JFK, Israel, LBJ, and Mathilde Krim

JFK was determined to stop Israel from getting Nuclear Weapons.  (At least, according to the late "conspiracy theory" author Michael Collins Piper, 1960-2015, in his landmark book Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, sold by far the cheapest at AmericanFreePress.net, this is not an endorsement of their other books..  MCP was the first to capitalize on the Israel aspects of the JFK assassination, so hidden I had never heard them before yesterday.)

In May 1962, Matilda Krim and her husband befriended Lyndon after he was snubbed at a party with President Kennedy.  That was the beginning of a friendship which lasted at least to the end of his Presidency.  His previous mistress, Alice Moon, the strong New Dealer, was fed up with Lyndon because of the Vietnam War.  Krim had her own bedroom in the White House, and a house was built for her on Johnson Lake, designed by Lyndon's favorite architect.

Curiously Mathilde Krim was not semitic at all, but sympathized with the  pleight of Jews so strongly she worked tirelessly for Jews during and after WWII, married an Irgun soldier, and converted.  But once in Israel she divorced and married a rich American Jew, and after awhile became friends with Lyndon Johnson as well.

Nowadays, Mathilde Krim is mainly known as the AIDS researcher, who insisted that AIDS be studied despite Reagan, but that's a later story.  She denies having said much to Johnson about politics, it was supposedly her husband who was said to be one of his advisors, but a very detailed record says otherwise.  She was a key player in the politics of Israel, a liason and a lobbyist, and even Chomsky admits US policy toward Israel changed dramatically during the Johnson administration in favor of Israel getting whatever it wanted militarily and diplomatically (though he chalks it up to the Pentagon being impressed by Israel's ruthlessness--just what the empire needs, and not so much the political level--he denies the importance of the Israel Lobby--while ex military friends of mine say it was all in the politicians, the military and state were sick of all the kowtowing to Israel...especially after the USS Liberty...to which I argue that perhaps they weren't aware of the thinking of the "top planners" to which Chomsky refers).  In any case, the rare occurance of even not vetoing a tounge wagging at Israel in the UN Security Coucil would wait from Johnson until Obama's last days.  Israel First declarations pass Congress annually with hardly a no vote.

Mathilde Krim was especially involved with smoothing relations during the 1967 War, including walking back an early White House comment about it, and ultimately getting the White House to respond to the war exactly as Israel wanted, documented at the link below.  And probably involved with the USS Liberty coverup too, according to comments following the article.  This is the straight up version, not reaching beyond the known, at least in the article itself.

The not-so-secret life of Mathilde Krim

The not-so-secret life of Mathilde Krim Mathilde Krim, who died at 91 this month, was honored in obituaries for his courageous advocacy for AIDS victims...

Below is the full on conspiracy version, including the Rothchilds and all.  I haven't seen the actual book Final Judgment yet, but I'd guess it to be not quite so all-conspiratorial as the article below, and more well documented.  It is a well known fact Krim and her husband were Lyndon's closest friends between May 1962 and after.  And she's mentioned at the conspiracy site below, but only among many many others.  Many of LBJ's advisors were Jewish, and certain to be Zionist as well.  Meanwhile, other Jews and likely Zionists (though not necessarily Mossad, etc) were Jack Ruby (Rubenstein), an associate of Lansky,  Clay Shaw--the shady CIA operator in New Orleans associated with Oswald there--and Meyer Lansky, the top mob boss most closely associated with the JFK assassination in many theories even being the one who sends at least one real assassin including the one who actually does the deed from the Grassy Noll with mob precision and logistics.  I just learned yesterday the mainstream American Mafia became a mix of Italians and Jews before the second half of the 20th century, the Sicily-and-only-Sicily group in the US was assassinated in the first half of the 20th century.  Lansky was one of The most major players in the Mafia in the 20th century, at one time called "the Accountant."  He had been heavily into Cuba.  Lansky was involved in smuggling rackets, some say he smuggled nuclear bomb triggers to Israel as well.  All these men could be heroes to a Patriotic Zionist, though it's possible Lansky just did it for the money, or a number of other reasons (he went to Israel later for a few years...but then was kicked out), but I've always found a "revenge" motive hard to believe, when there were lots of possible things wanted by different parties:

[Actually, Michael Collins Parker mentions a list of actual Israel figures.]

