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The New Mafia
By Mark Glenn
Al-Jazeerah.net
10-22-3

12 years ago, the most beautiful girl I had ever laid eyes on, Victoria,
walked down the isle to become my wife. Why she would have done such a thing
has caused the shaking of heads in bewilderment ever since, and probably
always will. Her paternal grandparents, quite old, were too frail to make
the 1200 mile trip to our wedding, so not too long after we were married, we
decided to make the trip to see them.

I married into an Italian family, more specifically, a Sicilian family. They
emigrated here, landing as most Italians did, in New York, and resided in
Brooklyn for many years. When I first met them, Michelino and Concetta, they
spoke to me in Italian, assuming that the dark, swarthy features I inherited
from the Lebanese side of my family meant that I was probably a paisano,
and, fortunately for me, having had several years of Italian in college, I
could carry on with them, thus receiving a passing grade for the required
rituals of initiation.

Her tiny grandfather talked on about the old days, growing up in the same
Brooklyn neighborhood with famous gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Al
Capone. He knew many of these guys, and although he made his living in the
legitimate world, got along well with them. He went to their weddings, said
hello to them on the street, would drop off pans of manicotti or cannelloni
when Concetta had made a tad too much, and in one case, mistakenly got into
Lucky Luciano's car, not realizing his mistake until he found a gun in the
glove box. And despite the fact that he was a law abiding American, raised a
good family and never caused any trouble, he carried the stigma of being an
Italian around with him for the rest of his life. It didn't seem to matter
much to him though. It didn't change the fact that America was discovered by
an Italian and later named after one.

It was and still is a racism with which Americans are comfortable. They
aren't offended by the huge amount of business created and maintained by an
entertainment industry that depicts Italians as a violent, greedy,
treacherous and lascivious people. Names like Vinny, Rocco, Guido, and Tony
are passed around in jokes without a second thought as to what the whole
business of gangsterism implies when it is applied to a group of people.
Shows like the Sopranos win rave reviews from American audiences, and movies
like the Godfather have acquired their own cult following. And to a certain
extent, it is understandable as to how it all got to be this way. After all,
the whole business involving the Italians and the Mafia is an established
fact of history, and only a fool would try to say that it didn't happen.

But imagine if someone today did try to refute it. Suppose someone tried to
sell the story that the Mafia never existed, that the whole concept had been
orchestrated back during the turn of the last century as a result of Anti-
Italianism, an attempt by jealous others to drag the good name of the
Italians through the mud and to justify displacing them of any acquired
power or influence in American society. Interestingly enough, 60 yrs or so
ago, when people spoke (in hushed tones) of a quiet yet powerful criminal
conspiracy organized along a single nationality of people, there were those
who denounced them for it, using some of the same arguments listed above.
And who denounced them? Members of this criminal conspiracy and the
political lackeys who were on their payroll. They used all the familiar
terms; Racist, anti-Italian, anti-Catholic, bigot. Yet today, the existence
of this criminal conspiracy is an established fact, and only someone who is
either making a joke or else deliberately wishes to be ridiculed tries to
deny it.

Now consider the upset that occurs today when someone suggests that there is
a criminal conspiracy, much like the Italian Mafia that is operating again,
only on a bigger scale, and instead of being run by the Italians, it is run
by Israelis. The reactions by these gangsters and their controlled
mouthpieces, the media, (and in particular, right-wing talk show hosts) are
almost identical to the reactions by Italian gangsters and their defenders
in the last century. People are branded as racists, bigots, jealous,
envious, and now, thanks to 50 years of daily propaganda, Nazis.

It is very effective. Criticize Israel for anything, and you will be called
any of the above and ruined for life. Consider what happened to Pat Buchanan
throughout his career as a commentator and presidential candidate. Now, as a
result of the browbeating he has received for exposing these people for what
they are, he barely ekes out snippets of the truth for fear of the backlash
that he is sure to receive. Not limiting the scope of their warfare to only
assassinating their opponent's character, they may kill him physically as
well. Consider the case of Randy Weaver's wife and son. Mr. Weaver made the
mistake of openly calling this criminal conspiracy for what it is, the
Kosher Mafia, and was almost murdered for it. At the very least, you can
expect a letter from some government agency telling you that they need
to "talk to you" about some matter, usually involving an audit or an
inspection, and the harassment will continue for years. Tactics like these
and many others not listed are not new, although those individuals using
them, members of the New Mafia, would prefer that the rest of America
pretend that they don't exist.

