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The Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil: What the US Media Hide
by Wendy Campbell
Monday, Dec. 06, 2004 at 10:49 PM
Media manipulation has many Americans believing in what is essentially a reversal of reality about the Middle East.
The Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil: What the US Media Hide
I HAVE FOUND that there is nothing more inspiring than taking a trip, especially to a foreign country where I leave behind my daily routine, including e-mails and the Internet, to get to think outside the box and to get a chance to write down my thoughts.
The moment of inspiration for me to start writing this article on my latest trip (to Baja Mexico) came moments after I stepped into the Alaska Airlines jet and picked up the complimentary issue of the Wall Street Journal. Generally I avoid mainstream media these days since I know it is mostly pro-Israel propaganda as well as blown-up sensationalist stories, such as the case of Scott Peterson, which are meant to distract people from the more important issues of our time, such as US foreign policy, for example.
The article in the Wall Street Journal, dated September 21, 2004, that rankled me into finally writing this article, which has been brewing in my mind for some time, was one by Jeffrey Ball entitled “As Prices Soar, Doomsayers Provoke Debate on Oil’s Future.” The sub-title was: “In a 1970’s echo, Dr. Campbell (no relation to me!) Warns Supply Is Drying Up, but Industry Isn’t Worried”.
Now let me explain to you that I have already come to the conclusion a while ago that this controversy about the “shortage of oil” is being pushed forward by mostly pro-Israel forces for their own narrow agenda that has nothing to do with the vast majority of the American people’s interests.
Even in this article, it is explained that: “Dr. Campbell is at the center of a small but suddenly influential band of contrarians known as the 'peak oil movement.' Their general thesis is that the world is running out of oil and quickly. They have been saying this for years, yet most experts believe that there is no need for panic, noting that new sources are constantly being discovered. Some experts even claim that oil supplies are self-renewing.
US MEDIA DETERMINE WHO WILL BE INFLUENTIAL
Is it a coincidence that Dr. Campbell is “suddenly influential”? No, it is not. Even the Wall Street Journal is playing into the game of making Dr. Campbell “suddenly influential” with this article.
Why is the US media pushing Dr. Campbell, a man who lives in a tiny Irish village, into the limelight? Because the media, which are run by pro-Israel forces, want people like Dr. Campbell to be in the limelight is why.
And you may ask, why is that? Well, because Dr. Campbell’s views help support the pro-Israel agenda of that other “suddenly influential band of contrarians,” known as the NeoConservatives. The NeoConservatives are mostly Zionist Jews, headed by Paul Wolfowitz, who qualify as Israeli-Americans, and who are now openly directing US foreign policy almost completely. Christian Zionists such as Bush and Cheney have jumped on their bandwagon. Of course, it looks even more convincing when a non-Jew, such as Dr. Campbell, puts forward claims that will lend support to the pro-Israel agenda.
People whose voices the US media want you to hear will be heard. Conversely, people whose voices and actions the US media want to hide, will go into the memory hole. It’s only an illusion that we have a free and democratic press here in the US. Personally, I think it’s about time to press for the right to vote for affirmative action laws with regards to specifically the US mass media and our US foreign policy department, both of which have a hugely disproportional percentage of Israeli-Americans in them.
The over-representation of Israeli-Americans in US newsrooms tends to undermine journalistic integrity. When the news media consistently manipulates public sensibilities with a bias favoring a foreign country such as Israel, American democratic values and institutions are compromised, as well as Americans’ ability to objectively and independently access the situation. America needs more non-Zionists (ie. people ineligible for Israeli citizenship) in high news and government positions to safeguard our own national interests against foreign interests. Whoever shapes public opinion has an unfair advantage politically. It serves as the government’s propaganda mouthpiece, but only when the government does as the media wants. Conversely, it has to power to bring politicians down who are not pro-Israel enough, often simply by ignoring them or by pulling out something unsavory from his or her dossier to suddenly put into the limelight. It works kind of like blackmail, actually.
The news establishment is termed by some to be “The Fourth Estate,” meaning the fourth branch of American government, after the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches. This mighty, and in many ways, secretive, consolidated collection of media networks manages the American mind, shaping public opinion. American public opinion is the world’s second most powerful super-power, but it’s too bad that it is managed by the narrow interests of the elite controllers of the “free” and “democratic” media. Thank God for the Internet, although “they” are franticly trying to control this last bastion of liberty as well.
LET’S DEBUNK SOME COMMON MYTHS ABOUT ISRAEL, OIL and U.S. SECURITY / INTERESTS
First of all, I’m sure many of you are aware of the notion put out there by political pundits (who are most likely pro-Israel) that the US somehow needs Israel in the Middle East to be its stationary “aircraft carrier” to act as the “tough cop” looking out for American interests in that region, specifically with regards to oil.
