[Taking Goldberg's pissing on France below as an act of what he thinks is liberation, may we now feel free (in the interests of the French-born notion of genuine equality) in proclaiming, per Mr. Goldberg, that "Jews are a big smelly cheese in the world's grocery" and hope for the best Christmas present of all: the "destruction of Jews as an idea?" Myth? Myth? Someone say myth? It is not the French, Mr. Goldberg, who set the standards for moral deception. The French were wrestling with the very concept of Western-style democracy when your ancestors -- Talmudic Jews -- were probably drawing pickpocket tag-team straws over which gentile to rip-off next. "Joy to the world, and down with the Jews!" Does that sound kosher? No, Mr. Goldberg? But against the French it's OK? May we fairly assume then that your dirty little dual moral standard is the very foundation of your own sense of (Jewish) "liberty?"]
France is a big smelly cheese in the world’s grocery,
by Jonah Goldberg, Union-Leader (New Hampshire), December 27, 2004
"Ah, Christmastime. Joy to the world. God bless us, everyone. Through the rapturous din of carols and chimes, a stray condemnatory note can be heard, chastising the yuletide revelers for being too materialistic, too concerned with gifts that come wrapped in pretty paper and shiny bows. Who can help but sympathize with such concerns, as the groaning hordes of shoppers appear like Huns outside the doors of Wal-Mart? That is why I am so grateful for a special Christmas present — holiday present, if you must — for the whole world. No mere thing or shiny bauble, this present is an idea, glowing with an ecumenism that fires the mind and illuminates the heart, uniting nearly all mankind in fellowship. What idea is that? Why, the total destruction of France, of course. No, no, I don’t mean — or want — to kill the French people and salt the earth where they live. That would be wrong. I mean the destruction of France as an idea, as a shining fromagerie on a hill, serving as a beacon of asininity to left-wing radicals and a siren to kleptocratic Third World dictators, who, after a career of mass murder, want decent medical care, a good lawyer and a fresh croissant. Two new books are out that attack the cheese-eating surrender monkeys from two of France’s three most vulnerable sides, facts and logic (the third vulnerability, duh, is its border with Germany). For centuries France has claimed a monopoly on political virtue by glomming all the credit for the Enlightenment, and by pretending to be its anointed protector throughout history. Gertrude Himmelfarb demolishes the first part of this myth in her scintillating intellectual history “The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments.” The Enlightenment was that moment when mankind allegedly first threw off the shackles of superstition, tribalism and tyranny, and embraced reason, universal human rights and democracy. Personally, my own view on debates over the Enlightenment can be summarized by Mike Myers’ Scottish crank character from “So I Married an Axe Murderer”: “If it’s not Scottish, it’s crap.” Himmelfarb updates this ancient wisdom by persuasively placing the Scottish Enlightenment under the rubric of the British Enlightenment, so as to join Edmund Burke and Adam Smith in a single tradition. She also adds another Enlightenment, the American, to the mix as well. The French have long tried to claim that the American Revolution is merely an offshoot of the French Enlightenment project. Himmelfarb disagrees. She shows that the French took a different road to modernity than the Anglo-Americans, who took similar but slightly different routes. The British valued virtue more than liberty, the Americans had it the other way around. But where the French differed is that they sought to replace the religion of old Europe with a new cult of reason. They even made Notre Dame Cathedral into a “Temple of Reason.” By making a religion out of politics, with the state at its center, the French never embraced liberty the way Anglo-Americans did. It was this legacy which lent intellectual heft to all the great dictators, Napoleon, Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin. My friend and colleague John Miller picks up the story basically where Himmelfarb leaves off. In “Our Oldest Enemy,” he and his co-writer Mark Molesky debunk the mythology that America and France were anything like sister republics fighting side by side in lady liberty’s defense. Yes, the French throne — not the Enlightenment philosophes — helped us out during the American Revolution, but that was a calculated attempt to give Britain a wedgie. But before that — during the French and Indian War — and almost ever after, the French have practiced a nasty Realpolitik towards America and the world. The French supported the Confederacy in the Civil War, and let’s not count how many Frenchmen supported the Germans — and the Holocaust ... So joy to the world, and down with the French! But I repeat myself."

"Meet Market." ''Fockers'' sets Christmas record. The comedy sequel earns $44.7 million over the weekend, outscoring ''Fat Albert'' and ''Aviator'',
by Gary Susman, Entertainment Weekly, December 27, 2004
"Is there a nice irony in the fact that the movie that now holds the record for Christmas business is about a proudly Jewish family? Maybe it was Barbra Streisand's return to the screen after eight years that got moviegoers so verklemmt over Meet the Fockers that the film rang up an estimated $44.7 million over the weekend. (The Meet the Parents sequel has earned a total of $68.5 million since it opened on Wednesday.) That $44.7 million beats the Christmas weekend record set two years ago by Leonardo DiCaprio's Catch Me If You Can ($30 million), while Fockers' Christmas Day take of $19 million topped the $14 million record set last Dec. 25 by The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King."

[The "Indymedia" Internet "open publishing" news sites are supposed to be efforts at democratic, progressive political revelation -- grassroots expressions of news who can't get elsewhere. Here below, you'll see how the Zionist Arm controls the political Left, like everywhere else. Wendy Campbell's censored comments are here.]
Indybay in SF Censors Anti-Zionist Activist,
by Wendy Campbell, Santa Cruz Indymedia, December 2004
"This article has been deleted with code."

[JTR contributor's note: "See list of speakers and agenda." Our comment: We're trying hard to squeeze 5 non-Jewish names out of this, but it might be a stretch.]
Free Speech in War Time, [Conference: January 16-17, 2005]
Rutgers-Camden Law School
"Participating speakers:
"Floyd Abrams, Cahill Gordon & Reindel, New York
Derrick Bell, New York University School of Law
Lisa Brown, American Constitution Society
The Honorable Michael Chertoff, United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
David Cole, Georgetown University Law Center
Ronald Collins, First Amendment Center
Robert Corn-Revere, Davis Wright Tremaine, Washington, D.C.
Eric Foner, Columbia University, Department of History
Charles Fried, Harvard Law School
Elena Kagan, Harvard Law School
Stanley Katz, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Earl Maltz, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden
David McIntosh, Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Wash., D.C., & Federalist Society
David Rabban, University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Rand Rosenblatt, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden
Frederick Schauer, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
John Seigenthaler, Founding Editorial Director, USA Today
David Skover, Seattle University School of Law
Rayman Solomon, Rutgers University School of Law at Camden
Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School
David Strauss, University of Chicago Law School

[The Judeocentric government within a government?]
From Eilat to Galilee, local D.A. sees complex Israel on JCRC trip,
by joe eskenazi, Jewish Bulletin, December 17, 2004
"Kamala Harris, who grew up in Montreal surrounded by Jewish friends and even extended family, always yearned to visit Israel. But it’s a long way from Quebec to the Western Wall, and Harris never made it to the Jewish state. Until now. The San Francisco district attorney was one of about a dozen mostly elected officials taken on a tour of Israel late last month by the Jewish Community Relations Council ... The JCRC has been bringing Bay Area community leaders to Israel for the past 15 years with the aim of shedding some light on the nation’s myriad complexities and spurring person-to-person relationships with Israelis in similar leadership positions. “As we expose groups to the various issues within Israel, we give them a good picture, if you will, of the beauty of the land and its history,” said Rabbi Doug Kahn, executive director of the JCRC about the trips, which are underwritten by the Jewish Community Endowment Fund and Bernard Osher Foundation. “Our view is to open up this extraordinary society to our participants and help encourage a variety of long-term relationships to be built as well as a lifetime of interest in terms of Middle East issues.” In addition to Harris, trip participants included state Assemblymembers Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento, Johan Klehs (D-San Leandro) and Rebecca Cohn (D-Saratoga); Jesse Blout, the director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development; and Steve Cohn, a Sacramento City Council member."

An Israeli Interrogator, and a Tale of Torture,
New York Times, December 27, 2004
"To the Editor: In your excerpts from an interview with a former Israeli interrogator, Michael Koubi ("Psychology and Sometimes a Slap: The Man Who Made Prisoners Talk," Week in Review, Dec. 12), you wrote: "Despite Palestinian accusations to the contrary, Mr. Koubi said Israeli
interrogators use only 'very low levels' of physical coercion." But every credible Israeli, international and Palestinian human rights organization that has investigated the situation has reached the same conclusion: interrogation procedures used by Israel from 1987 to 1993 (during which time Mr. Koubi boasts he conducted such questioning) constituted torture. Far more than just "two slaps" or putting a "cover on a his head to scare him," these methods of torture included forcing prisoners to sit on low chairs, their legs bent below the chair and their hooded heads thrust forward, or tying them to a pipe to force them to remain standing, sometimes on tiptoe or with arms stretched up behind them, for long periods. These types of torture were often accompanied by sleep deprivation and exposure to temperature extremes. Prisoners were violently shaken (at least one prisoner died from being shaken) and threatened with death or the rape of members of their family. Reports of severe beatings were common, including on the genitals and other sensitive areas. While originally justified on the grounds of finding "ticking bombs," the use of such methods of torture became routine. Trying to paint Israeli interrogation practices as merely an intellectual game is
clearly a denial of the facts. And allowing Mr. Koubi to paint himself as a hero is a further violation of the rights of those whom he tortured. - William F. Schulz, Executive Director, Amnesty International U.S.A., New York, Dec. 20, 2004"

Zionism has exahausted itself." An interview with Amos Elon,
by Ari Shavit, CounterPunch (from Haaretz - Israel), December 27, 2004
"But many people don't really know who Amos Elon is. The man who was once the preeminent journalist in Israel has been totally erased from the memory. The man who was the chief chronicler of the Israeli story has ceased to register in the Israeli consciousness. He is much better known to readers of the New York Review of Books than to readers of Ha'aretz ...
Have you developed a feeling of alienation toward Israel?
"Not alienation. Disappointment. I have no common language with the people who are at the top in politics. I think they're wrong. Their style repulses me. And maybe there is alienation because I don't know them anymore. I'm not involved with them. I used to know everyone. I used to be intimately acquainted with them. And today it's a group that I don't know. And maybe there is alienation because of the sharp rightward shift in Israel. Toward the right and toward religion.
"Do you find Israel to be barbaric, unenlightened, nationalistic?"
In Israel there's the `Gush Dan' state and the political state. The `Gush Dan' state is a state of live-and-let-live. Of tolerance. Of the desire for peace and a good life. But the political state, well, you know what it looks like.
"What does it look like?"
It's partly quasi-fascist and partly religious with narrow horizons.
"Quasi-fascist?"
Quasi-fascist in the sense that abstract principles of religion are dictating our fate without any democratic process. There are religious people here who believe they've put their finger on the very essence of being. They know everything. They're in direct contact with God" ...
The critical mistake of `67 opened the door to dark forces that overwhelmed the Israel to which you belonged, to which you felt a genuine closeness?
"There were two sources of the perversion: the mixture of religion with political policy and the secular right's military adventurism. Force. The worship of force. By the way, it hasn't only come from the Likud. It also came from Ahdut Ha'avoda (the United Workers Party, a precursor of the Labor Party), from people like Allon and Galili. Ahdut Ha'avoda always seemed to me to be a party of farmers fighting over each piece of land with pitchforks."
And the result is that this place has corrupted itself?
"The occupation certainly corrupted Israeli society. There is no dispute about that."
Has Israel slid into a situation that places it in a category other than the democratic Western nations?
"Without a doubt. And I'm still wracking my brain wondering what those people were thinking after the Six-Day War. How did they think they could keep it? What did Dayan think? Did he really think that if we just treat them nicely, everything will be fine? What provinciality it was. What historic ignorance. Had this ever happened anywhere else in the world? From this perspective, the Israeli occupation is perhaps the least successful attempt at colonialism that I can think of. This is the crappiest colonial regime that I can think of in the modern age."
How is it worse than French or British colonialism?
"In the French and British colonies, there were mixed marriages. In India, for instance. But especially with the French. They're freer than the British are in bed, that's well-known. But both the French and the British tried to co-opt the elites. As a rule, whenever a European nation took over territory in the Third World, it tried to embrace the elite. Here there was no such attempt. There were no mixed marriages, there was no significant commercial cooperation. The only human partnership was in the lowest dimension of all: crime" ...
What you're saying is that it's an illusion to think that the disengagement will solve the problem.
"Of course it's an illusion. Gaza will explode. I think there will be a terrible explosion there. That's why I still say today that the victory in the Six-Day War was worse than a defeat" ...
Is Amos Elon a Zionist, a post-Zionist or an anti-Zionist?
"I definitely agree with the idea that there was a need to establish a state-of-the-Jews in Israel for those Jews who want to live here. I also recognize the right of Jews who don't want to live here not to do so. They're doing okay. And in their daily life, they're refuting the Zionists' claim that they were doomed to extinction. I think that Zionism has exhausted itself. Precisely because it accomplished its aims. If the Zionism of today isn't a success story, it's the fault of the Zionists. It's because of the religio-zation and Likudization of Zionism and because what was supposed to be a state-of-the-Jews has become a Jewish state."

Mahathir asks Muslim states not to trade in US dollars,
The Daily Star (Malyasia), December 19, 2004
"Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad yesterday urged Muslim countries not to trade in US dollars as it only strengthens the capabilities of the United States to develop and supply arms to Israel that 'they then use to kill Muslims'. He also urged Muslim countries to put to one side their differences and concentrate on developing their economic potential and argued that democracy has 'weakened' many Muslim countries. Mahathir was talking at a breakfast meeting organised by the Bangladesh Enterprise Institute (BEI) on "Islam and the West". "The same dollars that we trade in are being used to develop and supply US arms to Israel that kill Muslims," Mahathir stated. "I've asked Arabs to sell oil in other currencies. If we don't use US dollars, the currency will become useless". He explained that if the oil and other raw materials possessed by Muslim countries are sold in currencies other than dollars, the dollar would devalue. "If the US is poor it cannot dominate the world."

[Jews and sports, here.]
The Owner. The Enigma,
By SCOTT BARANCIK and DAMIAN CRISTODERO, St. Petersburg Times (Florida,), December 26, 2004
"Malcolm Glazer is not a sports guy, but he's in on some of sport s' biggest deals. He's not a high society guy, but he lives with in it. And everyone's talking about him, except him ... In the 10 years since [Malcolm] Glazer bought the Bucs [Tampa Bay Buccaneers] for a then-record $192-million, that picture has become even less defined - strange because Glazer probably never has been on a more public stage. Not only does he own the NFL's ninth most-valuable team, valued at $779-million by Forbes, he is attempting to buy England's Manchester United soccer club, one of the world's richest sports franchises. Tampa Bay Lightning president Ron Campbell called it "the biggest prize in all of sports" ... He leaves the Bucs' day-to-day operation to sons Bryan and Joel. "He told me more than once that he was buying the team because the boys loved it," said Sandy Freedman, who was Tampa's mayor when the purchase went through. "But you don't go out and spend that kind of money because your boys want a toy. He knew it was going to be a smart business investment." But talk about it? As far as Glazer is concerned, that is not in the job description. "He could be a very visible guy," said James Jennings Sheeran, publisher of Palm Beach Society magazine, "but I don't think he either needs that or wants it; I mean a fronting role, like a George Steinbrenner. My feeling - in Palm Beach and New York, where I lived - the less they say, the bigger and better they are." And the more difficult it is to discern perception from reality about this American-born son of Lithuanian immigrants, who grew his fortune after taking over his father's Rochester, N.Y., wholesale jewelry business. There is the Glazer who holds dear his immediate family, including wife Linda and their six children, but who fought his four older sisters in court over their mother's estate. There is the Glazer who grew up blue-collar, but was sued by residents of mobile home parks he owned in the Rochester area for allegedly overcharging them, including charging extra for children and pets. There is the Glazer who, along with his family, was left $300 in a cigar box when his father died, according to a 1995 St. Petersburg Times article. Glazer's sister Jeanette Goldstein recently told the Times her brother has misportrayed his childhood. "He did not," Goldstein said, "come from nothing." Perhaps most interesting is the Glazer who jealously guards his privacy, but simultaneously has pushed himself into the international spotlight with his pursuit of high-profile sports franchises. Before buying the Bucs, Glazer eyed the NFL's New England Patriots, an expansion football franchise for Baltimore and baseball's San Diego Padres and Pittsburgh Pirates. In 1999, Glazer reportedly attempted to buy the New York Jets. Last year he tried to buy the Dodgers for an estimated $450-million. Most recently he has driven Manchester United's proud fans into an anti-Glazer frenzy with an anticipated bid for the team that, if successful, could cost well over $1-billion. "For such a reclusive personality, he has huge, high-profile ambitions," Campbell said. "There's an interesting lesson there. We just don't know what it is, because people rarely get to talk to him." Glazer and his children declined interview requests for this story, as did all but one of the 11 NFL owners contacted - including those who serve with Glazer on the league's powerful finance committee - and many nonfootball associates. But interviews with dozens of friends and acquaintances provided some insights into this very private man, beyond his stewardship of a franchise that went from NFL laughingstock to 2002 Super Bowl champions. There are his business principles ("All gamblers die broke," he once said), his strong identification with his Jewish heritage and his ability to make fun of himself. Glazer's homes are on the market for a combined $49-million, though he'll likely remain in the one that doesn't sell first. He takes cabs to the airport ... British newspapers have not been kind to Malcolm Glazer since he began buying shares of Manchester United stock by the millions. The Sun titled its Glazer profile "Trailer-Park Tyrant." A Times of London bio bore the headline "Glazer: Ruthless, Religious and Decidedly Rich." The Manchester Evening News branded him an "American predator." Supporters call the portrayals unfair. "He's a good businessman," Rochester attorney and family friend Beryl Nusbaum said. "That's not a sin" ... From a business perspective, Glazer's rules of engagement might appear smart and admirable. To a sports fan, a tenant or a small investor, the same rules can suggest avarice. Take the "slumlord" label, one of the most enduring assaults on Glazer's character. Several months after Glazer bought the Buccaneers in 1995, a tenant group drawn from several mobile home parks he owned sued, accusing him and holding company First Allied Corp. of illegally charging an extra $5-per-month for pets and $3-per-month for each resident beyond the first two per household. The residents sought $100-million in punitive damages ... But Marasco blamed Glazer for his own bad publicity. "He could have went a long way to making amends to these folks rather inexpensively. (But) I think he dug in his heels and said, "If you don't like it, sue me.' " Minority shareholders of Zapata Corp., a publicly traded Rochester company Glazer controls, have not been shy about suing him. Several suits said Zapata made questionable investments in other Glazer-controlled companies. At least two accused him of improperly using Zapata to finance his purchase of the Bucs. All but one of the suits was dropped, a fact rarely mentioned by the British media. But many shareholders still question the propriety of Glazer's four-year consulting deal with Zapata, which pays him $122,500 per month through mid 2006, plus health benefits. Glazer's son Avram is the company's chairman and CEO. He and three other Glazer children form a majority on the board, which includes publicist Leffle ... Glazer's humble origins are a matter of some conjecture. Nusbaum, the Rochester attorney who handles Glazer's business litigation and has been friends since childhood with Glazer's younger brother, Jerome, said the family had a "rough time." "If they had money," Nusbaum said, "there was absolutely nothing they ever did that showed it." Nonsense, said Jeanette Goldstein, one of four older sisters who fought Glazer over their mother's estate in the 1980s. She said her estranged brother likes to burnish his rags-to-riches legend. "We had everything possible," said Goldstein, 83. "I had music lessons, I had violin lessons, we had dancing lessons. ... I mean, he (Glazer) can stand on his own qualifications. He doesn't have to knock down my mother and father" ... A new group [in Palm Beach] called the Palm Beach Fellowship of Christians and Jews encouraged interfaith dialogue and helped establish the town's first Hanukkah celebration. Wealth, not pedigree, had become the new currency. Glazer, who lost a number of relatives in the Holocaust, has contributed generously to both synagogues and hosted fundraisers for them at his home."He keeps kosher, he's a very proud, conscientious Jew," said Palm Beach Synagogue Rabbi Moshe Scheiner, who guessed that half of Palm Beach's in-season population today is Jewish. "And he has raised his family, and now his grandchildren, with a strong sense of Jewish identity." Though Palm Beach may be conflicted about its growing Jewish population, the town has never been inhospitable to ostentatious displays of wealth. Rolls-Royces are a common sight along glittery Worth Avenue, home to boutiques like Jimmy Choo and Cartier. The average single-family home sold for $3.5-million last year, said local real estate attorney and Glazer friend Les Evans. At Cafe L'Europe, where entrees range from $30 to $40 and Beluga caviar costs $100 an ounce, Glazer can get a good seat without causing a stir. For a rich man who seeks privacy and anonymity, there might be no better town to burrow ... A quiet giver, primarily to Jewish causes, Glazer is not known in Palm Beach or the Tampa Bay area as an important philanthropist. The Glazer Family Foundation, founded in 1999, donated more than $1.5-million worth of grants, Bucs tickets and other in-kind gifts during its first four years ... Aside from owning the Bucs, Glazer might be best known in Palm Beach for a couple of minor scrapes. One involved a second beachfront property he owns. In 2000, Glazer paid $14-million for a 11,000-square-foot mansion designed by famed architect Addison Mizner. He then sought local permission to move the landmark house toward the back of the lot and demolish some secondary buildings to make way for a new, larger dwelling on the beach. But Glazer's attorney and architect couldn't persuade the town's Landmark Preservation Commission that failing to do so constituted a "financial hardship." The estate is back on the market for $29.5-million. Another scrape involved Glazer's house at 1482 S Ocean Blvd. In 2001, next-door neighbor Bill Wallace saw a real-estate brochure for the house, which Glazer had listed for sale, and worried that potential buyers might misconstrue access rights to a beach stairwell that crosses both properties. Wallace, who in five years had never met his neighbor, said he called Glazer to discuss the issue. He offered to let the Glazers continue to use the wooden stairwell as long as they lived next door. But when Wallace said he'd demolish the stairs if Glazer sold the home, Glazer went from "very nice" to "very defensive," Wallace testified later. Glazer surprised Wallace with a lawsuit, arguing that years of continuous use legally entitled his family and its successors to permanent access to the stairwell. The case dragged on for more than three years before a judge dismissed it in June 2004. In the meantime, a contractor told Glazer he could build a stairwell entirely on his own land for $20,000. Glazer declined, saying it would lead to a less desirable section of the beach."Is it your testimony that the Wallaces should leave those steps so you can maximize the (resale) value of your property?" Wallace's lawyer asked during a deposition."Yeah," Glazer answered. "They should leave the steps alone."

[Older article: No stone is left unturned in the Jewish war against Palestinians and the Arabs. And it is a war of a very powerful network against the collectively weak. So if it is kosher to sue the murderers of innocent victims of violence in the Middle East, and there was such a thing as a truly objective legal system out of the West, then Israel would go bankrupt with lost lawsuits in an afternoon. But it doesn't work that way. The game is set as always to appease Jewish suffering and complaint, and no one else ever counts.]
Lawsuit accuses Arab Bank of aiding terrorists. Institution paid suicide bombers, laundered money, suit alleges,
CNN, July 6, 2004
"Six families of U.S. citizens killed or hurt in terrorist attacks in the Middle East have filed an $875 million lawsuit against the Arab Bank, accusing it of financing terrorist actions in Israel and the West Bank. The lawsuit states "the Jordanian-based banking institution with a branch in New York is knowingly administering the distribution of financial benefits to terrorists, the families of terrorists and foreign terrorist organizations as part of a scheme to encourage and facilitate acts of international terrorism." An Arab Bank spokesman in New York told CNN he had no immediate comment on the lawsuit, but that "a response will be coming soon' ... The Arab Bank has close to 20 branches in cities in the West Bank, the suit said."

Dreaming of a white Chrismukkah,
Yahoo! News (From AFP), December 23, 2004
"When President George W. Bush kicked off his year-end press conference this week by wishing everyone a "Happy Holidays," he was flirting with an issue that has triggered protests, lawsuits and boycotts. Touted as the season of harmony, Christmas in the United States has become a source of discord and debate over how to celebrate the holiday without promoting religion in a way that might alienate non-Christians. The argument is a perennial one, but this year, with the Christian right taking credit for Bush's re-election, traditionalists are fighting harder than ever against what they see as a political effort to take the Christ out of Christmas. "A covert and deceptive war has been waged on Christmas to remove any mention of it from the public square during the Christmas season," declares the California-based Committee to Save Merry Christmas on its website. The committee has launched a campaign to boycott major retailers, including big-name department stores like Macy's, which favour in-store decorations proclaiming "Happy Holidays" or "Season's Greetings" rather than "Merry Christmas." ... A school district in New Jersey achieved national media attention for banning Christmas carols, even instrumental versions, while the organisers of a "Winterfest" in Wichita, Kansas, opted to call their
Christmas tree a "Community tree." The main battleground for the Happy Holidays Vs. Merry Christmas debate is the public school system, as witnessed by two letters to ... The American holiday season kicks off with the non-denominational celebration of Thanksgiving, but then gets more complicated with the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, closely followed by Christmas. Jewish groups have been prominent in lobbying schools to keep the seasonal celebrations inclusive for the 18 percent of Americans who are non-Christians. "People get carried away on both sides," said Todd Gutnick, a spokesman for the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, which sends letters out to schools every year offering guidelines for recognising religious and cultural diversity. "We are not out to ban Christmas," Gutnick said. "We're just worried about situations, in a school for example, where a child might feel alienated. That can be hurtful." The ADL cited an incident when students in one classroom were working on Christmas-angel arts and crafts project, and Jewish students were instructed to leave and work on another project in the hallway. A lighter resolution to the debate has been put forward by the creators of the television teen soap "The O.C." in the form of a hybrid holiday called "Chrismukkah." The idea has gained some traction among inter-faith couples and
even spawned a website selling Chrismukkah gifts, including T- shirts with slogans like "Oy Joy" and "Merry Mazeltov."

Figures show new low in immigration to Israel,
By Amiram Barkat, Haaretz (Israel), December 27, 2004
"Absorption Minister Tzipi Livni presented the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee on Monday with immigration figures for 2004 indicating a new low in new arrivals for the past year. By the end of 2004, 21,744 immigrants are expected to arrive, 13 percent down from last year's 25,009 immigrants. There was a dramatic 70 percent drop in immigration from Argentina. The Absorption Ministry and the Jewish Agency both attribute the drop to economic recovery in Argentina in the past year. Immigrant assistance organizations in Israel believe immigrants' difficulties upon arrival deter family members from following in their footsteps. Alternative Laboral, a voluntary organization that helps Argentinean immigrants look for work, reports that requests for assistance have not decreased ... The Jewish Agency has invested $10 million in the past three years in Argentinean Jewry, which Abir says has not gone down the drain. "We invested most of the money in rescuing the local education system and made a substantial contribution to preventing assimilation. We are in a holding action, after which we hope to see immigration increase again." Two hundred new immigrants from the U.S. are meanwhile slated to arrive Wednesday on a special flight operated by national air carrier El Al. The Jewish Agency-Nefesh B'Nefesh immigration organization flight will be the fourth of its kind, bring the number of U.S. immigrants this
year to a twenty-year high of 2,850."

Sitting on the sidelines,
By Mark Seal, Haaretz (Israel), December 24, 2004
"Much has been written over the last four years on the profound support that American Jews give Israel and the centrality of Israel in Jewish communal life. So great was this fidelity that American Jewish concerns were publicly framed around one single issue. And yet, as Israel stands ready to evacuate all its settlements in Gaza and four in the northern West Bank; as the Palestinian population of the territories is poised to elect democratically a successor to Yasser Arafat; as the U.S. and its European allies prepare to resume their role as peacemakers; as Egypt makes conciliatory statements and takes actions to bridge the gap between itself and Israel, the organized American Jewish community is strangely silent. After the cabinet endorsed the Gaza withdrawal, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, American Jewry's central political body in its relationship to Israel, declined to take a position in support of the effort. Even after the Knesset ratified the plan, there are virtually no American Jewish voices enthusiastically supporting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's vision. At the same time, American Jewish organizations are ready to condemn any attack against Israeli military or civilian positions in Gaza. How are we to make sense of this? Are Jewish organizations incapable of supporting efforts at reconciliation, compromise and coexistence? Is organized American Jewry capable only of public acts of condemnation? Are we committed only to a vision of Israel as helpless, vulnerable and in desperate need of our protection? ... Why is a community that supported John Kerry for President by a ratio of 3-1, so unenthusiastic in response to peace initiatives and so impassioned in its support of military response? One reason is that it is much easier to achieve consensus over condemnation of an act or program, than it is to forge agreement over a particular plan. As the intifada raged and the events of 9/11 unfolded, most American Jewish organizations hardened their positions on Israel and the Middle East. Current organizational leadership was elected or empowered during this period and is predisposed to lack enthusiasm for evacuating Gaza settlements. Another reason is that American Jewish organizational leadership is relatively homogenous in experience and worldview. Support for Israel, combating anti-Semitism and fighting for Jewish rights are the consensus priorities for advocacy and activism. The events of the last four years have set this agenda in stone. Now, it is proving difficult to change direction."

[Pulling people back into the Tribe. The world Jewish Mafia seeks to get its Network in Eastern Europe fully active again.]
Krakow Jewish conference aims to empower volunteers in Europe,
By Carolyn Slutsky, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 23, 2004
"KRAKOW, Poland - After the dual destructions wrought by the Holocaust and communism, Eastern European Jewish communal life was little more than a memory 15 years ago. But last week in Krakow, Poland, the region’s Jewish community got a shot in the arm as Jewish volunteers and professionals gathered for the first pan-European conference for Jewish community volunteers. The conference brought together 70 participants from 11 countries in Eastern and Western Europe, the United States and Israel. Co-sponsored by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, the European Council of Jewish Communities and the Polish Social Welfare Commission, the conference, known as the Volunteer International Program, is the first of its kind, uniting community members from developed and developing countries to share ideas for Jewish communal service. “Everyone will learn best practices and learn how different volunteer programs work in different communities,” said Daniel Sherman, who works for the JDC in New York ... “After communism, people are still searching for their identities, thinking, ‘What does it mean to be a Jew?’ ” said Zoltan Haberman, director of social services for the Hungarian Jewish Social Support
Foundation ... “In Eastern Europe, there are Jewish people but not really a strong community,” Taly Shaul, Haberman’s colleague, told JTA. “The main challenge today is to bring as many people as possible back to Jewish life. People should learn community isn’t only a place to get, but to contribute as well" ... Kasia Zarnecka, volunteer program coordinator for the Warsaw-based Jewish Welfare Commission and one of the organizers of the conference, said Jewish communal work both in emerging and well-established communities is challenging but rewarding. “We all have common goals and share the same motivations,” Zarnecka said. “It’s always best to have a dialogue.”

[JTR contributor's note: "He calls neocons 'Luciferians'!"]
The Devil's Christmas,
by Justin Raimondo, antiwar.com, December 24, 2004
"I don't believe in God, but the Devil is another matter entirely. Proof of the Malevolent One's existence is all around us, and he's been pretty busy lately – filling the military hospitals with the wounded (30,000-plus so far), torturing and otherwise abusing helpless prisoners of war (the Devil never signed the Geneva conventions), and slowly but surely shrinking the parameters of freedom in this country by pretending to expand them abroad. All the blood spilled on Iraqi soil is not enough to quench his devilish thirst, and old Lucifer is constantly seeking out new venues for his traveling horror show: Islamofascism, after all, is quite a weak reed on which to hang a new world war. Osama bin Laden and his ragtag crew nowhere hold state power, and the battle against al-Qaeda requires tactics more akin to police work than to conventional military strategy and the business of moving great armies across the globe. As it dawns on Americans that the Iraq war has only empowered bin Laden, the paucity and relative invisibility of the enemy is a problem for the Luciferians, and they're trying to solve it by restarting the cold war. The U.S. government-funded organization known as "Freedom House" has recently delivered a Christmas present to Russian President Vladimir Putin: his country has been downgraded, from "partially free" to "not free." Israel, of course, is deemed completely "free," in spite of treating its Arab subjects worse than Sparta ever treated its helots. Putin is no Jeffersonian democrat, but neither has he rounded up and imprisoned an entire people and sought to ethnically cleanse them from their homeland. Freedom House standards are elastic, bending to the dictates of American foreign policy. In Tony Blair's England, an internal passport in the form of a national ID card has been instituted, you can be arrested for making politically incorrect remarks about officially protected minority groups, and spy cameras are on every corner, yet the Brits get off scot "free." Bollocks. The Devil is fond of quoting Scripture, and we are inundated with calls for ending "tyranny" not only in Iraq, but also Russia and Ukraine. Yet any reference to the steady erosion of civil liberties in the sainted West is greeted with cries – Luciferian cries, to be sure – of "moral equivalence!" and accusations of "anti-Americanism." The real anti-Americans are to be found in the front ranks of the War Party: it is they who lied us into a war that has served only to further the interests of a foreign country – namely, Israel. It is they who have repeatedly denied what is obvious to our own FBI and other law enforcement agencies: that Israel has been engaged in a long-term and very damaging spy operation in the U.S., one that involves the major pro-Israel lobbying group, and quite probably reaches into the upper echelons of the U.S. government. Not only that, but Israel has lately been selling sensitive military technology to China. (Technology, one might add, that was either purchased – with our tax dollars – or stolen from the U.S.) Although, for some reason, we haven't been hearing much about that in the English-language media. The professional super-"patriots" and other "pro-American" neocons, who manage to get themselves worked up over accusations of "treason" – either real or imagined – and the alleged "betrayals" of our allies, have been strangely silent when it comes to Israel's apparent treachery. Lying is a major Luciferian trait. Just as members of certain Buddhist sects aspire to pray constantly, so the neocons – uh, er, I mean, Luciferians – lie almost without interruption. Deception comes as naturally to them as breathing, and it has come to the point where they clearly don't care about the truth: only "truth" that serves their ideology is to be acknowledged."

[What has American education become? A Zionist whorehouse. University presidents, if not Jewish, today feel the need to be robust pimps for apartheid Israel and the world Zionist invasion strategy.]
A Jewish Studies Champion,
by Robert Sklar, Detroit Jewish News, December 27, 2004
"As undersecretary of the U.S. Treasury under President Reagan, M. Peter McPherson worked with the Israeli government and U.S. Jewish leaders to cut the interest rate on Israel’s debt from 13 to 6 percent, saving the Jewish state $1 billion. As president of Michigan State University, McPherson guided the largest building boom in the 150-year history of the East Lansing campus, launched a $1.2 billion Capital Campaign, shaped the study abroad program into a national model, added a law school, and saw Jewish enrollment climb to nearly 3,000 — 43 percent of the nearly 7,000 Jewish students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After the second Gulf War, President Bush tapped McPherson to rebuild Iraq’s currency and banking system and to bring foreign investment to the former anti-Zionist dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Retiring on Dec. 31 after 11 years at the helm of MSU, McPherson, 64, is moving with his wife, Joanne, to Arlington, Va. He’ll concentrate on the Partnership to Cut Hunger in Africa, which he co-founded, and he’ll advise Congress on overseas study programs. MSU, for example, hopes to again grant financial aid and scholarships for study in Israel by 2006; such study ended when Palestinian terror broke out in 2001. McPherson, who is Christian, jump-started the Jewish Studies program at MSU in 1998 when he created a lay advisory board and authorized the first two staff positions — for American Jewish History and Culture, and Hebrew Language and Literature. Up to 800 students, some not Jewish, now enroll each year in Jewish Studies courses, which are spread over eight departments and three colleges. The courses wisely focus on Jewish life in North America and Israel; European Jewry would not offer the same resonance. Students can’t major in Jewish Studies, but they can specialize in it. I applaud all four directors over the years — Barry Gross, Steve Weiland, Keely Stauter-Halsted and now Ken Waltzer. A new initiative is the East European Jewish Studies summer study at Jagiellonian University in Krakow. A Strong Supporter Beyond anchoring Jewish Studies, McPherson has spoken up against anti-Zionism and Jew hating. Shortly after arriving at MSU in 1993, McPherson was aghast when a brick was thrown at a window at Hillel House. He said MSU would not tolerate anti-Semitic or racist acts on the 45,000-student campus. At the 2002 opening of the new Hillel, he renounced protests around the country calling for universities to divest of their investments in Israel. For the past five years, McPherson made it a point to include the Detroit Jewish News as a stop on his annual Oakland County visit with Jewish alumni. I felt proud to be a Jew as he spoke of building Jewish Studies from scratch with the help of an active advisory board led by Birmingham attorney Michael Serling. Michigan Jewry owes McPherson, a gentle giant of academia, a sincere yasher koach for a deed well done! Under his watch, the Jewish Studies program has helped counter assimilation and apathy by deepening Jewish identity among participating Jewish students. The evening of Dec. 15 was cold and snowy, but I was determined to attend a farewell reception for Joanne and Peter McPherson hosted by metro Detroit alumni at the Bloomfield Hills home of Rhonda and Gary Ran. "One of my proudest activities has been to help the MSU Jewish Studies program become firmly established in our curriculum both intellectually and fiscally," McPherson said, causing a swell of approval to cascade through the crowd. "Much of the progress in Jewish education at MSU, all that has been accomplished with the Jewish Studies program, including the new Hillel House, could not have happened without the support and leadership of President McPherson and First Lady Joanne," Serling said. "It is a wonder that he would have had the time to work so closely with the Jewish community" ... I was touched when Serling told the 71 guests at the Rans’ home about Peter McPherson’s heartfelt support of Israel. Serling, his wife, Elaine, and friends have endowed a chair for Israel Studies at MSU. Bloomfield Hills philanthropist Ed Levy Jr. has endowed a scholarship fund for study in Israel. Serling told how McPherson, while waiting for a ride to Amman as he ended his four-month stay as part of the coalition reconstruction team in Iraq, spoke by audio feed to a largely non-Jewish crowd back at MSU. Yet he didn’t hesitate to say, "I have a vision of Iraq as a free, democratic country with a growing, successful capitalistic economy like Israel." Serling applauded McPherson’s foresight. "Through the seed that you planted," Serling said, "we have now raised nearly $4 million for Jewish Studies and have much to show for it." Retirement aside, McPherson put the call out for another $3 million to enrich Jewish Studies, including a fourth staff position: Jewish Religious and Philosophical Thought. "We will continue to strengthen Jewish Studies as an academic initiative, raise its national visibility and expand its impact," McPherson said. "President Designate Lou Anna Simon shares my commitment."

