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Seymour Hersh: Missing Zionist-Israel Connection (continued) by JAMES PETRAS In looking for documentary sources of torture interrogation Hersh relies on academic texts and 20 year old CIA manuals, not Israeli practice wide ly disseminated by the Mossad and Shin Bet advisers presently involved i n torture in neighboring Palestine and Iraq today. Hersh is presented in the mass media as an iconoclastic, investigative jo urnalist, a role which gives his reportages and exposs a great deal of credibility. Yet it was Seymour Hersh who publicly defended torture of s uspects and their family members as a method of interrogation, citing th e Israeli examples in the wake of September 11, justifying torture in th e same way as the Pentagon now justifies the torture of Iraqi suspects. Instead of citing an obscure professor at the University of Chicago, Hers h should have cited the influential tract defending torture by Harvard L aw Professor Alan Dershowitz (a fellow Zionist) widely read by the civil ian militarists who run the Pentagon, and direct the chain of command le ading to interrogation through torture. Hersch's account fails to provide a political context in the Pentagon and in the Middle East for the systematic use of torture. To understand the issue of the US practice of torture and violent abuse of Iraqi prisoner s and civilians requires an examination of the ideological demonization of the Iraqi population the Arabs and the US unconditional political and military support for the state of Israel, the principal long-term large -scale practitioner of torture against Arabs. The most vitriolic systematic denigration of Arabs and Muslims in the Mid dle East is found in the writings an speeches of influential US-based Zi onist ideologues, like the Pipes (father and son), the Kristols (senior and junior), the Kagans, Cohens, Goldhagens and others. The first step t oward justifying torture is to dehumanize the victim, to label them as u ntermensch (congenitally violent savages). The Zionists in the US were merely following the pronouncements of their ideological mentors in Israel who not infrequently proclaimed that the o nly thing the Arab understands is force (Sharon, Golda Meier, Dayan, Rab in etc&). The Zionist ideologues in the Pentagon were influential in arousing hatre d of Arabs in several ways. First in their defense of Israel they delibe rately distorted the nature of Israel s colonial war, blaming the Palest inian victims for the systematic violence which Israel inflicted on them . The ideologues defended every Israeli violent action: the massacre in Jen in, new Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the murderous assault on Ra fah, the killing of UN aid workers and peace activists, the monstrous wa ll ghettoizing a whole people, the mass murder of hundreds of Palestinia ns and destructions of thousands of homes in Gaza. Israeli violence against Palestinians made a deep impression on US Zionis ts who generalized and deepened their animus to Arab Muslims throughout the Middle East, but particularly in Iraq where they were in a position to implement their policies. Feith put fellow Zionist, Abram Shulsky in charge of OSP. The Special Gro up bypassed normal CIA and military intelligence agencies and secured it s own intelligence prior to the war and was involved in securing intelli gence during the first stages of the occupation (before it was dismantle d). As the Iraqi resistance increased its effectiveness and the US justificat ion for the war (weapons of mass destruction) was proven to be a total f abrication of the Special Group, the top echelon of the Pentagon, Rumsfe ld and the Zionists grew desperate they collectively passed the orders t o intensify and extend torture to all Iraqi suspects in all the prisons. It is a gross simplification to say that the line of command was limite d to Rumsfeld, when Wolfowitz, Feith and Abrams were also intimately inv olved in everyday policies prosecuting the war, defending the occupation and controlling intelligence. Even more than Rumsfeld, the Zionist zealots in the Pentagon were the mos t ardent promoters of introducing Israeli methods of torturing and humil iating Arab suspects, lauding Israeli successes in dealing with the Arab s They, not military intelligence, promoted the use of Israeli experts in interrogation; they encouraged Israeli led seminars in urban warfare and interrogation techniques for the US military intelligence officers a nd private contractors. Nothing about the responsibility of the Pentagon Zionists in the torture of Iraqis appears in Hersh s expose . The glaring omissions are delibera te as they are obvious form a systematic pattern and serve the purpose o f exonerating the Pentagon Zionists and Israel and hanging the entire re sponsibility for war crimes on Rumsfeld. Hersh s principal concern is that Rumsfeld s blanket order to use torture disrupted the operations of an elite group made up of professional comm andos involved in a secret special access program designed to murder, ki dnap, torture terror suspects throughout the world. In other words by involving thousands of everyday US soldiers (referred t o by one of Hersh s sources as hillbillies ) as torturers in Iraq Rumsfe ld was endangering the operation of professional killers throughout the world. Hersh's second major concern was that the discovery of the torture would hurt America s (sic) prospects in the war on terror in other words a tac tic he attributed (solely and wrongfully) to Rumsfeld was endangering th e US empire-building capacity. Hersh's empire-centric view refuses to recognize the elementary rights of self-determination and international law. Hersh's third apparent concer n is with Rumsfeld s bypassing the CIA and other intelligence agencies a nd attempt to monopolize intelligence. Wolfowitz and Feith set up the special intelluig ence agency that fed Rumsfeld the fabricated intelligence, they promoted Chalabi (known throughout Washington intelligence circles as totally un reliable) as an impeccable source of inside information , in Saddams non -existent weapons of mass destruction knowing in advance that they were passing phony data . As Wolfowitz latter cynically admitted the decision to launch the US invasion over banned weapons was because it was the on ly issue they could agree upon. Hersh is not stupid, he knows what everyone else in Washington and out of government knows: the Zionists in the Pentagon were pushing for war wit h Iraq before 9/11 (even before they took office in Washington and were working with the Israeli state) and were intent on having the US destroy Iraq, at any price including the loss of American lives, budget busting deficits, imperiling oil interests and jeopardizing US global imperial interests. They launched the invasion bypassing the military central command by deli berately falsifying the response of the conquered Iraqi people ( they wi ll welcome us as liberators Wolfowitz and Perle) and intent on destroyin g civil and state structures (the so-called de-Baathification purges) in order to forever undermine Iraq s capacity to challenge Israel s domina tion of the Middle East. None of Hersh's questions explore these well known facts about who is res ponsible for the atrocities against Iraqis. He didn t have to cite unnam ed intelligence or Pentagon sources General Anthony Zinni and many non-Z ionists insiders, as well as the CIA and Central Command knew about the Zionist promoters, plans and moreover knew the role Feith played in push ing for harsher interrogation techniques. But Hersh ignored these questions, those Zionists and their ideological s upporters and advisers who did everything possible to undermine any Iraq i economic recovery and capacity to run their own education, health and electoral systems. De-Baathification was meant to turn Iraq into a backward tribal, divided desert country run by their protg Chalabi, the only candidate who woul d recognize Israel, supply it with oil and support Mid-East integration under Israeli hegemony. The Zionist Pentagonistas succeeded in securing the war, they succeeded in destroying basic Iraqi social services, they dest...
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