The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes was a 1938 spy murder mystery movie directed by
Alfred
Hitchcock. The Lady we are writing about however,is U.S. Secretary of
State,
Condoleezza Rice,according to her official biography at
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/41252.htm
was born on November 14th,1954. She too seems to have vanished.
How close was Secretary of State Rice to her predecessor Secretary of
State
Powell?
As of this writing we do not know whether the winds of change gathering
at the
White House and in Vice President Cheney's office will soon sweep the
cobwebs
out of the US State Department.
Whether Secretary Rice will also be swept away by those winds of change
and
resign in the coming days or weeks remains to be seen.
Vice President Cheney must be enraged over the fact that it was Colin
Powell's
long time friend and deputy Richard Armitage who was the original
source of the
Valerie Plame leak to Robert Novak.
President Bush must be furious at Armitage.
Was Armitage acting on his own or on Colin Powell's orders?
Will Powell and Armitage be called to testify under oath regarding that
key
question?
This all comes on the heels of Secretary Rice's colossal blunder at the
UN in
supporting the notorious "cease fire resolution", rather
than vetoing it as she should have. Secretary Rice appears to have been
outwitted by the French, et.al. It is increasingly apparent that there
will be
no "second resolution" at the U.N. to assure that the situation in
Lebanon "does
not return to the status quo ante".
The deteriorating situation in Lebanon as chunk after chunk of the
so-called
Star Trek resolution, 1701 (which was the number of the mythical Star
Ship
Enterprise on Star Trek) appears not to have "boldy gone where no one
has gone
before", in fact it is becoming clear to everyone that UN Resolution
1701, the
infamous "cease fire resolution" will never be fully implemented.
There will never be adequate border patrols to assure that Syria is not
used as
a conduit for Persian (a.k.a. "Iranian") arms, or for arms from Syria,
for that
matter, many of which may include weapons of mass destruction
transferred to
Syria before the liberation of Iraq. Nor will Hezbollah ever be
disarmed, much
less dismantled.
All of this guarantees of course that Hezbollah will once again be
attacking
Israel,and probably with weapons of mass destruction mounted on even
longer
range Persian (a.k.a. "Iranian") missiles.
That the Israeli response to such attacks would be massive and nuclear
should be
doubted by no one.
Secretary Rice's blunder at the U.N. may have set the stage for a
nuclear
apocalypse.
An alternate theory is that France is pursuing a more mature game of
chess. That
theory has it that France has all along sought to be tossed into the
so-called
"Briar Patch" of Lebanon and Syria.
Brer Rabbit, we recall kept on yelling: "Please don't throw me in that
Briar
Patch", when it was the Briar Patch that Brer Rabbit really wanted to
be thrown
into all along.
By playing hard to get and allowing the situation in Lebanon to
deteriorate
further, France, which first floated the "French will lead the
international
force in Lebanon" story in the first place and then did a vanishing act
of its
own may well be seeking to be placed at the head of such an
internatonal force.
What is France's real agenda? If there is a hidden agenda on the part
of France
it ought not to be terribly hard to decipher.
France has millions of unruly Moslems who have burned thousands of cars
in
France in riot after riot. Many of those Moslems have also engaged in
anti-Semitic attacks in France against the 600,000 member French Jewish
community.
Many of those Moslems are from North Africa, but rather than return to
the
wastelands of North Africa France may be seeking a more fertile field
to play
in. Lebanon and Syria are former French colonies. Lebanon contains a
sizeable
Christian minority. It should be recalled that when Syria first entered
Lebanon
it claimed falsely that it was there "to protect the Christians".
Nothing could
have been further from the truth however as Syria ended up shelling
hundreds of
thousands of Lebanese Christians without a peep of complaint from the
U=2EN. Syria
has falsely claimed to have withdrawn from Lebanon in the aftermath of
what is
widely believed to have been the Syrian assassination of Lebanese Prime
Minister
Rafik Hariri. What is not so widely discussed however is the million of
so
so-called "civilians" that Syria has inserted into Lebanon, a nation
whose
population without that Syrian influx is under 4 million.
Those Syrian fifth columnists constitute a threat to Lebanese
independence and
are a force to be reckoned with, although they are never discussed at
places
like the U.N.
The hidden agenda of France may be to enter Lebanon and later Syria to
stay.
France after all needs a place to deport its millions of unruly
Moslems. A
Lebanon occupied by France would be just such a place.
Moreover, Syria has undeveloped oil reserves. Lebanon and Syria are
also close
enough to France to provide France with a sea of oil to tap once
Lebanon and
Syria become French colonies once more.
And France is a nuclear power. It can play its own hand in Lebanon and
Syria if
events play out according to this alleged hidden French agenda.
Israel could not hope or even think of fighting France. The 600,000
French Jews
would be potent "human shields" for France to hide behind. Nor could
Israel
defeat a nuclear armed France even if it wanted to. The best Israel
could hope
for is that those 600,000 French Jews might be allowed to immigrate to
Israel.
That Secretary of State Rice was blind-sided by France in all of this
is
becoming increasingly clear. This was not the first time that Ms.Rice
was
bamboozled. This is indeed a dangerous Universe.
There is no doubt that we live in a Dangerous Universe. What can
we do to make life safer for everyone? Let us start with America's
Secretary of State,who clearly is an improvement over those who
have served as U.S. Secretary of State in the recent past. However,
although we strongly supported Condi Rice when she rightfully said
that we do not wish to see the smoking gun of Saddam's weapons of
mass destruction arsenal,(which were used to murder the Kurds and
the Iranians, neither were gassed with jelly beans or
cotton candy, and which we believe were transferred to Syria and
buried, like the monster Saddam himself, under various rocks, from
which people like Saddam had hoped to crawl up from under),to be a
mushroom cloud we are much less than happy about her support for a
so-called "palestinian" state. The world needs no
more terrorist states. The world needs to rid itself of the
terrorist states it already has. So we are quite disturbed about
news articles the the one immediately below and urge that you
contact Secretary of State Rice and President Bush and urge that
they abandon their call for a so-called "palestinian" state.
"Rice: U.S. Could Help Train, Equip Palestinian Forces
February 2, 2005
By Arshad Mohammed
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice on Tuesday held out the possibility of U.S.
support to train and equip Palestinian forces as she
seeks to promote Middle East peace on a visit to the
region...
"Obviously the Palestinians are going to need help in
terms of training and equipping their new security
forces and I am sure that there will be ways that we
might be involved in that," she said.
"We have a long way to go to fully capable Palestinian
security forces but there also has to be a will," she
said. "I do think that Abbas showed will in acting
quickly. We hope that they'll continue to act and to
act more effectively over the next (several) weeks."
It was tragic that Secretary Rice was taken in by Holocaust Denier Abu
Abbas,
a=2Ek.a. Abu Mazen. Lest anyone believe that the mad man in Iran, who is
a denier
of The
Holocaust
and who supports Hamas is the only modern-day-Haman, in fact the so-
called "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) is also a
Holocaust Denier
read on:
"Likely PA Prime Minister a Holocaust-Denier
By Rafael Medoff
Jewishsf.com | February 26, 2003 c.e.
While European Union officials praised Yasser Arafat's decision to
appoint his first-ever prime minister, historians of the Holocaust
winced at the news that a leading candidate for the job is the
author of a book denying that the Nazis murdered 6 million Jews.
The candidate is Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen), Arafat's
second in command, and his book, published in Arabic in 1983,
translates as "The Other Side: The Secret Relations Between Nazism
and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement." It was originally his
doctoral dissertation, completed at Moscow Oriental College.
The book repeatedly attempts to cast doubt on the fact that the
Nazis slaughtered 6 million Jews, according to a translation
provided by the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
"Following the war," he writes, "word was spread that six million
Jews were amongst the victims and that a war of extermination was
aimed primarily at the Jews...The truth is that no one can either
confirm or deny this figure. In other words, it is possible that the
number of Jewish victims reached six million, but at the same time
it is possible that the figure is much smaller-below one million."
Abbas denies that the gas chambers were used to murder Jews, quoting
a "scientific study" to that effect by French Holocaust-denier
Robert Faurisson.
Abbas' book then asserts: "The historian and author Raoul Hilberg
thinks that the figure does not exceed 890,000."
That is, of course, utterly false. Hilberg, a distinguished
historian and author of the classic study "The Destruction of the
European Jews," has never said or written any such thing.
Abbas believes the 6 million figure is the product of a Zionist
conspiracy: "It seems that the interest of the Zionist movement...is
to inflate this figure so that their gains will be greater," he
writes. "This led them to emphasize this figure in order to gain the
solidarity of international public opinion with Zionism. Many
scholars have debated the figure of six million and reached stunning
conclusions-fixing the number of Jewish victims at only a few
hundred thousand."
Another falsehood. In fact, no serious scholar proposes such a
figure.
After reducing the magnitude of the Nazi slaughter so that it no
longer seems to have been a full-scale Holocaust, Abbas seeks to
absolve the Nazis by blaming the Zionist leadership for whatever
killings did take place. According to Abbas, "A partnership was
established between Hitler's Nazis and the leadership of the Zionist
movement...[the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in the
world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wish, so
long as it guarantees immigration to Palestine."
In addition to encouraging the persecution of Jews so they would
immigrate to the Holy Land, the Zionist leaders actually wanted Jews
to be murdered, because-in Abbas' words-"having more victims meant
greater rights and stronger privilege to join the negotiation table
for dividing the spoils of war once it was over. However, since
Zionism was not a fighting partner-suffering victims in a battle-it
had no escape but to offer up human beings, under any name, to raise
the number of victims, which they could then boast of at the moment
of accounting."
Perhaps sentiments of this sort were common within Abbas' circle of
graduate students in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. But in the free
world, such propaganda has never been accepted as serious
scholarship.
In most Western countries, Holocaust-deniers have been treated as
pariahs. In Canada and many European countries, Holocaust-denial is
a criminal offense. In New Zealand, Canterbury University recently
issued an apology for having accepting a master's thesis denying the
Holocaust, while the French minister of education revoked a doctoral
degree that was awarded to a Holocaust-denier by the University of
Nantes. A Polish university professor who denied the Holocaust was
suspended from his position. The Japanese publisher Bungei Shunju
shut down one of its magazines for printing an article denying the
Holocaust.
