| July 26-27, 2011 -- Another "smoking gun" Breivik link to Israel
Although the mainstream corporate media and even a few "alternative
news" websites are ignoring the proven links between Norwegian terrorist
Anders Behring Breivik and Israel, yet another "smoking gun" connection
between the pro-Zionist mass murderer and Israel has emerged.
Ninety minutes before Breivik was reported to have detonated a huge
fertilizer-fuel bomb in the government district of downtown Oslo and
then proceeding to Utoya island dressed as a uniformed police officer to
massacre scores of youth attending a Norwegian Labor Party jamboree, he
sent an email containing a 1500-page rambling manifesto to Isak Nygren,
a member of the far-right, anti-Islamic and anti-Roma (gypsy), and
pro-Zionist Sweden Democrats (SD) political party. Among Breivik's
writings is this quote: "So let us fight together with Israel, with our
Zionist brothers against all anti-Zionists, against all cultural
Marxists/multiculturalists."
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Who is Isak Nygren? One will not see any mention of him in the
English-language corporate media. Nygren is a pro-Israeli SD activist
who is only 21 years old but has already run for municipal-level
political office in his native province of Sodermanland and municipality
of Katrineholm, Sweden. It is also noteworthy that Nygren was not in
Sweden when he received Breivik's e-mail but, according to the July 24
edition of Sweden's Nyheter newspaper, was in Israel living on a
kibbutz. The location of the kibbutz was not reported. There are other
reports on Internet websites that Nygren is Jewish.
The only English-language media that reported Breivik's connection to
Nygren is Die Presse of Vienna, Eskiltuna-Kurinen of Sweden,Sveriges
Radio, Expo magazine of Sweden, the Berliner Zeitung of Germany, and
Kurier of Austria. To its credit, Nyheter is the only media outlet that
officially reported on Breivik's connections to Nygren, in addition to
Nygren's current presence in Israel.
The media blackout of Breivik's Israeli connections is largely the
result of marching orders sent out from the Israel and Zionist lobby.
The orders are clear: there will be no mention of Breivik's pro-Israeli
stance nor his connections to individuals like Nygren. Attention to
Breivik's Israeli and Jewish connections would expose Mossad's
infiltration of neo-Nazi groups and political parties to turn them away
from anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial and into anti-Islamic and
pro-Israeli pressure movements.
Nygren has stated that he is pro-Israel. However, he is also a member
of the neo-Nazi Nordic Alliance, which has branches in Sweden, Norway,
and Denmark. There are now reports that last year Breivik attended a
rally of the English Defense League (EDL) in London to hear Dutch
Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders, an ardent anti-Muslim and supporter
of Israel, to address the gathering. There are other reports that
Breivik met with the leadership of the EDL and Wilders. The EDL's
Swedish offshoot is the Swedish Defense League, which counts Nygren as
one of its activists. In September 2010, the Danish leftist newspaper
Arbejder pointed to possible links between Nygren and the xenophobic
far-right Danish People's Party of Pia Kaersgaard, which provides
parliamentary support for the current center-right Danish government.
Nygren's blog states that he has no connections with Breivik.
However, in response to a request from a reporter for Austria's ORF
television network about Breivik's use of .at domains to send e-mail to
an entity called the "Vienna School," Nygren, from Israel, refused to
cooperate. The reporter pointed out that in Austria, most e-mail
addresses do not use the .at country domain for Austria but addresses
like gmx.mail and other commercial addresses.
Nygren was interviewed by Sweden's English-language publication,
Expo, and said he is opposed to mixed marriages between European women
and "niggers, Asians, etc." Nygren also opposes adoption by Swedish
parents of non-white children from abroad. Nygren has advocated for the
expulsion of Roma (gypsies) from Sweden and the mandatory "re-eduction"
of Swedish Muslims. Last February, Nygren, according to the SVT Swedish
television network, said, "As long as you do not live in Sweden so I do
not care. I'm not attracted to the Negroes."
The EDL, SD, Wilders, Nygren, and Zionists in the United States like
Pam Geller, who Breivik admires, are all attempting to distance
themselves from the Norwegian mass murderer. The "lone wolf" appellation
being conferred on Breivik by his Zionist and neo-Nazi friends, as well
as the English-speaking corporate media, is now neing undermined by
reports of law enforcement investigations of Breivik's network,
including the two additional operating cells he mentioned in an Oslo
court room on July 25. The police investigations extend beyond Norway to
France, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Austria, Poland, and other
countries.
