ZGram - 10/14/2002 - "Selling Anti-Semitism" - Part I -

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

October 14, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I would like all of my readers to consider the following - along with 
my essay choice for the day titled "Selling Anti-Semitism":

*   The well-known American-Jewish writer, Alfred Lilienthal, 
detailed Israel-Mossad actions and secret operations as early as the 
1950s - OPERATIONS in North Africa and the Middle East, especially 
Syria, where a well-settled and wealthy Jewish community was 
unwilling to uproot itself to move to the new Jewish state of Israel. 
Weapons were conveniently planted in synagogues, and the Syrian 
police were informed by anonymous tipsters where to find those 
weapons.  Syrian Jewish officials were subjected to harassment and 
threats, even beatings, by Mossad operatives posing as Syrians, until 
the frightened Jewish community caved in and emigrated at large to 
Israel.

*   In Egypt the well-known Lavon Affair led to mysterious bombings 
of American installations by israeli agents, causing injuries and 
death - with the intent of turning America against Nasser's regime. 
Some of the Israeli agents screwed up, were arrested, confessed, and 
were ultimately executed.

*   According to Canadian-Jewish writer and former Mossad agent, 
Victor Ostrovsky, in his books, "By Way of Deception" and "Beyond 
Deception", the Mossad planted electronic beacons and devices in 
Libya to falsely implicate the Libyans in "terrorism" against 
America, in Europe, and elsewhere, leading to massive US sanctions 
and bombing raids against Libya.

*   After the collapse of the Communist regime, the Germans found out 
that Marcus "Misha" Wolf, their spy chief, had agents deface and 
overturn gravestones in Jewish cemeteries and write threats to West 
German synagogues - "anti-semitic attacks" leading to a world-wide 
outcry against Germany and Germans.  As a reaction, "hate laws" were 
whipped through Parliament, under which tens of thousands of Germans 
have been tried, convicted, fined and imprisoned in the last 35 
years. 

All of Mossad's actions bear the same imprint!  They are always 
designed to blame Israel's Enemies of the Moment!

Now take a deep breath and hold still while I tell you this - and let 
it sink in:  Hitler's government was totally blindsided by the 
pogrom-like outrages in 1938 in Germany against Germany's Jewish 
community - at a time when Hitler's ideas were gaining support and 
admiration all over the world.  The planners and instigators of 
"Kristallnacht" - the Night of the Broken Glass - were never 
discovered either by Hitler's Gestapo or the many intelligence 
services of the day.  The Third Reich Government and German image 
never recovered from that 9/11-like attack!

All of the above, as well as the essay below, might give American 
enforcement agencies as well as American law makers pause to ponder - 
and possibly look in another direction as to who might have been 
responsible for the planning and at least part of the execution of 
the attacks on America in recent times. 

Now to today's essay:

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Selling anti-Semitism

Al-Ahram Weekly Online | 10 - 16 October 2002

The "new anti-Semitism", whether real or imagined, is the only sales pitch
Israel has that still works, writes Jonathan Cook

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Hardly a day passes in Israel without another lengthy feature in the Hebrew
press documenting the rapid reemergence of anti-Semitism in Europe, with France
and Britain invariably singled out as the worst culprits. For many months
Israel's liberal daily newspaper Haaretz has included a special compilation of
reports on the "New Anti-Semitism" on its website.

Some commentators have pointed out that Israel's current preoccupation with
anti-Semitism dangerously conflates two separate, and very different, trends:
the first a harsher ideological climate in Europe towards Israel's military
assault on the Palestinians; and the second a wave of attacks on synagogues and
Jews, often committed by Muslim youths angry at what they see as Western
indifference to this assault.

The blurring of one, legitimate criticism of Israeli actions, with the other,
illegitimate retaliation against Jews, serves a useful purpose for Israel. It
makes it difficult, at times nigh impossible, to give voice to the daily
suffering of millions of Palestinians under occupation without invoking the
label "anti-Semite" from a muscular Zionist lobby in Europe and the United
States.

But is this the only benefit to Israel? The diet of "new anti-Semitism" stories
is not offered only for the consumption of Israel's wavering Western allies; it
is also being fed to a more easily swayed audience: European and 
American Jewry.

