Month: January 2017

Letter from the First Infantry Division Officer

My Great Good Friends,

I thoroughly enjoy reading all responses to my modest missives from acquaintances and strangers alike. The letter below is particularly poignant in that it illustrates these are not academic or political, idealogical or philosophical arguments.

The power the Zionist lobby represents a real world threat to real Americans like the young First Infantry Division Officer who penned the letter below.

-ATN

Anthony:

Having taken a similar position to your own since 1968, I have often found myself called by many names including Nazi and Anti-Semitic, this in spite of the fact that my daughter in law is Jewish, and my grandchildren refer to themselves as Greekish.

It is of interest to note, that while serving with the First Infantry Division in Germany, during the early 70’s our Division was put on full alert, rode off to Wiesbaden AFB with our APCs and such and signed our Last Wills. We were about to load the C-130s, when we were told the Israelis had won the conflict and we were “not needed.”

Our Battalion Commander, a highly decorated Colonel of Infantry and Veteran of Vietnam, at a subsequent Officer’s call wondered aloud if the Israelis would have been as quick to respond on our behalf as we had been for them. He was reprimanded shortly thereafter for that comment and demoted to a lesser command. End of career. We, that is the Officers, were all stunned and wondered who had ratted out a great guy and what he had said that was so wrong (it was not).

I am reminded of Winston Churchill’s quote that “All men are equal and all distinctions between them are unhealthy and undemocratic.” And he was an honorary citizen of the US.

Your Pal,

T.

A Military-Security Price

My Great Good Friends,

Having just been confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the opinions of General James Mattis, USMC (Retired), are of utmost importance.

Lest anyone suspect I’ve carefully selected quotes to illustrate his agreement with my contention that we suffer from Israel’s fifth column in Washington, all quotes are from J.J. Goldberg‘s article in the Jewish ‘Forward’ print edition and on line at their English and Yiddish language sites.

The article entitled Top U.S. General: We pay a Price for Backing Israel contains the General’s verbatim answers to Wolf Blitzer’s questions at the Aspen Security Forum, as well a link to the 66:13 minute video of their talk (comments on Israeli settlements in Palestine begin at 41:22).

From the article:

The current situation is unsustainable, America must act with a sense of urgency toward a two state solution. The chances of success are starting to ebb because of the settlements and where they’re at, if it fails the result will be apartheid.

And then this bombshell:

‘I paid a military-security price every day as the Commander of CentCom because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel‘.

Mattis’ predecessor as Chief of CentCom, General David Petraeus, made much the same point in a briefing paper to the Senate Armed Services Committee shortly before he handed CentCom over to Mattis.

The article also has a link to the ADL’s unhinged response to General Petraeus. Some of you may recall his more personalized remarks along same lines to a newly commissioned officer I brought to a small luncheon with the General.

Wolf Blitzer: Is the Israeli Palestinian peace process going anywhere?

General Mattis: Well, Wolf that depends on the protagonists, and do they want it as much as our valiant Secretary of State [Kerry] wants it. The settlements are making it impossible. For example if I’m Jerusalem and I put 500 Jewish settlers out there to the east and there’s 10,000 Arabs there, if we draw the border to include them either it ceases to be a Jewish state, or they say the Arabs don’t get to vote – apartheid. And that didn’t work out so well for a government the last time I saw that practiced in a country. ”

Wow, more concise and eloquent than I’ve heard the argument put by anyone in BDS.

These are great days for freedom,

-ATN

A Big Tent

My Great Good Friends,

The change in fortune of the BDS-Israel movement has been so dramatic and rapid since President Obama’s decision to allow the Security Council’s (unanimous) adoption of resolution 2334 as to be breathtaking.

Reminiscent of the precipitous collapse of the Soviet Union, oppression and injustice can not hold back the swell of global opinion forever. And apparently when the dam breaks it’s hard and fast.

The current moment has positive domestic and geo-political ramifications.

