JFK and Abe Feinberg, the Great Distraction and Clown World Setting over the Pacific

I take a look at the two bookends on Truth, both long ago and in the post-10/7 age

At the end of my last piece I included a clip from a recent Tim Kelly interview of Donald Jeffries on his new book on the JFK assassination, specifically on Dean Andrews and the New Orleans aspect as investigated by Jim Garrison. There was another part of that Jewish/Israeli theory that had me digging around afterward, which is included here:

That was the mention of Abraham Feinberg around the four-minute mark, and specifically related to a story that I’ve head before - here is Jeff Gates telling it somewhat differently in 2015 on Red Ice:

I really didn’t remember Feinberg, so I went looking to see what he was all about, and the first thing I found out was that he doesn’t even have a wiki - the only Abraham Feinberg they have is the singing rabbi from Canada. So here is part of his bio at the Jewish Virtual Library:

FEINBERG, ABRAHAM (1908–1998), U.S. businessman and organization leader. Feinberg, who was born in New York City, received his law degrees from Fordham and New York University. He occupied a number of prominent executive positions, among them chairmanship of the board of the Kayser-Roth Corporation until 1964 and chairmanship of the executive committee of the American Bank and Trust Company. He served for several years on the New York City Board of Education. Feinberg was highly active in American Jewish life and on behalf of the State of Israel. He helped to organize Jewish support for Democratic presidential candidates (e.g., John F. Kennedy). He had a long relationship with Brandeis University, serving as a trustee in 1953; chairman of the board of trustees from 1954 to 1961; a Brandeis Fellow in 1953; and was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1961. And through his generous donation, the International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life was established at Brandeis University. Feinberg and his family also endowed the Feinberg Graduate School at the Weizmann Institute in Israel.

Feinberg was the founder and first president of Americans for Haganah, a group formed in the early 1940s to help provide arms and other critical materials to the yishuv in Palestine. He offered his home to Zionist leaders who were trying to gain support of the U.S. government, and he aided European Jews seeking refuge. He accompanied Chaim Weizmann, Israel's first president, to his first meeting with President Harry Truman. Active in American politics, Feinberg worked informally with the United States and Israeli governments during Middle East crises, led many Democratic fund-raisers, and served as a confidant to U.S. presidents Harry Truman, John Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson.

In 1960 Feinberg was named B'nai B'rith's Man of the Year, an event that was attended by Harry Truman.

The Truman thing caught my interest and so I went looking, and quickly found stuff like this from Texe Marrs:

Yes, Truman is the “Father of Israel.” Under his leadership, Israel was first recognized as an independent state. As I document in my investigative exposé, against virtually unanimous opposition within his own cabinet and in Congress, on May 14, 1948, President Truman issued a declaration recognizing Israel as a new nation in the Middle East.

All Zionists were, of course, ecstatic, but the Zionist elite knew months in advance that Truman would do this. As I explain and prove in my latest investigative report and in my book, Conspiracy of the Six Pointed Star, a Zionist powerbroker, Abraham Feinberg, had, just months before, given the President a two-million dollar bribe—$100 bills packed in suitcases—to recognize Israel.

Someplace else I also read about Gore Vidal saying “the gossip JFK” was going around telling a version of this story in 1949.

I wondered if Alison Weir had covered this in her book Against Our Better Judgment on the formation and earliest years of Israel, and here is the chapter that addresses the US recognition of Israel in 1948:

So there we have Feinberg funding Truman’s whistle-stop campaigning, but the suitcase money story isn’t really connected to him, interestingly - that feels like an intentional construction on the author’s part.

Something else I found was the opening line at israellobby.org on a page on Feinberg’s FBI file: Abraham Feinberg (1908-1998) is best known lobbying for the state of Israel and organizing Harry S. Truman's "whistle-stop" fundraising tour that saved his 1948 presidential campaign from certain ruin.

