An update to our challenge for readers to find the supposed ‘Israeli conspiracy’ behind the New Jersey governor’s departure — Al Jazeera posts the statement of one ‘Andy Martin’:
“People have been confused by the McGreevey sex scandal,” says Martin. “But McGreevey’s dilemma is not a gay sex scandal. It is an Israeli intelligence operation gone sour. This is not a scandal about ‘sex.’ It is a scandal about ‘secrets’, Martin says.
“McGreevey said he had sex. He did. Golan Cipel says he is not gay. He’s not. They are both right. Mr. Cipel was a junior Mossad case officer, originally posted to New York under official cover. The Mossad is well known for using human sex toys. McGreevey was lured into a relationship that was intended to penetrate New Jersey’s homeland defenses.
[The far-left site Counterpunch has a similar angle: “There may be good reasons why the neo-conservatives want to play down Cipel’s Israeli roots–McGreevey may have been set up in an attempt to ruin him and influence the upcoming U.S. presidential election.”]
The Wilmington (DE) News Journal has the appropriate response:
We have been trying to find the right theory to explain New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s disgrace over a homosexual affair with a man he tried to put in charge of the state’s homeland security. Was it a moral failing (the conservative view) or his true sexual identity (the liberal take)?
All wrong, we are told. The real reason was Mossad — an Israeli intelligence operation designed to … here we falter.
The source for this information, the Arab television network al-Jazeera, doesn’t make that point clear. It says the New Jersey scandal was not sexual blackmail but a spy scheme to put Golan Cipel, an Israeli and the object of Gov. McGreevey’s desire, in a “position of intense interest” to Mossad.
This probably makes sense to the many al-Jazeera viewers who have an explanation for every problem in the world: Blame Israel.
But it’s not working for us.