International pressure compelled Croatian President Franjo Tudjman
to publicly retract statements in his book doubting that the
Holocaust had taken place. Austrian Freedom Party leader Jorg Haider
was ostracized by the international community for his remarks
praising members of the SS, as was French politician Jean Marie Le
Pen, for questioning the existence of the gas chambers and
belittling the significance of the Holocaust. A recent poll found 64
percent of Americans believe world leaders should likewise refuse to
meet with Abbas.
Yet some in the media have treated Abbas with kid gloves, to say the
least. The official BCC News Profile of Abbas reports: "A highly
intellectual man, Abbas studied law in Egypt before doing a Ph.D. in
Moscow. He is the author of several books." The New York Times
recently characterized Abbas as "a lawyer and historian...He holds a
doctorate in history from the Moscow Oriental College; his topic was
Zionism." Neither the BBC nor the Times offered any further
explanation as to the contents of Abbas' writings.
Bestowing the title "historian" upon Mahmoud Abbas awards his
writings a stature they do not deserve, and deals a grievous insult
to every genuine historian.
If Abbas is elevated to the post of prime minister of the
Palestinian Authority, not only the media but the entire
international community will be confronted with the question of
whether Abbas deserves to be treated any differently from Tudjman,
Haider and Le Pen.
The writer is visiting scholar in the Jewish studies program at the
State University of New York-Purchase College. His latest book is "A
Race Against Death: Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust," co-
written with David S. Wyman."
from: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Printable.asp?ID=3D6340
Her official biography states that Secretary of State Rice "was a
member of the
boards of directors for the Chevron Corporation, the Charles Schwab
Corporation,
the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the University of Notre Dame,
the
International Advisory Council of J.P. Morgan and...In addition, her
past board
service has encompassed such organizations as Transamerica Corporation,
Hewlett
Packard, the Carnegie Corporation, Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace,
The Rand Corporation, the National Council for Soviet and East European
Studies..."
So where is she now?
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage has confirmed that
he was the first Bush Administration official to leak
Valerie Plame's name to Ultra-right-wing extremst and notorious anti-
Israel CNN Crossfire
co-host Robert Novak.
Not so long ago Novak, interviewing Colin Powell, of all people,
quoted
his fellow anti-Israel lunatic Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd:
"MR. NOVAK: Mr. Secretary, Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd of West
Virginia, the
president pro tem of the Senate, often speaks his mind. He did this
week, and we'll put it up on the screen. He said, "If we expect to
kill every terrorist in the world, that's going to keep us going
beyond doomsday. How long can we afford this?"
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2002/8624.htm
How long could the terrorists afford to continue to be wiped out by
the US government we wonder? Well I guess that question never
occurred
to Byrd or to the online Egyptian newspaper AL-AHRAM which used the
same quote from Byrd. Clearly Byrd hates the idea of wiping out arab
terrorists.
http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/576/re74.htm
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875 Al-Ahram Weekly
Online 7 - 13 March 2002 Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd of West
Virginia: "If we expect to kill every terrorist in the world, that's
going to keep us going beyond doomsday," he said. "How long can we
afford this?" The thing is, though clearly Byrd, Novak, and Al Ahram
aren't interested, is that we cannot afford not to continue to go
after terrorists like arafat and bin Laden and their master Saddam
Hussein. All of whom we guess must be among Byrd's and Novak's
biggest fans.
What happens if Ms. Rice's predecessor's aide, Deputy Secretary of
State Richard
L=2E Armitage ends up testifying that he fed Bob Novak the Valerie Plame
story on
orders from his then boss Colin Powell?
Could Powell end up in jail if he ends up mishandling his own testimony
on the
matter, should such testimony by demanded.
If it is not demanded we need to ask why not?
Ex-Colleague Says Armitage Was Source of CIA Leak
By R. Jeffrey Smith
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 29, 2006; Page A06
The leak of information about an undercover CIA employee that provoked
a special
prosecutor's investigation of senior White House officials came from
then-Deputy
Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, according to a former Armitage
colleague
at the department.
Armitage told newspaper columnist Robert D. Novak in the summer of 2003
that
Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the Iraq war, worked
for the
CIA, the colleague said. In October of that year, Armitage admitted to
senior
State Department officials that he had made the remark, which was based
on a
classified report he had read.
Powell's history as a witness is somewhat checkered to say the least.
"It was Powell whom President Reagan summoned to the White House to
help National Security Advisor Frank Carlucci clean up the mess after
the Iran-contra debacle." Below is excerpted from:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/colin8.html
"Behind Colin Powell's Legend-Saving Reagan By Robert Parry & Norman
Solomon
"We need you, Colin," the familiar voice of new national security
adviser
Frank Carlucci pleaded over the phone in December 1986. "This is
serious. Believe me, the presidency is at stake." With those words,
Colin Powell re-entered the Iran-contra affair, a set of events he had
dangerously advanced in January 1986when he arranged missile
deliveries to Iran , while keeping Pentagon colleagues in the dark. But
just as Powell played an important behind-the-scenes role in those
missile shipments, he would be equally instrumental in the next phase,
the scandal's cover-up in 1987-88 The documentary record-some of it
recently declassified at the request of The Consortium-reveals
disturbing new questions about Colin Powell's own "character and
competence," including clear discrepancies in his sworn testimony.
But in late 1986, as Carlucci called Powell in West Germany , the White
House needed some cool heads and some steady hands. President Reagan
was reeling day after day from disclosures of the reckless
arms-for-hostage scheme with Iran and diversion of money to the
Nicaraguan contra rebels.
After sounding Powell out about his willingness to join the National
Security
Council staff, Carlucci made sure he could wall Powell off from the
scandal. On
Dec. 9, 1986, the
White House obtained from the FBI a statement that Powell was not a
criminal suspect. The next day, Carlucci asked Defense Secretary
Caspar Weinberger "to call Peter Wallison, WH Counsel-to tell them
Colin had no connection with Iran arms sales-except to carry out
President's order," Weinberger wrote down. He then "called Peter
Wallison-Told him Colin Powell had only minimum involvement on Iran ."
With Carlucci satisfied that his old friend, Powell, could sidestep
the spreading Iran-contra stain, Reagan formally asked the general on
Dec. 12, 1986, to quit his post as commander of V Corps in West
Germany and to become deputy national security adviser. Powell
accepted, taking over those new duties on Jan. 2, 1987. As always,
Powell took to his task energetically.
To put the Iran-contra scandal behind the White House, he help ed draft
a
limited mea-culpa speech by Reagan on March 4, 1987. The president
admitted that
the
arms-for-hostage deal "was a mistake." But Powell failed to force in
some phrasing exonerating his patron, Weinberger, and by inference,
Colin Powell. A Confident General Powell testified before both the
congressional committees and special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh.
Under oath, the general asserted that he did not know about the early
1985
arms shipments to Iran a key point given the fact that those arms
transfers represented a felony under the Arms Export Control Act. He
insisted that he did not know that U.S. weapons were being shipped
until mid-January 1986 when President Reagan signed a "finding" that
made the deliveries legal.
The distinction was crucial to Powell's
defense of himself and Weinberger. Powell stuck to his story even as
evidence emerged proving that he and Weinberger were reading
top-secret intelligence intercepts in September and October 1985 in
which Iranians described the delivery of U.S. weapons. The Consortium
obtained one of those reports, dated Oct. 2, 1985. It was marked
"SECRET SPOKE ORCON" and was signed by Lt. Gen. William Odom, the
director of the National Security Agency. The sensitive electronic
intercept had picked up a phone conversation a day earlier between two
Iranian officials, identified as "Mr. Asghari" who was in Europe and
"Mohsen Kangarlu" who was in Tehran . "A large part of the conversation
had to do with details on the delivery of several more shipments of
weapons into Iran ," wrote Odom in the "exclusive" report which went
only to top officials at CIA, the NSC and the Pentagon. "Asghari then
pressed Kangarlu to provide a list of what he wanted the 'other four
planes' to bring. ... Kangarlu said that he already had provided a
list. Asghari said that those items were for the first two planes.
Asghari reminded Kangarlu that there were Phoenix missiles on the
second plane which were not on the first. ...[Asghari] said that a
flight would be made this week."
When asked about this and other
touchy points by congressional investigators on June 19, 1987, Powell
pleaded a weak memory. He repeatedly used phrases such as "I cannot
specifically recall." At one point, Powell said, "To my recollection,
I don't have a recollection." When asked if Weinberger kept a diary,
Powell responded, "The Secretary, to my knowledge, did not keep a
diary. Whatever notes he kept, I don't know how he uses them or what he
does with them. He does not have a diary of this ilk, no." As for his
own notebooks from the Iran-contra period, Powell announced that he
had destroyed them.
Weinberger offered similar testimony, claiming
that he took notes "occasionally, but comparatively rarely" and that
they were not "kept in any formal way." Whatever their condition,
however, Weinberger's notes were not delivered to Congress or to the
special prosecutor. That gap of evidence was crucial in the failure of
the early Iran-contra investigations to breach the White House
stonewall. Fall-Guy Plan In 1987, the White House cover story-blaming
the scandal on Oliver North and other out-of-control NSC
officers-held, even though North had publicly denounced the official
version as a "fall-guy plan." Thanks in no small part to Powell's
fencing with his inquisitors, the investigation was blunted, Ronald
Reagan's presidency was saved and George Bush could tell the voters
that he had been "out-of-the-loop" on Iran-contra.
The Consortium investigation found that Powell's records at the NSC and
at the
Pentagon revealed no information about-or apparent interest
in-longstanding allegations that the contras engaged in cocaine
trafficking -(Ironically, recent disclosures in federal court records
cite Bermudez as the contra leader who gave a green light to massive
contra cocaine shipments into the United States .) After Congress ended
its Iran-contra investigation in fall 1987, Powell mounted a
counter-attack -To his surprise, though, Powell was not quite through
with Iran-contra. In 1991, Walsh's investigators stumbled upon
Weinberger's long-lost notes which had been filed away in an obscure
corner of the Library of Congress. Among those papers was a note from
Oct. 3, 1985. It indicated that Weinberger had received information
from an NSA intercept that Iran was receiving "arms transfers"-the
point that Powell had tried so hard to obscure.
