Pro-Israel Neo-Con Hand-Picked McCain VP

Pro-Israel Neo-Con Hand-Picked McCain VP

Zionists pleased as punch fanatical Alaska governor has been pushed to front of U.S. national politics

By Michael Collins Piper — AFP

Win or lose in her bid for the vice presidency, Sarah Palin will nonetheless be a front-runner for the GOP
presidential nomination in 2012. That’s “good news” to the hard-line pro- Israel cabal—known as the
“neo-conservatives”—who brought America to bankruptcy pursuing the war in Iraq and who still dream of war
against Iran.

It turns out that one of the chief neo-conservative tacticians—William Kristol, editor of Zionist billionaire
Rupert Murdoch’s Weekly Standard, and Mrs. Palin’s foremost cheerleader in the mass media—is the very
person who hand-picked Palin as John McCain’s running mate.

Both The Washington Post and The Telegraph of London revealed Kristol’s pivotal role in ushering the
previously little-known Palin to national prominence. For its part, the Telegraph noted on Sept. 16:

Sources in theMcCain camp, the Republican Party and Washington think tanks say Mrs. Palin was
identified as a potential future leader of the neo-conservative cause in June 2007. That was when the
annual summer cruise organized by the right-of-center Weekly Standard magazine docked in Juneau, the
Alaskan state capital, and the pundits on board took tea with Gov. Palin.

The Post reported that the meeting between Palin and Kristol, along with Kristol hanger-on Fred Barnes,
was initiated by a member of Palin’s staff.

In any event, the Telegraph added, “her case as John McCain’s running mate was later advanced
vociferously by William Kristol,” whose Standard touted Palin — immediately after their meeting—as
“the most
popular governor” and mentioned her in subsequent issues of The Weekly Standard no less than 40