The Lady Vanishes

[Guest guest]

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.N. 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.k.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=6340

 

 

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. 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=YzM3YjhhZGIxZjExNjIxOGU2NTEyZjE0ODFhYmFlNzY=

" 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=/c/a/2006/08/31/EDG0SJ7NHV1.DTL & type=printable

" 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 Dick 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.

Page B - 9

URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?

file=/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 ®

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 Dick 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=ny-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. 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. "

....

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….

…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=3

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.S. 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.S. Leverage Over Israel

Carter also said that U.S. aid of $10 million a day should give the

U.S. 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.

[...] 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 " ass. "

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.?

"

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.

 

We also need to not only know the enemy

KnowTheEnemy/

http://ph.KnowTheEnemy/photos

 

We need to be brave and strong in the face of the enemy. " We say

hazak, hazak, v'nithazek: be strong, be strong, and strengthen one

another. "

http://www.womeningreen.org/

http://www.afsi.org/

http://www.think-israel.org/

" The Origins of the SO-CALLED " palestinian " Arabs by Daniel Pipes

No " SO-CALLED " palestinian " Arab people " existed at the start of

1920, but, by

December, it took shape in a form recognizably similar to today's.

Until the

late nineteenth century, residents

living in the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean

identified themselves primarily in terms of religion: Moslems felt

far stronger

bonds with remote co-religionists than with nearby Christians and

Jews. Living

in that area did not imply any sense of common political purpose.

Then came the

ideology of nationalism from Europe; its ideal of a government that

embodies the

spirit of its people was alien but appealing to Middle Easterners.

How to apply this ideal, though Who constitutes a nation and where

must the

boundaries be These questions stimulated huge debates. Some said the

residents

of the Levant are a nation; others said Eastern Arabic speakers; or

all Arabic

speakers; or all Moslems. But no one suggested " SO-

CALLED " palestinians, " and

for good

reason. SO-CALLED " palestinie " , then a secular way of saying Eretz

Yisra'el or Terra Sancta, embodied a purely Jewish and Christian

concept, one

utterly foreign to Moslems, even repugnant to them. This distaste

was confirmed

in April 1920, when the

British occupying force carved out a " Palestine. " Moslems reacted

very suspiciously, rightly seeing this designation as a victory for

Zionism. Less accurately, they worried about it signaling a revival

in the

Crusader impulse. No prominent Moslem voices endorsed the

delineation of

Palestine in 1920; all protested it. Instead, Moslems west of the

Jordan

directed their allegiance to

Damascus, where the great-great-uncle of Jordan's King Abdullah II

was then ruling; they identified themselves as Southern Syrians.

Interestingly, no one advocated this affiliation more emphatically

than a young

man named Amin Husseini. In July 1920, however, the French overthrew

this

Hashemite king, in the process killing the notion of a Southern

Syria. Isolated

by the events of

April and July, the Moslems of Palestine made the best of a bad

situation. One prominent Jerusalemite commented, just days following

the fall of

the Hashemite kingdom: " after the recent events in Damascus, we have

to effect a

complete change in our plans here. Southern Syria no longer exists.

We must

defend SO-CALLED " palestine " " Following this advice, the leadership

in

December 1920 adopted the goal of establishing an independent SO-

CALLED

" palestinian " state. Within a few years, this

effort was led by Husseini. Other identities - Syrian, Arab, and

Moslem - continued to compete for decades afterward with the SO-

CALLED " palestinian " one, but the latter has by now mostly swept the

others

aside and reigns nearly supreme. The

writer is director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East Forum. "

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/History/palarabs.html

 

" What is the Origin of the Name " Palestine "

Where did the name Palestine come from

The name Palestine refers to a region of the eastern Mediterranean

coast from the sea to the Jordan valley and from the southern Negev

desert to the Galilee lake region in the north. The word itself

derives from " Peleshet " , a name that appears frequently in the Bible

and has come into English as " Philistine " . The Philistines were

Mediterranean people originating from Asia Minor and Greek

localities. They reached the southern coast of Israel in several

waves. One group arrived in the pre-patriarchal period and settled

south of Beersheba in Gerar where they came into conflict with

Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael. Another group, coming from Crete after

being repulsed from an attempted invasion of Egypt by Rameses III in

1194 BCE, seized the southern coastal area, where they founded five

settlements (Gaza, Ascalon, Ashdod, Ekron and Gat). In the Persian

and Greek periods, foreign settlers - chiefly from the Mediterranean

islands - overran the Philistine districts. From the time of

Herodotus, Greeks called the eastern coast of the Mediterranean

" Syria Palaestina " .

The Philistines were not Arabs nor even Semites, they were most

closely related to the Greeks. They did not speak Arabic. They had no

connection, ethnic, linguistic or historical with Arabia or Arabs.

