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David Irving to Plead Guilty
The Telegraph
David Irving, the British revisionist historian, revealed last night
that he
would plead guilty to charges of Holocaust denial when he appeared in a
Vienna
court next week. Mr Irving, 67, who has been held in an Austrian prison
since
last November, said he did not consider himself to be a Holocaust
denier but
had no choice but plead "guilty as charged". "Under the law I've got no
alternative," he told the television channel More4 News. But he added:
"I deny that
I'm a Holocaust denier. This is a filthy smear." The charges date back
to
1989, when the Right-wing author of books such as Hitler's War gave
speeches in
Vienna and Leoben in which he disputed the existence of the gas
chambers in Nazi
concentration camps.
http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/16/wirving16.xml
Irving Trial Tests Europe's Free Speech Claims
BBC News
As Europe proudly flexes its freedom of speech credentials in the
ongoing row
over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, even some of his enemies are
uneasy
that he now faces up to 10 years in an Austrian jail for his
unpalatable
historical views. The British academic will go on trial in Vienna next
week over two
speeches he made in Austria in 1989, in which he disputed the existence
of gas
chambers at Auschwitz. While a number of European countries have laws
against
Holocaust denial, nowhere has the ban been more sacred than in Germany
and
Austria, whose very identities have been forged from the rejection of
what was
perpetrated in the middle of the 20th Century. And yet among Vienna's
chattering classes, there are the first rumblings of debate. At the
heart of the matter
is whether the distortion of such a fundamental period of history is a
greater problem than the suppression of the right to express contrary
interpretations - however unpleasant, and indeed inaccurate, they may
be.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4710508.stm
Profile: David Irving
BBC News
His arrest in November was the latest twist in a highly controversial
career
as an historian. He was once seen as the brightest new star in the
historical
firmament - an extraordinarily competent researcher, a brilliant
linguist and
a first-class writer. But now, Mr Irving finds himself in a cell in
Vienna,
with a possible 20-year prison sentence hanging over his head. Ahead of
the
trial, he told UK news channel More4 News that he would be pleading
guilty, as
"under the law, I've got no alternative". But he insisted: "I deny that
I'm a
Holocaust denier. This is a filthy smear."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4449948.stm
Judge Punishes Four Spectators in Zundel Trial
CBC News
The trial of Holocaust-denier Ernst Zundel, who was deported from
Canada to
face charges in Germany, resumed Wednesday with the judge rejecting
defence
motions seeking his removal for alleged bias. Judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen
rejected
the three motions, filed last week, citing another court's ruling that
found
there was no reason to doubt his neutrality. Meinerzhagen also fined
three
spectators at the trial for singing a verse of the German national
anthem, which
has been banned since the end of the Second World War because of
nationalistic
lyric content. A fourth spectator was ordered jailed for four days for
comparing the judge to a Nazi-era prosecutor.
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/060215/w021522.html
Zundel's Lawyers Split Over Defense Tactics
National Post
Lawyers for a German man charged with denying the Holocaust split over
tactics Thursday as the judge demanded an apology from a defence lawyer
for
disrupting proceedings. Prosecutors accuse Ernst Zundel, 66, of years
of anti-Semitic
activities, including repeated denials of the Holocaust -- a crime in
Germany
-- in documents and on the Internet. Zundel, an apologist for Hitler
who was
deported from Canada last year and has also lived in the U.S. state of
Tennessee, faces up to five years in prison if convicted. Proceedings
have been slowed
by a string of motions, objections and interruptions from defence
lawyer
Sylvia Stolz, prompting presiding judge Ulrich Meinerzhagen to accuse
her of
insulting the court and sabotaging the trial.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=369beac9-4e6f-4c62-bc0d-
63001d3c0bf4&k=65990
Iran Has the US's Number
By Arthur Butz
I have been asked "why people are so reluctant to consider" the
validity of
"Holocaust" revisionism. I shall try to answer that, showing the
relationship
to Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The principal obstacle to the
propagation of
revisionism is, simply, fear. At present, the entrenched legend is
protected
by a system of legal and extra-legal prohibitions ("taboos"). Nobody
could
dispute the truth of that statement in Europe, where laws in most
countries
specifically proscribe the expression of revisionist ideas as criminal
offenses. For
me, the most painful instance of that intellectual terror is the
incarceration of my chemist friend Germar Rudolf, presently being held
in solitary
confinement in a maximum security prison near Stuttgart. His heinous
crime? As a
chemistry graduate student he did a forensic analysis of the walls of
the alleged
gas chambers, didn't find the cyanide residues that ought to have been
there
and concluded they weren't gas chambers. The lack of such forensic
evidence is
well known in the field. For example, in the Wall Street Journal of
July 7,
2004, Timothy Ryback wrote that "there is little forensic evidence
proving
homicidal intent" in the ruins of Auschwitz.
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/14/43f1778c0f7e0
When Reason Gives Way to Hysteria
The Daily Northwestern
President Bienen's tacky and melodramatic press release on Arthur Butz,
the
Northwestern engineering professor and Holocaust revisionist, succeeded
only in
brightening Butz's spotlight. Giving a shout-out to those who would
have Butz
fired and his ideas shut out of the forum, Bienen labeled the offending
views
as "contemptible," "odious," and "reprehensible" and cited the
university's
Holocaust credentials. In the end, of course, Bienen made the perfectly
obvious
point that a professor cannot be fired merely for voicing unpopular or
absurd
opinions. From Bienen's inflated indignation and laughable hyperbole to
the
embarrassing student movement to have Butz fired or at least, his Web
site shut
down, the Butz imbroglio is revealing: We are addicted to outrage.
http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/14/43f178656bf37
Holocaust Remembrance: What's Behind the Campaign?