What happened in Kurdish Halabja?,
by Mohammed al-Obaidi, Al-Jazeera, December 22, 2004
The truth of what happened in Halabja had always been hidden from the public, and many who knew exactly what happened in this Kurdish village in the second half of March 1988 disputed the western media coverage of the story. It is a fact that key Kurdish leaders aided by the CIA and the Israeli Mossad have used a wide network of public relations companies and media outlets in the west to manipulate and twist the truth of what happened in Kurdish Halabja in 1988 in favour of the Kurdish political parties. In 1993, an organisation was established in Israel called The Kurdish Israeli Friendship League founded by a Jewish Kurd called Moti Zaken, who originally immigrated from Zakho, Iraq, and worked closely with the American Zionist lobby in the US. His efforts ended in 1996 in the establishment of the Washington Kurdish Institute, an organisation founded with the financial help and supervision of the Zionist Mike Amitay. Mike Amitay is the son of Morris Amitay, a long-time legislative assistant in Congress and lobbyist for the influential American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. Amitay senior is an adviser to Frank Gaffney's Centre for Security Policy and the former vice-chairman of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a US-based pro-Israeli Likud advocacy outfit that specialises in connecting US military brass to their counterparts in the Israeli armed forces. JINSA associates include Dick Cheney, John Bolton, Douglas Feith, and Richard Perle. A group of Kurdish figures known for their connection with the Israeli Mossad manage the Washington Kurdish Institute. Those are: Najmaldin Karim, Omar Halmat, Birusk Tugan, Osman Baban, Asad Khailany, Kendal Nezan, Asfandiar Shukri and Mohammad Khoshnaw.Such organisations have devoted themselves to championing the claims that the Iraqi army bombed Kurdish villages with chemical agents throughout 1988. According to Human Rights Watch (HRW) "at least 50,000 and possibly as many as 100,000 people, many of them women and children, were killed out of hand between February and September 1988, the victims being Iraqi Kurds systematically put to death in large numbers on the orders of the central government in Baghdad". There are other champions of the genocide claim. One is Jeffrey Goldberg, whose 18,000-word story, The Great Terror, in the 25 March 2002 issue of The New Yorker forms the basis of the US Department of State's website on alleged Iraqi genocide. Goldberg's story is long on lurid details; we are told, for instance, that one woman, Hamida Mahmoud, died while nursing her two-year-old daughter. Goldberg also follows the Human Rights Watch formula in invoking the Nazis: "Saddam Hussein's attacks on his own citizens mark the only time since the Holocaust that poison gas has been used to exterminate women and children."What Goldberg did not tell his readers about is that he has dual Israeli/American citizenship and served in the Israeli defence forces a few years back. Or that he purposefully ignored the War College report, which, of course, reached quite different conclusions. The Iraqi army allegedly used chemical weapons in "40 separate attacks on Kurdish targets" during a campaign that HRW labels as genocide. The most prominent of these purported attacks was the March 1988 "chemical assault" on the town of Halabja, in which the number of dead, according to Human Rights Watch "exceeds 5000". It is known that both Iran and Iraq used chemical weapons in their eight-year war from September 1980 to August 1988. Most of Iraq's alleged assaults on the Kurds took place while this war was raging, although Human Rights Watch claims the attacks extended into September 1988. Iraq has acknowledged using mustard gas against Iranian troops to overwhelm the human waves tactic used by Iranians who wanted to benefit from the fact that they outnumbered Iraqis, but has consistently denied using chemical weapons against civilians. The only verified Kurdish civilian deaths from chemical weapons occurred in the Iraqi village of Halabja, near the Iran border, are several hundred people who died from gas poisoning in mid-March 1988. Iran overran the village and its small Iraqi garrison on 15 March 1988. The gassing took place on 16 March and onwards; who is then responsible for the deaths - Iran or Iraq - and how large was the death toll knowing the Iranian army was in Halabja but never reported any deaths by chemicals? The best evidence to answer this is a 1990 report by the Strategic Studies Institute of the US Army War College. It concluded that Iran, not Iraq, was the culprit in Halabja ... After 15 years of support to the allegations of HRW, the CIA finally admitted in its report published in October 2003 that only mustard gas and a nerve agent was used by Iraq. The CIA now seems to be fully supporting the US Army War College report of April 1990, as a cyanide-based blood agent that Iraq never had, and not mustard gas or a nerve agent, killed the Kurds who died at Halabja and which concludes that the Iranians perpetrated that attack as a media war tactic. Despite the doubt cast by many professionals as well as the CIA's recent report, and after years of public relations propaganda made for the Kurdish leaderships by the assistance and support of the Israeli Mossad, the issue of genocide has been marketed to the international community. In a telephone interview with the Village Voice in 2002, Stephen Pelletiere said: "There is to this day the belief - and I'm not the only one who holds it - that things did not happen in Halabja the way Goldberg wrote it." And it is an especially crucial issue right now. We say Saddam is a monster, a maniac who gassed his own people, and the world should not tolerate him. But why? Because that is the last argument the US has for going to war with Iraq."
Professor Mohammed al-Obaidi is the spokesman for the People's Struggle Movement (Al-Kifah al-Shabi) in Iraq, and works as a university professor in the UK. He was born and educated in al-Adhamiyah district in Baghdad. He is writing a book about Halabja."

[World Jewish 'hasbara' (propaganda) is an essential foundation of modern smear-centered Israel and Jewish self-delusion, as displayed below. If anyone wants to find verifiable "hate" in books, the Jewish Talmud and other Orthodox Judaic texts, as well as Zionist apartheid laws in the Jewish state, are as good a place to start as any. Don't hold your breath for a formal investigation of these saintly tomes any time soon.]
Palestinian textbooks: Where is all that 'incitement'?,
by Roger Avenstrup, International Herald Tribune, December 17, 2004
"Palestinian textbooks contain incitement to hatred of Israel, right? Both President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton have said so. Zionist groups constantly lobby European foreign ministries to stop support for Palestinian textbooks on that basis, and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon affirmed it at a recent Likud party meeting. Detailed analyses of the textbooks have been done by research institutes. The U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem commissioned studies from the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI), and in Europe the Georg Eckert Institute facilitated research. Research papers have also been published in international fora such as the Hebrew University's Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics and Culture, and presented at the Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief. At the political level, a U.S. Senate subcommittee on Palestinian education and the Political Committee of the European Parliament have both held hearings on the matter. No country's textbooks have been subjected to as much close scrutiny as the Palestinian. The findings? It turns out that the original allegations were based on Egyptian or Jordanian textbooks and incorrect translations. Time and again, independently of each other, researchers find no incitement to hatred in the Palestinian textbooks. The European Union has issued a statement that the new textbooks are free of inciting content and the allegations were unfounded. The IPCRI 2003 report states that the overall orientation of the curriculum is peaceful and does not incite to hatred or violence against Israel and the Jews, and the 2004 report states that there are no signs of promoting hatred toward Israel, Judaism or Zionism, nor toward the Western Judeo-Christian tradition or values. Yet Sharon now claims that the Palestinian textbooks are a greater threat than terrorism. If that is so, education for peace and conflict resolution has become the greatest threat to Israel. Maybe it is: What little independent research has been done on Israeli textbooks, together with the recent New Profile report on the militarization of the Israeli education system, gives grounds for serious concern about what is happening to future generations on that side of the wall. Peace might feel threatening to a war-ingrained identity. If, as part of its policy of reconstruction in Afghanistan and Iraq, the White House is looking for a modern education founded in positive Islamic values and which promotes peace and conflict resolution, it should look at Palestinian textbooks for a model. The first editions are not perfect: There are gaps in the presentation of both Palestinian and Israeli history, but they are a good starting point nonetheles. As usual in national curriculum processes, criticism from extremists on either side is a sign that the process is probably on the right track. The biggest constraint, in the words of a Palestinian parent, is that Israeli tanks and soldiers are shooting in the streets outside while teachers are trying to promote peace in the classroom."

[Where has America gone? When did its principles turn into blatant Jewish "segregationalism" and legalized Judeocentric apartheid? Why is Jewish hatred for Christianity and oppression of even "Jews for Jewish" organizations secularly kosher in Western civilization?]
'Jews for Jesus' Concertgoer Loses Employment Suit Against Jewish Center. Evangelical Christian claimed her firing resulted from concert attendance,
by Shannon P. Duffy, The Legal Intelligencer, December 21, 2004
"Finding Title VII's exemption for religious institutions "is not limited to facilities where prayer takes place," a magistrate judge has dismissed a suit against a Jewish community center brought by an evangelical Christian who claims she was fired because she attended a "Jews for Jesus" concert. In his 15-page opinion in LeBoon v. Lancaster Jewish Community Center, U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacob P. Hart rejected the plaintiff's argument that the LJCC is not entitled to the exemption because its purpose is "essentially secular," and it is not affiliated with any synagogue. Instead, Hart found that courts have taken a broader view of the exemption, extending it to any institution that includes religion among its primary purposes. Plaintiff's attorney J. Michael Considine Jr. of West Chester, Pa. argued in court papers that LJCC's mission statement showed that it focuses on developing a Jewish community in Lancaster through "identity, education and cooperation." As a result, Considine argued, LJCC's mission "is not spiritual." Hart disagreed, saying "this fails to take account of the fact that LJCC seeks to sustain a specifically Jewish community." Minutes from the LJCC's board meetings, Hart said, "reveal the pervasive Jewish orientation of the organization." Although the LJCC is not run by, and is not directly answerable to, any one synagogue or denomination of Judaism, Hart found that more than 75 percent of its funding came from the Lancaster Jewish Federation campaign, and that rabbis of the three local synagogues were ex officio members of LJCC's board of directors and assisted in programming and fund-raising. The LJCC also decided to maintain a kosher kitchen, Hart noted, in order to create "an environment where all members of the Lancaster Jewish community could feel comfortable participating." Hart also noted that the center produces Jewish education and cultural programming, including a Holocaust Commemoration Day, a Chanukah dinner and a Purim carnival, and that "only Jews were to be solicited as LJCC members." Although a number of programs sponsored by the LJCC are religion-neutral and open to members of the general public -- such as fitness and self-defense classes, and a secular pre-school program -- Hart found that "this does not change the underlying purpose and orientation of the organization." The ruling is a victory for LJCC's lawyers, Daniel J. Brennan and Christine N. Schulz of McAleese McGoldrick Susanin & Widman in King of Prussia, Pa. According to court papers, plaintiff Linda LeBoon worked for the LJCC as a bookkeeper between 1998 and her termination in August 2002. In the suit, LeBoon claimed that the firing was the result of both religious and racial discrimination that stemmed from her support of a black woman who was fired from LJCC and her attendance at the Jews for Jesus concert. In court papers, LJCC insists that LeBoon was fired for purely economic reasons. But LeBoon claims that events immediately preceding her termination show that economic explanation is not true, and instead was a "pretext for discrimination." Eight months before LeBoon was fired, an organization called the Messiah Truth Project gave a seminar at the LJCC. MTP, which is headed by David Goodman, had as its goal the education of Jews in order to counter the efforts of Jews for Jesus and similar movements that specifically seek to convert Jews to Christianity. Just one week before LeBoon was fired, she attended a Jews for Jesus concert at her church where she saw Goodman and introduced him to one of the Jews for Jesus singers.
An LJCC receptionist testified that "a couple of days after" LeBoon was terminated, she overheard a conversation in which LeBoon's supervisor, Natalie Featherman, told several LJCC board members that Goodman had come to the LJCC and told her that LeBoon attended the Jews for Jesus meeting. LeBoon also claimed in the suit that four months before she was fired, she objected to Featherman's decision to terminate the contract of Sandy Simms, a black woman, in order to make room for a Jewish bookkeeper who formerly worked at Jewish Family Services. The suit alleged that Featherman said she did not want "those kind" working at the front desk, referring implicitly to Simm's race ... In a motion for summary judgment, LJCC's lawyers argued that LeBoon's claim of religious discrimination must be dismissed because LJCC is entitled to an exemption from such a claim under §702 of Title VII. Hart found that §702 once permitted exemption from suit only with regard to religious activities, but was amended in 1972 to extend protection to all activities of religious organizations. Considine argued that LJCC does not qualify for the exemption due to the mostly secular nature of its activities."

[Castendada, you'll recall, is of Jewish heritage. And what about his "alliance" with "powerful lawmaker and union leader" Elba Esther Gordillo? How many Mexican women are named after the Jewish heroine "Esther?"]
AP: Castaneda to Run for Mexico Presidency,
by Morgan Lee, Yahoo! News (from Associated Press),
"Barnstorming by bus throughout Mexico, Jorge Castaneda's low-budget, independent presidential campaign is designed to be a little unorthodox. Castaneda, a well-known intellectual with a long political history, said he's taking the road-less-traveled to the presidency because he not only wants the job — he wants to lead an alternative political movement in Mexico, capitalizing on widespread voter frustration with political parties and the system in general. It's a long shot. The Supreme Court hasn't even decided if it will consider allowing his name to be put on the ballot without a party's official nomination. But Castaneda brushes aside doubts, focusing his attention on selling his solutions to poverty and berating Mexico's big political parties. Those parties are the focus of Castaneda's scathing attacks, with the most pointed comments reserved for the leftist Democratic Revolution and allied Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, the front-runner in early presidential polling. "With every day, they're more backward, more populist, more irresponsible, more devoid of proposals," Castaneda says of Lopez Obrador and his party, speaking to The Associated Press recently in a book-lined apartment in the elite Mexico City neighborhood of Polanco. Political observers say Castaneda's timing couldn't be better. Voters are disgusted with endless corruption scandals and a messy breakdown in federal budget negotiations. "Clearly, he's found a period where the established parties are down in the dumps. Their image problems are severe," says Federico Estevez, a political analyst at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. "He's doing pretty well' ... Conversations are underway with the tiny Convergencia party, and Castaneda's independent campaign is organizing supporters that could represent a new political party. There's talk of an alliance with powerful lawmaker and union leader Elba Esther Gordillo, a Castaneda confidant, if she were to leave Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party. "I contemplate alliances with everyone who wants to participate," Castaneda says. "If Elba Esther makes that decision, there's nothing more to do than welcome her." While Castaneda criticizes the party establishment, he is not exactly a political outsider. Only two years ago, Castaneda still served on Fox's Cabinet, where he shook up relations with Cuba and reached for a major migration accord with the United States — an elusive goal in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks. His father held the foreign secretary job long before him. Castaneda holds a teaching post at New York University and his political opinions are published in newspapers and journals across the Americas. Foreign politicians like former Czech President Vaclav Havel and former President Clinton are personal acquaintances. As a political appointee, Castaneda's prickly personality won him headlines and some resentment among the Mexican press."

[Hmmm. The people selling Jewish yellow badge fakes from Hollywood movies to various Holocaust museums would probably be, uh, people of Romanian or Mozambique heritage?]
Conversations: Hunting Fakes. A Smithsonian sleuth says counterfeits lurk in museum collections the world over,
Archeology, January-February 2005
"Jane Walsh, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, is best known for her work with museum collections and for exposing several crystal skulls, once thought to be Precolumbian, as nineteenth-century German fakes. She is now working with several museums to create a database that can be used to identify bogus Precolumbian jade, crystal, and other stone artifacts. She talked to ARCHAEOLOGY about why you shouldn't always trust what you see at museums.
Can you say how many fakes are in any one museum's collection?
Well, no. But what I can tell you is any museum--I don't care what museum it is--has fakes, because fakes are ubiquitous. I have a friend who works at the Holocaust Museum as a conservator, and even they have forgeries--Star of David badges and prison uniforms that were made for Hollywood films and later sold by dealers as authentic artifacts."

[Jewish dominance of the art market, here.]
Wall Street bull sculpture for sale,
by Pat Milton, Seattle Times, December 21, 2004
"The beloved bull sculpture that symbolizes Wall Street capitalism is for sale, and bidding starts at $5 million. But any prospective buyer will have to keep the 7,000-pound bronze "Charging Bull" where it is, in a park near the New York Stock Exchange, said its creator. "I put the bull up for sale because I need the money to create more masterpieces for New York," said Arturo Di Modica, 63, who sculpted the slick, powerful-looking bull, which mysteriously appeared on Wall Street 15 years ago. Di Modica insisted that any deal would require the buyer to donate the landmark sculpture to New York City, with the new owner's name inscribed on a plaque to be placed next to it ... Stefan Oppermann, owner of the Fine Arts Collection, which promotes artists and is representing Di Modica said those who have expressed interest in buying the bull are from the banking industry, large insurance companies and investment houses, as well as a few individuals."

[Like so many of those who dominate(d) the European art market, Goudstikker was of course Jewish. And notice the love below by his descendants for recovered art piece$.]
Sole Goudstikker heir recovers Bassano painting,
Looted Art
"Marei von Saher, the sole living heir of Jacques Goudstikker, the foremost collector and dealer of Old Masters in pre-World War II Holland, announced today the restitution to her of a painting entitled "The Annunciation to the Shepherds" by the Studio of Jacopo Bassano. The painting is part of an extensive collection of art that was owned by Goudstikker but looted by the Nazis shortly after they occupied the Netherlands in 1940. Jacques Goudstikker, together with his wife and only son, fled the Netherlands in May 1940 when the Nazi troops invaded. Goudstikker was forced to leave behind his business and 1,400 artworks, escaping only with his personal effects. Reich Marshall Hermann Goering subsequently took back to Germany artworks from the collection that he considered to be the best and the Bassano painting was among these ... The Goudstikker family is delighted that information on the Internet is making it easier to identify lost Goudstikker paintings, wherever they might be held. Likewise, the family hopes that the commitment made by many public institutions around the world to publicize the history of the artworks in their collections on the Internet will lead to further identifications and returns of works from the Goudstikker Collection. The painting will now be offered for sale in London at Christie's upcoming Old Master Pictures Auction on July 9."

[Play the "I'm a Jew, I'm a victim, and I'm discriminated against" card. And THAT is how you get on the cheerleading squad even with three peg-legs and two-ton chips on the shoulder. Formed at birth? Or socialized into the twisted Klan?]
Judge Rules Against UGA Coach,
News 11, December 20, 2004
"Fired University of Georgia cheerleading coach Marilou Braswell on Monday was denied her request to be reinstated and was told by a federal judge that she faced an uphill battle in her lawsuit against the university. Braswell hoped to have her job restored pending the civil lawsuit. U.S. District judge Tom Thrash said Braswell did not prove her rights to free exercise of religion and free speech had been violated. “She refused to accept the judgment of her superiors and allowed her vehement disagreement to cloud her judgment and put herself in an adversarial position with the university and the athletic association,” Thrash said. “Ordering her reinstatement would cause more harm to the university than would be warranted for an interest in reinstating her to vindicate her constitutional rights.”
Braswell was fired Aug. 23, two weeks after she read a prepared statement informing cheerleaders that teammate Jaclyn Steele had made allegations of religious discrimination against her. Braswell sued the University of Georgia Athletic Association, athletic director Damon Evans, senior associate athletic director Frank Crumley, UGA President Michael Adams and the University System Board of Regents. Braswell, who coached for 12 years, claims the athletic association tried to deprive her of her First Amendment freedom of speech and free exercise of religion, as well as 14th Amendment due process and equal protection rights. Thrash said he could grant Braswell’s request to be reinstated only if he thought she had a good chance for success in her lawsuit. In a ruling university attorneys believe could indicate Thrash may approve their request to dismiss the suit, the judge said “I do not believe it is likely the plaintiff will prevail on her constitutional claims.” Braswell’s attorney, Hue Henry, said he would press on with the lawsuit, despite the prediction from Thrash.
“We’re going to educate the judge further,” Henry said. “This is a preliminary ruling. ... I have been in many situations where the judge thought we were going to lose and the jury thought otherwise. Judges are not infallible' ... Braswell, who wiped away tears as Thrash made his ruling, insisted after the hearing “I have never discriminated against anybody.” “I guess that’s the hard part of being fired when you know you’ve done nothing wrong,” Braswell said. Steele, who is Jewish, and another Jewish cheerleader first complained that Braswell gave unfavorable treatment to non-Christian cheerleaders and others who did not participate in pregame prayers and Bible studies at Braswell’s home. The university investigated their complaint and placed Braswell on probation while ordering Steele to be placed on the football cheerleading squad without a tryout. On Aug. 7, Braswell read a prepared statement to the cheerleaders explaining why Steele was back on the squad, and in the statement Braswell said she planned to fight the charges of discrimination. On Aug. 23, Braswell received a letter from Crumley terminating her employment. Henry said Georgia football coach Mark Richt has received public complaints for encouraging his players to participate in Christian services. Attorneys for the athletic association and the university argued that Braswell’s case is different because a team member charged Braswell with discrimination ... “The football program is not on trial here,” Thrash said. “The only relevance would be to find Mrs. Braswell had her equal protection rights violated.”

[Bodies in Iraq aren't even cold yet, and some Jewish movie producers figure there's some $ in them. "Bing West", a former Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, seems to be an honorary member of the Tribe. His slaughter barbarian Arabs perspective seems to be about par for the Zionist course.]
Harrison Ford signs for Iraq war film,
The Guardian (UK), December 16, 2001
"Harrison Ford is to star in what will be Hollywood's first feature about the current Iraq war. Producers Michael Shamberg and Stacey Sher have bought the option for No True Glory: The Battle for Fallujah, a non-fiction written by Slate reporter Bing West. The book is due to be published in May and tells the story of an assault on Iraqi insurgents in Falluja, from the perspective of US marines. Variety reports that Ford is already attached to play General Jim Mattis, in charge of the attack. Shamberg and Sher's production company Double Feature has already been working with Ford on the medical drama For His Sick Kid, based on the novel by Geeta Anand. It is probable that the film will strike a different tone to the only major feature about the US's previous war in Iraq, 1999's Three Kings, which told the story of a group of cynical, self-serving US soldiers. West's coverage of the war has tended to side with US troops."

Turner Writing Magneto X-Men Spin-Off,
Coming Soon (from Variety), December 13, 2004
"Simon Kinberg is writing the third installment. Magneto will likely be produced by the "X-Men" duo of Lauren Shuler Donner and Marvel Studios' Avi Arad."

[More Jewish slaughter of innocents. This victim is British (not Arab) so he gets (a little) more attention.]
Soldier who shot Briton admits lying. Israeli on trial for manslaughter says peace activist was unarmed,
by Chris McNeal, The Guardian (UK), December 16, 2004
"The Israeli soldier on trial for killing the British peace activist Tom Hurndall in the Gaza Strip has admitted he was lying when he said his victim was carrying a gun, but said he was under orders to open fire even on unarmed people. Sergeant Idier Wahid Taysir is charged with manslaughter for shooting Mr Hurndall, 22, as he tried to shelter children on the edge of Rafah from Israeli army gunfire in April last year. He died of his injuries in January. The sergeant told the military court that after shooting Mr Hurndall he had reported it to his commander. "I told him that I did what I'm supposed to; anyone who enters a firing zone must be taken out. [The commander] always says this," he said. The army has already been accused of carrying out an unwritten policy of shooting unarmed civilians who enter a closed security zone in Rafah, which led to the killing of a 13-year-old girl. Sgt Taysir told the army investigators he had opened fire at Mr Hurndall because the Briton was on the edge of the security zone, carrying a weapon and wearing camouflage clothing. In fact, he had not entered the closed zone, had no gun and was wearing a bright orange jacket. The prosecutor asked the sergeant if Mr Hurndall had a weapon. Sgt Taysir replied: "No. That's the truth." "So you gave a false report to the company commander?" the prosecutor asked. "I did not give a false report. He might have had a weapon under his clothing. People fire freely there. The [Israeli army] fires freely in Rafah."

[More struggle against the Judeocentric noose. America has become a censorial Jewish country and people of Christian faith are routinely dismissed as second-class citizens, herded to the darkest sidelines. Jews get to herald their Hannukah War of Violence Victory Party in honor of traditional Jewish refusal to ASSIMILATE into cultures and people around them. In turn, Christians are forbidden to herald their icons of birth and peace.]
Protesters gather at Broward malls to criticize lack of Nativity scenes,
by Alva James-Johnson, Sun-Sentinel, December 13, 2004
"If malls display Jewish menorahs, they should also display Christian Nativity scenes, protesters at the Broward and Fashion malls said Sunday. The group of about 35 people accused the shopping centers and their anchor stores, Macy's and Burdines, of exhibiting a double standard when it comes to religious symbols during the holidays. While both malls display menorahs for Hanukkah, they don't put up Nativity scenes for Christmas -- and they should, according to this group.Christmas is about the birth of Christ. This is what should be recognized, not Christmas trees and Santa Claus," said Len Torres, a parishioner of the nearby St. Gregory's Catholic Church in Plantation. "The de-Christianization of Christmas is a travesty." Hanukkah commemorates a successful Jewish revolt more than 2,100 years ago led by five brothers, the Maccabees, who overthrew a foreign army and relit the Great Menorah when they rededicated the temple. Inside Broward Mall on Sunday, a menorah stood next to the customer service area. General Manager Karl Woodard said it's against mall policy to display religious symbols such as Nativity scenes. But the menorah doesn't violate the policy because "it's a celebration of a battle," not a religious event, he said. "But I'm not Jewish, so I really don't know a lot about it," he added ... Torres said U.S. merchants make billions of dollars from the Christmas holiday annually yet fail to recognize the reason for the season. He and fellow parishioners stood at the intersection of University Drive and Broward Boulevard with signs that read: "Macy's Burdines Refuse Nativity Scenes" and "Broward Mall-Burdines Insults 240 Million Christians." They called for Christian shoppers to boycott the malls and Federated Department Stores, owner of Macy's, Burdines and Bloomingdale's. Some drivers honked while crossing the intersection, helping to fuel the movement to "Bring Jesus Christ Back to Christmas," as the group put it. Organizers handed out copies of a column by conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly that claimed Christmas is "under siege by the growing forces of secularism in America." "Surveys show that more than 90 percent of Americans celebrate the federal holiday of Christmas," O'Reilly wrote in the Dec. 9 column. "Despite that overwhelming number, the tradition of Christmas in America continues to get hammered." The protesters said they would demonstrate in front of the two malls again next Saturday and Sunday, the last weekend before Christmas. The issue is a recurring one in South Florida. Most recently, in December 2003 a woman in Bay Harbor Islands began fasting to force town leaders to put up Christian holiday decorations equivalent to the Stars of David and menorah they had erected on the Broad Causeway."

[A quick look at part of the Federated Department Stores network:]
Federated Announces New Chairman/CEO for Macy's East; New President/Chief Merchandising Officer at Rich's/Lazarus/Goldsmith's-Macy's,
Federated Department Stores, Investor Relations, February 3, 2004
"Federated Department Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FD)(PCX:FD) today announced that Ronald Klein, 55, will be returning to Macy's East as chairman/ceo of the New York-based division, effective February 15. Klein, who previously served as vice chairman of Macy's East, succeeds Hal Kahn, 58, who is retiring after having served as chairman/ceo of the 104-store division since 1994. The company also announced that Michael G. Krauter, 46, currently executive vice president/director of stores at Rich's/Lazarus/Goldsmith's-Macy's, will assume a new position as president/chief merchandising officer of the Atlanta-based division where Klein has been chairman since July 2001. Krauter will join with David L. Nichols, who will remain as president/chief operating officer of the division, a position he has held since August 2000.

[JTR Contributor's comment: "Jewish 'art.'" Our comment: The Jewish-run art swamp, here.]
Ex-Abs,
by Deidre Stein Greben, Art News, December 2004
"In today’s anything-goes atmosphere, switching camps—from abstraction to representation or vice versa—is not considered exceptionally radical, or even brave, but it still gives us pause. “People felt betrayed, as if I did it to them,” says Jonathan Santlofer, who shifted in the early 1990s from making abstract constructions to painting portraits and other representational images. Similarly, Alfred Leslie “got a tremendous amount of flack” some 40 years ago, when he stopped painting canvases covered with thick, broad strokes and splatters and began making large grisaille portraits. Says Leslie, “I still receive it today. Many people saw my realist work as a negation of my abstract work' ... Arguably the most legendary conversion was that of Philip Guston, one of the artists included in the Maier Museum show. When Guston exhibited a group of figurative canvases at New York’s Marlborough Gallery in 1970, the art world was stunned, the critics outraged. How could an artist they had counted among the heroes of Abstract Expressionism for two decades venture into forbidden territory? Guston began by working in his rough, cartoonish style in the evenings, while continuing in his abstract mode by day, according to art historian Martin Hentschel. “We are image makers and image ridden,” Guston declared in a discussion with fellow New York School painters in 1960. Less known is that Dan Flavin, who never actually abandoned abstraction, indulged a passion for the Hudson River School, painting and drawing landscapes and sailing pictures while making his neon sculptures. ... Jake Berthot found the outside world creeping into his works when he moved from Manhattan to upstate New York. Other abstract artists, notes Mark Rosenthal, curator of the ambitious survey of abstract painting at the Guggenheim in 1996, are prompted to make the jump to representation because of a “sense of exhaustion” with what they have been putting on canvas ... Leslie, who is also an independent filmmaker, says he was initially attracted to abstraction because “at the end of the war, figuration seemed false and to carry no real weight.” He was also influenced by William Baziotes and Tony Smith, who taught art classes at New York University, where Leslie was enrolled for a short time on the GI bill. Then, in 1949, Clement Greenberg included Leslie’s paintings in the exhibition “New Talent,” at New York’s Kootz Gallery, and his third film, Directions: A Walk After the War Games, was presented at the Museum of Modern Art. “At this point,” Leslie recalls, “I began to realize there was conflict between the disciplines. I felt I couldn’t have two public voices' ... When she painted from life, [Pat] Passlof often did so along with her late husband, Milton Resnick, who, although he had a separate studio, “didn’t want to be alone with a young model.” Passlof recalls one session in which she and Resnick seated themselves on either side of a woman who had particularly large breasts. “During her break,” Passlof recalls, “the model went over to look at our canvases and then started to laugh. Not seeing the other’s work, we had both made her flat chested!” Resnick, once counted among the most dedicated abstractionists, eventually abandoned his imposing, pigment-encrusted fields of color for gouache renderings of representational imagery. “I got old. I had to sit down,” he told David Rattray in a 1992 interview published in conjunction with an exhibition at New York’s Robert Miller Gallery ... Today, deciding to paint figuratively or abstractly, artists and curators agree, is no longer considered a problem. “My own sense is that it is now a false distinction,” says Robert Rosenblum, a professor at New York University and a curator at the Guggenheim."

[Older article:]
Support for authenticity of book of Matthew comes from an unlikely place,
by Neil Altman, Kansas City Star, June 7, 2003
"Buried in ancient texts of Jewish historical works are fragments of evidence that appear to show the first book of the New Testament actually was written by one of Jesus' apostles. One of these texts also challenges a long-held assertion that no ancient text except the Bible mentions Jesus' birth. Taken together, the information lends support to the claims of some Christian scholars that Matthew actually wrote the Gospel bearing his name, a Gospel that more than the three others emphasized Jesus' Jewish roots ... [Israel] Yuval wrote that a leading rabbinical scholar of the time was "considered to have authored a sophisticated parody of the Gospel according to Matthew." The parody, written by a rabbi known as Gamaliel, is believed by some well-respected liberal Christian scholars to have been written about A.D. 73 or earlier. The fact the parody exists and the date when it was believed to be written "would undercut badly (biblical critics') claims of a late date of A.D. 85-90 or later," said Bob Newman, professor of New Testament at Biblical Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania."

[Not for the squeamish: the view from the Arab side of "slaughter for democracy":]
Images from the War in Iraq: Fallujah Photos,
Dar Jamail's Iraq Dispatches

[MEMRI is, of course, one of the many wealthy Zionist propaganda organizations that seeks to trash the Arab and Muslim world. You know, if I was in Iran, and I looked around and saw that the Zionist cult had hijacked American foreign policy which was now playing with the idea of bombing the Hell out of the innocents of Iran (in the hidden name of Israel), I'd be wondering if Israelis harvested eyes too. After all, they seem to harvest kidneys.]
MEMRI TV Releases Report on Iranian Drama Series by Former Education Ministry Official about Israeli Government Harvesting Palestinian Children's Eyes,
U.S. Newswire, December 22, 2004
"Today MEMRI released a special report from its TV Monitor Project, titled "Iranian TV Drama Series about Israeli Government Stealing Palestinian Children's Eyes." The Iranian weekly TV series, named "For You, Palestine," or "Zahra's Blue Eyes" is being broadcast on Iran's Sahar 1 TV station. The drama was written and directed by former Iranian education ministry official Ali Derakhshni. It premiered on Dec. 13, and airs every Monday. The show details an Israeli plot to harvest organs from Palestinian children, particularly eyes, and to use them for transplants. Sahar TV also broadcast an interview with the director of the series, who discussed his motivations for making a series "about children."

[Unspoken here is the much-documented Jewish Lobby's activism against formal recognition of Armenian suffering, in deference to Israeli military ties with Turkey.]
U.S. Excercises Double Standard on Holocaust and Genocide,
by Haruout Sassounian, Armenian Daily (from the Californian Courier), December 23, 2004
"Next year is the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp. Around 1.5 million prisoners -- most of them Jews -- perished in gas chambers or died of starvation and disease at Auschwitz. Next year is also the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide during which 1.5 million Armenians were killed or died of starvation and disease during forced deportations by the Ottoman Turks. While it would be appropriate to pay tribute to the memory of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, it would be just as appropriate to recognize both anniversaries and pay tribute to the Jewish and Armenian victims of crimes against humanity. The United States government, however, is asking the United Nations to commemorate the anniversary of one of these genocides, while ignoring the other. The international community is being requested to respect the memory of one group of victims, but not the other! Last week, US ambassador John Danforth wrote a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan asking that the General Assembly convene a special session on January 24, 2005 to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. There is no question that the whole world, including the United Nations, should recognize this solemn occasion. It is utterly unacceptable, however, that the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide be overlooked. The US government should not discriminate among victims of genocide. Political games should not be played with the memory of the victims of such horrible crimes. Armenian Americans should vigorously protest the selective amnesia of the Bush Administration. They should meet with Ambassador Danforth and ask him to make a similar request from the General Assembly for the 90th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Failing that, Armenia should make its own request to the UN to commemorate appropriately the anniversary of the Genocide, given the fact that back in 1985, a UN human rights panel adopted a report recognizing the Armenian Genocide."

