Exposing Birther Chief's Foreign Agenda

The first time I saw the founder of the Birther movement,  Dr. Orly Taitz, perform her "ditzy blond routine" on network television, I sensed that all was not as it seemed.  This woman might have been gaining media attention as a loud-mouthed “looney-tune,”  but she was also having a powerful impact on the American body politic.  Within less than a year Taitz had turned nearly sixty percent of the Republican Party into Birthers, who believed the contrived message that President Barack Obama was ineligible for the presidency on account of a so-called missing birth certificate. For all her presumed stupidity and incompetence, Dr. Taitz had also argued her case before the U.S. Supreme Court.  Even more troubling was the fact that this East European woman, who spoke strongly accented English, had convinced seventeen GOP congressmen to push birther legislation in Congress.  Orly Taitz was no hapless idiot, but rather a highly educated, professional.   So, why might she be pretending otherwise? 

The answer came together for me in bits and pieces.  In the early 1980s, I worked in Washington, d.c. as foreign policy adviser to Senator John Tower, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.   The late Texas Senator  was a kind but demanding boss.  When my top-secret security clearance finally came through, I learned to sift through voluminous intelligence reports and data.  But what has lingered over time from that experience, was not the specific details of how foreign countries behave, but rather their style, their interior signature.  

I had seen Taitz's kind of fake-clownish, political manipulation before.  And it had the former U.S.S.R. stamped all over it.  I was not surprised to learn that Taitz was originally from Chisinau, the capital of Moldava, a former republic of the Soviet Union. However, Taitz is no Russian spy.  Her connections and aims are far more sinister.  In "Foreign Elements in Birther Movement Talking 'Ethnic Cleansing'" I noted that she belongs to an ultra-right wing party of Russian immigrants to Israel called Yisrael Beiteinu.  Martin Peretz has in The New Republic described its leader, Avigdor Lieberman, as a “certified gangster” and “neo-fascist.”  This Party despises American Jews.  It feels betrayed by Jewish support in the last presidential election for a non-Caucasian with a Muslim-name for President.   In  PART II Were Birthers in Congress Duped by Attractive Agent Provocateur? I note  the fascist agenda of this group, which conducts its business in Russian, and is obsessed with de-stabilizing the Obama presidency.  The post PART I Were Birthers in Congress Duped by Foreign Agent Provocateur,  also mentions former President Bill Clinton’s observation:

"Russian immigrants to Israel are one of the main obstacles to reaching a peace agreemwnt with the Palestinians.”
  
Political extremists like Orly Taitz and Avigdor Liebrman have no experience with living in a multi-ethnic democracy.  For that matter, they have little if any experience with democracy, itself.  By a three to one margin, members of Yisrael Beiteinu  have developed political paranoia to such a feverish pitch that they advocate the "ethnic cleansing" of all non-Jews from Israel.  Taitz even refused to ride in a car sent by MSNBC for an interview, because she believed the dark-skinned driver to be a Muslim.      

There is another facet to this subject, which I have explored in the post entitled:  Birther Leader Orly Taitz May Not be U.S. Citizen."    Taitz gained naturalized U.S. citizenship,  based on the fact that she had received Israeli citizenship, based on an undocumented declaration of her Russian-Jewish ancestry.  However, studies have shown that nearly have of the one million Russian immigrants who settled in Israel in the 1980s and 1990s, falsely claimed Jewish ancestry, and actually belonged to the Russian Orthodox Christian Church.  Many Russians found immigrating to Israel to be the fastest and easiest way to obtain U.S. citizenship, on account of the special relationship that exists between the two nations.  Dr. Taitz has shown no documentary proof of her Jewish ancestry. Thus, her naturalized American citizenship becomes invalid, if the citizenship she was granted in Israel came about through false representations.