By Mark Weber
Since the late 1970s "Holocaust Remembrance" has become ever more
important
in the United States and many other countries. The campaign to remember
the
Holocaust -- often defined as the genocidal killing of six million Jews
in Europe
during the Second World War - includes numerous commemorative events,
education courses in many schools, and a stream of motion pictures,
television
specials, books and magazine articles. Across the United States,
prominent political
and civic leaders participate in annual Holocaust commemoration
ceremonies. A
number of countries, including Britain, Germany and Italy, officially
observe
a yearly Holocaust Remembrance Day. In November 2005 the United Nations
General Assembly approved a resolution introduced by Israel to
designate January 27
as an international Holocaust remembrance day.
http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/holocaust_remembrance.shtml
Britain's Global Propaganda Project Copies US Effort
The Guardian
A succession of scandals in the US has revealed widespread government
funding
of PR agencies to produce "fake news". Actors take the place of
journalists
and the "news" is broadcast as if it were genuine. The same practice
has been
adopted in Iraq, where newspapers have been paid to insert copy. These
stories
have raised the usual eyebrows in the UK about the pitiful quality of
US
democracy. Things are better here, we imply. We have a prime minister
who claimed
in 2004 that "the values that drive our actions abroad are the same
values of
progress and justice that drive us at home". Yet in 2002 the government
launched a littleknown television propaganda service that seems to
mimic the US
government's deceptive approach to fake news.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1709950,00.html
US Media at 'All-Time Low'
The Guardian
Arabic-language media have an unprecedented chance to take over as the
world's premier news source because trust in their US counterparts
plummeted
following their "shameful coverage" of the war in Iraq, a conference
heard today. The
US media reached an "all-time low" in failing to reflect public opinion
and
Americans' desire for trusted information, instead acting as a
"cheerleader"
for war, said Amy Goodman, the executive producer and host of US TV and
radio
news show Democracy Now!, at a news forum organised by al-Jazeera.
Newsweek's
Paris bureau chief, Christopher Dickey, said the US media were dying
because of
cutbacks and weren't interested in covering the world outside America.
But
other delegates questioned whether Arabic media were up to the
challenge. "The US
media have done a shameful job of reporting on the Arab world. With the
rise
of al-Jazeera and independent media there is a chance for the Arab
media to
react back, but instead what we get is a clash," said Ethan Zuckerman,
the
co-founder of Global Voices Online and research fellow at the Berkman
Centre for
Internet and Society at Harvard Law School.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1700692,00.html
The Dresden Holocaust
Focal Point Publications
The Dresden Holocaust: Perspective, Background, Commentary.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/History/General/Dresden/index.html
The Gap between US Rhetoric and Reality
Esquire Magazine
The long suppressed story of the worst massacre in the history of the
world.
If the British Commonwealth and the United States last a thousand
years, men
may say that this was their darkest hour. Were all the crimes against
humanity
committed during World War II the work of Hitler's underlings? That was
certainly the impression created by the fact that only Germans were
brought to
trial at Nüremburg. Alas! It is a false impression. We all now know
that in the
terrible struggle waged between the Red Army and the German Wehrmacht,
the
Russians displayed their fair share of insensate inhumanity. What is
less widely
recognized -- because the truth, until only recently, has been
deliberately
suppressed -- is that the Western democracies were responsible for the
most
senseless single act of mass murder committed in the whole course of
World War II.
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/war/dresden1.html
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Holocaust Handbooks, Volume 15:
Item No. 29
Germar Rudolf: Lectures on the Holocaust. Controversial Issues Cross
Examined
In 1976, Holocaust revisionism produced its last "standard work," if
there
ever was such a thing: Prof. A.R. Butz' Hoax of the Twentieth Century.
"How can
a quarter century old text not be obsolete today?" Butz asks in the
preface of
the 2003 edition of his own book, pointing out "the age of this text,
and the
great advances that have subsequently occurred in Holocaust
revisionism."
Hence, there is a great need for a new, integrated work summarizing
Holocaust
revisionism after 30 years of very intensive and thorough research.
And here it is, the new standard work of Holocaust revisionism! It was
written by German scholar, writer, and publisher Germar Rudolf, based
on the
research of the most prominent revisionists, most of which Rudolf had
the pleasure to
publish in a multitude of German and English language journals and
books over
the past 15 years.
The book was written to fit the need of both those who have no in-depth
knowledge of the Holocaust or of revisionism, as well as for
well-versed readers
familiar with revisionism. Anyone who wants to bring himself up to date
on
revisionist scholarship, but does not want to read all the special
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Since 1992, Rudolf has been giving lectures to various mainstream
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they
know exactly what "the Holocaust" is all about, but their world view is
completely turned upside down after the evidence is presented. Even
though Rudolf p
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The book's style is unique as is its topic: It is a dialogue between
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THE PIPELINE TO WAR via Daniel Pipes
by Barry Chamish
Feb 2006
Imagine a dozen cartoons serving the same purpose as Pearl Harbor or Sarajevo, being the final straw that led the planet into world war. Now imagine the cartoons were a staged event, designed purposely to drag us into unimaginable violence. If that is the case, then those who foisted the plot on an unsuspecting world, would be guilty of super-mass-murder.
And what if the latest candidate for the Attila the Hun award goes to Daniel Pipes? That is precisely what is being claimed throughout the world wide web at this moment. Though you will not be happy with the sources and sites, read them seriously, no matter how much you've been trained to believe they must be lying.
The world is upside down. Israel's highest-level "friends and allies" are selling us down the river. And our "enemies" may yet become our allies when they realize that Israelis and Jews have been had.
I personally, am no defender of Islam. I consider it a culture of immense repression. I do, however, believe their sensitivities are being exploited with the goal of creating a world war. In this war, like the last, Jews will be on the front line and will be the biggest losers of all.
I have long proved that the Council On Foreign Relations (CFR) is intent on getting the war started. To do so, fear and resentment against Islam must be spread persuasively. For that purpose, they have chosen a leading member, Daniel Pipes.
Too many Jews have fallen for the enemy of my enemy line and believe by fomenting anti-Arab attacks that Daniel Pipes is their ally. In fact, his work has nothing whatsoever to do with defending Israel and a lot to do with involving her in the first line of a world war.
