ZGram - 10/9/2004 - "Joh Domingo's take on Uri Avnery"

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October 9, 2004

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

Some time ago I "met" Joh Domingo, originally from South Africa, now 
residing in Australia, as one "meets" one excellent writer after 
another on the Net - writers with sharp minds as you can never find 
them in the gush and slush of mainstream media.  We started 
corresponding in response to his writing, and what stuck sharply in 
my mind was a comment he made to the effect that the Black South 
African struggle was getting nowhere as long as Jewish intellectuals 
were "leading" it - and only after South African Blacks ruthlessly 
purged these Jewish "leaders" from their midst did they make 
impressive political gains. 

Here Joh Domingo, an unabashed nationalist, takes on an Israeli 
liberal, Uri Avnery.  One senses the contempt that he feels for 
Avnery's liberal and shallow sophistry.  I also like Domingo's 
comments about the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion - a 
document that should be required reading for anybody trying to 
understand what the current ideological struggle is really all about. 
I was amazed to read that Wal-Mart was actually selling this 
controversial publication, at least before the Jewish censors gagged 
yet another corporate giant and brought him to his knees.

For those who haven't read the Protocols yet, it should be on the Net.

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Joh Domingo deconstructs Avnery's Eggs 
  <http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html>http://www.avnery-news.co.il/english/index.html

My favorite Zionist, Uri Avnery is at it again. This time he writes 
about the danger facing the Jewish Community because of the 
activities of Jews in the Diaspora. He could easily have said, "I 
wish those big-mouth Jews would pull their heads in, they are giving 
people an excuse to be anti-Semitic." But that would not be enough 
for an article, and he wanted to write an article, even if he felt 
particularly uninspired at the time. So he uses canards as filler, 
and what a mess of innuendo, falsehoods, and scuttlebutt it is. It is 
called `Eggs in One Basket' and dearly poses a challenge to my 
fondness for him.

First off he introduces the `Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion' 
which he characterizes as a document that the Russian Czar Secret 
Police "cobbled together", in the same way, I suppose, that he 
`cobbles together' his piece. It is an intriguing document, this 
`Protocols' and invariably it is characterized as being a `forged' 
and a plagiarized version of Maurice Joly's book `Dialogues in Hell 
between Machiavelli and Montesquieu'. Of course most people have not 
read `The Protocols', let alone Joly's `Dialogues'. But that is why 
there exist scholars - inquisitive people that have a habit of 
spoiling the fun. Australia's Peter Myers has taken the trouble to 
examine the definitive texts regarding the theory that `The 
Protocols' are directly derived from Joly's "Dialogues'; Norman 
Cohn's `Warrant for Genocide', and Herman Bernstein's `The Truth 
about the Protocols of Zion: A Complete Exposure'

<http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/toolkit.html>http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/toolkit.html

We will not indulge ourselves in a long synopsis of Peters Myers 
lengthy and multi-part essay on the `Protocols', but suffice it to 
say that there are numerous differences between the `Dialogues', and 
the `Protocols' which Avnery attempts to suggest it is a direct copy 
of. Firstly, the `Dialogues' is one-sixteenth the size of the 
`Protocols'. They are different in plot and theme as well; in the 
`Dialogues', the conspirator is the Monarch (Napoleon III), 
preventing the people from installing a People's Democracy. It is 
localized, with Napoleon resisting the revolutionaries. The Narrative 
is written after the event and the Monarch's plot avoids violence and 
he is for religion.

Compare this to the Protocols, which is a conspiracy that anticipates 
a regime to come. It is a revolutionary regime that is manipulated by 
a shadowy group that makes the masses believe that they are for them. 
The plot is International in scope and envisions violence as an 
integral tool of the conspiracy in which the revolution is 
manipulated to introduce a regime that is previously unknown in 
history.

Whatever the merits of the `Protocols', it cannot be dismissed so 
easily, as Avnery attempts to do here. But it is clear why he tries 
to do so anyway, the insight contained in the `Protocols' has been 
irritatingly prescient; "In a way, the lies of the Protocols have 
fulfilled themselves. `America controls the world,' the anti-Semites 
now say, `and the Jews control America.'"

Who are you going to believe, Avnery or your lying eyes?

Poor old Uri is in a bind, "the lies of the Protocols have fullfilled 
themselves".

"According to the anti-Semites, these Jews sold the war to the United 
States with mendacious arguments, in order to eliminate Israel's most 
dangerous enemy in the Middle East, Iraq. Now they are conspiring 
against Israel's two remaining enemies, Syria and Iran."

How inconvenient! But there is still spin; the neo-cons (I suppose we 
might as well face it, they are Jews) could not have done this 
"without the influence of another group in Washington, much more 
powerful, and much less visible: the oil people." Naturally Avnery 
would not just make such a statement without providing some 
justification as to why these "oil People" would apply their 
influence. He informs that "Their aim was not only to take over the 
huge oil reserves of Iraq itself, but also to locate a permanent 
American military and political base between the immense oil 
resources of the Caspian Sea in the North and the Persian/Arabian 
gulf in the South. This, they argue, is necessary in order to assure 
American dominance in a world in which oil is a dwindling resource of 
fundamental importance to all industrialized economies."