However, the corporate media is still insisting that Breivik is a
deranged single actor. Although, he is clearly deranged, even some
alternate news outlets, while believing Breivik could not have acted
alone, are continuing to ignore Breivik's connections to Israel and
Zionist groups, pushing fanciful notions of involvement by NATO,
Freemasons, and the Illuminati in Breivik's massacre.
One question is not being asked: Why is a correspondent who supports
Breivik's thoughts on Muslims and non-whites in a kibbutz in Israel and
not answering questions in a police station in Sweden?
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| Note: This article is an exclusive to the Strategic Culture
Foundation in Moscow and is posted this date on their site. However,
their web site has been experiencing frequent disruptions.
After Oslo: Time to Crack Down On Mossad Terrorism Wayne MADSEN (USA)
| 25.07.2011 | 09:05
Israel’s most secret and tried-and-true weapon is the “false flag”
terrorist attack.
State-sponsored terrorism is defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as
the “systematic use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a
population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective
[and] is employed by governments -- or more often by factions within
governments -- against that government's citizens, against factions
within the government, or against foreign governments or groups.”
On July 22, a bomb, said to be an Oklahoma City-type explosive
device, crafted with fertilizer and diesel fuel, blew up in downtown
Oslo, Norway, in the heart of the government district. Shortly
thereafter, a man dressed in a Norwegian police uniform opened fire on a
Labor Party youth camp on the island of Utoya in Tyri fjord. Access to
the island was by boat only. Over 100 people were killed in the twin
terror attacks.
Almost immediately, the world’s corporate media began pushing the
story that those who were responsible for the blast and mass shooting
were associated with “Al Qaeda” and other radical Islamist groups. CNN’s
Washington, DC chief anchor Wolf Blitzer, a former spokesman for the
powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) lobby and a
correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, began his late afternoon program
by pointing to “Al Qaeda” and radical Islamists as the chief culprits
for the terrorist attacks in Norway.
CNN paraded out a number “experts,” in actuality, propagandists for
the Israeli agenda linked to neo-conservative outlets and the Pentagon’s
“terrorism industrial complex,” before the cameras to advance the
radical Islamist meme even as Norwegian authorities pinned blame on the
attack on at least one perpetrator, a Norwegian named Anders Behring
Breivik. CNN constantly showed footage of frightened people in downtown
Oslo running for their lives from the site of the blast, as well as
still photograph of a pall of light-brown smoke over downtown Oslo. Of
course, CNN’s intention was to evoke memories of the 9/11 attack in
Manhattan.
Breivik, who sometimes anglicized his name as Andrew Berwick in his
numerous web postings, was said to be a right-wing Islamophobe who
sympathized with Zionism and who was a Freemason… Breivik was also
reported to be a fundamentalist Christian but he adopted a stance
against the Lutheran Church, the state church of Norway, and argued for
a “collective” counter-reformation to return the Protestant churches to
the control of the Vatican and the Pope. Breivik lambasted the Lutheran
Church and other mainstream Protestant churches, condemning “Priests in
jeans who march for Palestine.”
More incredibly, the London tabloid of Rupert Murdoch’s
scandal-plagued News International, The Sun, went to press with the
following false headline: “Norway’s 911: ‘Al Qaeda’ Massacre.” On March
29, 2011, Harvard Law School’s extremist Zionist Professor Alan
Dershowitz penned a piece in the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal, a
newspaper that actively discriminates against the hiring of non-Jews as
reporters and editors in violation of U.S. civil rights and equal
opportunity employment laws, in which he called Norway anti-Semitic.
Dershowitz cited as an example former Norwegian Prime Minister Kare
Willock’s criticism of President Barack Obama’s choice of Rahm Emanuel
as his chief of staff because he is Jewish. In fact, Emanuel’s pro-
Israeli sympathies as a former member of the Israel Defense Force are
what prompted many political observers in Washington and elsewhere to
question his primary loyalty to the United States.
A network of Israeli bloggers pushed a claim of responsibility on a
previously-unknown group called Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami (the Helpers of
the Global Jihad). The group’s claims were picked up and run by several
corporate media outlets and then pulled when it was discovered the claim
was a hoax. Mossad has a program to distribute bogus claims of
responsibility for Islamist terrorist attacks via “Jihadist” websites
that are actually operated by the Mossad and a network of
“hasbaratchiks,” Israeli and foreign Jews who act as propagandists on
the web. These hasbara (propaganda) agents and volunteers operate
through such programs as Megaphone and GIYUS (“Give Israel Your United
Support.”) After the attempt to blame the Norway attacks on Islamists
failed, the “hasbaratchiks” shifted to “sock puppet” troll mode, posting
comments on blogs that criticized allegations that Mossad and Zionists
were behind the Norway attacks, emphasizing that such beliefs were
“anti-Semitic” and wild “conspiracy theories.” Some Israeli “sock
puppets” even offered lunatic suggestions that Breivik was planted by
Islamists to make Israel and Zionists look bad.
