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Israel’s Fifth Column: The People in Between

By: Jeff Gates

Wolf Blitzer

Wolf Blitzer

In October 2007, Defense Secretary Robert Gates coined a generic term to describe the most challenging combatants when waging unconventional warfare. He called them simply “the people in between.” Those people, a dominant force in mainstream American media, comprise a fifth column in support of those skilled at waging war by way of deception.

The term ‘fifth column’ originated in the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s to depict forces that clandestinely undermine a populace—from within—to aid an external enemy. The term was later cited as a rationale for interning citizens during WWII, including Germans in the U.K and Japanese in the U.S. Israelis routinely refer to Arab-Israelis as a fifth column residing within what Tel Aviv describes as the Jewish state.

Though misapplied in practice, the term remains an apt depiction of how internal influence can be wielded by a hostile force. In the Information Age, this fifth column focuses on those ‘in between’ domains where modest numbers can wield outsized influence. Television news is optimal as modern-day media operates “in between” a populace and the facts they require for a system of governance reliant on informed consent.

The dominant influence of pro-Israelis in mainstream media is not the focus of this article. Here the focus is Wolf Blitzer at Cable News Network who typifies how “the people in between” manipulate public opinion in plain sight and, to date, with legal impunity.

While working as a Washington correspondent for Jerusalem Post (1973-1990), Blitzer served as an editor of Near East Report, a publication founded by Isaiah Kenen, a registered foreign agent of Israel, who also founded the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. AIPAC coordinates a network of transnational political operatives known loosely as “the Israel lobby.” Neither AIPAC nor Blitzer has yet registered as a foreign agent in the U.S.

The son of Polish Ashkenazi émigrés, Blitzer first emerged on the media scene in 1989 with the publication of Territory of Lies, an account of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard that The New York Times obligingly included in its list of “Notable Books of the Year.” Reviewer Robert Friedman described Blitzer’s sympathetic treatment of Pollard’s treason (the theft of more than one million classified documents) “a slick piece of damage control that would make his former employers at AIPAC (not to mention Israel’s Defense Ministry) proud.”

As a writer for Hebrew language newspapers in the 1970s, Blitzer wrote under the name Ze’ev Barak—Hebrew for “wolf lightning.” The Blitzer media presence first emerged with his CNN coverage of the Gulf War in 1991 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Initially a military reporter for CNN, he became a fixture on television news as CNN’s Clinton-era White House correspondent until 1999 when he became a high profile CNN anchor.

Since August 2005, CNN (marketed as “the most trusted name in news”) has featured the former AIPAC editor broadcasting from a White House-associative studio set branded as “The Situation Room.” CNN colleague John King deploys a similar credibility enhancing set by broadcasting from “The State of the Union.”

Abuse of the Public Trust

On one key media principle U.S. law is clear: the airwaves belong to the public. The nation’s Founders knew that the preservation of self-governance depends on an informed populace. That’s why modern-day lawmakers enacted legislation to ensure that media outlets are not concentrated in a few hands, enabling a fifth column to shape public opinion around a predetermined agenda.

Little could America’s first lawmakers have known that an ideologically aligned few would concentrate broadcast media in the hands of those who share an undisclosed bias. When Likud Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fell ill in Israel, Blitzer’s broadcast originated from Jerusalem. Likewise when Israel invaded Lebanon in July 2006. Blitzer again relocated to Israel to focus viewer attention on the situation there.

As Tel Aviv sought to expand the war to Iran, several anti-Zionist rabbis appeared in Tehran alongside Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who echoed their wish that Zionism be “erased from the pages of history” (widely reported as a wish to “wipe Israel off the map”). Rather than interview these dissident rabbis, Blitzer featured David Duke, a former head of the Ku Klux Klan. Rather than associate the Iranian president with anti-Zionism, Blitzer used the Situation Room to associate him with racism and anti-Semitism.

Between the U.S populace and the facts they require for informed consent lies an “in between” domain. In that realm is found a network of like-minded fifth column operatives whose pro-Israeli bias works unseen—yet in plain sight—to shape public opinion around a predetermined agenda. That agenda-shaping “news” routinely features commentators from think tanks who share the same bias.

