Multinational Billionaire Thomas Kaplan = Precious-metals SCAMMER = Iran bashing for pro-Israel groups is very common + FOR PROFITS in Precious Metals
Click for Source Article in the Investigative Fund of The Nation
Kaplan (like Adelson) = Funds pro-sanctions (2008) group United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI) = Colluding Interests = Billionaire’s Middle East Gamble = NO Corporate Accountability by Eli Clifton of Salon and The Nation
Kaplan’s UANI FIGHTS AGAINST PEACE = Last November world powers announced deal with Iran to halt its nuclear progress in exchange for a modest easing of sanctions + BUT Kaplan’s UANI statement complained about the agreement gives IRAN TOO MUCH. = ISRAELI VIEW!
Kaplan’s UANI FIGHTS AGAINST PEACE = Pressure group for the enforcement of IRANIAN sanctions using reports and press releases on companies doing business with Iran.
Kaplan’s UANI FIGHTS AGAINST PEACE = July 2014 NYT spots intrigue as DOJ stepped in to a defamation suit against UANI to STOP the disclosure of UANI’s donors and related information.
DOJ SHIELDS AND PROTECTS KAPLAN = Connection between UANI and precious metals manipulator Thomas S. Kaplan. = #1 Most outspoken proponents in World for investing in gold and other precious metals during periods of political and economic unrest. = Intervention by DOJ to protect information held by UANI ON KAPLAN AND OTHERS from being disclosed in court.
ODDLY, UANI had accused a Greek shipping magnate of being “front men for…the Iranian regime” to GET MONEY FROM HIM FOR UANI!
NYT report = Lawyers for Greek shipping magnate, the plaintiff in the suit, accused UANI of receiving foreign funding and shaking down companies for donations.
Kaplan’s links to UANI = CLEAR = Sharing several employees with UANI for 6 years including several mining ventures MANIPULATE metals prices by creating or MULTIPLYING FEAR and INSTABILITY of economies and geopolitics = PROFIT on “political unrest in the Middle East” = PERFECT FOR KAPLAN’S naysayers of diplomacy with Iran. = UANI + Allies “play the politics for the short-term but they don’t offer anything in terms of answers for the long-term.” = Iran bashing for pro-Israel groups is very common + FOR PROFITS in Precious Metals from INSTABILITY = SAME OLD FEAR MONGERING (WW III) — IRAN GETS THE BOMB = PROFITS
UANI Board = Powerhouse Former politicians + Intelligence officials + Think TANK WIZARDS from Germany, Israel and UK = SOME appeared at a recent Senate Foreign Relations committee hearing. = Wallace, a former GW Bush ambassador to the UN holds another, likely more lucrative position, serving as the CEO of the KAPLAN’S group. = Kaplan’s promotion of precious metals is often coupled to dire predictions about coming geopolitical unrest.
Kaplan = LOVES THE FAT CATS who buy his Gold and silver to hedge against political and economic instability.
2010 Wall Street Journal profile of Kaplan = “A Billionaire Goes All-In On Gold” = “nearly $2 billion bet on gold, more than the Brazilian central Bank’s bullion is currently worth.” MAKE LOTS OF LOOT by BUILDING UP and HYPING instability in the Middle East = Even willing to include “confrontation” with Iran.
FACT = KAPLAN + UANI = DIRECT TIES TO ISAREL = LAW SUIT says UANI dispatched an Israeli businessman + A former Israeli spy chief and UANI advisor + Provides spy info on Greek Shipping Magnate.
UANI = Consistent pattern among pro-sanctions hardliners in Washington = Align with DC’s right-leaning pro-Israel camp. = Lisa Graham + McCain + Joseph Lieberman + Hardline Neoconservative Propaganda MILL Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) = Pro-Israel activist in media circles. = FDD Serves as a STRONG pro-Israel outfit over last 13-years. = Claims to be “Visionary philanthropists and policymakers who understood the threat facing America, Israel and the West…fight the ideologies that drive terrorism.” = Formed” on April 24, 2001—5 months before 9ll = STRONG COINCIDENCE!
FDD = Founded to concentrate almost solely on Israel advocacy = EMET : An Educational Initiative, Inc. (Emet is Hebrew for “truth.”) = Purpose is to Provide Education (PROPAGANDA) “meant to enhance Israel’s image in North America and the public’s understanding of issues affecting Israeli-Arab relations.”