The belated discovery of Weinberger's diaries led to the former defense
secretary's
indictment for obstruction of justice. The notes also prompted Powell
to submit a pro-Weinberger affidavit that stunningly contradicted
Powell's own earlier sworn testimony in which he had insisted that
Weinberger maintained no "diaries." In the affidavit dated April 21,
1992, however, Powell argued that he regarded Weinberger's daily notes
as a "personal diary" and that it was "entirely possible" that
Weinberger would not have understood these personal papers to be
within the scope of the Iran-contra document requests. Though the
contradiction was clear, Powell was never held to account.. The only
threat to Powell's reputation would be the trial of Caspar Weinberger
which was scheduled to start in January 1993 and which listed Powell
as a prospective witness. Bush -pardon(ed ) Weinberger, on Christmas
Eve 1992. Weinberger thus was spared a trial-and Powell was saved the
embarrassment of public attention over his dubious role in the
Iran-contra affair."
Speaking of
Condoleeza Rice, http://www.usmm.org/socalships.html "Ships of
Standard Oil of California "SoCal," [now Chevron] -- since 1895 The
Pacific Coast Oil Company, later known as Standard Oil of California
or "SoCal", and now known as Chevron, was founded in 1895
Condoleeza Rice 1993 Bahamian" Yes, that is right she has an oil
company ship named after her. "Professor Condoleeza RICE | Political
Interviews | "I am a corporate director of the Chevron Corporation"
http://www.tiesweb.org/interviews/rice.htm
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~arch/Info/fg.html
Public Service
"11-17-1995 Powell Receives Enron Prize for Public Service Photo
caption: Colin Powell receives an ovation upon accepting the first
Enron Prize, presented by James A. Baker, III, 61st secretary of
state.
"Thomas E. White became the 18th Secretary of the Army on May 31,
2001, after nomination to that post by Bush and confirmation by the
United States Senate. From 1990 to 2001, Mr. White was employed by
Enron Corporation and held various senior executive positions."
http://www.army.mil/leaders/Secarmy/bio.htm
"Press Release (Bush) intends to nominate Thomas E. White, Jr. to be
Secretary of the Army. He is currently the Vice-Chairman of Enron
Energy Services. He has served as Chairman and CEO of Enron Operations
Corporation and as Chairman and CEO of Enron Power Corporation since
joining Enron in 1990. After 23 years, White retired from the U.S.
Army as a Brigadier General. He served as Executive Assistant to
General Colin Powell while he served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff from 1989 to 1990"
http://www.ktroop.com/gen_white.htm
"Powell, the son of General Colin Powell, is widely expected to be
named FCC chairman once Bush takes office. General Powell is a
member of AOL's board of directors."
http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/6627.html
" Colin Powell SECRETARY OF STATE Corporate Connections: America
Online; Time Warner; Gulfstream Aerospace; General Dynamics As a
civilian, Colin Powell served on two corporate boards: Gulfstream
Aerospace and America Online. Gulfstream Aerospace makes specialty
jets for Hollywood movie stars and for foreign governments, like
Kuwait and Saudi Arabia-two countries Powell got to know well in his
role as chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the Gulf War. The
company was bought out by defense contractor General Dynamics in 1999.
The former general also earned a nice windfall when AOL finally merged
with Time Warner earlier this year. His stock in the company
reportedly increased in value by $4 million. Powell's son, Michael,
was the only commissioner at the Federal Communications Commission who
advocated letting the AOL-Time Warner deal go through without
scrutiny. President Bush recently named Michael Powell chairman of the
FCC. The agency will soon consider whether to allow AOL to keep its
monopoly on the "instant messaging" technology it developed for the
Internet. Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please
credit the Center for Responsive Politics.
http://www.opensecrets.org/bush/cabinet/cabinet.powell.asp
Wrong Team In Washington Powell
"Colin L. Powell will again embarrass the American people by meeting
with Yassir Arafat as if he wasn't the murderer of Americans. He will
again ignore the operational connections to Osama Bin Laden,
Saddam Hussein and Iranian-backed Hezb'Allah. The soft General - now
Sec. of State, fits the profile of a State Department apparachnik who
will deal with any dictator or war criminal if it meets the
requirements of commerce. No pride, no dignity, no ethics - just a
vast shadow government ready to sell America for whatever price it
will bring. Selling out our Allies to Arab Islamists is merely a
step lower than their usual practice."Above excerpted
from a widely quoted piece by Emmanuel Winston.
"Enslave your
girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists and destroy every vestige
of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will
embrace you. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43
million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent
anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift,
announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in
addition to other recent aid, makes the United States the main sponsor
of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime."
"from the secretary of state of the United States the other day.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) COLIN POWELL, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: This kind of
response (Note the response Powell was referring to was a response to
arab terrorism!!! Quite a double standard! ) is too aggressive and it
just serves to increase the level of tension and violence in the
region."
"Sharon told Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) in a
telephone conversation, that Israel had the same right to defend
itself as the United States, an Israeli political source said. Raanan
Gissin, a senior aide to Sharon, said the Hamas activists killed in
Tuesday's strike had been planning new operations in Jerusalem, where
a high security alert is in effect and a pipe bomb exploded in a park
on Wednesday."
"Take Secretary of State Colin L. Powell. His portfolio, which is
valued at between $18 million and $65 million, is chock full of
high-tech stocks. For instance, he has holdings in the $500,000 to
$1 million range in such companies as Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation
and JDS Uniphase."
""When Colin Powell called himself a "Rockefeller Republican" -
pundits found nothing odd He may
well have picked it up from Christine Todd Whitman. Powell and New
Jersey's first woman governor have become thick lately, and Nelson
Rockefeller runs through her life like a trout line."
"Colin Powell,
former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was awarded the first
Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service Monday during the
Inaugural Annual Conference of the James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy. Powell was chosen for his service to his country at the
highest level in both military and civilian positions and for his
contributions to foreign policy and national security. James A. Baker,
III, the 61st secretary of state, and Kenneth Lay, chairman and chief
executive officer of Enron Corp., presented the award at a ceremony
prior to the afternoon panel discussion on politico-military factors
and the future of warfare. "I am deeply honored to be the first
recipient of the Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service," Powell
said. In his remarks, he thanked both the Baker Institute and Enron
Corp. I am pleased to begin this new phase of my life right here at
the Inaugural Conference of the Baker Institute. It's a good place to
start it." Powell said the institute represents a very successful
collaboration between the corporate leaders in Houston and the leaders
of Rice University. Powell said we are now moving from a world of
danger to a world in which, with the end of the Cold War and
containment, "we have lost the rules that gave us the means to make
appropriate choices. "New rules are needed. So there will be new
elements of power, new ways of competing and the ideas and structure
that we will need to deal with this new world will emerge from places
of learning, places of study and places of introspection, such as the
Baker Institute. I predict this will be one of the leading
institutions of that kind," he said.
The inscription on the prize states: "In recognition of his
outstanding contributions to the foreign policy and national security
of the United States of America The James A. Baker III Institute for
Public Policy Awards the Enron Prize for Distinguished Public Service
to General Colin L. Powell (retired) at Rice University, November
1995." The Enron Prize is made possible by a generous gift from the
Enron Corp., which has established an endowment for the prize."
THIS FROM AN ANTI-ISRAEL SOURCE: "only Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd
(D-WV) had a
perfect record of zero compliance with
recommendations of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), Israel's principal Washington, DC lobby." Quite a turn of
phrase there, in case it slipped by you, the anti-Israel source
quoted
immediately above used the word "compliance" , a buzz-word among
classical anti-Semites in their "vast Jewish conspiracy" theories.
THIS FROM a very different sort of source entirely: "Friends, if ever
there was a definitive list of the anti-Israel members of Congress,
we
have it now. It's the 23 members-two in the Senate and 21 in the
House-who voted against yesterday's House and Senate resolutions of
support for Israel. If you are a U.S. citizen and contribute to
political campaigns in the U.S., you may want to contribute to the
opponents of the members below, regardless of party, so long as these
incumbents' opponents are pro-Israel. If you don't or can't
contribute
to campaigns, please feel free to forward this list to anyone who
might. No other issue and no U.S. political party allegiance is more
important in these times than the safety and security of Eretz
Yisrael. (the land of Israel) The New York Times, Friday, May 3, 2002
Following is a list of legislators who voted "No" on yesterday's
resolutions of support for Israel:
SENATORS VOTING "NO" (2)
Robert Carlyle Byrd , Dem., W.Va. ,
Ernest Hollings, Dem.S.C.
HOUSE MEMBERS VOTING "NO" (21)
Neil Abercrombie, Dem., Hawaii,
David E. Bonior, Dem., Mich.,
Rick Boucher, Dem., Va.,
Gary A. Condit, Dem., Calif.,
John Conyers Jr.,Dem., Mich.,
Peter A. DeFazio, Dem., Ore.,
John D. Dingell, Dem., Mich.,
Earl F. Hilliard, Dem., Ala.,
Jay Inslee, Dem., Wash.,
Jesse L. Jackson Jr., Dem., Ill.
(Please note this is Jesse Jacksons son),
Gerald D.Kleczka, Dem., Wisc.,
Barbara Lee, Dem., Calif.,
Cynthia A. McKinney,Dem., Ga.,
George Miller, Dem., Calif.,
David R. Obey, Dem., Wisc.,
Ron Paul, Rep., Tex.,
Thomas E. Petri, Rep., Wisc.,
Nick J. Rahall II, Dem.,W.Va.,
Dana Rohrabacher, Rep., Calif.,
Nick Smith, Rep., Mich.,
Fortney Pete Stark, Dem., Calif.,
Below is excerpted from:
http://article.nationalreview.com/print/?
q=3DYzM3YjhhZGIxZjExNjIxOGU2NTEyZjE0ODFhYmFlNzY=3D
"Will Joe and Valerie Wilson Sue Richard Armitage? No.
They just want Cheney, Rove, and Libby.
By Byron York
The new attorney for Joseph and Valerie Wilson says the Wilsons do
not plan to add former State Department official Richard Armitage to
their lawsuit against top Bush administration officials...In July,
the Wilsons sued Cheney, Rove, and Libby, along with ten other un-
named co-defendants, charging that were part of a conspiracy
to "discredit, punish and seek revenge against the plaintiffs that
included, among other things, disclosing to members of the press
Plaintiff Valerie Plame Wilson's classified CIA employment."
