Final_Judgment

JFK and Israel—No “Special Friendship"
"Israel need not apologize for the assassination or destruction of those
who seek to destroy it. The first order of business for any country is the
protection of its people."
Washington Jewish Week
October 9, 1997
"The murder of American President John F. Kennedy brought to an
abrupt end the massive pressure being applied by the U.S. administration on
the government of Israel to discontinue the nuclear program [In Israel and
the Bomb, Avner] Cohen demonstrates at length the pressures applied by
Kennedy on Ben-Gurion . . . in which Kennedy makes it quite clear to the
Israeli prime minister that he will under no circumstances agree to Israel
becoming a nuclear state. The book implied that, had Kennedy remained
alive, it is doubtful whether Israel would today have a nuclear option."
Reuven Pedatzer in the Israeli newspaper, Ha'aretz,
February 5, 1999, reviewing Israel and the Bomb.
(New York: Columbia University Press, 1998)
"`Nothing in the universe is coincidence,' Rabbi Meir Yeshurun of the
Kabbalah Center in Boca Raton, Florida, told a reporter for The Palm Beach
Post. 'Somebody in the [Kennedy] family did something to open the family
to this negative energy, and that has been plaguing the Kennedys for
decades.' According to a story that is told in mystical Jewish circles . . .
[JFK's father] Joseph Kennedy . . . returned to the United States aboard an
ocean liner that was also carrying Israel Jacobson, a poor Lubavitcher rabbi,
and six of his yeshiva students, who were fleeing the Nazis.
"A notorious anti-Semite, Kennedy complained to the captain that the
bearded, black-clad Jews were upsetting the first class passengers by
praying on the Jewish high holy day of Rosh Hashanah . . . In retaliation, or
so the story goes, Rabbi Jacobson put a curse on Kennedy, damning him
and all his male offspring to tragic fates.
“ . . . It is a curious fact that the very same people who scoff at the
concept of Kismet, or fate, find it difficult to dismiss the concept of curses . .
. [The Kennedy family] made the fatal mistake of thinking of themselves as
divine."
Edward Klein, former Editor-in-Chief of The
New York Times Magazine, writing in the
opening pages of The Kennedy Curse (New
York, St. Martin's Press, 2003)