What is the reach of this media-induced corruption of informed consent? According to CNN’s August 2009 advertising in The New York Times, this cable network delivers trusted news to 70.6 million television viewers in the U.S. What’s been the cost in blood and treasure of this undisclosed bias—not just to the U.S. but also worldwide?

The most trusted name in news featured National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice in September 2002 when she issued a fact-free warning about Iraqi WMD: “we don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” From the Pentagon’s perspective, “the people in between” are waging unconventional warfare. From the perspective of this enemy within, the only unconventional aspect of their deception is the fact that a long-deceived public is now learning about it—many of them for the first time.

The displacement of facts with what a populace can be induced to believe is the very threat to personal freedom that the Founders sought to escape. The only modern aspect of this ancient form of warfare is the reach of the media technologies with which such deception can now operate—as with CNN—on a global scale.

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Jeff Gates

Jeff Gates

Jeff Gates: A widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to government, corporate and union leaders worldwide, Jeff Gates’ latest book is Guilt By Association—How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War (2008). His previous books include Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. For two decades, an adviser to policy-makers worldwide. Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee (1980-87).

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August 10, 2009 - Posted by Elias | NEWS & POLITICS | , , , , , , , , , , | 10 Comments

10 Comments »

  1. WOLF BLITZER ?

    Not Just Little Man, Big Name.

    Oh, my God, how does one counter
    such a surreptitiously organized slick
    piece of deceptive tool?

    I recall “The First Gulf War” was,
    basically, brought to us live by “CNN.”

    On the ground, we saw the two stars of
    CNN in action. Peter Arnett in
    downtown Baghdad, pretty much alone.

    Wolf Blitzer chose the opportunistic
    safety of Tel Aviv where all the
    “valuable” contacts were located
    which eventually made him
    Top Banana over Pete at CNN.

    Why ? Simple! The dumb journalist
    Pete never learned how to dissemble,
    play the game and lie for them like
    a “good” embedded (that means
    sleeping in the same bed with)
    journalist should. He had this
    tendency, you see, to see things
    like they were and write about
    them that way.

    This used to be known, in the
    much earlier days as journalism;
    As reporting the news or, telling
    the truth!

    I hope Pete Arnett that small hero
    made it to that little Island in the
    South Pacific, while the Blitzers
    reap the big stakes, paid by the
    Milo Minderbinders.

    What they pay for is what you get!

    Israel 1, the World 0!

    - Debbie Menon -

    Comment by Debbie Menon | August 11, 2009

  2. Wolf Blitzer, CNN, is one of the reason that I no longer watch CNN. Ted Turner must deeply regret selling a once reputable news media. Now CNN, FOX, CBS, ABC, and NBC and their various owners use public airways to dispatch untruths that promote fears and ignorance whether about Canadian or British Health Care, Israeli Government Apartheid of the Palestinians, or the now push to make Iran the next victim of the Israeli and US military. It isn’t only Zionist Jews or Christian commentators, but also newspaper columnists such as Thomas Friedman, David Brooks, Victor Hanson, Charles Kaulthammer, Victor Hanson and others with their subtle and not so subtle negative suggestions about Iran while ignoring Israeli and US nuclear weapons. In this game of distruction of the planet, I plea that my fellow citizens wake up and protest.

    Comment by Patricia | August 11, 2009

  3. We all know that AIPAC is Israel’s ‘fifth column’ suborning the US congress to the point of literal treason. Eric Cantor could not political exist without AIPAC’s support. Eric is an Israeli firster. His baleful remarks in Israel to an Israeli audience invite speculation that Cantor is positioning for AIPAC’s 2012 Presidential imprimatur. The man is no less dagerous than is Obama.

    Comment by Matthew | August 12, 2009

  4. God help us, the Zionist entity has latched onto our country just as totally as the USA, except that in our case the parasite has a much smaller profile. If AIJAC were as well known to Australians as AIPAC is to Americans they would long since have been kicked out.

