Final_Judgment

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This, of course, had a momentous impact on the course of American
foreign policy and was an immediate and absolute turn-about of the policy
that had been pursued by the late President Kennedy.
THE NUCLEAR BOMB
Interestingly enough, Israel's initial primary benefit from the death of
JFK was, in fact, the removal from the White House of a president who
vehemently opposed Israel's nuclear weapons development.
According to historian Stephen Green: "Perhaps the most significant
development of 1963 for the Israeli nuclear weapons program, however,
occurred on November 22 on a plane flying from Dallas to Washington,
D.C., Lyndon Baines Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the
United States, following the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
"In the early years of the Johnson administration the Israeli nuclear
weapons program was referred to in Washington as 'the delicate topic.'
Lyndon Johnson's White House saw no Dimona, heard no Dimona, and
spoke no Dimona when the reactor went critical in early 1964." 183
Thus it was that the critical point of dispute between John F. Kennedy
and the Mossad-dominated government of Israel was no longer an issue. The
new American president—so long a partisan of Israel—allowed the nuclear
development to continue. This was just the beginning.
HUBERT HUMPHREY & THE LANSKY SYNDICATE
Johnson was also cementing his long-standing ties to Meyer Lansky's
Organized Crime Syndicate. In 1964—seeking his first full term in the
White House—Johnson selected Minnesota Senator Hubert H. Humphrey as
his vice-presidential running mate.
As the Washington Observer newsletter noted: "Humphrey was first
catapulted into public office as Mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 via the
machinations and campaign slush funds raised by the notorious Kid Cann,
king of the Minneapolis underworld.
"Cann, whose real name was Isadore Blumenfeld, along with his
brothers (who were known by their aliases, Harry and Yiddy Bloom) were
partners with Meyer Lansky in the ownership of many of the plush resorts
in Miami, along with Humphrey's chief advisor, Max Kampelman, a top
figure in the Israeli lobby in Washington."
"Blumenfeld and Lansky were partners in the syndicate that owned the
Sands and Fremont Hotels—gambling operations in Las Vegas—until they
sold their interest in the Sands to Howard Hughes. When Humphrey and his
top aides are in Miami," the Observer reported, "they enjoy[ed] free
accommodations at the syndicate's plush hotels." 184
(Alan H. Ryskind, writing in his critical biography of Humphrey,
demonstrated how then-Minneapolis Mayor Humphrey managed to look the
other way when Blumenfeld got himself into a widely-publicized set of