Sleaze Within Sleaze

Thinking About Danny Pearl Pawn Sacrifice -- Positional Game by Joachim Martillo Here is some recent stuff from Judea Pearl, which more or less shows where his mind is.

• Israel @ 60: Confronting denial
• From the Dust of History.

Anyone that believes the early Zionist settlers were just emigrating to Palestine in order to live peacefully with the native population is on really stern drugs. (See Kovel Pulls No Punches and Not Just an Ordinary Lobby.) Israeli advocacy organizations and Israeli consulates have been monitoring US news organizations since the 1950s. They have fairly complete information. Zionist surveillance of US media and government officials is quite thorough. A few years ago AIPAC came to Harvard to recruit congressional summer interns from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government to spy their employers and report back any thoughts deviating from the Zionistically correct. From the moment Benazir Bhutto and the PPP lost power in Pakistan, Benazir and her operatives were working hard on proving that the PPP is the most Jew-friendly party to rule Pakistan. No Bhutto aide has been more zealous in pandering AIPAC and Jewish groups than Hussein Haqqani, who is the new Pakistani ambassador to the USA. In the aftermath of 9/11, the primary effort of Benazir's people in the USA was undermining the relationship between Musharaf and Washington. The killing of Danny Pearl focused a lot of people in the US government (especially Neocons) on the idea that Musharaf had to go, and a more friendly (PPP) regime had to be put in place in Pakistan. Why was Danny Pearl the victim and not Richard Behar? Danny was a prominent Wall Street Journal reporter just as Richard was prominent at Fortune. They were covering the same story of radicals and extremists in Pakistan for their respective publications during the same time period. Online information about Danny Pearl's great-grandfather Chaim Perl was almost guranteed to enrage Danny's captors far more than the story of the department store that Richard's Cicurel relatives used to own in Egypt. Danny Pearl's online background information tells that he worked on behalf of Russian Refuseniks, who were an early Neocon cause. Daniel Pipes in particular might have felt a special connection to Danny Pearl. Perhaps, Zionist operatives passed the info along to PPP agents -- maybe even to impress on them how important it was to save Danny. Instead, the PPP does a calculation and passes the info along to the captors through Bhutto connections in the Pakistani intelligence service and military. The captors spend some time online, put together some questions for Danny, become enraged, and kill him. The Zionists get a new Ann Frank for the War on Terror. Judea Pearl becomes a foil for Rachel Corrie's parents. The process of undermining Musharraf gets a big boost, and, a few months after Danny Pearl's killing, David Frum told me that Pakistan and especially Musharraf constitute a big liability in the War on Terror. Now after five years of efforts by Nawaz Sharif, Benazir Bhutto, and US government factions, Musharraf has been severely weakened while Haqqani becomes Pakistani Ambassador to the USA.  It works out great from the standpoint of Israel Advocates, the Neocons, the PPP, and the State of Israel. For rising powers within the PPP like Haqqani, the situation could not be better. Benazir is dead, and people like Haqqani can rise much faster within the PPP while Musharraf and Sharif are destined for a real know-down drag-out within a year or so. In chess, I would call this a positional game based on the sacrifice of a pawn. In the history of Zionism, such gambits are fairly frequent and not uncommon in the politics of the Indian subcontinent. Am I a paranoid conspiracy theorist? Why are Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan and Sari Nusseibeh lending their names to give credibility to the fanatic ramblings of a racist Jewish Zionist extremist like Judea Pearl?  If they want to memorialize a comparable deserving figure, shouldn't they think about Rachel Corrie?