Let me ask you these few revealing questions.
When has Israel EVER sent any troops in to lend us a hand in ANY war the US has waged in the Middle East? Pretty amazing, especially when you consider that any wars the US has waged on the Middle East has been at the prodding of Israel and Israeli-Americans, particularly the NeoConservatives.
Have you ever noticed that gas is actually cheaper than bottled water?
Have you noticed or read the reports that the price of gas has not risen in keeping with inflation? Adjusted for inflation, gasoline today would have to sell for around $3.50 a gallon to the match prices Americans paid in 1981. And this does not factor in the additional savings in consumption we enjoy since today’s cars get nearly twice the gas mileage of cars produced only 25 years ago.
Do you realize that the Arab world needs to sell its oil even more than we need to buy it from them?
Did you know the US gets oil from many other countries including Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, etc. besides a few Middle Eastern countries? Actually, both Russia and Canada supply the US with quantities of oil comparable to Saudi Arabia. And what about the fact that there are more and more discoveries of new oil resources throughout the world? And that many geologists say that oil is actually a renewable resource? Even this Wall Street Journal article that sparked my writing this article gave many examples of how geologists scoff at Dr. Campbell’s prediction of an “oil crisis” looming ahead.
Even in Michael Moore’s Arab-bashing, misleading, “daring” documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, he made it clear that the Saudis are heavily invested in some sectors of American business, and that the Saudis are and always have been very cooperative with the US government, with the exception of the “oil crisis” of 1973, which I will discuss later in this article. It is well-known that the despotic Saudi government caters to the US government, so much in fact that the Saudi government is not popular with a vast majority of its own people, who see their government as selling out to the American government, which supports Israel’s brutal persecution of the Palestinian people. In fact, the Saudi government risks being overthrown by its own people because of their government’s relationship with the US. Osama bin Laden was thrown out of his country, Saudi Arabia, his assets frozen in banks there, and he was excommunicated from his family, because he advocates the overthrowing of the Saudi government for cooperating with the imperialistic, materialistic, Zionist-dominated US government, which has thousands of American troops stationed on Saudi soil, a key sticking point with bin Laden.
By the way, did you notice how Michael Moore didn’t even mention the word “Israel”? Or “Zionism”? Or even “NeoConservatism” in his documentary? Not surprising. His agent is top Hollywood Jewish Zionist Ari Emmanuel whose brother is Rahm Emmanuel, who served in the Carter administration, and is currently a hyper pro-Israel senator in Illinois.
Another interesting note about Moore’s documentary: He even pointed out how none of the Saudis could reap any financial benefits from the war on Iraq, unlike American companies such as Halliburton. So his whole Arab-bashing approach basically backfires. It shows how cowardly Moore is in the face of Zionist Hollywood, not to mention how greedy he obviously is to go for the big bucks -- which toeing the Zionist line assures anyone in the worlds of US media and politics. It’s ever so convenient and “somehow” politically “acceptable” to scapegoat Arabs and Muslims in Zionist Hollywood and US media.
Consider this as well: Does it make any sense whatsoever to spend over $200 BILLION on the war on Iraq to get control of Iraqi oil for US interests? Especially when we could easily buy it, if we needed to? Not to mention the war’s cost in human lives and alienating much of the world in the process? The “War for Oil (for US interests)” fable is a completely ridiculous and outrageous lie!
SO WHAT IS REALLY THE PRO-ISRAEL AGENDA WITH REGARD TO OIL?
What is the connection between Israel and Arab oil, and where does the US fit into this picture?
First of all, the ethnocentric Jewish state of Israel is a small, resource-poor country, with no natural oil resources, and is almost completely dependent on US support in the form of not only massive financial support (billions of US tax dollars yearly) but US military and political cover as well. Israel, quite simply, would not survive as the apartheid, imperialistic, war-mongering Jewish state that it is, without the massive support of the US government. Israel is surrounded by well-deserved, self-made enemies thanks to the initial injustice of the UN unilaterally giving away Arab land that was not theirs to give away in the first place to Eastern European Zionist Jews who have been committing ethnic cleansing and persecution of the indigenous non-Jewish Palestinians ever since 1948. Since that time, Israel has continued to aggressively steal even more Arab land and has blatant ambitions to control the entire Middle East, using the power and might of the United States.
