Comments on: The Pentagon charges Jews with dual loyalty

By: Ben F

Ben F — Fri, 19 May 2006 20:38:23 +0000

Cap Weinberger has met his Maker, but the antisemitism at DoD lives on.

Pogroms? No. But purges? Sure. The Defense and Intelligence communities have records of antisemitism, and then of course there are all of the Arabists over at State.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Fri, 19 May 2006 11:59:27 +0000

There is an active Irish-American community and major groups within it actively work against the policies and sovereignty of Great Britain, our most important ally. Yet I fail to see any charges that Irish-Americans suffer from dual loyalty.

I wonder why the charge is levelled against Jews but not Irish. OK, I don’t really wonder.

By: chsw

chsw — Fri, 19 May 2006 02:52:28 +0000

As a follow-up –

The US, following the same logic, should also remove security clearances from Americans of French descent. France has held joint naval exercises with the PRC off of Taiwan. French intel may have been involved in passing warhead design secrets to the PRC during the Clinton years. France continues to be an annoyance about Iraq and Iran, probably because French officials took (and may be still taking) so much oily money. The same logic would hold true for Arab-Americans, Russo-Americans, Chinese Americans, etc.

chsw

By: chsw

chsw — Fri, 19 May 2006 00:20:32 +0000

This has been a growing problem since the Pollard case. What blew the Pollard case out of proportion was that some of the information leaked out of Israel to the intel services of the USSR. There has been much mistrust since (remember when Dennis Ross and Scott Ritter were called Israeli spies by unnamed White House sources after being fired by Clinton?).

Curiously, this mistrust grows when Labor runs the government (Peres 1984-86) or runs the intel and defense ministries (e.g., now).

What is a new problem now is the Franklin/AIPAC case which looks more and more like an entrapment cooked up to cover Franklin’s alleged involvement in other activities.

chsw