Murdoch's Deeply Hidden Jewish Roots -- A Biography
By Christopher Bollyn – American Free Press
Murdoch “became an American citizen for business reasons,” according to
Richard H. Curtiss, editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.
Keith Rupert was born in Melbourne, Australia, on March 11, 1931. “Rupert’s
father, Sir Keith Murdoch, was a newspaper publisher, and his mother an Orthodox
Jew,” Curtiss wrote, “although Murdoch never offers that information in his
biographies.”
Murdoch’s father married Elisabeth Joy Greene, daughter of
Rupert Greene in 1928. They had one son, Keith Rupert and three daughters. Later
in life, Keith Rupert chose to use Rupert, the first name of his Jewish maternal
grandfather.
The young Keith Rupert was educated at Australia’s
fashionable Geelong private school, and went on to the elitist and aristocratic
Oxford University in England, according to Candour (UK) magazine.
“Rupert’s father Sir Keith Murdoch attained his prominent position in
Australian society through a fortuitous marriage to the daughter of a wealthy
Jewish family, née Elisabeth Joy Greene. Through his wife’s connections, Keith
Murdoch was subsequently promoted from reporter to chairman of the British-owned
newspaper where he worked. There was enough money to buy himself a knighthood of
the British realm, two newspapers in Adelaide, South Australia, and a radio
station in a faraway mining town,” Candour wrote in 1984. “For some reason,
Murdoch has always tried to hide the fact that his pious mother brought him up
as a Jew.”
While Murdoch may have “tried to hide” his Jewish roots, he
has been quite forthright about his support for extreme right-wing Zionists,
such as Benjamin Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon.
Netanyahu, who wrote a book
entitled The War on Terror: How the West Can Win in 1986, is a frequent
commentator on Murdoch’s Fox News.
Murdoch’s support for Zionism
extremists is well known and a matter of record. As New York Governor George
Pataki said, “There is no newspaper in the U.S. more supportive of Israel than
the [Murdoch’s] New York Post.”
It is through a network of Zionist
organizations, in which Murdoch plays a central role, that Murdoch is connected
to the individuals who arranged the privatization – and obtained control of the
World Trade Center – shortly before its destruction.
These key
individuals are: Larry Silverstein and the former Israeli commando Frank Lowy,
the lease holders of dubious repute who gained control of the WTC property six
weeks before 9/11, and Port Authority Chairman Lewis M. Eisenberg, who
authorized the transfer of the leases.
Murdoch belongs to, and has been
honored by, a number of leading Zionist organizations in which Silverstein,
Lowy, and Eisenberg all hold senior positions. These organizations include the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the United Jewish Appeal (UJA), and the New
York-based Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.
Fifty days before 9/11, Silverstein Properties and Lowy’s Westfield
America secured 99-year leases on the WTC. The Port Authority of New York and
New Jersey turned control of the World Trade Center over to the private hands of
Silverstein and Lowy on July 24, 2001.
Silverstein and Lowy then took
control of the 10.6 million-square-foot complex, which included the twin towers
office buildings and two nine-story office buildings. Silverstein and the former
Israeli commando Lowy then controlled all access to the World Trade Center.
Lowy leased the shopping concourse called the Mall at the World Trade
Center, which comprised about 427,000 square feet of retail space.
“Six
weeks before the WTC towers were destroyed, the Port Authority completed the
process of leasing them for 99 years to Larry Silverstein, the developer who had
built 7 World Trade Center [which mysteriously self-demolished at 5:25 p.m. on
9/11].
“Simultaneously, the retail space underneath the complex was
leased to Westfield America, the US division of an Australian company that is
one of the world’s largest operators of shopping malls.” Paul Goldberger wrote
in New Yorker, May 20, 2002.
“Silverstein and Westfield were given the
right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and Westfield has the
right to expand the retail space by 30 percent,” Goldberger wrote.
Silverstein is suing for some $7.2 billion in insurance money for the
loss of the destroyed World Trade Center – and his expected earnings – for
property he had leased with a down payment of $100 million – of borrowed funds.
**Note: After a court battle Larry walked away with an "official" $2 billion ... which should see him right even after he has rebuilt the Towers.
Murdoch the Zionist
“Murdoch is a close friend of Ariel Sharon,” Sam Kiley, The Times (UK)
veteran journalist on the Middle East wrote about the man who took over the once
famous British paper. Kiley said Murdoch’s friendship with the Israeli prime
minister had caused senior staff at the paper to rewrite important copy.