[Imagine if a band of rich "whites" in America pooled over $200 million to instill a white "birthright" ideology in "white" youth, flying them en masse to some indoctrination center in Europe. How would the powerful Jew Klux Klan react to it? It would be assailed as abject racism on every front, every second, from every possible angle. So why is this "birthright" crap by rich Jews not condemned on all fronts as an expression of what it is: a subtle form of Jewish/Zionist Nazism? And why isn't the Jewish-rooted university, Brandeis, investigated by government agencies for sanctioning naked racism? Jews call the shots. What's racist for you isn't considered racist for them. And this "born Jew" garbage is merely part of the steady diet of modern Jewish American identity, teflon-screened like so much else from public critique and examination. Jews are Jews, after all, and Western culture insists whatever they think or do is beyond question of us mere mortals.]
After five years, birthright shows success in building Jewish identity,
by Rachel Pomerance, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 21, 2004
"Birthright israel, the free trip to Israel for Diaspora youth, makes a profound impact on a participant’s Jewish identity, according to a recent study. Findings from the study, conducted by independent researchers at Brandeis University, were released Dec. 15 at a conference in Herzliya, Israel. The full report has yet to be released. “It changes Jewish identity,” Leonard Saxe, co-author of the study and director of the Maurice and Marilyn Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies, said of birthright. Before going on birthright, participants typically are less engaged with Judaism and Israel than those who participate in other Israel programs, who often have strong Jewish backgrounds. That may not be surprising, since birthright is open only to those who have never been on a peer trip to Israel, a segment that is likely to include youth less interested in Jewish identity. Afterward, however, birthright participants show levels of identification similar to those who go on other programs, Saxe said. Birthright alumni may not become more religiously observant, but they are more likely to take Jewish studies courses at college and return to Israel on other programs, paving the way for increased Jewish commitment ... Begun in late 1999 as a five-year pilot project to strengthen the identity of young Jews, the $210 million program was to be funded evenly by three partners: a group of 14 philanthropists, the Israeli government and world Jewish communities, primarily the North American Jewish federation system. But the intifada, which began in late 2000, drained Israel’s resources and scared off some would-be participants. In the end, more than $150 million was invested in birthright its first five years, with the lion’s share — $71.6 million — coming from philanthropists. Israel contributed more than $35 million and world Jewish communities donated more than $44 million, said Sandy Cardin, executive director of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation, one of the philanthropists involved. Many of the philanthropists, most notably Michael Steinhardt, have voiced outrage over the failure of other funding partners to pony up. But Cardin has faith: “All the partners in the program are committed to doing their best to share the cost,” he said. Some 70,000 youth have taken part in birthright, and the program has pumped some $110 million into the Israeli economy, according to birthright officials. In year six, birthright is receiving $10 million from the Israeli government, $12 million from philanthropists and $10 million from the federation system, half of which is being provided by its overseas partner, the Jewish Agency for Israel, said Jeffrey Solomon, president of the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, which contribute to birthright. Funding is secure for the more than 15,000 young people expected to visit Israel on birthright in 2005, Solomon said. The program is expected to continue indefinitely, he said, but enrollment depends on funding — and there’s not enough space for everyone who wants to go."

[The OSI is essentially the Jewish Revenge wing of the U.S. government, millions of dollars a year paid for at taxpayer expense. Forced into being by Jewish Congresswoman Holtzman and a few others of the Klan in the 1970s, we wonder who will be their target when the State Department's formal "monitoring" of "anti-Semitism" joins forces with the OSI when all the WWII Nazis die out, and they need something to do with their time. Looking to hunt down those who were involved in "severe human rights violations?" Parallel premise: is it time to kick every Jew in America who served in the Israeli army out for crimes against humanity?]
Government’s Nazi-hunting unit expands to track other war criminals,
by Ron Kampeas, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, December 21, 2004
"The blunt government instrument that for 25 years has kept former Nazis living in the United States from sleeping soundly, now will come knocking on the doors of those associated with other atrocities. A little-noticed provision in the intelligence overhaul bill signed by President Bush last week mandates the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations to seek the deportation of former aliens who were involved in severe human rights violations — an expansion of its 1979 brief, which was limited to those associated with Nazi crimes. The provision adds the words “commission of any act of torture or extrajudicial killing” and “severe violations of religious freedom” to the office’s original mission, which was to target those who “assisted in Nazi persecution or engaged in genocide.” That spells a new lease on life for the OSI, an office that thrilled the Jewish world soon after it was established in 1979 as its army of young — and mostly Jewish — lawyers deported dozens of former Nazis and their allies. “It’s a phenomenal office, it’s done yeoman’s work,” said U.S. Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who led a bipartisan effort to include the language. “They’re up and ready, and I didn’t want to create new bureaucracy to do something they’re so good at doing.” The OSI has removed 95 people with Nazi pasts from the United States, a record that earns the “highest marks” of any country seeking such deportations, according to Ephraim Zuroff, who heads the Jerusalem office of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which tracks the prosecution of former Nazis. “They are head and shoulders above any agency,” said Zuroff, who was an OSI staffer in the 1980s. He especially praised the OSI’s longtime director, Eli Rosenbaum ... Its actions largely are the result of research by a staff where 10 historians outnumber eight lawyers, and that is not as reliant on tips as is commonly believed. Staffers scour yellowing documents searching for hints; a surge of prosecutions in the mid-1990s resulted from the opening of archives in post-Communist Eastern Europe. Still, in recent years it looked as if the OSI would outlive its purpose. In 2004 there have been only two removal actions initiated, following a burst of activity in the previous two years, when the office initiated 15 such actions. The new language in the bill changes that. Foley said that, if necessary, he would fight to expand the OSI’s current $5 million budget. “If they need money, I’ll be the first to try and provide it,” he said."

CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer

[JTR contributor's note: "Before you get to excited about Bill Donahue ...poor old USA, everybody's already nobbled, the fix is in ..." Our comment: Incredible! Jewish masters of a supposed "Catholic Rights" organization. It is endlessly astounding. When we think we've seen everything, and Jews CAN'T possible be rooted in another realm which by definition shouldn't be their provenance, we're in for a shock. Time and time again. Choose your subject. Start digging. And you find Jews staring up from the floorboards. It looks that Bill Donahue (the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights), so much in trouble with the Jewish media for recently making "anti-Semitic" comments about "secular Jews running Hollywood," is running lost, schizonphrenic. The assertion of Catholicism -- by definition -- demands a negation of the Jewish, NOT a Jewish cooptation of power even in Catholic organizations. For Donahue to have called Culture Wars magazine and its editor "anti-Semitic" for looking at Jews cross-eyed is ludicrous, and for him to face the same charges by the Jewish Lobby right now for his comments on a recent TV program oought to put the whole "anti-Semitic" scam in very sharp focus for him. But read on. With Donahue so beholding to his earlier Jewish "neo-con" masters, is the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights really just at root another Jewish-run pimp operation for Judeocentric interests, like virtually everything else in sight? God -- or something -- help us all.]
Answered Prayers: Bill Donohue’s Catholic League Whacks Culture Wars,
by Thomas J. Herron, Culture Wars, 2004
"I had been a member [of the early Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights], off and on, for a number of years.  I knew what Father Blum was trying to do when he organized the League in the early ’70s: avoid the marginalization of Catholics and their interests in the American public forum.  It appears that he understood that the questions of aid to parochial schools, government distribution of contraceptives and the alleged right to an abortion were not the workings out of abstruse constitutional theory by the secular priesthood of the federal judiciary.  They were, rather, refined gang fights in which the Catholic Church came out as the loser against organizations like the American Civil Liberties Union, the American Jewish Committee and the Southern Jurisdiction of Scottish Rite Masonry ... What little we knew of what the national organization [the Catholic League] did we learned by reading The Catalyst, which was then in paper format only.  The League always seemed to be involved in some kind of legal actions, but they did not only involve Catholics.  One case I remember was that of an Orthodox Jewish Air Force officer who was suing to be allowed to wear his yarmulke when the service had ruled it out of uniform.  The League had filed an amicus curiae brief on his behalf. When I brought this up at a chapter meeting Jim Nolan informed us that the League’s full-time paid regional director in Chicago was Jewish and that he got the job because he used to work for the ADL.  Jim also noted many times that “weird people” worked at the national headquarters in Manhattan ... As I had been a long-time reader of National Review, I was intrigued by the fact that [Donahue] knew a lot of people at that magazine.  The anti-Semitism smear of Joseph Sobran and Patrick Buchanan by the editor William F. Buckley in December 1991 still stuck in my mind, and I asked Bill about it.  Bill just shook his head. “I don’t know what got into Buckley,” he said, “both those guys are very good Catholics. I feel betrayed by what he did.  When I was a student at a Catholic high school in Queens, I went door to door handing out flyers for Bill Buckley when he ran for mayor in 1965 on the Conservative Party line.  He was a hero to the working class Catholics in the city' ... I had been reading National Review since I was in high school and thought that I kept up on these matters but was totally confused.  The story that a group of sinister figures from New York City, mainly non-Christians who once followed Leon Trotsky, but now were respected members of the Republican establishment was almost beyond belief.  What was more incredible was that there were Catholics who were following their lead, and rumors abounded of Catholic organizations like the Catholic Campaign for America (CCA) being taken over by the neocons, who drained the resources and redirected a religious initiative into a more political one ... Well, when I reviewed the book [by Bill Donahue in 1985 about the ACLU] I found out that maybe discussing Catholic issues isn’t Mr. Donohue’s primary concern, maybe there was another group he was always more intent on impressing.   In his acknowledgements on p. xxiii the author states the following, “In the fall of 1982, I received a letter from Irving Kristol commenting on the first chapter of my book.  His words of encouragement gave me the impetus to continue despite his admonition that publishing a polemic on the ACLU would be difficult.  He proved to be correct.  Were it not for Aaron Wildavsky, this book might not have been published.  He believed in my work and directed my to Transaction.  Unlike every other publisher I had dealt with, Irving Louis Horowitz responded promptly and affirmatively.  I cannot thank him enough for his consistent support and advice' ...   If you’re known by the company you keep, the president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights might today be correctly described as a neoconservative.  Mr. Kristol is of course the one person who started the whole trend from his days as a Trotskyite campus agitator at CCNY, to his current position as elder statesman of the Republican Party, with an award from President George W. Bush.  The late Professor Wildavsky of Berkeley, in his long winded introduction to Donohue’s book, told of his days as an ACLU chapter head and how he felt betrayed by the actions of the Union when it supported the right of the Nazis to march through the Chicago Jewish suburb of Skokie. He was also upset by their adoption of equality of results, which was also opposed by Jews as a group, as opposed to their former stand for equality of opportunity.  Transaction Press was related to Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and, according to their web site, founded with a grant from the Ford Foundation, was led for many years by Irving Louis Horowitz, who had published an interesting short memoir of his youth as the son of a Jewish merchant in Harlem titled Daydreams and Nightmares: Reflections of a Harlem Childhood, University of Mississippi Press, Jackson, 1990. It appears that Horowitz’s father got back at his black Christian clientele in his hardware store by testing Christmas tree lights with a device that had a built-in fault.  The customers were forced to buy new bulbs as their old ones had ‘failed’ the scientific test and the ‘bad’ bulbs were then put back in Mr. Horowitz’s stock for resale to the next unsuspecting black Christian (p. 20).  Why did these three gentlemen take such an interest in the big Irish guy who was teaching in a Catholic school in Spanish Harlem and publish a book that no other publisher wanted to touch?  Was it just a one shot deal to get back at their ‘ex-friends’ at the ACLU for taking positions that were ‘bad for the Jews,’ or was it the start of a long term relationship?  Is Bill Donohue a neocon plant inside the Catholic right? ... [I]t might help to look at who’s on the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights board of advisors these days.  If you looked at the names on the list without knowing where they came from you might have mistaken them for the board of directors of the neocon American Enterprise Institute.  At least it could be confused for the Catholic minority who inhabit the AEI world.  Of the 21 advisors listed on the League’s web site, at least six are known neocon authors in such places as National Review and the Wall Street Journal:  Linda Chavez, Dinish D’Souza, Alan Keyes, Michael Novak, Kate O’Beirne and George Weigel.  Mr. Novak, of course, as a ‘private citizen,’ presented the Bush administration’s case that the 2003 American invasion of Iraq was justified from the Catholic just war tradition. He and three other advisors signed their names to the letter to President Bush on the catholicjustwar.org web site from prominent Catholics expressing the same position: Robert George, Patrick Riley, and Robert Royal.  It is interesting to note that one of the advisors, Dr. Alan Keyes, former U.S. ambassador and State Department official, was a college roommate at Harvard of Bill, son of Irving Kristol, now editor of The Weekly Standard and is always championed as the neocon great black hope, although he lost twice in U.S. Senate races in his native Maryland ... In fact you don’t have to be a practicing Catholic to be on the board of advisors of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, you can be an apostate Catholic.  Take the case of Linda Chavez. A Hispanic born in New Mexico, Ms. Chavez has for years been a fellow traveler in neoconservative circles and, like Alan Keyes, was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Senator from Maryland, which must be considered something of a Beta test site for ideas developed by the AEI ... Ms. Chavez, the Hispanic neocon, predictably was hard on Spain last March when they headed to the exit in Baghdad after a murderous terrorist attack on commuter trains in Madrid.  In this she finds an echo in another young neocon writer, Michelle Malkin, who was born in America of Filipino extraction and who recently chided her ancestral country of being soft on terrorism when the president of the Philippines decided to pull her nation’s troops out of Iraq to save the life of a terrorist kidnap victim and to protect the lives of the over one million Filipino citizens who work in the Middle East ... Besides being on the board of advisors of the Catholic League, Ms. Chavez is also a contributing editor of Deal Hudson’s Crisis magazine.  And did I mention that she is married to a Jew and has allowed her children to be raised Jewish?  Does this make her either a formal or material apostate?  Does this matter either to the Catholic League or to Crisis magazine?  I suppose we’d better leave unmentioned the fact that the two neocon voices to the Hispanic and Asian communities, the two growing segments of the American population, both have Jewish husbands (or we’ll be accused of conspiracy theories again) ... Perhaps this apostasy from Catholicism to Judaism is something we’ll all have to get used to, since it’s not just an issue for Republican neocons.  Cameron Kerry, the brother of the Democratic presidential candidate, converted to the Jewish religion upon his marriage.  Perhaps, given the history of the Kerry or Kohn family, it is a matter merely of returning to their roots.  Whatever the case, several decades ago, when a Catholic writer like John Cogley wanted to leave the faith, he joined the Episcopal Church of the WASP elite. Now that that WASP elite is being shoved aside in business and government, the tide is shifting in another direction.  Even Madonna, the subject of Bill Donohue’s first press release, is a Cabbalist these days along with a lot of other Hollywood notables ... This is just one of the many questions that remain unanswered. The most pertinent unanswered question, however, is why Mr. Donohue would violate the charter of his organization by attacking another Catholic [Jones, the editor of Culture Wars] on an “internal” matter on which he has no expertise. The simplest answer to that question is the one he provides in his article, namely, because “it has been brought to our attention.” Just who brought it to his attention, Mr. Donahue does not say, but we can guess because the realm of options is rather limited here. There are the Catholics who make up the rank and file of his organization, and there are the neocons who directed his dissertation, got his book published, and made and continue to make his career by assuring him TV access at venues like the Fox TV network. Whose interests was he representing when he condemned Jones’s review of Schoeman’s book as un-Catholic? ... There are precedents here that may help us understand how this system works. In November 1990, when Pat Buchanan’s presidential bid was making waves, Kenneth Stern wrote a “backgrounder” for the American Jewish Committee wondering what “we” should do about Buchanan.  “Unless he says something Mein Kampfish,” Stern wrote, “we should refrain from calling him an anti-Semite. That would only draw attention to him and bring him defenders.” According to Stern, there was a better way to deal with Buchanan, i.e., a better way to destroy his reputation and remove him as a political threat.  “I suggest,” Stern continued, "we approach other people whom Buchanan’s adherents see as equally qualified for the title of “Defender of the Faith” to write a rebuttal. When it comes to Catholic-Jewish relations, why not a leader in the church? And when it is an anti-communism based issue . . . why not a non-Jewish conservative? Roughly one year later, in the December 30, 1991 issue of National Review, William F. Buckley, Bill Donahue’s boyhood idol, wrote a long article accusing Buchanan of anti-Semitism. Samuel Francis, who wrote the story in the January 1993 issue of Chronicles, felt that “Rasputin and Machiavelli . . . could not have concocted a more furtive stratagem.” The Jews did not like Mr. Buchanan. Rather than attack him themselves, they needed to find a Catholic conservative to do the job. Francis claims that that man was William F. Buckley: ' The shoe that fits, of course, is Mr. Buckley, a Catholic conservative. Is it too cynical to ask if the American Jewish Committee or someone associated with it manipulated him into launching his insubstantial Scud against Mr. Buchanan. . . ?' By the end of his article, Francis had turned the rhetorical question into a direct challenge to Buckley. “Will he deny that he was either consciously part of an American Jewish Committee plan to discredit Pat Buchanan or that he was manipulated into being an unconscious tool of such a plan?” Buckley never responded to Francis’s accusation—not directly anyway. In the spring of 1992 Buckley attended a luncheon at the Washington Times, where Francis was employed at the time, and made use of the occasion “to insinuate a similar accusation of anti-Semitism against me, presumably but not successfully intended to harm me professionally.” Francis was later fired from his position at the Washington Times. Other grounds may have been cited for his dismissal, but accusations of anti-Semitism certainly don’t fuel careers in journalism these days. Mr. Francis’s article gives invaluable insight into how the system of censorship, thought control, and character assassination work. The servant, in this case Mr. Donahue, is not superior to the master, in this case Mr. Buckley because both men have to work within the same system. Both men have to make their way through the same byzantine media landscape, and they have to make it there on the terms of the people who control it, which is to say, not on the terms of  the rank and file Catholics who dutifully pay their membership dues to the Catholic League. Making a separate peace with the media lords became an inevitable necessity when Donahue killed the Catholic League as a grassroots organization ... Dr. Donohue better get with his benefits counselor and find out how the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights can get extended family benefits for gay employees who travel up toProvincetown and come back married in Massachusetts ... They had their chance to go on record against an early version of the gay agenda when I offered to be the guinea pig in contesting mandatory AIDS training in the federal government.  The League refused in 1994-95, so they can’t seriously oppose the present day gay demands.  Silence is consent.  By the way, did the Catholic League ever win the yarmulke case against the Air Force?." [JTR editor's note: Left or Right, Judecentric subversion seems total. Did someone say William F. Buckley, Mr. Catholic Conservative, who founded and headed the conservative icon, The National Review? Buckley too stands as the usual whoring shill for Jewish tribal interests. As Jewish author George Nash notes: "The fact remains that a striking number of National Review's original luminaries were Jews. [Nash cites seven] Indeed, without them the magazine might have never gotten off the ground for if Buckley was the founding father of the journal, its unlikely godfather was an Austrian Jewish emigre journalist named William S. Schlamm ... [And] it was Morrie Ryskind (1895-1985), a prize-winning playwright and Hollywood screenwriter, who organizaed a series of crucial fund-raising receptions for the project at his home in Beverly Hills. As a result, Buckley achieved more success with Ryskind's California friends than with anyone else except his own father." [Nash, George H. Forgotten Grandfathers: Premature Jewish Conservatism and the Rise of National Review. American Jewish History, An American Jewish History Society Quarterly Publication, June 1999 and September 1999, Vol. 87, Numbers 2 & 3, Published by the John Hopkins University Press, p. 123-157]

[Speak of the Devil ... holy Catholic arbiter William F. Buckley weighs in to protect his masters: rampant Judeocentrism and the Jewish Lobby. What can he do when an "honored friend" passes "the offending" transcript along and expects the requisite commentary? Buckley has one choice: grovel.]
Anti-Semitism? Passion vs. Fahrenheit, for starters,
by William F. Buckley, National Review, December 21, 2004
"An honored friend, charging that there has been anti-Semitism on the air, sends along the offending transcript, and I read through MSNBC's Scarborough Country (for Dec. 8) and found some noisy people discussing Hollywood. The question before the house: Will The Passion of the Christ win the relevant Oscar, or will it be Fahrenheit 9/11? The seven guests of Pat Buchanan, who was the mc that evening, included a rabbi (Shmuley Boteach) and the president of the Catholic League (Bill Donohue).The Catholic League ("The Nation's Largest Catholic Civil Rights Organization") fashions itself after the Anti-Defamation League of the Jewish establishment, and although tiny by comparison with the ADL, engages in some of the same excesses. The ADL will find you a hidden anti-Semitic motive in a public recitation of “God Bless America,” and the Catholic League (what it is, essentially, is one man, its president William Donohue) will find anti-Catholicism/anti-Christianity in every third movie produced in Hollywood. On the MSNBC show, the charge was immediately lodged that a failure by Hollywood to vote Passion ahead of Fahrenheit would constitute, pure and simple, an anti-Christian body blow. I detach from the quarrel to say that I agree that preeminence could not be given to Fahrenheit because it is a superior dramatic production — it could only mean antagonism to Passion. But to vote for a third contestant would be explainable in non-discriminatory language. Many share the opinion that Passion was unnecessarily, and inartistically, bloody. But to return to the language of the exchange on the television program. Rabbi Boteach led off provocatively: "I hope that Michael Moore actually wins so we can finally confirm what Hollywood is. Hollywood has become an America-hating bastion that always portrays people in uniform in some sinister role." But for Donohue, charging Hollywood with being anti-American was by no means specific enough: "Who really cares what Hollywood thinks?" The answer to that question is, roughly — everybody. It is because people care that this question was being raised on TV. “Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It’s not a secret, okay? And I’m not afraid to say it. [Donohue is not afraid to say anything.] That's why they hate this movie. It's about Jesus Christ, and it's about truth." What Hollywood likes is "anal sex. They like to see the public square without nativity scenes. I like families. I like children. They like abortions." Donohue's swings were so wide, inevitably he touched on genuine points of controversy, the current one of which focuses on the Christianization of Christmas. Donohue speaks of things which are "not a secret." And here is a flash point. The opposition to nativity scenes at Christmastime, or to the singing of songs that focus on the manger and the stilled star that hung over it, embraces a wide group of people. Among them are secularists who have drunk deep of ACLU doctrines over the years and have convinced themselves that any theological exercise in public circumstances is both a deprivation of their rights to seamless agnosticism, and a personal affront to believers in competing doctrines. In such language you can't say a Christian prayer without offending the Jew or the Muslim ... But to suggest that Hollywood is the incubator of the anti-Christian, secularist movement is ignorant and provocative. Rabbi Boteach neatly undercut Donohue by saying simply, "I'm amazed that we've made this a discussion about secular Jews. I have got to tell you that Bill Donohue, who I otherwise love and so respect, ought to be ashamed of himself, the way he's spoken about secular Jews hating Christians. This is a bunch of crap, okay? . . . Hollywood has become a cesspit because it's secular, period." The rabbi is saying it hurts the Jewish faith equally to fight the secularist fight. And that is how to find the right perspectives in the current quarrel."

[Call it "Zionist." Or call it "Jewish." But call this MASSIVE totalitarian censorship something. Face it.]
Alain Ménargues:I am a free man and I intend to stay that way,
interviewed by Silvia Cattori, Signs of the Times (translated from French), November 2004
"The life of Alain Ménargues – vice-director of Radio France International – changed overnight in October 2004. No sooner had his book “Le mur de Sharon” (“Sharon’s Wall”) been published than he brutally found himself caught in one of those ideological campaigns where lies are mixed with the irrational. Accused of “anti-Semitism”, Alain Ménargues was dismissed from his functions. The suspicion of anti-Semitism – with all the manipulations that can follow – weighs heavily upon the heads of any public personage who criticizes Israel. It can destroy careers and ruin lives. Alain Ménargues is the most recent living proof.
Silvia Cattori Didn’t you knowingly break a taboo by affirming that Israel is racist?
Alain Ménargues: The texts are there. I invented nothing. The Jewish State of Israel is considered legally racist by the United Nations.
S.C. You paid dearly. Have you been affected by it?
A.M. I am resolved to fight against all those who unjustly accuse honest people. You know that for a long time I have been engaged in information in the Middle East. I know very well, from having observed it closely, how Israel exercises its control over information. Since the 1970s there exists a military information service. There is a department that occupies itself exclusively with the press. Every journalist who goes to Israel is given a press card delivered by a press service that is dependent upon the army. It is therefore obviously the army that is charged, among others, to shape the image of Israel in the world. All Israeli embassies have a public relations service, diplomats whose job it is to assure that the good image of Israel is preserved. In the affair that concerns me, the embassies of Israel in Paris and Brussels intervened. They put pressure on journalists via what we call agents of influence: in order to have it said I am anti-Semite, that is, to take away my credibility and dissuade other journalists from echoing my remarks...
S.C. How can a State intervene so openly?
A.M. It is what is called in communications manipulation. In my case, it was done in a very precise way. I represent a textbook case. With my last book, [1], I hit on a sensitive point, especially as Israel’s image is deteriorating more and more ... In that which concerns Israeli politics I am very rigorous in what I write. I speak of the rights of children, of women, and the abuses they suffer in regards to Israel as for other countries. Israel is not a country apart from other countries. I call, therefore, simply for the application of the resolutions of the UN, which Israel ignores. Consequently, to eliminate me, to drive me from my posts of responsibility, a post in the media, is a way of killing two birds with one stone for my detractors. I am preparing a document on this subject.
S.C. So you are not laying down your arms?
A.M. I am going to fight. I won’t let them do this to me ...
S.C. In continuing to speak like this, don’t you risk worsening your case?
A.M. What you are suggesting is that I be silent, that I not fight. There are people who manipulate the information in France. The daily “Liberation” assassinated me. And I should be quiet? I began my professional life in Vietnam. I traversed many difficulties. I have the habit of putting things into perspective. My affair is nothing compared to what is going on elsewhere and notably in Palestine. I am not a man of power. In an interview with the Belgian daily “Le soir”, I said that my freedom of expression was not worth several stripes on my shoulder. I am a free man and I intend to stay that way. No honours, no money, no job will prevent me from saying what I wish. When I signed my contract with RFI, there was a restrictive clause that I had removed. That I be held to be discrete on internal affairs is normal, but, for the rest, you cannot demand of a journalist that he not speak.
S.C. Were you hurt when you were forbidden to work?
A.M. Hurt isn’t the word. I am strongly irritated to see that in France there is a fundamental liberty that is in the process of disappearing. And this is a fact that can only bring to me react, to fight. In my country, that is France, I can’t imagine that there is an intellectual terrorism that forces people to shut up under pain of being completely crushed. I am outraged to observe such a thing. So, hurt personally, no. I knew that this pressure existed. But since it has happened to me, I measure all its importance ...
S.C. Are you referring to these campaigns designed to whitewash Israel and to blacken the Muslim Arabs who march, especially since September 11?
A.M. Yes. I believe that this is pure manipulation in the sense of public relations. Israel was able to evolve for more than half a century under the image of victim. But this image of victim has started strongly to crumble. Especially since 1982, after the massacres of Sabra and Chatila. Since then, the heads of Israeli propaganda have been forced to finance campaigns in order to not lose their status of victim. To do this, they have used every possible public relations technique possible and imaginable. An example: while in France and the United States above all, we forbid the television networks to show cadavers, caskets, and the burial of soldiers in case of conflict, Israeli TV, when there is an attack in their country, do the opposite. Each time there is an attack in Israel, their information service broadcasts repeatedly images of blown apart corpses in order to shock and mobilize opinion. This is the technique of manipulation through the image. The Palestinians do the same thing. I don’t distinguish between the two. But in the case of Israel, these images of exploded buses, abundantly broadcast, are distributed freely to all the world’s networks. So, while here we show cadavers in a very vague way, precisely to lessen the shock, in Israel, the shock is a commentary.
S.C. How do they proceed in detail?
A.M. There is in their world of communication something extraordinary. Israel counts, in every embassy, a communication officer who intervenes systematically with the help of the agents of influence. This is what happened in my case. The Israeli embassy intervenes with some journalists to let them know that such a person is an anti-Semite and should be silenced. Here is France, the lawyer Goldnadel, is one of these agents of influence who act on the behalf of Israel. This lawyer reproached me for having spoken of “Leviticus” on Radio Courtoisie. “Leviticus” is the fourth book of the Torah where there is the question of pure and impure. The Torah is part of the Bible. So what prevents me from speaking about the Torah? ...
S.C. Why don’t more journalists describe things as they are?
A.M. Because certain of them must pay the bills at the end of the month. There are many journalists who share the same understanding of things as me. But they are not free. The bosses of the press are afraid of losing subscribers, income from advertising.
S.C. When you were let go, didn’t the attitude of the Society of Journalists [la Société des journalists) weigh against you?
A.M. Radio France internationale is 400 journalists in Paris and 300 correspondents dispersed throughout the world. This Society of Journalists is composed of 15 people, of whom only three are active. This is what happened. I had launched a basic reform that put those who merited it in front. That bothered people’s habits. There was already a malaise.
S.C. So some profited from this to take their revenge?
A.M. As soon as I was accused of anti-Semitism, the latent discontent expressed itself.
S.C. Why do so few journalists break free of the crowd?
A.M. This gets back to what, in the media, corresponds to the “politically correct”, and which is, in reality, the expression of complete intolerance. France has fallen into intellectual intolerance. What is extraordinary is that, when we watch television, the people who incarnate the “politically correct” are the uncultivated. My grandmother said “Culture is like jam. The more we spread it around, the less we have.” We are far removed from the time when we had debates, where people confronted each other with arguments: Today we don’t confront each other. There are no more quality debates. We assist at a continuous shower of anathemas on all the television networks and in the media in general. The “politically correct” doesn’t think, doesn’t read, and has no references. Look at what happened to Dieudonné who is an artist. Was he too much or not enough of a provocateur? But isn’t provocation part of an exchange of arguments? Shouldn’t one provoke in order to get a reaction? The role of the media is not to condemn. When Tariq Ramadan develops an idea, why insult him? If we aren’t in agreement with him, engage him in a debate. But not a lynching. And what if we listened to him? That would be more constructive than to blacken him and reject him.
S.C. You are evoking figures upon whom accusations of anti-Semitism are continually showered. Is that not what awaits you?
A.M. As soon as we criticize Israel, we are accused of anti-Semitism. By accusing everyone of being anti-Semitic, you finish by rendering the term anti-Semitism banal. These excesses will finish by turning against the State of Israel and, unfortunately, against the citizens of the Jewish faith who accept all these abuses. After what I have undergone, I received thousands of emails expressing their sympathy and also their exasperation. The intolerance of one risks to make a bed of blazing hate for others. All this should make us think.
S.C. Is this intolerance maintained and is anti-Semitism exaggerated according to you?
A.M. I don’t believe in the spontaneity of the reactions. There is, from the evidence, a manipulation. Look at what has happened in France these last few months. There were acts attributed to anti-Semitism that were found to be organized by people of the Jewish faith. There is a base of anti-Semitism that is inscribed in the Christian tradition. A basis that is minimal. But, it is certain that by continuing to mobilize society nonsensically on the theme of anti-Semitism, we can not but exasperate people. These last months, we have seen Ministers go out and be moved at least four times by acts provoked against themselves by citizens of the Jewish faith who claimed to be victims. There was the case of the rabbi who stabbed himself, of the synagogue set afire by a drunken Jew. And everyone got stirred up without verifying the truthfulness of the facts ...
S.C. Has what has happened to you made you pessimistic?
A.M. Not at all. There will inevitably be an evolution of things. Certainly, everything is put into place by Israel to prevent people from knowing what happens. This is what the Israeli embassies and their agents of communication or influence do: prevent the base from knowing and from intervening with their leaders. You can’t lie all the time. Israel has lost the media battle. Israel can no longer pass itself off as the victim. Israel is the aggressor. People won’t wait long before understanding who the murderers are. In spite of all the means used to smother the truth, eyewitness reports will end up by coming out. I am convinced that the political figures in Europe will end up being pushed by their base. They will be forced to take decisions the day that the people really start to move. In a democracy, as long as the people don’t move, the power won’t move.
S.C. How is it possible to have such a power over editorial boards and for such a long period of time?
A.M. By doing what they have done until now: media campaigns based upon lies. They use every means and they have the money to do it.
S.C. Do you have an example?
A.M. There is a person who edits an article that accuses someone of being “anti-Semitic”. This article is picked up by journalists who don’t verify the origin of this information. It is as simple as that. There are evidently some subjects that receive a particular echo.
S.C. But these articles, the fruits of manipulation, where do they start?
A.M. There is a non governmental organization called “Lawyers without borders” (Avocat sans frontiers). Created by Mr. Goldnadel, this NGO is a sort of illusion because there already exists in France another NGO called “Lawyers Without Borders of France” (Avocats sans frontières de France). When Mr. Goldnadel sends out an article under the name of “Lawyers Without Borders”, the journalist is not going to verify who is behind this NGO. So the name given by Mr. Goldnadel lends to confusion. Mr. Goldnadel attacks everyone for anti-Semitism. Daniel Mermet, Pascal Boniface, and many others. All the media abundantly talked about the accusations he made, but when Mr. Goldnadel lost the cases he undertook against them, the media didn’t mention it. That’s how it happens."

[More on the mani-faceted Jewish Conquest of America.]
[BOOK:]Jews and the American Soul: Human Nature in the 20th Century, By Andrew R. Heinze, Barnes and Noble
" FROM THE PUBLISHER - Jews and the American Soul is the first book to recognize the central role Jews and Jewish values have played in shaping American ideas of the inner life. It overturns the widely shared assumption that modern ideas of human nature derived simply from the nation's Protestant heritage. Heinze marshals a rich array of evidence to show how individuals ranging from Erich Fromm to Ann Landers changed the way Americans think about mind and soul. The book shows us the many ways that Jewish thinkers influenced everything from the human potential movement and pop psychology to secular spirituality. It also provides fascinating new interpretations of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, and Western views of the psyche; the clash among Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish moral sensibilities in America; the origins and evolution of America's psychological and therapeutic culture; the role of Jewish women as American public moralists, and more. A must-read for anyone interested in the contribution of Jews and Jewish culture to modern America.
FROM THE CRITICS - Publisher's Weekly - How have Americans come to define the vague notion of "the pursuit of happiness" enumerated as a basic right in the Declaration of Independence? This groundbreaking, wonderfully researched and consistently provocative book suggests that while traditional Protestant values formed the foundation of the nation's prescription for happiness, after 1900 Jewish thinkers--from Freud and Adler, to the 1950s popular psychology of Dr. Joyce Brothers and Ann Landers--provided a framework to shape the American psyche and "individual development." Through these thinkers and writers "Jewish concerns and values... entered into American popular thought." Heinze states his case judiciously--he makes it clear that he's not speaking of all Jewish thinkers, but rather popularizers of psychology, who came from various religious and secular Jewish traditions; these men and women shaped American ideas about "intelligence, personality, race, the subconscious mind, and mass behavior and evil." Readers will be familiar with some of Heinze's examples--Erik Erickson, Erich Fromm, Harold Kushner--but there's plenty of material that is explored in this context for the first time. Heinze, a professor of American history and Jewish studies at the University of San Francisco, looks at Hugo Mensterberg, who taught at Harvard in the early 1900s and was one of the first popularizers of psychology; Otto Kleinberg, who in the mid-1930s published influential works exploding racist theories of intelligence; and Rabbi Joshua Liebman, whose bestselling 1946 Peace of Mind argued, from a clearly Jewish perspective, that "spiritual growth depended on psychological maturity." Heinze has a fluid, readable style and supports his larger arguments and history with an abundance of compelling anecdotes and facts. When he's at his best--as in discussing a 1950s response to popular Freudianism, led by TV star Bishop Fulton J. Sheen (whose Peace of Soul was a counterpoint to Leibman's book) and Clare Boothe Luce, both of whom Henize calls "the two most charismatic leaders of American Catholicism" of the era--Heinze writes splendid social history. This is an important addition not only to Jewish studies, but to American cultural studies as well."

[But, uh, what IF WE DON'T WANT TO BE JEWS. The divisions Slezkine makes between Jews ("entrepreneurial minorities") and non-Jews is that of exploitive rulers and their beasts of burden. And THAT is an accurate assessment of true Jewish history.]
[BOOK]The Jewish Century, By Yuri Slezkine, Barnes and Noble
"FROM THE PUBLISHER - This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age -- and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews. The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it underscores Yuri Slezkine's provocative thesis. Not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modern world, they have become the premiere symbol and standard of modern life everywhere. Slezkine argues that the Jews were, in effect, among the world's first free agents. They traditionally belonged to a social and anthropological category known as "service nomads," an outsider group specializing in the delivery of goods and services. Their role, Slezkine argues, was part of a broader division of human labor between what he calls Mercurians -- entrepreneurial minorities -- and Apollonians -- food-producing majorities. Since the dawning of the Modern Age, Mercurians have taken center stage. In fact, Slezkine argues, modernity is all about Apollonians becoming Mercurians -- urban, mobile, literate, articulate, intellectually intricate, physically fastidious, and occupationally flexible. Since no group has been more adept at Mercurianism than the Jews, he contends, these exemplary ancients are now model moderns."