FDD BELIEFS = Peace is NEVER to compromise Israel’s existence + Defeating Terrorism + Disproportionate focus on Iran (50% of its staff are experts on Iran) = TIED TO American Israeli Public Affairs Committee, America’s pre-eminent pro-Israel organization.
NOTE: Americans for Peace Now and J Street are liberal pro-Israel who favor diplomacy with Iran
FACT = Center of gravity of Israel advocacy trends right and are aggressively pro-sanctions or outright hawkish pro-war positions.
Pro-Israel advocates (NEOCONS) KNOW they played a major role in the build-up to the Iraq war.
Pro-Israel advocates (NEOCONS) = WANT diplomacy with Iran to fail for MANY REASONS = IRAN OUTLAWS USURY + ISRAEL’s BIGGEST REMAINING ENEMY + WAR IS GREAT FOR ISRAELI WEAPONS AND REPRESSION SYSTEMS + GOLD & SILVER SCAM + BANKSTERS MAKE A FORTUNE FINANCING THE MIC FRAUD SCAMS = MASSIVE PRO-ISRAEL Activism against NEGOTIATE OR COMPROMISE (NEOCONS SAY “WE DON’T NEGOTIATE WITH OUR ENEMIES)
UANI = FDD = PRO-ISRAEL POLITICIANS = RIGHT WING PROFITEERS STRANGLING THE MIDDLE CLASS WITH DEBTS ANS USURY = DEEPLY Israel-linked = NOT-PRO-AMERICAN
CNN = Israeli TOOL = Israeli Ambassador US Ron Dermer OWNS CNN = CONSTANT LIES WITHOUT MUCH FLINCHING TO JUSTIFY ISRAELIS MURDER OF CHILDREN!
Ron Dermer = raised in Miami Beach, Fl = Father was mayor of Miami Beach = Attended Jewish day school + Family helped GW Bush + Worked for Propagandist Frank Luntz designing “the Contract (ON) America(s) + Worked on 1996 Knesset election campaign moving to Israel and became an Israeli citizen + Political consultant in Israeli 1999 campaign + wrote for Jerusalem Post + co-wrote “The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror” endorsed by GW Bush + 2005 served Netanyahu as Finance Minister + Israeli Ambassador to Washington (ROBBED THE JOB) = GAVE UP American citizenship + Dermer is Netanyahu’s closest adviser and strategic consultant = “runs much of the interference with the White House, and is intimately involved in the diplomatic process with the Palestinians, [… and] writes many of Netanyahu’s speeches” + OPINION = Dermer’s appointment a “mixed bag” for U.S.–Israel relations. = Dermer is suspected by key White House aides of lobbying members of Congress against President Barack Obama’s positions.
Click for Source of Ron Dermer background
How the Anti-Iran Lobby Machine Dominates Capitol Hill
Click for Source Article in The Nation by Eli Clifton and Ali Gharib on July 15, 2014
FDD = DC’s premier neoconservative think tank = Middle East Policy SETTERS = Most rapacious hawks for Israel and Against Arabs – Especially Against their #1 TARGET Iran.
FDD INVOLVED = Mark Dubowitz “the architect of many of the sanctions we have against Iran…advised Congress on …legislation…about sanctions.”
FDD & PRO-ISRAELI CROWD = WANT Obama to NOT NEGOTIATE with IRAN its moderate President Hassan Rouhani = Instead they WANT WAR = BUT The talks have progressed further than anyone expected with a deal achieved.
FDD INVOLVED = The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) + The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) = Shape USA PRO-ISRAEL POLICIES = FUNDED by even smaller network of right-wing DONORS
FDD PRO-ISRAEL POLICY DONORS = Sheldon Adelson, SAND CHINA CASINOS = $2.54 million to FDD + AIPAC (2007 TO 2011) = said USA should drop a nuclear bomb on Iran + Paul Singer, MASSIVE SCAM ARTIST = $3.6 million to FDD (2008 to 2011) + $1.5 million to AIPAC (2010 to 2011) + $2.31 million to AEI (2009 to 2011) + Bernard Marcus, Home Depot = $12.8 million to FDD (2008 to 2012) + $650,000 to AEI (2007 to 2012) + $2.45 million to AIPAC (2007 to 2012) = Getting their way = 2010 Sanctions bill on foreign banks and companies doing business with Iran passed Senate 99–0 = YES FDD + AIPAC + AEI OWN SENATE 100% + 2012 Sanctioned international companies dealing with Iran’s Central Bank in SENATE = 100–0 + Another sanctions Bill passed Senate 94–0 + 2013 resolution backing Israel attack on Iran passed 99–0.