When the “Islamist” connection to the holocaust in Norway was shown
to be non-existent after Norwegian security and police agencies began
looking at the evidence, the corporate media switched its propaganda
line from “radical Islam” being responsible to “far –right extremism”
opposed to multiculturalism and immigration in Europe as the culprit.
Even outlets that in the past had been known for their independence from
the corporate media line, including Al Jazeera and RT [formerly known as
Russia Today], echoed the line that Breivik primarily represented
right-wing opposition to Muslim immigrants in Europe. Al Jazeera
repeated the line that Breivik was a “lone madman,” the insinuation
being that he was not linked to any wider network. While Breivik
certainly was associated with the far-right xenophobic elements in
Norway, Europe, and North America, there was no mention by the corporate
media of his admiration for such American Zionist Islamophobes as
Richard Pipes and Pam Geller. Geller led the bigoted anti-Muslim
campaign against an Islamic Center near the site of “Ground Zero,” the
former World Trade Center site, in lower Manhattan. Breivik posted a
number of his anti-Muslim and pro-Zionist screeds on the Norwegian
website www.document.no, which is operated by Hans-Kristian Rustad, a
Norwegian pro-Israeli journalist.
No corporate media outlets reported that the brand of far-right
extremism of Breivik is closely associated with Zionist-supported
far-right anti-immigrant political parties and movements in Western
Europe, including the mis-named Progress Party of Norway, the Dutch
Freedom Party of Islamophobe Geert Wilders, the Sweden Democrats,
Finland’s True Finns Party, the Danish People’s Party, the English
Defense League, the Pro-Germany Citizen’s Movement, and a pan-Nordic
fascist terrorist group called “Nordiske.” Breivik also expressed
support for the Tea Party in the United States…
The European anti-Muslim xenophobic network is linked to the
notorious publication of Prophet Muhammad cartoons by the
neo-conservative Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and Norway’s
Dagbladet. The Euro-xenophobes are supported by the longtime Zionist
Bernard-Henri Levy, the French philosopher who is a friend of French
President Nicolas Sarkozy, and disgraced former International Monetary
Fund managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn. It is noteworthy that
Levy is one of the major backers of the Libyan rebels fighting Muammar
Qaddafi. Norway announced it was pulling its aircraft from the NATO
campaign in Libya at the end of July. Norway also announced its support
for Palestine’s sovereignty resolution in the UN General Assembly in
September.
As more and more evidence pointed to Oslo being yet another example
of a state-sponsored terrorist attack by Israel’s Mossad, the corporate
media studiously avoided mentioning how the Norwegian government through
its recent actions, had become a major problem for Israel and its allies
abroad, especially on the Palestine sovereignty issue… In addition,
Norwegian police and intelligence are painfully aware of Mossad’s past
operations in Norway, including the infamous Lillehammer Affair in 1973.
On July 21, 1973, Mossad agents assassinated Ali Hassan Salameh, a
Moroccan waiter in Lillehammer, wrongly believing he was the operations
chief for the Palestinian terrorist group “Black September.” Norwegian
police arrested the Mossad agents who killed Salameh and uncovered an
intricate network of Mossad safe houses, phone numbers, and Norwegian
sleeper agents for Mossad.
Just as was the case with the coordinated bombings of Madrid trains
on March 22, 2004 and London buses and trains on July 7, 2005, viewed by
European security services as being the work of not “Al Qaeda” but
domestic “radicals,” there was no link to Islamist radicals with the
attacks in Norway. However, there was every indication that the attack
on Norway was intended to shake up the Norwegian population and damage
the reputation of the left-of-center Norwegian government of Prime
Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
The corporate media insisted that Breivik was solely responsible for
Norway’s worst violent attack since World War II. Norwegian police
reports that a second gunman, described as having “thick dark hair and a
non-Nordic appearance,” were suppressed in much of the corporate media.
The time line of the Oslo attack causes anyone’s imagination to be
stretched on being sold a “lone gunman/bomber” theory.
