ZGram - 11/6/2001 - "Excerpt from EZ's October Power Letter"

[Ingrid Rimland]

Copyright (c) 2001 - Ingrid A. Rimland

ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

November 6, 2001

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Once a month, Ernst Zundel writes an informal, 8 page letter to his
supporters in some 43 countries who have helped him in his legal battles
spanning decades against the Holocaust Lobby.  He has done so for more than
twenty years.  Over time, these letters have become ever more popular,
especially so since "Nine-Eleven".  His last three missives - # 270 and #
271 - have been in particular demand because they have been shared by many.
We have had to reprint several times.

However, these letters are not available by subscription.  They are only
sent as a courtesy to his regular, active supporters.  So please don't
write to me and ask for back issues because I cannot keep up with my mail.

Today I thought I would ship you an excerpt - a "Leseprobe", as we say in
German - from his October letter.

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Looking at conspiracies within conspiracies

Up until the WTC and Pentagon terrorist attacks, the word "conspiracy" was
much derided.  It was used as a cudgel, a bludgeoning verbal instrument -
to be called a "conspiracy theorist" was deadly to one's reputation.  The
moment those planes hit, the whole world became one beehive of conspiracy
theorists.  Everybody from the president on down speculated on "Whodunit".
Even the most highly paid employees of the most famous intelligence
agencies like the CIA, the FBI, Britain's MI-5, the French Suret=E9 - all
speculated, then analyzed the data to find out who was "behind the
conspiracy".  The media published reports about the number of
"conspirators" involved.  Later still, the FBI released pictures and sought
the help of the public in finding more conspirators.  The President and the
Attorney General warned that there were many more conspirators out there,
and that biological warfare was a very real possibility - all, of course,
plotted by more conspirators at home and abroad.  So now it's perfectly
okay even for Revisionists to look at various "conspiracies"!

Was there more than one conspiracy?

We can start from the safe premise that somewhere in this world, for a
considerable period of time spanning months, perhaps years, some still not
identified, not tried and convicted, unapprehended people conspired and, in
the end, brilliantly and devastatingly succeeded in deceiving the
conventional intelligence services of the most powerful nation on earth -
and successfully "bombed" vitally important and highly recognizable
structures of great symbolic worth.  Millions of words have been written
about who it might have been.  Nobody has yet been tried in a court of law
for that dastardly crime, and nobody has yet been convicted by a judge or a
jury.  Regardless!  The media and some politicians have simply declared one
man, Bin Laden, to be "responsible" - without sharing with the world any
real, tangible proof of his responsibility or guilt to date which would
stand up in a properly constituted court.

They might well come up with such proof in the future.  They might even
deliver a suspect or culprit - but that's all he would be, suspect until
proven guilty!  I feel particularly strongly about it, for I was for
decades vilified, accused, tried and convicted by a vicious media campaign
- and found to be "not guilty" by the highest court in the land!  I want to
make sure that my readers understand this, before we examine who might have
had a hand in planning and executing this crime.  My thoughts, too, only
concern suspects until they might turn into convicted criminals of this
most heinous crime.

The first question on almost everybody's mind:  "What role did Israel, and
its fabled security agencies, among them the Mossad, play?"  We already
looked at that question in last months' newsletter.  Let me recap for
newcomers:

The Israelis claimed they had warned the Americans that a "major assault on
the US" was planned, according to the Jerusalem Post, September 17, 2001
and the Los Angeles Times two days later.  Israeli Intelligence further
claimed that they knew that "200 terrorists" were en route to the US.  This
claim itself is not surprising.  Israel is ideally situated to
electronically monitor the whole Central Asian area, i.e. the Middle East,
and furthermore has hundreds of thousands of Jews who speak the native
languages and even the arcane dialects of that complex region.  Nobody but
nobody has Israel's capability in that respect!  This is why Israel should
have known - and, if the press articles are to be believed, Israel did know
that something big, terrible and nasty was going down!

Israel's current prime minister would have been briefed by his intelligence
services as a matter of fact about everything known to them about such a
planned attack!  If he was briefed that some major terrorist campaign - and
not some Palestinian suicide bomber walking into a Tel Aviv pizzeria but an
air strike half way around the earth against Israel's chief ally and
economic, political and military benefactor, the USA - was planned, why did
Sharon not make one of his apparently frequent telephone calls to President
Bush and warn him point-blank in no uncertain terms?  That might have been
worth a couple of billions in aid to his country, which is forever holding
out its hand!

