Final_Judgment

711 Final Word? [613]
press in Permindex board member Clay Shaw's hometown, calling for Jim
Garrison's head on a platter when the Crescent City district attorney failed
to convict Shaw for his role in the JFK assassination conspiracy.
So that the Newhouse press would rush to put forth Jack Newfield's
latest spin on the theory that "The Mafia Killed JFK," suggesting that this
was Robert Kennedy's view, is no surprise.
Newfield has also emerged as one of the voices promoting the idea that
the Kennedy brothers were enamored with Israel. Just as Parade was
hyping Newfield's "Bobby and the Mafia" twist, the Jewish Bulletin of
Northern California published an article on May 29, 1998 proclaiming that
"Pro-Semitic' RFK Overcame Upbringing, Writer Says."
The article quoted Newfield saying that JFK' s assassination so affected
RFK that "he came to identify with anybody else who was hurt or wounded
or grieving in any way . . . [and that RFK] had a special place in his heart
for Jews and Israel . . . Bobby overtime became very pro-Semitic and went
out of his way to surround himself with Jews."
Self-described former Mossad operative David Heymann, in his critical
biography of RFK, had a different spin, reporting that "A number of people
accused RFK of using [anti-Semitic] terminology when privately discussing
Jews. According to Truman Capote, 'He often referred to Jews as either
'kikes' or 'yids.'"
According to one of my own sources, who maintained a close working
relationship with an intimate Kennedy family friend and political crony,
RFK was known when discussing Jews in restaurants and other places
where he might be overheard to refer to Jews as "the liberals."
What all of this suggests, in any event, is that there is now a concerted
media effort—since the release of Final Judgment and growing knowledge
of its revelations concerning the difficult relationship between JFK and Israel—
to portray the Kennedy brothers as devout Zionists, when nothing could be
further from the truth.
This propaganda campaign reached its most outlandish when on June 3,
1998 during a week-long 50th anniversary celebration of the birth of Israel
held at Union Station in Washington, D.C. there was a special program:
"Remembering Robert Kennedy," sponsored by the Anti-Defamation
League. The program noted that "This event is a tribute to the strong bond
between the Kennedy family and the State of Israel."
One is tempted to laugh at the chutzpah and the revisionist history at
work here, but it is clear that the facts about the Kennedy family and Israel
are most uncomfortable for Israel indeed.
THOSE AWFUL KENNEDY BOYS . . .
At the same time, the media is promoting a new twist on the Kennedy
assassination itself, suggesting that Jack and Bobby Kennedy were basically
responsible for their own assassinations for having dared to engage in CIA
intrigue against Castro and others during the JFK administration. The