Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Saturday, July 22, 2006
Jewish Stars Over Hollywood
Who Rules Hollywood And TV Today?
How can CBS-TV be totally controlled by the Jew Larry Tisch when it has 24 million shares of common stock-outstanding worth $4.66 billion? The answer is that Tisch and his Loew's Inc. bought 25% of the CBS stock. Often a 10% to 20% stock holding in a large company gives one total control. Tisch has turned CBS into an all-Jewish run firm! He named the Jew Howard Stringer president and Jeff Sagansky entertainment head - he determines what you will view each night on CBS. ABC-TV is headed by Leonard Goldenson with Stu Bloomberg in charge of "entertainment".
NBC-TV president is Leonard Grossman with Irvin Segelstein as vice-president. In 1980 they named the 31year-old Jew Brandon Tartikoff as president of entertainment.
The Jewish Post And Opinion of December 6, 1974 states:
"Jews dominate Hollywood today as they did in its infancy, The Jewish presence in Hollywood is a historic fact, A majority of the producers and directors are Jewish while the Writers Guild is practically 70% to 100% Jewish!"
What happens when non-Jews buy a film company? The Jews maintain control because it is "The Deal" in Hollywood which brings in the BIG MONEY! Buying the film story, signing stars to contracts, (who are under Jewish agents) and the distribution of the film to Jewish owned theater chains like Odeon. You had better be in solid with the Jews if you want to make money.
November 16, 1989, the Japanese Sony Corp. bought Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star films. They immediately agreed to pay the all-time record sum of half-a-billion to two young Jews to run the studios. They are Jon Peters and Peter Guber to whom Sony paid $200 million for their production company and each received $50 million as a signing bonus plus $2.75 million each for five years!
Universal Pictures is 100% Jew controlled with Lew Wasserman as chairman of MCA (the parent company). Universal president is Sidney Sheinberg with Thomas Pollack as film head.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is run by the half-Jew Alan Ladd, Jr. (his mother being the Jewess Sue Carroll). Paramount Pictures president is the Jew Mel Harris with Martin Davis chairman and Deborah Rosen as communications director.
Fox TV is owned by the Jew Barry Diller.
The Name Changers
The Jewish Hollywood moguls long ago decided that it would help them make more money if the general public viewed films as being "Christian." In fact, they personally wanted to blend in with the Gentile community. Thus Samuel Goldfish changed his name to Goldwyn and Cecil B. de Mille insisted that he was a Gentile until his death when a Rabbi officiated at his funeral. Every single one of the original Jewish developers of the movie industry divorced their Jewish wives and married beautiful Christian starlets.
This includes Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Jack Warner, David O. Selznick and Harry Cohen. They gave orders to the numerous Jews they made "stars" to change their Jewish names to Christian sounding ones. This has also included a lot of "nosejobs" for both Jewish male and female stars. Here are but a few who followed this road to stardom.
Adopted Christian Name ..............Real Jewish Name
Joey Adams ....................................... Joseph Abramowitz
Eddie Albert ........................................Eddie Heimberger
Woody Allen....................................... Allen Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall .................................... Betty Joan Perske
Jack Benny ........................................ Benny Kubelsky
Milton Berle ...................................... Milton Berlinger
Ernest Borgnine ..................................Effron Borgnine
George Burns .................................... Nathan Birnbaum
Joan Blondell...................................... Rosebud Blustein
Joyce Brothers ...................................Joyce Bauer
Mel Brooks ....................................... Melvin Kaminsky
Joey Bishop ....................................... Joey Gottlieb
Charles Bronson ................................ Charles Buchinsky
Rona Barrett .......................................Rona Burnstein
Cyd Chrisse .......................................Tula Finklea
Tony Curtis (daughter is Jamie Lee Curtis).......... Bernhard Schwartz
Joan Crawford ................................... Lucille Le Sueur
Dyan Cannon ..................................... Samile Diane Friesen
Kirk Douglas (son is Michael Douglas) ............. Issur Danilovich Demsky
Bob Dylan ...........................................Robert Zimmerman
Rodney Dangerfield ............................Jacob Cohen
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ........................ Douglas Ullman
Joel Grey (father of Jennifer Grey)................... Joel Katz
Zsa Zsa Gabor ....................................Sara Gabor
John Garfield ...................................... Julius Garfinkle
Judy Garland ....................................... Frances Gumm
Paulette Goddard ................................ Pauline Levee
Eydie Gorme........................................ Edith Gormezano
Elliott Gould ........................................Elliott Goldstein
Cary Grant ......................................... Larry Leach
Lorne Green ........................................Chaim Leibowiz
Judy Holliday ....................................... Judith Tuvim
Leslie Howard ...................................... Leslie Stainer
Buddy Hackett ..................................... Leonard Hacker
Jill St. John ........................................... Jill Oppenheim
Danny Kaye........................................... David Kaminsky
Alan King .............................................. Irwin Kniberg