    Comment by Rabbit | August 12, 2009

  5. I keep repeating this, hoping that my “diagnosis”
    will catch fire, become common, and lead to a
    confrontation of this nightmare in which the pitiable
    Palestinians are at ground zero and the rest of us
    watch in horrified, transfixed helplessness:

    Zionism, with its state-terroristic platform in Zionist
    Israel, has become a full-on criminally psychotic
    ideology…and one doesn’t treat psychosis by
    honoring its victim, enabling it via cold cash and
    murderous military weapons, supporting it politically
    and diplomatically with kneejerk fealty, etc. This
    psychosis must be called out, isolated, treated, and
    – if possible — rehabilitated.

    - Robert Stiver -

    Comment by Robert Stiver | August 12, 2009

  6. Rough times ahead for all non-Khazar Goy. Hope we’re all up to the task.

    Comment by pete | August 19, 2009

  7. You Western, un-witting lackeys to the terrorist nation of New Khazaria better wake up and take action FAST or you’re going to find your dumb-asses in Iran slaughtering and dying for Israel right up to the point the “Bear” or China steps in and shows you what it’s like to have to stand toe to toe with a WORLD class military instead of those tiny little nations you seem to prefer taking action against!

    Comment by pete | August 19, 2009

  8. The Holocaust is in fact slick marketing, branding, by the Jewish-dominated media. It’s still worth many $Billions in profits to Israeli-owned movie companies, Israeli government recipients of payouts from Germany, and other as blackmail against various countries and companies. In short, I have proof that “The Holocaust” is nothing more than a global mafia extortion racket.
    Eli Wiesenthal himself admitted that the total number of Jews that died in captivity was 2.2 million, not 6 million. The Russians found so-called ‘death camps’ were not used for extermination, but were in fact full of people escaping the westward onslaught of the Soviet armies. Most the victims were not Jews, but Poles, Communists, Russian soldiers, and many German civilins seeking shelter. The US and British non-stop bombardment of the German infrastructure caused a complete breakdown in hygiene, medical care, food at these camps which ended up holding 20 times their original capacity. Much of the rest is fiction. Eli Wiesenthal himself had over time claimed to have been ‘liberated’ from 16 different camps simultaneously. I.e, it’s a scam. The media spun story, and the hype got the Eastern European Jews someone else’s land to settle on (Palestine region former Turkish empire, then British).
    Historians have proven that prior to WWII the population of Jews in the world was 18 million (careful records maintained by Jews themselves),
    and at the end of WWII the population of Jews was actually higher, that is, no difference. There were hundreds of thousands of deaths of
    Jews due to typhus and starvation in Europe, but you didn’t know that 4 million German civilians died of starvation, disease, and from murder by
    Soviet solders and bands of outlaws, and Allied soldiers robbed their homes, and looked the other way during any atrocities committed against German civilians.
    There have been dozens of “holocausts”, including Stalin’s murder of 20 million middle class landowners and business owners in the 30’s and Mao’s murder of 30 million anti-Communist in the middle-class in China. I’m not including the 750,000 Cathars the Pope’s armies exterminated in France in the Middle Ages, or the millions of Druids killed in Europe by the Romans, or the 10 million Native Americans killed by Europeans in the Western Hemisphere.

    Comment by Truth | August 23, 2009

  9. @Comment by Rabbit | August 12, 2009

    You are kidding!!!!!!!!!!!

    Australia is run as much by jews as the USA.

    Have you forgotten that Paul Keating wanted to be the Prime Minister, said that there was a contract between him and Bob Hawke?

    Have you forgotten that he mentioned that there was a witness to that contract?

    Have you forgotten that the witness was a jew?

    And Paul finished up Prime Minister and promised to ‘ smash those unions ‘ which he promptly did.

    Not long ago the Pulitzer Prize was issued and all the jews and their organizations were up in arms because the recipient had once been critical of Occupied Palestine.

    Most of the time they like to work in the background, that is until lately.

    But now they are coming forward as are the jews in the USA.

    Don’t be fooled.

    Ask yourself why we are in Afghanistan, a jewish war.

    Why we were in Iraq, a jewish war.

    LISTEN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE NOT TO CORRUPT POLITICIANS

    Comment by Henk-2 | August 27, 2009

  10. To read about a man who is a former captain in the Israeli army who converted to Christianity and is now in exile from Israel,plz click:www.roytov.com TYVM!

    Comment by Doug P. | January 12, 2010


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