But what that article and his FBI file is about are more shadowy aspects of Feinberg’s activism - the rest of the intro:

Feinberg's obituary hints at a role trafficking arms to Jewish fighters in Palestine. As founder of Americans for Haganah and Foundry Associates, Inc., Feinberg was deeply involved in the Haganah arms smuggling network in the United States. More recently, authors such as Anver Cohen and Michael Karpin document in the book "Israel and the Bomb" and "The Bomb in the Basement" Feinberg's role in undermining US nuclear nonproliferation policy. On October 31, 1958 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion noted in his diary a conversation "he had with Abraham Feinberg, a wealthy Jewish businessman and major Democratic fund-raiser" to raise funds for Israel's nuclear weapons program among "benedictors" in the United States. A few years later, President John F. Kennedy fought for biannual international inspections of Dimona and verifiable Israeli assurances that it was not a nuclear weapons production facility. In 1960 Feinberg funded the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as it mounted US disinformation campaigns about Israel's nuclear weapons program. JFK's assassination in 1963 marked the gradual end of inspections and the US nonproliferation drive toward Israel.

Feinberg's file reveals the FBI's ongoing law enforcement interest in Feinberg's activities as an espionage (offense code 54) threat from the time he was investigated for dodging the WWII draft, arms trafficking through the front company Foundry Associates, and on into the early 1960's over frequent meetings with Israeli intelligence officers. In 1952 Feinberg, acting as president of the lobbying newsletter Israel Speaks, (a successor publication to Haganah Speaks) was ordered to begin registering as an Israeli foreign agent. Feinberg and his close associate David Wahl considered selling it to the Jerusalem Post, but later closed it down rather than register. Wahl, among other Feinberg associates, was a longtime undercover Soviet agent (beginning in the 1930's, code named "Pink") in the United States.

FBI surveillance coverage of Feinberg stops during a period reporter Seymour Hersh characterizes as Feinberg's moment of greatest influence over US policy: the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. In the late 1970s Robert J. Lipschutz obtained the FBI's Feinberg file under the authority of the Carter administration.

I came across an article titled The American Who Paid for Israel's Nuclear Bomb that addresses the deal Israel made with France where France would share their nuclear technology and help Israel build the facility at Dimona. But the issue for Israel was the money that required:

This was a major coup—no country before or since has provided another state with such an extensive amount of the technology required to build a nuclear bomb. Still, it was only half the battle. Ben-Gurion still had to come up with the funds necessary to pay for the nuclear deal for France. How much the Dimona nuclear facilities cost to build is not known, but Israel likely paid France at least $80 million to $100 million in 1960 dollars. That was a massive amount of money for Israel at the time. Furthermore, Ben-Gurion worried that if he diverted defense funds for the nuclear project he invite opposition from the military, which was struggling to field a conventional army that could defeat Israel’s Arab enemies.

Instead, the Israeli prime minister decided to create a private fund to finance the deal with France. As documented by Michael Karpin in his excellent history of the Israel’s nuclear program, The Bomb in the Basement, Ben-Gurion directed his staff simply to “call Abe,” referring to Abe Feinberg. Feinberg was a prominent New York businessman, philanthropist and Jewish American leader with close ties to the Democratic Party. Before America’s entry into World War II, Feinberg had raised money to help European Jews emigrate to Palestine. After the war ended, he—like Ben-Gurion—went to Europe to view the Holocaust concentration camps. He also helped smuggle Holocaust survivors into Palestine at a time when the British had created blockades to prevent illegal Jewish immigration. During this time, he forged lasting bonds with many of the men who would later become senior leaders of the state of Israel. Upon returning back to the United States, he helped lobby President Harry Truman to recognize the Jewish state once it declared its independence. In return, Feinberg helped raise money for Truman’s reelection campaign.

