8 ~ Sunday, June 29, 1986 - North Shore News

Doug Collins

@ get this straight @

“SOME OF the biggest stories are often ignored. For years,

: “the true face of Russian Communism was covered up. To-

-day, Israel’s massive control over American policy in the
v East is given the kid-glove treatment, a result of
intimidation of the U.S. media and politicians.

To put it that bluntly is to ex-

: pose oneself to the charge of anti-
Semitism, one of the Jewish
lobby’s ‘most. powerful weapons.
But’ that tactic will not work: for
ever. Besides, if Jewish groups de-
mand” freedom of speech for
. themselves, they cannot in the end
leny it to others, even though

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lescribes those who have fought :.
s pressure. He is not the first to“

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ectiv And this man.is no crank.

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” ..99 per cent) and Adlai Stevenson
Jil, to name only a few. .

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True. But it goes much further
than that. It goes as far as making
the mighty U.S. a satellite of tiny
Israel where Middle East policies
are concerned, putting the fear of
God into American editors and
commentators, and rendering it
impossible to challenge American
policy on Israel without. being

'*- outrageously smeared. -

Presidents are no exception: to
this pressure. Not - since
Eisenhower has any. U.S. presi-

‘dent ‘stood up to the lobby. And

the list of distinguished American
politicians who have fallen before
it is formidable::.1t Ficludes the
great. William ° Fulbright, Charles
Percy.(who supported Israel only

’ The. author shows, too, how

“academics, univérsities and civil
~ servants have all. come under the

most vicious ‘pressure. Jobs have

. been. lost “and. witch- hunting * is

rampant. There..was even a .de-

-mand that 15. senior officials be

_viser and

fired ‘‘who were not sufficiently

supportive of Israel and ‘its

weapons needs”’,
A_highly-placed source told

Findley: ‘I find it very ironic that
‘a U.S. Senator goes to a U.S.

President’s National Security Ad-
tells him to fire
Americans for insufficient loyalty
to another country.’’

The “consequences of Jewish
power ‘in the U.S. are potentially
terrifying. One need not be an ap-
peaser, for example, to question
whether Israel would be worth a
world war, And most Americans
do not understand what is at
stake. How can they, when their
politicians.and media are afraid to
speak out?

Thanks to the lobby, what
Israel wants, Israel gets. That in-
cludes a quarter of all U.S.
foreign aid, and vast military
assistance -- even to the flying in
of supplies to Israeli battle areas.
As Findley points out, the Israeli
government has more trouble with
its own parliamentary opposition
than it does with the American
Congress. °

Support for Israel even takes
precedence over American jobs.
Te please the lobby, large defence. ~

contracts intended for firms in
Virginia, California and Penn-

sylvania have been given to Israel. }

This book is astonishing even
for those who, like myself, have

tried to follow the story in the j

past. The lobby’s intelligence net-
work is so good, for example, that
the Israeli
Washington ‘is likely to. know

what the administration is up to. §
within an hour of a decision being -

made. And there are few U.S.

defence secrets that are not known |

in Tel Aviv. Talk about a fifth
column!

Not content with all that, Israel”

still spies on the U.S. with i impuni--

ty, aS recent news stories ' ‘have ©

shown,

’ Admiral Thomas Moorer “told |
Findley: “If the American people -

understood what a grip these peo:
ple have got on our government,
they would rise up in arms:”?

If'all this sounds crazy, read the |

book. It is a calm,  well-
documented expose, not:a tirade.
But get it before B’nai B'rith suc-
ceeds in having it placed-on the

Canadian Customs &:Excise list’”

of banned publications.
(They Dare To Speak. Out; by
; Paul 1 Findley: Lawrence Hilt &CO)

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By. MICHAEL BECKER
.News Reporter

' District bylaw enforcenient of-

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