If more Americans were truly aware of how racist and imperialistic Israel is, they would most likely demand that our government stop supporting Israel at all until it is transformed into a true democracy for all regardless of religion, race or gender, as the world pressured South Africa to transform from an apartheid country to a true democracy ten years ago*. If more Americans knew how support of Israel increases anti-American sentiment worldwide and ensures endless unjust wars, they might very well question their government’s support of Israel. There are many reasons for Americans to question their government’s support of Israel including first and foremost for real financial and security concerns as well as our country’s hard-won reputation as a democracy for all, regardless of religion, race or gender.
[ *National Vanguard does not, of course, approve of the multiracial "democracy" of South Africa, where horrific murder and genocide are being committed against Whites with the full cooperation and acquiescence of the Jewish-owned media, nor do we wish such a future on the United States. Racial separatist states are a good thing in our view, for they embody the very definition of self-determination and freedom. Jews, however, wish to use multiracialism to weaken and rule over others while retaining a unique right to a (rather brutal) racial state for themselves alone. -- Ed. ]
The fact is that the pro-Israel, Zionist-dominated US media very rarely even mentions the topic of Israel outside of incidents that involve Palestinian suicide bombers, which then make the screaming front page headlines. The footage of the aftermath of such an attack is played over and over again, back to back on ZNN (oops! I meant to write CNN!) and Fox News and all the other US media. These isolated attacks by Palestinian suicide bombers are thus over-reported while the context in which these desperate acts occur is usually completely ignored. The on-going brutal persecution of the non-Jewish Palestinian people, including the killing of innocent civilians and children, since 1948 by the Israeli army goes almost totally unreported and is generally veiled from view by the American public.
MOST AMERICANS DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT ZIONISM IS, US MEDIA LIKE TO KEEP IT THAT WAY
Most Americans don’t even know what Zionism is. In a nutshell, it is a racist, nationalistic, political ideology conceived by Theodor Hertzl, an Austrian Jew in the 1890s, that maintains that there must be a Jewish state in Palestine, although that means and always has meant policies of ethnic-cleansing, apartheid and general persecution of the indigenous non-Jews of that land, the Arab Muslim and Christian Palestinians. In a nutshell, advocates of this racist Zionist ideology are driving our US foreign policy. What ever happened to separation of synagogue/church and state? Isn’t it time to openly discuss this? Why are double standards allowed for Israel and for Zionists?
However the US media do not want Americans to even think about these things, never mind discuss them! Certainly, the pro-Israel media do not want Americans to question our government’s support of Zionist Israel. That is why there is never any mention in mainstream US media of the Israeli connection to 9-11, to the war on Iraq, to the so-called “war on terror,” or to the subject of Israel’s quest for oil.
This intentional covering up by the Zionized US media of the Israeli connection to anything that impacts the US negatively has been going on for decades.
WHAT THE US MEDIA STILL HIDE ABOUT THE 1973 “OIL CRISIS”
And nothing proves to me that the US media have been covering for Israel and still cover for Israel (refusing to show the negative effect for Americans of the US government’s “special relationship” with Israel) more than this article about the “oil crisis.” Here is a specific case in point:
Does anyone remember that time during 1973 when there was such an “oil crisis” that there were really long lines at all the gas stations and when gas was actually rationed out at the gas stations so that you could only get gas every other day, depending on whether or not your license plate ended in an even or an odd number?
I do remember that time vividly. I didn’t know why it was happening at the time, but I know exactly why now. And it’s not because I got “enlightened” by the pro-Israel US media.
Here is how this Sept. 21, 2004 Wall Street Journal article by Jeffrey Ball (who obviously passed the required litmus test of being pro-Israel enough to work in the US media) presented the “oil crisis” of 1973, in such a manner that still puts a veil over the Israeli connection to that event even today. Here is a direct quote:
“Then in 1973, the Arab members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) tightened their spigots, and the world panicked. The result: high prices, long lines and frequent shortages at gas stations across the U.S. and Europe.”
There was exactly no mention of the context of why OPEC “tightened their spigots” in 1973. No mention at all.
Are you ready for the Israeli connection to this crisis that is almost uniformly covered up by the pro-Israel US media?
Here it is: In 1973, Egypt went to war against Israel in order to win back the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel had stolen six years earlier in Israel’s infamous pre-emptive “Six Day War” in 1967 against her neighboring countries.
In that pre-emptive 1967 war, Israel not only stole the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, but also part of southern Lebanon, which Israel has since relinquished, and the Golan Heights from Syria, which is still being occupied to this day by Israeli forces, as well as the Palestinian Territories: the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, now generally referred to as the Occupied Territories. Pro-Israel forces generally prefer to refer to the Occupied Territories as the “disputed territories.”