Armitage was not named in the suit....This week, a new book, Hubris,
by the Nation's David Corn and Newsweek's Michael Isikoff, confirmed
widespread rumors that Armitage was the original leaker in the CIA
controversy.
A few weeks ago, the Wilsons made changes in their legal team,
joining forces with the liberal advocacy group Citizens for Ethics
and Responsibility in Washington (CREW). The Wilsons also hired the
San Francisco-based firm Cotchett, Pitre, Simon & McCarthy.
Constitutional lawyer Erwin Chemerinsky, who helped write the
lawsuit, remains with the case.....Citizens for Responsibility and
Ethics in Washington is best known for its filing of ethics
complaints against members of Congress, the overwhelming majority of
them Republicans. Sloan is a former aide to Democratic lawmakers
John Conyers and Charles Schumer.
- Byron York, NR's White House correspondent, is the author of the
book The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy: The Untold Story of How
Democratic Operatives, Eccentric Billionaires, Liberal Activists,
and Assorted Celebrities Tried to Bring Down a President - and Why
They'll Try Even Harder Next Time.
Here yet another internet posting tracks the terrorists' best friend
on
Capitol Hill, Robert Carlyle Byrd : "Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002 Sen.
Byrd Gripes
About War on Terror Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd , D-W.Va., the famous
former Ku
Klux Klansman, complained today, "There's no end in sight in our
mission in Afghanistan." The remarks "were among the harshest in
Congress yet about the anti-terrorism campaign," the Associated Press
noted today. Long ago saddled with the nickname Senator Pork for his
notoriously wasteful squandering of taxpayer dollars, Byrd controls
spending legislation as chairman of the Senate Appropriations
Committee. Though he loves bringing boondoggle make-work projects
home
to West Virginia, he has begun expressing reluctance about footing
the bill for ending terrorism." Byrd's obstructionism to fighting
terrorists like arafat and bin Laden and their master: Saddam
Hussein,
seems to have no bounds, "Thursday, October 10, 2002 By a 66-31 vote,
the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Robert Carlyle Byrd D-W.Va.
- the
most outspoken Senate opponent of the war resolution - that would
have ended the authorization for him to use force against Iraq after
two years." Fortunately a number of people on and off the net have
been keeping track of the terrorists' best friend on Capitol Hill, US
Senator Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia, for instance: "WHY AM I
NOT
SURPRISED? Finally, Congress has somewhat meekly voiced its support
for Israel. The Senate version of the bill was symbolic and largely
omitted language from the House which placed blame on Arafat. Despite
the watering down in the Senate, two members voted against it: "The
two most senior Democrats, Sens. Robert Carlyle Byrd of West Virginia
and
Ernest "Fritz" Hollings of South Carolina, still opposed it, however
Byrd is a former Klansman. " http://opinionated.blogspot.com/
"This ex-Klansman wasn't just a passive member of the nation's most
notorious hate group. According to news accounts and biographical
information, Sen. Byrd was a "Kleagle"-an official recruiter who
signed up members for $10 a head. He said he joined because it
"offered excitement" and because the Klan was an "effective force" in
"promoting traditional American values." Nothing like the thrill of
gathering 'round a midnight bonfire, , tying nooses, and promoting
white supremacy with a bunch of your hooded friends. The ex-Klansman
allegedly ended his ties with the group in 1943. He may have stopped
paying dues, but he continued to pay homage to the KKK. (someone) in
West Virginia discovered a letter Sen. Byrd had written to the
Imperial Wizard of the KKK three years after he says he abandoned the
group. He wrote: "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am
anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state
in the Union." The ex-Klansman later filibustered the landmark 1964
Civil Rights Act-for more than 14 hours. He also opposed the
nominations of the Supreme Court's two black justices, liberal
Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas. Meanwhile, author
Graham Smith recently discovered another letter Sen. Byrd wrote after
he quit the KKK, this time attacking desegregation of the armed
forces. The ex-Klansman vowed never to fight "with a Negro by my
side.
Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in
the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours
become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest
specimen
from the wilds."
http://www.capitalismmagazine.com/2001/march/mm_byrd_kkk.htm
below is excerpted from:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=3D/c/a/2006/08/31/EDG0SJ7NHV1.DTL&type=3Dprintable
"by - Debra J. Saunders
Thursday, August 31, 2006
WITH the disclosure that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard
Armitage was the initial source for Robert Novak's July 2003 column
that outed CIA operative Valerie Wilson -- also known as Valerie
Plame, wife of former ambassador and Iraq-war critic Joseph Wilson --
it is now clear that all the hype about a Bush-inspired vendetta
against the Wilsons is bunk....No one knows how much special
prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has spent in taxpayers' money
investigating this leak, but figure the probe came with a hefty
price tag because he has been in business since December 2003. We do
know now, however, that when Fitzgerald set up shop, the secretary
of State and someone at the Department of Justice knew that Armitage
leaked the story....What did America learn? Rove confirmed Wilson's
identity. Big deal. As Mark Corallo, who served as Rove's spokesman
during this controversy, noted, Rove "never made a single phone call
to a single journalist on this matter. He simply answered two phone
questions from two journalists." For confirming, not initiating, the
Armitage leak, Rove was hauled before a grand jury five times.
Rove is not the only White House aide made to jump through hoops.
Some 2,000 White House staffers also were hopping as they had to
produce phone records, diaries and correspondence.
Then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller spent 85 days behind bars
before disclosing who told her about Wilson -- even though she never
wrote about the CIA operative's identity. That's another colossal
waste of taxpayers' dollars, which would have been better spent
jailing a real criminal.
Fitzgerald has charged Scooter Libby, Vice President ***** Cheney's
former top aide, with perjury and obstruction of justice. But the
special prosectuor's failure to charge the original leaker makes one
question whether Fitzgerald was mindful of his office's mandate --
that a special prosecutor's probe, as Attorney General Janet Reno
wrote in 1999, "be conducted ably, expeditiously and thoroughly, and
that investigative and prosecutorial decisions will be supported by
an informed understanding of the criminal law and Department of
Justice policies." Instead, Fitzgerald's actions have been plodding
and heavy-handed, landing a journalist who didn't write on the leak
behind bars, while the leaker remained anonymous and free....As for
the time table, while Deputy U.S. Attorney General James B. Comey
told reporters that Fitzgerald had a reputation for working quickly,
Fitzgerald has spent years investigating a leak that he has failed
to prosecute, although the Libby prosecution is pending.
The irony is that as Joe Wilson charged that the White House was
pursuing him as an act of revenge, he emerges as a partisan bent on
punishing those with whom he disagreed. Wilson, after all, once
bragged that he wanted to see Rove "frog-marched out of the White
House in handcuffs." The Wilsons filed a silly lawsuit suit against
Libby, Cheney and Rove.
Armitage was not an Iraq war hawk, so it should come as no surprise
that Wilson's attorney has given Armitage a pass....Yes, it is about
the abuse of government power. The victims are the innocent staffers
and journalists who had to face the threat of jail over three years
while Armitage was too ashamed to come forward and admit what he had
begun.
E-mail: dsaunders@sfchronicle.com.
Page B - 9
URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=3D/c/a/2006/08/31/EDG0SJ7NHV1.DTL
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE ANTI-SEMITISM !
By Jeff Dunetz,
"Virulent anti-Semitic
campaigns are underway-
not only in the Middle East,
but in Europe and America,
too.
I have an uncontrollable urge to run up all 102
floors of the Empire State building, shimmy my
way up the TV antenna and start screaming,
begging, pleading as loud as I can: "Wake up,
world! The war in Israel is not just about land! It's also about
hatred of the Jewish people!"
Most American Jews will probably think I'm paranoid, a person who
finds a pogrom coming out of every closet. But if we look at the
words
and deeds of Islamic activists-in the Mideast and beyond-we see
virulent ant-Semitic messages being distributed regularly to a broad
audience.
A few hours of Internet research came up with hundreds of examples of
Arab leaders and official press attacking Jews. They don't attack
Israel on how it deals with Palestinian issues; this state-sponsored
anti-Semitism drudges up ancient stereotyping and blood libel. And
this rhetoric has expanded into Europe, the U.S., and the UN.
For starters, the Palestinian media has called for the killing of all
Jews. In October 2000, after two Israeli solders were lynched in
Ramallah, Dr. Ahmad Abu Halabiya gave a sermon on official
Palestinian
Authority television:
Have no mercy on the Jews no matter where they are, in any country.
Fight them, wherever you are.
Wherever you meet them, kill them. Wherever you
are, kill those Jews and those Americans who are like
them - and those who stand by them... (translation by
http://www.memri.org/
Doesn't sound like purely a land battle to me.
Let's look at Israel's neighbors. During the
Pope's trip to Syria last year, President
Assad said,
They (the Jews) tried to kill the
principles of all religions with the
same mentality in which they
betrayed Jesus Christ in the
same way they tried to betray
and kill the Prophet
Muhammad. (ADL, October
2001)
Maybe the moderate Saudis are a little more reasonable? In December
2001, the Saudi government-controlled newspaper, Al-Watan, published
a
report entitled, "The Jewish organizations are implementing their
strategic and hellish plan to take over the world":
The Jews act by means of the control of the media,
politics and the economy in order to weaken the
non-Jewish groups and bring about their
disintegration." (translation by memri.org)
In the Saudi government daily Al-Riyadh, columnist Dr. Umayma Ahmad
Al-Jalahma of King Faysal University in Al-Dammam, wrote last week
(March 10, 2002) on "The Jewish Holiday of Purim." The following are
excerpts of the article:
Special Ingredient For Jewish Holidays is Human Blood From Non-Jewish
Youth:
For this holiday, the Jewish people must obtain human blood so that
their clerics can prepare the holiday pastries. In other words, the
practice cannot be carried out as required if human blood is not
spilled!!
The Jews' spilling human blood to prepare pastry for their holidays
is
a well-established fact, historically and legally, all throughout
history. This was one of the main reasons for the persecution and
exile that were their lot in Europe and Asia at various times.
