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The Konformist: The Chamish Files - Bibi Part Two
Subj: ESSAY: [2/2] Natanyahu
Date: 97-01-31 12:51:08 EST
From: [email protected] (Chamish Barry)
>From: Chamish Barry <[email protected]>
>
>The Secret Life Of Binyamin Netanyahu
>
>Even within the conventional story, it is clear that Netanyahu was
>groomed for leadership by the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) in New
>York. In 1979, twenty-seven year old Netanyahu called a conference on
>terrorism and the ruling elite of the CFR, Bush, Shultz and Perle
>answered to his summons. One word will suffice: why?
>
>Yoni Netanyahu was undoubtedly a martyr but far from the only one in
>Israel. He was not such a powerful symbol that the CFR would send a
>delegation of its biggest guns, including CIA director Bush to his
>unknown brother's get-together.
>
>Netanyahu's decision to quit his lucrative Boston job is almost
>inexplcable. Netanyahu sought a highpaying job at a prestigious
>consulting firm yet not two months later, he gave it up to fly back to
>Israel and sell sofas. He was barely settled in back home when he
>decided to organize an anti-terrorism conference and invite the most
>powerful people in Washington to attend.
>
>It is possible that Netanyahu was told to quit his job, return to
>Israel and arrange the conference. Perhaps there is a connection to the
>fact that a year later Shultz later made fighting terrorism a first
>priority of the Reagan administration and that Vice-President Bush was
>appointed to head a front for illegal covert activities called The
>Anti-Terror Task Force.
>
>Arens' offer of a deputy ambassadorship to salesman Netanyahu
>made no political sense. Israeli diplomatic aides and deputies
>typically rise slowly through the Foreign Ministry bureaucracy. They
>are not thrust into the second highest position at the most vital
>embassy in the world. It is far from impossible that Arens was
>directed to bring in Netanyahu by the very people in the Reagan
>administration who attended his conference three years earlier.
>
>Once in New York in 1984, CFR-affiliated media such as CNN, the New
>York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and CFR members Koppel and King
>turned Netanyahu into a major political figure; so much so that George
>Shultz became a close friend. We again ask the succinct question: why?
>What did Shultz, twenty years Netanyahu's senior, find so amusing about
>the Israeli UN Ambassador that he had to pay him a courtesy call every
>time he flew to New York? In 1985, Shultz chaired another Netanyahu-
>organized conference on terrorism, this time in Washington. The
>resulting publicity and prestige was a significant factor in
>Netanyahu's fast-rising political career. Clearly, the secretary-of-
>state had a major stake in Netanyahu's future. Which means, so did
>George Bush.
>
>All that can be concluded from the conventional story. What then do we
>make of Bibi's secret life?
>
>In 1987, Netanyahu applied for credit using his American social
>security number 020364537. With that number, he or someone else made
>the application under a phony name, John Sullivan, living at a false
>address in Northern California.
>
>Netanyahu used Sullivan's name to borrow money during 1987-88. John
>Sullivan does not exist, nor does Netanyahu's credit file. Israeli and
>American reporters who tried to dig into Netanyahu's past using his
>social security number discovered two other phony names used to apply
>for credit in 1987-88 but were perplexed to find that his credit
>records were completely removed. Only someone very high up in the
>American government could have authorized the erasing of the file.
>
>We return to the all-purpose question: why? Again, no one who knows is
>talking. What is nearly certain is that while Netanyahu was the UN
>Ambassador, he was either defrauding a credit company or on an
>assignment involving money that required three identity changes.
>
>Then there is Netanyahu's close relationship with Congressman Ben
>Gillman, head of the House Committee On International Relations. The
>problem here is that Gillman was also a close associate of Shabtai
>Kalmonovitch and shared business deals with him in Africa. Kalmonovitch
>was, not long after, imprisoned in Israel as a KGB spy. This is not to
>imply that Netanyahu was involved in spying, only that his closest ally
>in Congress has mighty strange intelligence ties to Israel.
>
>And what to make of the mystery of Netanyahu's housing?. Before he was
>even the leader of the Likud, two foreign businessmen, Jack Mandel of
>Australia and Sandy Eisenstadt of the US each paid about $750,000 to
>buy Netanyahu luxury apartments in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Again, no
>one has a clue why. There is speculation that part of the reason may be
>Eisenstadt's stake in an Israeli oil exploration company, a shady and
>hidden business, but no concrete connection has been discovered by the
>Israeli media.
>
>Netanyahu's penchant for secrecy is not subtle. It is well-known among
>the Israeli media that he had conducted a number of secret meetings
>with the Jordanian royal family in London and Amman before he became
>prime minister. Even the conventional Jerusalem Post reported in mid-
>June that six secret meetings were held in the past two years. But when
>Inside Israel just before the elections asked Netanyahu to comment on
>the meetings, he denied they had ever taken place.
