Subj: ESSAY: [2/2] Natanyahu Date: 97-01-31 12:51:08 EST From: chamish@netmedia.net.il (Chamish Barry)

From: Chamish Barry <chamish@netmedia.net.il>

The Secret Life Of Binyamin Netanyahu

Even within the conventional story, it is clear that Netanyahu was

groomed for leadership by the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) in New

York. In 1979, twenty-seven year old Netanyahu called a conference on

terrorism and the ruling elite of the CFR, Bush, Shultz and Perle

answered to his summons. One word will suffice: why?

Yoni Netanyahu was undoubtedly a martyr but far from the only one in

Israel. He was not such a powerful symbol that the CFR would send a

delegation of its biggest guns, including CIA director Bush to his

unknown brother's get-together.

Netanyahu's decision to quit his lucrative Boston job is almost

inexplcable. Netanyahu sought a highpaying job at a prestigious

consulting firm yet not two months later, he gave it up to fly back to

Israel and sell sofas. He was barely settled in back home when he

decided to organize an anti-terrorism conference and invite the most

powerful people in Washington to attend.

It is possible that Netanyahu was told to quit his job, return to

Israel and arrange the conference. Perhaps there is a connection to the

fact that a year later Shultz later made fighting terrorism a first

priority of the Reagan administration and that Vice-President Bush was

appointed to head a front for illegal covert activities called The

Anti-Terror Task Force.

Arens' offer of a deputy ambassadorship to salesman Netanyahu

made no political sense. Israeli diplomatic aides and deputies

typically rise slowly through the Foreign Ministry bureaucracy. They

are not thrust into the second highest position at the most vital

embassy in the world. It is far from impossible that Arens was

directed to bring in Netanyahu by the very people in the Reagan

administration who attended his conference three years earlier.

Once in New York in 1984, CFR-affiliated media such as CNN, the New

York Times, Washington Post, Newsweek and CFR members Koppel and King

turned Netanyahu into a major political figure; so much so that George

Shultz became a close friend. We again ask the succinct question: why?

What did Shultz, twenty years Netanyahu's senior, find so amusing about

the Israeli UN Ambassador that he had to pay him a courtesy call every

time he flew to New York? In 1985, Shultz chaired another Netanyahu-

organized conference on terrorism, this time in Washington. The

resulting publicity and prestige was a significant factor in

Netanyahu's fast-rising political career. Clearly, the secretary-of-

state had a major stake in Netanyahu's future. Which means, so did

George Bush.

All that can be concluded from the conventional story. What then do we

make of Bibi's secret life?

In 1987, Netanyahu applied for credit using his American social

security number 020364537. With that number, he or someone else made

the application under a phony name, John Sullivan, living at a false

address in Northern California.

Netanyahu used Sullivan's name to borrow money during 1987-88. John

Sullivan does not exist, nor does Netanyahu's credit file. Israeli and

American reporters who tried to dig into Netanyahu's past using his

social security number discovered two other phony names used to apply

for credit in 1987-88 but were perplexed to find that his credit

records were completely removed. Only someone very high up in the

American government could have authorized the erasing of the file.

We return to the all-purpose question: why? Again, no one who knows is

talking. What is nearly certain is that while Netanyahu was the UN

Ambassador, he was either defrauding a credit company or on an

assignment involving money that required three identity changes.

Then there is Netanyahu's close relationship with Congressman Ben

Gillman, head of the House Committee On International Relations. The

problem here is that Gillman was also a close associate of Shabtai

Kalmonovitch and shared business deals with him in Africa. Kalmonovitch

was, not long after, imprisoned in Israel as a KGB spy. This is not to

imply that Netanyahu was involved in spying, only that his closest ally

in Congress has mighty strange intelligence ties to Israel.

And what to make of the mystery of Netanyahu's housing?. Before he was

even the leader of the Likud, two foreign businessmen, Jack Mandel of

Australia and Sandy Eisenstadt of the US each paid about $750,000 to

buy Netanyahu luxury apartments in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Again, no

one has a clue why. There is speculation that part of the reason may be

Eisenstadt's stake in an Israeli oil exploration company, a shady and

hidden business, but no concrete connection has been discovered by the

Israeli media.

Netanyahu's penchant for secrecy is not subtle. It is well-known among

the Israeli media that he had conducted a number of secret meetings

with the Jordanian royal family in London and Amman before he became

prime minister. Even the conventional Jerusalem Post reported in mid-

June that six secret meetings were held in the past two years. But when

Inside Israel just before the elections asked Netanyahu to comment on

the meetings, he denied they had ever taken place.