At 3:26 pm Oslo time a massive car bomb was detonated outside the
office of the Prime Minister of Norway. Since July 22 was a public
holiday, there were relatively few people inside the Prime Minister’s
office or the surrounding offices of the Petroleum and Energy Ministry
and the VG [Verdens Gang] newspaper, Norway’s largest paper.
As police responded to the downtown Oslo blast, Breivik was said to
have taken a boat the Utoya island dressed as a policeman and began
opening fire on young members of the Norwegian Labor Party youth camp
meeting. The shooting allegedly began at 4:50 pm. Norwegian SWAT team
“Delta” had trouble getting a helicopter started and struggled to find a
boat to get to Utoya island. The SWAT team finally arrived on the island
at 6:20 pm only to find scores of the next generation of Norwegian Labor
Party leaders dead. Breivik calmly surrendered to the police. When
Breivik arrived on Utoya he told police on the island that he was there
for a routine security check following the bombing in downtown Oslo.
Norway’s Acting Police chief Sveinung Sponheim said the police were
still investigating whether Breivik was acting with a larger network.
Sponheim’s revelation countered the “lone wolf” theory advanced by
corporate media outlets in Western nations.
Norway’s coalition Labor-Socialist Left government has been seen as
hostile to the interests of Israel and the United States. There is now a
widespread belief that the terrorist attack against Norway was
engineered to shock erstwhile peaceful Norway, a nation where police
generally still patrol the streets unarmed, into adopting the police
state tactics of the United States, Israel, Britain, and other Western
nations. Norway’s pro-Palestinian foreign policy also irked the Zionist
and the far-right anti-Islamic factions in Europe and North America, as
well as the governments of Israel and the United States.
In a move that complements American and Israeli propaganda that
Norway has not stepped up to the surveillance state model imposed by
other Western governments, the suspicious WikiLeaks decided to release
U.S. State Department cables from the U.S. embassy in Oslo that
criticized Norway for not recognizing the “Al Qaeda” threat and
maintaining an insufficient security apparatus to combat Islamist
terrorism and Pakistani immigrants.
The Barack Obama-appointed U.S. ambassador in Oslo, Barry White, who
is Jewish and received a 2005 award from the pro-Israel American Jewish
Committee, complained that the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST)
rejected two twelve-person British MI-6 intelligence surveillance teams
to monitor an “Al Qaeda” cell in Norway. Last November, the Norwegian
government was shocked to learn that the U.S. embassy was operating a
Surveillance Detection Unit in Oslo that was monitoring Norwegian
citizens. Norwegian Justice Minister Knut Storberget said he was not
informed of the presence of the U.S. spy unit in Oslo, which employed
retired Norwegian police and intelligence officials. The Norwegian Data
Protection Commissioner, Bjorn Erik Thon, said he had never seen such an
intelligence operation in Norway. White complained that Norwegian
security officials were apathetic and incompetent in dealing with the
Islamist “terrorist threat.” The failure of the Norwegian SWAT team to
quickly respond to the massacre on Utoya may indicate that Norway’s law
enforcement and security networks and command-and-control systems had
been interfered with by infiltrators with knowledge of the Norwegian
systems. Those retired police and intelligence officials working for the
U.S. embassy’s surveillance unit are likely suspects in sabotaging the
Norwegian police reaction capabilities on 7/22. Just 48 hours before the
bombing in Oslo, police units were engaged in a terrorist bombing
exercise at the Oslo Opera House, near what would later be “ground
zero.” In addition, in the days before the terrorist bombing, there was
suspicious sewer work being conducted in the area near the Prime
Minister’s office.
In March, the leader of the Socialist Left, Kristen Halvorsen, the
Minister of Education of Norway and a former Finance Minister, called
for military action against Israel if it attacked Gaza. The Socialist
Left and Labor Party, along with the Norwegian Peace Association and the
Norwegian energy and telecommunications union, strongly support the
Boycott Israel campaign, which includes backing the pan-European
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) committee and an embargo on
arms sales to the Jewish state. In August 2010, the Norwegian pension
fund divested in two Israeli companies controlled by Israeli billionaire
Lev Leviev, Africa Israel Investments and its subsidiary Danya Cebus.
Halvorsen had recently met with a delegation of American Jews who
complained about Norway’s “anti-Semitism,” the tired and worn-out canard
used by Zionists in confronting anti-Israeli sentiment around the world.
In January, Halvorsen and her husband, Christo Halvorsen, a producer for
the Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK) television and radio network, took part
in an anti-Israel and U.S. march in Oslo where picket signs with phrases
like “USA and Israel: Axis of Evil” appeared. The Halvorsens and NRK
were subjected to a vicious campaign launched by Zionists and the Israel
Lobby in Norway.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre of the Labor Party has
been criticized by the Israel Lobby and Zionists for comparing Israel’s
treatment of Palestinians to Nazi Germany’s treatment of Jews. Støre has
also called for the demolition of Israel’s “Separation Wall” that runs
through Palestinian territory on the West Bank, a stance that has earned
him enmity and hatred from Israel’s government and their Zionist allies
in the West. Store paid a visit to Utoya before the massacre. The
Foreign Minister was on the island as some of the Labor Party youth were
participating in a “Boycott Israel” demonstration. The city of Trondheim
was criticized by Israel for funding a trip to the UN in New York for
Norwegian students to participate in a play called the “Gaza
Monologues.” Israel also blasted Norway for distributing a film called
“Tears of Gaza.”
After Israel offered assistance to Norway, including forensic and
medical assistance, as well as the evacuation of the wounded from the
7/22 attack, Norway declined the offer. The rejection of assistance from
Israel indicates that the Norwegian government was suspicious of the
offer from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Other Israeli military
teams in the West Bank have been accused of trafficking in human organs,
an expose brought to light by the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet in
August 2009. That same month, Israel’s anti-Arab and anti-Muslim Foreign
Minister Avigdor Lieberman accused Sweden and Norway of anti-Semitism,
adding the outrageous charge that Norway was pro-Nazi, even though
Norway’s anti-Muslim and pro-Zionist activists were affiliated with
neo-Nazi organizations. On December 11, 2010, a suspicious terrorist
explosion took place in downtown Stockholm, injuring two people and
blamed on a Swedish-Iraqi suicide bomber. The bombing took place two
weeks after the Swedish media reported that a Surveillance Detection
Unit, operated form the U.S. embassy in Stockholm, was spying on Swedish
citizens.
In the past few months, the Mossad has committed blatant acts of
espionage and possible other terrorist attacks against nations it
perceives as pro-Palestinian. During last year’s devastating earthquake
in Christchurch, New Zealand, a team of Mossad agents was caught in the
city. One of the agents died in the quake. The Mossad agents were found
with multiple passports and thumb drives believed to have been used to
download sensitive data from New Zealand government computer systems.
New Zealand’s Prime Minister John Key, who seemingly came from obscurity
in New Zealand politics and whose Jewish mother immigrated from England,
disregarded claims of Mossad espionage during the quake, even though he
spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu four times on the day
of the quake, after the dead Mossad agent was discovered by New Zealand
police and intelligence.
New Zealand’s Southland Times was criticized by New Zealand’s Jewish
community and Israel for promoting “conspiracy theories,” the typical
modus operandi for pro-Israeli Jews, known as sayanim and katsas, who
are used by Israel abroad as propaganda and espionage agents.
Ironically, Key was meeting with Obama at the White House as the bombing
and shootings were occurring in Norway. Key was believed to have
attended the homo-erotic annual meeting of a men-only fraternity
composed of American and foreign political and business elitists at the
secluded Bohemian Grove in northern California, a conclave that also saw
the attendance of Israel’s most notorious agent-of-influence in America,
Henry Kissinger, who also serves as Obama’s “special envoy” to the
Russian leadership. Key’s Labor Party predecessor, Helen Clark, was the
subject of criticism in leaked 2004 State Department cables from the
U.S. embassy in Wellington for cracking down on a Mossad team’s
acquisition of forged New Zealand passports. Once again, the cable leaks
were courtesy of the suspect WikiLeaks operation.
One of the Mossad perpetrators, Zev William Barkan, who fled New
Zealand to avoid arrest, had also been reported in the Cambodian capital
of Phnom Penh, where he and other Israelis were producing pornographic
and “snuff” movies, in which unsuspecting vagrants were murdered on
camera.
In Egypt, Mossad agents have been accused by the present government
of fomenting riots between Muslims and Coptic Christians. A recent
explosion of seized Iranian weapons and ammunition being stored at a
Cypriot naval base, a blast that killed the head of the Cypriot Navy,
remains suspicious. The blast followed the decision of Cyprus’s
left-of-center government to recognize the sovereignty of Palestine. The
resulting public outrage over the blast resulted in the resignation of
pro-Palestinian Foreign Minister Markos Kyprianou and a major political
embarrassment for Cyprus’s president Dimitris Christofias, a member of
the Communist AKEL party.