>
>Perhaps the most secret and worrying ties concern what is supposedly a
>high-tech services company. Yediot Ahronot relates how Netanyahu wooed
>a local Likud leader. "He was invited by Netanyahu to a meeting in his
>office at Systematics in Ramat Gan. The head of the company, Oded
>Levental is a candidate for a financial post in the new government."
>
>Systematics is at the core of serious research by American alternative
>publications, including the usually reliable Media Bypass. In short,
>the allegations are that the National Security Agency had handed
>Systematics stolen software called Promis that opened a trap door to
>the world's secret banking transactions. About 250 Americans, mostly
>politicians, had their illegal foreign accounts emptied of over $3.5
>billion in the operation. It is claimed that Colin Powell dropped out
>of the presidential race after his account electronically vanished.
>Leading figures in the operation included George Bush, Caspar
>Weinberger and two Arkansas attorneys, Vince Foster Jr. and Hillary
>Rodham Clinton on behalf of Clinton financier Jackson Stephens. The
>research invariably concludes that Foster was murdered because he knew
>too much about the scam.
>
>A leading investigative writer, Sherman Skolnick, writes:
>
>"Some contend Systematics is an NSA proprietary and spies on banks
>overseas. Can Systematics rightfully deny spying actually done by
>buffers or cut-outs between Systematics and NSA? Systematics, through a
>spokesperson, vigorously denies Foster assisted it in any spying on
>foreign banks but remains apparently silent on whether Hillary Rodham
>Clinton assisted Systematics in some nefarious activities."
>
>Is it fair to ask why Systematics provided Netanyahu office space and
>if this was the sum total of its involvement with him?
>
>Since taking office, Netanyahu has fueled fears of international
>control by his actions within Israel's tiny anti-NWO community. They
>were most intrigued by his refusal to give Ariel Sharon a sensitive
>cabinet post. One possible reason is fear of Sharon's own intelligence
>arm in the US. Then for those people who fervently hoped that he would
>rid himself of any connections to the Arye Deri scandal, with all its
>implications of money laundering and perhaps murder, Netanyahu
>appointed as his Justice Minister, Yaacov Neeman, a lawyer who is
>currently being investigated for intimidating a key witness against
>Deri in a London trial.
>
>But the topper was Netanyahu's decision to allow Yaacov Frenkel to run
>the country's economy single-handedly. Frenkel worked for the World
>Bank between 1971-1990. After nineteen years away from "home" Frenkel
>was unexplainedly appointed head of the Bank of Israel.
>
>His policies mirrored the world-wide debt program of his previous
>employer documented by numerous researchers. The plan involves raising
>interest rates beyond what the public or industry can afford, and
>forcing the government to borrow lots of money from American banks to
>keep the populace pacified. When the debts have to be repaid from an
>empty treasury, the International Monetary Fund bails out the country
>with schemes guaranteed to impoverish the people.
>
>Frenkel was a proponent of Israel borrowing $10 billion in loans
>guaranteed by the American government and he kept his interest rates as
>high as he could in the face of opposition from then-Finance Minister
>Avraham Shohat who suspected Frenkel, "was playing politics with the
>Bank of Israel."
>
>Binyamin Netanyahu, the man who Inside Israel hoped would save Israel
>from the NWO puppet regime of Peres, appointed Yaacov Frenkel to be his
>Minister of Finance. The only thing that prevented the disaster was
>party opposition to an appointee who had never publicly supported the
>Likud.
>
>Dan Meridor got the post instead. But as the Maariv headline read:
>"Meridor Will Act, Frenkel Will Lead." On his first day in office
>Meridor announced that his policy would be to lower the standard of
>living in Israel. Not a week later, Frenkel raised the interest rates
>by a whopping 1.5% with Meridor's "approval."
>
>Something is going on behind the scenes at the CFR. While Secretary of
>State Warren Christopher must appear to be opposing Likud government
>policies to keep the Arabs in line, the former CFR director is playing
>some kind of double game with Netanyahu.
>
>King Hussein made his accommodation with Netanyahu well before the
>elections and refused to support Peres during the campaign. Netanyahu's
>victory clearly delighted him and on the surface, why not? The last
>thing he would want is a PLO state on his border with control of the
>Moslem holy sites. In time, it will become clearer what Netanyahu
>promised the King during the secret London meetings. Included, most
>assuredly, will be Jordanian hegemony over the Temple Mount.
>
>There has been a transformation in Israel but the CFR is still running
>the latest prime minister. And that is a good reason for intense fear
>about Israel's future.
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