THESE FEW ISRAELI CRIMINALS BILLIONIARES + THERE PROPAGANDA AND FEAR THINK MILLS = “By far and away the most powerful voices are what you can term the hawkish groups on Iran policy.” — Former congressional aide = $85 MILLION/ YEAR IN BRIBERY, LOBBYING, AND THREATS TO OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES!!!!
AMERICAN PEOPLE = HAVE ZERO VOICE IN SENATE AND NEAR ZERO IN HOUSE!
4 Washington pro-diplomacy groups = Center for a New American Security + National Iranian American Council + American Iranian Council + Council on American-Islamic Relations = Annual budget of ONLY $9.4 million.
FDD + AIPAC = ANNUAL BUDGET of $75 million + AIPAC offshoot = Washington Institute for Near East Policy is $8.7 million + Aggressive right-wing PR groups like United Against Nuclear Iran is $1.6 million. = PROPAGANDA TO CONGRESS = Papers + Reports + Flashy DC conferences + Regular briefings + Frequent contacts with staffers + Battalions of policy analysts + Lawyers who “package [sanctions] bills and hand them to congressional offices” + PLY THE MSM WITH CONTINUOUS PRO-ISRAELI ANTI-IRAN PROPAGANDA + PRODUCE Op-Eds + SHEPHERD BILLS THROUGH CONGRESS + Quotes in news coverage + Other ways to IMPOSE INTIMIDATION on CONGRESS = “…obviously easier for lobby groups that have a lot of money.”
FDD + AIPAC + AEI = DOMINATE Congress WITH A Docket FULL of House and Senate committee hearings on Iran. = FORCE MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO burnish their credentials as being tough on Iran with even HARSHER SANCTIONS = “Congressional hearings are not weighted to be some objective analysis of some foreign policy issue. The people who are calling the hearings have an agenda.” — Former Congressional Aide
2012 PRO-ISRAEL FORCE = 11 separate hearings on Iran policy considered with 36 experts = MOSTLY FDD + AEI Neoconservatives + David Albright + Dubowitz = Hard-liners on Iran sanctions = 22 of 36 testimonies solicited by House and Senate committees.
SO-CALLED Centrist think tanks = Council on Foreign Relations (WAR MONGERS ALSO) + Brookings Institution (WAR MONGERS ALSO) + RAND Corporation (WAR MONGERS) GET A SMALLER BUT SIMILAR VOICE.
AMERICAN PEOPLE VOICES WERE DROWNED OUT BY PRO-ISRAELI SCHEMERS AND SCAMMERS. = 1 Expert from dovish think tank = Barak Barfi of New America Foundation, made one appearance.
Since 2010 GOP HARD-LINERS RUNS the Foreign Affairs Committee = Florida’s über-aggressive Ileana Ros-Lehtinen was replaced last year by California’s Ed Royce, who is only slightly less extreme.
2013 Royce’s committee unanimously approved FDD WRITTEN + AIPAC BACKED Legislation = TO Tighten the Screws on Iran = ROYCE SAID = giving “the ayatollah a choice between the collapse of his economy or compromise on his nuclear weapons program and giving up that program.”
White House wanted to take advantage of Rouhani’s overtures = Brought a remarkable change in Congress = Stiffened the spines of liberal Democrats = Jim McDermott + John Conyers + Keith Ellison + Jim McGovern wrote letter urging for, “Iran’s new president (to be) inaugurated.” = 25% of the House signed another letter encouraging Obama to explore diplomacy with Iran. = “It would be a mistake not to test whether Dr. Rouhani’s election represents a real opportunity for progress toward a verifiable, enforceable agreement on Iran’s nuclear program.”
SAD FACT = Royce’s PRO-ISRAELI INFECTED BILL = Passed 400-20 vote. 20 BROKE FROM PRO-ISRAEL DICTATORS!
DESPITE BIASED ROYCE VOTE = Obama motivated many rounds of intense negotiations and a GOOD RESULT = Joint Plan of Action = US + 4 Partners from permanent UN Security Council + Germany = Modestly ease sanctions in exchange for Iran’s reducing its stockpiles of nuclear material and ceasing enrichment to higher levels.
