Final_Judgment

697 Final Word? [599]
AGAIN—TINY LITTLE DEFENSELESS ISRAEL . . .
The big payoff came when Reitzes really dropped the ball, in the same
fashion that the aforementioned Robert Harris had done earlier. In response
to my post to Reitzes that "No matter how far you succeed in discrediting
Garrison and clearing Clay Shaw (and even Permindex), you can't get away
from the fact that Israel had the motive and the means and that the key CIA
player in the assassination and cover was the Mossad's man at the CIA,"
(referring to James J. Angleton), Reitzes responded:
"This is garbage. Even if Israel had 'the motive,' it would have been
risking utter annihilation at the hands of the US should its role be exposed."
At another juncture Reitzes said, "This is complete and utter nonsense.
Little countries living in precarious situations do not work to assassinate
leaders of world superpowers . . . Israel would have had no such excuse.
You don't kill the progressive leader of a world superpower that is one of
your greatest political allies. Period."
I told Reitzes: "Now, Dave, is where you have actually fallen through
the thin ice. I didn't think it would happen. But you have actually now
started trying to discredit the possibility of Israel involvement."
Prior to that Reitzes had not actually attempted to refute Israeli
involvement. His approach had simply been to vindicate Clay Shaw and to
suggest that Shaw's association with Permindex had nothing to do with
either the JFK assassination of any kind of intelligence intrigue.
Remarkably, Reitzes even made the assertion that "Angleton,
meanwhile, could hardly be less relevant to Piper's scenario. How does he
figure in?" disregarding the thoroughly-documented fact that Angleton was
indeed a key player in, at the very least, the Warren Commission cover-up!
I continued, telling Reitzes: "You have reached as far as you can
logically reach and say that Israel was such a small tiny country that it
would have never done such a nasty thing . . . Now you're displaying some
weakness to the entire Internet world. Israel knew that it could carry off the
JFK thing (with the help of the CIA), just as the CIA knew it could pull the
thing off with the help of Israel, precisely because an old CIA-Mossad ally,
LBJ, was going to take care of things."
DEBATING WHAT THE BOOK DOESN'T SAY
Dave did fall through the ice. He finished off his review with
suggestions that "Piper is more comfortable discussing the possible
connections to the JFK assassination of UFOs, Masons, the British Crown,
the Gemstone Files and the death of Marilyn Monroe."
This, of course, would sound quite damning to most Internet readers of
the Reitzes review who had not read Final Judgment, but the fact is that in
Final Judgment I refuted four of those theories, and in the case of Marilyn
Monroe (who actually died a year before JFK) I only reported the allegation
that Israeli-linked Los Angeles gangster Mickey Cohen had orchestrated her
death. So what Reitzes was doing was trying to distract the readers of his