Mossad is a master at false-flag terrorist attacks designed to alter
perceptions and punish opponents of Israeli policy. The fingerprints of
Israeli intelligence are all over the 9/11 attacks on the United States,
the 3/22 train bombings in Madrid, the 7/7 transit bombings in London,
and, now, the 7/22 attacks in Norway… While the Israeli-influenced
corporate media has droned on and on about the dangers of Islamist
terrorism, it is now obvious that the major threat to public safety
comes from the State of Israel, a rogue nation that does not hesitate to
murder the innocent to achieve its sordid political aims. |
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two: AIPAC espionage. But we seem to be having just such a debate.
The usual suspects – the ADL and Jeffrey Goldberg, among others –
have been whining for some time about the use of “Israel-firster” by
a former Center for American Progress staffer. It is worth bearing
in mind that this is the second time in a short while that neo-cons
have tried to paint CAP as an anti-Semitic organization: Last month,
former AIPAC spokesman Josh Block tried to stir a secret smear
campaign against Matt Duss, a CAP staffer, trying to make him out to
be an anti-Semite. Block’s plan was exposed and backfired; We have
to wonder, though, if this is phase two of the same plan. (Full
disclosure: Matt Duss is a friend, he had nothing to do with the
whole “Israel firster” mess, and I’ve been feted by CAP on several
occasions). Armenian Holocaust denier Abe Foxman of the ADL and his
ilk are pulling their usual deceit: They insinuate that when someone
describes another as an “Israel-firster”, he means to say that all
American Jews are. Bullshit. The vast majority of American Jews will
feel nothing but horror at Adler’s sick fantasy. Most of them would
shudder at the idea of betraying their country like Jonathan Pollard
did. A small number of them are, however, “Israel-firsters”: They
put Israel’s interests – or, to be more precise, Greater Israel’s
interest – ahead of their country’s. You can spot them easily: They
generally doth protest too much about the usage of “Israel-firsters.”
But, truth be told, they are insignificant. Me, I’m much more
worried about the Israel-firsters of the Republican party and the
evangelist movement. Jeffrey Goldberg’s case is instructive. An
American Jew who emigrated to Israel and joined the IDF, only to
realize too late what a horrible mistake he was making, he was very
vocal on the issue. And then he found himself being asked a nasty
question by his arch nemesis, Glenn Greenwald: Did you swear an oath
of allegiance to the IDF, Mr. Goldberg? Incredibly, Goldberg claims
he doesn’t remember. That’s very strange: Every IDF soldier is
forced to sign just such an oath – but Goldberg claims he doesn’t
remember which pieces of paper he signed. As someone who was legally
press-ganged into the IDF at the same time Goldberg volunteered to
serve, I must say that piece of paper was very prominent. Well,
perhaps Goldberg’s Hebrew wasn’t up to snuff and he didn’t realize
what he was signing when he did – but, let me assure you, not
signing is not an option, unless you are willing to go to military
prison. One of the members of my basic training platoon tried to
pull this schtick, and was promptly jailed for two weeks. And
rightly, too: You can’t be a member of the armed forces, get a
weapon and military training, and not take an oath of loyalty.
Orthodox Jews are allowed to say they “declare” loyalty instead of
swearing it, but Goldberg didn’t take this option – This would be
something he would have remembered. But, even if Goldberg didn’t
notice what he was idly signing (NOT a wise thing to do in the IDF,
let me assure you), how could he have missed the celebration at the
end of his basic training? They always end with the ritual taking of
the oath, with an officer reading the oath and the soldiers, in the
presence of their families, shouting back “I swear.” Is Goldberg
seriously expecting us to believe he forgot this moment, one which
many soldiers note as one of the most memorable of their service?
How… convenient. Goldberg also seems to claim that, as his military
service is over, he is not bound by that oath. That may or may not
be the case – is Goldberg still on the rolls of the IDF’s reserves?
– but this is not the issue. The point is that while Goldberg
declined to serve in the military of his native country, he
volunteered to serve in the army of another nation, and took its
oath of allegiance. One could hardly think of anything more
indicative of being an “Israel-firster” than this. That Goldberg
realized that serving in the IDF is a mistake does not clear him –
most of the IDF soldiers realized this as well, and unlike him, they
were not volunteers. Which should be born in mind, when Goldberg
next calls people who speak the factual truth “anti-Semites.”
Update: A previous version of this post relied on information from
another paper, and linked Andrew Adler to the Chabad movement. A
spokesperson for Chabad contacted +972 denying this link, and we
have therefore removed references to Chabad.