Obama administration faced another hurdle with hawks = PRO-ISRAELI DEM Senator Menendez + Kirk + DEM Schumer = AIPAC BILL with 59 Senate co-sponsors = Senate bill to destroy negotiations = EVEN deeper sanctions + Insisting final deal must “dismantle Iran’s …nuclear infrastructure…”
AIPAC PRO-ISRAEL SANCTIONS HARDLINERS = Praise the negotiation destroying WAR measure with AIPAC’s policy director, Brad Gordon, outrageously claiming the effort would “dramatically enhance our chance” of a deal with Iran. AIPAC’s GORDON urged AIPAC’s members to write their senators to garner co-sponsors.
The White House held strong raising alarms about the BILL among advocates of diplomacy = “This bill is in direct contradiction to the administration’s work to peacefully resolve the international community’s concerns with Iran’s nuclear program,” said National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan. Obama issued a veto threat.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif = Said to TIME that if the New Sanctions Bill with a delayed trigger—during the talks. “The entire deal is dead.” = COMPLETELY KNOCKED THE WIND OUT OF THE AIPAC SAILS! = Dovish groups like the Friends Committee on National Legislation and J Street RALLIED supporters against the Menendez-Kirk-Schumer bill. + Gould, the FCNL lobbyist, says members of Congress received more than 10,000 calls about it—”overwhelmingly pro-diplomacy,” she adds. Crucially, Senate majority leader Harry Reid refused to bring the bill to the floor for a vote. And some of the 16 DEMS backed-off the BILL! = Senator Jeff Merkley put it in a letter to constituents, “At this time I do not support additional sanctions legislation because I share the views of many foreign policy experts that it could undermine the ongoing negotiations.”
Soon even AIPAC had to BACK OFF along with AIPAC PAWN Menendez who changed his tune to “the time was not right.” Former Obama administration official said, “…because (AIPAC’s) is’s misstepping so frequently, it’s losing quietly.”
CONCLUSION: AIPAC’s 100% CONTROL OF THE SENATE IS NO MORE!
PRO-ISRAEL sanctions hawks remain undeterred trying to limit sanctions relief by shifting the goal posts = Shift from limiting Iran’s uranium enrichment to regime change. = FDD’s Dubowitz said, “The strategic problem here is the nature of the regime.” = PRO-ISRAELIS NEVER STOP THEIR EVER GROWING LEVELS OF OUTRAGEOUS DEMANDS!
June 2014 a PRO-ISRAEL FDD document by Senator Kirk’s Chief of Staff Richard Goldberg (GONE NOW) and Dubowitz = A “playbook for opposing an Obama nuclear deal with Iran,” was obtaind by Foreign Policy. It OUTRAGEOUSLY says Iran must prove its entire financial sector has no involvement in terrorism, money laundering or proliferation or SANCTIONS WOULD INCREASE.= HOW?? = These RIDICULOUS Demands would quickly DESTROY an otherwise historic deal, BUT amazingly in July, Congress dutifully obliged as Royce and Democrat Eliot Engel got a letter—signed by 342 colleagues—demanding a larger congressional role in talks and raising requirements on lifting sanctions to the FDD’s expansive standards.
AIPAC’s + FDD’s TOTAL CONTROL OF CONGRESS ARE NOT GOING TO END PEACEFULLY AS MULTINATIONAL SCAMMING BILLIONAIRES + ISRAELIS DEMAND DOING THINGS THE JEWISH WAY!
FACT: PRO-ISRAEL STAKES ARE HIGH = THEIR BOOGYMAN IRAN IS NEEDED TO GET THEIR WAY! = An agreement could open the door to a new era of improved relations with Iran and lead to desperately needed cooperation in solving what has become a regional sectarian war.
PRO-ISRAEL WANTS THE ALTERNATIVE = Deepening confrontation—fueled by the same SICK IMPULSES that gave rise to the disastrous war in Iraq.
ALSO SEE “Washington’s Sketchy Pro-Israel/Anti-Iran Camp” by Ali Gharib on August 11, 2014 The Nation
Click to see Ali Gharib on The Nation
ALSO SEE Eli Clifton’s “How the Anti-Iran Lobby Machine Dominates Capitol Hill.” as Neocon think tanks get millions from wealthy donors to game the system.
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