I won't delve into the theory that the war on Iraq was all about 
controlling oil, it seems too far-fetched. Oil is a commodity, 
controlled by the commodities market. It is a relatively easy process 
to control the commodities market, if one is so inclined and have the 
financial resources to do it. No need to spend 200 Billion dollars 
and countless lives to do so. But Avnery is arguing that one would 
want to control it because it is a dwindling resource. I don't 
suppose he would by now be aware of the raging (non)debate 
surrounding the notion of `Peak Oil' that was so artfully skewered by 
Dave MacGowan,

<http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr52.html>http://www.davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr52.html

"As anyone who stayed awake during elementary school science class 
knows, oil comes from dinosaurs. I remember as a kid (calm down, 
folks; there will be no Brady Bunch references this week) seeing some 
kind of 'public service' spot explaining how dinosaurs "gave their 
all" so that we could one day have oil. It seemed a reasonable enough 
idea at the time -- from the perspective of an eight-year-old. But 
if, as an adult, you really stop to give it some thought, doesn't the 
idea seem a little, uhmm ... what's the word I'm looking for here? 
... oh yeah, I remember now ... preposterous."

Let me help Uri out here; Oil is not a dwindling resource. In fact, 
Russia has recently surpassed Saudi Arabia as the largest producer of 
Oil after basing their oil research on the notion that oil is 
produced abiotically, ie it is produced by a combination of non- 
organic gasses transformed by enormous pressure deep underground. 
This is an ongoing process, and research into this phenomenon has 
caused the Russians to drill deep wells in order to find oil, with 
great success. It is unlikely that the `oil people' would be unaware 
of this, making the assumption that they would engage in war to 
control `dwindling' supplies unlikely.

But Avnery has a few more `anti-Semitic canard' arrows in his quiver, 
and he aims to make use of them.

"Somebody once said that if AIPAC, the pro-Israeli Jewish lobby, 
submitted a resolution to Congress abolishing the Ten Commandments, 
80 senators and 400 congressmen would sign on the first day... The 
anti-Semitic publications stress these facts - which are true in 
themselves - in order to prove that the Jews control the world. But 
reality is more complex by far."

Ugh! Those anti-Semites, always exploiting the....facts. Avnery uses 
hyperbole of course in order to make his non-argument. Nobody is 
suggesting that Jews control the World. What they are suggesting is 
that some Jews manipulate some non-Jews, who happen to control the 
apparatus of State, of the Country with the most powerful military on 
Earth, in an attempt to bring some of it to bear on the enemies of 
Jews. A wee bit more `complex' than "Jews control the World". In 
order to highlight this flapdoodle, he balances the influence of Jews 
with the influence of other groups that want to bomb Arabs: "the 
American Rifle Association, the lobbies of physicians and trial 
lawyers and others."

Perhaps conscious that he is being more than a little ridiculous, 
Avnery tacks on "the even more powerful Christian Evangelists." Anti- 
Semites, we are told, are peeved that Christian Zionism provides a 
foil for their notion that `Jews rule the World." Of course, it is 
true, no Christian Zionist has been evicted from Congress by the 
Jewish lobby, so they must be powerful. And no Christian Zionist has 
given a Jew an airplane, to help them further the cause of Christian 
Zionism, as when Jerry Farwell was given one by the Israeli 
government, in order to further the cause of Zionism. So, it is clear 
who holds the whip here. But is this really a foil for the argument 
that `Jews rule the World', or a foil for an argument that `only Jews 
rule the World'. Avnery neglects to state clearly that Christian 
Zionist are a considered ally of the Jewish elite, in their efforts 
to bring American firepower to bear against Israel's enemies.

Equally misleading is Avnery's argument that Christian Evangelist 
invented Christian Zionism long before Hertzl invented Zionism. 
Charles Carlson provides some pertinent information regarding 
Christian Zionism in his long essay entitled `The Source of the 
Problem in the Mid East - Part II Why Judeo-Christians Support War' 
in which he details the work of several Christian Scholars including 
the redoubtable Stephen Sizer.

<http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/020807.htm>http://www.whtt.org/whtt.shtml?articles/020807.htm

"We Hold These Truths is grateful to these dedicated researchers. Our 
own examination of the Oxford Bible has gone in another direction, 
focusing not on what Scofield wrote, but on some of the many 
additions and deletions The Oxford University Press has continued to 
make to Scofield Reference Bible since his death in 1921. These 
alterations have further radicalized the Scofield Bible into a manual 
for the Christian worship of the State of Israel beyond what 
Schofield would have dreamed of. This un-Christian anti-Arab theology 
has permitted the theft of Palestine and 54 years of death and 
destruction against the Palestinians, with hardly a complaint from 
the Judeo-Christian mass media evangelists or most other American 
church leaders. We thank God for the exceptions. It is no 
exaggeration to say that the 1967 Oxford 4th Edition deifies- -makes 
a God of--the State of Israel, a state that did not even exist when 
Scofield wrote the original footnotes in 1908. This writer believes 
that, had it not been for misguided anti-Arab race hatred promoted by 
Christian Zionist leaders in America, neither the Gulf War nor the 
Israeli war against the Palestinians would have occurred, and a 
million or more people who have perished would be alive today. What 
proof does WHTT have to incriminate World Zionism in a scheme to 
control Christianity? For proof we offer the words themselves that 
were planted in the 1967 Edition, 20 years after the State of Israel 
was created in 1947, and 46 years after Scofield's death. The words 
tell us that those who control the Oxford Press recreated a bible to 
misguide Christians and sell flaming Zionism in the churches of 
America."

Although Christian Zionism can be traced to John Nelson Darby, 
Scofield was the tool by which World Zionism sought to slowly develop 
a Christianity subset that supports Zionism. It is amazing how anti- 
Semites manage to find more facts to support their insane theory that 
`Jews rule the World' and it is unfortunate that Zionist always 
manage to fall into their well-laid traps.

I will not comment about Jews being unable to join all the important 
clubs, since I have been singularly unsuccessful in joining any 
Jewish Clubs.

Despite Avnery's distress at the annoying penchant of anti-Semites to 
pick the obvious Jewish hand in current events, he seems to have 
developed this disagreeable habit himself and takes it upon himself 
to warn his brethren about it, lest the growing anti-Semite army do 
so themselves.

JohD

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