Thus, it was natural that in October 1958 Ben-Gurion would turn to Feinberg to help raise the funds necessary for the Dimona deal. In fact, this wasn’t the first time Ben-Gurion would turn to American Jewish leaders to raise money for Israel’s causes. Foreseeing there would soon be a war of independence, Ben-Gurion went to New York in 1945 to raise funds to purchase armaments for the Jews in Palestine. This mission was a success. According to Karpin: “In the secret papers of the state-in-the-making the seventeen American millionaires were given the code name ‘the Sonneborn Institute,’ after their host. In the coming years, its members would contribute millions of dollars to buy munitions, machinery, hospital equipment and medicines, and ships to carry refugees” to Palestine.

Feinberg was one of the seventeen millionaires that comprised the Sonneborn Institute. In 1958, Feinberg turned to many of the same members of the Sonneborn Institute, as well as many other Jewish leaders in North America and Europe, in order to raise the money for the Dimona nuclear project after Ben-Gurion’s appeal in 1958. He was widely successful: again, according to Karpin, “The secret fund-raising campaign began at the end of 1958, and continued for two years. Some twenty-five millionaires contributed a total of about $40 million dollars.”

So yeah. But back to JFK, Mondoweiss published an article in 2008 titled JFK Was Enraged at ‘Zionist Control’ Effected by Campaign Contributions that started with more about what Hersh had to say about JFK and Feinberg:

Back in th e shtetl the two highest values in Jewish life were wealth and learning. Well I’m pitting the learning against the wealth here. I’m going to keep on my theme of Jewish wealth in politics, inasmuch as it distorts our policy in the Middle East.

Last year Seymour Hersh, god bless him, openly spoke of “Jewish money” when he criticized the push to attack Iran. And my correspondent Nim Chimpsky (I wish I knew who he was, but I trust him anyway) just sent me a selection from Hersh’s 1991 book “The Samson Option: Israel’s Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy”:

“… [Governor Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut said that in 1960,] ‘I told Kennedy I was going to get in touch with Abe Feinberg, who I thought was a key Jew.  I arranged a meeting [with Kennedy] in Feinberg’s apartment in the Hotel Pierre and we invited all the leading Jews.’  About twenty prominent businessmen and financiers showed up.

“… The group agreed on an initial contribution of $500,000 to the presidential campaign, with more to come.

‘I called him [Kennedy] right away,’ said Feinberg.  ‘His voice broke.  He got emotional’ with gratitude.

“Kennedy was anything but grateful the next morning in describing the session to Charles L. Bartlett, a newspaper columnist and close friend.  He had driven to Bartlett’s home in northwest Washington and dragged his friend on a walk, where he recounted a much different version of the meeting the night before.  ‘As an American citizen he was outraged,’ Bartlett recalled, ‘to have a Zionist group come to him and say: “We know your campaign is in trouble.  We’re willing to pay your bills if you’ll let us have control of your Middle East policy.'”  Kennedy, as a presidential candidate, also resented the crudity with which he’d been approached.  ‘They wanted control,’ he angrily told Bartlett.

“Bartlett further recalled Kennedy promising to himself that if he ever did get to be President, he was going to do something about it”–a candidate’s perennial need for money and resulting vulnerability to the demands of those who contributed.  Kennedy, in fact, kept that promise before the end of his first year in office, appointing a bipartisan commission in October to recommend ways to broaden “the financial base of our presidential campaigns.”  In a statement that was far more heartfelt than the public or the press could perceive, he criticized the current method of financing campaigns as “highly undesirable” and “not healthy” because it made candidates “dependent on large financial contributions of those with special interests.”  Presidential elections, Kennedy declared, were “the supreme test of the democratic process” in the United States. 

So that kind of brings together what Kelly and Gates said regarding Feinberg, the CoP and the Bartlett story. And once again we have yet another story of (American) Jewish influence over the US government that has led us to where we are today. In the end it comes down to shitloads of money and “dual loyalty”.

There was a vaxx point in that Kelly-Jeffries discussion, btw, which made me chuckle; I thought there was another one, but I couldn’t find it again in the long conversation. This is at a point where they were talking about the book Dr. Mary’s Monkey:

(I watched The Parallax View the other night, I think for the first time. Very dated.)