Pipes is not a "radical" advocate of Israel as his critics believe. He is, in fact, the worst kind of enemy of the Jewish state. It is about time that Israelis and her critics figured out the real game plan.
And Pipes, sadly, has a few allies working with him to incite Arabs into a frenzy through any means of deceit and deception. The pathetic deeds of his little Israeli adjunct are found at the end of this article.
Now you decide if, in this vast world, Pipes' direct ties to the Danish editor who first published the cartoons, are mere coincidence:
http://breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58
Cartoon Madness is an NWO Plot
By Fintan Dunne, Break ForNews.com 7th February, 2006
There is evidence of deliberately inflammatory publication by European
newspapers, and a campaign to inflame Muslims --as well as a deception
operation to downplay the links between the Danish editor who first
published the cartoons and leading Neoconservative Daniel Pipes.
And now here comes Neocon guru Daniel Pipes, weighing into the 'toon madness, to identifying it with the Clash of Civilizations ideaology he professes not to personally espouse. It's now-or-never, "no compromise" language:
Quote:
Stand With Denmark in Cartoon Dispute
by Daniel Pipes Feb 07, 2006
The key issue at stake in the battle over the twelve Danish cartoons of the Muslim prophet Muhammad is this: will the West stand up for its customs and mores, including freedom of speech, or will Muslims impose their way of life on the West? Ultimately, there is no compromise; Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=12215
You get the spin, don't you? Europe stands with the Danes. So come time
to vote on the EU Constitution the Danes must stand with Europe. Slick.
Even as he takes this stand, Pipes is carefully covering his back against
journalists uncovering the link between him and Flemming Rose, the
Danish magazine's cultural editor:
Quote:
(Our Emphasis)
My role in the Danish cartoon affair
Posted by Daniel Pipes on Feb. 6, 2006
There's a conspiracy theory developing about myself and Flemming Rose, the Jyllands-Posten cultural editor who published the famous twelve cartoons of the Muslim prophet. I'll begin with the conspiracy theory (but without providing links or even quotes, as I don't want to send readers to these crackpot websites), and then provide the facts.
The conspiracy theory: Rose came to Philadelphia in October 2004 to see me and we developed a close bond. Then, as a result of this visit, Rose decided to publish the cartoons.
The facts: Rose visited me in my office on October 25, 2004, when he interviewed me for a feature piece on me that he published on October 29 in Jyllands-Posten. The resulting article, "Truslen fra islamismen," can be found on my website, as can a translation of it into English, "The Threat of Islamism." It was a standard interview in which Rose inquired about my views on a variety of questions pertaining to radical Islam. It contains, for example, my signature statement, translated into Danish: "Hvis militant islam er problemet, så må modsætningen, moderat islam, være løsningen." Flemming Rose and I have not written, spoken, or seen each other since that one meeting. I had nothing to do with the decision to commission or publish the cartoons eleven months later and only learned of their existence from press coverage of them. http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/166
That's called getting your denial in first --even before any mainstream
media get hold of this angle. Isn't it sooooo fortunate that someone
has written a "conspiracy theory" article on this very sensitive issue, and
published it on what Pipes ironically calls "crackpot websites."
So, when/if any journalist approaches Pipes on this issue, he can laugh it
off as "old news" and "crackpot conspiracy theory." Which is a vitally
convenient smokescreen --because there is a clear connection and a
commonality of interests between Pipes and the Danish editor.
In the BreakForNews.com Forum, poster CaptainW draws another link
--this time to the Bildebergers:
Quote:
What is not being mentioned in the Media is that the Editor of the Danish Paper has links to both US Neocons & The Bilderbergers...
MERETE ELDRUP, managing director of company that published the cartoons (JP/Politikens Hus) is married to ANDERS ELDRUP, who has attended the last FIVE Bilderberg meetings.
Link http://breakfornews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=53
Coincidentally Pipes has just decided to drag up all his best conspiracy
material in a new "best of" revisiting of the issue on Feb 2nd:
Quote:
Bibliography - Conspiracy Theories
Posted by Daniel Pipes on February 2, 2006
With the conspiracist mindset seemingly on the perpetual rise these years, I thought it useful to gather my various writings on this topic in a single place, to be updated as needed. http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/575
And who had so conveniently provided Pipes with this smokescreen?
We warned you about this guy:
Quote:
Cartoons are a purposeful provocation
American Free Press
Rose traveled to Philadelphia in October 2004 to visit Daniel Pipes, the Neo-Con ideologue who says the only path to Middle East peace will come through a total Israeli military victory. Rose then penned a positive article about Pipes, who compares "militant Islam" with fascism and communism.
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m20341&l=i&size=1&hd=0
http://www.rense.com/general69/moh.htm
The editor of Jyllands Posten who ordered the publication of the cartoons is Flemming Rose, who has extensive connections to Daniel Pipes, another neocon fascist madman who runs Campus Watch, a neo-McCarthyite witch-hunting organization which vilifies American professors who criticize Israel or show sympathy for the Palestinians. President Bush wanted to name Daniel Pipes to the board of the US Institute of Peace, a government-funded arm of the State Department which organizes conferences and publishes books. When the raving extremist Pipes turned out to be too widely discredited to obtain Senate confirmation for this post, Bush forced his nomination through with a summer 2003 recess appointment to a temporary term at USIP without Senate approval. Daniel Pipes is the nepotist son of Richard Pipes, a Sovietologist who was a leading figure in George H.W. Bush's 1976 Team B, the incubator of today's neocon clique. At the time of his recess appointment, Daniel Pipes was accused by the very moderate Arab-American Institute of "hatred and bigotry" in the context of his "bizarre obsession with all things Arab and Muslim." (http://www.aaiusa.org/pr/release08-14-03.htm) This is the sick, racist point of view embraced by Jyllands Posten.