[People, take back your country ...]
Fired IDT workers claim pro-Jewish bias,
by Wayne Parry, Miami Herald, December 21, 2004
"Twenty-three former call center employees of telecommunications provider IDT Corp. are suing the company, claiming discrimination against non-Jewish workers that ranged from ruined Christmases to the transfer of their jobs to Israel. A lawsuit filed in Superior Court in Newark also includes two current workers among the plaintiffs. It names the Newark-based company and its founder, Howard Jonas, as defendants. "There was tremendously different treatment of Jewish and gentile workers," said attorney Samuel L. Davis of the Teaneck firm Davis, Saperstein & Solomon. "Jewish workers automatically got their holidays off without having to ask. The non-Jewish workers had to put in a request to get their holidays off and were frequently denied. It interfered with their family and religious celebrations of holidays like Christmas and Easter." The lawsuit, filed in October, claims Jewish employees were given preferential treatment in hiring, scheduling and promotion, and also alleges violations of state wage-and-hour guidelines. Davis said approximately 35 employees of the Newark call center were suspended July 30 and escorted from the premises by Newark police officers without being told why. When the employees were terminated several weeks later and filed for unemployment, the company did not challenge their applications, Davis said. In doing so, the company passed up an opportunity to prove that they had done something wrong that merited termination, he said. Leslie Lajewski, the lawyer representing IDT, did not immediately return two calls seeking comment Tuesday afternoon. A receptionist at IDT would not transfer a call to Jonas' office, instead directing it to a voice mailbox where a message was not immediately returned. E-mails sent to five company divisions seeking comment also were not immediately answered. The lawsuit alleges a majority of IDT's management and workforce are Orthodox Jews who receive preferential treatment, including a kosher cafeteria and paid time away from work to pray in an on-premises synagogue. The lawsuit also asserts that IDT's stated reason for firing the employees was for removing a caller's social security number from an application and replacing it with a date of birth to somehow make the application appear more credit-worthy ... The lawsuit also claims many of the Newark call center jobs were shifted to another IDT call center in Har Hotzvim, Israel. It claims the lone named plaintiff, Paula Harris, was not fired because of "cutting costs, saving money or plaintiff's alleged wrongdoing; it had everything to do with IDT, a Jewish company wanting to have, no matter what the cost, a presence in Israel because its chairman, Howard Jonas, is emotionally committed to such country." According to its Web site, the company provides telephone service to callers in 225 countries, and has annual revenues of over $1.8 billion. It also calls itself a leader in calling card distribution, with annual sales of over $1 billion from 265 million cards."

[Older material: Another Godless nest with its Jewish foundation. This is one of the groups that seeks to banish God and hand you urban nihilism. This year's primo award winner doesn't seem to be Jewish. But they're present, as always, in force.]
Awardees and Speakers,
American Humanist Association, May 2004
"The AHA will also be honoring Barbara and Joseph Gerstein of Weston, Massachusetts, as Humanist Pioneers. The Gersteins have dedicated themselves to addressing the problem of addiction through an original approach termed Self Management and Recovery Training (SMART) Recovery. One of the only alternatives to theistic abstinence programs, SMART Recovery is based on scientific knowledge and encourages individuals to recover through self-empowerment ... Michael Newdow will be in Las Vegas to accept the Humanist Pioneer award. In the Federal court battle to return the Pledge of Allegiance to its secular form, Newdow is arguing the right of his daughter to attend public school without exposure to daily religious indoctrination. His case first made national headlines in June 2002 when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit acknowledged that the words "under God" in the pledge, is an unconstitutional government endorsement of religion. He is now arguing his case before the Supreme Court ... Nadine Strossen will receive the Religious Liberty Award from Americans for Religious Liberty for her hard work as a civil rights activist and lawyer. Strossen has served as the president of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1991 and is the first-ever woman to do so. In addition, she is Professor of Law at New York Law School, specializing in constitutional law, civil liberties, and international human rights. Strossen makes over 200 public appearances per year, has been published countless times in many scholarly and general interest publications, and has appeared on virtually every national news program."

[There's a few cracks. The war against Islam for apartheid Israel begins to look sour for even those brainwashed by the Judeocentric media.]
For First Time, Most Say Iraq War Was a Mistake. Poll Also Finds Slight Majority Favoring Rumsfeld's Exit,
By John F. Harris and Christopher Muste, Washington Post, December 21, 2004
"President Bush heads into his second term amid deep and growing public skepticism about the Iraq war, with a solid majority saying for the first time that the war was a mistake and most people believing that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld should lose his job, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. While a slight majority believe the Iraq war contributed to the long-term security of the United States, 70 percent of Americans think these gains have come at an "unacceptable" cost in military casualties. This led 56 percent to conclude that, given the cost, the conflict there was "not worth fighting" -- an eight-point increase from when the same question was asked this summer, and the first time a decisive majority of people have reached this conclusion.Bush lavished praise on Rumsfeld at a morning news conference yesterday, but the Pentagon chief who soared to international celebrity and widespread admiration after the terrorist attacks three years ago can be glad he answers to an audience of one. Among the public, 35 percent of respondents approved of his job performance, and 52 percent said Bush should give Rumsfeld his walking papers. Seven weeks since his reelection victory over Democrat John F. Kerry and four weeks before his second inauguration, the poll suggests Bush is in a paradoxical situation -- a triumphant president who remains acutely vulnerable in public opinion on a national security issue that is dominating headlines and could shadow his second term."

[Welcome, again, to Amerisraelistan:]
FBI Claims More Arab Prisoners Abused,
By Richard A. Serrano, Los Angeles Times (also posted here at Fair Use), December 20, 2004
"FBI agents are increasingly complaining about what they consider abusive physical and mental torture by military officials against prisoners held in Iraq and Cuba, including lighted cigarettes stuck in detainees' ears and Arab captives being humiliated with Israeli flags wrapped around them, according to new documents released today.The FBI records are the latest set of documents obtained by the ACLU in its lawsuit against the federal government and include instances in which bureau officials were disgusted that military interrogators pretended to be FBI agents and used the scheme as a "ruse" to glean intelligence information from prisoners. In addition, the FBI complained that military interrogators have gone far beyond the restrictions of the Geneva Conventions prohibiting torture and have followed an apparently new executive order from President Bush that permits the use of dogs and other techniques to harass prisoners. "We know what's permissible for FBI agents but are less sure what is permissible for military interrogators," the FBI's "on-scene commander-Baghdad" complained to his bureau colleagues last May, well after the abuse scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison had become public. "We cannot have our (FBI) personnel embedded with military units abroad, which regularly use these interrogation techniques… "Another unidentified FBI agent told his superiors in July that he had witnessed military interrogators and government contract employees at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, using "aggressive treatment and improper interview techniques" on prisoners. "I did observe treatment that was not only aggressive, but personally very upsetting," he said."

Iran: Israel, U.S. Rigging Iraq Election,
Reuters, December 20, 2004
"Israeli and U.S. agents were behind bombings in Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities of Kerbala and Najaf, Iran's Supreme Leader said Monday, accusing Tehran's arch-foes of trying to rig Iraq's elections for their own ends. Shi'ite Muslim Iran was quick to condemn Sunday's car bombings in Najaf and Kerbala, which killed 66 people. "I am sure Israeli and American spy services were behind these events. This is a plot which aims at keeping the Iraqis so busy that they will miss the exceptional chance to participate in the January 30 elections," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, speaking to Mecca pilgrimage organizers on state TV. "The British and Americans want to hold elections on the surface but in reality they want to bring their own agents to power by holding superficial elections," added the Supreme Leader, who has the last word on all state matters. Officials from oil-rich Iran have called for fully democratic elections next year in Iraq, where the majority of people are their Shi'ite coreligionists. President Bush and Iraq's interim Defense Minister Hazim al-Shalaan have accused Iran of aiding al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and former agents of Saddam Hussein in inflaming pre-election violence."

UPI Hears,
Interest! Alert, Insider Notes from the UPI Press, December 21, 2004
"Israel Military Industries will upgrade the Indian army's Russian-made rocket systems in a deal worth about $40 million, according to reports in Delhi. The recently signed agreement will use Israeli technology to improve the precision and range of Russian-made rockets. "Though the initial deal is worth $30 million to $40 million, it could expand to as much as $1 billion over five years," IMI Chairman, retired Brig. Gen. Arie Mizrachi was quoted as saying."

[Whatever it is or isn't, the "Holocaust" has been fundamentally reduced to a political tool -- as exemplified here. Different Jewish factions merely exploit it in different ways. It is usually wielded against non-Jews, but here the manipulative exploitation is directly at other members of the Jewish Klan.]
Israelis Compare Pullout Plan to Holocaust,
Earthlink (from Associated Press), December 21, 2004
"Igniting a public uproar, some Jewish settlers said Tuesday they will soon start wearing orange stars on their shirts in a provocative campaign comparing the government's Gaza withdrawal plan to the Nazi Holocaust. The announcement was the latest escalation in the settlers' drive to block the pullout. On Monday, settler leaders called for mass resistance against the withdrawal - even if it means going to jail. Settler activists in Gaza said they would distribute the orange stars - reminiscent of the yellow stars that Jews living under Nazi rule were forced to wear - this weekend. "I want to raise my voice to show that this is illegitimate, to shake the people of Israel to their core," Arieh Tzur, a resident of the Ganei Tal settlement, told Israel Army Radio. Tsur, the son of a Holocaust survivor, said survivors who live in the Gaza settlements support the effort. Even so, the campaign touched a raw nerve in Israel, which gained independence in 1948 in the wake of the Nazi genocide that killed 6 million Jews. An estimated 250,000 survivors live in Israel, and any mention of the Holocaust in a public forum remains an extremely sensitive subject. The comparison dominated public debate Tuesday. Images of a Gaza woman wearing the star on her lapel ran on the front page of one Israeli newspaper, and Israeli radio shows discussed the settler campaign nonstop ... The settler campaign was condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a human rights group that focuses on Holocaust issues, and the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center. "The plan to wear orange stars perverts the historical facts and damages the memory of the Shoah," said Yad Vashem's director Avner Shalev, using the Hebrew word for the Holocaust. He urged the settlers to refrain from using the stars. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to withdraw from Gaza and small parts of the West Bank next year. After spearheading the settlement movement for decades, Sharon says the continued occupation of Gaza, where 8,000 settlers live amid 1.3 million Palestinians, is untenable. For months, the settlers tried to fight the plan through political means. However, Sharon has outflanked them, forcing them to turn to tougher tactics. On Monday, settler leaders endorsed a call by a prominent leader to resist the withdrawal - even if it means going to jail. "The proposal to expel Jews from their homes is an immoral decision and a breach of human rights," said Bentsi Lieberman, head of the Yesha Settlers Council."

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[This Mr. Rabbi Bojangles is an astounding hack: the quintessential, stereotypical two-faced, hypocritical Jew. Look how this works. William Donahue, head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, states the fact that "secular Jews run Hollywood." Rabbi Bojangles, who's beside Donahue on a TV show, has a virtual heart attack, accuses Donahue of "anti-Semitism," and now, to Rabbi Bojangles' utmost satisfaction, a "press pit Hell" lashes out at William Donahue's truth-telling -- as a unified Jewish mafia. # 1 Attack: The New York Daily News is a Zionist piece of toilet paper, run by the Jewish Klan over, under, and sideways down. The chairman, CEO, and owner of the Daily News is Mort Zuckerman, former head of the Zionist Forum. #2 Attack): Frank Rich is also a member of the Klan and the forum for his vitriol was the New York Times, owned by the Jewish Sulzberger family. #3 Attack): The third "press pit" executioner, John Stewart, is ALSO Jewish. So what can Donahue do, surrounded by a Jewish onslaught on his every side, underscoring the problem far beyond his original assertion that "secular Jews run Hollywood?" He's painted himself into a corner because he can't further say the "Jew" word (then he's stamped as an even BIGGER "anti-Semite"), even as the Jew Klux Klan starts gang raping him.]
Jews are not the enemy of Christmas,
by Rabbi Shmuel Boteach, World Net Daily, December 18, 2004
"Bill Donohue's comments in his debate with me on MSNBC's "Scarborough Country" last week has proven deeply shocking to decent Americans everywhere. Not that it didn't take a while. When the president of the Catholic League said on national television that "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular," it was I who was initially criticized for calling him and my other Catholic assailant on the show, Jennifer Giroux (who was saying that the Jews killed Jesus) "ignorant peasants." After all, Scorsese, Coppola, Lucas, Di Nero, and Pacino are hardly Jewish names. But after a few days, the pit of press hell opened for Donohue. First there was the Daily News article on Wednesday that said, "Jewish viewers are still agog over Catholic League President William Donohue's comments on MSNBC's 'Scarborough Country' the other night." Then, Frank Rich of the New York Times attacked Donohue for his anti-Semitic diatribe with the words, "For Shame," and John Stewart replayed the debate as a lead-in to his "Daily Show" and called Donohue an expletive. For my part, I invited Donohue, with whom I normally share a warm and friendly relationship, on to my radio show twice, affording him the opportunity of retracting the offensive slander. Sadly, he chose to defend and explain the accuracy of the comment instead. Christians throughout the United States had better get used to the idea that much of what they say and do scares the hell out of Jews. And people like me, long defenders, apologists and admirers of religious Christians, are losing our ability to convince the Jewish community that evangelical Christians are our brothers with whom we should work to create a more moral America. Certainly, it does not help that evangelical Christians, who so love and support the state of Israel, also believe that Jews who lead exemplary lives but don't believe in Jesus are going to hell. It also doesn't help that all-too-many evangelicals are extremely vocal about this offensive belief that utterly dismisses the Jewish faith as spiritually useless. Of course, every religion is entitled to its beliefs, and people should be judged by their actions rather than their dogma. But increasingly, since President Bush's election, religious Christians are showing an insensitivity to Jews and Judaism that is causing further distance between the two communities. When I wrote an article arguing that passive Christmas displays – like "Merry Christmas" signs and Nativity scenes – ought to be allowed in public places, but not active displays that would have Jewish youth in public schools forced to sing "O Holy Night," I was surprised to receive many e-mails from my evangelical Christian readers telling me that we Jews have to respect the will of the majority, which is Christian. If the public schools are filled with mostly Christian kids, then why should they be denied singing Christmas carols to accommodate the Jews? Are Christians really so tone-deaf to Jewish unwillingness to participate in Christian ritual? We're not Christian, for goodness sake, and while we respect and revere the Christian faith, we have no plans of joining. How would Christian parents feel if their children were forced to sing songs denying Jesus' deity or messiahship? And what would they feel toward those Jews that made it a campaign to force these tunes upon their kids in school? This disappointment was followed by a God-fearing Christian friend sending me an article by an evangelical author Edgar Steele that was floating around the Internet accusing Jews of fighting to abolish Christmas in the United States. Here is the meat of the column: "We all know about the lawsuit to remove 'under God' from the Pledge of Allegiance. Filed by a Jew. Remember the lawsuit to remove the Ten Commandments from the courthouse foyer, then to remove the judge who put it there? Filed by Jews. Remember the lawsuit last year to force New York public schools to take down colored lights? Filed by Jews. Remember the huge Jewish uproar about Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ"? That backfired badly for Abe Foxman and company, but was a piece of the overall strategy to deChristianize America. It's a Jewish strategy, of course. That's why the lawsuits are all brought by Jews." It is imperative that evangelical Christians – whom I know to be good and godly people – repudiate this kind of drivel lest it spread. As more Christian representatives like William Donohue and Edgar Steele point an outrageous finger at Jews for secularizing America, Christian spokesmen must rise to the occasion and condemn this malicious garbage. The enemies of values in America are not secular Jews, lapsed Catholics or apostate Christians, but any man or woman,regardless of how religious they claim to be, who doesn't condemn such horrendous bigotry. Christianity in America will undermine its otherwise noble goals of spreading values and ethics if it sounds in any way bigoted, homophobic or just downright nasty ... In the TV debate with Donohue, I told Pat Buchanan, who moderated the debate, that "the reason why many Jews – I'm not among them – are fearful of Christianity is that they're tired of Christians saying that we're a bunch of Christ killers." It is time for Christian leaders to reach out to Jews as partners in faith rather than as perpetrators of a crime. Give those voices in the Jewish community who have championed the cause of Christian-Jewish brotherhood some proof that the real enemy of Judaism in the United States is not Christianity but secularism."

[In blessed, sacred honor of anti-Christian bigot Rabbi Bojangles above, we take great pleasure in reposting an article by another Jew who decreed that Jews ARE the enemy of Christmas, and this piece came out in the same exact journal as Rabbi Bojangles' nonsense just 3 days earlier. A gusty toast to the beloved Rabbi's arrogant blindness and the robust Jewish "anti-Semitism" below ! Mazel Tov!]
The Jewish grinch who stole Christmas,
By Burt Prelutsky, World Net Daily, December 17, 2004
" I never thought I'd live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word. You think it hasn't? Then why is it that people are being prevented from saying it in polite society for fear it will offend? Schools are being forced to replace "Christmas vacation" with "winter break" in their printed schedules. At Macy's, the word is verboten even though they've made untold millions of dollars from their sympathetic portrayal in the Christmas classic, "Miracle on 34th Street." Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain places. A major postal delivery service has not only made their drivers doff their Santa caps, but ordered them not to decorate their trucks with Christmas wreaths. How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is happening? And in case you find that designation objectionable, would you deny that India is a Hindu country, that Pakistan is Muslim, that Poland is Catholic? That doesn't mean those nations are theocracies. But when the overwhelming majority of a country's population is of one religion, and roughly 90 percent of Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a damn fool would deny the obvious. Although it seems a long time ago, it really wasn't, that people who came here from other places made every attempt to fit in. Assimilation wasn't a threat to anyone – it was what the Statue of Liberty represented. E pluribus unum, one out of many, was our motto. The world's melting pot was our nickname. It didn't mean that any group of people had to check their customs, culture or cuisine, at the door. It did mean that they, and especially their children, learned English, and that they learned to live and let live. That has changed, you may have noticed. And I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront. Being Jewish, I should report, Christmas was never celebrated by my family. But what was there not to like about the holiday? To begin with, it provided a welcome two-week break from school. The decorated trees were nice, the lights were beautiful, "It's a Wonderful Life" was a great movie, and some of the best Christmas songs were even written by Jews. But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society – it's been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. For example, the hatred spewed toward George W. Bush has far less to do with his policies than it does with his religion. The Jews voice no concern when a Bill Clinton or a John Kerry makes a big production out of showing up at black Baptist churches or posing with Rev. Jesse Jackson because they understand that's just politics. They only object to politicians attending church for religious reasons. My fellow Jews, who often have the survival of Israel heading the list of their concerns when it comes to electing a president, only gave 26 percent of their vote to Bush, even though he is clearly the most pro-Israel president we've ever had in the Oval Office. It is the ACLU, which is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of membership and funding, that is leading the attack against Christianity in America. It is they who have conned far too many people into believing that the phrase "separation of church and state" actually exists somewhere in the Constitution. You may have noticed, though, that the ACLU is highly selective when it comes to religious intolerance. The same group of self-righteous shysters who, at the drop of a "Merry Christmas" will slap you with an injunction, will fight for the right of an American Indian to ingest peyote and a devout Islamic woman to be veiled on her driver's license. I happen to despise bullies and bigots. I hate them when they represent the majority, but no less when, like Jews in America, they represent an infinitesimal minority. I am getting the idea that too many Jews won't be happy until they pull off their own version of the Spanish Inquisition, forcing Christians to either deny their faith and convert to agnosticism or suffer the consequences. I should point out that many of these people abhor Judaism every bit as much as they do Christianity. They're the ones who behave as if atheism were a calling. They're the nutcakes who go berserk if anyone even says, "In God we trust" or mentions that the Declaration of Independence refers to a Creator with a capital "C." By this time, I'm only surprised that they haven't begun a campaign to do away with Sunday as a day of rest. After all, it's only for religious reasons – Christian reasons – that Sunday, and not Tuesday or Wednesday, is so designated. This is a Christian nation, my friends."

[Jewish Scrooge (J.S.) Goodstein. J.S. Number 9,235,243,333. And what's with this Yiddish "kvetch" crap. Ms. Greene, go "kvetch" in the halls of AIPAC. Here we have it, folks. While the struggle goes on to keep Christmas out, the "kvetch" goes in.]
City lights up Nativity scene - and church-state debate,
by Susan Greene, Denver Post, November 26, 2004
"Jesus has returned to the steps of Denver's city hall. The controversial replica of the Christ child to be illuminated today has been the subject of debate since the Nativity scene became the centerpiece of Denver's holiday display in the 1940s. Many find the creche - and accompanying decorations - a comforting Christmas custom. Others kvetch that religious icons have no place on government property, no matter how long the tradition. In his second holiday season in office, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper said, "If it hadn't been there for 85 years, I wouldn't put it out there." The power of tradition, he said, is strong enough to keep the Nativity scene, at least for now. Hickenlooper has ordered that next year the decorative lights above the creche read "Happy Holidays" instead of "Merry Christmas." "We're trying to be more inclusive," he said ... The broad popular appeal of Denver's Christmas adornments became evident in 1985 when the city said it no longer could pay for the display and the nonprofit Keep the Lights Foundation collected private donations to keep city hall aglow. Meanwhile, the decorations became a criminal target. In 1990, Rudolph the Red- Nosed Reindeer was snatched from city hall's steps. In 1993, Santa Claus was kidnapped from his sleigh, then found a day later, dangling from a rope under a northeast Denver bridge. And in the mid-1990s, someone slashed the Joseph figure with a knife and splashed red paint on Mary's hand. A fence and surveillance cameras have been installed since then. By far the biggest controversy came in the 1980s, when a group unsuccessfully sued the city, arguing the creche violates the constitutionally guaranteed separation between church and state. "It is an imposition of a narrow brand of religion onto public policy," said Denver historian Phil Goodstein, who calls the creche "utterly obnoxious."
[Two-faced hypocrite Goodstein is the author of "Exploring Jewish Colorado." His title doesn't sound very "inclusive," does it? Sounds like an "utterly obnoxious" book to me. I guess it's too much to expect that he might guess that Colorado has all kinds of people in it -- mostly Christian.]

[Welcome to Amerisraelistan. The Jewish/Israeli Lobby leads us to violent disaster in the Middle East, and then comes to the states to teach Americans to protect themselves from what obsessive world Judeocentrism pulls into their orbit. The true "terrorists" are those who have commandeered U.S. foreign policy and slaughters Arabs in the false name of "democracy."]
Terrorist Threat May Come From Home-Grown Terrorists,
Press Release Newsire, December 17, 2004
"In response to the demand by law enforcement and other first responders for more information about the threat of Suicide Terror due to specific threats by home-grown terror organizations, SSI (Security Solutions International) is presenting its acclaimed one-day overview of the threat of suicide terror in Atlanta. The event has already been attended by close to 200 different government agencies in many different cities. The one-day training session for First Responders, Emergency management and Homeland Security decision makers or other qualified security personnel takes place in Atlanta in February. The event will be held in 8 other cities in 2005. "Most people associate suicide terror with Al Qaeda, but the most likely use of this awful weapon may come from domestic terrorists," states Ana Sowers, Press Spokeperson and Director of Marketing for SSI. "There are hate groups out there that may copy methods of operation already in existence and use them here. There is also always the threat of Foreign terrorism by extremist fundamentalist groups." "Our misssion is to bring the best Israeli know-how -- gained in more than 50 years of fighting attacks -- to the Homeland Security First Responders and Decision makers so that we can upgrade our readiness for any terrorists that may decide to use this weapon. Our training events have been designed to provide information about community protection and force protection in the event of an attack as well as a complete overview of the way these terrorist organizations work." Presented by a former officer of Israel's special forces and a bomb expert, the training session has been widely praised by many Federal, State and Local Law Enforcement officials that have already attended. Held in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Waco, Tallahassee, Washington and other cities in 2004, the training session gives a background on world terrorism; explains the mind-set of different terrorist organizations, their methods and focuses on different threats: Vehicle Born Improvised Explosives, Buildings, and crowd events through extensive case studies. The training day showcases some technologies and strategies for preventing and protecting against terror."

[JTR contribtor's note: "I'm sure you'll find this interesting. Its about Bobby Fischer, the American chess champ."]
Fischer 'put Iceland on the map',
by Laura Smith-Spark, BBC News, December 16, 2004
"Extending the hand of friendship to a man viewed as a paranoid recluse with extreme views may seem a puzzling move. It becomes even more inexplicable when to do so could earn you the disapproval of the US, a powerful enemy. Yet Iceland has offered a residency visa to ex-chess champion Bobby Fischer in recognition of a 30-year-old match that put the country "on the map". His historic win over Russian Boris Spassky in Reykjavik in 1972 shone the international spotlight on Iceland as never before. Now Iceland is keen to repay the favour by offering sanctuary to Mr Fischer, an American citizen.He is being detained in Japan and is wanted in the US for violating international sanctions against the former Yugoslavia by playing there in 1992. But Gunnar Snorr Gunnarsson, permanent secretary in Iceland's foreign affairs ministry, told the BBC News website that his country had not been able to ignore the grandmaster's direct appeal for help. He said both chess and Mr Fischer retained a special place in Icelandic culture."There is a certain feeling of solidarity, not with his views but with an exceptional champion who is in difficulties," Mr Gunnarsson said. "In his time he also contributed to a rather special event here, over 30 years ago but that people remember very well." Extradition danger He said public reaction in Iceland to the visa offer had been "overwhelmingly positive".It was not possible to grant him political asylum but we could offer him a residency permit on humanitarian grounds," he said."Now it's up to the Japanese authorities to decide how they will react."Even if Mr Fischer is allowed to travel to Iceland, the US could start extradition proceedings against him there, Mr Gunnarsson said. The 62-year-old recluse has alienated many in his homeland by broadcasting anti-Semitic diatribes and expressing support for the 11 September 2001 attacks.Mr Gunnarsson said: "We have been anxious to convey to our American friends that this is a purely humanitarian gesture and we certainly do not endorse some of his statements."
[More Fischer from JTR contributor:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3900793.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3900205.stm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/582001/posts
http://www.orwelltoday.com/fischerbobby.shtml
http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessNews/articles/2-3.php
http://www.worldchessnetwork.com/English/chessNews/articles/2-4.php
http://www.heretical.com/miscella/fischer.html

Siberian Newspaper Editor Sentenced for Anti-Semitism,
Moscow News, December 20, 2004
"A court in the Siberian city of Novosibirk handed down a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence to a local newspaper editor for publishing anti-Semitic views. The court convicted Russkaya Sibir editor Igor Kolodezenko of inciting ethnic hatred after prosecutors proved that he was behind a number of articles published in the paper that contained materials defamatory of Jews, as well as calls to violence against Jews, the Russian Information Agency Novosti reported. Kolodezenko, who pleaded not guilty, said that he was “telling the truth” in the articles, and added that he would continue to fight, and appeal the verdict. The outspoken editor was sentenced to three years in a penal colony in 2003 for his anti-Semitic publications, but avoided a jail term after being amnestied."

[The intriguing thing below is how the far-Left refuses to face Zionism as a distinctly "Jewish" endeavor (criticizing "Jews" as a political entity is held to be the pinnacle of political UNcorrectness) and how Zionism itself is always explained in Marxist circles as merely a tool of U.S. imperialism, and not the other way around. It takes some pretty convoluted doublethink to hide Jews from centrality in all this but, then again, Jews -- who have historically dominated so very much of the Left -- are always censorially present in shielding the Jew Klux Klan from honest political examination.]
Down With Zionist Witchhunt on Campus!,
International Communist League , Reprinted from Young Spartacus pages of Workers Vanguard No. 837, 26 November 2004
"Columbia University is today ground zero in a right-wing witchhunt designed to intimidate and drive out any professor who does not toe the line of support to the state of Israel. The latest escalation was triggered by a squalid little film by the David Project, Columbia Unbecoming. It slanderously accuses Professor Joseph Massad, along with other professors in the Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) department, of “academic intimidation” of pro-Israel Zionist students. The New York City gutter press Daily News and the New York Sun have embarked on a vicious campaign against Massad and several other professors. The Sun, along with New York City Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner, has explicitly called for Massad’s firing. With the screaming front-page headline “Poison Ivy: Climate of Hate Rocks Columbia University,” the Daily News (21 November) featured a sinister “special report.” In it, respected professors such as Massad, Hamid Dabashi, Rashid Khalidi, George Saliba and Nicholas De Genova are denounced as “Columbia’s firebrands,” the “faculty with the most strongly anti-Israel views.” The article is replete with alleged quotes from the professors described as “venom disguised as classroom instruction.” In response to the film, the Columbia administration has launched a formal investigation into the film’s accusations and promised to “take whatever steps are necessary.” Not content with this, the Democrat-dominated New York City Council has announced they will demand an outside investigation if the university investigation “comes up dry” (New York Sun, 12 November). Down with the Zionist witchhunt! Hands off Joseph Massad and the other professors! The attacks on Massad and other professors are nothing less than a campaign to silence and drive out those who speak against the crimes of U.S. imperialism and its allies. Well before Columbia Unbecoming, Professor Massad, a contributing writer for the Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly, had long been reviled by Zionists. In 2002 a Zionist think tank, the Middle East Forum, set up the Campus Watch Web site in an attempt to blacklist pro-Palestinian academics, whom it labels “apologists to terrorism.” Professors such as Massad, Dabashi and Khalidi were listed on this site. A regular recipient of death threats, Massad declared in his statement responding to the charges in the film: “With this campaign against me going into its fourth year, I chose under the duress of coercion and intimidation not to teach my course this year. It is my academic freedom that has been circumscribed. But not only mine.” An e-mail to Massad by a professor of medicine, Moshe Rubin, expressed the real sentiments of the forces behind this campaign: “Go back to Arab land where Jew hating is condoned. Get the hell out of America. You are a disgrace and a pathetic typical Arab liar” (Columbia Spectator, 27 October)" ... The classic tool of the trade for the Zionists is the slander that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Massad’s statement eloquently repudiated this claim: “Unlike the pro-Israel groups, I do not think that Israeli actions are ‘Jewish’ actions or that they reflect the will of the Jewish people worldwide! All those pro-Israeli propagandists who want to reduce the Jewish people to the State of Israel are the anti-Semites who want to eliminate the existing pluralism among Jews. The majority of Israel’s supporters in the United States are, in fact, not Jews but Christian fundamentalist anti-Semites who seek to convert Jews.... Therefore, it is not anti-Semitism that offends pro-Israel groups; what offends them is anti-Israel criticism.” [This last material is of course entirely false. There is very, very little "pluralism" when it comes to Jews worldwide and their hysterical support for Israel. All the survey evidence and scholarly investigation of both American Jews and Jews throughout the world underscores apartheid Israel as the pillar of modern Jewish identity. Who knows what Mr. Massad really believes, but he knows, like everyone else, that it is absolutely forbidden in America and the West to criticize "Jews" as an ideological class, for to do that is to invite the charge of "anti-Semitism" for which there is no possible help against crushing censorial attack -- nor political recovery. And THAT, as always, underscores the authentic WHO that reigns so much incredible power in this equation. We've reached a stage where it's marginally permissible to criticize "Zionists." But it's still impossible to openly, publically examine the heart of racist Zionist dogma -- which originates with the very specific identity and history of what Jews call themselves: JEWS. The issue is not that all Jews are card-carrying Zionists. That is not the case. The issue is not the specific dogma of Zionism. The ultimate issue is world Jewish loyalty (for a myriad of psycho-political reasons very much rooted in the "Holocaust" and modern Jewish neurotic identity) to the apartheid, vengeful, hyper-militaristic state of Israel.]

[Who defines, and filters, the world for you -- this time about China?]
Red Dragon and China: Nine Commentaries Forum to Discuss the Chinese Communist Party and China's Future,
U.S. Newswire, December 20, 2004
"The Epoch Times newspaper's "Nine Commentaries on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)" provide an incisive view into the origins and nature of the political party that has been around in China for the past over 80 years, and ruled the country for the past 55 years. The Epoch Times, an international multi-language newspaper, began publishing the series on November 19th. Since their publication, the commentaries have sent shockwaves through both China and overseas Chinese communities, even convincing over 1,500 CCP cadres to renounce their party membership. Over a hundred join their ranks every single day. At last, for the first time, the Chinese people have access to the unadulterated history of the CCP (the "Red Dragon"), and an opportunity to re- think their fate and China's future. On Tuesday, scholars, journalists, and veteran China-watchers will gather to discuss the CCP, both its history and past deeds and its present circumstances, as well as the Nine Commentaries and their impact on future events inside and outside of China. Invited Speakers/Panelists:
* Michael A. Ledeen, Freedom Scholar, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
* Michael Horowitz, Senior Fellow and Director of Civil Justice Reform and Project for International Religious Liberty, Hudson Institute
* William J. Murray, Chairman, Religious Freedom Coalition
* Ethan Gutmann, author of Losing the New China: A Story of American Commerce, Desire, and Betrayal, Visiting Fellow at the Project for the New American Century
* Chu-cheng Ming, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan University, Fulbright Scholar at George Washington"

[Same themes: Jewish porno, Jewish-run sex slavery, Jewish influence upon sexual morals, etc. Mountains of material.]
Discovery Health Channel Teams Up With Renowned Medical Expert and Radio Personality Dr. Drew Pinsky for Primetime Series on Sex,
Yahoo! Finance, December 20, 2004
"Discovery Health Channel is proud to announce that nationally renowned medical expert Dr. Drew Pinsky has joined the network as host of its new primetime series, STRICTLY SEX WITH DR. DREW. The series will premiere in second quarter 2005. Dr. Drew Pinsky, widely known as Dr. Drew, is a respected expert whose experience in providing medical and sexual advice through radio, television and books spans more than 20 years. STRICTLY SEX WITH DR. DREW will offer straightforward talk about everything sex-related for men and women and married couples and singles ... nothing is out of bounds ... "We are going to take a fearless look at sex and what we Americans are up to in the bedroom and why," said Dr. Drew. "We hope to explore and shed light on a topic that was -- until recently -- taboo" ... STRICTLY SEX WITH DR. DREW is produced for Discovery Health Channel by Weller Grossman. Steve Lange is an executive producer. In addition to hosting the series, Dr. Pinsky serves as an executive producer."

[As usual throughout the West, there are "laws" for non-Jews and then there is the fact that the poor Jewish "victims" of history (dancing Fiddlers on the Roof, all) don't have to abide by them. A "Jewish atmosphere"for Judeocentric racism is more important than Swedish national law. And, lo! The victors are the hyper-active Chabad exploiters again.]
Swedish high court backs Jewish school,
by Michael Freund, Jerusalem Post, December 20, 2004
"In a precedent-setting decision, Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled that the government may not shut down a Jewish day school in the city of Gothenburg even though it does not meet the minimum enrollment necessary under Swedish law. In a 14-page decision, Chief Justice Marja Regner found that religion constituted sufficient basis for granting an exemption from the requirement that a school have at least 20 pupils in order to operate, thereby enabling the Chabad-affiliated Beit Menachem to remain open. The school, which was established in 1997, has 18 pupils, and has passed all the requisite inspections required by the Swedish board of education. But after a more liberal Jewish school opened in Gothenburg two years ago, Swedish authorities sought to close Beit Menachem. "Judaism affects children's daily lives every hour of the day, and attention must be given to small details in the course of the day," the judge wrote in her ruling. "This is something the children can only get in Beit Menachem... where there is a Jewish atmosphere that permeates the school day," she said. School officials were delighted by the outcome. "It's a very happy day for us," said Leah Namdar, who founded the school together with her husband Rabbi Alexander Namdar. "For Sweden's Jews, who generally feel that they need to keep a low profile and blend in, this result is tremendous," she said."

