Metaphors abound describing a genre of ruse that is real at
times and fictitious at other times. Perhaps the oldest metaphor of the genre
is the story of the Trojan Horse according to which the Greeks tricked the
rulers of Troy
by pretending to abandon the siege they had thrown around their city-state and
gone away.
But what the Greeks did, in fact, was leave behind a giant
wooden horse that the Trojans proudly dragged into their city in celebration of
what they thought will forever stand as a symbol of their triumph over the
Greeks. What the Trojans did not know, however, was that the horse contained in
its belly a number of Greek warriors. Once inside the city, and when the night
came, the warriors got out the belly of the horse and opened the gates of Troy for the Greek army,
that had not really gone too far away, to come into the city and capture it
without a fight.
Another metaphor is that of the Fifth Column. It is supposed
to have happened during the Spanish Civil War when the “Nationalists” were
fighting the “Republicans.” Apparently, the Nationalist faction was able to
enter the city of Madrid
with four columns of soldiers because it was assisted by a Fifth Column of
wreckers who were operating inside the city behind the front lines. The job of
this column was to sabotage the defenses put up by the Republican forces, thus
soften them before and during the assault mounted by the other four columns.
While the use of deadly ruses is commonplace even in modern
warfare, there exists a milder version of the game that some countries play
against each other when the ongoing war is not a hot one but a cold war. These
countries play a subtle version that can take the form of a psychological war
between two bitter enemies. An example of this would be what goes on right now
between Iran and Israel where
the range of attacks on each other spans the gamut from the imposition of
terror by bluff to the imposition of terror by the assassination of each
other's scientists and other nationals.
But the ruse may also take on the form of a socio-political
game that is designed to nudge or embarrass the other side. Some countries play
this game against their own friends in retaliation for a sin they believe to
have been committed by the other side. An example of this would be what goes
between the United States
and Israel where the
Israelis consider America
to be their muscular bodyguard. The problem is that they see America slackening at times when it comes to
protecting Israel 's
interests as much as they would have liked.
So then, how do the Israelis play the ruse against America ? To
explain this game, we may invoke the metaphor of Tokyo Rose. This was a woman
of Japanese descent who was born and raised in America , and who spoke English as
well as any American. For some reason, her loyalty switched from America to Japan during the Second World War,
and she joined the Japanese propaganda machine. She took on the job of
broadcasting damaging material to the American people, especially the military
operating in the Pacific war theater. Hers was not a hot war against America ; it was
a war of words designed to affect the morale of the troops.
The idea was borrowed by the Jewish propaganda machine in America known
as AIPAC. Its generals got into the business of recruiting American Jews and
non-Jews to infiltrate the media, and be lieutenants for a fifth column that
would work on behalf of Israel .
The lieutenants were to do that by spreading Israel 's gospel thus create new
narratives and new perceptions that would alter the landscape. I became aware
of this game some three decades ago or thereabout when I saw the propaganda
generals of AIPAC and their affiliates in Canada practice the game here. This
being the place they consider the soft underbelly of America , they tested their theory,
as they always do, before inflicting it and spreading it south of the border.
Of the many things I saw them do, I remember them arrange
gatherings for which they invited prominent people they had in their sights as
people who needed to be “educated.” For example, they arranged for a gathering
during which media personalities, especially those of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC), were invited to answer questions that were of concern to the
general public. A number of questions in that vein were asked of the
journalists who responded as honestly and professionally as they could.
Then, out of the blue, came the unexpected question that had
obviously been well rehearsed beforehand. After a long preamble that suggested
what the answer should be, it was asked in a manner that went something like
this: What does that do to the level of trust that media people, such as
yourselves, would want to place on what the Palestinians have to say? With
this, a first shot was fired at the heart of North America 's
Democracy, and the one who fired it became the first lieutenant born to serve a
Jewish Fifth Column on this Continent.
One after the other, the journalists who responded to the
question gave answers that were unsure and confused. This gave the public the
impression that there was something inherently wrong with the cause of the
Palestinians. But those who were familiar with the issues saw the exchange as
proof that the Jewish propaganda machine was up to no good, playing as it was a
dirty game that may go on for a long while yet. In fact, the result has been
that a few months after the incident, the CBC opened a permanent office in
occupied Jerusalem to tell the story of the
entire Middle East from the Israeli point of
view.
Later on, the truth came out, and it was to the effect that
following the infamous incident, a flood of letters were sent to the network's
brass and to the Canadian government that bankrolls it – all asking for one and
the same thing: Open a permanent office in Israel from where to tell the story
of the Arabs. And this was the moment when journalism in North
America was transformed from a proud profession to that of a daily
exercise in shameless prostitution and pornography. But guess who the losers
have been. No, it was not the Arabs who did not give a fart's worth of concern
about the matter; it was the North American people who, from that day on, have
had the Jewish moral syphilis ejaculated into their skulls, their hearts and
their souls by the barrel.
Concurrent with those activities, there was the moment when
the affiliates of AIPAC in Canada
invited the leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) to speak at a gathering.
The gentle lady got to the podium and made the mistake of not puking out the
standard Jewish insults at the Palestinian people. And the attendees who were
all Jewish lieutenants of the AIPAC causes responded by booing her as if she
had committed an unforgivable act of antisemitism.
That incident was widely covered in the media to tell every
future invitee they can only do two things when speaking at a gathering of this
kind or any kind: You ought to praise Israel and the Jews to the hilt using all
the superlatives you can think of, and you ought to damn their enemies of the
day by throwing insults at them as you would when speaking of evil incarnate.
Otherwise you will be made to suffer the consequences one way or the other. And
this, my friend, was a stark display of democracy as they understand it.
Having perfected the game in Canada ,
the AIPAC people took it to America
where they adapted it to the local conditions. To do this, they planted people
who masqueraded as journalists and asked candidates running for office
irrelevant questions that were rehearsed beforehand, and were designed to
confuse the intended victims. The questions had a long preamble and in the
melee, suggested one possible answer and nothing else. With this, democracy in America took
another giant step toward becoming the laughing stock of the world.
The AIPAC people and their cohorts also used the trick on
the representatives of institutions such as the State Department. An example of
this happened on November 20, 2012 between press secretary Victoria Nuland and
a journalistic pornographer that the Associated Press calls Matthew Lee. It is
worth going over the exchange that ensued and see how a gathering that happened
in Toronto long
ago had paved the way for a pornographic act of this magnitude to happen today.
But this is not the whole story because there is also the
question of Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal and the Fox News network that
merit being discussed. There is much that can be said in this regard, and in
fact, I wrote a great deal about the Journal. What I did not do enough of is write
about Fox News because I do not have the time to watch much television. All I
could tell from what I saw was that Fox News was worse than the Journal. What I
know now is that it is infinitely worse.
Here is what happened. I saw Megyn Kelly harp on the notion
that the government in Syria
was “killing its own people.” Even though something inside was telling me this
woman is a phony, I did not think of writing about it. But then someone let me
hear a voice recording of her saying something that astounded me. It was a few
days before the election of November 6, 2012 when she said on live television
that she wishes it would rain on the day of the election so that the people
whose homes were destroyed by the storm, and who saw a hundred of their
neighbors die, would get so angry at the government, they will vote against
Obama.
Well, if the leaders of Syria are monsters, Megyn Kelly is
a ghoul that would dig up the graves of her countrymen and eat their remains.
She is a horror story and so is Fox News but she is a valuable lieutenant in
the Fifth Column that is working for Israel and the Jewish causes. This
is why she will be there for a long while yet.