First domestic: Assuming the Trump Administration reverts to the Middle East policies of President G.W. Bush, it will become increasingly clear the US is alone in supporting Israeli aggression and oppression. A fact heretofore obscured by America blocking unanimous United Nations boycotts, divestitures and sanctions.

To the extent those action are now being put into place, our fellow countrymen will be confronted by what it costs American interests to be subordinate to Israeli, which will in turn illuminate those fifth columnists’ here who have so cravenly betrayed us.

Internationally the positives are too obvious to list, however, before yesterday’s Paris Summit and tomorrow’s UN Security Council meeting overwhelm the more pedestrian accomplishments of the movement, I would like to briefly review some of the 2016 BDS victories.

  1. Under crushing international condemnation Veolia, Orange, CRH and G4S have all divested their businesses in Israel.
  2. In spite of Likud ‘declaring war on BDS’ with propaganda, espionage, intimidation and legal action, The European Union and numerous individual countries upheld the right of their citizens to boycott Israeli products and companies doing business with Israel.
  3. The UN Human Rights Commission has begun compiling a database of Israeli and international corporations complicit in and / or profiting from the occupation regime.
  4. And the zeitgeist needle moves: The Brookings Institute recently published an opinion poll finding 46% of all Americans and 60% 0f Democrats support “sanctions against Israel for it’s colonization of Palestinian land”.
  5. Broadening mainstream church groups participation in BDS including the United Methodist, the Presbyterian, and the Alliance of Baptists Churches joining the long list which began with the National Coalition of American Nuns boycott on October 21, 2007.
    And my favorite each year:
  6. Those wild and crazy young whippersnappers. Pharrell Williams and Beyonce cancelling scheduled gigs in Tel Aviv and undergraduate student governments from the University of Chicago to the University of Quatar.
  7. Finally organized labor from the United Electrical Workers Union to the NYU Graduate Assistant Teachers Union.

So, once again this year: ‘A Big Tent’.

-ATN

‘ol Buddy Mike, Introduction

My Great Good Friends,

I have had the privilege of ‘ol Buddy Mike’s insights as a co-worker, venture partner and friend for +/- 30 years. Trained as an architect he is an accomplished private equity investor and, on the stopwatch, as quick on a debate uptake as anyone I know.

An interesting facet of ‘ol Buddy Mike’s personality forming experience was his becoming a Jew. Of particular interest is his concomitant emphasis on the social aspects of his conversion with little or no heed paid to any tenets of the faith.

A pilar of his typical social Jew orthodoxy (along with Sienfeld re-runs, Zabar’s and AIPAC contributions) is an unflinching, I would say unthinking, support for Israel. Ironically a daily glance at the Israeli press shows a frantic debate for the soul of a nation not seen here since the abolitionists and segregationists. Yet the American perspective, as filtered through our media support of their right-wing Likud faction, is one dimensional.

‘ol Buddy Mike has perfectly internalized that perspective and argues the “only ally”, “only democracy”, “surrounded by enemies” tropes so well I think you will enjoy a few of our recent volleys.

-ATN

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 2 – Poor Persecuted Muslims

Mike,

The Fund has me fully committed so I can’t address the diatribe other than to say it’s been a great week, in fact one I have been predicting for seven years.

However I will find time to send you an authoritative (Israeli) list of every single ‘rocket / missile attack’ over the last few years so you’ll realize

  1. we shoot off more potent stuff in my backyard and
  2.  by their own account of no damage you’re being used as a propaganda tool.

-ATN

Anthony,

Thought I’d share this since it is unlikely the MSM will run it. Doesn’t fit with the “poor persecuted muslims” meme…

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/12/28/christians-persecuted-religion-world-according-new-study/

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 3 – Rocket Attacks

Mike,

Every ‘rocket attack’ from 2009 – 2016, according to the IDF.

And an exposition on all of Hamas’ weapons used.

Chicken shit, but keeps you suckers sending money I guess.

NB: every one ‘no damage’ but still justified retaliatory air strikes, probably not’ no damage’

We used to call them the Nazis of the 90’s, time for a new name.