Which transitions me to my next subject. At the other end of the sub-spectrum on the far right was Anarcapulco, which I saw was alive and well, thanks to Pat Henningsen at 21st Century Wire on his Sunday show a couple weeks ago. I didn’t watch it then, no real interest, but it got reposted last weekend - I guess Pat took a week off to recover - and so I kind of did, skipping around some in it, looking for something, anything, worth my listening time. Here is a piece of the first of the interviews of six people on the show:

So yeah, he can’t even say the word, and instead was going to offer an alternative view of who sits above the Jesuits, the Freemasons, the Illuminati, and of course the them-who-shall-not-be-specified. I get the feeling that Pat didn’t think he was going to go full star-chamber, or he wouldn't have mocked that idea so obviously.

Of course there's a bit of the covid legacy in there as well.

So what are rules without rulers, without some sort of authority? Suggestions? Guidelines? These are the questions one always has about anarchism, where compliance with the rules is strictly voluntary - except of course it's not, because those who choose not to comply would surely run the risk of becoming ostracized, outcast from their communities. But you can’t call that governing, I guess, you are “volunteering” to be cast out.

That's as far as I'll go in criticizing this utopian idea of abolishing all government here, except to say nature abhors a vacuum, and so the inevitable rushes in to fill it. Instead I'll move on to what dominated these interviews and surely the whole affair: the covid pandemic. Here is just one segment example of the kind of covid fixation that is totally gripping these people:

So yeah, the Great Distraction has completely consumed the extremists in the anarcho-libertarian world; that first guy Falconer was the one of the six who talked about pandemic stuff the least. Which on one level makes a lot of sense - the farther to the right one is, the more upsetting pandemiworld predictably was, because the defining principles of the right are liberty and individualism. And the enemy is any form of what they derisively call collectivism, whether imposed in its worst form by evil communism from the east prior to 1990 or the nameless New World Order since then. When the pandemic hit it should have been every man for himself, and only the strong, armed and free would survive.

What was missing from these discussions from what I saw was any mention at all of war in Ukraine and Palestein (beyond that bare mention of Israel in the first clip - btw, the brief blackout right after that was coincidental 😉). Which just shows how disconnected all this is. Sure, there's harmless good stuff about growing your own food and taking personal responsibility for your health, and other things that kind of remind me of segments of the left in the late ‘60s/early ‘70s.

And this is a change that was long ago predicted by… Who?

And the parting on the left… Is now parting on the right… And the beards have all grown longer overnight…

But thinking about that, the real difference I believe is Vietnam, the unifying factor back then - in this century there's no draft (and a community like this back then would surely have included some draft-dodgers, in fact this kind of gathering would have likely taken place in the backwoods of BC in Canada and not on the beaches of Mexico), and today in these wars there are no US boots on the ground either, voluntarily in servitude or not. And these wars are fought for Jewish interests, which creates huge problems in even trying to coherently explain them. So these people have completely disconnected themselves from all that, and in fact are fearful of even honestly addressing it.

Instead their minds are fully infected by covid, and in fact it's people like this and not the vaxxed who continue to pay the price for the pandemic, which has utterly scrambled their brains. It's not difficult to imagine decades from now some of these folks telling stories to their grandchildren of the defining event of their lives, the pandemic - while not saying a damned thing about the history classes those kids are forced to take on the rise of virulent antisemitism during the long and righteous war years against various forms of the dreaded New Hitlerism that followed covid. In part because these clowns had completely checked out when there was a fighting chance that history could have been written differently.

We also have to remember these people are mostly talking heads, people who believe in entrepreneurial free-market capitalism more than anything, this is their business, and so their view is…

In other words, the disinformation-industrial complex. I'm not saying they don't believe what they're selling, they probably do at least to some extent, I'm just saying there's a financial incentive that motivates the selling of it, there's a market for it. And it's buyer beware, because it’s every man for himself.

