- Jim recently attended a mini JFK conference in San Francisco with notables like Peter Dale Scott, Bill Simpich, etc..
- Jim spoke about JFK and his policies regarding the Middle East at the well exclusive JFK mini conference.
- What is currently happening in the Middle East is very relevant. JFK assassination research continues to be VERY relevant.
- Jim feels Nasser has been the most influential Arab leader in the Middle East during the 20th century, perhaps ever.
- Nasser was not an Islamic fundamentalist, he was a Socialist. Nasser was not a monarchist he was a Pan-Arabist.
- Saudi Arabia did not like Nasser. Nasser believed all of the oil in the Middle East belonged to all of the Arabs.
- Nasser wanted funds from the oil bearing nations to create highways, schools, hospitals & development of the Middle East.
- Nasser felt that all of the countries in the middle east should be in a confederation, protecting their joint interests.
- Saudi Arabia was a monarchist country and Islamic state, inevitably the royalist families would come to blows with Nasser.
- For a short time Syria was united with Egypt, known as the United Arab Republic.
- There was a war of succession in 1963 in Yemen that Nasser got involved in.
- Followers of Nasser in Yemen faced off with the royalist family. Saudi Arabia backed the royalist family to weaken Nasser.
- Israel very much feared Nasser, believing he was the one Arab leader who could unify the Middle East against Israel.
- Israel tried twice to destabilize Nasser, in 1954 with the Lavon Affair & in 1956 with the Suez crisis.
- The Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic troops for Saudi Arabia tried to assassinate Nasser twice, once in 1954 and 1965.
- A perceptive Kennedy saw Nasser as opposition to the medieval Saudi Arabia and a balancing point to Israel.
- When questioned about he feelings regarding JFK, Sirhan expressed deep respect, as JFK was standing up for Palestine.
- Sirhan loved JFK. He admired that JFK was putting pressure on Israel to let the Palestinian people to return to their homes.
- JFK promised Arab leaders he would do his best to make Israel comply with the 1948 United Nations resolution.
- All of JFK’s efforts for peace in the Middle East ended with his assassination. The 1948 UN resolution has been ignored.
- How did JFK’s influence in the Middle East effect the Arab people? What were JFK’s goals?
- JFK and Nasser started a long letter writing campaign to each other that lasted until JFK was murdered.
- Gamal Abdel Nasser, 2nd President of Egypt, died unexpectedly Sept 28, 1970 at only 52 years of age.
- Kennedy had felt that John Foster Dulles had made a big mistake turning on Nasser and supporting Saudi Arabia.
- When Kennedy was murdered, Nasser couldn’t sleep
- Nasser ordered JFK’s funeral to be aired 3 times as he fell into a depression.
- Did Nasser understand that JFK’s assassination was the beginning of the end?
- When Nasser died, 6 million people poured into Cairo to watch Nasser’s funeral. Watch Video Here
- 46 people were killed and 80 injured in the stampede of people.
- RFK wanted the American Zionist Council to register as an Foreign lobby.
- Nicholas Kazenbach, after JFK’s death & RFK resigned, ended enforcement against the AZC. Now look where we’re at.
- Johnson gave the AZC tax break backdated back to 1956. This became the creation of AIPAC.
- The conflict in the Middle East and Israel was Atomic weapons.
- Atomic weapons is the cause of the current situation with Iran!
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