reactions by these gangsters and their controlled mouthpieces, the media, (and in particular, right-wing talk show hosts) are almost identical to the reactions by Italian gangsters and their defenders in the last century. People are branded as racists, bigots, jealous, envious, and now, thanks to 50 years of daily propaganda, Nazis.

It is very effective. Criticize Israel for anything, and you will be called any of the above and ruined for life. Consider what happened to Pat Buchanan throughout his career as a commentator and presidential candidate. Now, as a result of the browbeating he has received for exposing these people for what they are, he barely ekes out snippets of the truth for fear of the backlash that he is sure to receive. Not limiting the scope of their warfare to only assassinating their opponent's character, they may kill him physically as well. Consider the case of Randy Weaver's wife and son. Mr. Weaver made the mistake of openly calling this criminal conspiracy for what it is, the Kosher Mafia, and was almost murdered for it. At the very least, you can expect a letter from some government agency telling you that they need to "talk to you" about some matter, usually involving an audit or an inspection, and the harassment will continue for years. Tactics like these and many others not listed are not new, although those individuals using them, members of the New Mafia, would prefer that the rest of America pretend that they don't exist.

What else do you call a well-run organization with long reaching tentacles that wields silent, yet powerful influence in government, finance, and media? An organization that extorts over 6 billion dollars a year from the American taxpayers? An organization that can hush-up war crimes 50 years old of such enormity that they scream out to heaven for justice? An organization that can pick up the phone, call the President of the United States and order him to bomb another nation back into the stone age on completely false pretenses? An organization that deals in illegal arms sales, the sex-slave business, drugs, counterfeit money, money laundering, prostitution and the protection racket on a world wide scale?

Talk about it being run by the Italians, and everyone calls it the Mafia. Talk about it being run by the Arabs, and everyone calls it terrorism. Talk about it being run by the Israelis, and everyone calls it a wacky conspiracy theory created by anti-Semites.

The script runs just like an old Italian gangster film too. A group of immigrants invades a neighborhood, driving everyone out who is not a member of the "family." Those that don't leave on their own have their homes and businesses burned to the ground, or are simply gunned down in drive-by shootings by members of the Stern Gang or the Irgun. When the cops show up, "no one saw nothin" and the rest of the world is therefore none the wiser. The Godfather, Don Ariel Sharon, "made his bones" as a young man in places like Lebanon where he was personally responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, as well as in the Jordanian village of Kibya, where the101 st Israeli army unit under his command blew up 41 homes and a school, killing 53 civilians, including many children. Now he has risen through the ranks of power, and assumes the role of an aged, overweight crime boss with an eye for young girls. Instead of making the sign of the cross and making visits to Catholic religious ceremonies, (a common theme in Italian gangster films) Don Ariel Sharon wears a skullcap and shows up at the Wailing Wall with his rabbi. There are coups within the family, where the old Don is gunned down in a spectacular, public way, as occurred with Yitzak Rabin, and when one of their "button men" comes out in the open and exposes the inner workings of the Family, as ex-Mossad agent Victor Ostrovsky did, they send someone in to try and rub him out, just as the Italians tried to do to Joseph Vallachi.

Understanding the need for political connections, the members of the New Mafia align themselves with powerful friends in the US, and use their contacts in the media to insure that men such as Bill Clinton and GW Bush, each with more than a few skeletons in the closet (think Mena and Enron) are elected, making them pliable public figures, and when they don't cooperate, (as in the case with Clinton) they send in a girl to blackmail him, as occurred in The Godfather II. When other members of the Family voice their worries about getting into a gang war with their enemies, Godfather Ariel Sharon assures them in a quiet, confident voice as he did during a cabinet meeting in October2001 , saying "Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Israeli people control America and the Americans know it." And, when his back is up against the wall and he needs to negotiate with his enemies, Don Ariel calls everyone together for a "sit down" to talk about peace, just as Sollozzo did in the Godfather as a tactical move to throw his enemies off guard.

The New Mafia employs its own spy network as well, through organizations such as the ADL and JDL, which, if not officially noted as domestic branches of the Mossad, nevertheless do their work for them, and who, as in the case of Randy Weaver and the Branch Davidians, need only make a phone call to the US Justice Department to get the ball rolling in making an example of them. The fact that the JDL was on the FBI's top ten list of most dangerous terrorist organizations, and the fact that the ADL has been busted several times by the feds for illegally wiretapping the phones of US citizens doesn't stop them from getting done what needs to get done for the Family. This notoriety has been validated recently, when Irv Rubin, a major player in the JDL, was "suicided" in prison the day before he was to go on trial for his role in the attempted bombing of the office of a US Congressman who was critical of Israel. As well, recently, the ADL lost a multi-million dollar lawsuit brought against them by an American citizen whose phones they had wiretapped, hoping to get some dirt on this citizen in an attempt to silence his criticism of Israel's terrorist actions against her neighbors.

Which brings us to the present state of things. We, the Americans, have been given a "contract" by the New Mafia to carry out a series of "hits" in the Middle East in bringing the other families to heel. The New Mafia has done a good job of laying the propaganda groundwork years ahead of time by bringing to prominence ardent supporters of this crime family such as Limbaugh, Liddy, Savage, Hannity, O'Reilly and the others. They have done their jobs well, deflecting attention away from the real causes of anti-Americanism in the Middle East, and instead blaming it on kindergarten-level explanations such as "hatred for freedom" and other such nonsense. They have polished up the image of the New Mafia, like Capone used to do with his soup kitchens, by calling Israel "the only democracy" in the Middle East, despite the fact that the tactics she employs against even her own citizens fly in the face of everything we hold dear as Americans. And, last but not least, they, the New Mafia, have for 50 years, inculcated into the minds of Christian Americans the idea that they are dysfunctional, prudish, backwards, racist, and therefore that they are directly to blame for the tribulations that caused many of them to suffer and die. The unspoken understanding operates like this: "You owe us. We have suffered terribly because of you, and now you are going to allow us to move about as we please without restraint, and without the hassle of scrutiny or public criticism."

And that is exactly what has taken place.

Just like a "get out of jail free card" signed by some politician and carried around by some Mafioso that he presents whenever he gets "pinched" by the bulls, the Israelis have constructed for themselves a series of back doors through which to scramble if the heat shows up. Consider what took place in1967 , when the Israeli Air Force and Navy fired upon an American intelligence-gathering ship, the USS Liberty during the Six Day War, an attack that lasted over an hour and a half, killing 34 American soldiers and wounding 170 more, and nothing, repeat nothing, has been done about it, save a few whitewashed investigations. Call to mind the case of Jonathon Pollard, an American serviceman whose national security clearance allowed him to transfer over500 , 000pages of sensitive material to the Israelis, as well as other Americans who supplied intelligence to them, some of which our "ally" turned around and sold to our enemies, including the Chinese. Talk about getting out of jail for free. Dozens of other instances, although most of them not quite as singularly spectacular as the USS Liberty, (but nonetheless important) are empirical facts of a hushed-up history.
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The New Mafia
Mark Glenn
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