Enough of JFK and Acapulco - speaking of con and war, Glenn Greenwald is back this week, and here is a bit of his Monday pod on Navalny and Assange that stood out to me, where he was addressing the war funding bill caught up in Congress:

So the continued funding of Ukraine and Israel is all about the military-industrial complex, which more accurately means the defense weapons contractors (since the Pentagon is mostly sitting out these conflicts). The Israel lobby plays no role at all, nor does the predominance of neoconservatism in the foreign policy establishment. Classic Jewvoidance of the truth by slippery Gecko Glenn. “Let me tell you how we Jews have nothing to do with this.” 🤞

Last week he posted an interview with Jeffrey Sachs, the guy who played an early role in the fomentation of what ultimately resulted in the Ukraine war back in the ‘90s as one of the Harvard Boys, which I have touched on in recent articles. But in 2022 he was talking some truth on Ukraine, in his infamous piece in Tikkun:

The war in Ukraine is the culmination of a 30-year project of the American neoconservative movement. The Biden Administration is packed with the same neocons who championed the US wars of choice in Serbia (1999), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq (2003), Syria (2011), Libya (2011), and who did so much to provoke Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The neocon track record is one of unmitigated disaster, yet Biden has staffed his team with neocons. As a result, Biden is steering Ukraine, the US, and the European Union towards yet another geopolitical debacle. If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these US foreign policy debacles.

The neocon movement emerged in the 1970s around a group of public intellectuals, several of whom were influenced by University of Chicago political scientist Leo Strauss and Yale University classicist Donald Kagan. Neocon leaders included Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Robert Kagan (son of Donald), Frederick Kagan (son of Donald), Victoria Nuland (wife of Robert), Elliott Abrams, and Kimberley Allen Kagan (wife of Frederick).

So neoconservatism is to blame, and then he lists ten critical neocons, every one a Jew. Couldn’t possibly be more clear - Jews are responsible for this war. I've already talked about his retreat from that overriding truth, specifically in my piece Jeffrey Sachs and The Blame Game last May, and here he is in last week’s Greenwald interview:

In fact he never uses any form of neocon in this interview, although he did get into Victoria Nuland at one point. Jewvoider Jew Glenn surely must have been pleased. But, hey, he also mentioned Chuck “the Fuck” Schumer there, Jew Number One in the elected government. 🤫

In the further search for truth I listened to the GrayZone Guys’ Saturday livestream and there were some interesting moments in that - here Max is talking about the death of Navalny in Russia:

Nice shot at Cornel West, but the basis - his comparison of questionable Navalny to the noble black-Jewish alliance of civil rights - is problematic; there definitely was a Jewish dark side to that, and that became even more obvious during the dubious BLM years. West is a puppet, but it’s of the same people who are fomenting Putin’s New Hitlerism propaganda.

Then Max talks about Navalny and Volkov being an MR Greenberg World Fellows guy; Hank Greenberg wasn’t the founder of AIG, CV Starr was, but he certainly was a CIA guy (as was Starr, including before the CIA even existed). Greenberg was rumored to be co-ethnic John Deutch’s replacement as director in 1997, but that didn’t happen, and my guess is that he turned it down.

I worked at AIG back then, and I remember a moment right around that time when I handled the domestic program for Bechtel Corp., a private company that made its bones being the general contractor on the Hoover Dam project in the 1930s, and it was probably the spookiest client I ever had. One day the guy handling their foreign program at AIG came down and told me a story about a seven-figure death claim they had related to an employee down here somewhere along the northern coast of South America, I don’t remember the country. They didn’t have anything approaching a sufficient claim file, nothing on how he actually died, but were getting pressed to pay the claim anyway, it got run up to HO in NYC, and then he got a call from some very senior guy saying, “just pay it and don't ask questions”. So he asked me who or what I thought the dead guy was, and I said, “CIA”. He laughed and said that’s what he thought too. That’s just the reality of some of these huge international companies like Bechtel and AIG with operations all around the world, they’re intertwined with intelligence and have been forever.