Militarists, proto-neocons, wanted the Vietnam War
Anti-Castro Cubans wanted Cuba invaded
Oil Barons wanted to keep the Depletion Allowance
Mafioso's wanted Robert Kennedy's investigations to stop
   and they wanted Cuba invaded
J Edgar was the ultimate protection for Organized Crime,
    determining who wins and loses, he wanted to
    continue his system, and saw Kennedy as existential
     threat, plus of course he hated Kennedy thoroughly
Israel wanted the Bomb, and Kennedy was blocking this
  

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Beyond General Relativity

Time and Space and Mass and Energy are related to each other.

But what about...organization.

Clearly organization is crucial.  The universe is a vast every changing organization.  It's what we are, and most likely that from which consciouness and thinking and all human creation and destruction arise.  Of course, it's what human society is, materially and organizationally, though you might also consider it "disorganization," but that's just a kind of organization.

Atoms, bosons even, are organized.  What drives organization, and where is it headed?

Decentralization and Diversity

Thinking about Judaism, in terms of centrality it is the polar opposite of Roman Catholicism.

Catholicism is centralized.  The Pope makes the rules, defining what Catholicism is, and who Catholics are.  Roman Catholicism was organized by the Roman Emperor Constantine, and it became the official religion of the Roman Empire, and by extension much of Europe.  Centralization serves the needs of empire.

Judaism has no such central human authority.  There is the Torah, of course, but it does not actually interpret itself, or execute it's own will.  Rabbis interpret the Torah, and there is no central authority of Rabbis.  Instead, there was the original Rabbi, who authorized his disciples, and they authorized their disciples, and so on.

So, when we get to the present, there is a hugh diversity of opinion among Rabbis.  Some are still anti-Zionist, as most were in the beginning of the 20th century.  Others, of course, are Zionist. And that divergence even exists among the well known groups, Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox, which are exceedingly different.

This has the strength of adaptability, and is the perfect approach for a Diaspora, where people are living far aflung, and where there is not an overriding political or "national" objective.

Once there is a common political or national objective, organization, hierarchy, and centralization become useful, and ultimately, demanded.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a classic article, "The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted," explaining why networks are great at disseminating information, and adapting, but not well suited to political organization or revolution--for those purposes hierarchies are better.

The Terror Behind the Creation of Israel

Documented in one of the best posts at Mondoweiss ever, followed by the one of the best comments sections.

The original post is by Thomas Suarez, author of the recent book State of Terror, which is the best book on the Zionist terror from the beginning of Zionism up to the Nabka.  The book is endorsed by the likes of Ilan Pappe, himself the best historian of the Nabka.  Suarez spent many years studying archival documents, some not seen in ages, to produce this book.

The comments section is far longer than the original post, and equally interesting.

One of the commenters sounds a bit like a friend of mine who moved to Israel recently.  Their points are rebutted in a mostly excellent part of the comments, bit by bit.  Very educational.

Then within the comments are many excerpted articles, with the full history of Jerusalem, as best known to objective historians.  Everyone knows it wasn't founded by Jews in 2700 BCE.  David and Solomon are conventionally said to appear 1000 BCE and 900 BCE, however the archeological evidence is that the city was empty then, there is no evidence of palaces or a great civilization.  Then the region is conquered by one empire after another.  But perhaps only under actual Jewish rule for less than the last 200 years BCE.  Afterwards, one empire after another.  In it's 3700 year history, less than 200 years (the Hasemite rule) are known to be under Jewish rule, and at most not much more than that.  (Not that this matters, but it certainly isn't the basis of an objective immortal claim.  Most people have ancestors from many parts of the world...does that give the the right to most people to displace the people who are in any of those places now and create a new exclusive sovereignty for the co-religionists who were dominant in an ancient slice of time in the past?)

The "Second" Temple existed independent of the various imperial rulers, however, so so for about half a millenium, out of the entire 3700 year history prior to modern Israel.  Because...Judaism is a religion.