Flemming Rose provided details of his conversation with Daniel Pipes in a later article. They talked about the need to mobilize Europe for the war of civilizations against the Moslem world. Rose wrote: "Pipes is surprised that there isn't greater alarm in Europe over the challenge that Islam represents thanks to falling rates of fertility and a weakened sense for its own history and culture." (Flemming Rose, "The Threat from Islamism, Jyllands-Posten, October 29, 2004)
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How long have I warned that when the war comes to Israel's "settlers," it will be vicious, cruel and fought largely by anti-semitic troops imported into the country for the purpose of inflicting the kind of violence any moral Jew would find too appalling to enact?
Here is today's report about Amona last Wednesday:
One girl was picked up by a policeman and held up high against a wall, while the other policeman shoved his club up her vagina.
"How do I know it is true?" the young man telling the story echoed his mother's question. [I told her that I needed to know how the stories she told me yesterday were true, what the sources were.]
"Because my friend just came from her house. The girl is hysterical. She has locked herself in her bedroom. She won't come out, she's screaming and wailing, her family is hysterical, their friends can't find a way to comfort them, can't get her to come out or to talk to anybody. She's screaming and won't come out.
Another girl was grabbed by two riot policemen who were shoving her into a paddywagon. One held her flat on her back at the edge of the paddywagon and held her legs spread open, and the other policeman rammed his club up her vagina so hard and so far that the whole club was inside of her, up to his fist.
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2 boys lost an eye --
1 is being flown to huz'laretz to try to save his eye. I'm not sure if he is one of the 2, or a 3rd boy.
4 girls have no womb anymore
40 serious head injuries
20 boys whose testicles were crushed so badly that they don't know if they can save them.
3 of those 20 for sure are permanently ruined, they will never be able to father children.
Following are two reports confirming the use of foreign troops. The first is from former Prisoner of Zion, Ida Nudel.
Barry, shalom!
Yesterday, Russian language's TV by name RTVi in its Saturday's evening program
At 21.00. show an interview with a young man by name Eliahu Levin.
Mr. Levin was standing on a roof of one of houses in Amona. When people of the army and police came up to clean the roof and began pushing and attacking those who stayed there, among them Levin noted one looking as Russian. Levin told him in Russian language:"Brother, we should be on the same side",
The man in Israeli uniform answered in a proper Russian: "I am not your brother, jidovsky morda (in slang - face)
Nobody had an identification tags on the uniform.
The station RTVi has internet site
HYPERLINK "http://www.RTVi" | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:30 pm Post subject: The Caricatures in Middle East Politics |
| The Caricatures in Middle East Politics
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
February 19, 2006
The center piece of the current explosive confrontation between Islamic and Arab protestors, political leaders and governments and the US and Western European regimes and publishers is rooted in Israeli efforts to polarize the world in its favor and to promote isolation, economic sanctions and/or a military attack on Iran. There are several key questions, which almost all commentators and analysts have failed to address. These include: Why did the “cartoons” get published in Denmark?
What is the political background of “Flemming Rose” the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, who solicited, selected and published the cartoons?
What larger issues coincide with the timing of the cartoons publication and reproduction?
Who “benefits” from the publication of the cartoons and the ensuing confrontation between the Arabs/Islam and the West?
What is the contemporary political context of the Arab/Islam protests?
How is the Israeli secret service, Mossad, implicated in provoking the Western-Islamic/Arab conflict, and how do the consequences measure up to their expectations?
A starting point for analyzing the cartoon controversy, which has been a focus for attacking Muslims and Muslim countries as intolerant of Western ‘freedom of expression’ is the long-standing role of Denmark as a major operation point for Mossad activity in Europe. Re-phrased: How could a tiny Scandinavian country of 5.4 citizens and residents (200,000 or less than 3% of whom are Muslim), renowned for fairy tales, ham and cheese, have become a target for the fury of millions of practicing Muslims from Afghanistan to Palestine, from Indonesia to Libya and into the streets of cities all over the world with significant Muslim populations? Why, after the bombing of Baghdad, the tortures of Abu Ghariab, the massacres in Fallujah and the utter destitution of the entire Iraqi and Afghan people…would Moslems turn their anger at symbols of Denmark from its tinned cookies to its Embassies and overseas business offices?
The story, presented with straight faces, by television news-people, is of, Mr. ‘Flemming Rose’, a crusading cultural editor of a widely read Danish daily newspaper who wanted to counter the growing ‘political correctness’ of Europeans about criticizing Moslems and which he compared to the ‘self-censorship’ he had witnessed in his native Soviet Union. The oddly named Ukrainian-born editor of the culture page of the Jyllands-Posten commissioned Danish cartoonists to submit a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed as they (the Danish cartoonists) might imagine him. However four of the twelve cartoons selected for publication were illustrated by ‘Rose's’ own staff including the most controversial ‘bomb in the turban’ one. Braving Denmark's anti-blasphemy laws Mr. Rose published the cartoons on September 30, 2005 and the rest is history…
A huge world wide attack on the West's “sacred right to free expression” erupted in the Moslem world with millions of shocked Europeans and North Americans rushing to defend their cherished freedoms in this ‘clash of civilizations’. Syria and Iran were prominently blamed for the stirring up of furious believers in the streets of Damascus and Teheran, Beirut and in the slums of Gaza. According to US Secretary Rice, "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it." The Pakistani and Libyan authorities allied to the US fired on demonstrators killing and wounding scores while numerous religious leaders were arrested. The Western governments urged their Arab and Moslem allies to prevent more attacks on Danish products and property and blamed those unable to quell the fury with complicity and instigation. All of this was over a series of cartoons, or so we are told.
The cultural editor, ‘Flemming Rose’, who soon tired of being surrounded by a team of Danish police and security to protect him from assassination and missing his daily jogs through his tranquil Copenhagen neighborhood, chose to seek safe haven in Miami, Florida (rather than his native Ukraine) among the Cuban exiles, Israeli sayanim*(see footnote) and Mah Jong-playing retirees as the drama plays on.