BTW, many of my readers finally see we are out of step with the rest of the civilized world vis Zionism. Seriously read some of the old SPQR.today missives, scary prescience.

-ATN

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 4 – Deal Making

Mike,

‘Do a deal’ ?? You’ve been repeating the same tropes for years. NEWS FLASH: The ‘Two State Solution’ is dead as Dillinger, and a one state is the death knell for Israel.

To that point please see my article extensively quoting the recently retired Mossad Chief.

So you say: “F the occupied” fair enough.

I think I also just heard the World say: “F Israel”.

The Resolution will open a flood gate of sanctions, I promise.

It’s not too late, I can get you in BDS,

-ATN

Anthony,

There is no way the Israelis should do a deal with a group that has “death to Israel” in their by laws…

They have been attacking since 1948. They were offered a state in 1948 and refused. Fuck ’em

Michael

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 5 – NYPD Turbans

Mike,

Israel is a racist misogamist apartheid theocracy.

You’re sounding foolish, e.x.; ‘civilized world’, huh? You make it sound like I cite third world lunatics, if you would please read my relevant essays you will see they are based upon OECD, EU, Commonwealth, NATO, etc., published material. Thanks to the Zionist media influences here we are the only civilized country who have not called out these genocidal maniacs.

AnyHowitzer, remember the shortest resolution in UN history: “ZIONISM EQUALS RACISM” why don’t you check if any ‘civilized countries’ voted ‘yes’.

-ATN

Anthony,

Just heard on Bloomberg: NYPD will let cops wear turbans rather than standard caps [link Ed.] – but hey, keep pushing for the muzzies to annihilate Israel…

This is a war for civilization – here and in Israel – and civilized countries need to stick together.

Michael

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 6 – Annihilated

Mike,

Annihilated by whom?

Who would know more about the threat to Israel; the most recent Mossad Chief or a working man being to tooled to put a foreign nations interest above his own?

A.

Anthony,

So they are not perfect and they should surrender and be annihilated… got it.

Because the Palestinians are much less evil… like their other muslim brothers… and should have yet another state. Because ONE Jewish state is too many.

Michael

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 7 – I’ll Play Mandela

Mike,

I finally have time to thoughtfully reply.

There is no viable ‘do a deal’ formulation any longer.

Akin to suggesting the racist white South African government should have done a deal with the ANC the day after international sanctions (BTW, only broken by Israel) went into effect. Crushing strangling sanctions can / will now be brought down on another racist apartheid theocracy. In the sequel, the role of De Clerk is being played by the crypto Nazi Netanyhoooo. I’ll play Mandela.

-ATN

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 8 – Christians Most Persecuted

Mike,

You read their words, I’ll read Jane’s Defense Monitor.

-ATN

Anthony,

One Mossad guy- who is probably a political opponent – against 70 years of history. The Arabs would annihilate the jews…u doubt it???? Read their own words.

Mike

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 9 – Stationary Aircraft Carrier

Mike,

The first time I went around this bush was a symposium circa 1972 with three Professors who later became founders of the Neo Conservative movement.

After I had gone on for a while about the cost to America for supporting Israel, they acknowledged my points and shut me down when one said “Anthony, think of it as our largest aircraft carrier in the region.”

Well, 45 years later, warfare technology having moved on a bit, what we ‘no longer need’ is a stationary aircraft carrier.

How you construe criticism of Israel as pro- Islamo-fascist is either ignorance or, I suspect, a rhetorical gambit like equating criticism of Israeli policy to anti-Semitism. Intellectually beneath you and an embarrassing position to take, but, I suppose easier than facing the facts and then being ostracized in your adopted social circle.

-ATN

Anthony,

U do that. We and Israel share an enemy… and since we no longer need their oil, time to turn up the heat on the jihadis and their friends.

Not sure y u take the muzzies side on this.

Mike

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 11 – Anti Israeli Sentiment

Mike,

As you may recall from when I informed you VDH’s middle name is Davis not David (as you had written) I have met him on occasion during the period he was a weekly luncheon companion of Vice President Cheney.