How the Jews Drain the Blood From Their Young Victims:
I would like to tell you how human blood is spilled so it can be used
for their holiday pastries. The blood is spilled in a special way.
How
is it done? For this holiday, the victim must be a mature adolescent
who is, of course, a non-Jew-that is, a Christian or a Muslim. His
blood is taken and dried into granules. The cleric blends these
granules into the pastry dough; they can also be saved for the next
holiday. In contrast, for the Passover slaughtering, about which I
intend to write one of these days, the blood of Christian and Muslim
children under the age of 10 must be used, and the cleric can mix the
blood [into the dough] before or after dehydration. The Actions of
the
Jewish Vampires Cause Them Pleasure:
Let us now examine how the victims' blood is spilled. For this, a
needle-studded barrel is used; this is a kind of barrel, about the
size of the human body, with extremely sharp needles set in it on all
sides. [These needles] pierce the victim's body, from the moment he
is
placed in the barrel.
These needles do the job, and the victim's blood drips from him very
slowly. Thus, the victim suffers dreadful torment-torment that
affords
the Jewish vampires great delight as they carefully monitor every
detail of the blood-shedding with pleasure and love that are
difficult
to comprehend. (translation by memri.org)
Egypt, the first Arab country to make peace with Israel, recently ran
a TV series called "Horseman Without a Horse," a 30-part series based
on the anti-Semitic forgery, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion."
Sheikh Muhammed Abd Al Hadi La'afi, responsible for Religious
Teaching
and Instruction in the Office of the Wakf, wrote in the official P.A.
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida (May 18, 2001):
The battle with the Jews will surely come... the decisive Muslim
victory is coming without a doubt, and the prophet spoke about in
more
than one Hadith and the Day of resurrection will not come without the
victory of the believers [the Muslims] over the descendents of the
monkeys and pigs [the Jews] and with their annihilation.
These hate-filled teachings proliferate even in America. The
Washington Post reported (March 2002) on Muslim elementary and high
schools in the U.S.:
[One] 11th-grade textbook, for example, says one sign of the Day of
Judgment will be that Muslims will fight and kill Jews, who will hide
behind trees that say:
'Oh Muslim, Oh servant of God, here is a Jew hiding behind me. Come
here and kill him.' Several students of different ages, all of whom
asked not to be identified, said that in Islamic studies, they are
taught that it is better to shun and even to dislike Christians, Jews
and Shi'ite Muslims... [In addition,] maps of the Middle East hang on
classroom walls, but Israel is missing.
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Beyond the traditional anti-Semitic slurs, there is a new strategy
that strikes at the heart of our Jewish heritage, seeking to deny our
history. Remember the dismantling of Joseph's Tomb, the attack on
Rachel's Tomb, and the ancient Jericho synagogue that was destroyed
by
the Palestinians? Their purpose was to turn Jewish history into a
myth. The Mufti of Jerusalem has said of the Temple Mount:
"There is not the smallest indication of the existence of a Jewish
temple on this place in the past." (Boston Globe, April 2001)
The Mufti's comments have been echoed by Arafat's cabinet, and much
of
the official press of the Arab world. In some sort of kow-tow, even
The New York Times described the Temple Mount as what "Israel claims
to have been the site of the first and second Temples." The Temple is
mentioned in the Jewish Bible, the Christian Bible, the Koran, and
every history book of the past 3,000 years. But it is now just a
claim.
And let's not forget how, throughout the Arab
world, the World Trade Center attack was
reported as a Jewish-led conspiracy.
At a meeting in Damascus in October 2001
with a delegation from the British Royal
College of Defense Studies, Syrian Defense
Minister Mustafa Tlass said the Mossad
planned the ramming of two hijacked
airliners into the WTC towers. He also told
the British visitors that the Mossad had given thousands of Jewish
employees at the towers advance warning not to go to work on
September
11. (Jerusalem Post, October 19, 2001) The slander took hold.
Paknews.com, a sophisticated English-language news site based in
Pakistan, found that 71 percent of its readers believed the report of
a September 11 "Jewish conspiracy."
The Holocaust is another point to examine.
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin
al-Husseini, lived in Berlin from 1941-45. He
was in charge of supervising Axis
propaganda to Muslims all over the world.
When Jews fleeing Hitler's ovens were able
to obtain emigration visas to Palestine, the
Mufti was instrumental in getting those visa
cancelled. He met several times with Hitler,
and personally recruited 20,000 Muslims in
Bosnia to serve in the Waffen SS. (See:
http://notendur.centrum.is/~snorrigb/muftism.htm)
This tradition continues today. "Mein Kampf," previously banned by
Israel, has been allowed by the PA and was sixth on the Palestinian
best-seller list. A senior commander in Arafat's personal bodyguard
is
Fawzi Salem al-Mahdi (known as "Abu Hitler"), whose two sons bear the
first names Hitler and Eichmann. The official Arab mouthpieces are
among the ranks of the most stubborn Holocaust deniers. And American
neo-Nazi and white supremacist parties have found in Muslims a new
audience to advance theories discredited in the west for more than 50
years.
BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST
Anti-Jewish sentiments are spreading far beyond the Middle East.
France has one of the largest Jewish communities in the world, and is
also one of least hospitable to its Jewish residents. CRIF (an
umbrella group of Jewish organizations in France) reported that
between September 2000 and November 2001 there were 330 anti-Semitic
incidents in metro Paris alone, nearly one per day. The study also
reported that the perpetrators are primarily young Arab immigrants.
(ADL, January 2002)
Britain's Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, has said that Jews of
his
country are suffering from the worst anti-Semitism since the
Holocaust. The contributing factors of this anti-Semitism have been
the rise in Islamic fundamentalists who use the Israeli-Arab conflict
as an excuse to create open displays of anti-Semitism. (Simon
Weisental Center, February 2002)
In December 2001, the largest neo-Nazi march since World War Two took
place in Berlin.
At the world conference on Racism in Durban this past September,
literature with hook-nosed Jewish caricatures were distributed inside
while thousands of South African Muslims marched outside carrying
banners saying that Hitler should have finished the job. (Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs, December 2001)
Copies of the libelous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" are selling
fast in Malaysia and Pakistan. "The Bulawayo Chronicle," which
supports the government of Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe,
recently published a 3,000-word article alleging Jewish
responsibility
for the ongoing economic problems facing the country.
America is not exempt, either. In the year
2000, 73 percent of all reported hate crimes
on the basis of religion were against Jews,
according to FBI figures.
The spreaders of hate have a strong ally in
the press. Organizations such as the BBC,
The New York Times and the once-proud
CBS News, have subtly manipulated
terminology and provided unbalanced
reporting. When Israel suffers a terrorist
attack and retaliates by targeting the terrorists, it is called the
"cycle of violence"-drawing a moral equivalency between civilians and
terrorists, and dehumanizing civilian victims. Let's not forget how
the press uses the word "terrorist." If a military action is targeted
toward civilians anywhere in world, it is "terrorism," but somehow
when it targets Jewish civilians, it is "militancy," "activism,"
"freedom fighting," or as The New York Times prefers: "What Israel
claims is a terrorist act."
CALL FOR ACTION
Make no mistake about it-this is a war about much more than land. It
is being waged by Islamic zealots who corrupt the name of religion to
spread hate. The anti-Zionist rhetoric is just a front for deep
anti-Semitism.
During an appearance at Harvard University, a student stood up and
asked Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to address himself to the issue of
Zionism. The question was clearly hostile. King responded, "When
people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking
anti-Semitism." (San Francisco Chronicle, January 21, 2002)
We need to wake up before it's too late.
Recognize what is going on and take action.
Write your government; tell them to take
action against anti-Semitism in your county.
Take notice of what is being said in the
media. Write letters about their inaccuracies
and omissions-not only in letters to the
editor, but also to their advertisers. Sign up
to www.honestreporting.com. Visit Israel or
at least buy Israeli products; support the
economy of our brethren who are on the front lines. Prior to coming
to power in Germany, Hitler wrote "Mein Kampf" which outlined many of
his plans, including a discussion of the "Jewish Problem." His
horrible goals were laid out in black and white. Despite the
forewarning, most people had their heads in the sand and were
surprised when Hitler followed through on his plans. Seventy years
ago, we did not take Hitler at his word. Will we take today's
anti-Semites at their word?
Jeff Dunetz, a 20-year marketing veteran, was the Publisher of
Nickelodeon Magazine until a series of layoffs this past October. He
is married and the father of two kids who ask lots of questions about
being Jewish that he can't answer. Jeff has been active in Jewish
organizations since his USY days. Presently he is a Member of the
Board of Trustees of the Dix Hills Jewish Center."
http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/Wake_Up_And_Smell_the_
A
nti-Semitism.asp
West Virginia Results 1996
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/WVpres.html
Updated : 11/06/96 President Election Results: West Virginia
CNN Call: CLINTON wins West
Virginia
CLINTON
(D)
52%
324,394
DOLE =AE
37%
231,908
PEROT (I)
11%
70,853"
1992 West Virginia RESULTS
http://pava.purdue.edu/pol101/Exercises/Ex95/1992_popvote.html
CLINTON
(D) 48.4% BUSH (R ) 35.4 % PEROT (I) 15.9%
OTHER: 0.3%
Below is from:
http://mensnewsdaily.com/2006/08/29/plamegate-revelation-liberal-
silence-deafening/
Plamegate Revelation: Liberal Silence Deafening
August 29, 2006Vox Populi, Will Malven
The silence from the Left is, well, deafening. Come on folks, you
know of what I am speaking. It's Plamegate of course and the silence
of which I take note is the complete absence of commentary in the
Left-wing blogosphere about the revelation that it was Richard
Armitage, not Karl Rove, not ***** Cheney, not even Lewis "Scooter"
Libby that was Robert Novak's source for the identity of Valerie
Plame Wilson.
The silence in the Liberal blogs is absolutely deafening, Armitage's
revelation is not addressed at dailyKos.com, not even mentioned at
democraticunderground.com, nary a word at the Huffington post,
Wonkette says nothing, Crooksandliars misses the story entirely,
MyDD has zippo, yep even Buzzflash which purports to supply pretty
much all the important news for the moonbats failed to mention
Richard Armitage. Amazing how inconvenient facts seem to be
swallowed up in the static of repetition Katrina, Katrina, Katrina,
Lieberman, Lame-ont, Rumsfeld, Katrina, Bush, Brownie, Katrina,
Floyd, Kat...whoops, did I say Floyd? I'm sorry just a slip. You most
assuredly won't find any mention of Hurricane Floyd in those Left-
wing moonbat blogs. It is another "inconvenient fact" and therefore
to be ignored by the Left.
