"In what state should Bibi run for US Senate?"

Please - someone tell me this is parody . . .

He's obviously cut out for the job.

Obviously.

The entire US Senate without exception (correct me, if I'm wrong) is zionist.

He would fit right in.

He speaks well. He is telegenic. He has high levels of face and name recognition. He is second to none at the sound bite. He knows how to raise money. He knows how to make waves.

Most importantly, American Jews love him.

It's time for Benjamin Netanyahu to do what he was made to do. Run for the U.S. Senate.

Why should he continue to waste his talents and what's left of his relative youth on the Israeli electorate? His comrades in the Likud scheme to undermine him. His former comrades in Kadima miss no chance to demonize him. His potential coalition partners in Labor want nothing to do with him.

Already 10 years ago, elected prime minister at age 46, he had gone as far in Israeli politics as anyone can.

It's time for a change.

And the man knows America. At age 14, he moved to the States with his family, settling in historic Cheltenham Township, a colonial Quaker-founded suburb of Philadelphia. He won undergraduate and masters degrees from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He could be the very model of the modern Schwarzenegger Republican, moderate on abortion, stem cell research, and health care reform, hawkish on terrorism and tax cuts.

Most remarkably, he is an Israeli leader who thinks he speaks English, and actually does.

Of course, there would be technical obstacles to a Netanyahu race for the Senate. Citizenship, for one thing. But assuming the hurdles could be smoothed by his many admirers of influence, there would be a more difficult problem: Where to run.

Does he go for the Jews - knowing that many American Jews vote liberal, blue and to his left? Or does he stand a better chance courting the Christian Right?

Does he go for New York - home to an enormous reservoir of expatriate Israelis - knowing that he lacks liberal credentials? Does he go for California, knowing that he lacks acting credits?

Options:

[All figures approximate]

CLASS I STATES Populous states with Jewish communities of appreciable size and clout. Examples:

NEW YORK 1.7 million Jews, or 9% of 19 million total population
CALIFORNIA 1.2 million Jews, 3% of 39 million
NEW JERSEY 540,000 Jews, or 6% of 9 million
FLORIDA 650,000 Jews, or 4% of 16 million
PENNSYLVANIA 275,000, or 2.3% of 12 million
ILLINOIS 265,000, or 2.2% of 12 million
MASSACHUSETTS 260,000, or 4.3% of 6 million

CLASS II STATES Populous Bible Belt states with relatively small Jewish populations.

TEXAS 126,000, or 0.6 % of 21 million
GEORGIA 88,000, or 1.1% of 8 million
NORTH CAROLINA 24,000, or 0.3% of 8 million

CLASS III STATES Smaller Bible Belt states with negligible Jewish populations.

WEST VIRGINIA 1,800, or 0.1% of 1.8 million
ARKANSAS 2,600, or 0.1% of 2.7 million
OKLAHOMA 3,400, or 0.1% of 3.4 million

FOR REFERENCE: Present Jewish senators, by state:

California: Barbara Levy Boxer (D) Dianne Feinstein (D)
Connecticut: Joe Lieberman (I)
Maryland: Ben Cardin (D)
Michigan: Carl Levin (D)
Minnesota: Norm Coleman (R)
New Jersey: Frank Lautenberg (D)
New York: Charles Shumer (D)
Oregon: Ron Wyden (D)
Pennsylvania: Arlen Specter (R)
Vermont: Bernie Sanders (I)
Wisconsin: Russ Feingold (D) Herb Kohl (D)

Once this matter is settled, an issue which has remained unresolved for decades may yield to solution: Which European nation should crown Shimon Peres its ceremonial head of state.

A.D.K.M.

Please, God - help me wake from this nightmare.

_______________
Thanks, David

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu

[Q... What good to wake from an American nightmare, to stumble over the twisted wreckage of an American Dream ? You will only 'wake up from your slumber' to an American 'daymare', with no end in sight, largely due to the crowning achievements of this "man" affectionately known as "Bibi", which I won't enumerate here. I can certainly think of much more endearing terms for an insidious creature of this nature, but I can only inquire of the REAL citizens of what was once indeed the United States of America, - if you had an 800 pound RAT in your living room, would you know how to SMELL IT ? ] .....................................................
Congress received him with great fanfare. President Clinton, who during a recent election campaign had backed his rival, Shimon Peres, appears to have had a change of heart. Yet who is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and why did the political elite in the US accept him with such warmth? A few important facts about Netanyahu and his objectives -- which the US media has obstinately neglected to report -- help to clarify the enigma.

Netanyahu has lived both in Israel and the US: first grade in Israel, second and third in the US; fourth through eighth in Jerusalem, high-school in suburban Philadelphia; military service in Israel, BA. and MA. at MIT. He held DUAL CITIZENSHIP, which enabled him to travel freely between both countries, study in the US, receive federal loans to cover his education costs at MIT and work legally. Like every US citizen, Netanyahu has a social security number, a credit account, and numerous other files in a variety of government offices.

Nevertheless, Netanyahu's files differ from those of most US citizens. The Israeli weekly Hai'r reports that four requests for credit approval appear in US social security file number 020-36-4537. Under each request one finds a different name: Benjamin Netanyahu, Benjamin Nitai, John Jay Sullivan and John Jay Sullivan Jr. -- ONE MAN, FOUR NAMES.

Benjamin Netanyahu is the name Israel's current Prime Minister was given at birth and which he now uses. In June 1973, during his studies at MIT, Netanyahu submitted a petition to the Boston court, asking to change his name from Netanyahu to Nitai; "I prefer a shorter name," he wrote on the request form. The petition was approved, thus the second name has an explanation. The last two names, however, remain a mystery. Furthermore, the address attached to these names -- somewhere in Malibu, California -- does not exist. Who then is John Jay Sullivan?

Biranit Goren and Einat Berkovitch from Hai'r tried to find out. They looked into Netanyahu's credit account. This file is supposed to hold information regarding bank accounts, loans, credit cards and so forth; yet, surprisingly the file was empty. It is as if Netanyahu never had a debt, had never taken out a loan, and always paid his bills up front and in cash.

Goren and Berkovitch then attempted to examine Netanyahu's social security file, but were denied access. They did, however, find out that Netanyahu's file has a different classification than most. They were denied access not merely due to the 1974 privacy act, but because the file had a "CONFIDENTIAL" classification. Goren and Berkovitch have explained that such a classification only applies to five categories of people: those who work for one of the three federal agencies -- FBI, CIA, IRS -- or those who are considered to be terrorists or criminals. Since it is 'UNLIKELY' that Netanyahu fits the latter two categories, or that he worked for the IRS, it appears that he was on the payroll of a security agency -- the CIA or FBI.

According to Israeli law, a person who runs for Knesset (the Israeli parliament) cannot hold DUAL CITIZENSHIP. Netanyahu claims that in 1982 he gave up his US citizenship, yet he is unwilling to grant the press access to his file located in the US embassy in Tel-Aviv -- the file which holds information regarding his citizenship. Interestingly, the status of his files in the US has not changed, so ACCORDING TO U.S. LAW, Netanyahu REMAINS a US CITIZEN.

Netanyahu -- the person who in 1982 left his job as a furniture salesman to be a POLICY ADVISOR at the ISRAELI EMBASSY in Washington DC, and within 14 years became PRIME MINISTER -- is still in many ways a conundrum. By contrast, his political objectives are becoming clearer.

An Israeli proverb asserts that the intention of a person can be understood by examining the goals of his friends. And indeed, in order to gain insight into Netanyahu's political objectives it is well worth looking at his acquaintances and financial supporters. Goren and Berkovitch report that Hagen-Daz founder Reuben Matheus, who contributed (until his death sometime last year) millions of dollars to Kahana's fascist political party and to the Jewish settlement in Hebron, also contributed to Netanyahu. Marvin Josephine, the head of ICM, one of the biggest publishing companies in the US, is considered a major contributor to the Likud, and more specifically to Netanyahu. Another donor is Barry Slotnik, an attorney who has among his clients the Italian and RUSSIAN MAFIA. (Slotnik was also a friend of Kahana, acclaiming him one of the biggest heroes in Jewish history). Ted Arison who owns cruise-lines in the US is considered not only a friend, but a confidant. His Calridge-Arison group is interested in purchasing "Bank Hapoalim," the second largest in the country.

Contributors and political allies from Australia, Joseph Brender, Bernard Moss, Mark Bissan and Jack Mendel, wish to invest in Israeli real-estate and the textile industry. Mendel, one should note, lets Netanyahu use his luxury condo in Tel-Aviv. Sandy Eisenshtat, who allows Netanyahu to use his Jerusalem condo, owns an Israeli oil and gas company. In London, Netanyahu often stays with RUPERT MURDOCH.

Finally, from the Esteè Lauder cosmetic dynasty, Netanyahu's ally RONALD LAUDER, who ran for mayor against Rudolph Giuliani. During his election campaign, Lauder called Giuliani an impostor who was not conservative enough to be a member of the Republican Party. Lauder is founder, major contributor, and chairman of Shalem Institute, a right wing think tank located in Jerusalem. Dr. Hazoni, the Institute's director, said to Hanna Kim from the Israeli daily Ha'aretz that the Heritage Foundation in DC, and the Center for Social Policy Studies in London are his models. Like Heritage which is thought to have developed Reaganomics, and the Center for Social Policy which designed what is now called Thatcherism, it seems that Shalem Institute will introduce what in years to come will be known as NETANYISM. -- ( excerpted )

by Neve Gordon...................... [ sorry if I missed the joke, but Bibi should of course run in New York, the 'Empire' State, where he once pulled his best job. ]

quasimodo | Thu, 2007-02-22 09:07

In July 1996, the Jerusalem Post (or at least, Pallorium, Inc.) claimed to have debunked the Ha'ir story about Netanyahu's social security file including the name John Jay Sullivan and John Jay Sullivan Jr. The Sullivans were found to be living in northern California. However, that doesn't disprove the theory that Netanyahu decided to use their name (in order to receive payments as a clandestine CIA agent), and the Jerusalem Post and the private detective - Steve Rambam - were part of the cover up. Bibi claims to have worked as a "janitor" in his student days.

And Steve Rambam, who was linked to the CIA, is an interesting character. He registered the domain jewishmafia.org (or look here if 'busy') and created a website. "Mess with us and you'll be sleeping with the knishes." Rambam's company Pallorium is a Jewish private detective agency. Rambam has spoken on topics such as "war crimes and the pursuit of war criminals" - I'll bet his 'criminals' are scapegoats and he lets the real ones go free. He is also linked to "Kinky Friedman".

On this page, there is a diagram showing a tangled web of links between B. Netanyahu, the Jonathan Institute, G. Bush, G. Shultz, Z. Brzezinski, W. Casey, "Jihad A", etc. Alternatively, this one shows links between B. Netanyahu and the likes of C. Bronfman, H. Kissinger and B. Clinton. etc.

Poseidon | Thu, 2007-02-22 18:29

Thanx Po', for your latest scoop. What primarily concerns me, however, is the entirely nebulous situation of Mr. Bibi Yahu's.. ( so this mensch likes short names ? ) DUAL CITIZEN status.

quasimodo | Thu, 2007-02-22 19:28

For providing so much valuable background information on BiBi.

I thought it was rather telling that israel does not allow dual citizens in its Knesset.

What's good for the goose should be good for the gander.

Americans need to wakeup - and FAST.

qrswave | Thu, 2007-02-22 19:38

unclesam wakeup

Go, Rep. Kaptur!

Tell Wall Street to Go To Hell!!!

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