Invisible Enemy Israel, Politics, Media and American Culture

Editorial Reviews
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs
"... Abboud convincingly portrays Israel as a conspiratorial and invisible enemy ...targets virtually every American institution and individual..."

The Midwest Book Review
"...strongly worded adversarial criticism of the nation of Israel's diverse and continuing attempts to manipulate American public opinion..."

Global Exchange
"Edward Abboud, an Arab-American writer and Navy veteran, ... documents the increasing power of organized Israeli influence over American media...."

Al-Hewar Magazine/The Arab-American Dialogue
"...Edward Abboud presents an excellent, very detailed and thought-provoking analysis of Israeli influence over American government, media, and... culture.

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs (WRMEA)
"...Abboud convincingly portrays Israel as a conspiratorial and invisible enemy of the United States..."

Global Exchange
Edward Abboud, an Arab-American writer and Navy veteran, systematically dismantles U.S. arguments for continuing to support Israel.

On Target A review of news highlights, commonwealth affairs, background information.
"...Edward Abboud sensibly and scholastically explores the elements of war, propaganda, subversion and conspiracy... "

From the Publisher
From deep within the unreported multicultural milieu comes Edward Abboud with grassroots analysis of American politics, culture, and society you won?t find on the evening news. Abboud defines modern warfare, explains conspiracy theory, and shows how propaganda weaponizes the mass media, damages American social and cultural institutions, derails local and national politics, and promotes destructive military activity. Potent underground writing on the content of American mass media, and on the most expensive, secretive, and damaging foreign policy issue in American history.

About the Author
Edward Abboud's grandparents immigrated to the United States in the late 1800s to escape religious and political persecution from the Ottoman Turks. His father served in the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945. Mr. Abboud was active as a Vietnam war resister in the 1967-72 period, and is a retired U.S. Navy Surface Warfare Officer, having served two tours of duty in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Iran in the late 1980s.

Holding advanced degrees in mass communication and journalism, Mr. Abboud has written extensively for the software industry for more than 20 years, and has contributed pseudonymously to numerous alternative publications for more than 30 years on issues related to U.S. involvement in the Mideast.

Mr. Abboud discusses Invisible Enemy on nationally syndicated radio talk shows, and at related conventions and book signings.

Excerpted from Invisible Enemy: Israel, Politics, Media, and American Culture by Edward Abboud. Copyright © 2003. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
In his later book on American foreign policy, former Congressman Paul Findley wrote, "it is obvious that the acceptance of fallacies about Israel is not a happenstance. It is the handiwork of many people applying their energy to the task with perseverance and commitment." His attempt to clarify the enormous impact of U.S. foreign policy around the world is the single largest unreported and misreported product of American culture in the news and information services of commercial mass media. Drawing over half of the mind-boggling budget, public support for Israel reaches deeply into domestic projects as well.

Israel has a strong interest to control imagery related to itself, daily events, and direction of public trust and money. Not coincidentally, after years of attack, the churches of Europe find themselves increasingly empty, leaving alienated believers as prey for moral propaganda. Mass media uniformly present the same agenda when pretending to represent freedom of speech.

Most Americans endure long-term exposure to the mass media with resignation, increasingly aware of their inability to control the representations of themselves, their kids, communities, and concerns. Out-of-control media empires are not happenstance. They do not form randomly, but through an organization of forces with a specific intent to accomplish a larger social task. No feedback loop in the media exists to question policy in the same news forum. And media do not at all reflect society so much as they mimic, ridicule, caricaturize.

The ability to earn and control new billions of dollars each year from the American treasury, every year since 1967, is the controlled handiwork of many people, brutally forced into a totalitarian framework to create zealots and supporters, and to generate money. Perseverance and commitment to a specific idea by one?s own will is trademark of zealots. They offer personal buy-in to the cause, and are little cost to persuade and use. Those not susceptible to the weak-mindedness of zealots must submit to "or else" coersion and control.

The effort to control American resources is a battle waged from practically every country in the world. Most remain in respectful diplomatic channels. None have anywhere near the impact of Israel?s effort on a majority of decision-makers in Congress and in the media. In a recent display of ability to exert this control, Israel had all but two House members and 98 Senators sign a screeching "sense os the Congress" letter to the president, to show support for a clearly flawed Israeli ideology. Media reports the demonstration as a grassroots outpouring of support, rather than pointing out the coercion and control evident in the pseudo-event.

The United States has "prepositioned" military vehicles and equipment, even a large hospital, officially for use by U.S. Forces, at numerous sites in Israel, all part of the ongoing, untold cost of various "U.S.-Israel strategic cooperation" agreements.

Such cooperation may or may not enhance American security, may or may not be a prudent part of planning to defend the Oil Fields from the Arabs. The extent of U.S. involvement may or may not be known and understood by U.S. decision-makers and the Congress. But the reason for all the secrecy is clear: All around Israel the U.S. has newly built up an enormous and yet officially non-existent military presence.

Control of American media, however, is little understood outside of the western world, and has few connected and organized conspirators. No other efforts use tactics such as the "WASP intimidation" described by Richard Curtiss in Stealth PACs. No other efforts utilize the religious organizational infrastructure to inculcate foreign political ideals. No others train their adherents to put down American traditions in favor of foreign ones, and no others promote the ancient and modern grievances with so much vigor. Christianity, tired of turning the other cheek to the Jews taught to never forget, looks elsewhere for spirituality, political and social guidance, and comfort. They find manufactured images of who they are supposed to be and what they are supposed to believe.

Book Description
Invisible Enemy defines conspiracy and weaponized mass media in context of the United States-Israel relationship.