American Jews 'export terrorism'
Monday, 06 September 2010 02:39
The memo, penned by a CIA group known as the "Red Cell" on February 5, warns that the US has long ignored "homegrown terrorism" exported overseas by Jewish extremist groups, a report published by alertnet.org said.
Unlike what the US media draw out, the "American export of terrorism or terrorists" is not associated with "Islamic radicals or people of Middle Eastern, African or South Asian ethnic origin," the memo said.
This deep-rooted phenomenon has long been backed and even carried out by Jewish extremists in the United States against the so-called 'enemies of Israel,' the report added.
In one of the incidents highlighted in the memo, Baruch Goldstein, an American Jewish doctor from New York, who immigrated to Israel in 1994, “joined the extremist group Kach, and killed 29 Palestinians during their prayers in the mosque at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron.”
Kach was founded by Meier Kahane, an American Israeli rabbi best described as a 'radical cleric.'
Kahane is also the founder of the Jewish Defense League (JDL), which has been listed as 'a violent extremist Jewish organization' by the FBI.
Since 1968, JDL operations in the United States have left seven people dead and injured over 22 others.
Among the acts of terrorism attributed to the JDL is the 1985 assassination of a regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in California.
According to the FBI, only months after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, two JDL members were arrested by the Los Angeles Joint Terrorism Task Force for conspiring to blow up a mosque in California.
Nowadays, American Jews have further increased support for violent measures in occupied Palestinian territories.
In 2008, a report by the Jewish Journal quoted Israeli officials as saying that a wave of terrorism by extremist Jewish settlers now threatens 'prominent left-wingers or even national leaders.'
Meanwhile, in a July report the New York Times said that many groups in the United States use tax-exempt donations to help Israelis establish permanence in occupied Palestinian territories.
The report has identified at least 40 American groups that have collected over $200 million in tax-deductible gifts for Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds (Jerusalem) over the last decade alone.
Despite claims that the money goes to Jewish religious and educational facilities, it is believed that the sums are mainly used to enforce paramilitary activities against Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied regions.
The American funds also support projects that focus on the Judiazation of al-Quds, and back Jewish campaigns which resist a freeze on illegal settlement construction in the West Bank.
Analysts warn that the United States' role in exporting terror could force many foreign partners to stop cooperating with Washington on extrajudicial activities, including detention, transfer, and interrogation of suspects in third party countries.