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The Left and the Zioncons

By Karl North | January 4, 2010

The Left and the Zioncons[1]

Karl North

January 2010

Back a couple years Michael Moore wrote a piece about how “we”[2] should get out of Iraq. It was all very nice, cheeky, classic Michael Moore. And much of it of course true. But by saying the oil industry wanted the war, he made the same mistakes about war motives as much of the progressive community.

“We” could have had Iraqi oil without two wars, just not the total control over the reserves, and by extension over other Mideast oil achieved by having Iraq as a major, permanent military base of operations in that region, which is what the neocon junta in Washington wanted. Meanwhile, knowing this, Exxon Mobil et al were wringing their hands in frustration. They were making money hand over fist, partly because the Iraqi wars have driven up oil prices, but they know that is nothing like the long term profits to have been gained if they had maintained a pumping presence (along with Europe, China, Japan) on Iraqi reserves much of which oil experts say now have been permanently compromised by sabotage caused by the war.

So if the oil industry in general had no motive for war, who did? Well, the junta driving this war buggy in Washington was not just a neocon gang, it was a Zioncon outfit, one that recently came together in strength, but has gradually been hijacking our government since Zionists first invaded Palestine and began to massacre Palestinians over 50 years ago. Israel is not a viable state (Congressional Record). It survives partly from an annual US aid of 2.8 billion, more per capita (Israeli) than any country has received in history. Why? 60%  of Democratic Party funding and 35% of Republican Party funding comes from pro-Israeli Jews. The Zionist lobby gains $50 for every dollar spent. The Zioncon Iraq war project even included a revival of the old oil pipeline from Irkuk to Haifa, as part of a plan for a US-Israel co-prosperity sphere in the Mideast once Iraq, Syria and Iran (the main resistance to the Zionist usurpation of Palestine) had been subdued.

The big blind spot in much of the left on this issue is caused by the threat of the label of antisemitism. Don’t even go there. Jew and Zionist are not the same, however much the Zionist lobby would like to conflate them. Many of my closest associates on the left have been Jews. Chomsky, Einstein, Marx, all Jews, are among my heroes, and most would never be Zionists. Zionists are people who will do virtually anything to maintain their theocratic, racist, anti democratic state in Palestine.

During the third Israeli-Arab war in 1967, for over an hour Israeli war planes bombed and strafed the USS Liberty, a reconnaissance ship clearly flying the American flag and lying in international waters monitoring activities of the belligerents. Intercepted Israeli messages confirmed this was no mistake. The deliberate attack killed 34 and wounded over a hundred. No reprisals. Hardly a peep from the media, in which pro-Zionist Jewish power is so prominent. The tail wagged the dog. And that’s just one incident out of many that reveals the face of Zionist power in Washington.

So when Michael Moore says get out of Iraq, I say fine but letting Iraqis take back their country is the easy part. We have to take back our own country, not just from the neocons, but from control by the powerful foreign agents of a small bloodthirsty nation that have all but hijacked it. Feith, Abrams, Wolfowitz, Perle and other Zionists have been distanced from the immediate levers of power, in part to because of their increasingly obvious role as foreign agents, but the power that lies behind their presence in our government and their ability to lead us into a war that does not even serve the interests of the American ruling class or oil industry, continues, now in Afghanistan, and in the increasing saber-rattling and build-up to a suicidal war against Iran.

[1] Credit goes to Jim Petras for much of the material in this essay.

[2] The presidential “We”. As Derrick Jensen says when asked what we should do about “our” troops in Iraq, so I have troops? Can I invade Pennsylvania?

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