Denmark Center of Mossad Activity
Why Denmark? Could this crudely manufactured controversy have been generated on the pages of any major London or New York paper? Who would wish to put Denmark at the center of this ‘clash of civilization’ – appearing as a script from some grade B Islamophobic thriller?
An interesting chapter in former Israeli Mossad agent, Victor J. Ostrovsky's book, By Way of Deception (1990 St. Martin's Press), outlines the close relationship between the workings of the Danish intelligence services and the Israeli Mossad over decades:
“The relationship between the Mossad and Danish intelligence is so intimate as to be indecent. But it is not the Mossad's virtue that is compromised by the arrangement; it's Denmark's. And that's because the Danish are under the mistaken impression that because they saved a lot of Jews in World War II, the Israelis are grateful and they can trust the Mossad.”
The Mossad has the capacity to monitor the entire population of Arabs and especially Palestinians (presumably including those with Danish citizenship) through their special relations with the Danes:
“…a Mossad man monitors “all Arabic and Palestinian-related messages(among Denmarks Arab community) coming into their (the Danish Civil Security Service)headquarters…an extraordinary arrangement for a foreign intelligence service.”
The Danish Intelligence officers’ high regard for their Israeli Mossad office mates is apparently not, according to Ostrovsky, reciprocated:
“The Mossad have such contempt for their Danish counterparts that they refer to them as ‘fertsalach’, the Hebrew term for a small burst of gas, a fart…they tell the Mossad everything they do.” Pp. 231-232
In return for their servility, the Danes get valuable ‘training’ from the Israelis:
Once every three years, Danish intelligence officials go to Israel for a seminar conducted by the Mossad”… which generates useful contacts for the Mossad “while perpetuating the notion that no organization deals with terrorism better than they (Mossad) do.”
In the wake of the US debacle in Iraq and the world's resistance to a massive ‘preemptive military attack’ or economic and diplomatic embargo of Iran, which could send oil prices to over $100 a barrel, Israel needed to turn the war of ideas on its head. It would make sense that a campaign, aimed to further whip up justifications to attack countries like Iran and Syria (Israel's current enemy du jour), would emanate from one of the US strongest European ally in the invasion and destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan and whose national intelligence apparatus (so fondly known as ‘fertsalach’) would be eager to serve Israel's interest.
Flemming ( or Flaming) Rose: Journalist with a cause
Given Mossad's long-standing penetration of the Danish intelligence agencies, and their close working relations with the right wing media, it is not surprising that
a Ukranian Jew, operating under the name of “Flemming Rose” with close working relations with the Israeli state (and in particular the far right Likud regime) should be the center of the controversy over the cartoons. “Rose's” ties to the Israeli state antedate his well-know promotional “interview” with Daniel Pipes (2004), the notorious Arab-hating Zionist ideologue. Prior to being placed as a cultural editor of a leading right-wing Danish daily, from 1990 to 1995 “Rose” was a Moscow-based reporter who translated into Danish a self-serving auto-biography by Boris Yeltsin, godchild of the pro-Israeli, post-communist Russian oligarchs, most of whom held dual citizenship and collaborated with the Mossad in laundering illicit billions. Between 1996-1999 “Rose”, the journalist, worked the Washington circuit (traveling with Clinton to China) before returning to Moscow 1999-2004 as a reporter for Jyllands-Posten. In 2005 he became its cultural editor, despite few or any knowledge of the field and over the head of other Danish journalists on the staff. In his new position “Rose” found a powerful platform to incite and play on the growing hostility of conservative Danes to immigrants from the Middle East, particularly practicing Moslems. Using the format of an ‘interview’ he published Pipes’ virulent anti-Islamic diatribe, probably to “test the waters” before proceeding to the next stage in the Mossad strategy to polarize a West-East confrontation.
Political Context for Action
There is a great body of evidence demonstrating that Iraq war was largely a result of a massive disinformation campaign by civilian militarists in the Pentagon and US Zionists in and out of high places in the Pentagon and civil society, in coordination with the Israeli state, which wanted Iraq to be destroyed as a viable nation. There is no evidence that the major US oil corporations pressured Congress or promoted the war in Iraq or the current confrontation with Iran. There is plenty of evidence that they are very uneasy about the losses that may result from an Israeli attack on Iran.
The Zionist succeeded in their goals in Iraq: establishing a beachhead in the northern Kurdish enclave (‘Kurdistan’), and securing assets in the new “Iraqi” regime via Chalabi and others.
The major Jewish organizations mobilized to oppose any critics of the Zionist policymakers, predictably accusing them of ‘anti-Semitism’. Nevertheless, over time, FBI investigations, CIA reports and judicial indictments have pointed to key Israeli operatives and their domestic collaborators as Israeli spies. While Israel benefited from the Bush-Blair invasion in Iraq, the same cannot be said for the United States. As thousands of casualties mounted, and war spending skyrocketed to hundreds of billions of dollars, opposition to the war escalated.
Israeli strategic plans to extend US military operations to Iran and Syria faced major challenges, from within the US military and public and even sections of the mass media. Mossad assets in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and elsewhere had to settle for puff pieces on Iran's non-existent nuclear weapon threat, right after the same plot with regard to Iraq was exposed as a total fabrication. Another line of propaganda was needed to silence war critics and heighten animosities to the Islamists/Arabs in general and Iran in particular. This is where the “Flemming Rose”-Mossad operation came into the picture. The Islamic-hate cartoons were published in Denmark in September 2005 as Israeli and US Zionists escalated their war propaganda against Iran. The initial response from the Islamic countries however was limited. The story wasn't picked up in the International Herald Journal until late December 2005. By early January 2006, Mossad “Katsas” (Hebrew for case officers) activated sayanim (volunteer Jewish collaborators outside of Israel) throughout Western and Eastern European media to simultaneously reproduce the cartoons on Feb. 1 and 2, 1006. One such sayanim operation would have been the decision by France-Soir Senior Editor, Arnaud Levy and Editor in Chief Serge Faubert, to publish the cartoons. The paper's French Egyptian owner almost immediately fired the paper's Managing Editor, Jacques Lefranc, who, according to an interview with CNN, had initially opposed their publications, without touching Levy and Faubert.