Was it because Sharon had also been informed that the new Bush
administration was working on a very serious re-evaluation of American
Middle East policy with a clearly spelled-out goal of granting the
Palestinians statehood, an idea and promise given to the Arab Gulf War
allies by Bush the father in 1990, and a demand that Israel withdraw from
all conquered and occupied land and implement various UN resolutions to
that effect?  The media have since reported that Secretary of State, Colin
Powell, was planning to make such a bombshell announcement at the end of
September in an already scheduled public appearance - an announcement only
postponed by the attack on September 11.  With that policy change, Arafat
would have achieved with American help what the Palestinians have not been
able to achieve in half a century!

If, however, Arab terrorists are the culprits who attacked the United
States successfully, Sharon might have reasoned, America could not possibly
make common cause with Arab leaders like Arafat, whom Sharon calls
"Israel's own Bin Laden."  Sharon undoubtedly knew that the new
administration, without a single Jewish cabinet minister, was made up of
people with strong links to what is generally called the
military-industrial complex - in the Bush family's case heavily tilting
toward the energy sectors of oil and gas.  I think it is also important to
recall here, and state for the historical record, that George Bush Senior
was only able to put together his "Grand Military Alliance" against Iraq in
1990 by promising the participating Arab states that after the defeat of
Saddam Hussein, he was going to lean on the Israelis to withdraw from the
occupied territories and help in establishing a Palestinian state.  As we
know, Bush Senior ran afoul of the Israeli Lobby soon thereafter by not
giving them a carte blanche US $10 billion loan guarantee.  The remarks
then by James Baker, a high-ranking Bush advisor and cabinet minister about
the "eff..ing Jews not voting for us anyway" and the Jews always "being
there when the cash register jingled" - or words to that effect - as well
as the emotional, acrimonious debate which ensued in which Bush was called
a "Nazi" and Baker worse by the Jewish Mayor of New York, Ed Koch - all
this led to the dismal defeat of President Bush, who had counted on being
re-elected to make good on his promise to the Arab coalition partners.
President Clinton's administration, as soon the world found out, followed a
totally different pro-Israel agenda.

The Arab world felt naturally betrayed, as they had been betrayed by the
British in World War I who, through Lawrence of Arabia, had promised them
Arab independence if they helped the British defeat the Turkish-Ottoman
empire, but who instead treacherously carved up the Middle East into French
and British colonies.  And to top it off, to add insult to injury, the
British promised the Jews - infidels in the Moslems' minds - a Jewish
homeland in their midst.  According to news reports, this feeling of being
double-crossed by Christians and Jews alike still rankles deep in Arab
consciousness.

Sharon and the Israeli ruling elite knew all this.  The election of George
W. Bush and the very pointed absence of Jewish cabinet ministers were
visible proof that a new wind was blowing in Washington.  Lately, some of
the public statements, especially the one published in Ha'aretz of October
23, "Analysis:  America is finally running out of patience with us" by Alif
Benn,  along with Bush's "unprecedented vehement demand" for the "immediate
withdrawal of Israeli Defense Forces troops from Palestinian-controlled
territories" to Sharon, also on October 23, are clear proof of the changed
relationship!  The Jerusalem Post, same day, likewise featured this terse
item:

"WASHINGTON - Fearing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has decided to dismantle
the Palestinian Authority, the US told Israel yesterday to withdraw
immediately from Palestinian-controlled areas and never return."  (Emphasis
added!)

Israel has nothing to offer Bush except grief!  Israel is now being shunted
aside, isolated and told to lay off and shut up - and far from being seen
as a "strategic asset" as during the Reagan, Bush Senior and Clinton
Administrations,  Israel is now a serious liability.  A writer in the
British-based Guardian called Israel a "lethal liability"!

Bin Laden's widely published and broadcast statements creating a direct
linkage between Israel and the attacks on the Pentagon and the WTC did
their part in dealing Israel a public relations nightmare, exacerbated by
Sharon mouthing off that the US behaved like Chamberlain selling the Czechs
out to Hitler - in other words, that Bush was selling Israel out to the
Arabs.  Spinning this thought backwards to before September 11, 2001, one
can understand that Sharon would have been tempted to "cash in" on a
sweetheart deal politically - if he knew about the conspiracy afoot against
the USA and all the other factors outlined that an attack against America
by Arab terrorists would unleash such a rage against the Arab side.