Perhaps the most secret and worrying ties concern what is supposedly a

high-tech services company. Yediot Ahronot relates how Netanyahu wooed

a local Likud leader. "He was invited by Netanyahu to a meeting in his

office at Systematics in Ramat Gan. The head of the company, Oded

Levental is a candidate for a financial post in the new government."

Systematics is at the core of serious research by American alternative

publications, including the usually reliable Media Bypass. In short,

the allegations are that the National Security Agency had handed

Systematics stolen software called Promis that opened a trap door to

the world's secret banking transactions. About 250 Americans, mostly

politicians, had their illegal foreign accounts emptied of over $3.5

billion in the operation. It is claimed that Colin Powell dropped out

of the presidential race after his account electronically vanished.

Leading figures in the operation included George Bush, Caspar

Weinberger and two Arkansas attorneys, Vince Foster Jr. and Hillary

Rodham Clinton on behalf of Clinton financier Jackson Stephens. The

research invariably concludes that Foster was murdered because he knew

too much about the scam.

A leading investigative writer, Sherman Skolnick, writes:

"Some contend Systematics is an NSA proprietary and spies on banks

overseas. Can Systematics rightfully deny spying actually done by

buffers or cut-outs between Systematics and NSA? Systematics, through a

spokesperson, vigorously denies Foster assisted it in any spying on

foreign banks but remains apparently silent on whether Hillary Rodham

Clinton assisted Systematics in some nefarious activities."

Is it fair to ask why Systematics provided Netanyahu office space and

if this was the sum total of its involvement with him?

Since taking office, Netanyahu has fueled fears of international

control by his actions within Israel's tiny anti-NWO community. They

were most intrigued by his refusal to give Ariel Sharon a sensitive

cabinet post. One possible reason is fear of Sharon's own intelligence

arm in the US. Then for those people who fervently hoped that he would

rid himself of any connections to the Arye Deri scandal, with all its

implications of money laundering and perhaps murder, Netanyahu

appointed as his Justice Minister, Yaacov Neeman, a lawyer who is

currently being investigated for intimidating a key witness against

Deri in a London trial.

But the topper was Netanyahu's decision to allow Yaacov Frenkel to run

the country's economy single-handedly. Frenkel worked for the World

Bank between 1971-1990. After nineteen years away from "home" Frenkel

was unexplainedly appointed head of the Bank of Israel.

His policies mirrored the world-wide debt program of his previous

employer documented by numerous researchers. The plan involves raising

interest rates beyond what the public or industry can afford, and

forcing the government to borrow lots of money from American banks to

keep the populace pacified. When the debts have to be repaid from an

empty treasury, the International Monetary Fund bails out the country

with schemes guaranteed to impoverish the people.

Frenkel was a proponent of Israel borrowing $10 billion in loans

guaranteed by the American government and he kept his interest rates as

high as he could in the face of opposition from then-Finance Minister

Avraham Shohat who suspected Frenkel, "was playing politics with the

Bank of Israel."

Binyamin Netanyahu, the man who Inside Israel hoped would save Israel

from the NWO puppet regime of Peres, appointed Yaacov Frenkel to be his

Minister of Finance. The only thing that prevented the disaster was

party opposition to an appointee who had never publicly supported the

Likud.

Dan Meridor got the post instead. But as the Maariv headline read:

"Meridor Will Act, Frenkel Will Lead." On his first day in office

Meridor announced that his policy would be to lower the standard of

living in Israel. Not a week later, Frenkel raised the interest rates

by a whopping 1.5% with Meridor's "approval."

Something is going on behind the scenes at the CFR. While Secretary of

State Warren Christopher must appear to be opposing Likud government

policies to keep the Arabs in line, the former CFR director is playing

some kind of double game with Netanyahu.

King Hussein made his accommodation with Netanyahu well before the

elections and refused to support Peres during the campaign. Netanyahu's

victory clearly delighted him and on the surface, why not? The last

thing he would want is a PLO state on his border with control of the

Moslem holy sites. In time, it will become clearer what Netanyahu

promised the King during the secret London meetings. Included, most

assuredly, will be Jordanian hegemony over the Temple Mount.

There has been a transformation in Israel but the CFR is still running

the latest prime minister. And that is a good reason for intense fear

about Israel's future.

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