A strident campaign was launched in practically all the pro-Western mass media condemning the initial, relatively moderate Islamic protests, which had occurred between September to December 2005 and rapidly provoked the subsequent massive escalation, doubtlessly aided by covert Mossad operatives among Arab populations. Mossad's ‘little farts’, the Danish intelligence fanned the fires by advising Denmark's rightwing Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen not to give way by refusing to apologize as the pro-Western Arab regimes requested and even refusing a request for a meeting with a group of Denmark-based diplomats from Arab and Moslem countries to discuss the ‘situation’.
“Flemming Rose”-Mossad tried one more gambit – to further heighten East-West tension. He publicly offered to publish any Iranian cartoons which would mock the Holocaust in ‘his’ paper’. The senior editor of Jyllands-Posten, apparently belatedly caught on to “Flemming Rose” hidden agenda and vetoed the ‘offer’ and asked Rose to take a leave of absence. Rose left for Miami, not Tel Aviv – where his residency might raise suspicions about his claim to be merely an opponent of “self-censorship”. In Miami, he no doubt will have the protection of the locally based sayanin, armed and train for “self-defense” of threatened Zionists.
Sayanim – Defenders of Western Civilization
The sayanim, derived, according to Victor Ostrovsky, from the Hebrew word ‘to help’ are a huge world-wide network of Jews in strategic or useful places (real estate, mass media, finance, car dealerships etc…) who have been agreed to help in Israeli Mossad actitivies within their own countries. This has been ascribed to the supra-national loyalty sayanim offer to Israel, above and not always in the interest of their home country. According to Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon, in their detailed biography, Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy (Carroll and Graf Publishers, 2002), the notorious media mogul, Robert Maxwell, was a super-sayanim, providing cover, offices, political connections, money-laundering services and planted stories in the service of Israel at the Mossad's beheast. Jonathan Pollard, the American Naval Researcher jailed for espionage, is another notorious sayanim. The activities of these ‘helpers’ really range from the spectacular to the more mundane and, according to Victor Ostrovsky, in his 1990 biography By Way of Deception, the sayanim represent a pool of thousands of active and inactive individuals who can provide services discretely out of loyalty to ‘the cause of Israel’ as defined by any current Mossad operation. The cynicism of this arrangement is clear: It makes little difference to the Mossad if an operation, such as ‘Flemming Rose’, jeopardizes the national and economic interests of the sayanim's own country and , if exposed, might harm the status of Jews in the diaspora. The standard response from the Mossad would be: “So what's the worst that could happen to those Jews? They's all come to Israel? Great.” This recklessness clearly has ramifications for Jews who have refused to be recruited as Mossad helpers in affected countries.
Mossad War Propaganda and the “Cartoon Controversy”
Israeli leaders expressed their opposition to the Bush Administration's diplomatic efforts to engage the European powers in the Iran negotiations. Automatically and without question all the major Zionist and Jewish organizations in the US (AIPAC, Presidents of the Major Jewish Organizations, ADL and others) unleashed a sustained national campaign to mobilize congress and their “friends” in the executive branch to take immediate military action or to impose economic sanctions on Iran. The Bush Administration however while in agreement, lacked public support in the US and among his European allies and their national electorates. The Mossad policy was to create a pretext to polarize public opinion between the Middle East (and beyond) and the West in order to escalate tensions and demonize Islamic adversaries to its Middle East hegemonis pretensions. “Rose” cartoons served the Mossad perfectly. The issue could be presented as a free speech issue, a conflict of “values” not “interests”, between the “democratic West” and the fundamentalist “totalitarian” (as characterized by Pipes-Rose) Islamists. Nothing could be further from the truth. Rose had solicited and selected the Islamic caricatures while his paper had rejected similar cartoons of Jesus Christ in an earlier context. The image of Rose as a “cultural iconoclast” - while working for a right wing daily whose daily fare was publishing anti-(Mid-East)immigrant “news stories” and favorable interviews with Zionists extremists - is prima facie not credible, although that image has been purveyed by all the major media outlets. While “Rose” initiated the international tensions, liberal and neo-con colleagues and his comrades in and out of the Mossad publicized his transgressions and provoked the ire of the Arab and Islamic world.
The cartoons, the subsequent insults and calumnies attacking the Islamic protestors and their secular allies throughout Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe eventually provoked major peaceful and then violent protests by millions of people. Visual images of violent protests and demonstrations were featured by the Western mass media, successfully creating the intended fear and apprehension against Muslim countries and minorities in Europe. Islamophobia gained momentum. Zionist propagandists in Europe and the US linked the defense of “free speech” issue to Israeli “security” policies. While the West turned its fury against the Islamic protestors, Israel blockaded Gaza and the US and Europe cut off all funding to the Palestinians, threatening the population with mass starvation for exercising its democratic right to elect its own leaders! “Rose's” free speech charade revived the discredited ZionCon doctrine of “Clash of Civilizations”. Playing on European Islamophobia and the increasing sensibility of practicing Moslems and Arab nationalists to Western abuses, it is likely that Israeli psych-war experts pinpointed the “free speech” issue as the ideal detonator for the conflict.
The democratic electoral victory of Hamas – dubbed by Israel as a terrorist movement – accelerated Israeli efforts to convince Western governments to insist that regimes in Muslim countries repress the ‘irrational Islamic masses’ or face Western censure or elimination of aid. (The failure to crack down violently on demonstrators was presented by the media as official approval or instigation) The major US Zionist organizations were able to influence Secretary of State Rice into blaming Iran and Syria for fomenting the worldwide demonstrations, from Gaza to the Philippines. The Israeli strategy was to use European outrage to weaken opposition to a military attack or economic sanctions on Iran and Syria.
