The Zionist-white supremacist alliance in

Trumps White House

Pro-Israel billionaire Sheldon Adelson, center, and his wife Miriam speak with
Trump advisor Steve Bannon at the presidents inauguration on 20 January
2017.Brian SnyderReuters

Ali Abunimah-15 August 2017

A much-discussed article in The New York Times about pressure on President

Donald Trump to fire his advisor Steve Bannon contains this intriguing sentence:
Mr. Bannons ability to hang on as Mr. Trumps in-house populist is in part
because of his connections to a handful of ultrarich political patrons, including
Sheldon G. Adelson, the pro-Israel casino magnate who is based in Las Vegas.
As executive chairman of Breitbart News before joining the Trump campaign,
Bannon transformed the right-wing outlet into what he described as the the
platform for the alt-right the collection of neo-Nazis, white supremacists and
racists who have been the renewed focus of outrage since their violent rally in
Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday.

Israels silence
Bannon is widely viewed as the champion of the white supremacists some of
whom were openly parading with Nazi flags and the reason why Trump did not
explicitly condemn them immediately after one of their number, allegedly James
Alex Fields, 20, rammed his car into counterdemonstrators killing 32-year-old
Heather Heyerand injuring more than a dozen others.

Hence the renewed pressure on Trump to fire Bannon. But if Bannon supports the
white supremacist and clearly anti-Semitic far-right, why does he enjoy the
backing of Adelson?

The Las Vegas billionaire, as is well known, is a major financier of the US

Republican Party and one of the biggest donors to pro-Israel organizations in the
United States. Adelson has said he regrets serving in the US army, instead of
Israels.

He is also a close ally of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and thats
where the answer can be found.

Israeli leaders, including Netanyahu, have been conspicuously silent about Nazis
rampaging in Charlottesville all the more strange since Israel is
usually quick to exploit international events to its advantage. (After three days of
silence, Netanyahu finally, on Tuesday, tweeted a general condemnation of anti-
Semitism, neo-Nazism and racism without specifically mentioning
Charlottesville.)

Why is the Jewish state apparently so reluctant to speak out against Nazis?
Israels anti-Semitic alliances
While Israel purports to be the protector of Jews all over the world, Zionists
historically made alliances with the worlds most lethal anti-Semites. Zionists and
anti-Semites, after all, shared the analysis that Jews do not belong in Europe, so
why not cooperate to transport them somewhere else Palestine.

This odious alliance continues in updated form, as journalist Max Blumenthal

observed:
14 Aug

Max Blumenthal

@MaxBlumenthal
An Israeli "liberal" urges Jews to leave America. That's also what Nazis who
marched in #Charlottesville want us to do. Both can go to
hell. https://twitter.com/talschneider/status/896947365386629120

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But this is the essence of Zionism and why it's been received so amenably by
gentile fascists who also want Jews
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A cornerstone of Israels policy today is to cement ties with other ultra-nationalist,
racist and Islamophobic forces around the world even if they are also anti-
Semitic.

A striking example is Netanyahus own embrace of Hungarian Prime Minister

Viktor Orban, despite the latters recent praise for Viktor Horthy, the wartime ally
of Hitler who oversaw the murder of 500,000 Holocaust victims.

Israels interests took precedence over the safety concerns of Hungarian Jews, as
Netanyahu ordered his foreign ministry to tamp down criticism of Orbans anti-
Semitic dog whistles.

Notably, Richard Spencer, the neo-Nazi ideologue who wants to create an Aryan
homeland in North America, has called his mission a sort of white Zionism.
Spencer has ties to another senior White House advisor, Stephen Miller.

A similar ideological alliance prevails inside the White House. And Israel has
guarded it: Ron Dermer, the Israeli ambassador in Washington, publicly defended
Bannon in the days following last Novembers election, after American Jewish
groups strongly criticized Bannons appointment to a top position.

Ideology and convenience

But the Adelson-Bannon partnership is also one of convenience. The Adelson-
backed Zionist Organization of America is waging a campaign against Trumps
National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, which aims to portray the army general
as hostile to Israel.

McMaster also happens to be one of Bannons key opponents inside the White
House.

Establishment Israel lobby figures, such as the Obama administrations

ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro, have leapt to McMasters defense:
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Dan Shapiro

@DanielBShapiro
Two leading Israeli security figures debunk the absurd and offensive canard that
McMaster is unfriendly to Israel.http://www.jpost.com/American-
Politics/Former-top-Israeli-security-officers-McMaster-is-a-friend-to-Israel-
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Analysis: US National Security Adviser McMaster is a friend to Israel

Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror and Col. (res.) Dr. Eran Lerman explain why they
think US National Security Adviser Gen. (ret.) H.R. McMaster is Israel friendly.
jpost.com

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Choose your war
There are substantive issue at stake. Part of Bannons ultra-nationalist America
First agenda is opposing some US military interventions, particularly a renewed
surge in Afghanistan that is supported by McMaster and US defense secretary
James Mattis.

That is not Adelsons or Netanyahus interest however. Bannon and other

ultra-right figures including White House advisor Sebastian Gorka have been key
opponents of the international deal with Iran over its nuclear energy program.
Blocking or undermining the Iran deal has been Netanyahus preoccupation for
years.

Bannon and Gorka furiously opposed the State Departments recent certification
that Iran is in compliance with the terms of the agreement.

The Zionist Organization of Americas key allegation against McMaster is that he is

too sympathetic towards Iran.

Reporting by The Forward revealed that Gorka is a member of a Hungarian far-

right group that was controlled by the Nazis during the war, and has given
backing to an anti-Semitic militia.

For those who support justice and oppose war and racism, there is no side to
choose in this battle.

On one side, you have the Bannon-Adelson faction pushing extreme Zionism, anti-
Semitism, white supremacy and possible war with Iran. On the other, you have
have the McMaster faction, backed by the DC establishment, which wants to
perpetuate Americas existing imperial wars, starting with escalation in
Afghanistan.
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