The Dome of the Rock was the first major Muslim architecture, and has been there almost 1400 years.

Evidence of a First Temple is lacking.

After the revolt of Bar Kochbar, only a small number of leading Jews went into diaspora.  The majority in the levant remained, mostly as farmers, many converting later to Christianity and then Islam.  I said this before from common sense, it is confirmed here.   (Do the Jews have rights to displace the former sovereigns because those poor farmers mostly didn't stick with the religion? What about others that moved in and out, as in fact the Jewish ancestors must have done at some time, and/or may have been there for far longer? )

[This history of Palestine, whose name dates back to the Greeks but was populated for millenia.  The peoples, cultures, religions and empires that have been in and out are astounding.  At the time of Jesus, Greek culture was dominant.  The known Jewish kingdom, the Hasemites, was a mountain group--around Jerusalem--who allied with many other groups to create The Holy Land, a kingdom which lasted less than 200 years, yet it figures big in Western imaginations.]

But this is not to say, even during Jewish rule, that Jews were the only ones in the sourthern levant.  They never were.  I also said this before.  Although the biblical story has Jews as invaders of the Levant (from Abraham's birthplace, Iraq), the best historical evidence is that they were a sect of the regional population of Caananites whose descendants also include modern Palestinians an many other groups.  There is no evidence that any "slaves" escaped from Egypt (and, fwiw, the Pyramids were not built by slaves) or conquered a neighboring territory in 1200 BCE or whatever.  That's all mythology.

The first anyone else knows of Jews is from captivity and that's also when the original Torah was written.  Many including me believe that the Ancient Jewish story (with David, Solomon, and so on) was invented to give the re-settlers a better chance of succeeding.  The returned to their home territory within the new empire created by Cyrus who had conquered Babylon, and under his authority.  Though this is often described as motivated by Cyrus' enlightenment, there may also been considerable geopolitical advantage to him to have a client state near his border with Egypt.  Curiously he and Truman may have had similar motivations in establishing a "Jewish" state, Truman being President who broke ranks with the ongoing UN process  (it was intended that neither Israel nor Palestine in the Resolution 181 plan unilaterally declare independence--in fact it had been forbidden--but be part of a dual nation mandatory system--not to say that 181 had any moral or ethical force either especially as it gave the majority of the territory to settlers rather than the idigenous who, by rights, should have had it all) and recognized Israel's unilateral declaration of independence.

The southern levant has often been a frontier between empires because of it's geography (the connection between 3 continents) and human history.  It seems that Jews--people who claim ancestry from the region but were found elsewhere at various times--have been re-settled twice to run or at least be part of a client state in this region for the major imperial power of the time, first by Cyrus, second by the UK and US.  The Torah casts the Egyptians in a rather unfavorable light--all the better for the Jewish re-settlers not to be co-opted by their new neighbors and remain loyal to the more distant Cyrus.

Given it's central connecting location and proximity to the birthplace of humanity, it's likely that nearly all people have some ancestry from the southern levant.

As Suarez says, however, none of the ancient history really matters now.  But I think clearing away the mythology helps, especially against the backdrop where some are saying "Jews were building Jerusalem for 3700 years."  It would be much more true to say the Palestinians were building Jerusalem for 3700 years.

Correction to earlier post: the Romans used the name Palestine for the region from their first conquest in 6 CE, not later after the sacking of Jerusalem or the revolt of Bar Kochbar as I had previously said.  The name Palestine also had been used by the Greeks, the previous imperial ruler, who had conquered the levant in 330 BCE.  So the name Palestine is at least 2348 years old, and in use for nearly all of that time for the whole region.

The Christian Crusaders kicked out Jews and Muslims.  When the Muslims ultimately regained control, they let the Jews back in.  So for most of the 2nd Millenium, up until the dawn of Zionism, Jews lived in peace under Islamic rulers in the Levant, sometimes going there as a safe haven from Christians and others in other places.

Judaism is just like all other religions in being a mind control system to create useful idiots.

But true Judaism doesn't hold a candle to Zionism in that regards.


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