But though we know that the CIA was at the center of the coup d'état against John F. Kennedy, the details have not all been resolved. Specifically, we do not know everything about the precise chain of command, whose idea it was in the first place, and which powerful figures proposed or signed off on the assassination. And we do not know everything about the relative power levels of the various players: who sought whose okay, who was giving orders and who was taking them, who was paying whom, and so on.
My recent radio guest Dr. Laurent Guyénot believes that Michael Collins Piper's thesis - that Israel and its global Zionist crime syndicate were major players if not THE main player in the JFK assassination - must be taken seriously.
Israel had a powerful motive. According to a recent Jerusalem Post article:
"History shows that some issues are so critical that even the president of the United States cannot force Israel's hand... The sharpest example took place almost 50 years ago, when John F. Kennedy demanded that David Ben-Gurion end Israel's nuclear deterrent program, deemed necessary to ensure Jewish survival in a very hostile world."















Comment: While we find consideration of Israeli motive for being involved in the assassination to be interesting, we don't think it's a matter of their possible role being one that was 'over and above' the CIA's role, nor the role of other actors. Rather, as Laurent Guyénot suggested, the Israelis, like the other actors, would have had opportunity to advance their interests by getting involved in a plot that was already underway.
See also:
Who killed Kennedy: CIA, LBJ, or the Truly "Unspeakable"?
Kennedy, the Lobby and the Bomb