With one mighty swoop, Sharon might have reasoned, Israel's enemies would
also become America's enemies!  This would have turned the tables and the
anti-Israel tide!  Instead of being a pariah, Sharon, who had just been
widely called a "war criminal" on the BBC and in the world press and was
even charged as that in Belgium, as if by magic, would become America's
chief and only ally in the Middle East region!

Is that so far-fetched?  Look at Sharon's and the Israeli ruling
establishment's policies and behavior pattern!  Look at the USS Liberty
Affair, the Lavon Affair, the Pollard spy case!  As Israelis seem to
perceive it, America is their own useful idiot - and their cash cow to
boot!  Israel has had a fifty year record of double-dealing,
double-crossing the US, stealing its secrets, robbing it of its weapons
research, selling the fruits of these robberies off to America's declared
enemies and on the international arms market - all the while yammering
about their "persecution status" and invoking the ever-handy "Holocaust"!

In the past, America always caved in to Israel.  Recently, a Hebrew Israeli
radio station, Kol Yisrael, on October 3rd reported that during an argument
in an Israeli cabinet meeting, Shimon Peres warned Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon that unless he would heed American requests for a cease-fire with
the Palestinians, he could cause America to turn against Israel. In a fit
of anger, Sharon responded to Peres:

  "Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do
that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about
American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and
the Americans know it."

Could one understand that a man, or a group of men around Sharon, might be
persuaded to humiliate that hated Bush clan and the constituency and forces
it represented, by allowing a lesson to be taught to that uppity upstart -
or whatever else they might call the young President and his "gentile"
Cabinet?  Could that line of thinking also explain why Sharon's personal
security advisor, General Uzi Dayan, delivered a detailed plan prepared by
the Sharon government weeks before the event to "combat terrorism"?  Would
that also be the reason why the American media, within hours of the attack,
was able to talk live to Israeli generals, diplomats, former prime
ministers, at least one of whom, "Bibi" Netanyahu, said that the attack on
the WTC was "very good" for Israel.  Here is the exact quote, published in
the New York Times on September 12, the day after the attack:

"... when former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was asked about
the bombing, he immediately blurted out,  'It's very good.' =1D Then
realizing what he said, he edited his statement by saying, 'Well, not very
good, but it will generate immediate sympathy.'"

Every one of these Israelis and the former Clinton Administration Jewish
staffers, within hours of the attack - while victims were still dying in
the rubble and ruins - were presenting the Bush Administration in the media
with what sounded like a convenient shopping list of targets Israel would
have loved for an angry American President to take out by massive air
assault!

At first it looked as though the young president would do just that when he
angrily told the world:  "You are either with us or against us".  The Vice
President, too, was pretty war-like in his language.  Only Colin Powell,
the man the media had come to deride, even ridicule and character
assassinate in the weeks leading up to September 11, kept his temper under
control and was obviously a steadying influence in the Cabinet.  Largely
thanks to him, cooler heads prevailed.  Soon, Sharon was mouthing off in
Israel like some disgruntled teenager because President Bush did not want
him in his coalition against terrorism.  Time and again, the Israeli press
reported how peeved Sharon was - how Sharon was ignored, lectured by the
young President and pressured to give in on concessions he would never have
considered before the September 11 attack.

If the circle around Sharon had thought that September 11 was good for
Israel, so far it has not turned out that way.  On the contrary!  Israel's
relations with the US have seldom been worse.  Does President Bush know
something about the "Nine-Eleven" conspiracy - and Israel's knowledge of it
- that he has not shared with the rest of the country and the world?  Make
no mistake about it - if a link can or ever will be successfully made that
Sharon or others around him, or even some of his people in the US, knew
about the planned terrorist attack, or God forbid, had a hand in executing
it - I shudder to think of the possible consequences!  But remember:  so
far, there is no hard evidence!  There is conjecture, circumstantial
evidence at best - and lots of conspiracy theories!

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Thought for the Day:

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude
better than the animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We
ask not your counsels or your arms.

"Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly
upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

(Samuel Adams)