What else do you call a well-run organization with long reaching tentacles
that wields silent, yet powerful influence in government, finance, and
media? An organization that extorts over 6 billion dollars a year from the
American taxpayers? An organization that can hush-up war crimes 50 years old
of such enormity that they scream out to heaven for justice? An organization
that can pick up the phone, call the President of the United States and
order him to bomb another nation back into the stone age on completely false
pretenses? An organization that deals in illegal arms sales, the sex-slave
business, drugs, counterfeit money, money laundering, prostitution and the
protection racket on a world wide scale?

Talk about it being run by the Italians, and everyone calls it the Mafia.
Talk about it being run by the Arabs, and everyone calls it terrorism. Talk
about it being run by the Israelis, and everyone calls it a wacky conspiracy
theory created by anti-Semites.

The script runs just like an old Italian gangster film too. A group of
immigrants invades a neighborhood, driving everyone out who is not a member
of the "family." Those that don't leave on their own have their homes and
businesses burned to the ground, or are simply gunned down in drive-by
shootings by members of the Stern Gang or the Irgun. When the cops show
up, "no one saw nothin" and the rest of the world is therefore none the
wiser. The Godfather, Don Ariel Sharon, "made his bones" as a young man in
places like Lebanon where he was personally responsible for the deaths of
thousands of people, as well as in the Jordanian village of Kibya, where the
101st Israeli army unit under his command blew up 41 homes and a school,
killing 53 civilians, including many children. Now he has risen through the
ranks of power, and assumes the role of an aged, overweight crime boss with
an eye for young girls. Instead of making the sign of the cross and making
visits to Catholic religious ceremonies, (a common theme in Italian gangster
films) Don Ariel Sharon wears a skullcap and shows up at the Wailing Wall
with his rabbi. There are coups within the family, where the old Don is
gunned down in a spectacular, public way, as occurred with Yitzak Rabin, and
when

