Final_Judgment

Chapter Seventeen
They Dare Not Speak Out:
The Media's Silence—
Why Israel's Role in the JFK Assassination Could Not
Be Exposed
The influence of Israel and its lobby over the American
media would have made it difficult for anyone who even
suspected that Israel had a hand in the JFK assassination to
get the word out. The media promoted the conclusions of the
Warren Commission and savaged its critics. And when the
media did place the blame it was on Fidel Castro.
The reporting of syndicated columnist Drew Pearson and
the sensatio nal Oliver Stone fil m JFK are classic case
studies of how Israeli-linked media sources have manipulated
public perception of the murder of President Kennedy.
"The Kennedy assassination cover-up has survived so long only because
the press, confronted with the choice of believing what it was told or
examining the facts independently, chose the former. Unless and until the
press repudiates that choice, it is unlikely that we shall ever know the
truth." 689
These are the words of longtime JFK assassination researcher Jerry
Pollicoff summarizing the attitude of the Establishment media toward its
coverage of the crime of the century.
The media was content to churn up virtually every theory
imaginable—up to a point—except one: that Israel was behind the
assassination, a theory widely held in the Arab world at least.
However, as we have seen, in Chapter 5, in particular, very little was in
fact known about JFK's secret war with Israel and the major Middle East
foreign policy turn-about that came on the heels of JFK's assassination.
Thus, even the harshest critics of the Warren Commission which
ostensibly "investigated"—most would say "covered up"—the assassination
conspiracy had no reason to suspect that there might be an Israeli connection
to JFK's murder. The final conclusions of the Warren Commission hardly
satisfied anybody—except, of course, for the friends of Israel and the CIA in
the Establishment media who gave the Report's conclusions wholehearted
support.
A CITIZEN'S DISSENT
New York attorney Mark Lane made great headway with his clinical
dissection of the Warren Report in his best-selling Rush to Judgment. A
flurry of other books followed. Lane's second book on the subject of the
JFK assassination, A Citizen's Dissent, is most illuminating, however, on