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>Col. Larry Wilkerson
Earlier this week, The New York Times published an op-ed by Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff. Its gist is simple: Trump is likely to wage war soon on Iran in just the same way that George W. Bush waged war on Iraq, which means succumbing to the pressure of sinister individuals and organizations who are working perniciously to “create a false impression that war is the only way to address the threats posed by Iran.”
Which individuals and organizations would that be? Wilkerson’s original piece, since amended by the Times, left little need for guessing: Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer, Jewish billionaires, funneling money into groups like the Foundation for Defense of Democracies in order to spread falsehoods, agitate for war, and subject America’s national security interests to their own. A later correction made clear that Adelson is no longer a donor to FDD, but Wilkerson’s point still stands: Those moneyed Jews, their loyalty always to Israel first, are war-mongering again.
How to understand such a vile piece? Over at the Algemeiner, Ira Stoll noted that Wilkerson is no stranger to conspiratorial thinking: In a May 2013 interview with Current TV, he suggested that the genocide in Syria “could’ve been an Israeli false-flag operation,” with Bashar al-Assad being a puppet of the Zionist government in Jerusalem. This mad rant was covered widely, including by the Times, when Wilkerson became a leading adviser to Bernie Sanders. The retired Colonel also frequently fulminates about Israel being an apartheid state, has claimed in a 2016 interview that it will eventually have to be “eliminated” by either the Arabs or the international community, and has called Republican senators who took a hawkish position on Iran “traitors” who were somehow under the Jewish state’s sway.
https://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/254927/times-op-ed-accuses-jewish-billionaires-of-agitating-for-war-against-iran
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