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Michael A. Hoffman II, Editor
Before we get to our column today, please note the following items of
interest:
Prof. David Ray Griffin's upcoming March 30 speech in Oakland,
California: "9/11: The Myth & The Reality" will be Webcast
David Ray Griffin of Claremont College will talk about "9/11: The Myth
& The Reality," on Thursday, March 30th at 7:00p.m. in Oakland,
California at the Grand Lake Theater and will be web-streamed live. You
can go to:
more information about the event, visit:
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John L. Kucek on the Afghan Muslim-Christian controversy:
"Now that President Bush has made a plea for the release of the Afghan
prisoner who does not believe in the Muslim fairy tale, when is he going
to make a plea for release of the European prisoners (Rudolf, Zündel and
Irving) who do not believe in the 'Holocaust' fairy tale?"
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Arabs are "Donkey and Beasts"
The following racist rabbinic filth is not being reported in the US
media:
"The nation of Israel is pure and the Arabs are a nation of donkeys.
They are an evil disaster, an evil devil, and a nasty affliction. The
Arabs are donkeys and beasts. They want to take our girls. They are
endowed with true filthiness. There is pure and there is impure and they
are impure."
--Allegedly stated by Rabbi David Batzri, head of the Magen David
Yeshiva in Jerusalem, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, March
21, 2006
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NEW RESEARCH SHOWS ISRAELI LOBBY IMPEDING AMERICAN INTERESTS
A research paper by two leading American professors, "The Israeli Lobby
and U.S. Foreign Policy,"
[access it here:
has come under attack by the usual suspects and is largely being
accorded the "silent treatment" by the establishment media.
Israeli journalist "Crazy Tom" Segev is comparing this elite academic
study of the Israeli lobby by these distinguished professors, who are
from Harvard and the University of Chicago, with the Protocols!
He writes: "Israel's influence is based on an ancient anti-Semitic myth
about the Jews who rule the world." --Tom Segev
"The Protocols of Harvard and Chicago"
Haaretz, March 23, 2006
Crazy Tom wants to warn us not to even broach the topic of "Israel's
influence" because if we do, we are implicated in racist hatred
("anti-semitism"), and lies about "Jews" ruling the world.
Hyperbole like this is evidence of extreme Zionist egoism and
schizophrenia. The poor persecuted partisans of "Israel," in the act of
explaining how powerless they are, dictate to the world the parameters
of right-think on the subject of the Middle East. Ha!
The authors of this new study of the Israeli lobby are not what you'd
call light-weights: John J. Mearsheimer is professor of political
science and a director of the Program on International Security Policy
at the University of Chicago; and Prof. Stephen M. Walt, teaches at the
John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Mearsheimer and Walt question the relationship between the two allies
from the beginning of their paper:
"The US national interest should be the primary object of American
foreign policy. For the past several decades, however, and especially
since the Six Day War in 1967, the centerpiece of US Middle East policy
has been its relationship with Israel. The combination of unwavering US
support for Israel and the related effort to spread democracy throughout
the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized US
security.
"This situation has no equal in American political history. Why has the
United States been willing to set aside its own security in order to
advance the interests of another state? One might assume that the bond
between the two countries is based on shared strategic interests or
compelling moral imperatives. As we show below, however, neither of
those explanations can account for the remarkable level of material and
diplomatic support that the United States provides to Israel."
The 81-page paper then says that the "overall thrust of US policy in the
region is due almost entirely to US domestic politics, and especially to
the activities of the 'Israel Lobby.'" While other special interest
groups have skewed US policy in their favor, the authors write that no
group has been so successful at diverting the US national interest from
what it should be as the Israel lobby, "while simultaneously convincing
Americans that US and Israeli interests are essentially identical."
The paper also says that the unquestioning relationship with Israel
actually makes winning the war on terror a much more difficult task.
More important, saying that Israel and the US are united by a shared
terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: the US has a
terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with
Israel, not the other way around. Support for Israel is not the only
source of anti-American terrorism, but it is an important one, and it
makes winning the war on terror more difficult.
There is no question that many Al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin
Laden, are motivated by Israel's presence in Jerusalem and the plight of
the Palestinians. Unconditional support for Israel makes it easier for
extremists to rally popular support and to attract recruits. As for
so-called rogue states in the Middle East, they are not a dire threat to
vital US interests, except inasmuch as they are a threat to Israel.
Even if these states acquire nuclear weapons which is obviously
undesirable neither America nor Israel could be blackmailed, because
the blackmailer could not carry out the threat without suffering
overwhelming retaliation. The danger of a nuclear handover to terrorists
is equally remote, because a rogue state could not be sure the transfer
would go undetected or that it would not be blamed and punished
afterwards. The relationship with Israel actually makes it harder for
the US to deal with these states. Israel's nuclear arsenal is one reason
some of its neighbors want nuclear weapons, and threatening them with
regime change merely increases that desire.
(Summary by Tom Regan, Christian Science Monitor).
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