January 16, 1998

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

It cannot be stressed enough that the Revisionist struggle is playing now in the realm of *countries* and no longer on the backs of individuals alone - although some people, such as the entrenched Canadian Holocaust Promoters like Sol Littman, Bernie Farber et al, still have a lot of trouble realizing that. These people do not seem to understand that they are generating damaging media copy to themselves by revealing their tribe as the only segment in society wanting to censor ideas and historical debate, and by demonstrating their hatred and vendetta against target groups like Revisionists and individuals like Ernst Zundel. Man, how we flush them out!

Right now, Revisionism races through the Arab countries like greased lightning, as the saying goes - and high time, too! Once Arab countries realize that they will never win the struggle against Israel as long as they leave the two fat Israeli guilt money cash cows alone - Germany and the United States, of course - to their perverted worship of the Holocaust, their struggle will take on an ever more brutal, repressive turn, culminating in massacres of Palestinians all the way up to hot shooting wars against Iraq, Syria or anyone else the secret, behind-the-scenes rulers of Bonn and Washington don't like.

Right now, the French Garaudy trial makes major, major inroads in the thinking of Arabs intellectuals, in the less censored media, and in the perception of the Arab masses. They read these stories about "Garaudy the Muslim convert" being mistreated, and they will remember it. This unlikely "Revisionist" old Marxist-turned-Muslim-at-the-end-of-his-life - after having written what turns out to be a super treatise on Revisionism, swiped and plagiarized largely from Dr. Faurisson's writings and those of Barbara Kulaszka - doesn't seem to quite know why he, much like the legendary frog, having tried to escape from the fire, now finds himself in the proverbial frying pan and trying to hop out.

Here our French-native Revisionist contact reports on "Day Three" in a courtroom in Paris where Garaudy is trying to say that he didn't say what he said. (Bracketed comments have been inserted by me for clarity).

"Yesterday was the third day of Roger Garaudy's trial. It was supposed to be the last one. But, starting at 2 p.m., it was not finished when we left the courtroom at 9.30 p.m.! (with only a 10 minute break!). So, it will go on Friday 16.

As you all know, Garaudy got so much support from the Arab world that he looked quite comfortable: he doesn't dread much out of this trial, actually, since he knows he will get the necessary money when needed. Therefore he was smiling as he entered the courtroom.

The hall in front of the courtroom was packed like a 6 p.m. metro {subway station} in Paris and, since the courtroom is very small, very few people were able to go inside when the doors opened and the hall remained packed nearly the whole afternoon.

Tension between people of opposite opinions was very high. Of course, there was to be some incident . . .

But, first, the trial.

Mr Garaudy was cross-examined by the various associations for a few hours. He was very quick-witted for a man of 83 and gave some fine answers, such as this one:

- "Can you tell us if there exists an Arabic lobby?" - "I would say, unfortunately no!"

He was applauded by the audience.

But unfortunately one cannot say that the hearing was very constructive for the Revisionist cause.

First, one may deplore that Garaudy didn't stick to his book as far as the "myth of the Holocaust" is concerned. He kept insisting upon the fact that he was certainly not an antisemite, and he even went as far as saying that antisemitism was not an offence but a crime!

To accuse him of being an antisemite is like attacking his honour and making a criminal out of him, he said.

Next, during the whole afternoon, the witnesses (4 of them) and the counsels (6 of them) of the various {Jewish Survivor and Anti-Racist} associations had the impudence to treat us to the most hackneyed stereotypes: the SS who spent most of their time striking people, their ferocious dogs barking, chimneys smoking, etc.

The prosecutor spoke last. He said that Garaudy had plagiarized a certain "Robert F..." (as a matter of fact, one of the counsels showed that Garaudy had also plagiarized a rightist paper in which he had run a few items, without using quotation marks nor italics...) but then he tried to give a lecture on the "Holocaust" and started quoting words of Hitler, of Heydrich, of Hans Frank, giving those words a meaning which they have not.

He ended up calling for a 150,000 F fine (approx. US $ 25,000) plus a suspended 6 months jail sentence for Pierre Guillaume and a 150,000 F fine for Garaudy.

Now, the incident.

As we were in the courtroom we heard a tremendous noise outside and people screaming. Well, if one may say so, just the usual things happened: The Betar was there and the young Jews, some of them with a kippa on their heads, were slipping through the crowd in a provoking way.