The dedication of Liberal bloggers to the truth is less than
overwhelming; of course you knew that didn't you. Liberals are
liars. If you don't believe me just watch "Lassie"...err former
Senator, Presidential Candidate, and Vice-Presidential Candidate
John Edwards whenever he answers a question about the war. He bats
his eyes like a Main-Street hooker. Watch Joe "Plagiarizer" Biden
whenever he answers a question about national security, he appears
to have suddenly gotten a piece of sand in his eyes, blink-blink-
blink-blink. In fact the blink reflex is a relatively good indicator
of a person's veracity. When the individual is telling the truth,
their eyes blink normally like everyone else, but let them leave the
realm of fact for the dodgy terrain of untruth and suddenly their
eyes are all a flutter. I suspect if we were to put all the Liberal
politicians together in the same room, they would be able to power a
windmill and reduce the energy requirements of DC. Once you know
this truth, it can be quite amusing to watch Democrats as they
struggle with the truth. It's not infallible, but it is useful.
As for the silence, are you really surprised? The Left has spent
much of the past few years hounding the Bush Administration about
the events surrounding the Novak article. Karl Rove was demonized,
Vice-President Cheney was loudly accused, the President was held up
to scrutiny for his statement that anyone in his administration
involved in the outing of a CIA operative "would be taken care of."
The moonbats of dailyKos and Democraticunderground have openly
bragged about the imminent demise of either Rove or Cheney on an
almost daily basis. They have blithely ignored any information that
would have easily redirected their ire toward those who were more
likely to have been the "leaker."
Liberal arrogance (and it is an epidemic among them) is based on
their ignorance of the facts. Usually that ignorance is by choice.
They choose to "ignore" the facts with which they are confronted,
believing instead their own mythology. So now they have been caught
with their mouths hanging open with nothing to say. Being that
profoundly wrong will do that to you. All of that hope hanging on
their delusional faith in a myth which was never based in reality.
You can expect to see them equally silent in November when all of
their delusional prognostications of a glorious victory in which
they (the just and right) seize back power from conservatives (the
evil and heartless). Of course some of them will immediately revert
into their delusional state and claim that the Republicans have
stolen the elections they have long assumed they would win. They
seem to be incapable of understanding that mere hatred of
Republicans and President Bush is not a sufficient reason for people
to vote for them. One must have some clue as to how to run the
nation and it is becoming increasingly clear that the Democrats
don't have and will never have a clue.
So far, every "policy proposal" they have come forward with has been
a bland accumulation of generalities. They haven't any idea as to
how to deal with the nation's problems.
So look for more of these omissions as time progresses. Richard
Armitage has been a hero of the Left because he was hostile to the
Bush Administrations plans for Iraq. For him to be revealed as the
notorious "leaker" of Robert Novak fame is a severe blow to the
moonbats.
Hey moonbats: "Armitage is the Leaker!" "Armitage is the
Leaker!" "Armitage is the Leaker!" Na-na-na-na-na-na! What ya think
about them apples Markos?
I tell you I love it. Even Karl Rove couldn't have planned this...
could he? Hmmm, you never know.
Posted in Vox Populi, Will Malven at 4:48 pm by Will Malven
"One of the most influential Nazi spies in the U.S. was Dr. Walter
Becher, an anti-Communist "refugee leader" from the Hitler regime.
Becher joined the Nazi Party in December, 1931, and became an editor
of Die Zeit, a Nazi propaganda sheet in 1937. He was a Brown-Shirt
for
a spell and a member of the National Socialist Student Bund. He
editorialized for the purge of all Jews from state-owned radio in
Prague. During the war, Becher worked in the Goebbels Propaganda
Ministry and for the Wehrmacht as a war correspondent. Soon after the
war, he founded a newspaper in Germany that agitated for the
restoration of National Socialism. Becher had his advocates in
Washington, D.C. In 1957, Congressman Usher Burdick inserted one of
Dr. Becher's propaganda pieces in the Congressional Record, and in
August 1959, seven more appeared in the pages of the Record. When he
junketed to the States, conferences were arranged for him by the
State
Department. His geopolitical opinions were trumpeted by scores of
newspapers and the Mutual Broadcasting Network's 600 affiliates. Dr.
Becher's early contacts in Washington were McCarthy and William
Jenner
in the Senate, and a handful of congressmen in the House. T.H. Tetens
in The New Germany and the Old Nazis, was awed by the Nazi's
camaraderie with Beltway politicians, and tracked his movements
through the District of Columbia: "During the early fifties, when he
first came to Washington, he began to build for himself a formidable
political machine. His scheme was very simple. If he could obtain the
support of leading politicians in the United States, his prestige and
stature would grow enormously at home.... With the help of the
McCarthy faction in the United States, he could establish a
nationwide
reputation as the foremost leader of the anti-Communist crusade."
Among the senators who sent personal letters of support to Dr. Becher
in Munich in the 1950s: Albert Gore (father of former Vice President
Gore), Strom Thurmond, AND Robert Carlyle Byrd .". We hope
that you will read the excerpts from
Committee contributions - BYRD, ROBERT C
below is excerpted from:
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-
vparm314871380aug31,0,7404584,print.story?coll=3Dny-editorials-
headlines
"Armitage all along
August 31, 2006
The world now knows who outed CIA operative Valerie Plame. It was
then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage....It would have
been nice to know the truth before a special counsel was appointed,
a criminal investigation launched, a grand jury impaneled, a
reporter jailed and a White House staffer, Lewis "Scooter" Libby,
indicted....According to Newsweek, Armitage was Robert Novak's
source for a July 2003 column that revealed Plame's line of
work....Armitage was no champion of pre-emptive war in Iraq, so
identifying him as the original leaker would have deflated
speculation that it was administration officials pushing for war who
outed Plame. Their goal, the theory went, was to discredit her
husband, a diplomat who had challenged White House claims about the
existence of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq. A bit more candor
would have been good for all concerned. "
"ADL (Anti-Defamation League) Letter to Wal-Mart
RE: The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion
September 21, 2004
H=2E Lee Scott, Jr.
President & CEO
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
702 Southwest 8th Street
Bentonville, AK 72716
Dear Mr. Scott:
We have received voluminous messages of concern from across the country
that the
notorious anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Learned Elders of
Zion is
being sold by Wal-Mart on its online catalog of books.
The "Description" of the book on your Web site suggests it may not be a
forgery.
In fact, there is no question that the Protocols is a forgery, created
by a
Czarist official in the early 20th century to promote the conspiracy
theory that
Jews are plotting to control the world. Historians, jurists and other
authorities have publicly attested to its fraudulence.
The Protocols has been the major weapon in the arsenals of anti-Semites
around
the world, republished and circulated by individuals, hate groups and
governments to convince the gullible as well as the bigoted that Jews
have
schemed and plotted to take over the world. For too many it continues
to have
resonance today, at a time when there is an explosion of global
anti-Semitism.
ADL is not in the business of banning books, no matter how
reprehensible they
may be. While Wal-Mart has discretion in what books it chooses to sell,
it owes
it to its customers to unequivocally state the nature of the book and
to
disassociate itself from any endorsement of it. To demonstrate its
corporate
responsibility, we expect Wal-Mart to do so in the case of the
Protocols, should
it continue to list it in its online catalog.
We look forward to your response
Sincerely,
Abraham H. Foxman,
National Director
http://www.adl.org/misc/wal-mart-protocols-ltr.asp
About ADL
Our Mission
"The immediate object of the League is to stop, by appeals to reason
and
conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the
Jewish
people. Its ultimate purpose is to secure justice and fair treatment to
all
citizens alike and to put an end forever to unjust and unfair
discrimination
against and ridicule of any sect or body of citizens."
ADL Charter
October 1913
History of ADL (Anti-Defamation League)
For 90 years, ADL has been combating anti-Semitism and bigotry of all
kinds."
Why would arafat want RFKs Murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, Freed On April
4th 1968 Martin Luther King was assassinated while standing on the
balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. Had Martin Luther King and
Bobby Kennedy NOT been assassinated Eugene McCarthy, who was 7
points
ahead of Nixon in the polls, would have been nominated by the
Democratic Party as its Presidential candidate in 1968 and gone on to
win the White House. Gene would have ended the Vietnam War promptly
in
1969. Gene McCarthy was a good personal friend of Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir. He was a friend of Israel. Gene would probably
have been re-elected in 1972. There probably would NOT have been an
arab surprise attack on Israel on October 6th, 1973 with Gene
McCarthy
in the White House and the US NOT tied down in Indochina. In our view
ARAFAT ordered the assassinations of BOTH BOBBY KENNEDY
AND DR.
MARTIN
LUTHER KING. The cost to the African-American community of the
death
of the most Gandhian leader it ever had is incalculable in terms of
wasted human lives. Dr. King was also a friend to the Jewish
community. Imagine a world in which there never had been a split
between the Jewish community and the African American community.
Instead of Jesse Jackson assuming the mantle of the slain Dr. King,
and going on to lead the charge against the Jewish community after
Jimmy Carter fired Andy Young for shaking hands with an arafat
observer at the UN, and going on to make his infamous Hymietown
remark, Martin Luther King would have led the African-American
community. ( Jackson allegedly got $5 million dollars for his
OPERATION PUSH from Iraq and allegedly got another $5 million
Dollars from Libya)..Andrew Young "allegedly"
received $100,000 from BCCI. Young's boss,Jimmy Carter, the most
anti-Israel
President of the United States in history "allegedly" received
$10,000,000,
that's right TEN
MILLION DOLLARS from BCCI for the Carter Presidential Library. Their
pal Jesse Jackson "allegedly" received $5 million dollars from Saddam
Hussein
and another $5 million dollars from Libya for his "OPERATION PUSH"
organization.