I have read all of his published works and commend ‘An Autumn of War‘ to your attention.

Vis the article below the answer to the title’s question is in the body of the article:

  1. As stated: There is a long litany of bad actors in the world, and if any of them also had a minuscule minority of the American population leveraging their political contributions to advantage their identification homeland to our disadvantage (e.x.: billions in aid annually / alienating other bad guys with whom an alliance of convenience might be a benefit to us / just one soldier, sailor, marine or airman put at risk ) I would say fuck that country too.But until and unless I see an American (fill in any nation) Political Action Committee also working against our interests your pals will have to stand the gaff alone.
  2. As also stated in the article: Anti semitism. Yup. (Although I would say more current than ‘ancient’.)
  3. Again as stated: “The world’s problem is the Israelis are jews.” Yup, and jew’s problem is they refuse to assimilate. Paranoid for their security (even in America, their last best hope) they hedge their loyalty and are seen as ‘Internationalists’ or ‘Cosmopolitans’. And when bad times inevitably follow good; as ‘Fucking Traitors’ with divided loyalties. With examples easily illustrated by hate mongers wanting to scape goat (another charming notion from your Old Testament) them with “let’s fry us up another couple of them Rosenbergs’ spies”.
  4. Finally, as stated: Other nations “sort out Israels enemies by their natural resources, geography and population – and conclude supporting Israel is a bad deal in cost / benefit terms.”

No shit, so other countries are assessing their self interests and acting accordingly. Wow.

Apparently we are the only country to subordinate our interests to the Israelis, but then we’re back where we began: While Capital Hill may be “Israeli occupied territory” I can’t think of another national government about which that can be said.

VDH is just pissed he hasn’t had a free lunch at the Naval Observatory in eight years,

-ATN

Anthony,

From a historian I think you respect: Why The Anti-Israeli Sentiment

Michael

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‘ol Buddy Mike, part 12 – Israel Destroyed?

Ahh come on Michael, these tropes like ‘destroy Israel’, ‘the only democracy in the region’, ‘closest ally’ are so hardwired into your view that it’s like you are arguing with yourself; I’ve never said it was my ‘wish to see Israel destroyed’.

In fact I had explained in great detail my ‘wish’ was to see it exposed as the only country which consistently succeeds in subordinating American interests to it’s own. In the belief that my countrymen will (when the cloak of Israels fifth columnists in the MSM, cultural institutions and AIPAC funded politicians is exposed) reassert American interest primacy.

More importantly if you were to seek news more broadly, say British and Israeli outlets in addition to Fox News and conservative talk radio (((hosts))), you would be aware the FBI revealed on their web-site last Sunday night the countries which hacked Hillary were the villainous Chinks, Ruskies, and, … wait for it … the Jews.

As you’re about to volley back the ‘everyone hacks everyone’ tripe: Yeah I know but consider the reaction of my fellow countrymen if that were when that is reported here.

“These are great days we’re living bro. We bestride the earth like jolly green giants … with guns.”
 — Michael Herr

Also…

Bring your boy out, we’ll take him to the club for some rifle / pistol / s-gun. It may become a motivating interest for him.

-ATN

Anthony,

We shall see if your wish to see Israel destroyed comes true giving the evil muslims a monopoly in the region… I think not.

Michael

Mike,

On VDH; no pithy talking points?

How about we get some cheap flights to Paris to be there for the big party?

Loathe to admit my pessimism (which I put down to living in the microscopic quantum bubble of NYC and / or too many semitic dates) I had no notion things could go this well, or this quickly.

AnyHowitzer, wherein-as-how I stated: Irrespective of what the new administration does or doesn’t do vis your fellow tribesmen the rest of the world will sort them out. But again, given the Quixotic nature of the fight here, I was conditioned to expect it would be at least two or three sessions of the UN trying to get out of their own way before substantive steps would be taken. Yup, wrong again; three fucking weeks, just fucking amazing.

-ATN

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