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Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.”58

Fascism’s 14 traits stare out from the mirror of George W. Bush’s “Amerika.” We have already seen how cronyism and corporate-government collusion drove U.S. policy in Afghanistan. Fanaticism against birth control and abortions together with fanaticism for executions are typical features of the religious right. In addition, Bush’s fetish for upper-income tax cuts and his assault on regulatory legislation epitomize the dominance of Straussian economic selfishness.

Points 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 11 and 14—especially number three—are of particular importance for understanding how the Zionist contagion took root.

58. Lawrence W. Britt, “Fascism Anyone?” Free Inquiry, Vol. 23, No. 2, <www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm>.

T S E E M S A B S U R D to think that a tiny rogue state like Israel

should be able to browbeat and humiliate history’s greatest superpower. Every president since 1967 has told Israel to stop settlement construction in the Occupied Territories, and every Israeli government has responded with open contempt and disregard. Israel even interferes in U.S. affairs with other states, as we saw with the arms sales to Saudi Arabia.

One would think that Israel were the superpower and the U.S. a sycophantic vassal state. This suggestion, facetious though it may be, is not far from the truth. On Oct. 20, 1990, syndicated columnist Patrick Buchanan made the point succinctly in a now famous declaration: “Capitol Hill is an Israeli occupied territory.”

The remark was pithy, but no revelation. The occupation had been going on for decades, and is the reason why the U.S. has become an anti-Arab terrorist state serving Israeli expansionism.

One could pick a number of events from which to date the Zionization of the U.S., but the most common is the creation of the “State of Israel” on May 15, 1948. Contrary to popular belief, this creation was illegal, immoral and did not have the sanction of the United Nations.

The Partition Plan that would have carved up Palestine into Jewish and Arab regions only received approval from the UN General Assembly, which is why it is called UNGA Res. 181. The Security Council never ratified it, which means that Arab compliance was not compulsory. In fact, the neighbouring Arab states had every right, even a duty, to reject it because the UN has no power to take land from one party and give it to another. The plan would have awarded 56 percent of Palestine to one-third of the population, the 650,000 Jews, who were mostly recent settlers at that, leaving only 44 percent to the 1.3 million indigenous Muslim and Christian Arabs. According to the UN’s own Constitution, UNGA Res. 181 was ultra vires, which also explains why it was never enacted.

FR O M TR U M A N T O CA RT E R

For its part, the U.S. had been preparing to withdraw support for UNGA Res. 181 because of continued Zionist violence against the Palestinian Arabs. In mid-March 1948, UN ambassador Warren Austin observed that it could not be enacted peacefully, and on orders from President Harry Truman recommended that it be suspended for two months pending a meeting of the General Assembly. Truman advocated a temporary UN trusteeship to prevent further bloodshed.1

However, domestic electoral considerations would soon dominate Truman’s thinking. As Gore Vidal writes in his preface to the late Rabbi Israel Shahak’s Jewish History, Jewish Religion:

Sometime in the late 1950s, that world-class gossip and occasional historian, John F. Kennedy, told me how, in 1948, Harry S. Truman had been pretty much abandoned by everyone when he came to run for president. Then an American Zionist brought him two million dollars in cash, in a suitcase, aboard his whistle-stop campaign train. ‘That’s why our recognition of Israel was rushed through so fast.’… I shall not rehearse the wars and alarms of that unhappy region. But I will say that the hasty invention of Israel has poisoned the political and intellectual life of the U.S.A., Israel’s unlikely patron.2

Although critics may be tempted to dismiss Vidal’s story as hearsay, there is strong evidence that electoral, not legal or moral, concerns pushed the U.S. to recognize Israel:

Partition was adopted only after ruthless arm-twisting by the US government and by 26 pro-Zionist U.S. senators who, in telegrams to a number of UN member states, warned that U.S. goodwill in rebuilding their World War II-devastated economies might depend on a favorable vote for partition. In a Nov. 10, 1945, meeting with American diplomats brought in from their posts in the Middle East to urge Truman not to heed Zionist urgings, Truman had bluntly explained his motivation: “I’m sorry, gentlemen, but I have to answer to hundreds of thousands who are anxious for the success of Zionism: I do not have hundreds of thousands of Arabs among my constituents.”3

Within the Truman White House, a virtual war erupted between 67-year- old Secretary of State George C. Marshall and Clark Clifford, a 41-year-old neophyte political advisor who held the minority view that Truman had to

1. Warren Austin, United States Position on the Palestine Problem, March 19, 1948; President Harry S. Truman, United States Proposal for Temporary United Nations Trusteeship for

Palestine, March 25, 1948.

2. Israel Shahak, Jewish History, Jewish Religion (London: Pluto Press, 1994), pp. vii-viii. 3. Richard H. Curtiss, “Truman Adviser Recalls May 14, 1948, U.S. Decision to Recognize Israel,” Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, May 1991.