The name " Falastin " that Arabs today use for " Palestine " is not an

Arabic name. It is the Arab pronunciation of the Greco-Roman

" Palastina " ; which is derived from the Peleshet, (root Pelesh) which

was a general term meaning " dividers " , " penetrators " or " invaders " .

This referred to the Philistine's invasion and conquest of the coast

from the sea.

The Roman historian Herodotus was the first to mention the name. He

called it " the Philistine Syria. " Subsequently, the name was

shortened to " Palestina, " and eventually Palestine. The Christian

Crusaders employed the word to refer to the general area that had

been known since the fourth century as the " three Palestines. " After

the fall of the crusader kingdom, Palestine was no longer an official

designation. The name, however, continued to be used informally for

the lands on both sides of the Jordan River. The Ottoman Turks, who

were non-Arabs but religious Muslims, ruled the area for 400 years

(1517-1917). Under Ottoman rule, Palestine attached administratively

to the province of Damascus and ruled from Istanbul. The name

Palestine was revived after the fall of the Ottoman Empire in World

War I and applied to this territory under the British Mandate.

 

SOURCE:

PalestinianFacts.org "

tgoesq@a...

Wed Apr 24, 2002 8:23 pm

GENETIC STUDIES: JEWS ARE FROM ISRAEL,

SO-CALLED " palestinians " FROM SAUDI ARABIA

 

Arabs claim that today's Jews aren't really

descendants of ancient Israelites and are really

converts WITHOUT EVER SHOWING ANY PROOF.

 

Here's GENETIC PROOF that not only are Jews

descendants of the Jews who were exiled from Israel

by Romans, but Jews of today have more Israelite

genes than Arabs have genes of ancient Arabs.

Furthermore, SO-CALLED " palestinians " are originally from Saudi

Arabia and Yemen. Go back wherever the hell you

came from!

 

University of Baltimore: Jews are originally

from northern Middle East (where Israel is

located), while SO-CALLED " palestinians " are originally from

Saudi Arabia.

 

The study also says that while Jews are

partially the product of mixed-marriages and converts, Jews have

about

70% to 80% blood

of ancient Israelites, while Arabs have only 50% blood of ancient

Arabs.

http://www.ubalt.edu/kulanu/jewishdna.html

National Academy of Sciences: Several lines of evidence support

the

hypothesis that Diaspora Jews

from Europe, Northwest Africa, and the Near East resemble each other

more closely than they resemble their

non-Jewish neighbors.

Second, despite their high degree of geographic dispersion, Jewish

populations from Europe, North Africa,

and the Near East were less diverged genetically from each other than

any other group of populations in this study (meaning that Jews have

more Israelite genes than Arabs have genes of ancient Arabs) .

Our results indicated a relatively minor contribution of European Y

chromosomes to the Ashkenazim. If we

assume 80 generations since the founding of the Ashkenazi population,

then the rate of admixture would be

<0.5% per generation .

Stanford University: If you made a genetic map of Europe and the

Middle East and you put Ashkenazi

Jews on it, they would not end up in Turkey or in the middle of

Europe, but in the Mediterranean.

http://www.forward.com/issues/2001/01.08.17/genetic2.html

University of Arizona: We saw such a strong signal of a

Middle-Eastern origin in Jews. Jews really are a

single ethnic group coming from the Middle East. Even if you look

like

another European with blue eyes

and light skin, your genes are telling that you're from the Middle

East.

http://www.jewishaz.com/jewishnews/000519/study.shtml

NY Times: The analysis provides genetic witness that these

communities have, to a

remarkable extent, retained their biological identity separate from

their host populations,

evidence of relatively little intermarriage or conversion into

Judaism

over the centuries.

http://foundationstone.com.au/HtmlSupport/WebPage/semiticGenetics.htm

l

Reuters (on web site): A study shows that Jews suffer from

the same illnesses. If

Jews were mere French, Polish, etc. converts, they would not share

the

same genetic makeup

with each other.

http://in.news./011217/107/1b4p6.html

ABC News: " Jews have preserved their Middle Eastern genetic roots

over 4,000 years.

Very few non-Jewish European genes have gotten into the Ashkenazi

(European and American)

Jewish populations. The comparison, published Monday, of groups of

Semites also shows that

Jews have successfully resisted having their gene pool diluted,

despite having lived among

non-Jews for thousands of years in what is commonly known as the

Diaspora

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/science/DailyNews/geneticbrothers00050

9

..html

9. Hebrew University: Jews are from Middle East.

http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2000/11/06/News/News.14948.html

10. BBC on another genetic study proving that Jews descended from

Israel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_742000/742430.stm