Endless talk about the ugly return of anti-Semitism is a powerful 
warning to the
diaspora that the assumption that Jews now inhabit a safe environment in the
West is mistaken. Europe in particular, it is implied, has barely moved on from
the days of the Dreyfus affair in late nineteenth- century France, 
when the army
all too readily convicted an officer of treason because he was Jewish.

No one stands to gain more from reviving the idea of the need for a Jewish
homeland -- the "insurance policy for Jews" argument -- than Israel. It both
stifles criticism from Jews unhappy with Israel's behaviour towards the
Palestinians and, more importantly, it fuels the fears that drive Jewish
migration.

Among Israelis it goes unquestioned that Jewish immigration, known as "aliyah""
is still supremely important if Israel is to remain an ethnic Jewish state.

The consensus says that the Palestinians, aware that they cannot defeat the
state militarily, are quietly trying to swamp it with Arab babies in a
demographic "battle of wombs".

So prevalent is this view that a former air force commander, Eitan Ben Eliahu,
went unchallenged recently in a national television debate when he commented:
"We have to step up immigration immediately and in some way also thin out the
number of Arabs here." He was simply restating arguments expressed with
disturbing regularity in the Israeli government, including from within Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon's Likud Party.

Last month the government even reestablished the Demography Council, disbanded
several years ago after complaints it was a racist institution, to find ways to
promote increased fertility among Jewish women. Israel, however, will be
hard-pushed to win the numbers battle: the birth rate among the country's large
Arab minority is several times that of the Jewish majority. Another tactic is
required.

Sharon implicitly conceded this point early in his premiership when he called
for one million Jews to migrate to Israel under the Law of Return. The problem
is that the remaining Jewish communities outside Israel are by and large
successful and comfortably integrated into their host countries. There is
unlikely to be another exodus on the scale of the one from the Soviet Union in
the early 1990s.

Which leaves Israel with a product it desperately needs to sell (aliyah) that
few Jews want to buy. The "new anti- Semitism" is Israel's marketing 
strategy at
its most aggressive.

But more worrying is evidence that, in the absence of "Jew hatred", Israel may
be encouraging a climate of anti- Semitism to make its case to the 
diaspora more
convincing.

Take, for example, the collapse of the Argentinian economy late last year.
Israel immediately pulled out its cheque book and publicly declared that it
wanted to help members of that country's large Jewish community rebuild their
lives. But the money was not made available to them in Argentina; the $20,000
cheques could only be collected by Jews arriving to settle in Israel.

This offer of a "Get out of jail free" card from the Israeli government was
loudly trumpeted in the Argentinian and international media. Within weeks the
Hebrew press was running its first stories of a rise in anti-Semitic attacks on
Jews in Argentina. No connection was made between the two events.

This would not be the first time Israel has recklessly played with the fortunes
of the Jewish community in Argentina. Raanan Rein, a history professor at Tel
Aviv University, reveals in his new book "Argentina, Israel and the Jews" (only
in Hebrew) that in a private press conference in 1960 Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion welcomed the possibility that Israel's kidnapping of Nazi war criminal
Adolf Eichmann, in violation of an extradition agreement with Buenos Aires,
would fuel hatred. "If there is anti-Semitism," he told a journalist, "they
[Argentina's Jews] can immigrate to Israel."

Rein says of Israel's attitude towards Argentinian Jews: "Israel comes to the
aid only of those who are prepared to immigrate to it. In effect, 
Israel chooses
between Jews -- those who are prepared to immigrate receive full 
assistance, and
those who want to remain in Argentina are abandoned."

Rein concludes that Israel is not motivated by the best interests of 
Jews in the
diaspora but by its own selfish concerns, including its obsession with
demographics. The "new anti-Semitism", whether real or imagined, is the only
sales pitch Israel has that still works.

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The writer is a British journalist currently living in Nazareth

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(Source:  http://www.ahram.org.eg/weekly/2002/607/op12.htm )

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Tomorrow:  Some more useful and informative reading titled "The 
Israeli Deception that Led to the Bombing of Pan American Flight 103 
over Lockerbie, Scotland" by Richard H. Curtiss