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Is Groveling to Zionists Courage?
by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)
On August 29, 2008, NPR rebroadcast a 2007 Terry Gross interview with Michael Beschloss author of Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989. The interview is an exceptional example of the ongoing effort to indoctrinate Americans with Zionist ideology and a false Zionist version of history. According to Beschloss presidents show courage when they do the right thing in the face of pressure or inclination to do the wrong thing (9'44'').
Terry Gross started the interview by asking Beschloss about Harry Truman and his decision to recognize the State of Israel. Beschloss tells her about George Marshall's opposition to providing support for a Zionist state in Palestine. He added later that first lady Bess Truman was an anti-Semite with the effect of giving the appearance of anti-Semitism to Marshall's position, which was based in ethics, in an understanding of foreign relations, and in an appreciation of US strategic interests.
Beschloss noted that Truman had some positive feelings toward Jews because he had served a neighbor Jewish family as a Shabbesgoy on the Sabbath. Beschloss played a 1960s tape in which Truman reminisces about the pressures on him in 1948. Gross notices the artificiality of Truman's presentation. Beschoss neglects to mention that Truman was impoverished by the 1960s until he effectively became an employee of the organized Jewish community as a paid propagandist for Zionism.
When Gross delves into Truman's ban on visits from Zionist leaders, Gross describes Chaim Weizman as an Israeli leader before there ever was a State of Israel apparently in order to avoid using the word 
Palestine, which Jewish interviewer Gross appears unable to bring herself to utter.
Palestine, which Jewish interviewer Gross appears unable to bring herself to utter.Gross asks Beschloss about the pressures on Truman. From the content of the interview except for Bess and Marshall, practically all groups and individuals attempting to influence Truman were pro-Zionist.
Gross shows her Zionist prejudice and lack of objectivity by neglecting to ask how recognizing a Jewish state in Palestine despite the democratic wishes of the majority native population could possibly have been the right thing and how much courage it really took to pander Jewish Zionists, who could mobilize wealth and voters to support Truman in the coming 1948 election.
By glossing over Truman's choice of political opportunism over US interests with a questionable reference Truman's Biblical faith, Beschloss misses the real story, which is the beginning of the process to redefine patriotism in the American discourse as Shabbesgoyism, which is serving Zionism despite American ideals and interests. (See Followup: Obama vs. Israel Lobby.) The USA has progressed so far along the course that Truman chose that today Americans are in many important situations are unable either freely to discuss Zionism or even to conduct a debate on its economic consequences for the nation.
Not only does Gross fail as a reporter and Beschloss as an historian with regard to Jewish and Zionist issues, but their effort as propagandists on behalf of Zionism is obvious when it is compared with the rest of the interview, which covers President John Kennedy's complex relationship with civil rights and which investigates President Ronald Reagan's decision to attempt a dialogue with the Soviet leaders.
