The very next day, 4/30/10, a full-page "Dark" ad in the N Y Times revisited a foreign affairs issue which has been led by the Times' David Sanger, the provocative charge that Iran represents an "existential" threat to the Middle East, Sanger with great care avoiding the FACT that the CHARGE is right out of the playbook of Israel, not unlike Israel's pressure on the illegitimate incoming Bush administration's hazardous decision in its first few months of 2001 to go to war against Iraq, out of deference to the insistence of Jewish interests both within that new Bush administration and in Israel, a position which confounded such principals as the new Secretary of the Treasury, Paul O'Neill, as well as the new Secretary of State Colin Powell, and, most importantly, the Counter Terrorism Chief from the outgoing Clinton/Gore administration, Richard Clarke.

[ We're familiar with Mr. Clarke because in a book review of his latest work on cyberwarfare, Michiko Kakutani reminds us of his 2004 "Against All Enemies", a companion work to James Bamford's 2004 "A Pretext For War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies", which Miss Kakutani also selected for review. Both 2004 works speak directly to what follows. ]

Regarding the page A-11 "advertisement", a classic example of Jewish overreach, the piece was headlined "HOW DO WE STOP IRAN FROM DEVELOPING NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND FUNDING TERROR?", this from representatives of a country, Israel, which has and continues to terrorize a country, Palestine, which, like Iran, has never terrorized anybody in the Middle East. In fact, Iran merely intends to develop nuclear power, which is, somehow, threatening to the Jews. Here is a listing of the signatories, the mouthpiece rogues' gallery, if you will, for Netanyahu's Israel, timing this onerous and fallacious ad for the opening of the world conference on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty:

AIPAC (The American Israel "Public" Affairs Committee), Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (Do they have similar "Conferences" in Great Britain, France and Germany?), JCPA (Jewish Council for Public Affairs), The Jewish Federations of North America, AJC (American Jewish Committee), ADL (Anti-Defamation League), Union for Reform Judaism, Orthodox Union, The United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, Jewish Reconstructionist Federation, HADASAH, NCJW (National Council of Jewish Women), American Jewish Congress, Women's League for Conservative Judaism, B'nai B'rith International, Jewish War Veterans of the United States, CEJL (Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life).