Beyond Religious Blasphemy
While most establishment analysts have narrowly focused on the cartoon as the source and target of the massive global demonstrations, in fact it is at best the immediate detonator of a whole series of ongoing events of much greater political significance. From the “shock and awe” carpet bombing of Iraq, to the mass torture and routine everyday humiliation in occupied countries, from the utter destruction of Fallujah (an American example as Guernica was for the Nazis), to Israeli devastation of Jenin and Palestine, from the everyday assassinations of Palestinians by the Israeli occupiers, to the smearing of the Koran with filth at Guantanamo, Israel, the US and Europe have attempted to demonstrate that no Moslems are safe anywhere- not in their schools, home, offices, fields, factories or mosques- and that nothing is sacred.
The reasons that millions are demonstrating against a caricature of Mohammed published in an insignificant Scandinavian rightwing newspaper is that this is the last straw – the detonator – of a series of deliberate violations of fundamental social and political rights of Muslim, Arab and colonized peoples. While the Western media have focused exclusively on the religious content of the demonstrators, almost every country, where massive sustained demonstrations have taken place, has been subject to recent Western intervention, large-scale pillage of raw materials and/or experienced the destruction of their secular rights: countries invaded, homes, schools, hospital, systems of health and clean water demolished, agriculture and natural resources looted, museums, libraries and archeological sites pillaged and mosques desecrated. The present condition for material existence has been a Western inferno for all the people (both secular and observant) living in Arab or Islamic countries. Now their most profound, historic, spiritual reference point, the prophet Mohammed – the most cherished religious figure – has been repeatedly trampled with impunity by arrogant imperialists, their media servants, aided and abetted by the Israeli state and its overseas ‘sayanin’ operatives. It is cynical to suggest that practicing Moslems could desecrate the figure of Jesus Christ with impunity when that too is forbidden by the Koran.
As the Israeli strategists well knew in advance, the vilification of Islam was not taking place in a political vacuum: The material conditions for an Islamic-Arab uprising were ripe: Hamas had swept the Palestinian elections, the US military were aware that they were losing the war in Iraq, Iran was refusing to capitulate, Bush was losing public support for ongoing and future Middle Eastern wars, AIPAC, Israel's main political instrument for influencing US policy was under criminal investigation…Israel's strategy of having the US fight its wars was boomeranging. There was a need to revive the political-military tensions which they had exploited after September 11, 2001 to Israel's advantage: hence the “Flemming Rose” provocation, hence the coordinated, wide promotion of the act, hence the free speech agitation among Western ‘sayanin’, liberals, conservatives and neocon ideologues, hence the predictable explosion of protest, hence the ‘recreation’ of Mid-East tension…and the advances of Israel's agenda.
Clearly the burgeoning confrontation is more than a religious or free speech issue, more than the crude provocations of an errant cultural editor coddled by the ‘little farts’ of a penetrated Danish intelligence agency. What is at stake is the deliberate racist stereotyping of Arab, Islamic and Third World people in order to sustain and deepen their oppression, exploitation and subordination.
The most pervasive, prolific and influential source of racist Arab stereotypes are Israel and its overseas (particularly US and European) academics, terror ‘experts’, psychologists at the most prestigious universities and think tanks, who have provided the “psychological profile” to torture, humiliate, provoke and repress the millions struggling for self-determination against colonial and imperial dominance.
Once again Israel and especially its overseas operatives have placed the expansion and militarist interests of Israel above the interests of the people of the US and Europe. “Is it good for the Jews?”: A criterion as defined by the Israeli state, has led to the blind alley of massive confrontations, deepening animosity between Arabic/Muslim peoples and Western regimes. What appeared so clever to the ‘Roses’ of the world and their Katsas and docile Sayanim, in provoking confrontation may once again boomerang: The uprisings may go beyond protesting symbols of vilification to attacking the substance of power, including the Arab and Moslem pro-consuls and collaborators of the Euro-American political and economic power. While the Mossad is very astute in infiltrating and provoking oppressed groups, it has been singularly inept in controlling and containing the resultant uprisings as the recent victory of Hamas demonstrates and the success of the Iraqi resistance illustrates. The next controversial cartoon may show Moses leading his people into the desert.
Epilogue
While the Mossad-provoked ‘free speech versus blasphemy’ controversy between the West and the Islamic peoples continues to deepen, Israel proceeds to impose a Nazi-like economic siege over 4 million Palestinians, intended to starve them into surrendering their democratic freedoms. Intended is the concise term, Gideon Levy, star reporter for the Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz (19/02/06) records Dov Weissglas, advisor to the Israeli Prime Minister, jokingly telling top officials “Its (the economic blockage – which may include electricity and water, as well as food) like an appointment with a dietician. The Palestinians will get a lot thinner but won't die.” The Israeli officials “rolled with laughter”. As Levy points out “more than half of all Palestinians are already living in poverty…last year 37 had difficulties obtaining food… 54% of the residents of Gaza cut back the amount of food they consume…child mortality rose by 15%…unemployment reached 28%.” Planned pre-meditated mass starvation of a ghettoized population, jokingly discarded by its executioners as a ‘visit to the dietician’, is an exact replica of the internal policy discussion of the Nazi high command over the population in the Warsaw Ghetto. Israel's capacity to impose and implement a genocidal policy has been greatly facilitated by the symbolic sideshow, which the Mossad-‘Rose’ orchestrated in Western Europe. “Cultural” conflict at the service of genocide – is hardly a clever ruse or merely a violation of Islamic sensibilities, it is a crime against humanity. | | | | Alpha | | | | Alpha | | Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: Bollyn Responds: Daniel Pipes is a Bad Joke |
| Forwarded (from Christopher Bollyn):
Subject: Bollyn Responds: Daniel Pipes is a Bad Joke
Salaam Alikum and greetings of peace:
Who is Daniel Pipes?
Daniel Pipes is a bad joke and an agent provocateur working his anti-Muslim propaganda on the international community.
The problem is only that rabid Zionists like Daniel Pipes and Benjamin Netanyahu are not at all funny while the hundreds of thousands of American and European lives being wasted in Iraq and Afghanistan is a very high price to pay for such nonsense - not to speak of the millions of destroyed Iraqi, Afghani, and Palestinian lives.