They were about 15. But at one stage, they realized they were facing a group of another 15 young Revisionists ready to fight. So they ran away quickly.

But the gendarmes wanted to get rid of those 15 young Revisionists and told them to leave the Palace of Justice. They had to obey but went away shouting, or rather, screaming: "Israel assassins!"

All the TVs rushed to film them as they were going down the stairs.

But, when they were outside, they found the Betarim there! They started fighting but the Revisionists were stronger, so the Betarim ran away.

All of a sudden, however, the Betarim stopped, turned round, put themselves on a line and took out knives from their pockets.

Just at that moment, the police arrived and took 5 Jews and 5 Revisionists to the police station, the other having managed to run away.

Why am I telling all that?

Just to point out that, since those 15 Jews had knives in their pockets, it means that they had not entered the Palace through the usual door, where people have to go through a {metal} detector, otherwise the detector would have noticed the knives!

Remember what Dr Faurisson had written in his article "Jewish Militants: Fifteen Years, and More, of Terrorism in France" ("Journal of Historical Review", March/April 1996, p. 2-13), with Moshe Cohen's car parked on the pavement of the big gate of the court building?

This morning, Friday 16, it will be the turn of the defense lawyers, among them one lawyer from Egypt and one from Morocco, with Maitre Verges speaking at 2 p.m.

I shall keep you posted.

Noteworthy here is the financial support mentioned in the e-mail missive which Garaudy receives for his trial. According to an AFP report of January 14, 1998, the money comes from highest quarters.

Sheikha Fatima ibnt Mubarak, wife of Sheikh Zayed ibn Sultan Al-Nahayan, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) made a gift of $50,000 ". . . in support of the French Moslem thinker, Roger Garaudy. . . who is on trial in Paris for denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers . . ."

Furthermore, on Monday, (Jan 12, '98) the House of Youth in Doha organized a rally in support of Garaudy. Garaudy himself, speaking to the rally via satellite from France, opined that "the Zionists are annoyed" by his book, (Founding Myths of Israeli Politics, 1996), which "reviewed their strategy aiming at establishing a greater Israel. . . "

In this book, Garaudy had called the extermination of six million Jews during World War II by the Nazis a "myth" that was used to justify "everything Israel has demanded and obtained in Palestine."

On the heels of the Sheika's donation and the youth group rally, a Jordanian human rights group also stated on Wednesday (January 14, 98) that it gave its ". . . full support to French writer and philosopher Roger Garaudy who is on trial in Paris for denying the existence of Nazi gas chambers."

"(We) support his freedom in everything he has said and written," said the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Jordan. "His is an opinion and political position adopted by many intellectuals and historians."

Well, good for them - although it needs to be pointed out that chances are the financial support is given to Garaudy *because* he is a convert to Islam - which is not to detract from its merits.

But what Garaudy has said in his book has been long said before.

Ernst Zundel said it in his little treatise of four pages "The West, War and Islam" in 1981, for which he was hauled before the Canadian judicial system and criminally charged in 1983, handcuffed, jailed, out on bail, tried and found not guilty after a 7 week trial in 1985!

Before and during that trial, which also included the "Did Six Million Really Die" Revisionist booklet - a major bone of contention, then and to this day! - Ernst pleaded with the Arabs for support with his high court costs and expenses, to no avail at all.

Similarly, Ahmed Rami, the Swedish-based journalist but seemingly non-practicing Muslim, has also taken a great deal of heat for his Revisionist writings, Radio Islam broadcasts, and his Revisionist website, and has had little if any support from his fellow Arab countrymen.

While this is humanly understandable, the Arab indifference to historical Revisionism as their most powerful weapon in their arsenal - more powerful than all the incompetent armies combined! - so far has retarded their cause for self-liberation and relief from Israeli abuses.

But better late than never!

It should be noted, finally, that the Arab human rights group added that although France is generally considered a supporter of the freedom of expression, France ". . . has fallen under the Zionist influence which is deep-rooted in some sectors of European society."

We couldn't have said it better ourselves.

Ingrid

Thought for the Day:

"We can hate Iraqis for Saddam crimes but not Ariel Sharon for Sabra and Shatila."

(A ZGram reader)

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