[Judt is Jewish. He makes some good points, but at root his text is censorial. HE will dictate for you what IS and what IS NOT "anti-Semitism." It's getting very stale listening to teams of Jews -- and Jews only -- discuss from every conceivable angle the alleged realities of "anti-Semitism." The bottom line is this, as always: Jews (not solely "Zionists") have the astounding collective power (wherever they sit across the ideological spectrum) to set the parameters of discourse about anything about Jews, whether it's "anti-Semitism" or anything else. Just like Judt here. All others are bullied into submission by the Jewish Lobby Thought Police. And Judt appears, in a round-about way (wherein "Zionists" are kosher for criticism but "Jews" are sacrosanct), to be part of the censorial Klan. Is it expressly "Zionists" who have dismantled Chrisianity in the West? No. It is Jews. Is it expressly "Zionists" who are central to the degradation implicit in the American "entertainment" industry? No. It is Jews. Are most people who support modern apartheid Israel in the West faithful believers in, and experts on, "Zionist" dogma? No. They are Jews, and their allegiance to the Israeli state typically has to do not with the ideology of Zionism, but with cumulative Jewish shame, rage, guilt, thirst for vengeance, and fears of future Adolf Hitlers/Amaleks on the horizon -- all these things of which have been part of Jewish (not "Zionist") identity from Day One.]
Goodbye to All That,
by Tony Judt, The Nation, December 16, 2004
"The one thing on which European and American commentators can agree is that there is a link between hostility to Jews and events in the Middle East. But they draw diametrically opposed conclusions as to the meaning of this link. It is increasingly clear to observers in France, for example, that assaults on Jews in working-class suburbs of big cities are typically driven by frustration and anger at the government of Israel. Jews and Jewish institutions are a convenient and vulnerable local surrogate. Moreover, the rhetorical armory of traditional European anti-Semitism--the Protocols of the Elders of Zion; Jews' purported economic power and conspiratorial networks; even blood libels--has been pressed into service by the media in Damascus, Cairo and elsewhere. Thanks to satellite television, anti-Jewish images and myths can now spread with ease across the youthful Arab diaspora. But whereas most Europeans believe that the problem originates in the Middle East and must therefore be addressed there, the ADL and many American commentators conclude rather that there is no longer any difference between being "against" Israel and "against" Jews: i.e., that in Europe anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism have become synonymous. But that is palpably false. Some of the highest levels of pro-Palestinian sympathy in Europe today are recorded in Denmark, a country that also registers as one of the least anti-Semitic by the ADL's own criteria--and the ADL has worked harder than anyone to propagate the image of rampant European anti-Semitism. Another country with a high level of support for the Arabs of Palestine is the Netherlands; yet according to the ADL the Dutch have the lowest anti-Semitic quotient in Europe, and 83 percent of Dutch citizens believe the government should take a role in combating anti-Semitism.In other words, some of the most widespread pro-Palestinian and even anti-Zionist views are to be found in countries that have long been--and still are--decidedly philo-Semitic. And there is good evidence that Europeans have considerably more balanced views than Americans on the Israel-Palestine conflict in general. Thus, although Europeans are more likely to sympathize with the Palestinians than with Israel, they do so only by a ratio of 24:15, according to the ADL. Americans, by contrast, sympathize more with Israel than with the Palestinians, by a ratio of 55:18 (Gallup). Europeans are also better placed to appreciate that old-style European anti-Semites were, and are, frequently quite sympathetic to Israel--and the worse Israel behaves, the fonder they become. Thus the French National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, in an interview in the Israeli daily Ha'aretz in April 2002, expressed his "understanding" of Ariel Sharon's harsh policies ("A war on terror is a brutal thing"), comparable in his opinion to France's antiterrorist practices in Algeria forty years earlier, which he thought were no less justified. The source of American anxiety and confusion is the unstinting support given by the United States to Israel ($3 billion per annum and uncritical backing for all its actions), and the ensuing sentiment among many Americans that since criticism of Israel is close to impermissible, anti-Zionist opinions must be anti-Semitic in origin. Indeed, the gap separating Europeans from Americans on the question of Israel and the Palestinians is one of the biggest impediments to transatlantic understanding today. It is the policies of Israeli governments, especially in the past two decades, that have provoked widespread anti-Jewish feelings in Europe and elsewhere. This may seem absurd, but there is a certain tragic logic to it. Zionists have always insisted that there is no distinction between the Jewish people and the Jewish state. The latter offers a right of citizenship to Jews anywhere in the world. Israel is not the state of all its citizens, much less all its residents; it is the state of (all) Jews. Its leaders purport to speak for Jews everywhere. They can hardly be surprised when their own behavior provokes a backlash against...Jews. Thus Israel itself has made a significant contribution to the resurgence of the anti-Semitism Bartov and others describe. This is an outcome with which many Israeli politicians are far from unhappy: It retroactively justifies their own bad behavior and contributes, as they proudly assert, to a rise in the number of European Jews leaving for Israel. At a time when many Israelis are obsessed with the prospect of becoming a minority in their own enlarged territory, the inflow of Jews fleeing real or imagined persecution is an occasion for self-congratulation. Bartov concedes a distinction between "soft-core" and "hard-core" anti-Semitism. However, he still insists that there is a single slippery slope leading from misguided academics and intellectuals to pathological murderers. Historically this may be true. But today the implications of such a conflation of different levels of criticism and prejudice are dangerously censorious. No doubt some of Israel's strongest critics do display anti-Semitic propensities. But that doesn't disqualify anti-Zionism as ipso facto anti-Semitic: As Arthur Koestler observed back in 1948, you can't help people being right for the wrong reasons. If those of us who think Israel is behaving shamefully follow Bartov's reasoning, we'll be constrained to silence for fear of being accused of complicity in anti-Semitism ourselves. Israel does not speak for Jews; but Israel's claim to speak for Jews everywhere is the chief reason that anti-Israel sentiments are transposed into Judeophobia. Jews and others must learn to shed inhibitions and criticize Israel's policies and actions just as they would those of any other established state. It may be easier for Jews to take their distance from Israel's illegal acts and misguided calculations than it is for non-Jews--the latter are always vulnerable to moral blackmail by Zionists, especially in countries with anti-Semitic pasts. But we shall never be able to think straight about anti-Semitism until this firewall is in place. Once Germans, French and others can comfortably condemn Israel without an uneasy conscience, and can look their Muslim fellow citizens in the face, it will be possible to deal with the real problem. For indeed there is a problem. This is an arena in which legitimate responses shade all too readily into familiar prejudices.Thus, to take one notorious example: Critics of the foreign policy of the Bush Administration who claim that it is directed in many cases by men with close ties to Israel are not mistaken. Contemporary US foreign policy is in certain respects mortgaged to Israel. Several very senior Bush appointees spent the 1990s advising politicians of the Israeli far right. But that does not mean that "Jewish interests" run the American government, as some European and many Arab commentators have inferred and suggested. To say that Israel and its lobbyists have an excessive and disastrous influence on the policies of the world's superpower is a statement of fact. But to say that "the Jews" control America for their own ends is to espouse anti-Semitism." [Not only do "Jews" run U.S. foreign policy, they also run Hollywood, the publishing world, the art world, the pornography world, the "Russian" mafia and on and on. It is inane to insist that "Zionists" run all these things, for they do not. Nor do Muslims (or Al-Qaida), or Turks, or Norweigans, or Kenyans. There is an ideology of "being Jewish." Judt knows this. There is a distinctly Jewish history and a distinctly Jewish identity. If not, why are Jews not homogeneous Hindus or Amish? For all its alleged variance, Jewish identity (rooted in the "Nation Apart" "Chosen People" racism that informs Zionism) is quite specific in meaning. And THAT is what even latently censorial Jewish commentators like Tony Judt refuse to face -- or allow OTHERS, in good faith, to examine.]

[Jews and real estate, here.]
KB Home Chairman and CEO Bruce Karatz Ranked Among Most Influential People in Home Building. Karatz Is Top Ranked Homebuilder on Builder Magazine's Power Brokers List,
Yahoo! Finance, December 20, 2004
"KB Home, one of the nation's premier homebuilders, announced today that Chairman and CEO Bruce Karatz is the highest ranked homebuilding executive on Builder magazine's Power Broker list, as published in their December 2004 issue. Karatz was the top ranked homebuilder coming in sixth on the list of 50. The list, topped by Alan Greenspan, is followed by Fannie Mae Chairman and CEO Franklin Raines; President George W. Bush; NAHB Executive Vice President Jerry Howard; and Founding Principal of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co, Andres Duany; and includes economists, bankers, architects, manufacturers, developers as well as builders .. In his 33 years with KB Home, Karatz has often been recognized for his deep commitment to his business and civic communities, including being inducted into the California Industry Hall of Fame in 1992. This year he helped KB Home celebrate its 35th year on the New York Stock Exchange by Ringing the Closing Bell (SM) on Election Day, and led the charge to build a brand new 3,200 square foot home for a deserving family on ABC's television show, "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition." KB Home was also named 2004 "Best Overall Company" by the American Business Awards, and Karatz was honored by the American Jewish Council with the annual Human Relations Award. Under Karatz' leadership, KB Home delivered 31,646 homes in 2004, compared to less than 4,000 when he became CEO in 1986 and less than 7,000 when he was named Chairman in 1993. In fact, Bruce has enjoyed helping nearly 400,000 families achieve the American Dream during his tenure. For more information, visit http://www.kbhome.com. About KB Home Building homes for nearly half a century, KB Home is one of America's premier homebuilders with domestic operating divisions in some of the fastest- growing regions and states: West Coast -- California; Southwest -- Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico; Central -- Colorado, Illinois, Indiana and Texas; and Southeast -- Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. Kaufman & Broad S.A., the Company's majority-owned subsidiary, is one of the largest homebuilders in France. In fiscal 2004, the Company delivered homes to 31,646 families in the United States and France. It also operates a full-service mortgage company for the convenience of its buyers."

“We hate Israel because it is a Zionist state, not a Jewish state. Above quote made by Sliman Jaradi, a Jew from Yemen, who is one of several hundreds still living in the Arab country,
by Jacki Hougi, Maariv (Israel), December 19, 2004
"'We hate Israel because it is a Zionist state, not a Jewish state. We will not go there and neither will we allow are children to go there', Sliman Jaradi, a Jew from Yemen, has said. Jaradi, who spoke to the “Ilaf” web site, said he and several hundred other Jews still living in Yemen, refused to immigrate to Israel because they believed the state had lost its Jewish character. “Israel has no religion, Torah or morals. Your daughter is no longer your daughter, your son is no longer your son, and everyone does as he pleases. This is no way to run a Jewish family”, he said. According to Jaradi, the Jews in Yemen have good relations with the Moslems. “We live adjacent to them and there is no problem. God bless the president, Ali Abdullah Saleh”, he noted. Jaradi added that the number of delegations who arrived in Yemen in an attempt to persuade them to come to Israel has declined in recent years. “They used to come very often, offering us money, but we refused to leave our homes”, he concluded."

[$ue those Terrori$t$! Make the world $afe!]
Family Members and Survivors of Anti-Israeli Terrorism to Announce Groundbreaking International Litigation,
PR Newswire, December 20, 2004
"Survivors and family members of those killed by terrorism in Israel will hold a news conference tomorrow announcing that they are filing a groundbreaking anti-terrorism civil action in the U.S. Court. The plaintiffs in this action include citizens of the United States, Israel and more than 10 other countries. Both Americans and Israelis will be present at the news conference ... The plaintiffs will discuss how they were harmed by terrorism, why they are bringing this civil action and the allegations in their complaint, which go to the core of the entire terrorism infrastructure in the Middle East. Their attorneys, a multinational team of some of the world's most renowned mass tort and anti-terrorism litigators, will be present to discuss how their action breaks new legal ground in the fight to stop terrorism and make the world safer. The team of attorneys will be led by Ronald L. Motley of Motley Rice LLC, Allan Gerson of Gerson International Law Group, and Jason McCue of H20 Law."

[More on the dictatorial, omnipre$ent Holocau$t Indu$try that aim$ to make you feel $orry for Jew$ who have been per$ecuted from the beginning of the dino$aur age. It'$ time to BURN Chri$tmas trees and in$tead hang decoration$ and glittered popcorn on 10-foot tall $ilver Anne Frank statue$ in every public park.]
Holocaust lessons enthrall kids, but funds still lacking10 years after state mandate,
by Ron Hayes, Palm Beach Post, December 19, 2004
"Projected on a movie screen high over Bogart's shoulder is a faded black-and-white photograph, a school picture probably, of another wide-eyed child. The picture, taken in Czechoslovakia nearly 70 years ago, is of a girl named Lisl Winternitz. She lived in Prague, on Karlova Street. Her father's company sold floor covering. "There were 43 in my family,'' Lisl Winternitz Bogart tells the children, ''and when the war was over, I was the only one who survived to return. Everybody else was brutally murdered." From a small white envelope she removes a faded Star of David made of yellow cloth, and holds it against her breast. "Imagine that this is happening to you... " On Aug. 7, 1994, the Florida House of Representatives followed the Senate in unanimously passing a bill that requires the state's public schools to teach the Holocaust. That mandate, sponsored by then-Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton, is a decade old this year. But while its language was strong, the law's funding was weak and enforcement provisions nonexistent. "The one weak point from the very beginning is that the state has never provided, for all practical purposes, any real resources, so you're really forcing people to take money from other educational curricula and commitments," says Klein, now a state senator from Delray Beach. And yet the Holocaust is being taught. Establishing a curriculum A random survey of 2,000 teachers soon to be released by the Florida Holocaust Task Force found about 55 percent saying they spent some time teaching the Holocaust each year. In South Florida, that number was 67 percent. "Theoretically, by the time they graduate, each student should have had one hour of Holocaust studies each year," says Rose Gatens, director of the Center for Holocaust & Human Rights Education at Florida Atlantic University. "Some have a lot more, and some have none." The FAU center is one of seven throughout the state that help develop the Holocaust curriculum and offer summer seminars where teachers can learn how to teach the subject. The seven centers have a combined annual budget of about $120,000. In addition, the Palm Beach County School District has earmarked $206,378 this year to cover the salary and benefits for a Holocaust program planner and her staff of two full-time assistants and one part-time. Neither Martin nor St. Lucie counties designate any money specifically for Holocaust studies, and neither the state nor the counties provide any money for books, videos or other teaching materials. For those, the schools can thank a private nonsectarian, nonprofit group called LEAH — the League for Educational Awareness of the Holocaust Inc. Founded in September 1996 by 13 women of diverse religious backgrounds, the organization now claims about 1,200 members and more than $1 million raised to buy Holocaust teaching materials, primarily for Palm Beach and Broward County schools ... Most recently, LEAH donated $1.5 million to the Palm Beach County School District to buy and maintain a special section for Holocaust books in each school's library ... "The first six months of my job, all I did was talk to parents who said, 'How can you teach this horrible stuff in kindergarten?' " says Eileen Shapiro, the Holocaust studies program planner for the Palm Beach County School District."

Germans seek atonement for Nazi ancestors' sins. Volunteering in Israel: Now-elderly victims of the Holocaust have mixed feelings about their foreign caregivers,
by Ramit Plushnick-Masti, Salt Lake Tribune, December 20, 2004
"The ties between Israel and Germany are also complex. Germany is one of Israel's most vocal defenders in the European Union and a leading trade partner. Since the 1950s, Germany has paid some $80 billion in reparations to Holocaust survivors worldwide, including some 250,000 living in Israel."

[The interesting thing about this article is that it is illustrated with a poster of some kind by the "National Alliance," which is an American "white nationalist" organization. Basically, such marginalized U.S. organizations very much echo mainstream Jewish collectives in ethnocentric efforts and intent. But they are categorically condemned in America as racist, while Jewry's versions of the very same premises of communal racial/ethnic activism rule not only American foreign policy and an expressly "Jewish" nation in the Middle East, but are popularly sanctioned and even heroized throughout the West. Bottom line: Al-Jazeera's (and this is not the famous one, but its smaller namesake) lack of censorship is truly more "democratic" that the Judeocentric West, where Jewish self-obsession is worshipped, not condemned.]
Review articles. Diplomatic phenomenon of Israeli attitudes to USA,
Al-Jazeera, December 18, 2004
"Americans may still believe that they have a plucky little ally out there in the Middle East, who deserves their unwavering support, but the truth is that while with one hand Israel welcomes US support, with the other it picks its ally’s pockets."

[OLDER ARTICLE, JTR contributor's comment: "In Japan the sex slave trade is mostly done by Japanese criminals, in India it's Indian criminals, same with Thailand, Mexico, etc. But in Eastern Europe (including the trade of Eastern European women to Western Europe, Israel, Japan, Thailand, etc.) the sex slave trade seems to be predominantly Jewish (euphemistically referred to as "Russian"). I suspect the media silence on the Eastern European sex trade has something to do with its Jewish character (just like the Middle East bias). The mainstream media often does do stories on the sex trade in India, Japan, and occasionally Thailand, but very rarely mentions the European sex slave trade, I suspect because this brings enormous amounts of cash into the state of Israel (even the brothel owners in Germany are predominantly Jewish as a German cop who worked the red light district near the train station in Frankfurt stated in a 1994 article in "US News and World Report" which is a Zionist magazine owned by Mort Zuckerman). "Freedom of the press belongs only to those who own one."]
No Way Out. Israel's sex trafficking trade is one of the largest in the world, but Nomi Levenkron is working around the clock to bring it down. A special report,
by Hasdai Westbrook and Victoria Blint, Jewsweek, March 19, 2004
"The billboard for "5 Star Peep Show" on Rehov Neve Sha'anan features the silhouette of a naked woman balanced precariously on the end of a dollar sign. She sits astride the bottom curve of the "S," straddling its final phallus-shaped curl. The silhouettes are everywhere. On Rehov Fin -- better known as "Rehov Pin" or "Penis" -- a reclining nude beckons clients into "Club Viagra." On Rehov Yesod Ha Ma'ale the floating nude in one "Health Club" window tilts her head back as though in the throes of ecstasy, her feet pointed in the direction of a neighboring falafel stand. The real women don't seem quite so eager. Through open doorways one can spot them glumly applying make-up or styling their hair. Sometimes they can be seen in brothel windows, chatting to each other and looking out onto the street as they smoke a cigarette. Most of the windows have bars on them. "In the majority of the brothels in Tel Aviv," says Meir Cohen, Head of Investigations for the Israeli National Police, "there is no question that most of the women there are trafficked." The vast majority of women trafficked to Israel come from Romania and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Seduced by agents of organized crime, they agree to be smuggled into Israel, hoping to make good money. The women are usually young girls, like "Anna" (her real name has been suppressed) a 23-year-old Romanian who testified about her experience to an Israeli court in 2002. Anna says that in 2001 she was approached in her hometown by an Israeli girl named Shula, who promised to get her work caring for the elderly in Tel Aviv.Shula booked Anna on a plane leaving from Bucharest, but Anna had no idea where it would land ... Anna was given tight, see-through clothes and told to put them on. Then she was ordered into a room with a man identified in court records as Menasha Ben-Avraham Faraj. Another girl had already told Anna that this was the man who visited the brothel whenever a new girl arrived. As the other men stood outside and laughed, Faraj raped and sodomized her... Almost 80 percent of the women Nomi interviewed said their traffickers were Israelis whose origins are in Russia or other former Soviet Union countries."

Women as Commodities. Trafficking in women in Israel 2003,
by Nomi Levenkron, Yossi Dahan, Hotline for Migrant Workers, Isha L'Isha - Haifa Feminist Center, ATZUM, 2004 (?)
"Human trafficking has many faces, but the most common form, and the one that is the focus of this report, is trafficking in women in the sex industry. The report examines the policies of the Israeli authorities (Knesset, Israel Police, prosecuting authorities, courts, and other agencies) toward trafficking in women, and discusses the effects of these policies on the victims. As far as possible, the report seeks to convey the point of view of the victims, in terms of their experiences as sex slaves in Israel, documenting the violations of their human rights. Trafficking in women in its current form has existed in Israel since early 19s. The reasons leading up to its present scale involve both global and local processes; and there are both "supply" and "demand" aspects to this development. The break-up of the Soviet Union contributed greatly to the increase in the supply of women available for prostitution. The economic upheaval and the collapse of the social safety nets in the countries of the former Communist bloc brought about a situation in which millions of destitute men and women need to struggle just to survive. Trafficking in women also thrives because of the enormous demand, estimated at a million visits to brothels in Israel every month. The indifference to this phenomenon demonstrated by both the enforcement agencies and the general public indicates that the purchase of sex enjoys a high level of legitimacy in Israeli society ... In May 2000, Amnesty International published a highly critical report about trafficking in women in Israel ... In one case the visit to a brothel was given as a bar mitzvah present to the 13-year-old "man." Another woman reported the following experience: "The woman pimp sent me to a group of five minors aged 14-16. They were waiting for me in a [bomb] shelter, put a mattress on the floor and raped me. The other minors standing in line watched and laughed ... I didn't think that I could feel so humiliated. Even now I don't believe that it happened and I just want to cry. The next day I hurt all over and I couldn't get up. I told the woman pimp that I couldn't work and she said she didn't care. I had to bring her money and not just be there" ... Seventy-eight percent of the traffickers of the women interviewed are Israelis who are not native-born; most of them are from the former Soviet Union. It can be assumed that their familiarity with the countries of origin, their connections there, and the fact that they speak Russian and Romanian are a "professional" advantage. Although most of the pimps are men, women also operate as pimps, and there are couples who run a brothel as a "family business" and father and son businesses."

[Calling someone an "anti-Semite" has become a game, a tool, a manipulative device to silence dissent -- nothing more. More and more its silly use is becoming transparent. Today an "anti-Semite" is essentially someone who doesn't agree with Jewish convention about itself. The accused "anti-Semite" is usually not Jewish, but increasingly Jews are smeared as "anti-Semites" also. And here below is another case of a Jew (an Israeli who dared to call Israel a fascist state) being slurred by another Jew as an "anti-Semite."]
Zionist Professor Sued for Views in Israel,
by Susan Rosenbluth, The Jewish Voice and Opinion, August 2004
"It does not matter to Professor Neve Gordon that scholars continue to debate exactly what is meant by 'antisemitism.' The Ben-Gurion University (BGU) academic, whose pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel columns have appeared in numerous publications in the Jewish state and abroad, has launched a libel suit against another Israeli professor who dared to call Dr. Gordon an 'antisemite.' The outcome of the suit may say more about the state of free speech in Israel than it will about either of the litigants. In fact, some observers in Israel say the case bears an eerie resemblance to the famous libel suit brought by Holocaust denier David Irving against Holocaust academic Deborah Lipstadt ... The object of Dr. Gordon's suit is Prof Steven Plaut, a professor of economics at the University of Haifa. A nationalist pundit and prolific political commentator, Dr. Plaut frequently excoriates Israeli leftists such as Dr. Gordon, who teaches 'politics and human rights' at BGU. Known for his sapient wit, Dr. Plaut has frequently published articles on the Internet and elsewhere in which he holds left-wing political opinion and behavior 'including that of Dr. Gordon' up to ridicule ... Going further than most writers on the Israeli left, Dr. Gordon has repeatedly called Israel a fascist country which engages in state terrorism that does not differ morally from the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists ... Just a few weeks ago, he published a piece entitled 'Why Is the World Silent in the Face of Israeli Apartheid?' In the article, he claims the Israeli government is 'forcing the Palestinians into ghettos.' He calls the security fence Israel is building the 'apartheid wall,' and, he says, it 'clearly exposes Israel's lie, revealing that security is not the government's real objective."

To the Editor,
Selma Times, September 12, 2004
"POW/MIA Recognition Day has been moved up to Tuesday, September 14 from its normal observance on the third Friday in September. It was moved to avoid conflicting with the observance of the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah ... - James G. Smith, Commander The American Legion Post 20"

For faith and country: Iraqi resistance fights on.
As a US general conceded Iraqi cells are getting more
effective, Rory McCarthy speaks to two fighters,
Information Clearinghouse (from the Guardian, UK), December 16, 2004
"He sat at a plain white table in a deserted building not far from Haifa Street, a stronghold of militancy in the heart of the Iraqi capital. Before him was a tray bearing cups of sweet dark tea and a plate of bananas, and as American helicopter gunships carved circles in the sky above, he described how he had become the commander of a hardline Islamic cell in the Iraqi insurgency. The man, in his mid-30s with a trimmed dark beard, studious black-rimmed spectacles and a red-and-white keffiyeh thrown loosely over his shoulders, gave his name only as Abu Mojahed. Before the war he had been a labourer in Baghdad and was jailed four times under Saddam Hussein's regime because of his adherence to the Salafi creed of Sunni Islam, a strict and conservative belief. He would gather with friends for secret Salafi classes and discussions. He did not fight when America invaded last year, but did not welcome the war either. "I didn't fight. I stayed at home. If you fight for Saddam and he wins, you are not winning. If America wins, you are not winning," he said. "They freed us from evil but they brought more evil to the country." As the weeks passed, the clerics in the mosques instructed him and his friends to take up arms. "We fight the Americans because they are non-believers and they are coming to fight Islam, calling us terrorists," he said. The real resistance Theirs is a story rarely told, a brief insight into the lives of thousands of Iraqi men who have spent the past 18 months fighting a costly guerrilla war against the most powerful army in the world. Their motivations vary: some are undoubtedly from Saddam's military and intelligence apparatus, others fight to defend tribal or nationalistic honour, but alongside them a much more extreme Islamic militancy has emerged. The US military has in the past dismissed the fighters as "anti-Iraqi forces" and "terrorists". Several US commanders announced that the back of the insurgency has been broken by the assault on Falluja. However, Lieutenant General Lance Smith, deputy chief of US central command, told Reuters yesterday: "[The insurgency] is becoming more effective. They may use doorbells today to blow things up. They may use remote controls from toys to morrow. And as we adapt, they adapt." The Iraqi fighters, who describe themselves as the "mujahideen", the holy warriors, or for the more secular, the "muqawama", the resistance, insist there is more fighting still to come ... Abu Mojahed said he spoke for all three groups, whom he called the "Haifa mujahideen". He said his targets were the US military and "those supporting them", and that his men had attacked helicopters, tanks and individual soldiers, although he would not describe specific incidents. Unlike other more secular elements in the insurgency, the Salafis have their own agenda for the future of their country, shaped in a language of anger, revenge and rigid Islamic conservatism. "We fight for our land, against those who are fighting Islam, for our country and for our women," he said. "Our goal is to fight whoever fights us and not just the Americans. And we want this country ruled by the Tawhid and Sunna," he said. The two words are fundamentals for the Salafis: Tawhid meaning monotheism and Sunna the ways of the Prophet Muhammad. "If that doesn't happen, that means all of us die because we fight until the last breath," he said."

[Not for the squeamish. Before any soldier sets out to die or be maimed in Iraq for Israel, they should take a look at how they might come back.]
Caring for Wounded in Iraq: A Photo Essay,
New England Journal of Medicine

[Who rules America today? And who has to go to court to enforce equality?]
Judge: Bay Harbor Islands must let woman display Christmas stuff,
Miami Herald, December 16, 2004
"A resident must be allowed to display Christian decorations alongside a public Jewish holiday display, a federal judge has ruled. Resident Sondra Snowdon had sued the town of Bay Harbor Islands after it rejected her requests for the decorations. Town leaders put up six Stars of David and a giant menorah in 2001 after some Jewish residents requested them. Two years later, Snowdon requested Christian decorations, but was turned down. She made the same request this year and sued on Dec. 2 after the city denied her request to include four nativity scene banners. In the suit filed in U.S. District Court in nearby Miami, Snowdon claimed that the town violated her civil rights. The suit named the town, City Manager Greg Tindle and Mayor Isaac Salver as defendants. Snowdon's attorney, Richard Thompson, said cities are entitled to put up holiday decorations as long as it doesn't appear they are endorsing one religion over another. U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga ruled Wednesday that town favored Judaism by having a menorah in its display next to the toll bridge over the Broad Causeway. "This is a great example of what can happen when Christians stand up for their right to celebrate Christmas in public," said Thompson, president of the Michigan-based Thomas More Law Center, which defends Christian beliefs. A number for Bay Harbor Islands' attorney Craig B. Sherman could not be found Thursday night. The town is required to tell the court in writing how they will include Christian symbols in the causeway display, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported."

[A little older article -- we just discovered it. Tell it truly, baby!]
An Alliance of Israeli Zionists, Americans, Neo-Cons and World Jewry. A New World Order in the making,
By Syed Shahabuddin, The Milli Gazette (India), September 1-15,
2004
"The First Jerusalem Summit, planned as an annual event, was held at Jerusalem, now under the control of Israel, on October 12-14, 2003. According to Richard Melson of the Cambridge Forecast Group, the purpose of the event sponsored by the Strategic Dialog Center, a think-tank in Israel, was to serve as an off-shore think tank to guide and control US foreign policy, particularly towards the Middle East and to push the world towards a clash of civilization in the form of a global war between the USA and the Arab-Islamic world. The immediate objective was to mask Israel's crimes against the Palestinian people and to complete Sharon's Wall, squeeze the Palestinians out and to kill the idea of a Palestinian State, except as one or more Bantustans within Greater Israel. Jerusalem Summit The Summit held three Sessions on 1) Crisis in Morality and International Policy: How Israel may be the Solution; 2) Israel Endangered: A Threat to the Free World; and 3) Alternatives for a Just and Durable Peace in the Middle East. The Summit also organized 5 Workshops, 3 on 12 October and 2 on 13 October, 2003 on the themes of: 1) Bringing the World to Understand the Immorality of Anti-Zionism; 2) The Muslim World: Prospects of Democratization and Overcoming Hatred of Zionism; 3) Peace Against Truth: When Peace Movements Reinforce Evil; 4) Media: Recognizing in the News; and 5) Academia: Researching Truth or Breeding Hatred? A European Perspective ... The participants represented virtually the Who's who of the Israeli media, academe and politics and the stars of the US neo-cons, the Christian Zionists and the American Jewry. There was a sprinkling of Europeans, one Indian and one Jordanian. Among the organizations represented were Michael Cherney Foundation, Bridges for Peace, World Jewish Congress, ZOA, ICEJ, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, American Center for Democracy, JINSA, Palestinian Media Watch, Middle East Forum, Centre d'Etudes Huives Contemporaries de Paris, Americans for a Safe Israel, Truman Institute for Peace, Religious Zionists of America and Professors for a Strong Israel. Among the Israeli Universities involved in the event were the Hebrew University, Oral Roberts University, Tel-Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, University of Haifa, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Yehuda and Shomron College, College of Judea and Samaria. A highlight of the Summit was the presentation of Jackson Award to the doyen of the Neo-cons Richard Perle, now with the American Enterprise Institute. Jerusalem Declaration The main document to emerge from the Summit was the Jerusalem Declaration which identifies Radical Islam as a new form of totalitarianism and a challenge to the security and fundamental humanitarian values of the Western Civilization and the Free World and condemned the philosophy of Moral Relativism as false ... In short, the Declaration declares a War against Islam, calls upon the West to convert its War against Terror into War against Muslim World, launch a full-fledged campaign against it, asks Israel to disinherit the Palestinians totally and occupy the whole of Palestine, perhaps to extend itself to the classical limit of Ertz-Israel from the Nile to the Euphrates and projects Israel/Jerusalem as the base for the New World Imperialism. The Declaration exposes the real objective of the Israeli establishment which has found an ally in the Christian Zionists and Neo-Conservatives who are ruling the USA today. The Declaration places in its true perspective the US invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and its plan to invade Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. The Declaration shows that the Zionists influence in the USA has reached the point of what Melson calls 'outsourcing' or 'off-shoring' American foreign policy. It is not the State Department or the US Congress or even the US President but the Zionists, with their base in Israel, who formulate the long-term world strategy of the USA and, in the meantime, ensure that the mega power of the age moves, step by step, towards a full-scale collision with the Muslim World. For long, the political theorists held that the USA was using Israel to protect and guard its interests in the Arab-Islamic world, particularly its monopoly access to the Gulf oil. Today it looks as if Israel is using the USA - with all its wealth, power and influence - not only to re-establish Ertz-Israel but to rule the world and control all its resources. What was once a puppet, has become the puppeteer. The tail has acquired a life of its own and is wagging the dog! Anyone who dares to criticize any act of omission or commission by Israel is not only anti-Israel or anti-Zionist but anti-scientific and, therefore, fit to be branded as anti-humanist. It is unfortunate that this event was attended by a well-known member of the Indian security establishment, K.P.S. Gill, who heads the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi. He enlightened the distinguished audience on the psychology of the Muslim Indians who, after all, form 1/8 of the Muslims of the world and constitute the second largest national Muslim community. It is also ironical that the Jews who peacefully survived in the Muslim World, particularly in Andalusia for centuries, while they were being prosecuted and exiled from most parts of Europe, today assume the role of agent provocateur to bring out a confrontation between Islam and Christianity, between the Muslim World and the West. A new world order is in the making articulated by a mix of Bernard Lewis, Richard Perle, Doug Feith, Noah Fildman, Ben Wattenberg, James Woolsey, Robert Baer, Eliot Cohen, all products of the Straussian school of international politics or at least sharing a common approach and mindset. It is also interesting to see that in June, 2004 the US Congress adopted a Resolution which endorses the original Sharon Plan and every element of Israel's current policy in a manner which strikingly reflects the Jerusalem Declaration and totally disowns the Road Map. It is equally interesting to note that the 9/11 Commission Report, by one stroke of pen, redefined the War of Terrorism as a War against Islam, followed by a new surge of Islamophobia in the USA and UK. The lead given by the Jerusalem Summit is being assiduously followed. Both these events show the Zionist influence in the USA which appears to have peaked under President Bush. The saving grace is that the majority of the people in Europe and USA are not prepared to buy Israel's theory of 'moral relativism' and join in Israel's war of extermination against the Palestinians and support the Zionist ambition to dominate the world."

[Calling all Jewish Thought Police! Calling all Jewish Thought Police! Anti-Defamation League! Another misguided bigoted one is honing in on the Jewish Holocaust Industry! Another kook is comparing Israelis to Nazis! Fire off some press releases that she's a viciously irrational "anti-Semite!" Her comrade, ex-Jew Mordechai Vanunu, is as decent as it gets. Jewish Nazis, Vanunu rejects you. Hey, Jews! Let your people go.]
Nobel laureate compares Israeli nuclear arms to gas chambers,
Haaretz (Israel), from The Associated Press, December 19, 2004
"Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire on Sunday compared Israel's alleged nuclear arsenal to Hitler's gas chambers and called on Israel to lift travel restrictions on nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu. Maguire, awarded the 1976 prize for her Northern Ireland peace campaign, was at the prison gates to welcome Vanunu when he was released in April after serving an 18-year sentence for disclosing Israel's nuclear secrets. "When I think about nuclear weapons, I've been to Auschwitz concentration camp," Maguire said during a joint press conference with Vanunu in Jerusalem. "Nuclear weapons are only gas chambers perfected... and for a people who know what gas chambers are, how can you even think of building perfect gas chambers?" Israeli foreign ministry officials were unavailable for comment. In the past, Israeli officials have expressed disgust at comparisons between Israel and the Nazis, who systematically murdered 6 million Jews during World War II in an attempt to wipe out all the Jews of Europe ... Since being freed from prison, Vanunu has been under rigid Israeli restrictions barring him from traveling abroad or speaking to foreigners, a prohibition he regularly flouts. Vanunu said at the press conference that he has become estranged from his biological family and wants to spend Christmas in St. Paul, Minnesota with his adoptive parents, peace activists Nick and Mary Eoloff. "I, as a Christian, am demanding from Israel, let me go and celebrate Christmas with my family and my friends around the world," he said. "They should give me my total freedom, I suffered 18 years in isolation in prison. They should not continue to punish me."

[Pay attention to the news and what's one of the things you notice? Jewish/Israeli spy rings are turning up everywhere, New Zealand, Iraq, Iran, everywhere including at the heart of U.S. government. The last time the Iranians put Zionist spies on trial the Clinton administration bent to Jewish Lobby pressure and demanded their released even before a trial.]
Report: Iran says it has uncovered spy ring for Israel,
Haaretz (Israel), December 19, 2004
"Iran said Sunday its intelligence services have uncovered a spy ring that collected intelligence information for Israel, according to a report by Israel Radio's Persian language program Israel Radio said that eight Iranian citizens have been arrested on suspicion of connection with the alleged spy ring. An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said the affair was serious, but did not disclose whether or not those arrested are Jewish. Former Iranian Intelligence Minister Ali Fallahian is slated to release more details at a later date. In 1999, Iran indicted 13 of its citizens, most of them Jewish, on charges they were part of an Israeli spy ring. They were tried in a closed Islamic court in 2000, and 10 were handed prison terms. The last of the ten were released before the completion of their prison terms, following intense pressure and widespread condemnation from human rights groups and Western governments."

[Now, why?]
Yushchenko said to want treatment here,
JERUSALEM POST (Israel), December 19, 2004
"Ukrainian presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko is interested in receiving medical treatment here for his dioxin poisoning, Army Radio quoted Russian media as reporting on Saturday. Prof. Yona Amitai, a toxicologist, formerly of Hadassah and now head of the Health Ministry's department for children, teenagers and women, said he doesn't know of any Israeli expert on dioxin, but from what he knows, it is not simple to remove it."