CB
Daniel Pipes is a Joke *PIC*
Posted By: ChristopherBollyn <Send E-Mail>
Date: Saturday, 25 February 2006, 6:47 p.m.
In Response To: PIPES SLANDERS BOLLYN AS "ANTI-SEMITIC" *PIC* (ChristopherBollyn)
The website of Daniel Pipes allows some readers (or Daniel Pipes under different pen names) to post comments. The comments under "Those Danish Cartoons and Me" give a good idea of the bias found on the Pipes' website.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3405
Here is one comment supposedly posted by a "Derrick Conley," if you believe that a real Canadian could spell so badly:
"Christopher Bollyn is clearly an anti semetic opportunist to the currrent strife but the fact that we are wasting time refuting his article is desturbing. I do however have faith in the intellegence of all of us. Hate,however, has it's own agenda"
Hello? A guy who uses words like refuting and agenda in refined political discussions about complex Zionist provocations cannot even spell disturbing, intelligence, or anti-Semitic?
Give it up, Daniel. You are not at all cunvincing.
Are we supozed to beleeve this crap you churn out?
See: http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/37967
Daniel Pipes (and his fake propaganda website) is a complete joke. The problem is that rabid Zionists like him are very dangerous and not at all funny.
Cartoon of Daniel Pipes from London Times.
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March 9, 2006
Neocon Advocates Civil War in Iraq as "Strategic" Policy
Daniel Pipes Finds Comfort in Muslims Killing Muslims
By JOHN WALSH
One of the abiding myths about the War on Iraq is that the neocons were too stupid to realize that they would confront an unrelenting, indigenous resistance to their occupation of Iraq. Unwittingly, the story line goes, they led the U.S. into a conflict which has now produced a civil war. But this simply does not fit the facts. The neocons clearly anticipated such an outcome before they launched their war as Stephen Zunes documents in Antiwar.com:
"Top analysts in the CIA and State Department, as well as large numbers of Middle East experts, warned that a U.S. invasion of Iraq could result in a violent ethnic and sectarian conflict. Even some of the war's intellectual architects acknowledged as much: In a 1997 paper, prior to becoming major figures in the Bush foreign policy team, David Wurmser, Richard Perle, and Douglas Feith predicted that a post-Saddam Iraq would likely be "ripped apart" by sectarianism and other cleavages but called on the United States to "expedite" such a collapse anyway."
Yet the line persists that the neocons had no idea what they were getting into. This cannot be correct as they think a lot about what they do and they plan carefully. Not only is that charge absurd on the face of it, but it is arrogant on the part of those who level it. And it is the worst political mistake possible underestimating your adversary.
Now the neocons are beginning to advocate for civil war in Iraq quite openly. The clearest statement of this strategy as yet comes from pre-eminent neocon and ardent Zionist Daniel Pipes. In a recent piece in the Jerusalem Post, Pipes spills the beans. He writes:
"The bombing on February 22 of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, Iraq, was a tragedy, but it was not an American or a coalition tragedy. Iraq's plight is neither a coalition responsibility nor a particular danger to the West. Fixing Iraq is neither the coalition's responsibility, nor its burden. When Sunni terrorists target Shi'ites and vice versa, non-Muslims are less likely to be hurt. Civil war in Iraq, in short, would be a humanitarian tragedy, but not a strategic one."
As ever Pipes's anti-Arab racism is simply too rabid to be hidden. If Muslims are busy killing other Muslims, then "non-Muslims" are less likely to be hurt!! What does that say about Muslim lives? And of course both Sunnis and Shia must be labeled "terrorists." Pipes is doing nothing more endorsing than the oldest of colonial strategies: Divide et impera.
Pipes envisions other "benefits" to the civil war "strategy," such as inhibiting the spread of democracy in the Middle East. Pipes again:
"Civil war will "terminate the dream of Iraq serving as a model for other Middle Eastern countries, thus delaying the push toward elections. This would have the effect of keeping Islamists from being legitimated by the popular vote, as Hamas was just a month ago."
And finally Pipes declares that a civil war "would likely invite Syrian and Iranian participation hastening the possibility of confrontation with these two states, with which tensions are already high." It is no secret that the neocons have been aching for the U.S. to strike at Iran and Syria, so here too the civil war strategy of the neocons makes good sense to them. Of course the added death and destruction is not their problem since the victims will be Muslims and some unwitting American soldiers.
There seems to be only one fly in this neocon ointment. That is, will it be possible to control the flow of oil in the midst of turmoil in Iraq. Here I suspect the neocons who put Israel first might have their differences with the oil barons, presently their allies. But the neocons have certainly given a lot of thought to that, and it probably explains why the location of the large and permanent U.S. bases in Iraq is not known. It would seem, however, that there are great uncertainties in this and it may cause some trouble among the neocons and their allies over the longer term.
The only real question is whether the civil war emerged spontaneously as Wurmser, Perle and Feith predicted or whether the Iraqis had to be goaded into it by the U.S. Given all the intrigues and mysteries in Iraq, including the bombing of the Askariya shrine in Samarra and the shadowy death squads and torture chambers which the U.S. claims to know nothing about, the latter seems more likely as of now. It certainly fits the civil war strategy, and it is quite reminiscent of the Iran-Iraq war in which the U.S. and Israel fanned the flames that consumed over 1 million Muslim lives
The fact is that the neocons who control U.S. strategy have no interest in preventing a civil war but only in inciting one. Sectarian tensions were virtually unknown in Iraq before the U.S. invasion. And in fact the Iraqi Shia fought loyally as Iraqis against Iranian Shia in the disastrous Iran-Iraq war. So to avoid an Iraqi civil war, the most important step is to get all the U.S. troops home and thus to terminate U.S. provocations. For it is now crystal clear that the neocon strategy is one of civil war to divide and destroy Iraq; and such a strategy amounts to a crime against humanity.
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