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) http://www.rense.com/general43/mafia.htm
)
) The New Mafia
) By Mark Glenn
) Al-Jazeerah.net
) 10-22-3
)
) 12 years ago, the most beautiful girl I had ever laid eyes on, Victoria,
) walked down the isle to become my wife. Why she would have done such a thing
) has caused the shaking of heads in bewilderment ever since, and probably
) always will. Her paternal grandparents, quite old, were too frail to make
) the 1200 mile trip to our wedding, so not too long after we were married, we
) decided to make the trip to see them.
)
) I married into an Italian family, more specifically, a Sicilian family. They
) emigrated here, landing as most Italians did, in New York, and resided in
) Brooklyn for many years. When I first met them, Michelino and Concetta, they
) spoke to me in Italian, assuming that the dark, swarthy features I inherited
) from the Lebanese side of my family meant that I was probably a paisano,
) and, fortunately for me, having had several years of Italian in college, I
) could carry on with them, thus receiving a passing grade for the required
) rituals of initiation.
)
) Her tiny grandfather talked on about the old days, growing up in the same
) Brooklyn neighborhood with famous gangsters like Lucky Luciano and Al
) Capone. He knew many of these guys, and although he made his living in the
) legitimate world, got along well with them. He went to their weddings, said
) hello to them on the street, would drop off pans of manicotti or cannelloni
) when Concetta had made a tad too much, and in one case, mistakenly got into
) Lucky Luciano's car, not realizing his mistake until he found a gun in the
) glove box. And despite the fact that he was a law abiding American, raised a
) good family and never caused any trouble, he carried the stigma of being an
) Italian around with him for the rest of his life. It didn't seem to matter
) much to him though. It didn't change the fact that America was discovered by
) an Italian and later named after one.
)
) It was and still is a racism with which Americans are comfortable. They
) aren't offended by the huge amount of business created and maintained by an
) entertainment industry that depicts Italians as a violent, greedy,
) treacherous and lascivious people. Names like Vinny, Rocco, Guido, and Tony
) are passed around in jokes without a second thought as to what the whole
) business of gangsterism implies when it is applied to a group of people.
) Shows like the Sopranos win rave reviews from American audiences, and movies
) like the Godfather have acquired their own cult following. And to a certain
) extent, it is understandable as to how it all got to be this way. After all,
) the whole business involving the Italians and the Mafia is an established
) fact of history, and only a fool would try to say that it didn't happen.
)
) But imagine if someone today did try to refute it. Suppose someone tried to
) sell the story that the Mafia never existed, that the whole concept had been
) orchestrated back during the turn of the last century as a result of Anti-
) Italianism, an attempt by jealous others to drag the good name of the
) Italians through the mud and to justify displacing them of any acquired
) power or influence in American society. Interestingly enough, 60 yrs or so
) ago, when people spoke (in hushed tones) of a quiet yet powerful criminal
) conspiracy organized along a single nationality of people, there were those
) who denounced them for it, using some of the same arguments listed above.
) And who denounced them? Members of this criminal conspiracy and the
) political lackeys who were on their payroll. They used all the familiar
) terms; Racist, anti-Italian, anti-Catholic, bigot. Yet today, the existence
) of this criminal conspiracy is an established fact, and only someone who is
) either making a joke or else deliberately wishes to be ridiculed tries to
) deny it.
)
) Now consider the upset that occurs today when someone suggests that there is
) a criminal conspiracy, much like the Italian Mafia that is operating again,
) only on a bigger scale, and instead of being run by the Italians, it is run
) by Israelis. The reactions by these gangsters and their controlled
) mouthpieces, the media, (and in particular, right-wing talk show hosts) are
) almost identical to the reactions by Italian gangsters and their defenders
) in the last century. People are branded as racists, bigots, jealous,
) envious, and now, thanks to 50 years of daily propaganda, Nazis.
)
) It is very effective. Criticize Israel for anything, and you will be called
) any of the above and ruined for life. Consider what happened to Pat Buchanan
) throughout his career as a commentator and presidential candidate. Now, as a
) result of the browbeating he has received for exposing these people for what
) they are, he barely ekes out snippets of the truth for fear of the backlash
) that he is sure to receive. Not limiting the scope of their warfare to only
) assassinating their opponent's character, they may kill him physically as
) well. Consider the case of Randy Weaver's wife and son. Mr. Weaver made the
) mistake of openly calling this criminal conspiracy for what it is, the
) Kosher Mafia, and was almost murdered for it. At the very least, you can
) expect a letter from some government agency telling you that they need
) to "talk to you" about some matter, usually involving an audit or an
) inspection, and the harassment will continue for years. Tactics like these
) and many others not listed are not new, although those individuals using
) them, members of the New Mafia, would prefer that the rest of America
) pretend that they don't exist.
)
) What else do you call a well-run organization with long reaching tentacles
) that wields silent, yet powerful influence in government, finance, and
) media? An organization that extorts over 6 billion dollars a year from the
) American taxpayers? An organization that can hush-up war crimes 50 years old
) of such enormity that they scream out to heaven for justice? An organization
) that can pick up the phone, call the President of the United States and
) order him to bomb another nation back into the stone age on completely false
) pretenses? An organization that deals in illegal arms sales, the sex-slave
) business, drugs, counterfeit money, money laundering, prostitution and the
) protection racket on a world wide scale?
)
) Talk about it being run by the Italians, and everyone calls it the Mafia.
) Talk about it being run by the Arabs, and everyone calls it terrorism. Talk
) about it being run by the Israelis, and everyone calls it a wacky conspiracy
) theory created by anti-Semites.
)
) The script runs just like an old Italian gangster film too. A group of
) immigrants invades a neighborhood, driving everyone out who is not a member
) of the "family." Those that don't leave on their own have their homes and
) businesses burned to the ground, or are simply gunned down in drive-by
) shootings by members of the Stern Gang or the Irgun. When the cops show
) up, "no one saw nothin" and the rest of the world is therefore none the
) wiser. The Godfather, Don Ariel Sharon, "made his bones" as a young man in
) places like Lebanon where he was personally responsible for the deaths of
) thousands of people, as well as in the Jordanian village of Kibya, where the
) 101st Israeli army unit under his command blew up 41 homes and a school,
) killing 53 civilians, including many children. Now he has risen through the
) ranks of power, and assumes the role of an aged, overweight crime boss with
) an eye for young girls. Instead of making the sign of the cross and making
) visits to Catholic religious ceremon