And then the rot in the US government exemplified by the scumsucker Blinken, who went to Israel “as a Jew”, who right now is the face on the Jewish impact on our government over the decades, going back to Feinberg and much farther.

(Not) Like Greenwald, they talk about the war funding:

At the beginning they talk about the extended payments aspect of the Ukraine funding. Then after Aaron takes a theoretically politically-incorrect shot at wasps - I liked that, we now have to be able to speak openly, and especially about ethnicity - Max hints at Jeffrey Sachs’ “blue-pilled” Harvard Boy pre-oppositional self, when he was a neoliberalism-installing operative. Then Aaron describes John Stewart, whose real name is John Stuart Liebowitz, as “like a good liberal”, when what he should have said is “like a good Ashkenazi Jew from the Pale” (from his wiki: Stewart's family is Ashkenazi Jewish (Polish-Jewish, Ukrainian-Jewish, Belarusian-Jewish, and possibly Lithuanian-Jewish); his parents had immigrated to the United States from Europe. Poland, Belarus, Lithuania and Ukraine are the Pale.) I won’t get into Max’ Icke-like reptilian description - I think Gecko Glenn was enough for one day… 🦎

Moving on to more meaty stuff, here they discuss Camp David critically, which I have long thought was a disaster for everyone but the Israelis:

As I've said, Camp David ended Israel’s concerns about their southern and eastern borders, because Egypt and then Jordan were neutralized, and it established the Israeli blackmail of America because the American taxpayers had to start annually bribing Israel (and to a lesser extent Egypt) not to break the peace. That was the birth 45 years ago of what Obama raised to $3.8B per year. Israel used those ill-gotten gains to then focus on the PLO and Hezbollah in Lebanon and on Syria, as well as the Palestinians.

Begin had taken everyone to the cleaners, from Sadat in Egypt, who played his role in what was a middle eastern version of the black-Jewish alliance and then ate the bullet in a coup a couple years later, to the Georgia rube Carter who left America the bill when the deep state helped to remove him the following year. While Likud, founded by Begin, remains in power today.

Later they go after the Dems, and Max gives a brief history lesson on the the last half century of the party’s politics before they give brother Bernie the rusty shiv:

I always enjoy someone going after Brooklyn Bernie, even if they trot out the military-industrial complex in the process. 😁 Bernie's queasiness over the use of genocide is reflective of his Jewish supremacy as well as his Zionism - there can be only one. Later Max and Aaron also give Rashida Tlaib the treatment for her position on Syria, including echoing the “Assad gassed his own people” line.

My view of the history runs parallel to what Max said, but it's ethnically explicit. The 1968 convention battles and the 1972 McGovern nomination were about the New Left trying to take over the party on the back of Vietnam, and the leadership of the New Left, the successor to Marxism, was predominately Jewish. They thought they'd won in ‘72 by seemingly taking over the party, but the election disaster told them otherwise, and the party paid the price for the next 20 years.

Clinton is conventionally and simplistically seen as the necessary move to the right in response to the Reagan revolution, but it was really the Jewish victory achieved through other means - the abandonment of left radicalism that had in different forms been defeated twice, in the ‘50s and the ‘70s, for a moneyed centrism built on neoliberalism. The visual was the house in the ‘burbs with the two-car garage containing a Beemer and a SUV. The ‘60s radicals had grown up, being joined by the genXers who were raised on Reaganism’s new American dream based around greed. The Clintonite motto was socially liberal and fiscally conservative.

What came with that was neoconservatism as the Vietnam Syndrome was dying, while the old New Left was winnowed down to the evolved version of Cultural Marxism, the rise of political correctness. That's essentially Max’ culture wars. What we were left with was this, the definition of America in this century:

But yes, Tony Blinken represents this Democratic Party perfectly.

I won't go into what Max had to say about Ireland at the end there, beyond saying that anyone who has ever listened to any of the many discussions between Gemma O’Doherty and E. Michael Jones might looked at it subtly differently… 🍀

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Courtesy of David Cranmer Underdown: