{"id":6133,"date":"2020-02-01T05:40:18","date_gmt":"2020-02-01T09:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=6133"},"modified":"2020-02-01T05:41:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T09:41:12","slug":"the-zionist-assassination-of-the-first-u-s-secretary-of-defense-because-he-strongly-opposed-the-creation-of-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=6133","title":{"rendered":"The Zionist Assassination of the First U.S. Secretary of Defense: Because He ‘strongly opposed the creation of Israel’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fifteen Years Before Kennedy, Zionists Murdered Forrestal<\/h1>\n

Laurent Guy\u00e9not
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Israel as serial murderer<\/a><\/h2>\n

In the 1990s, a couple of bestsellers brought to the knowledge of a large public the fact that JFK\u2019s assassination in 1963 solved an intense crisis over Israel\u2019s secret nuclear program. In one of his last letters to Kennedy, quoted by Seymour Hersh in The Samson Option <\/i>(1991), Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion complained: \u201cMr. President, my people have the right to exist [\u2026] and this existence is in danger.\u201d[1]<\/i><\/a> The nuclear option was judged vital for Israel, and JFK opposed it. A Haaretz<\/i> review of Avner Cohen\u2019s book Israel and the Bomb <\/i>(1998) puts it this way:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe murder of American President John F. Kennedy brought to an abrupt end the massive pressure being applied by the US administration on the government of Israel to discontinue the nuclear program. Cohen demonstrates at length the pressures applied by Kennedy on Ben-Gurion. [\u2026] The book implied that, had Kennedy remained alive, it is doubtful whether Israel would today have a nuclear option.\u201d[2]<\/i><\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Also openly discussed by Israeli historians today are the close connections between Ben-Gurion\u2019s network in the U.S. and what Tel-Aviv professor Robert Rockaway calls \u201cGangsters for Zion\u201d<\/a>, including the infamous \u201cMurder, Incorporated\u201d, run by Bugsy Siegel and then by Mickey Cohen, Jack Ruby\u2019s mentor.<\/span><\/p>\n

That Israel had the motive and the means of killing JFK does not prove that Israel did it. But I am quite certain that today, most smart Israelis assume and half-approve that Ben-Gurion ordered the elimination of JFK in order to replace him by Lyndon Johnson, whose love for Israel is also now widely celebrated, to the point that some speculate he might have been a secret Jew.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In Ben-Gurion\u2019s mind, making Israel a nuclear state was a matter of life and death, and obliterating any obstacle was an absolute necessity. In Netanyahu\u2019s mind today, preventing Iran\u2014or any other enemy of Israel\u2014from becoming a nuclear state is of the same order of necessity, and would surely justify eliminating another U.S. president in order to replace him by a more supportive Vice President. Most dedicated Zionists understand that. Andrew Adler, owner and editor in chief of The Atlanta Jewish Times,<\/i> assumes that the idea \u201chas been discussed in Israel\u2019s most inner circle,\u201d and, in his column of January 13, 2012, called on the Israeli Prime Minister to<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cgive the go-ahead for U.S.-based Mossad agents to take out a president deemed unfriendly to Israel in order for the current Vice-President to take his place and forcefully dictate that the United States\u2019 policy includes its helping the Jewish State obliterate its enemies. [\u2026] Order a hit on a president in order to preserve Israel\u2019s existence.\u201d[3]<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Eliminating unsubmissive foreign leaders is part of Israel\u2019s struggle for existence. Besides, it is entirely biblical: foreign kings are supposed to \u201click the dust at [Israelis\u2019] feet\u201d (Isaiah 49:23), or perish, with their names \u201cblotted out under heaven\u201d (Deuteronomy 7:24).<\/span><\/p>\n

On November 6, 1944, members of the Stern Gang, led by future Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, assassinated Lord Moyne, the British resident minister in the Middle East, for his anti-Zionist positions. The bodies of his murderers, executed in Egypt, were later exchanged for twenty Arab prisoners and buried at the \u201cMonument of Heroes\u201d in Jerusalem. On September 17, 1948, the same terrorist group murdered in Jerusalem Count Folke Bernadotte, a Swedish diplomat appointed as United Nations mediator in Palestine. He had just submitted his report A\/648, which described \u201clarge-scale Zionist plundering and destruction of villages,\u201d and called for the \u201creturn of the Arab refugees rooted in this land for centuries.\u201d His assassin, Nathan Friedman-Yellin, was arrested, convicted, and then amnestied; in 1960 he was elected to the Knesset.[4]<\/i><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1946, three months after members of the Irgun, led by future Prime Minister Menachem Begin, killed ninety-one people in the headquarter of the British Mandate\u2019s administration (King David Hotel), the same terrorist group attempted to murder British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, according to British Intelligence documents declassified in 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

These killings and more are documented by Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman in Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel\u2019s Targeted Assassinations<\/i><\/a> (Random House, 2018). Bergman writes:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAt the end of 1947, a report to the British high commissioner tallied the casualties of the previous two years: 176 British Mandate personnel and civilians killed. \/ \u2018Only these actions, these executions, caused the British to leave,\u2019 David Shomron said, decades after he shot Tom Wilkin dead on a Jerusalem street. \u2018If [Avraham] Stern had not begun the war, the State of Israel would not have come into being.\u2019\u201d[5]<\/i><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

James Forrestal\u2019s strange death<\/a><\/h2>\n

Absent from Israel\u2019s body count in Bergman\u2019s book is former U.S. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, assassinated eight months after Count Bernadotte. Forrestal had been Roosevelt\u2019s Secretary of the Navy from April 1944. With consolidation of the armed services under Truman in 1947, he became the first Secretary of Defense. He opposed the United Nations\u2019 vote to partition Palestine, and protested vigorously against U.S. recognition of Israel on May 15, 1948, on the ground that U.S. interests in the Middle East would be seriously jeopardized by American sponsorship of a Jewish state. For this, Forrestal received \u201can outpouring of slander and calumny that must surely be judged one of the most shameful intervals in American journalism,\u201d in the words of Robert Lovett, then Under Secretary of State. Truman replaced Forrestal on March 28, 1949\u2014shortly after his reelection\u2014by the man who had been his main fundraiser, Louis Johnson. According to the received story, Forrestal, who was psychologically exhausted, fell into depression immediately. On April 2, 1949, he was interned against his will in the military hospital of the Navy in Bethesda, Maryland, a Washington, DC, suburb, where he was forcibly confined for seven weeks. He fell to his death from the 16th<\/sup> floor at 1:50 in the morning of May 22, 1949, landing on the roof of the third floor. He had a dressing-gown sash tied around his neck.<\/span><\/p>\n

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National authorities and mainstream media immediately labeled his death a suicide, without any known criminal investigation. A review board was appointed on May 23, headed by Admiral Morton Willcutts, to conduct hearings of members of the hospital staff with the sole purpose of exonerating everyone of responsibility in Forrestal\u2019s assumed suicide. The board completed its work in one week, and published a short press release four months later. But the full report, containing the transcripts of all hearings an crucial exhibits, were kept secret for 55 years, until David Martin obtained it through a Freedom of Information Act request in April 2004 (it is now available on the Princeton University Library website<\/a> in pdf form, or here<\/a> in HTML rendition by the anonymous Mark Hunter, who makes useful comments).<\/span><\/p>\n

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In his book<\/a> and in his web articles<\/a> complementing it, David Martin makes a compelling case that Forrestal was murdered, and that his murder was ordered by the Zionists, most probably with the knowledge and approval of Truman, who was then completely hostage to the Zionists. The motive? Forrestal was planning to write a book and to launch a national magazine: he had the money and the connections for it, and he had three thousand pages of personal diary to back his revelations on the corruption of American leadership and the sell-out of American foreign policy to communism under Roosevelt, and to Zionism under Truman.<\/span><\/p>\n

I will here summarize the evidence accumulated by David Martin, and highlight the significance of this case for our understanding of Israel\u2019s takeover of the heart, soul, and body of the United States. Unless specified otherwise, all information is from Martin\u2019s book or articles.<\/span><\/p>\n

From James Forrestal to John Kennedy<\/a><\/h2>\n

My own interest for this heartbreaking story stems from my interest for the Kennedy assassinations. (read my article \u201cDid Israel Kill the Kennedys?\u201d<\/a>). I found the connection and similarities between the two stories highly illuminating. Everyone knows that Kennedy was assassinated, yet most Americans are still unaware of the evidence incriminating Israel. In the case of Forrestal, it is the opposite: few people suspect a murder, but once the evidence for murder has been presented, it points directly to Israel as the culprit. For this reason, Forrestal\u2019s assassination by the Zionists becomes a precedent that makes JFK\u2019s assassination by the same collective entity more plausible. If Israel can kill a former U.S. Defense Secretary on American soil in 1949 and get away with it with government and media complicity, then why not a sitting President fifteen years later? If the truth on Forrestal had been known by 1963, it is unlikely that Israel could have killed two Kennedys with impunity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Forrestal was of Irish Catholic origin like the Kennedys, and was close to JFK\u2019s father. Both James Forrestal and Joseph Kennedy are examples of American patriots of Irish stock who were alarmed by Jewish influence over American foreign policy. The entry for 27 December 1945<\/a> in Forrestal\u2019s edited diary, says:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPlayed golf with Joe Kennedy. I asked him about his conversations with Roosevelt and Neville Chamberlain from 1938 on. [\u2026] Chamberlain, he says, stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One major difference between the two men is that Joe Kennedy had resigned from government after Roosevelt\u2019s entry into the war, and had kept a low profile on Israel. Moreover, unlike Forrestal, he was the head of a wealthy clan and had his own men in the press. He was a politician, whereas Forrestal was an uncompromising man. These differences explain why Forrestal was assassinated, whereas Joe had his son elected president. Yet in the end, the Kennedys suffered the Talmudic curse over three generations.<\/span><\/p>\n

When James Forrestal, hostile to Stalin\u2019s ambitions on Eastern Europe and to Truman\u2019s decision to nuke Japan, was kept away from the official delegation to the Potsdam Conference in the summer 1945, he flew there privately and took with him the then 28-year-old John Kennedy, for a tour of post-war Germany. Later on, John integrated James Forrestal\u2019s son Michael Forrestal<\/a> as a member of his National Security Council. In May 1963 he made a symbolic public gesture by visiting the grave of James Forrestal on Memorial Day.<\/span><\/p>\n

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James Forrestal\u2019s and John Kennedy\u2019s assassinations bear one sinister thing in common: Bethesda Naval Hospital. As most readers recall, this is where Kennedy\u2019s autopsy was tampered with after his body had been whisked away at gunpoint from Dallas Parkland Hospital, most probably by Secret Service agents on Lyndon Johnson\u2019s order. In 1963, Lyndon Johnson could count on high-level complicity within the Navy.<\/span><\/p>\n

It happens that Johnson, whom Billy Sole Estes claims ordered nine murders in the course of his political career,[6]<\/i><\/a> makes a special appearance, although brief and poorly documented, in the story of Forrestal\u2019s assassination. LBJ was then a newly elected congressman, on the payroll of Abraham Feinberg, former president of Americans for Haganah Incorporated<\/i> and financial godfather of Israel\u2019s atomic bomb.[7]<\/i><\/i><\/a> According to the testimony of Forrestal\u2019s assistant Marx Leva (more on him later), Johnson paid an unwanted visit to Forrestal at Bethesda Hospital. David Martin asks:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCould LBJ have been playing something of a foot-soldier role for the orchestrators of Forrestal\u2019s demise? Might he have been there to size up the overall situation, and at the same time contribute to \u2018making his bones,\u2019 as it were, by participating in such an important operation?\u201d (Martin p. 20) <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The official narrative<\/a><\/h2>\n

It bears repeating that no investigation was conducted into the death of James Forrestal, either by the FBI or the NCIS (Navy Criminal Investigative Service). The very day of his death, the mainstream press announced his suicide as a matter of fact. The New York Times <\/i>stated in its late May 22 edition that Forrestal \u201cjumped thirteen stories to his death,\u201d and added the next morning:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cThere were indications that Mr. Forrestal might also have tried to hang himself. The sash of his dressing-gown was still knotted and wrapped tightly around his neck when he was found, but hospital officials would not speculate as to its possible purpose.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Later biographers did speculate that he may have tried to hang himself but failed to tie the sash securely to the radiator beneath the window. In The Man Who Kept the Secrets,<\/i> Pulitzer Price winner Thomas Powers says that Forrestal died trying to hang himself \u201cfrom his hospital window, but slipped and fell sixteen stories to his death.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Forrestal left no suicide note, but the New York Times<\/i> (May 23) informs its readers that:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cA book of poetry beside his bed was opened to a passage from the Greek tragedian, Sophocles, telling of the comfort of death. [\u2026] Mr. Forrestal had copied most of the Sophocles poem from the book on hospital memo paper, but he had apparently been interrupted in his efforts. His copying stopped after he had written \u2018night\u2019 of the word \u2018nightingale\u2019 in the twenty-sixth line of the poem.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

On May 24, the New York Times<\/i> gave the final word to the psychiatrist in charge, who made suicide sound predictable:<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCaptain George M. Raines, the Navy psychiatrist who had been treating Mr. Forrestal, said that the former Secretary ended his life in a sudden fit of despondency. He said this was \u2018extremely common\u2019 to the patient\u2019s severe type of mental illness.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s it. Never did the mainstream media hint at the possibility of foul play. The conclusion that Forrestal\u2019s death is an obvious suicide caused by his \u201cmental illness\u201d was taken at face value by the authors of Forrestal\u2019s two main biographies:<\/span><\/p>\n