[America is witnessing a textbook case of mass Judeocentric propaganda in service of the tenets of Zionism, an avalanche from every conceivable angle. Hey, kids! Hold off a while! It's Christmas! Holocaust worship in public spaces and everywhere else is the REST of the year.]
Students create Anne Frank Museum,
Salisbury Post, December 18, 2004
"Southeast Middle School students, teachers and parents waited anxiously over the past two weeks to visit the school's temporary Anne Frank Museum. With permission from media specialist Frances Rash, eighth-grade students on the Bobcat Team transformed the school's media center into a museum to remember the life of Anne Frank, a Jewish girl who captured the experience of World War II and the Holocaust in her diary, which is now a famous book. After reading "The Diary of Anne Frank" in Chaunte C. Corley's language arts classes, students wanted to share this historical event with the entire school. They worked on their exhibits for a month at school and home. On Wednesday, all Southeast Middle students and teachers finally experienced the Anne Frank Museum. When students and teachers entered the museum, members of the Bobcat Team greeted them and acted as tour guides for the three sections of the museum: World War II, the Holocaust and the life of Anne Frank ... Next, students entered the Holocaust exhibit, in which they learned about the effects of the Holocaust, the perspectives of the Jews and Nazis on the Holocaust, the life of a Jew, including the concentration camps, escape and hiding. Students saw models of concentration camps, the Nuremberg trials courtroom, a house used for hiding and the Jew's daily life of persecution represented through a neighborhood scene. Students also had an up-close look at how the physical appearance of Jews changed because of their harsh treatment. The students also enjoyed eating kosher food. Finally, students entered the Anne Frank exhibit, which provided a more personal representation of Anne Frank. Students learned about Anne Frank's family and friends, her culture and interests, her life in hiding and how she is remembered today. Students also saw models of the Secret Annex, where her family lived in hiding, Anne Frank's family home and a statue of Anne Frank."

[Want to be part of the Western goodie train? On your knees to the Jewish Lobby. Morally speaking, how on earth are Libyan Jews entitled to Arab reparations when the ongoing massive theft of Palestinian lands is not even remotely acknowledged?]
Expelled Libyan Jews seek compensation for seized property,
Haaretz (Israel), December 19, 2004
"Jews who were expelled from Libya after the 1967 Middle East war have formed an international committee to seek compensation for their seized property. The members - now residents of Italy, Britain, the United States, France and Israel - announced their initiative Sunday in Rome. The group plans "dialogue with Libya on the question of compensation," said spokesman Paolo Giovannelli. In October, Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi received a delegation of Italian Jews for talks on possible compensation - a major turn for Libya. It was believed to be the first meeting in Libya on an official level with representatives of the 6,000 Libyan Jews forced to flee in an anti-Jewish backlash following Israel's victory in the Six-Day War."

[JTR contrbutor's comment: "Xmas books from Princeton U. Press. 3 of 8 books advertised in the NY Review of Bks (16/12/4) for Xmas "Presents of the Mind". Merry Christmas, shabbas goys of the world!:
* The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine
This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: The Modern Age is the Jewish Age - and we are all, to varying degrees, Jews. According to Yuri Slazkine, not only have Jews adapted better than many other groups to living in the modrn world, they have become the symbol and standard of modern life everywhere.
* Jews and the American Soul: Human nature in the 20th century.
In this pioneering history, Andrew Heinze shows how Jewish values reshaped America's psychological and spiritual vocabulary. This is the first book to demonstrate that Jewish ideas changed American thinking about mind and soul, good and evil. [cover shows Statue of Liberty holding a minora instead of the torch of liberty']
* What we owe Iraq: War and the ethics of nation building -
What would "success" in Iraq look like? Noah Feldman is the ideal person [sic] to address this question. He served as a constitutional adviser in Iraq and has been consulted regularly by US officials. In this important book, he argues that to prevent US "nation building" in Iraq from turning into a colonialist charade, we urgently need a new approach. [Michael Ignatieff: "Lucid, passionate, and closely reasoned."] ]

Egypt's Mubarak warns U.S. against attacking Iran,
Tehran Times (from Reuters), December 18, 2004
"The United States would be making a catastrophic mistake if it attacked Iran to destroy the country's nuclear program, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying on Saturday. "If the U.S. were really to attack Iran it would be a mistake of catastrophic proportions. Then terror and violence on a scale that put what we have seen so far in the shade would spread over the Middle East and soon after to the whole world," Mubarak told the German magazine Der Spiegel. "I hope it does not come to that," he added. Mubarak said he was sad that warnings he had issued about the impact of a U.S.-led invasion of Iraq were not heeded.... Mubarak said the only solution he saw to Iraq's security situation was the formation of a new army and police force. Asked about the view of some U.S. conservatives that a stable democracy in Iraq would act as a lighthouse for the whole region, Mubarak said: "Probably not much more will come out of that than the light of the Moon."

[JTR conributor's comment: "More on Kimberly Solomon." (i.e., "Quinn."]
Quinn: The woman who loved, spun and won. But at what cost? As Kimberly Quinn, the woman who helped bring down a Home Secretary, escaped Britain yesterday for a holiday from the headlines, Francis Elliott investigates her extraordinary rise to power and fall from grace, The Independent (UK), December 19, 2004
"Yesterday, as she headed off for a holiday with her husband, Stephen Quinn, Kimberly may well be ruing her ability to attract powerful men. She has helped to bring down a Home Secretary, and will pay the price of that victory for the rest of her days. Men of standing have always been a part of Kimberly's life. When she was two her father founded a company that made nuclear detection equipment - and a lot of money. Marvin and Lugene Solomon brought up their daughters, Kimberly and Jennifer, in San Marino, a well-to-do suburb of Los Angeles. Clearly Black, the now disgraced media tycoon, was one family friend, but there were other powerful allies. When the couple celebrated their golden anniversary this March - at a time when Mr Blunkett was in the US - there was even a congratulatory speech in Congress to mark the occasion. Republican congressman Jerry Lewis told the nation that the Solomons had "lived the Californian dream" of success and happiness. But their ambitious daughter had her eyes set on far grander things. A stint at Vassar College, New York, was followed by a degree from Oxford University. Her connection with Black can't have harmed her career, but there are those who challenge her version of her early days in the bitchy world of New York magazines. According to received wisdom her first job was as a secretary to the former editor of Cosmopolitan, the legendary Helen Gurley Brown. Brown, however, is reported not to be able to remember her. She is also said to query the story that Kimberly was sacked for failing to put through a phone call from Truman Capote with sufficient speed. "I haven't had many secretaries to begin with, and I am sure she wasn't one of them," the New York media boss is reported to have said. "And why would I fire anyone for having a good phone relationship with Truman Capote?" Whatever the truth of that first step on the ladder, by the mid-1980s Kimberly was an editor of a trade magazine. In 1987 she married Michael Fortier, a US investment banker, but moved to London two years later. She has said that she was shocked to find that "it was not like the 19th century, which was the impression of England that I had taken from the history books". Former colleagues at the publishing house Condé Nast, where she worked under Nicholas Coleridge, are scathing about her subsequent transformation. "She went from being Beverly Hills to a Today programme intellectual," one former colleague told the Evening Standard. Kimberly's circle in those early days was based around a book club in west London that included the actress Sarah Standing. It was a connection she is unlikely to have kept to herself, according to one former colleague - "She could be the most infuriating namedropper, outrageously so, but she used to do it in such a cack-handed manner that you felt rather sorry for her." The marriage to Mr Fortier began to fail around this time, but by 1996 her professional status was beginning to catch up with any dinner party boastfulness. Appointed publisher of The Spectator, she helped to double sales. However, though the magazine's political editor, Peter Oborne, has been a staunch defender, not everyone connected with The Spectator regards her with affection. "To know her is to hate her," says one with whom she has clashed. "She is very much an open book. It's very, very obvious that she is the American girl on the make in London, so her whole life is dominated by sucking up to anybody who appears to be in charge of anything, sucking up on a colossal scale. "She is also a great transferer of allegiance. Also, she has a great need to be the centre of attention in any activity she was part of. At The Spectator, she was called the publisher. The publisher is actually the person who sells advertising. She always wanted to give the impression that she had a say in editorial content. You can imagine how this went down with those rather well-bred generals' daughters who are the subs at The Spectator. They couldn't bear her." Members of staff do not forget that the 23-year-old caught having an office affair with Rod Liddle was given a high-handed lecture on breaking up other people's marriages by none other than Kimberly Fortier. A recent editorial conference was punctuated by one staff member saying: "I hope this magazine is proud of itself for standing up for that slapper." The details of her second marriage, in 2001, to Stephen Quinn, a 60-year-old publisher at Condé Nast, and the affair with David Blunkett she embarked on weeks later are, in contrast to her early life, now all too well known. Yet even here, there are gaps and oddities. In his book on Mr Blunkett, Stephen Pollard writes that they met one or two nights a week and one weekend a month. In their three-year affair they had at least three foreign holidays. How could Mr Quinn possibly not have known about the affair? Yet her friends insist she was terrified that her husband would find out. "She was sure that Stephen would walk out on her when he found out," a friend said. "That's why she was so scared of it making the papers." Friends say she turned to Mr Blunkett when she was "needy" - a strange emotional state to be in,, one might think, weeks after a marriage ... Did Kimberly similarly confide in her relatives? If not, it is a curious coincidence that Mr Blunkett was in the US the week of the Solomons' golden wedding anniversary ... "You can imagine that, in 2001, a rather scatter-brained girl like her could see David Blunkett becoming Prime Minister as the "stop Brown" candidate. It would have completely gone to her head that she might be standing on the White House lawn, this girl from America, on an equal footing with Laura Bush ....
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT HER
Blunkett was used by Quinn just as she used her husband. Then she launched a vendetta against him.
- The Sun (edited by Rebekah Wade)
Her selfishness will stigmatise those children for ever. Most women, on hearing that their ruthless campaign to destroy a former love had succeeded, would, for a moment at least, hang their heads in shame.
- Amanda Platell, Daily Mail
What kind of woman, while having fertility treatment to conceive with her husband, puts her self in a position to get pregnant by another man?
- Caroline Jones, Daily Mirror"

[China "closes one eye" to an embryonic apartheid World Zionist outpost within it. World Judeocentrism is on the march everywhere. A "Jewish Renaissance" in Shanghai? Rabbi Greenberg works for the racist Chabad Orthodox movement. NEVER in mass media publications is Chabad examined, except as a delightful Jewish folk expression.]
Little-known chapter of Holocaust history inspires a renaissance,
by Doreen Hemlock, Sun-Sentinel, December 19, 2004
"Even for a rabbi used to traveling the globe, the assignment was unusual: lead a growing flock of Jewish Westerners in a Chinese city that had harbored tens of thousands of Jewish refugees during World War II, saving them from the Holocaust. Rabbi Shalom Greenberg smiled as he adjusted his prayer shawl for a service at the Shanghai Jewish Center he started almost six years ago in this boomtown ruled by the Communist Party. "We are very thankful to China for allowing us to practice our religion, even though it's not officially recognized," said the Israeli-born rabbi. "They close one eye." Greenberg's bustling center -- serving a Jewish community now topping 500 people and offering a preschool, camp and events for young professionals -- is one of the most visible signs of Shanghai's Jewish renaissance. A former Orthodox synagogue also houses a small Jewish museum. A park displays a plaque dedicated to the Jewish refugees confined to a ghetto during World War II. Chinese scholars study the history of Judaism in China. And visitors enjoy Jewish heritage tours. Decades after communism and the brutal Cultural Revolution forced the last of this coastal city's once thriving Jewish community to flee or perish, a new wave of Jewish settlers is burgeoning in Shanghai. They are lured by China's recent opening to the West, booming economy and prospects for what many call the "Chinese century." The new arrivals build on three earlier Jewish waves: Iraqi and Middle Easterners, who saw business potential after China lost the Opium War and opened Shanghai for trade in the mid-1800s; Russians escaping the pogroms in the late 1800s and early 1900s; and Germans and other Europeans who fled Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime in the 1930s and '40s. The Iraqis -- especially the Sassoon, Kadoorie and Hardoon families -- became some of Shanghai's top merchants, holding seats on the stock exchange and building such landmarks as the Peace Hotel. The Russians formed a vital small-business class. Together, they welcomed the Europeans escaping the Holocaust, at least 20,000 of whom flocked to Shanghai because it was one of the few places that didn't require them to have visas. Most of the refugees survived in Shanghai before relocating to Israel, America and other lands. That little known chapter of Holocaust history -- the Chinese helping Jews survive -- inspires many new Jewish residents ... "I felt I was coming on a personal kind of cleansing of Holocaust oppression, that somehow I was going to scoop it from my soul and feel safe," Achene said at the center, a Jewish star on a necklace peeking from her high-collared Chinese jacket. "The only anti-Semitism I've found here is from other Americans, not from Chinese" ... Singer and historian Joy Katzen-Guthrie of Tampa's Palm Harbor area was so taken by Chinese compassion and respect for Jews that she's been proudly organizing Jewish heritage tours to the world's most populous country since 1999. "The Chinese have a very strong respect for education, family values, and the ability to be good at business. They admire entrepreneurship and creativity. And their history has a love of ancestry," Katzen-Guthrie said. "So, they connect with the Jews. They see those same values in the Jewish people." The jocular Greenberg has found empathy, too. He said the common perception among Chinese about Jews is: first, they're smart; and second, they're rich. "And you don't try to convince a billion people what they think of you is wrong," Greenberg said. "You go with it. Because what does a Chinese person want to do with you if you're rich and smart? He wants to be with you, he wants to work with you" ... Those are far different tasks from what Greenberg faced when the Chabad-Lubavitch movement sent him to Venezuela to serve the homegrown Jewish community in that South American country."

[This next story is obscene. Jewish money has destroyed th rural town of Postville, Iowa, and there are those who seek to defend the Chabad slaughterhouse solely on the cash it brings to pay the various immigrants it has brought to the area, as well as toss dollars to cattle farmers. Jews and money. Racist Chabad Jews and money. Exploitive, segregationist Jews and money. Forget ethics. Forget everything. It appears here that defending the racist Chabad Jews is in essence defending money. Read Jewish author Stephen Bloom's frank book about the subject of the Chabad Jews who have swamped the town: Postville. The owners of the disgusting slaughterhouse will foreground the poor "persecuted Jews" card, sooner or later.]
Town rallies around firm called inhumane,
by Gayle Worland, Yahoo! News (from Chicago Tribune), December 19, 2004
"When a family of Lubavitch Jews [i.e., Chabad] an ultra-Orthodox sect, bought the local slaughterhouse in 1987 and converted it to a kosher plant, Postville became an experiment in cultural diversity as immigrants from up to 30 nations flocked to the town for jobs. Then, early this month, an animal-rights group released an undercover video that it claims represents inhumane killing practices at the slaughterhouse, and Postville found itself at the center of an international squall involving religion, grass-roots politics, the news media and the humble cow. Since the Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, set its sights on practices inside Postville's sprawling Agriprocessors plant, "The buzz [in town] has been, `Leave us alone,'" said Rob Dehli, general manager of KPVL-FM, a local public radio station that broadcasts in English, Spanish, Russian and Hebrew. "This company keeps people employed in this town." At the same time, said Dehli, "People are really curious about how they decided on our little town. And why this processing plant?" PETA's complaint, like any alleged violation of the federal 1978 Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, prompted an investigation by the U.S. Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service. Results are expected before the end of the month, said Steven Cohen, an inspection service spokesman. Meanwhile, both sides have dug into the trenches. PETA's allegations have drawn heated debate, even within the kosher community. PETA's reputation PETA, best-known for high-profile campaigns against fur and selected fast-food restaurants, blasts on its Web site the headline "Undercover Investigation Reveals Slaughter Horrors at Agriprocessors." It has lined up outspoken critics, including Colorado livestock consultant Temple Grandin, who says she has visited 30 kosher slaughterhouses around the world but has never witnessed procedures like those at the Postville plant. "There are a lot of rabbis that are very, very upset about [the material on the videotape]," she said. "People in the [meat] industry are just furious. It's a black eye to the whole industry." Agriprocessors, in turn, has launched a public-relations campaign against what plant manager Sholom Rubashkin calls an "extreme political group" that "will do whatever it can for publicity" and "wants to turn you into a vegetarian." Late last week, PETA threatened to sue Rubashkin, whose father in Brooklyn owns the Postville packing house, for defamation. "This story is not about Agriprocessors," said Rubashkin, 45, who runs the plant along with his brother, Heshy, 40. "In my opinion, there's a whole attack here on the ritual [slaughter] process. . . . If a person wants to belong to PETA, that's your right. But for heaven's sake, do not attack our sacred religion." With its name emblazoned across a water tank that towers over the west side of town, Agriprocessors, called Agri by residents, is Postville's largest employer. Fourteen nationalities are represented among its 700 workers, who have helped boost Postville's population from 1,500 in 1990 to 2,500 today ... Along with fresh and frozen beef, chicken and turkey, Agriprocessors produces processed kosher products such as hot dogs, salami and sliced turkey roll. However, nearly half the meat to come out of the plant is sold as non-kosher, Thomas said. PETA approached Agriprocessors officials in mid-2003 and offered "to work quietly with them" to improve animal-handling practices, said Friedrich. The plant did not reply, he said. "Kosher slaughter is supposed to be better than conventional slaughter in this country," the PETA spokesman said. "That Rubashkin would hide behind the torment that his plant has been afflicting on animals for so many years . . . is spitting in the face of Judaism's amazing history of a commitment to compassion toward animals." When Sholom Rubashkin races past the forklifts and assembly lines within the stainless-steel interior walls of the packing house, he asks a visitor to inhale the 28-degree air. "I'm proud of that," he said. "You smell that? It smells like a hospital." Rubashkin's claim that PETA is using the plant as a symbol in a broader attack against all kosher slaughter doesn't surprise writer Stephen Bloom, a University of Iowa journalism professor who spent five years researching his 2000 book "Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America." A strict worldview "The Lubavitchers in Postville look at the world in terms of Jewish and not Jewish," said Bloom, a Reform Jew. There have been other tensions. During this holiday season, the Lubavitchers pressed the City Council for at least a second year to add menorahs to the top of new streetlights bedecked with greenery and red bows. In a compromise, a menorah was placed on the lawn of City Hall. And on Dec. 1, the EPA filed suit against the plant on charges that it violated the federal Clean Water Act. On the PETA issue, though, the town is coming to the plant's defense. On Monday, the council passed a resolution in support of the business, noting that Agriprocessors "currently employs approximately 700 local residents and purchases over $100 million of livestock annually." The resolution said the city "renounces unfounded and unproven attacks on Agriprocessors Inc., or its kosher processing." "We're farmers here, and we make our livelihood from the land," said Sharon Drahn, editor of the weekly Postville Herald-Leader. "So far I have had no letters to the editor or phone calls [about PETA's allegations]. There are people who have said in passing, `Well, if the PETA people had their way, everybody would be vegetarians.'"

[How do American Jews rationalize formal, institutionalized racism in the "Jewish" state? They don't. They don't think about it. They consciously ignore it, while screaming about their (Zionist) "rights" to trample over everyone else in America. Jewish American defenders of Israeli apartheid are consummate moral frauds and hypocrites.]
JNF: Our trusteeship is only for the Jewish people. The Jewish National Fund refuses to market land to Arabs, arguing that it bought the land with donations from Jews for Jews,
by Shmuel Dekalo, Globes (Israel's Business Arena), December 19. 2004
"Jewish National Fund (JNF) land is not state land. The JNF is the sole owner of its land. The JNF bought all the land it owns from its previous owners with donations from thousands of Jews from across the world who collected money penny by penny for the purchase of land in Israel, and maintaining and developing it for the Jewish people. The JNF's trusteeship is reserved solely for the Jewish people for whom it was founded and for whom it works," states the JNF in its response to a petition to the High Court of Justice filed by Adalah The Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and the Arab Center for Alternative Planning over the marketing of land in the north only to Jews. After the petition was filed, the Israel Land Administration (ILA) completely halted the marketing of land in the Galilee to the Jewish population by tenders, and cancelled some recently published tenders. Most of the land being marketed is owned by the JNF. Tenders for the Arab sector were unaffected. The ILA also continued marketing land not through tenders, for the expansion of moshavim (collective villages) and kibbutzim (cooperative communities), which was carried out by applications committees. The issue arose after a number of Arabs were denied access to tenders in Carmiel, which led the petition to the High Court of Justice. The ILA and JNF agreed to suspend the marketing of land until a High Court of Justice hearing on the petition. Last week, the petitioners asked the High Court of Justice to issue a temporary injunction against the marketing of land in the south. The JNF announced that it objected to the halt of marketing of land in the south. In its statement of response, the JNF said that the petitioners wanted to expropriate JNF land from the Jewish people, by converting it to state land. In other words, the JNF said, the petitioners wanted the State of Israel to turn its back on Theodor Herzl's vision for the JNF to hold land in trust for the Jewish people ... The JNF claims that in all matters relating to JNF land, the ILA must act in accordance with the JNF's principles, in other words, allocate JNF land only to Jews. The JNF announcement goes on to detail the laws that prevent the nationalization of land. The JNF claims that its agreement with the state cannot to prevent the continuation of the separate status of JNF land, particularly its designation as the property of the Jewish people. The JNF also claims that it is under no obligation to allocation land to non-Jews, and that the allocation of JNF land to Jews is a founding principle of the State of Israel as a Jewish state."

[Jewish domination of rap and music generally, here.]
Jewish Hip Hop Goes Global,
by Loolwa Khazzoom, NCM, December 19, 2004
"As a white Jew of Ashkenazi heritage, however, [MC] Hyim navigates through tensions regarding his participation in hip hop culture: “There is always the question whether we are co-opting, recycling, participating in culture vulturism. I think the answer really depends on what your intention is. My intention is to celebrate the positive aspects of communication and a long history of storytelling — both of hip hop music and Jewish heritage.” In fact, Jewish hip hop is not a new phenomenon. “Jews have been part of hip hop since its beginning,” said Josh Noreck of the Hip Hop Hoodios, a Latino Jewish rap group based out of Los Angeles and New York. “Rick Rubin founded Def Jam records. Lyor Cohen started working for it right after. The Beastie Boys and 3rd Bass were huge old-school rappers. Way before Eminem, pretty much the only white rappers were Jewish. When I was growing up, I was conscious of that.”
And yet, hip hop video producer Jeremy Goldscheider said, “Nobody realizes there is a Jewish hip hop scene spread out in different parts of the world.” Eager to educate hip hop fans about international Jewish rappers, Goldscheider recently joined forces with local Jewish singer, songwriter and music producer Craig Taubman, co-producing a new album, “Celebrate Hip Hop: Jewish Artists From Around the Globe.” From Israeli MC Sagol 59 to American MC Remedy, and from British group Antithesis to Russian group iSQUAD, the CD brings together mainstream and underground artists with diverse approaches to hip hop. Canadian group Solomon & Socalled rap in Yiddish to a classic sthetl groove; Israeli artist Mook E raps in Jamaican-style dancehall; and American group Blood of Abraham raps in classic inner-city style. Goldscheider’s ultimate goal is to provide youth a new avenue for expressing Jewish identity: “I’m interested in how young people connect to Judaism. I don’t think there are a lot of interesting, unique, cool ways of doing it. This is about being part of a larger hip hop community, being proud of a Jewish voice in it" ... “DJ Benny the B was an Orthodox Jewish guy from Pennsylvania,” said Sagol 59, who raps in Hebrew. “He came to study Torah in Jerusalem. He was a hip hop DJ by night, with his kippah and tzitzit and four earrings in each ear, spinning Snoop Doggy Dog. The day before he was supposed to go back to America, he went to say goodbye to some friends at Hebrew University. He actually had the plane ticket in his pocket when he was blown up by a suicide bomber in the school cafeteria. He was one of nine people killed. It was really difficult to record this song, and I still get choked up when I perform it.” Growing up in the inner city of Baltimore, immersed in East Coast hip hop, A7 began freestyling in first grade — going on to rap with Baltimore’s local group Triad and local crew Testament. At 21, however, he left his fellow musicians, family and friends, in pursuit of a new spiritual path — Judaism. “I started to read the Torah,” he said, “and it spoke to me. I decided these are my beliefs, and I’m really serious about it. So there was only one place for me to be: here in Israel.”

[As the Jewish American Lobby tells it: Israel and Zionism are the moral beacons for the rest of the world.]
Bring back the hangman. Israel needs the death penalty in its arsenal against today’s generation of criminals, who, as proven by the Azar case, will stop at nothing, including the premeditated assassination of a judge just to prove a point. The point has been made, its time to have the death penalty on the books,
by Jonathan Ariel, Maariv (Israel), December 19, 2004
"Law and order is already under siege in Israel at all levels of society. At the top, bent public figures are given preferential treatment. Law enforcement officials are in danger of finding themselves forced by the politicians having to choose between their integrity and careers. Organized crime has succeeded in at least partly infiltrating major parties, including most ominously of all, the one currently in power. At the bottom there is an unprecedented epidemic of violence. Teachers are scared to discipline their students, for fear of violent retaliation. Sports fans assault players and coaches with impunity. Road rage and other forms of random violence have become an every day occurrence. Most ominous of all, the level of tolerance of violence has risen almost as fast as the violence itself. The hooligan is no longer marginal, but reigns supreme. It’s time to get tough on law and order issues. Society needs to send a very loud and strong message that it will not and cannot tolerate these phenomena. Hooligans need to know that they will pay a stiff price for their behavior, including long jail terms and loss of personal property, most of which should go to compensate the victims of their misdeeds and thuggery. Most important of all, it’s time to reconsider bringing back the death penalty, abolished (except for convicted NAZI criminals) shortly after the state was founded. When a convicted murderer serving a life sentence has the audacity to target and assassinate a judge, it is clear that there are some people for whom nothing is sacred, who respect no rules and have no inhibitions, who, as we say in Hebrew “have no red lights in their lives”. Such people are a menace to society, and its time society took adequate measures to protect itself."

[So here's how it works: the Jewish Zionist "neo-con" mafia that runs American foreign policy sets up a U.S. invasion of Iran on behalf of Israel. And here we find Jewish and Israeli arms smugglers trying to make a tidy profit on passing along weaponry to the Iranians, wherein Americans and Iranians will kill each other off in the hidden names of Jews and Israel.]
U.S. man admits role in smuggling arms to Israel,
Haaretz (Israel), Decmeber 12, 2004
"A New York City businessman admitted Wednesday to participating in an arms-smuggling ring that shipped missile and fighter jet components from the United States to Israel and possibly on to Iran. Leib Kohn pleaded guilty to conspiracy, admitting only that he knew the weapons parts were bound for Israel. Investigators allege an Israeli arms dealer may have been relaying the equipment to Iran. "At least some of the parts were ultimately destined for Iran," U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor said. "We're not in a position to say definitely which parts or whether the parts ultimately made it there." Kohn used his two Brooklyn-based companies, L&M Manufacturing and Nesco NY Inc., to buy the parts from companies in Connecticut and California. In March, Israeli police raided a warehouse in the town of Binyamina, discovering some of the equipment Kohn had shipped. An arms dealer, Eli Cohen, was later arrested on suspicion of planning a sale to Iran."

[Another Jew manhandles "retarded" Christmas:]
Retarded Christmas. Greetings! Spreads Love Among the Asses,
by Rich Kane, OC Weekly (Orange County, California), December 17, 2004
"The warning signs were there: a Christmas-themed play filled with arguing relatives, use of the word "heartwarming" in the Weekly’s listings synopsis, a Magical Retarded Kid character that could have easily turned this into more of a comedy than intended.Yet we actually kind of liked this Vanguard production of Tom Dudzick’s Greetings!—simplistic though it may be in its variation on the old guess-who’s-coming-to-dinner theme. Instead of race, though, the familial tension here is all about religion: Catholic-raised Andy (Brandon Kasper) brings his fiancé, Randi (Coreen Milstein), home for Christmas to meet the family—chirpy mom (Joan Meissenburg); cranky, bigoted dad (John Bolen); and Andy’s mentally challenged brother, Micky (Marcus Slane). But the parents freak when they find out Randi is (duhn-duhn-duuuhn!) . . . a JEW! ... Yeah, so it’s sort of like a bad made-for-Lifetime movie. But we do like certain aspects, such as how parents shouldn’t force onto their kids the same religious beliefs they have—they should be free to make up their own minds about life and death and God because otherwise they’ll just become royally screwed-up (clearly Catholicism hasn’t done shit for Andy’s old man, who’s just a hateful, intolerant assmunch). We also like Lucius’ comments about how people have used religion and the fear of an unseen, all-knowing overlord throughout human history to rule people, largely for political reasons—kind of like what happened this past Election Day. To us, this is Theology 101. But we love the thought that in the blood-red Chick-fil-A states, an otherwise ordinary play like Greetings!—with its promotion of free thinking and open-mindedness—still has the potential to piss some people off."

[The Jewish Lobby's apatheid darling, is poising itself to take over NATO. If outlaw rogue nation Israel gets in, so should every iron-fist, head-hunting Banana Republic on the planet and NATO will become an appendage of an ever-reinvented mafia. The U.S. will be an Israeli puppy, and NATO too will hop from its Middle East leash.]
A Modest Proposal: Israel Joining NATO,
by Steven Erlanger, New York Times, December 19, 2004
"The death of Yasir Arafat has been like the holing of a dam on a long-blocked river, with a sudden and powerful surge of optimism and new ideas in the Middle East, even if some of them are still rather muddy. One of the most intriguing is the suggestion that Israel, which has always seen itself as a singular David among Goliaths, should consider joining NATO. The idea, at least, is that closer ties to NATO - and perhaps eventual membership - would embed Israel in the West and, by providing security guarantees, give it more confidence to make a comprehensive peace.Such logic stands in contrast with a core lesson that Israel's founding generation took from the Holocaust: in the end, the Jewish people should count only on themselves to guarantee their survival. But Uzi Arad, a former Israeli intelligence official who heads the Institute for Policy and Strategy, says it is time for Israel to "drop its Groucho attitude" toward NATO and work "to establish a solid and comprehensive partnership with both the United States and Europe." Mr. Arad chairs an annual conference here on security that draws senior Israeli and foreign policy makers and analysts. This year, he is urging Israel to get over its mistrust of alliances and lessen its isolation. He argues that the prospect of a nuclear Iran makes better ties with NATO more logical and urgent."The Euro-Atlantic community is Israel's natural habitat," he says ... Especially after the Sept. 11 attacks, NATO is concerned much more with terrorism than with tanks, and is developing a Middle Eastern avocation, since that is where most of today's threats to its members lie. From Islamic radicalism to potential Iranian nuclear missiles, the threats are much the same as Israel faces, and Israeli intelligence knows a great deal about them ... Still, Israelis worry that the occupation of Palestinian territory, Israeli settlement policies and the last four years of fighting have badly hurt their reputation in Europe, and even in the United States. The Israeli military is skeptical about closer NATO ties, Israeli officials say, because it fears losing any freedom of action. Israel retains a fierce commitment to doing whatever may be necessary to preserve its existence and security, however distasteful such actions may be to others - whether assassinating Hamas leaders, detaining suspects without trial or destroying the homes of suicide bombers and militants ... NATO's secretary general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, is coming to Israel next spring to press the case. He has promised to work for closer ties if Israel wants them. By the time he visits, Israeli officials say, they are likely to have the beginnings of an answer."

[Well, OK. This looks like another legal precedent. It would seem to make sense that the time is ripe to sue a company -- and win a few million -- for making a food product kosher when the purchaser doesn't want it that way. What if you eat something in a restaurant and find out later it had kosher ingredients and eating kosher is AGAINST your principles? By the logic below, it's time to sue. And win.]
It wasn't kosher: $2.5M settles suit alleging pork products in Jewish foods,
Tucson Citizen, December 17, 2004
"A food company accused of putting pig fat into what were supposed to be kosher pie crusts has agreed to give $2.5 million to charity to settle a lawsuit. Flowers Foods, a Georgia-based company that once owned a Mrs. Smith's Bakery in Pembroke, N.C., didn't admit to passing off pie crusts containing pork lard as kosher, but the company agreed Thursday to a settlement to end a class-action lawsuit filed this spring. The company issued a letter of apology for what it calls an embarrassing incident. The plant in Pembroke has closed and Flowers no longer owns Mrs. Smith's bakeries or makes pie crusts. If the allegations are true, Orthodox Jews who ate the crusts inadvertently violated their religious principles while eating Mrs. Smith's pie crusts in 2000 and 2001. Jews who follow kosher diet rules are strictly prohibited from eating pork products. The Mrs. Smith's plant made regular pie crusts with pork lard. It also baked crusts without milk or meat products. Those crusts were stamped kosher by the Orthodox Union, a New York organization that certifies kosher foods. In 2001, Raleigh lawyer Marvin Schiller heard the allegations of a plant employee that workers often substituted regular crusts for kosher ones when the plant ran out. Schiller doesn't observe kosher rules, but he said he agreed to become the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit out of respect for his Orthodox Jewish upbringing. The lawyers in the case said it was impractical to find every Jewish person who had eaten a Mrs. Smith's pie crust, so they decided instead to give the settlement money to charity. Schiller gets $2,000 from the settlement, but he said he will donate it to the neurology department at the University of North Carolina. Flowers, which makes baked goods at 34 plants throughout the country, will divide $1 million in cash among five groups, including the Orthodox Union."

New conductor shares plans,
By Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post, December 17, 2004
"Even though Jeffrey Kahane has been in Denver only twice since his April appointment as the Colorado Symphony's music director, it doesn't mean he isn't actively preparing for his new post. His three-year contract does not become effective until 2005-06. But as music director designate, he has immersed himself in every aspect of preparations for his debut season, details of which are expected to be announced in March."

[Terrible crime: sending a Christmas card to Jews. In the year 2004 saying "Have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year" is OFFENSIVE. Think about it. It takes a very, very sick mind to find offense in such good luck greetings. Around Jews, you must walk on eggshells to please them. What greeting do Jews send to Christians? Three dimes taped onto cardboard? One gets the feeling that Jews refuse to even TOUCH Christmas cards.]
MP's card backfires in holiday howler,
by Amie Richardson, Stuff (New Zealand), December 19, 2004
"Memo to the minister of ethnic affairs: not everyone celebrates Christmas. Chris Carter, the minister responsible for maintaining government relations with ethnic communities, has made a festive faux pas after sending a Christmas card to a member of Dunedin's Jewish Congregation. "He should've known better," said the congregation's treasurer, Ted Friedlander. "He should've thought about it. "I was surprised that I got it; it's his name and signature on the card. It's ignorance. We don't get Christmas cards from anybody else or if we get them from friends, they have something like 'best wishes for the festive season'." The offending greeting - unlike some of the more neutral festive cards that do not mention the holiday by name - says: "Have a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year." The card was also sent to other ethnic organisations, including the Federation of Islamic Associations, but Carter said no offence was intended. "He receives literally dozens of messages from ethnic communities each year at times when festivals are on," a spokesman for the minister said. "He was simply expressing goodwill at a time of year that is important to him and he hopes his actions would be seen in the spirit of Christmas." Other politicians are more careful with the card's greeting - Prime Minister Helen Clark avoids naming the holiday and pops in the message: "Season's Greetings and Best Wishes for 2005." Jewish Council president David Zwartz said it was clear Carter meant no offence, but, he should have thought about the card's wording .. Federation of Islamic Associations president Javed Khan said he appreciated Carter's greeting card and saw it as an expression of goodwill."

[Don't forget! It's very important! Jews are NEVER to be criticized! Never, never, never! They're beyond reproach! They're on a supra-terrestrial level! Apologize! African-American Anti-Semite! On your knees!]
Lawmaker apologizes for remarks on Jews over school,
by Alan J. Bursuk and Sarah Carr, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Decmeber 16, 2004
"State Rep. Annette Polly Williams apologized Thursday for a statement in which she criticized "members of the Jewish community" for their role in recent developments surrounding the Marva Collins Preparatory School. The earlier statement brought strong reactions from the Jewish community and from some members of the Black Women's Network, a Milwaukee organization Williams leads. Williams, a Democrat who represents a predominantly African-American district in Milwaukee, issued the original statement on the letterhead of the Black Women's Network. Williams wrote that she was "appalled" by what some people were saying about famed African-American educator Marva Collins as part of a dispute related to whether Collins' name will continue to be used by the school. Williams wrote, "We are especially appalled that members of the Jewish community, who operate the Milwaukee's Marva Collins School, are attacking Ms. Collins integrity. . . . "African-Americans do not go into the Jewish communities and schools, attempting to force them to alter their traditions and/or beliefs, but how is it some individuals feel comfortable and within 'their rights' fine tuning or changing Marva Collins' technique?" Williams wrote. In her apology letter, Williams wrote, "I sincerely apologize to the Jewish community for any pain that my comments . . . may have caused. . . . I acted totally on emotions and take full responsibility for my comments." Williams also wrote that other members of the Black Women's Network were not involved in the letter. "The process to obtain approval from the membership was not followed," she wrote. Several members of the group are parents at the Collins school or are active supporters of the school and were critical of what Williams said in the first letter. In an interview, Williams said she was referring in the letter to the founder of the school, local financial adviser Ronald Sadoff, and not to other people, Jewish or non-Jewish. Sadoff is Jewish; key figures in the school include both Jews and non-Jews. Williams said in an interview that her intent had been to refer positively to the Jewish community's strength in protecting and developing families, communities, institutions and a continuing heritage. She said someone coming from that background should understand why African-Americans would want to do the same for their institutions. Paula Simon, executive director of the Milwaukee Jewish Council for Community Relations, said that, in Williams' original letter, "what is particularly offensive and troubling is that an elected public figure chose to use words and inferences that have historically been applied in anti-Semitic attacks." Harriet McKinney, executive director of the Milwaukee chapter of the American Jewish Community, said the letter "makes it appear as if she would like to push the buttons that say the Jews run the world and have a secret, hidden agenda." Lynda Jackson-Conyers, a member of the Black Women's Network, said members of the network had no idea Williams was sending out the letter. "She had no right using the organization's letterhead," Jackson-Conyers said. "The last thing I want to do is have this community divided. We don't want this type of publicity."