“Murdoch’s executives were so afraid of irritating him that, when I
pulled off a little scoop of tracking down and photographing the unit in the
Israeli army which killed Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy whose death
was captured on film and became the iconic image of the conflict, I was asked to
file the piece ‘without mentioning the dead kid.’” Kiley wrote. “After that
conversation, I was left wordless, so I quit.”
Sharon and Murdoch are
old friends. On Oct. 15, 1982, a month after the massacres of thousands of
Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps of Beirut, war crimes which
occurred under Sharon’s direct command, the Israeli defense minister held
meetings with Rupert Murdoch and others, reportedly in order to advance his
“West Bank real estate grab.”
The visit with Sharon included a trip for
Murdoch and his editors from New York and London that “took them on a bird’s-eye
tour of Israel aboard a helicopter gunship, flying over the Golan Heights, West
Bank and settlements.”
“I have always believed in the future of Israel
and the goals of the international Jewish community,” Murdoch said at a spring
fund-raiser for the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the
Holocaust on April 29, 2001.
From the beginning, News Corp., his global
media company, “has been supportive of the Jewish national cause,” Murdoch said.
Larry Silverstein, who had not yet acquired the lease on the World Trade
Center, attended the fund-raiser with Murdoch and reportedly said about museum
chairman Robert Morgenthau’s plans to expand the museum: “I’ll support you…as
long as you keep it under 110 stories.”
Murdoch and the ADL
“Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mortimer Zuckerman are on the [ADL]
dinner committee,” according to a recent New York Times report on the ADL’s
recent fund-raiser in which the controversial Italian prime minister Silvio
Berlusconi received the ADL’s Distinguished Statesman Award.
Silverstein
and Eisenberg have both held senior leadership positions with the United Jewish
Appeal (UJA), a billion dollar Zionist “charity” organization, to which Murdoch
and Lowy generously contribute. In 1997, Henry Kissinger presented Murdoch with
the UJA’s award for “Humanitarian of the Year.”
Silverstein is a former
chairman of UJA. This organization raises hundreds of millions of dollars every
year for a network of Zionist agencies in the United States and Israel.
Eisenberg, who was instrumental in obtaining the lease for Silverstein, is on
the Planning Board of UJA.
Eisenberg in his role with the Port Authority
was the key person who negotiated the 99-year leases for Silverstein and Frank
Lowy’s Westfield America, who were in fact the low-bidders for the lease on the
110-story towers and the retail mall.
Murdoch and the
Czechoslovakian-born Israeli commando Frank Lowy, a former fighter in Israel’s
Golani Brigade, who emigrated to Australia in the 1950s, have had a long
friendship, which Murdoch recounted during an American Australian Association
fund-raising dinner in honor of Frank’s son, Peter S. Lowy, in New York on
November 20, 2002. Larry Silverstein and his wife also attended the American
Australian event.
Some reporters refer to the American Australian
Association, whose membership includes James Wolfensohn, the president of the
World Bank, who raised cash for Rupert Murdoch when he first expanded into the
United States, as “the kangaroo mafia.”
“Frank was a brave and
determined fighter,” Rafi Kocer, Lowy’s former commander, said. Lowy has donated
some $350,000 to build a memorial museum in Israel for his former brigade.
Today, Lowy and his three sons control Westfield Corporation, one of the
largest operators of shopping centers in the United States – and the world.
Insured Against Terrorist Attacks
On September 12, 2001, The Jerusalem Post reported: “Frank Lowy, who
emigrated to Australia from Israel in 1952, owns the 99-year lease for the
425,000 square foot retail portion of the destroyed World Trade Center…Westfield
said today that it has insurance cover against terrorist attacks and its
earnings will not be materially affected.”
Lowy, is described by the
Sydney Morning Herald as “a self-made man with a strong interest in the
Holocaust and Israeli politics.”
 Play The Pilot for a 13 episode Fox TV series called "The Lone Gunmen" which was aired on 3/2/2001 !!!Before 9/11/2001!!!.
In the pilot episode the bad guys fly a passenger plane by remote control with intentions of crashing it into the World Trade Center...
The villains were a Pentagon insider faction ...
The motive to inflame the public and thereby legitimize new military budgets and operations ... sound familiar?
Latest on Larry's World Trade Center (ex WTCs 1&2)
250 Greenwich Street (ex WTC7) already a goer
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