by John Perazzo
119www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2422
120 www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=112243
Health Care
Socialized medical care continued to occupy pride of place on the Soros agenda in the years following the defeat of HillaryCare and the inability of his Project on Death to gain traction. Health care was high on the Obama agenda too, high enough that he focused on it, rather than the failing economy, in a way that puzzled political observers who failed to appreciate the ideological nature of the new administration. During the political debate over "ObamaCare" in 2009 and 2010, one of the most influential pro-reform coalitions backing the President was the Soros-created Health Care for America Now (HCAN), a vast network of organizations supporting a model in which the federal government would be in charge of financing and administering the entire U.S. healthcare system.121
121 http://tinyurl.com/4h9rd6w
HCAN's strategy became the Obama administration's strategy: to try to achieve such a system, which would ultimately culminate in government control as a "single payer," incrementally — in other words a full blown socialist system. The highway to this "solution" would be paved by a "public option" — a government insurance agency to "compete" with existing insurers, so that Americans would be "no longer be at the mercy of the private insurance industry."122 Because such an agency would not need to show a profit in order to remain in business, and because it could tax and regulate its private competitors in whatever fashion it pleased, this "public option" would inevitably force private insurers out of the industry and leave the government as the only alternative. It was a perfect implementation of the gradualist strategy of Obama's radical mentor, Saul Alinsky, who counseled a kind of camel's nose under the tent ap- proach concealing the radical endgame while taking the maximum steps politically feasible at the time. (The public option was taken out of the final legislation because it imperiled the bill's passage in the U.S. Senate; but it remained what ObamaCare strategists called a "next future step" in the federalization of health care.)
In August 2009, with ObamaCare creating In August 2009, with ObamaCare creating widespread grassroots resistance, Soros gave another $5 million to HCAN to promote the administration's campaign and help pass the increasingly unpopular legislation.123
122 http://healthcareforamericanow.org/site/content/about_us/
123http://tinyurl.com/66xml6f
Punishing Israel
If ObamaCare is the one piece of domestic legislation that most bears the stamp of George Soros, the administration's increasing hard line toward Israel is the foreign policy development that most reflects the Soros view of the world beyond Washington. Soros' own ambivalent attitudes toward having been a Jew on the edge of the Holocaust when he was a boy soon developed into a fullblown hostility to the Jewish state. Just as he perceived American policies to have provoked the anti-American jihad and the 9/11 attacks, so he saw Israel as a principal source of anti-Semitism. He has referred to Israel's conflict with the Palestinians as a case of the "victims turning prosecutors."124 Ignoring the terrorist Hamas's call to kill the Jews and wipe Israel off the face of the earth, Soros has argued that a key to a Mideast peace is bringing Hamas "into the peace process."125
124 Soros, , pp. 19
125 Soros with Byron Wien and Krisztina Koenen, Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (John Wiley and Sons, 1995), p. 241.
Soros' views on the Middle East are reflected in a Middle East advocacy group he inspired and funded in 2008 called J Street.126 Like other Soros groups, J Street is meant to counter what he regards as a malignant "conservative" organization, in this case the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), roughly 80 percent of whose members are Democrats but not the kind of Democrats that Soros prefers.
126 www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7458
J Street has called for "a new direction for American policy in the Middle East" and has cautioned Israel not to be too combative against Hamas, on grounds that the latter "has been the government, law and order, and service provider [in Gaza] since it won the elections in January 2006 and especially since June 2007 when it took complete control."127 It has also launched over 8,000 unprovoked rocket attacks on Israeli towns and schoolyards in the same period of time.128 According to J Street the Mid- east conflict is perpetuated chiefly by Israel: "Israel's settlements in the occupied territories have, for over forty years, been an obstacle to peace."129
127 http://tinyurl.com/4mehpus
128 http://idfspokesperson.com/2009/01/03/rocket-statistics-3-jan-2009/
129 www.jstreet.org/page/settlements
These positions marking a break with 60 years of American policy towards Israel are largely indistinguishable from those of the Obama White House. Obama signaled his comfort with J Street's agendas when he sent his then-national security advisor James Jones to deliver the keynote address at the organization's annual conference in October 2009.130
130http://frontpagemag.com/2009/12/30/blaming-israel-first-by-p-davidhornik/
Knowing that his comments on Israel made him controversial in the Jewish community, Soros initially tried to conceal his support of J Street from the public for fear that it might alienate other potential backers of the organization. But in September 2010 The Washington Times penetrated the veil, revealing that from 2008-2010, Soros and his two children — Jonathan and Andrea — had given a total of $750,000 to J Street and that the organization's Advisory Council includes a number of individuals with close ties to him.131
131 www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/24/soros-funder-liberal-jewish-american-lobby/; http://jstreet.org/supporters/advisory_council/
When the streets of Cairo erupted in February 2011 and Obama waffled as Mubarak tried to hold power, Soros quickly moved to give the President a signal to undercut America's unpleasant ally of 40 years and to open the door to the Muslim Brotherhood, a jihadist cult that has spawned 12 terrorist organizations including al-Qaeda and Hamas.132
132www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386
133 www.georgesoros.com/articles-essays/entry/why_obama_has_to_get_egypt_right
In a Washington Post op-ed written during the early stages of the protests, Soros wrote: "President Obama personally and the United States as a country have much to gain by moving out in front ... [D]oing so would open the way to peaceful progress in the region. The Muslim Brotherhood's cooperation with Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate who is seeking to run for president, is a hopeful sign that it intends to play a constructive role in a democratic political system ... The main stumbling block is Israel ... . Fortunately, Obama is not beholden to the religious right, which has carried on a veritable vendetta against him. [And] the American Israel Public Affairs Committee is no longer the sole representative of the Jewish community ... ."133
Conclusion
If George Soros were a lone billionaire, or if the Shadow Party consisted of a few disgruntled billionaires, these facts and achievements would not be so ominous. But the Shadow Party is far more than a reflection of the prejudices of one special interest or one passing generation. The Shadow Party has united the forces of the radical and "liberal" left while expelling moderates from the Democratic Party coalition. The Shadow Party is the current incarnation of a socialist movement that has been at war with the free market economy and the political system based on liberty and individual rights for more than two hundred years. It is a movement that has learned to conceal its ultimate goal, which is a totalitarian state, in the seductive rhetoric of "progressivism" and "social justice." But its determination to equalize outcomes, its zeal for state power and for government control as the solution to social problems, and its antagonism to America as a defender of freedom are the tell-tale signs of a radical movement whose agenda is to change fundamentally and unalterably the way Americans have lived.
The authors wish to thank Adam Schrager and Rob Witwer, authors of The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Co
lorado, for their insights into "the Colorado Miracle."