Egypt appeared to be winning its retaliatory war against Israel in 1973, so Golda Meir, the American-Israeli Prime Minister of Israel at the time, worked with American-Israeli Henry Kissinger to pressure the US government to come to Israel’s rescue, which it did.
Therefore, in a show of solidarity with Egypt, the Arab countries of OPEC “tightened their spigots” of gas and oil for export to the U.S.
There you have it: the real reason for the “oil crisis” of 1973. But the pro-Israel US media do not want Americans to realize that support for Israel has many negative effects on the lives of Americans, which includes potential politically induced “oil crises,” such as was obviously the case in 1973.
Pro-Israel forces in this country and around the world want to minimize the power of Arab countries which is mostly due to their oil resources. Therefore the pro-Israel forces are relying on the US government to directly control these resources primarily for Israel via wars, campaign contributions, and a manipulative media. Pro-Israel people detest going to the gas station, because every time they pump gas into their cars, they angrily believe they are helping Arab Muslims (“terrorists”), whose land and resources Zionists view somehow as rightfully theirs. But of course, they don’t want the non-Zionist or unaware-of-it-all Americans to resent their US government’s support for Israel which can possibly mean paying more for gas in a future politically induced “oil crisis,” as it did in 1973.
Another example of the Israelization of America: have you been to the airports lately? The kinds of procedures at the US airports that you have been experiencing lately have always been the “norm” in Israel. This is a prime example of how Israel’s “war on terror” has SOMEHOW become America’s “war on terror” and how it directly impacts the lives of Americans. The “war on terror” is NOT about democracy. It’s an imperialistic war which will have no end if the Zionists (anyone who is pro-Israel) have their way, because it is unjust and breaks International Laws.
There is another aspect of the Israeli connection to the war on Iraq, which many people wish to believe is all about oil for the US, rather than the Zionist ideology that is actually the driving force behind the push for a war on the entire Middle East, which began with Afghanistan, and moved onward to Iraq, and threatens to expand to Iran, Saudi Arabia, and even Syria, which is not an oil exporting country (which just goes to show once again: it’s not just about the oil!)
PRO-ISRAEL FORCES WANT TO RE-OPEN A PIPELINE FROM IRAQ TO HAIFA, ISRAEL
The fact that American-Israelis in our government are endeavoring to use the war on Iraq as a way for Israel to gain control over oil in the Middle East is rarely reported in the Zionized mainstream US mass media, however it has been reported in Jewish newspapers with Jewish readership as well as in Israeli papers.
A case in point is the fact that American-Israelis in our government want to “re-open” or re-instate the pipeline that used to exist between Iraq and Palestine, which is now specifically Haifa, Israel. When Israel was created in 1948, that pipeline was re-directed by Iraq to Syria. Now pro-Israel forces are actively seeking to cut off the pipeline to Syria and re-direct it to Haifa, Israel. For more information on this, please do a Google-search using such keywords such as “Iraq oil pipeline to Haifa Israel” and see what you come up with.
Just as Israel’s connection to the war on Iraq has been kept out of the US mainstream mass media (as you may have noticed, Israel has not even been mentioned as one of our “allies” in the war on Iraq !), this choice nugget of information with regard to Israel’s ambition to get a basically free supply of Iraqi oil is also kept out of view for the vast American public consumption.
I could go on about all this (and, yes, there is much more) but I will stop here.
You get the picture, I hope. You won’t get it from the Zionized US mainstream media.
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Wendy Campbell is a California-based producer and distributor of political documentaries. For more information, please check out her Web sites:
marwenmedia.com and exposingisraeliapartheid.com
Note: Wendy Campbell’s latest documentary “Rosa Remembers Palestine,” featuring an interview with a Palestinian woman who became a refugee when the Jewish state of Israel was created in 1948, will premiere at the San Francisco Bay Area's La Pena Cultural Center on Thurs. Oct. 28 at 8pm. For more information on this and other ground-breaking documentaries, please visit marwenmedia.com.
National Vanguard welcomes this article submission by Wendy Campbell, though her perspective is, obviously, at variance with our own in some respects. It is most heartening to see the rapid growth of understanding of Jewish power and Jewish hypocritical survival strategies coming from the left.I believe that eventually many of these good people will begin to see that promotion of multiracialism and media-ruled "democracy" are themselves Jewish strategies for weakening other peoples. Those interested in learning more should begin their study with the works of Dr. Kevin MacDonald. -- Ed.
www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=3965
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by i
Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2004 at 6:30 AM
Why would someone fight over who wrote such a load of horseshit?