Now Andrew Young has had what could be charitably described as a "Mel
Gibson
Moment". Such anti-Semitic "moments", like Jesse Jackson's infamous
anti-Semitic
"Welcome To Hymietown" remarks should never be forgiven or forgotten by
anyone.
They are the same sort of stuff The Holocaust was made from. Those who
make such
despicable remarks deserve to be shunned and censured by the civilized
world now
and forever.
Moreover it was Andrew Young's firing from his UN Post by Jimmy
Carter that set the stage for Jesse Jackson to wage an unrelenting
campaign
against Israel and the Jewish people which sought to create a wedge
between the
Jewish community and the African-American community. It could not have
been more
damaging to both
communities and to civilization in general if it had been planned
out in detail in advance. What do you think? Was the infamous
"handshake"
between
Andrew Young
and a so-called "PLO" observer at the UN, and Carter's subsequent
firing of
Young for so-doing, staged and rehearsed well in advance so that
Jackson could
go on his anti-Semitic campaign?
Young will not step down
ASSOCIATED PRESS
8/19/2006
ATLANTA - The Democratic gubernatorial campaign of Lt. Gov. Mark
Taylor said
Friday there were no plans for its co-chairman Andrew Young to step
down,
despite remarks he made about Jews, Koreans and Arabs in an
interview.
Young said Friday he was stepping down from his job providing public
relations
help for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. The move came amid criticism for
remarks published
Thursday in the weekly Los Angeles Sentinel, which asked Young
whether he was
concerned that Wal-Mart causes smaller, mom-and-pop stores to close.
"Well, I think they should; they ran the "mom and pop' stores out of
my
neighborhood," the paper quoted Young as saying.
"But you see, those are the people who have been overcharging us,
selling us
stale bread and bad meat and wilted vegetables. And they sold out
and moved to
Florida. I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First,
it was Jews,
then it was Koreans and now it's Arabs; very few black people own
these stores."
..=2E.
A spokesman for Republican Gov. Sonny Perdue, who is running for re-
election,
said the remarks wouldn't be tolerated in his campaign.
Young was one of Taylor's most visible supporters during his primary
battle."
"Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President
Clinton's Library" article being quoted:.
"The Saudi royal family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and
Qatar donated at this "Trustee" level, as did the governments of
Brunei and Taiwan. Also listed as trustees are three Saudi
businessmen - Abdullah Al-Dabbagh, Nasser Al-Rashid, and Walid
Juffali.
Other notables at the "Trustee" level include the deputy prime
minister of Lebanon, Issam Fares; Hollywood director Steven
Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, and an heir to the Wal-
Mart fortune, Alice Walton.
The next tier down is labeled "Philanthropists." ...On the level below
that are the "Humanitarians." Based on benchmarks available from
other sources, the "Humanitarians" seem to have given between
$100,000 and $500,000. In their ranks are the King of Morocco,
Mohammed VI, as well as a Pakistani-American businessman from
California, Farooq Bajwa...
The U.S.-Islamic World Conference gave at the Humanitarian level...
according to the information available on the computer screen in the
Clinton Library here....
..=2E.A Washington Post editorial on Thursday decried the lack of
disclosure of the Clinton Library's funders, calling
it "outrageous." Said the editorial,"the presidential libraries,
though built and endowed with private funds, are public property,
run by the National Archives. The public has a right to know who's
underwriting them." source: http://www.nysun.com/article/5137?
page_no=3D3
You can read about "BCCI's later involvement in financing the
Presidential library, charities, and travel of President Jimmy
Carter..." at
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm
"In fact the owner of BCCI built President Carter's library..."
source: http://www.conservativeusa.org/klayman2.htm
"Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax
Monday, April 29, 2002
Former president Jimmy Carter, who has recently emerged as one of
the Jewish state's most vocal critics for its current West Bank anti-
terror policy, has been the recipient of tens of millions of dollars
from Arab sources.
Recently, for example, Carter suggested that the U.S. government
should threaten Israel with the possible loss of U.S. aid if it
continues its military offensive in the West Bank.
He also said the U.S. should demand that U.S.-supplied weapons be
used only for defensive purposes.
Mr. Carter's views are often aired by the American media as those of
a neutral mediator-the man who engineered the 1979 Camp David
Accords that has given Israel and Egypt a cold peace in the decades
since.
But far from being neutral, Carter has a track record as a long-time
critic of Israel who has often displayed pro-Arab sympathies.
It was his Carter Center that joined with the National Democratic
Institute to put the seal of legitimacy on the first elections ever
held by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in January
1996. Voters, who turned out in droves, elected Yasser Arafat
president, and he has been in power ever since.
In 1990 Carter ghostwrote a speech for Arafat, hoping to polish the
Palestinian leader's tarnished image as, at best, being soft on
terrorism. Arafat won the Nobel Peace prize for the Oslo Accords.
In 1989 President Carter interceded with Israeli Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin on behalf of activist Terry Boullata, a field worker
for the Palestinian Human Rights Information Center. Boullata had
been imprisoned in November 1987 for allegedly belonging to a
terrorist organization called the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. Boullata was allowed out in 1989 to come to
the United States for treatment of hepatitis.
The Carter Center: Follow the Money
But it's the financing behind Georgia's Carter Center and the Jimmy
Carter Library that raises serious doubts that the former president
is, in actuality, a wholly neutral intermediary in the troubled
region.
NewsMax has reviewed annual reports that indicate millions of
charitable dollars have flowed into the center from His Majesty
Sultan Qaboss bin Said Al Said of Oman, Jordan, from the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, and from the Government of the United Arab Emirates.
Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to
the center by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. H.R.H.
Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco has also contributed
tens of thousands of dollars.
There are no corresponding contributions apparent from Israeli
sources, however.
As the center's literature describes, "The Carter Center and the
Jimmy Carter Library were built in large measure thanks to the early
leadership and financial support of the Carter Center founders."
Three of those generous founders:
Agha Hasan Abedi
On July 5 1991, banking regulators targeted Abedi's Bank of Credit
and Commerce International (BCCI), triggering a worldwide financial
tidal wave. To date, accountants and lawyers have managed to recoup
(discounting fees) $7 billion out of the $12 billion money pit that
fueled the BCCI fraud.
Agha Hasan Abedi, a banker and self-styled mystic on first-name
terms with Carter, created BCCI in 1972. Abedi had charmed seed
money out of Arab sheikhs, organizing camel races and hunting trips.
The Bank of America bought into BCCI as a way of buying access to
the Middle East, holding a 30 percent stake at one point before
dumping its holdings in the late-1970s.
His Majesty King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Last month Saudi Arabia transferred $15.4 million in advance aid to
the Palestinian Authority. The transfer was made to a controversial
Arab League fund, a product of the recent Arab summit in Beirut.
According to Arab spokesmen, the money was hurriedly contributed due
to the dire plight of the Palestinian people as a result of "vicious
Israeli aggression."
King Fahd, Crown Prince Abdullah and Defense Minister Prince Sultan
jointly donated $4.8 million to launch the fund pot, while Interior
Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz sent an estimated $800,000 to
the families of "155 Palestinian martyrs" killed in the current
Israeli offensive.
Hasib J. Sabbagh
Sabbagh is the chairman of Consolidated Contractors Co. of Oman,
Jordan. He is also the Senior Fellow for the Middle East of the
Council on Foreign Relations. Founded in 1921, the Council on
Foreign Relations is a membership organization contributing ideas to
U=2ES. foreign policy. The Council publishes Foreign Affairs, a
leading journal on global issues.
Individual, foundation, and corporate donors, together with
multilateral development assistance programs, support the Carter
Center's current annual operating budget of around $30 million.
Among the center's announced priorities: promoting democracy, global
development, human rights and conflict resolution.
Carter said he has spent much time raising money, but he hopes that
a campaign to raise a $150 million endowment will lighten the load....
the center's executive director for operations, said an estimated
$110 million has already been raised for the endowment.
U=2ES. Leverage Over Israel
Carter also said that U.S. aid of $10 million a day should give the
U=2ES. some leverage over Israeli policy..."
SOURCE: http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/28/112225.shtml
BCCI's clients for money laundering included Panamanian General
Manuel Noriega, for whom it managed some $23 million of criminal
proceeds out of its London branches; Pablo Escobar, of the Medellin
cartel; Rodriguez Gacha, of the Medellin cartel; and several members
of the Ochoa family.
Not So Sweet
We saw it on September 11th, 2001 c.e.
"A so-called)palestinian woman receives free sweets from a vendor as
groups of
locals in Jerusalem's Old City celebrate after hearing the news of a
terrorist
attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 11,
2001." (AP
Photo/str)
http://www.canoe.ca/CNEWSWorldTrade0109/photo136.html
We saw it again on Sunday December 18th, 2005 c.e.
so-called "palestinians" distribute sweets in Gaza after hearing
that Israeli
Prime Minister Sharon was taken to hospital
18th December 2005 c.e. Source: Reuters
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/pictures/SJS34.htm
so-called "palestinians" distribute sweets in Gaza after hearing
that Israeli
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was taken to a hospital December 18th,
2005 c.e.
Sharon was rushed to a Jerusalem hospital on Sunday suffering from
what Israeli
television described as a minor stroke"
We do not feel that people who would celebrate the arab attacks
of September 11th,2001 c.e. or the stroke suffered by Israeli
Prime Minister Sharon are very sweet at all.
"Saddam's WMDs are in Syria
Posted: June 29, 2004 c.e.
2004 WorldNetDaily.com
There is mounting evidence that at least some of Saddam Hussein's
missing
weapons of mass destruction are in Syria, smuggled there by the
Iraqi dictator
for safekeeping before the beginning of the war. Part of the
stockpile the
coalition forces have so far failed to find in Iraq was probably
destroyed; part
is likely still hidden. But a massively lethal amount of Iraq's
chemical and
biological weapons is stored alongside Syria's own stockpiles of
WMDs. "
"6 January 2004
The United States and Britain have stated bluntly that Syria must
relinquish its
weapons of mass destruction or "face ostracism ***" This is in
response to an
earlier announcement by President Bashar Assad that Syria would not
dispose of
its WMD*** The two western countries have made clear to Syria that
abandoning
its chemical and biological weapons constitutes the price of better
relations.
-Anton La Guardia, "Assad Given Weapons Ultimatum," The Daily
Telegraph
(London), 7 January 2004.
