Chicago’s Supermob and the Creation of Israel http://hamsayeh.net/society/679-chicagos-supermob-and-the-creation-of-israel.html

Just reading an excellent book about how the Chicago Outfit, through its labor-racketeering lawyer Sidney Korshak, took over California politics, eventually becoming America’s hidden power brokers. Nothing here that readers of Jeff Gates’ Guilt by Association are not already familiar with.What’s perhaps surprising, though, is that it’s written by Gus Russo, a former lead reporter for PBS’s “Frontline” series, published by a mainstream publisher, and it even got a review, albeit a dismissive one by a self-described “sensitive Ashkenazi” reviewer, in the New York Times.

Although Russo doesn’t say much about the Israeli angle, there are some interesting snippets such as this quote from Cook County state’s attorney Ralph Berkowitz:“Jake Arvey told Truman that if he does not recognize the state of Israel, then he couldn’t guarantee that he could carry the Twenty-fourth Ward [in the 1948 presidential election]. Let alone the county and the state.”

Jacob “Jake” Arvey, is described in Supermob, as a mentor to many of Chicago’s most “well-connected” Jewish attorneys and a crucial vote deliverer for Democratic presidents such as FDR, Truman and JFK. According to Russo, Arvey’s ward organization “created absurd Democratic pluralities for Franklin Roosevelt — such as 29,000-700 (1936) and 29,533-2,204 (1944) — and his successor, Harry Truman…. [Arvey] freely admitted the election frauds perpetrated by his precinct captains.”

[See: The Passionate Attachment http://thepassionateattachment.com/2011/05/11/chicagos-supermob-and-the-creation-of-israel/