[It's too late. The Jewish "Russian" mafia has already taken deep hold.]
Germany to stop accepting all ex-Soviet Jews-paper,
India Daily, December 18, 2004
"Germany is to stop offering unlimited immigration to Jews from Russia and eastern Europe from Jan. 1, 2006, ending a policy it launched with the collapse of the Soviet bloc, German newspapers reported on Saturday. Germany began offering Jews from the former Soviet bloc the right to settle in the country in 1991 to help rebuild its own Jewish communities, devastated by the country's Nazi regime. Some 190,000 Jews had taken up the offer by the end of 2003. But the fact the number of ex-Soviet Jews coming to Germany has in recent years been higher than the number going to Israel had led to a policy rethink, the newspapers said. Berliner Zeitung reported around 9,400 ex-Soviet Jews were expected to come to Germany this year, exceeding the number settling in Israel by more than 1,000 for the first time. The newspaper said also Berlin's Jewish Community was under financial pressure because more than three-quarters of immigrant Jews were reliant on welfare payments. Germany's Interior Ministry was not immediately available for comment."

[The paradox here is that it is not "anti-Semitism" that is a threat to democracy but, rather, world Jewish totalitarian propaganda and censorship about anything that has to do with the central axis in the current bloody Middle East: Jews and their evil apartheid Israel. The idea that open criticism of Jews and their racist state is a crime against "all humanity" is the pinnacle of deceptive exploitation. Jewish tribal identity has nothing whatsoever to do with pan-human universalism and to crawl under the universalistic umbrella is a fake of the first order.]
Rome Conference Calls for Stronger Fight Against Anti-Semitism,
by Sabina Castelfranco, Voice of America, December 16, 2004
"A two-day conference aimed at raising awareness of the spread of anti-semitism and the dangers it poses to democracy concluded Thursday in Rome. The meeting was convened by the Anti-Defamation League, a group formed early last century to fight anti-semitism and discrimination against Jews, and co-sponsored by the Italian newspaper Il Foglio. The conference "Anti-Semitism - A Threat to Democracy" brought together European and U.S. politicians, journalists and Jewish rights activists to examine the current trends in anti-semitism. Participants gathered in Rome Wednesday evening, where Foreign Minister Gianfranco Fini, a former neo-fascist, delivered an opening address. Mr. Fini said the conference confirmed the need for commitment of all political institutions and society in general in the fight against anti-semitism. The director of the U.S. Anti-Defamation League, Abraham Foxman, praised Italy's stand against anti-semitism. He said the Italian government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has always recognized the seriousness of the anti-semitism problem. "It is also our shared view that anti-semitism, while specifically directed at Jews, is a threat to all of us, is a threat to democracy, is a threat to all decent people for anti- semistism is against all of us. It is in fact a crime against humanity," he said. During the conference, Mr. Foxman was granted one of the Italian republic's highest honors for his work to combat anti-semitism. He spoke about the present situation. "Recently a chill wind, an ill wind is blowing across the world. It is poisoning the atmosphere in continent after continent and painfully, especially here is Europe. It is a wind of war in which the entire world is the battlefield for verbal and violent attacks on the Jewish people and the Jewish state," he said. Barbara Balser, chairman of the Anti-Defamation League, said hatred is the most powerful weapon of mass destruction and is now an international security threat, endangering peoples' lives and their liberty. "Today those who blow up buses in Jerusalem in the name of an Islamic war against Jews are the very same people who blow up nightclubs in Bali and trains in Madrid. They demonize and de-legitimize Israel and aim to destroy it. That's why we have fought so hard to combat the intense, vicious, dangerous anti-semitism pouring from the Middle East across the continent," she said. Joshua Muravchik, resident scholar of the American Enterprise Institute, said in the Middle East virulent hatred of Israel is flourishing and age-old malicious fables about Jews persist. "The absence of democracy and the absence of freedom is condusive to the birth and the growth of anti-semitism. The epicenter of world anti-semitism today is the Muslim Middle East," he said ... The director of the U.S. Anti-Defamation League, Mr. Foxman, said a massive effort is needed by European leaders in politics, journalism, education and other facets of society to eliminate the foothold that anti-semitism has gained in Europe. Mr. Foxman said it is necessary to pass and implement legislation, develop specific mechanisms to record anti-semitic incidents and promote training and education of law enforcement officials and teachers across the continent to combat anti-semitism and racism."

[Here we have yet another form of Jewish Totalitarianism. And this is one of Jewry's GREATEST taboos, which it very militantly enforces. Adolf Hitler is crucial to the modern Jewish secularly sacred Holocaust Theology. Hitler is decreed to be a non-human beast, insane, and he was so incredibly horrible that it is dictated that there is not an iota of evidence that the European Jewish community engendered ANY merited animosity. There are no shades or gradations: Hitler was so incredibly horrible with his mass exterminations that Jewry becomes, by definition, Hitler's antithesis: absolute good -- collective saints, of a sort, in absolute parallel to categoric Evil. In Jewish eyes, the gravity of Hitler's crimes wipes everything off the Jewish blotter except categoric innocense. Of course if it is forbidden to examine Hitler as an actual human being, he becomes myth: a symbol for anti-Jewish Evil and nothing else whatsoever. For Jews and the cultural perceptions about this that they have invented and enforced, Hitler is a supra-religious icon: Satan personified. Religiously, he even follows a very specific track in Jewish self-history: a reincarnation of Amalek, Jewry's self-described eternal enemy. Such a myth guarantees that even facts about Hitler's world view and pre-Nazi Germany remain forcibly draped in darkness. Hence, if anyone dares to go that route of honest investigation of both Hitler's grievances and this ruthless individual as an actual human being, the investigators are THEMSELVES held to be on the track of -- and apologists for -- German fascism. Not only is Jewish ideology about all this completely false and censorial history, it ensures that the honest reasons for "anti-Semitism" will never be faced and, as consequence, it can never be resolved towards JEWISH improvement with their non-Jewish neighbors, and therefore what Jews declare to be "anti-Semitism" will eventually surface -- as it ALWAYS has -- again and again and again in EVERY quarter, whatever the cultural, religious, political, or geographical region. If Jewry didn't NEED "anti-Semitism" to define -- and, yes, exhalt -- itself, the wisest course would be a frank examination of Jewish history, Jewish identity, and Jewish power towards a MUTUAL negotiation of historical grievances between both Jews and non-Jews. But Jewry -- as a lobbying collective -- has chosen the course of massive censorship. Why did Hitler have such strong animosity towards Jews? This itself is a forbidden question, and any dared answer MUST be stated as "There was, in no way whatsoever, any legitimate reason." The biggest fear in the Jewish community is that if Hitler is evenly remotely humanized, people might wonder about the social and political influences that led him to his notorious path and find echoes of his complaints about Jewish tribalism throughout history to the present day. Jewish identity itself, as singularly conceived as "the innocent victim" that revels in the paradoxes of self-love and self-hate, precariously balances on the many drawn blinds of history.]
Pop-art show sparks outrage,
ABC News, December 17, 2004
"An artist who depicted Adolf Hitler as a pop art-style cartoon figure at an exhibition near the former Dachau concentration camp says he will close the two-week-old show due to public outrage. Walter Gaudnek says his brightly coloured artworks aim to provoke people by showing Hitler as a human rather than a monster but Jewish community and local political leaders see the images as dangerous. "I wanted to educate my students on the historical phenomenon of Hitler and show an aspect of him which has got lost over time," he told Reuters after his paintings were printed in a Munich newspaper. "People forget why millions of Germans were fooled by Hitler ... but I painted a picture of him with his dog because he was once this figure in the past." The bold, oversized drawings show clusters of figures and swastika flags. In one, Hitler is seen speaking from a podium flanked by Nazi guards, while a girl with long blond braids listens intently. Gaudnek's art is on show at his small private gallery 22.5 kilometres from the Dachau concentration camp memorial in southern Germany where 32,000 people were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust. The exhibition consists of 12 paintings and 24 prints, either showing a uniformed Hitler or other Nazi iconography. Gaudnek, an arts professor and an American who was born in Germany, says he is surprised by the reaction. "I'm starting to take the pictures down today because of the criticism," he said. Vice-president of Germany's central Jewish Council, Charlotte Knobloch, says is it wrong to depict Hitler in such a way. "There are plenty of ways of engaging with history. We could do without pictures of this monster without any problems," he told Munich's Abendzeitung newspaper. Hitler "should not be portrayed as he is in this show". Mr Knobloch added there seemed to be a dangerous fashion for films and exhibitions focusing on Hitler as an individual. A controversial German film tracking Hitler's last days in his bunker in Berlin, The Downfall was one of the country's most popular films earlier this year. It depicts Hitler as an ordinary man, eating dinner and playing with children. "These portrayals can be misinterpreted. The perpetrator can appear the victim," Knobloch said. It is illegal in Germany to display artwork glorifying Hitler."

[More about our World Judeocentric Thought Police hegemony:]
Lebanon threatens TV ban reprisals,
Al-Jazeera, December 18, 2004
"Lebanon says it is considering reprisals against French and US media after Washington cracked down on the Hizb Allah television station Al-Manar. The US State Department announced it had added Al-Manar to its list of suspected terrorist organisations that face sanctions, and the channel's broadcasts were halted on two satellites.Lebanese Information Minister Elie Ferzli said: "At the recommendation of parliamentary foreign affairs committee, we are studying the possibility of taking retaliatory measures against the US and French media." He added: "This is an attempt to shut all voices that oppose Israel and describe it as a terrorist state." Decision slammed Ferzi's comments were echoed by Lebanon's ambassador to the United States, Farid Abbud, who charged that Washington was "seeking to liquidate a media by accusing it of being the voice of Satan". "It is unacceptable to censor a media just because it defends positions in which it believes by taking a stand in the Arab-Israeli conflict," Abbud told the Lebanese media ... Al-Manar, already dropped from French-based Eutelsat's broadcasts on Tuesday after a Paris court found it guilty of anti-Semitism, is now no longer available in North America and can only be seen in Europe on the Nilesat satellite, Lebanese broadcast sources said. The television's management accused Washington of "intellectual terrorism"  and of "reducing to silence, in the name of the fight against terrorism, any voice or media that dares to criticise Israel and defend the Palestinian cause." The station noted that it had legal authorisation from the Lebanese government for its broadcasts and operated under Arab League rules. "We are neither a party nor a political organisation," a statement insisted. The State Department said the US decision would have consequences for any person having links to Al-Manar. Such persons could be denied visas to the United States or, if already on US territory, could be expelled.

[JTR contributor's comment: "What I want to emphasise is that this is a bogus 'debate', designed to distract the attention of Americans from the real essence of the financial confiscation of American wealth by the international banks, just as the 'privatisation' versus 'nationalisation' debate, and indeed the dispute over the endless succession of no-win wars, are. It makes absolutely no difference whether something is owned by the state or by the cartels, nor whether one empire is bankrupted before or after another by pointless military adventures, just as it makes no difference whether 'faith is checked at the door' or paraded around the courthouse. However, I recognise that the temptation to fight 'state judaism' with 'state christianity' is hard to resist. The Bushistas also recognise this, and are exploiting it, because they think more dialectically than either the religious jews or the religious christians do (i.e. they are agile enough to practice contradictory policies simultaneously)."].
Jews mustn't `check their beliefs at the door',
By Nathan J. Diament, Haaretz (Israel), December 17, 2004
"It's ironic that the reelection of George W. Bush as president of the United States has triggered a new round of debate in the American Jewish community over the appropriate role of religion in the American public square. Ironic, because last week President Bush again hosted an event that he initiated - an official White House Hanukkah party - which is emblematic of his religiously inclusive approach. Several presidents prior to Mr. Bush officially marked Hanukkah in some way, with the typical format being a small group of Jewish schoolchildren
visiting the Oval Office for a menorah-lighting ceremony. But George W. Bush placed Hannukah on the already packed social calendar of the White House in December, where "holiday parties" are held throughout the month, and the president and first lady meet and greet nearly 6,500 guests. Moreover, in another annual practice begun in his administration, Mr. Bush
spent more than an hour prior to the party meeting with a group of American rabbis from across the denominational spectrum for a freewheeling discussion of issues. The rabbis discussed American policy toward Israel with the president as well as Mr. Bush's drive to plant democracy in the broader Middle East and the war on terrorism. On the domestic front, the president and the rabbis discussed the role of religious values in shaping public policy in America, and it was here that the post-election debate again surfaced. Mr. Bush noted that exit polling indicated that his reelection was, in part, due to the support of many Americans who put a high priority upon what has become known as "moral values" and the sense that these traditional values are under siege in modern America. One rabbi pointed out to the president that such a statement might be perceived as intolerant by those who did not support Mr. Bush and who might see it as implying that they were unconcerned with moral values; an implication Mr. Bush firmly stated he did not intend to convey. Despite depictions to the contrary, a religiously inclusive approach has
been a hallmark of the Bush presidency. Mr. Bush has consistently mentioned synagogues and mosques alongside churches in relevant speeches. Rabbis and clerics of other faiths have participated in relevant official events alongside Christian clergy. But most importantly - on the policy level - the Bush administration has assiduously promoted the equal participation and presence of people of faith, and their institutions, in government programs and political discussions. Despite this evenhandedness, there is suspicion in much of the Jewish community toward the president, his political party and its agenda ... Committed Jews of all political stripes ought to recognize that Judaism stands for an integrationist view. There are too many passages in the Torah and Talmud that speak to the nature of a good and just society for us Jews to mute ourselves on this key element of our national heritage and character. Jews of all political persuasions ought to be comfortable taking inspiration and direction from our heritage of learning and law, to inform us as we engage in the life of the remarkable democracy which welcomes us to do so on those very terms. To do otherwise is to live in the shadow of fear cast by centuries of Jewish oppression. This historic fear may be understandable, but it is no way to shape the direction of the United States and, thereby, the world. [author Nathan J. Diament is director of public policy at the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.]"

Ask a Mexican,
by Gustavo Arellano, OC Weekly (Orange County, California), December 17-23, 2004
"Dear Mexican,
My Spanish class is wondering if Mexicans celebrate Hanukkah? We’re researching religions and found nothing on Hanukkah, so I decided to ask you. Are there Jews in Mexico? -- Sammi Snyder - Washington
Dear Gabacha,
Spanish class? In Washington? Did Vicente Fox suddenly become president of Canada? Chula, Jews own Mexico. That’s why Mexicans are so anti-Semitic: a 2002 study by the Anti-Defamation League found that 44 percent of foreign-born Latinos hated Jews, by far the largest percentage among ethnic groups in the United States. Mexicans don’t even try to hide their hymie-hating. For instance, when a Mexican thinks someone is a slob, we call the person a cochino marrano—a dirty Jew. And don’t believe your Spanish teacher when she pulls out the Webster’s and reads that marrano means "pig"—Webster’s doesn’t know mierda about Spanish etymology. "Marrano" does mean pig but was also the term used to ridicule Jews who hid their beliefs in order to survive the Spanish Inquisition. Oh, and Mexicans do celebrate Hanukkah, but we light policemen instead of menorahs."

Dear activists for Palestine,
The third international Al-Awda conference is to be held in Los Angeles, California April 15-17, 2005. The conference is entitled "Empowering The Right to Return Movement".
Please try to get involved in the convention planning and/or participation at the convention. Thus far the convention program is set to address, on Saturday, April 16, media activism, student activism, outreach to the Palestinian, Arab and other communities, divestment, working on (US) legislators, Palestinian culture, and a campaign for children political prisoners. Friday and Saturday evenings are scheduled to have Palestinian music, hip hop and even a Palestinian fashion show. Sunday's program is still relatively undefined. In addition to that we will have important opportunities to meet with each other and to discuss issues and other work plan ideas that may not make it to the formal program.
Al-Awda invites its members, and all groups and individuals who support the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their original towns and villages to actively participate in organizing its
third annual convention. An organizing and coordinating forum for the convention has been set up at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Convention-2005 . To subscribe to it, simply send a blank message to Al-Awda-Convention-2005-subscribe@yahoogroups.com . (Please note that you will be required to provide an introduction as soon as your subscription is approved and no later than two days from joining.)
From an Al-Awda announcement:
"The primary objective of the convention will be the development of a proactive agenda and campaigns for Palestinian inalienable rights, in particular the rights of the refugees to return to their original towns and villages."

Antwerp diamond trade Jews seen as Islamic target,
by Bart Crols, Alert Net (from Reuters), December 18, 2004
"Belgium is failing to take seriously the threat of an Islamic militant attack in Antwerp, where Orthodox Jews are big players in the diamond trade, the port city's public prosecutor said on Saturday. Antwerp has been home to a large community of Orthodox Jews for more than 700 years. Many of the 15,000-plus Jewish community work in the world's largest diamond distribution centre, based in the heart of the city. "The threat of a terrorist strike on Antwerp is grossly underestimated," Bart Van Lijsebeth, a former Belgian national security chief, told the newspaper Gazet van Antwerpen. "The presence of the large Jewish community turns Antwerp into a potential target for radical Islamic strikes," he said. About 80 percent of the world's uncut diamonds and half of all cut diamonds pass through Antwerp, which has a 600-year history of cutting and trading in the precious stones. Many of the diamond traders operate from small premises clustered around the main railway station. Van Lijsebeth said he knew of no imminent threat to the Jewish community but said that was no reason for comfort ... Tension between Jews and youths in Antwerp's large Moroccan community has risen since the start of the second Palestinian uprising in Gaza and the West Bank four years ago."

[Jewish domination of the music world, here.]
Elvis estate, minus Graceland, sells for $100 million,
by Woody Baird, The Seattle Times, December 16, 2004
"Lisa Marie Presley is keeping Graceland but selling the bulk of the Elvis estate, including rights to her father's name and image, in a deal worth approximately $100 million. Elvis Presley Enterprises Inc. announced an agreement today to sell 85 percent of its assets to businessman Robert F.X. Sillerman, founder of music and sports promoter SFX Entertainment. The Presley estate brought in almost $45 million last year. Sillerman said more aggressive marketing, supported by capital raised through a new publicly traded company, can make Elvis an even bigger earner. Presley occupies a unique place in American pop culture, and "I don't think there's much likelihood his influence is going to wane anytime in my lifetime," Sillerman said by telephone from New York, where he runs the Sillerman Companies ... Tours of Graceland, which gets 650,000 visitors a year, will continue unchanged. The throngs of fans drawn to Memphis each August on the anniversary of Presley's 1977 death will notice little different, Sillerman said. Although Elvis already ranks No. 1 on the Forbes magazine list of top-earning dead celebrities, Sillerman said new markets and business opportunities may be available, including abroad."
 
Bah, mitzvahed! Comics explain `What I Like About Jew',
by Bob Young, Boston Herald, December 18, 2004
"Sean Altman and Rob Tannenbaum are all set for the holidays. They're ready to sing ``It's Good to Be a Jew at Christmas'' and that old chestnut, ``Rubin the Beak-Nosed Reindeer."That's in addition to good-for-any-season favorites such as ``A Little Off the Top,'' their ode to circumcision, and ``Hanukkah for Monica,'' about, who else, Monica Lewinsky. How do the New York-based duo get inspired? .. 'We're both obviously Jewish, which is the first thing to emphasize if you're going to go around performing a show called `What I Like About Jew,' '' Tannenbaum said. ``You'd better make sure you're a Jew or sometimes people could take offense" ... "Now we present it as a variety show where Rob and I do most of it as a duo and bring on guests to do comedy songs,'' Altman said. ``We'd like to reconfigure it into a theatrical presentation, like our raunchy version of `Fiddler on the Roof." ... "This is a fantastic country,'' Tannenbaum said. ``No wonder my immigrant grandparents struggled to move here from Eastern Europe and work their fingers to the bone so that I could sing potty songs in front of people.''

[John Demjanjuk is back in the news again. After torturing him, psychologically, for years, the barking Jewish Lobby Hounds are again set to boot him out of the United States. Demjanjuk was almost executed in apartheid Israel a few years ago after being deported there by the Jewish Lobby's numerous tentacles in the U.S. government. One of modern Jewry's pet obsessions is to track down enfeebled old men who served under Nazi rule of some kind and harass them to their deathbeds. Demjanjuk has already come close to being murdered in the name of the Jewish state. Mr. Demjanjuk, of Ukrainian descent, was claimed by the Jewish Monolith to be a notorious concentration camp guard, "Ivan the Terrible," but it was proven, at the last moment, that it was a false accusation. The poor guy went through Hell in Israeli courts as Jewish public opinion salivated for his electrified dead body. A good start to investigate all this is at the Ukrainian Archives material about the relentless Jewish persecution of the man. Demjanjuk's lawyer in Israel, Yoram Sheftel, even wrote a book (The Demjanjuk Affair: The Rise and Fall of a Show-Trial) that explained the shameful neurotic Jewish politics that aimed to excecute an innocent man in the name of modern Jewish vengeful "We Need to Kill a Nazi" obsessions. The American governmental department that persecutes guys like Demjanjuk is the Office of Special Investigations. "The OIS," notes Allan Ryan Jr., "has established a very close working relationship with Israel and, indeed, a number of the OIS's staff is stationed full time in Jerusalem, at Yad Vashem." [RYAN, A., p. 201-206] A central activist in the creation of the OIS was Jewish Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman who held a press conference in 1974 and "accused the government of failing to investigate and prosecute known Nazi war criminals living in the United States." [TEICHOLZ, p. 24] By 1978, Holtzman was the Chair of the House Subcommittee on Immigration and with fellow Jewish Congressperson Joshua Eilberg directed the U.S. General Accounting Office to investigate the INS's record of convictions of Nazi war criminals. [TEICHOLZ, p. 25] The intensity of the INS prosecution was deemed by the Jewish Lobby to be grossly inadequate and the OIS was created a year later. Our investigation of Jewish persection of Demjanjuk is at the end of this chapter.]
US moves to deport Ukranian born-Nazi death camp guard,
Yahoo! News, December 17, 2004
"US officials asked an immigration judge to deport John Demjanjuk, a Ukranian-born retired auto-worker who during World War II was an armed guard at three Nazi concentration camps, the Department of Justice announced. Demjanjuk's US citizenship was stripped in April 2004, on grounds that included his "willing" service in a Nazi unit "dedicated to exploiting and exterminating" Jewish civilians in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Justice Department said in a statement. Demjanjuk, 84, was a giard at the Sobibor death camp, and the Majdanek and Flossenburg concentration camps, the statement read. Justice Department officials did not say where Demjanjuk will be deported, but he could be sent to his native Ukranie or to Germany, where he immigrated from in 1952. The case against Demjanjuk was first brought in 1977, when he was accused of being one "Ivan the Terrible," a Nazi guard at the Treblinka death camp in Poland in 1942 and 1943. Demjanjuk's citizenship was stripped in 1981 and he was deported to Israel, where he was found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death. However Demjanjuk was set free when evidence of a mistaken identity emerged. Demjanjuk returned to his family and home near the midwestern US city of Cleveland, and his citizenship was reinstated in 1998. But new charges about his role during World War II were brought in court, and he was stripped of his citizenship again in 2002 when he was found to have worked as a Nazi death camp guard ... Demjanjuk should be deported "because of his participation in Nazi-sponsored persecution while serving as an armed SS guard at Sobibor, Majdanek, and Flossenburg; and because he lied about his wartime occupations and residences when he applied for a US immigration visa in 1952," the statement read."

[JTR contributor's comment: "I just have a point to make about Frank Rich's 2004: The Year of 'The Passion.' After Rich goes on about Mel Gibson -- "the international movie star who portrayed himself as a powerless martyr to a shadowy anti- Christian conspiracy" -- and Gibson's movie -- a "prurient and interminable wallow in the Crucifixion" -- Rich then whines about Christians who, incredibly, act as though they are fed up with what they erronesously see as anti-Christianism. He ends the article with:
'When even phenomena as innocuous as Oscar nominations or the lighting of a Christmas tree can be inflated into divisive religious warfare, it's only a matter of time before someone uncovers an anti-Christian plot in 'White Christmas.'
Maybe Rich should read some Philip Roth literature, especially Roth's "Shylock Conspiracy" which includes this:
'People ask where I got the idea. Well, I got it listening to the radio. The radio was playing 'Easter Parade' and I thought, But this is Jewish genius on a par with the Ten Commandments. God gave Moses the Ten Commandments and then He gave to Irving Berlin 'Easter Parade' and 'White Christmas.' The two holidays that celebrate the divinity of Christ -- the divinity that's the very heart of the Jewish rejection of Christianity -- and what does Irving Berlin brilliantly do? He de-Christs them both! Easter he turns into a fashion show and Christmas into a holiday about snow. Gone is the gore and the murder of Christ -- down with the crucifix and up with the bonnet! He turns their religion into schlock. But nicely! Nicely! So nicely the goyim don't even know what hit 'em. They love it. Everybody loves it. The Jews especially. Jews loathe Jesus. People always tell me Jesus is Jewish. I never believe them. It's like when people used to tell me Cary Grant was Jewish. . . . Jews don't want to hear about Jesus. And can you blame them? So -- Bing Crosby replaces Jesus as the beloved Son of God, and the Jews, the Jews, go around whistling about Easter! And is that so disgraceful a means of defusing the enmity of centuries? Is anyone really dishonored by this? If schlockified Christianity is Christianity cleansed of Jew hatred, then three cheers for schlock. If supplanting Jesus Christ with snow can enable my people to cozy up to Christmas, then let it snow, let it snow, let it snow! Do you see my point?" I took more pride, I told them, in "Easter Parade" than in the victory of the Six Day War.'"
Our comment: This is just another Jew, like a single-minded pit bull, gnawing, gnawing, gnawing, on Mel Gibson and The Passion of the Christ. How can the 10 billionth arrogant, pompous Jew sit there with his feet up on the desk writing for the Jewish-owned New York Times -- illustrating in this very article the vast reach of Jewish power -- be taken seriously anymore? Why do jerks like this get the enormous forum to trash both Islam and Christianity in the same paragraph? Because he's part of the Jewish Network. He's kosher. He's loathes Mel Gibson and Jesus and Christianity and Islam and anything else that the Klan despises. Jews like this write were born to spew self-protective propaganda. Jewish dominance of the mass media, here.]
2004: The Year of 'The Passion',
by Frank Rich, New York Times, December 19, 2004
"Will it be the Jews' fault if "The Passion of the Christ," ignored by the Golden Globes this week, comes up empty in the Oscar nominations next month? Why, of course. Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular," William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, explained in a colloquy on the subject recently convened by Pat Buchanan on MSNBC. "It's not a secret, O.K.?" Mr. Donohue continued. "And I'm not afraid to say it. That's why they hate this movie. It's about Jesus Christ, and it's about truth." After the show's token (and conservative) Jewish panelist, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, pointed out that "Michael Moore is certainly not a Jew" and that Scorsese, Coppola and Lucas are not "Jewish names," Mr. Donohue responded: "I like Harvey Weinstein. How's that? Harvey Weinstein is my friend." How's that? Not quite good enough. Surely Mr. Donohue knows that decorum in these situations requires that he cite a Jew as one of his "best friends," not merely a friend. For shame. As we close the books on 2004, and not a moment too soon, it's clear that, as far as the culture goes, this year belonged to Mel Gibson's mammoth hit. Its prurient and interminable wallow in the Crucifixion, to the point where Jesus' actual teachings become mere passing footnotes to the sumptuously depicted mutilation of his flesh, is as representative of our time as "Godspell" was of terminal-stage hippiedom 30 years ago. The Gibson conflation of religion with violence reflects the universal order of the day — whether the verbal fisticuffs of the culture war within America, as exemplified by Mr. Donohue's rant on national television or, far more lethally, the savagery of the actual war that radical Islam brought to our doorstep on 9/11. "The Passion" is a one-size-fits-all touchstone, it seems. It didn't just excite and anger a lot of moviegoers in our own country but also broke box-office records abroad, including in the Middle East. Most Arab governments censor films that depict prophets (Jesus included), even banning recent benign Hollywood products like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty" and the animated musical "Prince of Egypt." But an exception was made for Mr. Gibson's blood fest nearly everywhere. It was seen in Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Among the satisfied customers last spring was Yasser Arafat, who called the film "moving and historical" — a thumb's up that has not, to my knowledge, yet surfaced in the film's low-key Oscar campaign."

[Cut the code word. "Hollywood" = Jew. A Christian compares Jewish Hollywood's defamation of religious faith to the early years of the Holocaust! Holocaust "potting soil!" Great, great! That ought to drag the Anti-Defamation League out screaming into the expanding Culture Wars, drooling with rage. ONLY JEWS get to claim suffering. And there's a Jewish copyright on ANY reference to the Holocaust Industry.]
TV Portrayal of Religion Attacked. "Systematic negative portrayals" of religious people likened to early stages of Holocaust,
by Lynn Smith, KTLA, December 16, 2004
"Leaders of The Parents Television Council today released a study of prime time programming that they say shows that Hollywood "has virtually no respect for religion." The study, put out in conjunction with the National Religious Broadcasters, counted 2,344 treatments of religion — such as the mention of prayer or the presence of God — from September 2003 to September 2004 and deemed 24.4% of them negative. Most were neutral, and 22.1% were positive. Even so, Frank Wright, president of the NRB, called the negative portrayals "dehumanizing" and compared them to representations of Jews prior to the Holocaust, and blacks in the era of slavery. "Systematic negative portrayals of groups of people are always disturbing," he said. "They produce the potting soil that leads to persecution." The study calls NBC "by far the most anti-religious network" with 9.5 negative treatments for every positive one. Fox had 2.4 negatives for each positive. At the other end of the spectrum was Pax, which the Parents Council said had 90.7% positive depictions of religion. CBS was deemed more positive than negative by a margin of 2 to 1 ... In 2003, the PTC, which aims to protect children from indecency on television, filed a mountainous number of online complaints to the Federal Communications Commission, a figure that has become the subject of heated controversy. PTC President L. Brent Bozell said the group had no similar activity in mind for the religion issue, but promised to take the findings to advertisers. "We will encourage advertisers to get behind those in the industry who want to do more positive story lines than what they've been doing. That won't be new," he said ... In a press conference, Wright blamed the negative portrayals on Hollywood's creative community which he said is unfamiliar with the subject of faith. "It's a long standing issue with Hollywood. I think the issue has to do with the makeup of persons in Hollywood and their own personal convictions. I believe a low percentage of people in Hollywood consider themselves to be people of faith." Bozell, a Catholic, said, "Is it because Hollywood is Jewish and taking care of its own? No, I don't think that. In the popular culture of America, 99% of the public, and also in Hollywood, there is an understanding that respect is owed to Jews. It's as simple as that. That same respect ought to be paid to other faiths as well." [JTR editor's note: Is "owed?" Is "owed?" By what logic are Jews entitled to generic (and censorial) respect when, at all levels, including the subtext of this article about Jewish Hollywood, they have respect for no one else, including other peoples' religions?]

[More on the Jewish Hollywood Mafia, where the Network threads through local synagogues.]
Hollywood and Kvetch. Is there room for three performing-arts synagogues in L.A.? Apparently not,
by James Verini, LA Weekly, 2004
"From Creative Arts, which is one of three synagogues catering to — and competing for — a Hollywood crowd, I sped across town and up the 405 to the University of Judaism on Mulholland Drive where a similar service was under way. This one belonged to the Synagogue for the Performing Arts, or SFTPA. Though the auditorium was less ostentatious than that of Beth Am, the podium was adorned with the synagogue’s rather preposterous crest of tragic/comic masks in the shape of dreidels. Rabbi Joseph Telushkin paced the stage with a cordless mike, telling anecdotes about David Ben-Gurion and occasionally moaning about his wife. His zingers were impeccably timed. This much could be expected of Telushkin, who, when he is not writing sermons, writes television scripts and produces movies. Judy Fox, the cantor, who used to open for Rodney Dangerfield, sang a medley tribute to Naomi Summer, "Israel’s first lady of song." Two weeks later, on Doheny Drive in Beverly Hills, yet another folksy service was in progress at yet another temple with a flossy title. Temple Shalom for the Arts this one was called, and its rites were being held at the Writers Guild Theater, of all places. The cantor, Ilysia Pierce, whom I would have recognized from the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast had I ever seen it, was belting out New Agey Jewish devotional songs ...If these three temples seem a little too close for comfort, that’s because they are. Creative Arts, Shalom and SFTPA all come from the same seed, and they all lay claim to being L.A.’s premier "arts" synagogue. It was Creative Arts’ Cutler who actually founded SFTPA in the early 1970s with the help of some celebrities and quasi-celebrities and the vaudeville-holdover set (Walter Matthau and Red Buttons were original members). SFTPA (one can’t help feeling the guild sound of the name is somehow intentional) was the first temple to advertise so proudly its connection to Hollywood. But just a few years in, Cutler "left the pulpit," as abdication in the rabbinate is known, over a dispute with the board and went on to found Creative Arts. The two temples have been estranged ever since. Meanwhile, SFTPA hired David Baron, a controversial rabbi who’d already sued his old temple in Sherman Oaks. Not long after Cutler, he too left SFTPA, also over a dispute with the board, and set up Shalo... "Those other temples are basically clubs where people in show business can go pray," Baron said ... Gentile reader, this is not kvelling. This is kvetching. Hollywood has a long and curious relationship with Judaism. Though the two have been deeply entwined since the beginning of the American film industry, religion, and Judaism especially, has always been something widely plied but rarely portrayed. Decades ago there were reasons for this — the House Un-American Activities Committee — but even today, with the specter of anti-Semitism more or less lodged safely abroad, a glaring coyness affects Hollywood’s Jews. Look, for instance, at the silence from people like Steven Spielberg during the brouhaha over Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ. Cutler and his colleagues take another approach. Their common goal has been to make Jews feel comfortable practicing their religion openly in stridently secular Hollywood. Their other equally obvious goal — and it’s difficult to know which came first — has been to purposefully intermingle the practice of Judaism with Hollywood power and celebrity. Still, they will protest all day about this, even while casually mentioning their credits and dropping the names of the machers among their congregants. But the evidence is hard to dispute. Telushkin has written episodes of The Practice and Touched by an Angel and has written and produced his own film. Baron is a producer and consultant when not a rabbi, and is married to Ellen Meyer, a casting director and ex-wife of Universal chief Ron Meyer. Baron has a television deal concerning Yom Kippur with the PAX cable network. Shalom holds its services at the WGA Theater and its big events at the Wilshire Theater, which is owned by the Nederlander family (they also own the Pantages Theater and the Nederlander Theater on Broadway), members of whom are Shalom members. On their temple Web sites, both Baron and Telushkin have mounted what can only be described as headshots. Cutler, meanwhile, (he had a near run in the early ’80s with Haircut, a TV spinoff of the Warren Beatty movie Shampoo). He hosts a film-review radio show with a Catholic priest called Review From the Pew. He has a commercial agent, though he claims he stopped trying out for them last year when he bumped into an actor from his congregation at an audition ... We went to his back office, adorned with posters of Marx Brothers knockoff stage shows that Cutler put on back in his managing days. Cutler adamantly refuses to say how old he is, though his life story would seem to put him in his early 60s ... The Jewish scene he found here dismayed him. There were only a handful of temples, and no one except the very wealthy seemed to patronize them, he said. So, in 1973, he and his old friend Charles M. Powell, then head of publicity for MGM (Jane Powell is his widow), conceived of a synagogue for performing artists. "We started in a little place on Olympic," Cutler said. "I found a guy who had a little auditorium in his house. It sat 80 people. Then I called up Saul Turtletaub and Bernie Orenstein — you know Saul and Bernie? — and I said, ‘I need books.’ So we got prayer books. The services were beautiful because no one had ever seen anything like it." (Turtletaub and Orenstein, television producers, were responsible for such shows as Sanford and Son and Kate & Allie.) Cutler insisted to me the motivating factor was to give young, poor Jewish actors a place to come together. "Primarily it was for the people who couldn’t afford it," he said. "We charged $18 a year, and the services were free. I don’t go for the celebs so much as the people." Even as he said this, Cutler pulled out from beside his desk a framed photograph of the original members standing in suits and yarmulkes. There was Cutler, still looking bearish and affectionate but with darker hair, holding a Torah; Charles Powell; a Yiddish stage and TV character actor named Mike Burstyn, who served as the original cantor; Allan Blye, who produced The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour; Turtletaub and Orenstein; and Walter Matthau, looking typically unimpressed. Cutler performed the service at Matthau’s funeral in 2000. ... [David] Baron, who is 53, looks the part of the showman-rabbi his critics accuse him of being... Barry Gordon, who was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1988 to 1995, is one of his cantors. Stacey Sher, producer of Pulp Fiction and Erin Brockovich and one of his members, convinced him to play the rabbi role in Along Came Polly. When I asked whom I might contact to get a congregant’s perspective, he advised me to call film critic Leonard Maltin or CAA agent Fred Specktor ... .During one phone conversation, Baron had to put me on hold. "I have the White House on the other line — can you hold for a second, please?" he said. He returned to breezily inform me that Noam Neusner, George W. Bush’s liaison to the Jewish community, wanted a favor ... He’s produced, with the History Channel, a documentary and teaching program called Diplomats for the Damned, about diplomats who helped Jews escape the Holocaust. He released the Enlighten CD of new Jewish devotional music, and in his bimonthly newsletter he writes on important arts-related topics affecting Jews; in last fall’s issue, for instance, he pilloried The Passion of the Christ. At his High Holy Day services, Baron presents "living sermons," in which notables speak on a theme — last year, author Gerald Posner, L.A. terrorism czar John Miller and Geraldo Rivera gave talks. At his Temple of the Air special in September, lawyer Barry Scheck of O.J.-trial fame spoke on the subject of guilt and innocence, bringing with him a falsely convicted man whom he helped exonerate ... I got the impression from Baron and Cutler that without some kind or rivalry, these two proud rabbis would feel somewhat lost. For them, religion is not just a matter of the expression of faith. It is a way of life, a manner of speaking, a brand of humor and, no less, a business. As Baron put it, "We’re in the business of religion, but it is a business like any other." Like, for instance, Hollywood."

Ogling the Moguls,
by Anna Isakova, Haaretz (Israel), December 17, 2004
"Who is the Godfather? Who then is Boris Berezovsky, the oligarch accused of having robbed Russia of all its assets and declared the Kremlin's No. 1 enemy? Is he a scientist who conducts experiments in economics and takes them to their logical conclusion simply out of curiosity, while not thinking of the consequences, or is he a dangerous criminal who uses his genius and scientific skills merely to accumulate power? Dubov favors the first option. Paul Klebnikov's book, "The Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia," deals with the second. Klebnikov was the son of Russians who immigrated to the West after the Bolshevik Revolution. During the Yeltsin era, he returned to Russia as a Forbes correspondent. His exceptional knowledge of Russian politics earned him unique standing in the Western journalistic world. He saw himself as someone who had returned to his true homeland. His emotional attitude toward Russia, as expressed in his book, is certainly very different from the traditional Western perspective. This journalist, who tried to become directly involved in Russian political life, paid for his efforts with his life. He was murdered this year. The murder has still not been solved, and the Russian public places little faith in the police and the judicial system, which are directly answerable to the country's leaders. Years will pass before a credible explanation of the murder will surface, if ever. In Klebnikov's book, Berezovsky is depicted as a leech that depleted the homeland of all its riches. He represents absolute evil and is the primary enemy of the people. The facts are no different from those in Dubov's book; the only difference is their interpretation. Klebnikov sees malicious damage in Berezovsky's every action. Although Klebnikov assiduously avoids the word "Jew," an aroma of old, almost religious, anti-Semitism emerges from each page in the book."

[Older article. Those who are Jews on the richest Russian list include the richest person, Khodorovsky, the second richest, Abramovich, and at least Aven, Davidovich, and Berezovsky, from this little list.]
Russian Billionaires Unhappy with Forbes List,
Moscow New, 5/13/2004
"Businessmen who made the Forbes list of Russia’s 100 richest people are not at all happy that the magazine decided to publish their names and to disclose the size of their personal fortunes. They say that it is now unfashionable and even dangerous to be a “public billionaire”. The moneybags are upset both by the methodology that was used by Forbes, as many believe that their fortunes have been overestimated and by the possible consequences of appearing on the list which is headed by the jailed former Yukos CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The Vedomosti business daily talked to several of those whose names appeared on the list on conditions of anonymity ... The anxiety expressed by Russia’s businessmen is by no means groundless as there have already been precedents set abroad. In the spring of 2003 when Forbes published a list of the 100 richest people in China some of them were later arrested. The “Golden hundred” of Russia according to Forbes consists of 36 billionaires, the personal fortunes of the remaining 64 businessmen who made the list amount to hundreds of millions of US dollars each. It should be noted that when on 27 February the U.S. edition of Forbes published a list of the world’s richest people, it included only 25 Russian businessmen. This means that “according to Forbes” over the last two and a half months the number of billionaires in Russia grew by 40 percent and the size of their combined fortunes increased from $79.4 billion to $110 billion. Among the newcomers to the list are the president of Alfa Bank Petr Aven, head of Millhouse Capital David Davidovich, top manager of Sibneft Andrei Gorodilov, Russian senator Valery Oif, whose wealth is also attributed to Sibneft, the wife of the Moscow mayor, Elena Baturina, and member of the Russian parliament Alexander Lebedev who also serves as the president of the National Reserve Bank. Among the businessmen who were most upset by the publication of the ratings were the billionaires who made their fortunes at the Sibneft oil company. Roman Abramovich, David Davidovich, Andrei Gorodilov and Valery Oif were positively furious, writes Vedomosti ... Leonid Fedun, vice president of Russia’s largest oil company Lukoil, whose wealth is estimated by Forbes to equal $1.7 billion, and sources close to the former head of the Gazprom natural gas monopoly Rem Vyakhirev, whose fortune according to the magazine is worth $2.4 billion, say that in reality their personal wealth is much less than Forbes asserts. The only person who claims that his personal fortune has been underestimated is the exiled businessman Boris Berezovsky. According to the magazine’s calculations today he owns $620 million. But, speaking to Vedomosti Berezovsky said: “In the middle of 1990 Forbes estimated my wealth at $3 billion. This means that either I spent $2.5 billion or their current estimates are incorrect.”

Lafayette College names medieval art scholar next president,
The Morning Call, December 17, 2004
"The next president of Lafayette College will be Daniel H. Weiss, according to a press release from the institution today. Weiss, dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at The Johns Hopkins University, will assume the presidency July 1. He succeeds Arthur J. Rothkopf, who announced his retirement on January 31 and will conclude his service as president at the end of the current academic year after serving in the position since 1993."

[This article is incredible. A Jew is actually honest about the Jewish destruction of Christianity? That's the first step. Once you understand this, it's time to look further, at so very, very much. (The interesting thing too is that the World Net Daily has been an avid Zionist apologist for Israeli apartheid). The key thing about this article below is that a Jew wrote it. Non-Jews can't say that Jews have destroyed Christmas, at least not publicly. That's a magnet for the charge of "anti-Semitism" and a guarantee that you'll be persecuted by the relentless Jewish Thought Police that won't rest until it has punished you. Only a Jew can speak this truth in our censorial Judeocentric society and get away with it. Everyone else is petrifed to speak the obvious. It's time for the Anti-Defamation League to step forward to condemn this article as the sick voice of another courageous Jewish "self-hater" blurting out an act of insanity.]
The Jewish grinch who stole Christmas,
By Burt Prelutsky, World Net Daily, December 17, 2004
" I never thought I'd live to see the day that Christmas would become a dirty word. You think it hasn't? Then why is it that people are being prevented from saying it in polite society for fear it will offend? Schools are being forced to replace "Christmas vacation" with "winter break" in their printed schedules. At Macy's, the word is verboten even though they've made untold millions of dollars from their sympathetic portrayal in the Christmas classic, "Miracle on 34th Street." Carols, even instrumental versions, are banned in certain places. A major postal delivery service has not only made their drivers doff their Santa caps, but ordered them not to decorate their trucks with Christmas wreaths. How is it, one well might ask, that in a Christian nation this is happening? And in case you find that designation objectionable, would you deny that India is a Hindu country, that Pakistan is Muslim, that Poland is Catholic? That doesn't mean those nations are theocracies. But when the overwhelming majority of a country's population is of one religion, and roughly 90 percent of Americans happen to be one sort of Christian or another, only a damn fool would deny the obvious. Although it seems a long time ago, it really wasn't, that people who came here from other places made every attempt to fit in. Assimilation wasn't a threat to anyone – it was what the Statue of Liberty represented. E pluribus unum, one out of many, was our motto. The world's melting pot was our nickname. It didn't mean that any group of people had to check their customs, culture or cuisine, at the door. It did mean that they, and especially their children, learned English, and that they learned to live and let live. That has changed, you may have noticed. And I blame my fellow Jews. When it comes to pushing the multicultural, anti-Christian agenda, you find Jewish judges, Jewish journalists, and the American Civil Liberties Union, at the forefront. Being Jewish, I should report, Christmas was never celebrated by my family. But what was there not to like about the holiday? To begin with, it provided a welcome two-week break from school. The decorated trees were nice, the lights were beautiful, "It's a Wonderful Life" was a great movie, and some of the best Christmas songs were even written by Jews. But the dirty little secret in America is that anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society – it's been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity. For example, the hatred spewed toward George W. Bush has far less to do with his policies than it does with his religion. The Jews voice no concern when a Bill Clinton or a John Kerry makes a big production out of showing up at black Baptist churches or posing with Rev. Jesse Jackson because they understand that's just politics. They only object to politicians attending church for religious reasons. My fellow Jews, who often have the survival of Israel heading the list of their concerns when it comes to electing a president, only gave 26 percent of their vote to Bush, even though he is clearly the most pro-Israel president we've ever had in the Oval Office. It is the ACLU, which is overwhelmingly Jewish in terms of membership and funding, that is leading the attack against Christianity in America. It is they who have conned far too many people into believing that the phrase "separation of church and state" actually exists somewhere in the Constitution. You may have noticed, though, that the ACLU is highly selective when it comes to religious intolerance. The same group of self-righteous shysters who, at the drop of a "Merry Christmas" will slap you with an injunction, will fight for the right of an American Indian to ingest peyote and a devout Islamic woman to be veiled on her driver's license. I happen to despise bullies and bigots. I hate them when they represent the majority, but no less when, like Jews in America, they represent an infinitesimal minority. I am getting the idea that too many Jews won't be happy until they pull off their own version of the Spanish Inquisition, forcing Christians to either deny their faith and convert to agnosticism or suffer the consequences. I should point out that many of these people abhor Judaism every bit as much as they do Christianity. They're the ones who behave as if atheism were a calling. They're the nutcakes who go berserk if anyone even says, "In God we trust" or mentions that the Declaration of Independence refers to a Creator with a capital "C." By this time, I'm only surprised that they haven't begun a campaign to do away with Sunday as a day of rest. After all, it's only for religious reasons – Christian reasons – that Sunday, and not Tuesday or Wednesday, is so designated. This is a Christian nation, my friends."

[JTR contributor's comment: "The Old Christmas canard. It gets more and more obvious that 'left versus right' is just a sham. Even on the formal level of what they are supposed to be disputing, it no longer makes any difference whether industries are 'privatised' or 'nationalised', since they are answerable to the same cliques of bankers either way. But just in case this should become too obvious, the public is dragged off into witless disputes about cultural trivia, by Jewish journalists claiming to speak for the 'oppressed everywhere'." Our commment: One does not have to be far "right" Neanderthal to recognize the Jewish subversion of the Christmas holiday, Christianity generally, and so much else. The Prohibition against serving Jews their own kinds of medicine ("Don't like Christmas? Go live in Israel.") is an enforced taboo in America. Jews are sacred in modern society. They are held to be beyond criticism even as they themselves actively trash everything in their sight. Citations on the Jewish destruction of Christmas and Christianity are here and here.]
The Grinch who saved Christmas. Battling the homosexuals, liberals and Jews, Bill O'Reilly and friends are making America safe for Christmas.
By Eric Boehlert, Salon.com, December 17, 2004
"For most people, Christmas may be a time of peace and joy, but for Bill O'Reilly it's another chance to wage an us-vs.-them cultural war. O'Reilly and Fox News, along with a cadre of hard-charging right-wing talkers, have declared war on the anti-Christmas crowd, that dangerous mix of radical secularists and school board do-gooders determined to "bring about their own Godless version of this nation," as Rev. Jerry Falwell wrote in a column published Monday on the conservative Web site WorldNetDaily.com. The thorny issue of striking the proper balance between America's predominant Christian population and the country's historic separation of church and state returns every holiday season like unwanted fruitcake. But as ABC News recently noted, "This year, people in red, or Republican America -- particularly Christian conservatives -- are in an unprecedented uproar" ... "All over the country, Christmas is taking flak," O'Reilly recently announced, as he complained about "the anti-Christmas jihad" that's gripping the nation. "If they could, secularists would cancel Christmas as a holiday. That's how much they fear the exposition of the philosophy of Jesus." During his syndicated radio show O'Reilly intoned darkly, "The small minority that is trying to impose its will on the majority is so vicious, so dishonest -- and has to be dealt with" ... Since O'Reilly began chronicling how Christmas was "under siege," the host has been using a slew of vague catchphrases -- "those people," "these creeps," "secular progressives," "the secular bunch," "extremists" -- to describe the lurking, godless forces who want to take Christ out of Christmas. But during his Dec. 3 radio show, O'Reilly got more specific. When a caller identified himself as Jewish and began to complain about "the secularization of Jews and about Christmas going into schools," O'Reilly shot back that "overwhelmingly, America is Christian. And the holiday is a federal holiday honoring the philosopher Jesus. So, you don't wanna hear about it? Impossible. And that is an affront to the majority. You know, the majority can be insulted, too. And that's what this anti-Christmas thing is all about." At one point, O'Reilly told the caller, "Come on, if you are really offended, you gotta go to Israel then." (Media Matters for America, a liberal media monitoring organization, quickly posted transcripts from the radio show.) "It was offensive and over the top," says Steven Freeman, associate director of the civil liberties division at the Anti-Defamation League, a leading Jewish civil rights organization. Rep. Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., is circulating a letter among colleagues on the Hill that urges O'Reilly to apologize for his remarks. "By suggesting that Jews do not have a place in American society unless they accept without comment its 'predominantly Christian' nature, you are brushing aside the basic freedoms guaranteed to all by our Constitution," she writes ... "O'Reilly crossed the line to overt anti-Semitism," adds Michael Lerner, head of the progressive Jewish organization Tikkun. "He's trying to tell his audience that Jews have no legitimate role in public life except as second-class citizens." O'Reilly is not alone in singling out Jews this Christmas season. In a column for the conservative Web site FrontPage, former Boston Herald writer Don Feder [JTR editor's note: Feder is Jewish, for God's sake!] mocked the notion that "Myron may fear the onset of another Crusade if he hears the strains of 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' drifting through the hallways" ... Things got even uglier during a segment on MSNBC Dec. 8, when William Donahue of the arch-conservative Catholic League insisted, "Hollywood is controlled by secular Jews who hate Christianity in general and Catholicism in particular. It's not a secret, OK? Hollywood likes anal sex. They like to see the public square without nativity scenes." O'Reilly, who in a pique of anger on Dec. 9 called Media Matters' transcribers "the worst non-criminal element in the country," seems to wear the accusations of anti-Semitism as a badge of honor -- proof that he's upsetting the media elite and standing up for traditional American values. "If you think that's anti-Semitic, I wanna know. Do you think that's anti-Semitic?" O'Reilly asked listeners after replaying a tape of his Dec. 3 caller. Early this year, O'Reilly's blanket defense of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" against charges that its portrayal of Jews was anti-Semitic initially raised some suspicions among some Jews. When O'Reilly asked one guest on his Fox News show if the "Passion" controversy was being driven by the fact that "the major media in Hollywood and a lot of the secular press is controlled by Jewish people," many considered their suspicions confirmed. O'Reilly has insisted he's a friend to Jews. During a March 10 appearance on the Don Imus radio show, responding to New York Times columnist Frank Rich, who ridiculed O'Reilly's question about Jews controlling the secular press, O'Reilly said, "I did a benefit in L.A. four weeks ago where we raised millions of dollars for Israel. OK, pal? Get off it." ... "These guys are nuts, simply nuts," answers Ira Foreman, executive director of the National Jewish Democratic Council. "Either they're woefully ignorant or it's the worst kind of demagoguery. If Jews or progressives or Democrats are supposed to be behind this plot to ruin Christmas, somehow they left me out" ... That said, Lerner suggests liberals would be making a serious mistake if they failed to acknowledge the real sense that the spiritual side of Christmas is being undermined in American culture. He says Jews, progressives and secularists aren't the real Grinches, but rather the material-obsessed marketplace. "It's turning the symbolic values of Christmas into an excuse to convince people to buy and buy and buy," he says. "Christians are right to feel spiritual values are under assault; they are responding to a very real problem. But secularists are not to blame."

[Who's to blame for the attack on, and subversion of, Christanity? Where did our "material-obsessed marketplace" come from? Not Jewish "this life" materialism, dominance of usury, hatred of Jesus Christ, Talmudic "Chosen People" racism, and Jewish centrality in the rise of capitalism? Please. Here below can be found the usual Jewish hypocrisy. In an older article, Michael Lerner trashes Mel Gibson's The Passion of Christ, by doing what? He attacks Christians. Christians are defined as chronic "haters" of Jews, the faith itself is defined as anti-Jewish bigotry, so much so that Christianity is credited with "the Holocaust." But the real issue is never Christian "hatred" of Jews. It's the other way around. Jews are obsessed with stamping out Christianity as, by definition, a movement of "hate." What's real in all this smoke? Jesus Christ was a Jewish blasphemer and he has been despised by Jews ever since.]
Gibson's the Passion. A plea to Christians to Respond with a Gospel of Love and Hope in place of this new fundamentalism,
by Rabbi Michael Lerner, Tikkun, March 10, 2004
"Mel Gibson unlocked the secret of why Americans have never confronted anti-Semitism in the way that we did with the other great systems of hatred (racism, sexism, homophobia) when he told a national t.v. audience on February 16 that "the Jews' real complaint isn't with my film (The Passion) but with the Gospels." Few Christians today know the history of anti-Semitism and the way that the Passion stories were central to rekindling hatred of Jews from generation to generation. Many are embracing Gibson's movie and not understanding why Jews seem to be so threatened. Gibson knows that for many Americans it is simply unimaginable to question the Gospels. Those who wanted to purge hatred of Jews from the collective unconscious of Western societies after the defeat of Nazism in 1945 faced an impossible dilemma. The dominant religious tradition of the West was based on a set of four accounts of Jesus, each of which to some extent is riddled with anger at or even hatred of the Jews ... In the aftermath of WWII, many principled Christians recognized that the Holocaust was possible in part because Hitler was able to draw upon the cultural legacy of hatred toward Jews nurtured by this kind of Christian teaching. The Catholic Church and some Protestant denominations have sought to distance themselves from this long history of demeaning the Jews. But although anti-Semitism became unfashionable, only a few Christians were willing to take responsibility for the devastating impact of the hateful representations of Jews that suffused the Gospels and culminated in its historically doubtful account of the Roman imperialists ... The best hope to avoid a new surge of anti-Semitism will not come only from de-coding the anti-Semitic themes in Mel Gibson's film, or the Gospel on which it was based, but rather by re-crediting the ancient Jewish vision of Jesushat in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths need to shape a political and social movement that reaffirms the most generous, peace-oriented, social justice-committed, and loving truths of the spiritual heritage of the human race. It is only this resurrection of hope that can save us from a new wave of global hatred."

[The usual Jewish Octopus destroying academia: Jewish author, Jewish-owned newspaper, and a Jew to "advise" a faculty committee about complaints by Jewish students of criticism of Israel.]
Abrams Is Tapped For Investigation At Columbia U.,
by Jacob Gershman, New York Sun, December 8, 2004
"Columbia University has tapped a veteran First Amendment lawyer, Floyd Abrams, to advise a special faculty committee that will look into charges against professors accused of intimidating Jewish and Israeli students. Mr. Abrams, 68, told The New York Sun he expects the committee to hold hearings concerning the charges against the professors and that he will "provide any advice I can" to the committee on the process. He said the committee would be composed of arts and science faculty members. The creation of the committee and the selection of Mr. Abrams to advise it mark a critical turning point in Columbia's handling of what has amounted to a public relations crisis. It was only last spring when Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, stated that a committee he formed to examine issues of academic freedom found no evidence of systematic bias in the classrooms. Since that time, concern among Jewish leaders and local politicians over intense anti-Israel sentiment in the classroom and in the school's Middle East studies department has grown considerably with the release of a short documentary film featuring interviews with students recounting incidents of abuse. In one case, a professor is alleged to have told a student to leave the classroom if she kept on denying that Israel committed atrocities. Mr. Abrams, a partner in the New York law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel and a visiting scholar of First Amendment issues at Columbia's journalism school, said the university would make an announcement about his advisory role today. Mr. Abrams is currently involved in an important press freedom legal battle. He is set to argue before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., that Judith Miller of the New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine are not legally required to divulge their sources to a prosecutor investigating the disclosure of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. A graduate of Cornell University and Yale Law School, Mr. Abrams is known for his broad interpretation of the First Amendment and has taken on a number of high-profile freedom of speech cases, notably when he served as co-counsel to the New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case. He is the father of MSNBC anchor Dan Abrams."

[Here's your typical anti-Islamic Jewish "academic" propagandist, Robert Spencer, and examine the titles of his books. Then turn them around. Imagine a Muslim scholar wrote parallel books entitled "Onward Jewish Soldiers: How Jewish Extremism Threatens America and the West," "Judaism Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith," "Inside Judaism: A Guide for Catholics," "The Jewish Disinformation Lobby," etc. Such an author would be lynched by the Jewish Lobby and condemned for maniacal "anti-Semitism." Here again we witness the drastic dual ethical standard throughout the West as Jews have free reign to smear Islam, Christianity, and everything else: one standard for Jews and open season on everybody else. If it's kosher to write stuff like this, then it's time to start publishing the "worried about Jewish extremism" versions.]
ROBERT SPENCER,
by Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch
"Robert Spencer, the director of Jihad Watch, is a writer and researcher who has studied Islam for more than twenty years. He is the author of Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West (Regnery) and Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith (Encounter). He is coauthor, with Daniel Ali, of Inside Islam: A Guide for Catholics (Ascension), and editor of the essay collection The Myth of Islamic Tolerance (forthcoming from Prometheus Books). Spencer (MA, Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is an Adjunct Fellow with the Free Congress Foundation. He has written seven monographs on Islam that are available from the Foundation: An Introduction to the Qur'an; Women and Islam; An Islamic Primer; Islam and the West; The Islamic Disinformation Lobby; Islam vs. Christianity; and Jihad in Context. His articles on Islam and other topics have appeared in the New York Post, the Washington Times, the Dallas Morning News, Canada's National Post, FrontPage Magazine.com, WorldNet Daily, Insight in the News, Human Events, National Review Online, and many other journals. He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism on CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, PBS, and C-Span, as well as on numerous radio programs including Michael Savage's Savage Nation, The G. Gordon Liddy Show, the Michael Medved Show, The Michael Reagan Show, The Larry Elder Show, Vatican Radio, and many others."

[Terrorists, terrorists, terrorists. Whoever Jews don't like is a "terrorist." Whoever fights for human rights is a "terrorist." Whoever rises against an Israeli gun barrel is a "terrorist." Who's always behind such naked censorship in free societies? Alway look for the Jewish name.]
Adding Hizballah's Al-Manar Television Station to Terrorism List 'Important First Step'; New FDD Coalition Advocated Designation, Will Push Additional Steps to Reduce Al-Manar's Reach,
U.S. Newswire, December 17, 2004
"The U.S. State Department's decision to add Hizballah's TV station al-Manar to the Terrorist Exclusion List (TEL) is an important first step toward getting it off the air, but there is much more that needs to be done, said Avi Jorisch senior fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD) and author of Beacon of Hatred, Inside Hizballah's Al-Manar Television. Jorisch is the executive director of the Coalition Against Terrorist Media, a new FDD project bringing together Christian, Muslim, Jewish, and non-denominational organizations to oppose al-Manar's broadcast. Jorisch and the coalition have been actively advocating for action against al-Manar, and have identified additional steps that will reduce al-Manar's ability to reach more than 10 million viewers a day around the world, including the United States, with its message of hate and violence. "There is growing recognition that al-Manar poses an immediate and serious threat to the United States and other democracies," Jorisch said, "Al-Manar incites violence with crude propaganda and was created to - in its own words - wage 'psychological warfare' against its enemies, including the United States" ... The USA Patriot Act of 2001 empowers the Secretary of State - in coordination with the Attorney General - "to designate terrorist entities for immigration purposes" on the TEL. They can be included on the TEL for committing or inciting to commit a terrorist activity, preparing or planning a terrorist activity, gathering targeting information for a terrorist activity, or providing material support to further terrorist activity. The TEL designation will brand al-Manar as a terrorist organization and deny the network's employees and supporters entry into the United States. Jorisch noted that there are other steps that would more severely limit al-Manar's ability to operate. The Treasury Department should add al-Manar to its Sanctions list. Pressure should be put on satellite companies to remove al-Manar from broadcast, including Intelsat, which broadcasts al-Manar in the United States."

Israel's Fifth Column in Washington. The AIPAC spy scandal points to a massive undercover operation,
by Justin Raimondo, antiwar.com, December 17, 2004
"In the 1950s, when the cold war was at its height, a series of spectacular espionage scandals – involving top-level spies for the Soviet Union, our former WWII ally – roiled American politics and defined the political culture for decades to come, giving us such additions to the American political lexicon as "McCarthyism" and "fellow traveler." In the new millennium, a similar drama is being reenacted, with another U.S. ally, Israel, in the role of friend-turned-adversary. The story of how and why Lawrence A. Franklin, who works as an Iran specialist under Pentagon policy director Douglas Feith, betrayed his country, and funneled American secrets to Israel, parallels the tragic saga of pro-Soviet American moles, who played a similar role in the administration of Franklin Roosevelt and into the Truman era. Larry Franklin is an Alger Hiss for our times. Law enforcement clearly believe him to be a key witness to crimes that could lead them to a spy nest in the top echelons of the U.S. government – one that surpasses anything the KGB ever dreamed of. In late August, when CBS News broke the story of an Israeli spy in the Pentagon who was observed by U.S. law enforcement handing over sensitive documents to an Israeli official, Israel's American amen corner passed it off as a minor kerfuffle. Oh, they said, it was nothing, really: just a draft presidential directive on U.S. policy toward Iran, and, besides, didn't the U.S.-Israeli "special relationship" merit this casual exchange of not-so-secret "secrets"? That this attempted hand-off of sensitive documents occurred in the presence of two officials of AIPAC, the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee, was neither here nor there, as far as the Amen-ers were concerned: it was just a little lunch between friends, happens all the time, the whole thing was "a massive exaggeration" that was going to blow over soon enough, so move along, nothing to see here …On December 1, however, the FBI struck again, raiding AIPAC headquarters in Washington, D.C., in an early morning sweep, and staying until 4 p.m., serving subpoenas on four top AIPAC officials and hauling away boxes full of evidence. This really got the Amen Corner riled up, and they darkly muttered that it was all part of a Vast Anti-Semitic Conspiracy in the FBI: the chief investigator was "known" to hold a grudge against persons of the Jewish faith, and the whole thing was a "pogrom" aimed at Jews in government. While next to nothing about the second FBI raid was reported in the American media, except for a few perfunctory articles describing what happened in general terms, the Israeli media was in quite a lather. Maariv reported on "a growing suspicion" that an anti-Jewish conspiracy was operating at full throttle inside the Justice Department, and the Jerusalem Post weighed in with an "exclusive" report on how Franklin had been "set up" by the FBI ... This "trick or treason" defense is interesting on a number of levels, not the least of which is the confirmation that Israeli agents are indeed active in northern Iraq, i.e. Kurdistan, as reported by Seymour Hersh. What are they doing there – and is their presence sanctioned by "Prime Minister" Iyad Allawi, who is now running for office in Iraq's first semi-free election on a nationalist ticket that decries "foreign influence"? He says a victory for the Shi'ite list will open the door to invasion and de facto annexation by Iran, but hasn't Israel already been allowed to slip in by the back door in Kurdistan – with his apparent compliance? ... We already know that the investigation into AIPAC and Israeli espionage against the U.S. had been going on for at least two years prior to the FBI stumbling on Franklin's treachery. This larger investigation seemed to come out of mid-air: no previous reporting had been done on it, except for the "Israeli art students" story, broken by Carl Cameron, pursued by Christopher Ketcham in Salon, and a few others, as well as myself [See my short book, The Terror Enigma: 9/11 and the Israeli Connection], and then dropped into the journalistic ether. The Franklin affair, however, has revived the suspicion that Israel regards us as something other than a "deeply cherished ally," and Sale's reporting underscores the adversarial reality behind the "special relationship." He cites "a former federal law enforcement official" who told him "During the Cold War, Israeli penetration of U.S. operations was second only to the Soviet Union. Few people realize that the Israeli Counterintelligence Desk at the Bureau was second in size only to the CI Soviet desk." And as the Cold War began to wind down, the pace of Israeli covert actions directed at the United States began to escalate: "One current FBI consultant said Rosen's name had first been given to the FBI in 1986, along with 70 possible incidents of Israeli espionage against the United States. No action was taken against him, this source said." The rot had set in, and the moles burrowed deeper: "A former very senior CIA counterintelligence official told UPI that in 1998-99, the CIA discovered an Israeli couple, who were subcontracted to a U.S. phone company, were working for Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. 'They did incredible damage – they got incredibly sensitive data, including key words identifying individuals or projects,' this source said, adding he himself gave the case to the FBI." To understand what this "very senior" spook is talking about, you have to follow this link and watch the Fox News report detailing Israel's hi-tech infiltration of U.S. communications, including wiretapping and top-secret internal security systems. We report, you decide. The Sale piece also buttresses a case I have long made in this space, which is that Israel's secret army in the U.S. had established beachheads in New York and New Jersey: "In 2001, the FBI discovered new, 'massive' Israeli spying operations in the East Coast, including New York and New Jersey, said one former senior U.S. government official. The FBI began intensive surveillance on certain Israeli diplomats and other suspects and was videotaping Naor Gilon, chief of political affairs at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, who was having lunch at a Washington hotel with two lobbyists from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby group. Federal law enforcement officials said they were floored when Franklin came up to their table and sat down." The New Jersey connection recalls the infamous incident involving the "dancing Israelis," arrested on 9/11 when seen leaping and dancing for joy in a park overlooking the Hudson River as the World Trade Center burned. The five detainees were Israeli citizens who worked for a New Jersey moving company, Urban Moving Systems, and were held for months while being repeatedly interrogated as to their knowledge of the events surrounding 9/11. The owner, Dominick Suter, fled to Israel after the feds raided his business, and The Forward speculated that the company was a thinly-disguised Mossad front. From the Israeli "art students," who made such a nuisance of themselves at U.S. government buildings in the months prior to 9/11, to the counter-intelligence operation launched by the U.S. that eventually caught Franklin and the AIPAC crowd red-handed, is a straight-line narrative, one long continuous story of unremitting struggle between the U.S. and Israel – on American soil."

[It is important to realize (and it is not mentioned in this article) that Wolf Blitzer is not only Jewish but a former editor of an AIPAC newsletter (The Near East Report), the pro-Israel lobbying organization currently under investigation by the FBI. The problem we have in the mass media is that the Jewish/Zionist censor often actually sits as the omnipresent Judge/Questioner/Executioner (always framing questions to impugn moral positions about Jews and Israel), and it is impossible for guests to be frank on TV about "Jews" and "Israel" -- the subjects that are so central to the tragedy that is current U.S. foreign policy. Among other things, Brzezinski below was Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter. Snowcroft was a national security advisor under President George Bush, G.W.'s father, both U.S. Presidents.]
Zbig at Large,
American Leftist (blog), December 12, 2004
"Wolf Blitzer hosted a panel discussion with two former national security advisers, Brent Snowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, on Late Edition this morning, and Brzezinski was in rare form. He called the neoconservatives "a bunch of fanatics" -- the look on Blitzer's face was priceless:
BLITZER: Dr. Brzezinski, we know there was a huge intelligence blunder on the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Everybody recognizes that now. But now it's apparent, and Kanan Makiya now believes, and other Iraqis, that Saddam Hussein was plotting this insurgency all along, anticipating a U.S. assault. That would seem to be another intelligence blunder of huge import, and as a result a lot of Americans and others are dying.
ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, FORMER NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: Well, it's not just an intelligence blunder. It's a question of the mindset. There was such fervor to go to war against Iraq. And it was propounded with such intensity and, I'm sorry to say, demagoguery by a bunch of fanatics that it was quite natural for them also to argue that it's going to be very easy, that we'd be welcomed as liberators, that the aftermath would be very simple.I think we're dealing here with a problem which goes beyond intelligence. It's a fundamental misjudgment, and it's a consequence of a decision-making process in which skeptics, questioners, people who disagreed really didn't play much of a role.
BLITZER: Well, you use a tough word, "fanatics." Who do you mean, when you say fanatics, talking about fanatics?
BRZEZINSKI: I'm not going to mention names, but people who, either for religious or strategic reasons, have a very one-sided view of Iraq and of the Middle East and what needs to be done in the area.
BLITZER: When you say "religious reasons" -- I'm pressing you, because these are strong words that you're throwing out, and you're a man of very precise language.
BRZEZINSKI: Well, I think we all know that in American politics, particularly in recent times, there has been an intensified linkage between extreme religious views and politics. And there are a number of people who have very, very intense feelings about the Middle East. And I think that has colored our approach to Iraq and has colored our assessments of what would happen.
BLITZER: Well, maybe I'm missing something. Are you talking about fundamentalist Christians? Are you talking about Jews? Specifically, what are you trying...
BRZEZINSKI: I'm talking about all of them. I'm talking about all of them: people who approach this issue with a very strong religious fervor or a kind of strategic fanaticism, the kind of fanaticism that leads some people currently, for example, to argue that we should attack Iran, that we should bomb Iran.
BLITZER: And is this related to support for Israel is coloring their...
BRZEZINSKI: In some cases, I'm sure it is. In some cases, it isn't. It's a mixture.You know, this is a very diversified country, and there's a variety of viewpoints. But in recent times, and particularly after 9/11, there has been an intensification in intensely views, intensely views. And when that is translated into the decision-making process, in which you really don't vent alternatives very systematically, you are inclined to get into difficulties of the kind that we're now facing in Iraq.
BLITZER: Do you accept that, General Snowcroft?
SNOWCROFT: This is a complex situation, and I would leave it to my colleague to define it.
- Later on Blitzer tried to pull a lame gotcha on Snowcroft, asking him to comment on a quote Snowcroft claims he never meant to be public. Snowcroft was a little bit sheepish, but not Brezezinski:
BLITZER: Let's talk about the situation between the Israelis and the Palestinians.In October, October 14th in The Financial Times, you were quoted as saying this: "Ariel Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger. I think the president is mesmerized. When there is a suicide attack followed up by a reprisal, Sharon calls the president and says, 'I'm on the front line of terrorism,' and the president says, 'Yes, you are.' He, Mr. Sharon, has been nothing but trouble. "Did you say that?
SNOWCROFT: Unfortunately I did. It wasn't supposed to be for publication. ...
BLITZER: But fundamentally, the question is this: Do you think Sharon has the president wrapped around his finger?
SNOWCROFT: That was -- I would never have used that in public, of course not. But what I believe is that Sharon appeals to the president and his attitude on the war on terrorism, and he says "I'm on the front line of that war. The people after me are terrorists." What is the president going to do? No, they're not terrorists? In that sense, the president plays into Sharon's plan.
BLITZER: What do you think?
BRZEZINSKI: Well, I thought you were going to throw some embarrassing quote at me.
BLITZER: No.
BRZEZINSKI: I thought Brent's diagnosis was brilliant. And I think one should say publicly what one says privately. And I agree with him.
BLITZER: You agree that what? Be specific.
BRZEZINSKI: Whatever you cited him as saying, the whole works.
BLITZER: That the president is basically controlled by Ariel Sharon?
BRZEZINSKI: "Controlled" is your word. I don't think he said that.
BLITZER: Well, I'll repeat. It says, "Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger."
BRZEZINSKI: Yes, that's about right.
BLITZER: That's being precise.
BRZEZINSKI: Sharon comes and whispers "Terrorism, terrorism," and the president is now...
BLITZER: But Israelis do face terrorism.
BRZEZINSKI: Of course. But this is not the whole problem. It is not the entire problem, and certainly not the global problem.[AMERICAN LEFTIST comment in online original: "No link because the above is not yet available free online. I thought the exchange was so funny that I sprang for the 3 bucks to buy the transcript from LexisNexis.]"