9 January 2004
According to National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, the Bush
administration
is in the process of investigating a report that Iraq spirited its
WMD across
the border into Syria before the U.S. invasion in March 2003.***"
Hutton Gibson
Hutton Gibson (born 1919?) is the father of actor Mel Gibson and a
writer about religion. Following a victory on the Jeopardy! game
show, Gibson moved his family to Australia in 1968 in protest of the
Vietnam War and because he believed that changes in American society
were immoral. Gibson is a member of the "traditionalist" Catholic
Church, who believes that the Mass should still be said in Latin and
that all of the Second Vatican Council is in error. Gibson holds
that the Second Vatican Council was a secret anti-Christian plot by
both Masons and Jews. These are widely viewed as an anti-Semitic
conspiracy theory. Gibson also holds to other conspiracy theories,
such as his claim that the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks were
not carried out by mostly Saudi Arabian Muslims onboard the plane,
but rather were carried out by "remote control" by a different
party. Gibson denies that the Holocaust occurred; he claims that it
is impossible for the Holocaust to have happened, since, in his
view, there would be no way to get rid of so many bodies. He claims
that "There weren't even that many Jews in all of Europe", and says
that there were more Jews in Europe after World War II, statements
disputed by all historians (charts of world Jewish population show a
steep dip between the 1920s and the 1950s). In support of his
father, Mel Gibson claims that his father's beliefs do not amount to
Holocaust denial. External links *snopes.com story about Mel Gibson
and his father This article courtesy of Wikipedia. This article is
licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License, which means that
you can copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including
additions) remains under this license. GFDL:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
Source:
http://www.4reference.net/encyclopedias/wikipedia/Hutton_Gibson.html
"Hutton Gibson, is an anti-Semitic lunatic who thinks the Holocaust
was exaggerated, Alan Greenspan should be lynched, and the United
States government should be overthrown. Meryl Yourish has the
details."
Source: http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/000290.html
"Mel Gibson's father has gone on an explosive rant against Jews -
claiming they fabricated the Holocaust and are conspiring to take
over the world.
"They're after one world religion and one world government," Hutton
Gibson, 85, said in a radio interview that will air Monday
night. "That's why they've attacked the Catholic Church so strongly,
to ultimately take control over it by their doctrine."
In the bizarre interview, Gibson also said Federal Reserve Chairman
Alan Greenspan should be lynched and called for the government to be
overthrown.
[=2E..] Gibson repeatedly smeared prominent Jews as money-grubbing
power-mongers.
"Greenspan tells us what to do. Someone should take him out and hang
him."
He even belittled the Pope's reported endorsement of "The Passion,"
recounting how Mel referred to the pontiff as an "*****."
Gibson reserved most of his vitriol for Judaism, asking: "Is the Jew
still actively anti-Christian? He is, for by being a Jew, he is anti-
everyone else."
Mel Gibson's spokesman, Alan Nierob, had no comment on the elder
Gibson's tirade.
But Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said they were the
words of a "classical anti-Semite."
Source: http://www.yourish.com/archives/2004/feb15-
21_2004.html#2004021902
"Hutton Gibson spoke Monday to Steve Feuerstein of "Speak Your
Piece!" on WSNR (620 AM), a show syndicated by Talkline, the largest
syndicator of Jewish programming.
Some of his most outrageous rants focused on the millions of Jews
exterminated by Adolf Hitler.
"They claimed that there were 6.2 million in Poland before the war,
and they claimed after the war there were 200,000 - therefore he
must have killed 6 million of them," he said. "They simply got up
and left! They were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney,
Australia, and Los Angeles."
He said the Germans did not have enough gas to cremate 6 million
people and that the concentration camps were just "work camps."
"It's all - maybe not all fiction - but most of it is," he said.
Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League said they were the
words of a "classical anti-Semite."
"If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny," he said.
He's troubled by Mel Gibson's failure to condemn his father's
beliefs, and pointed to a recent interview where Gibson said his dad
never lied to him.
"Well, he's been lying to the world, but it sounds like truth to the
son? That's strange," Foxman said.
Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/165923p-
145217c.html
"Pope's Syrian visit overshadowed by anti-Semitic diatribes
By Ellis Shuman May 8, 2001
Pope John Paul II completed a four-day visit to Syria today, a visit
of religious significance that was overshadowed by his hosts'
attempts to gain papal political support for the Syrian and
Palestinian cause.
Syrian President Basher al-Assad greeted the Pope at Damascus
International Airport on Saturday with a speech that connected the
Palestinian plight to that of Jesus. "[The Jews] try to kill all the
principles of divine faiths with the same mentality of betraying
Jesus Christ and torturing Him, and in the same way that they tried
to commit treachery against Prophet Mohammad," Assad said. The Pope
declined to respond to Assad's attack against Jews and opted to
stick to his prepared speech in which he praised the Syrian
President profusely.
The stance of Basher al-Assad didn't come as a surprise to
observers. On his trip to Spain last week, the Syrian President
denounced Israelis as being "more racist than the Nazis." Despite
the desire of the Pope to take a personal journey honoring one of
the saints whose name the pope assumed as head of the Roman Catholic
Church, observers and analysts suggested that the papal visit was
being manipulated by his hosts. Katsav attacks Assad's remarks
Israeli President Moshe Katsav attacked Assad's remarks on Sunday,
suggesting that the young Syrian leader would be better off if he
followed his late father's example of exercising self-control when
criticizing Israel. "He [Hafez Assad] was not a partner with whom we
could reach peace but he did not express himself in such a careless,
racist, anti-Semitic, illogical manner as that in which the current
president expresses himself," Katsav said.
Katsav also called upon the Vatican "to respond to Assad's remarks
and to correct his historic mistake."
Wayne Firestone, director of the Anti-Defamation League's Israel
office, said that the organization was "deeply upset at the show
that was staged for the pope, who is on record as working for the
reconciliation between Jews and Christians." Firestone added that
Assad's "repugnant accusations that Jews murdered Christ" attempted
to mix religion with politics in an already volatile situation.
Source:
http://www.israelinsider.com/channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0034.htm
"In wake of Assad's remarks, Jews blast pope's silence
MICHAEL J. JORDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NEW YORK-When the Western-educated Bashar Assad succeeded his
father, Hafez Assad, as president of Syria last summer, Israeli
officials hoped the changing of the guard from the Lion of Damascus
to the Optometrist of Damascus would usher in a gentler approach
toward Israel.
Young Assad has lost no time in establishing animosity toward
Israel, however, greeting Pope John Paul II to Syria this week by
resuscitating one of the great anti-Jewish canards: the accusation
that Jews killed Jesus.
Even more galling to many Jewish leaders, however, was the pope's
silence in the face of the Christ-killer charge, as well as Assad's
call for Christians and Muslims to unite against Jews and an
apparently novel claim that Jews even tried to kill the prophet
Mohammed.
The following day, Assad's minister for religious affairs weighed in
by warning the pope: "We must be fully aware of what the enemies of
God and malicious Zionism conspire to commit against Christianity
and Islam."
As is his policy, the pope stuck to his script and did not attempt
to counter his hosts' harangues.
To some Jewish leaders, the pope's silence raises the question of
whether a man often hailed for his moves toward Jewish-Christian
reconciliation really is committed to stamping out the insidious
anti-Semitism that the Roman Catholic Church helped propagate
through the ages.
And now the pope-whose reign has seen international criticism of the
Vatican's silence in the face of Nazi atrocities-also held his
tongue while Assad picked up a theme that the Catholic Church itself
finally repudiated in 1965.
"If there's one thing we've learned from the 1930s, it's that words-
especially the words of leaders-have consequences," said Rabbi A.
James Rudin, the senior interreligious adviser to the American
Jewish Committee. "And these words should not go unchecked or
uncriticized."
"Of all the gin joints in all the world..." goes the famous quote
from Casablanca, one of many brave anti-Nazi films starring Humphrey
Bogart. Of all the Roman Catholics in all the world how was it that
the Roman Catholic Church chose a member of the Hitler Youth
to replace the late Pope? What sort of message does that send?
What would the reaction have been had the new Pope been a member of
the K.K.K.?
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Pope, Abbas Discuss Mideast Peace Process By FRANCES D'EMILIO,
Associated Press Writer
Saturday December 3rd, 2005 c.e.
Pope Benedict XVI discussed the Middle East peace process Saturday
with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, who invited the pontiff to
visit the Holy Land.
"You will be very welcome in Jerusalem and all the holy places,"
Abbas, speaking English, told the pope after their private 20-minute
meeting in Benedict's library.
"Thank you very much," the pope replied.
Abbas later told journalists that Benedict "responded positively" to
his invitation but indicated no date for a visit. Last month,
Israeli President Moshe Katsav invited Benedict to Israel and said
he hoped the pope would visit next year.
During their meeting, Benedict and Abbas talked about the Israeli-
Palestinian conflict, with the pope stressing "the need to integrate
all components of the Palestinian people into the peace process,"
Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said in a written statement.
The statement did not elaborate but appeared to be a reference to
extremist elements blamed for violence and terrorism. Violence
marred primary elections across the Palestinian territories earlier
this week.
Briefing journalists at a Rome hotel, Abbas said the pope with "his
symbolic weight ... can carry out a decisive role for peace."
One of the members in the Palestinian delegation presented the pope
with a document that Abbas later said was fashioned by Bethlehem's
inhabitants "to express the ties of friendship and spirituality that
link the Vatican and the people of Bethlehem, dear to Christians as
Jesus' birthplace."
When Pope John Paul II received Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in
1982, the first of many meetings between the two men, it sparked
protests in Israel and in the worldwide Jewish community. John Paul
consistently championed rights for the Palestinian people while at
the same time greatly improving the Vatican's relations with Israel.
Abbas' visit to the Vatican, which included separate talks with the
pope's secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, was his last
major appointment of a three-day visit to Italy."
We are happy to see the disapproval being expressed regarding the
anti-Semitic remarks of the Iranian Tyrant and Holocaust Denier.
We wonder when we will see identical disapproval being expressed
regarding another Holocaust-Denier Mahmoud Abbas,(also known as Abu
Mazen), the
person who succeeded arafat as the Tyrant in parts of Judea, Samaria
and Gaza.
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