ZGram - 1/16/2003 - "THE ULTIMATE JEWISH CONSPIRACY THEORY"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 16, 2002

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

I fancy myself as being quite adept at reading things between the 
lines, but I started reading this with utter incredulity, given the 
name of this writer.  Whaat?  An Abramovich has seen the light? 
Halfway through this article, I asked myself:  "Well, why then the 
kicks in the shin?"  And when I finished, I concluded:  "Threadbare 
to the bone!" 

All that would have been needed in this snide article that utterly 
misses the dart board would have been the old schmalz of the 
"Holocaust"!  But the Guardian knows better, by now.  Perhaps it was 
edited out?

At any rate, enjoy! 

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THE ULTIMATE JEWISH CONSPIRACY THEORY
By David Aaronovitch ( david.aaronovitch@btinternet.com )
The Guardian (London) -- Wednesday, January 15, 2003
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,874824,00.html

God save us from conspiracy theorists, were Senator Joseph Lieberman to
be elected US president in 2004. Things are quite bad enough as they
stand, without a Jewish head of state in America. Fortunately, it looks
as though George Bush will win, whoever his opponent is.

For the past 40 years, the common explanation for US partiality towards
Israel has been the power of the Jewish lobby. It is an explanation
that, broadly, has united leftwingers and rightwingers. Why has the
United States been so supine in the face of Israeli intransigence, and
so uncaring in its attitude towards the plight of the Palestinians?
Above all, why has it behaved in this way, when a more balanced approach
might have served its long-term interests far better? The Jewish lobby,
that's why.

The lobby explanation has been outlined with great clarity by Mark
Weber, who is director of the American Institute for Historical Review.
In a long article ["A Look at the `Powerful Jewish Lobby'."
http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/jewishlobby.html], Weber brought together
the comments and analyses of various Jewish academics, such as Benjamin
Ginsberg of Johns Hopkins University, and writers such as Seymour
Lipset and Earl Raab. Ginsberg, for example, wrote in his book, The Fatal
Embrace: "Since the 1960s, Jews have come to wield considerable influence
in American economic, cultural, intellectual and political life ... 
close to half its
billionaires are Jews. The chief executive officers of the three major
television networks and the four largest film studios are Jews, as are
the owners of the nation's largest newspaper chain and the single most
influential newspaper, the New York Times."

Lipset and Raab gave further figures, noting (according to Weber) that
Jews constituted "50% of the top 200 intellectuals ... 20% of professors
at the leading universities ... 40% of partners in the leading law firms
in New York and Washington." Etcetera, schmetcetera. You get the idea.

Naturally (says another convenient Jewish intellectual, Alfred
Lilienthal), this Jewish connection, fostered by Jewish tribalism, has
exerted an enormous pull on non-Jews. So, movies plus dosh plus
tribalism equals Zionism in Washington, and who says so? Jews do.

Weber, as one of America's leading Holocaust deniers, is perfectly
happy, but I can see that old Ginsberg has terrific problems with the
fact that Jews have cropped up in almost all of the major 19th and
20th-century political movements - many of them completely
contradictory. They are cited as leading forces in liberalism,
neo-conservatism, socialism, bolshevism and market capitalism. The only
two movements that Jews don't seem to have led are fascism and Islamic
fundamentalism. Still, they were the guys behind Reagan, the guys behind
Clinton - either ever mutating, ever powerful (if you're a
conspiracist), or ever disagreeing with each other if you're not.

The other difficulty for non-conspiracists is that there just aren't
that many Jews in America. Six million is the latest figure (3.9% of the
population in Florida, and 128,000 out of 21 million in Dubya's Texas),
and probably declining. The Muslim population is about 3.5 million and growing.

The electoral-lobby thing doesn't work any more. Enter, lowered from the
gods, another story. This is that Israel is currently being sustained in
its Sharonite nastiness by a new lobby - the Christian right. This may
seem strange in view of the ol'-time anti-semitism of many people, such
as preacher/politician Pat Robertson, but the transmission is supposed
to work like this.

1. Lots of these Christian folks are dispensationalists, who believe
that we are living in the sixth dispensation, and the seventh (shortly
upon us) will be a millennium-long earthly reign, based in Israel.
(Warning note: We have to have a rapture first, and their idea of
rapture is different from that of most Guardian readers.)

2. For this to happen, all the Jews have to go to Israel and then
convert to Christianity or die.

3. So they want the Jews to get the whole of Palestine, and quickly.

4. George Bush is a born-again Christian, as are many of his cronies, so
either

5. he believes all this stuff and bases his foreign policy on it, or

6. he bends to the dispensationalists because he needs their votes.

I have read this account in several newspapers and, last Sunday, heard
it delivered, uninterrogated, on Radio 4. And it just occurs to me that
there might be other, less obviously ridiculous explanations for
American policy on Israel over the years. They could include the legacy
of the cold war - when the USSR sided with the Arab nations; a respect
for Israeli democracy (flawed though it might be); a penchant for the
underdog (now fading); and - above all - an identification with a
pioneering people who made a life in a new land, and displaced another
people in order to do it.

I do accept, however, that this lacks the narrative drive of the other
versions, and await the moment when we discover that Joe Lieberman is
also the Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, who has bought his election
with the fabulous Templar treasure, dug up at Rennes-le-Cateau. That's
what I call a story.

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