Final_Judgment

[334] Final Judgment 431
In fact, Rostow's primary foreign policy concern has been the interests of
Israel, so much so that Rostow has even been a board member of the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs, which has been described as being "run
by individuals closely identified with Israeli interests and may be regarded as a
virtual lobbying organization for the state of Israel . . . ." 844
Thus, the truth is that, from its inception, the Warren Commission's origins
were linked to pressure from an influential figure within the Israeli lobby's
power elite—a very interesting little detail indeed.
And because we now know there were "top secret" U.S. intelligence
documents circulated after the assassination indicating the Arab press was
alleging "the Zionists" were behind the president's murder, 845 —citing, as an
indication, for example, the fact Jack Ruby was Jewish—we can rightly
speculate that these were among the kind of "ugly rumors" in the foreign
press the Warren Commission was established to suppress.
What few JFK assassination researchers have ever bothered to
investigate—or at least discuss publicly—however, are the antecedents of the
22 lawyers who were actually in charge of the day-to-day investigation and in
preparing the final report and who—from behind the scenes—filtered the data
to the big names who signed their names to the report.
The facts demonstrate that there was a substantial "Jewish presence" at this
staff level that could have impacted substantially on the handling of any evidence
of Mossad involvement or Mossad connections of persons who came under
scrutiny in the course of the investigation, assuming the claim by the Anti-
Defamation League (ADL) of B'nai B'rith—that American Jews are
"sensitive" to the concerns of the state of Israel—is true.
For the record, this author does not buy the theory that all Jewish
Americans are necessarily partisans of Israel or obligated to be. In fact—to
reiterate what has already been said here—some of the most forthright critics of
Israel and its misdeeds have been Americans of Jewish descent.
However, inasmuch as the ADL, which has relentlessly attacked Final
Judgment, purports to speak for the concerns of the Jewish community and
says that the thesis of this book is "offensive" to the Jewish community,
we will therefore accept the ADL's contention that Jewish Americans are
sensitive to Israel's concerns. Therefore, it is not a leap of logic to contend
that in the event evidence linking Israel's Mossad to the JFK assassination
had come forth that Jewish Americans on the commission staff would be
constitutionally inclined to cover up any evidence that did emerge.
All of that having been said, let us examine—for want of a
b e t t e r w a y o f d e s c r i b i n g i t — t h e u n u s u a l l y - p e r v a s i v e
"Jewish presence" on the Warren Commission staff at the
investigative level.
For this we begin with the November 28, 1988 edition of the National Law
Journal featured a cover story by David A. Kaplan entitled "The JFK Probe-
25 Years Later." The story included capsule biographies of the lawyers of
the Warren Commission, describing the 22 lawyers of the commission staff as
"the best and the brightest of their generation." 846