Vertical Expulsion
by Wendy
Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2004 at 2:26 PM
Subject: unwritten rules Judenpresse plays by
Unwritten Rules One Must Follow to Publish on Indybay or Most Places in the United States:
by Wendy Campbell
wendy@sanfranciscoandbeyond.com
Dec. 27, 2004
#1) You must believe everything that the Zionists say about the Holocaust.
(Sorry, I don't believe everything the Zionists say about anything, including the Holocaust. I believe that like any historical event, it must be backed up with facts and it should be freely researched and debated. Zionists are denying the freedom of speech concerning the Holocaust. Also, the Zionists use the Holocaust as a license to kill Palestinians and steal their land. On top of that, the Zionists use the Holocaust to elevate Jewish suffering above all others' suffering.)
#2) You must not object to paying the "kosher food tax" every time you go to the store to get your groceries.
(If you don't know what the "kosher food tax" is do a google search on it. Sorry if I don't think I should have to pay any religious group every time I go to the grocery store.
#3) You must believe that the war in Iraq is all about oil and corporations.
(Sorry, but it's obvious the war is about Zionists' ambitions for Israel and Zionist power, not oil which we can certainly buy without an expensive war. Corporations don't have to rely on Israel to maximize its profits either.)
#4) You must believe that Israel is the poor, teensy little victim in the Middle East and that the Big Bad USA is using poor little Israel for an aircraft carrier to protect US interests in the Middle East.
(Sorry to burst your bubble, but this doesn't even make sense one little bit. Arab countries have oil to sell and we have the money to buy it. We already get it at discount prices compared to the rest of the world. And there are also many other sources of oil around the world that we utilize. The fact is that Zionists are using the US as a cash cow to further the Zionist agenda, where Israel will be the power center of the world with Jerusalem as its capital. Yes, there are really Zionists who believe this and they have a lot of money, power and influence in the USA. Don't kid yourselves! Stop looking the other way! Stop trying to justify Israel in any way, shape or form other than transforming it into a true democracy with completely equal rights for all regardless of religion, race, ethnicity or sex. And support the Palestinian right to return!)
#5) You must believe that Judaism is only a religion.
(Look at the facts, what other religion must your mother be that religion in order for you to really be a member of that "religion"? It's all about DNA in Judaism. That's why you can be a "secular" Jew (non-religious, atheistic, agnostic) and still be a Jew. Obviously Judaism is an ethnicity with its own culture, and there is a smaller minority that are actually religious, such as the Neturei Karta who believes that Zionism is the exact opposite of Torah-true Judaism. Nonetheless, even the Neturei Karta do not embrace intermarriage with non-Jews. Therefore, it is more than a religion. There are different sub-groups of Jews: the Ashkenazim that come mostly from Eastern Europe and are not actually Semitic; there are the Sephardic who come from Spain, and Morocco and other Arab groups, and they are generally actually Semitic, like the Palestinians. But it is very much so connected to DNA (ethnicity) rather than Christians openly seek converts from all countries and ethnicity's (whereas Jews do not, except for political alliances, but not necessarily true converts, which in general they actually discourage because of the DNA issue).
#6) You must not acknowledge, nor especially be critical of the fact that Jewish power and influence surpasses any other ethnic group or religious group in the media and even in areas of our government such as US foreign policy, especially at this moment in time.
(How can you deny this?)
At any rate, this is just to let you know that obviously certain kinds of articles are "kosher" at Indybay and why that is.
And another thing, it goes to show how rather depraved the editors of Indybay are to let comments by the completely Zionist psycho "GENUINE anti-racist" remain unhidden while others that are critical of Zionism get hidden. This implies that the editors of Indybay actually condone Zionism, violence against others for what they believe, vulgarity, hatred and disrespect of women, and they display a hatred of legitimate criticism of Zionist power (except they allow a few "kosher" authors to post some just to try to present a "balanced" and fair position). I think the editors of Indybay are rather disgusting because of their lack of judgment and common sense, concerning what to hide and what not to hide (or delete).
Although Indybay tries to present themselves as an enlightened, free, open, non-censored, progressive collective, non-racist, non sexist...what they really prove themselves to be are phony progressives, phony peace activists, haters of women, haters of free speech and totally screwed-up.
They also think that no one should try to open dialogs with any group or organization that they think is not "kosher". Sure it's OK with them to write for the racist US mainstream media, but to circulate articles to all kind of groups, not only Jewish White Supremacist groups but also Christian White Supremacist groups, in order to open the dialog is not "kosher".
The editors of Indybay are also closet Zionists, the worst insult of all, since it means there will be endless war for Israel. If you don't confront the facts and issues or at least openly debate them instead of "hiding" them, YOU, are part of the problem.
http://www.vnnforum.com/2004b/122804letters.htm
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