Larry King...............................................Larry Zeiger
Tina Louise.............................................Tina Blacker
Ann Landers (Abigail Van Buren is her sister) ............Esther Friedman 1. Dorothy Lamour .................................... Dorothy Kaumeyer Miehael Landon .................................... Mike Orowitz
Steve Lawrence ..................................... Sidney Leibowitz
Hal Linden.............................................. Hal Lipshitz
Jerry Lewis ........................................... Joseph Levitch
Karl Maiden ..........................................Maiden Sekulovitch
Paul Muni ..............................................Muni Weisenfreund
Ethel Merman ....................................... Ethel Zimmerman
Jan Murray ........................................... Murray Janofsky
Walter Matthau .................................... Walter Matasschanskayasky
Lilly Palmer ........................................... Maria Peiser
Jan Peerce............................................. Jacob Pincus Perelmuth
Roberta Peters....................................... Roberta Peterman
Eleanor Parker...................................... Ellen Friedlob
Joan Rivers ...........................................Joan Molinsky
Tony Randall ....................................... Leonard Rosenberg
Edward G. Robinson ........................... Emmanuel Goldberg
Dinah Shore ......................................... Francis Rose Shore
Shelly Winters ..................................... Shirley Schrift
Gene Wilder......................................... Eugene Silverstein
Winona Ryder....................................... Laura Horowitz
More Jewish Stars Over Hollywood
There are hundreds of other Jews in Hollywood "stardom" - far too numerous to list them all here. However the following are Jews whom many think are Gentiles: Ed Asner, Bea Arthur, Gene Barry, Richard Benjamin, Kevin Costner, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Dreyfus, Ted Danson, Peter Falk (Columbo), Eddie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Betty Grable, Sharon Gless, Jennifer Grey, David Duchowny, Alicia Silverstone, Natalie Portman, Mandy Patinkin Steven Segall, Dustin Hoffman, Monty Hall, Amy Irving, Jack Klugman, Leonard Nimoy, Ken Olin, Ron Perlman, George Segel, William Shatner, Peter Strauss, Rod Steiger, Jane Seymour, Barbara Walters, Debra Winger, and Bruce Willis. < /FONT>
The following are half-Jewish; Joan Collins, Goldie Hawn, Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro and Geraldo Rivera.
Jews in the music field include, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Tony Martin, Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand and Ringo Starr.
Here are but a few in the field of "comedy" which is 90% Jewish dominated! Roseanne Barr, David Brenner, Jerry Seinfeld, Sid Caesar, Richard Dawson, Don Adams, Norm Crosby, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Fran "The Nanny" Drescher, Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander, George Jessel, Alan King, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Martha Reye, Garry Shandling, and Henry Winkler.
Propaganda Goals Outlined Our Film Folk, a column by Herbert Luft, appears only in Jewish publications. His description of the 1982 Academy Awards applies to all such events: "Jews award Jews for Jewish theme movies! Reds glorified the Soviet Revolution, Chariots of Fire instilled a guilt feeling in Gentiles for discrimination against Jews. Genocide was best documentary on the German Holocaust of Jews. " In the film "Holocaust" both Poles and Ukranians are described as "worse than Nazies." In "The Eye" the French betray the Jews during World War II.
In the famous Playboy Magazine interview of Jan. 1979, actor Marlon Brando explains this phenomenon: " You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of the Kike because the Jews were ever so watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on screen!"
No film maker dares to be critical of Jews, Israel or Zionism. A Jewish male must be referred to as "a nice Jewish boy", a young girl is an "American Jewish Princess". Jew musicians are always "talented", writers "gifted", painters "sensitive", doctors "brilliant". Jew millionares "philanthropic and visionary".
Hollywood Molds Minds. Millions of innocent non-Jews have been victimized by pro-Zionist film propaganda. They do not realize the Jew "name changers" have used subtle and very sophisticated stories to manipulate the minds of our people. No nation can long remain free while such a powerful medium is totally controlled by Jews whose loyalty is to Zionism first.
How can CBS-TV be totally controlled by the Jew Larry Tisch when it has 24 million shares of common stock-outstanding worth $4.66 billion? The answer is that Tisch and his Loew's Inc. bought 25% of the CBS stock. Often a 10% to 20% stock holding in a large company gives one total control. Tisch has turned CBS into an all-Jewish run firm! He named the Jew Howard Stringer president and Jeff Sagansky entertainment head - he determines what you will view each night on CBS. ABC-TV is headed by Leonard Goldenson with Stu Bloomberg in charge of "entertainment".
NBC-TV president is Leonard Grossman with Irvin Segelstein as vice-president. In 1980 they named the 31year-old Jew Brandon Tartikoff as president of entertainment.
The Jewish Post And Opinion of December 6, 1974 states:
"Jews dominate Hollywood today as they did in its infancy, The Jewish presence in Hollywood is a historic fact, A majority of the producers and directors are Jewish while the Writers Guild is practically 70% to 100% Jewish!"
What happens when non-Jews buy a film company? The Jews maintain control because it is "The Deal" in Hollywood which brings in the BIG MONEY! Buying the film story, signing stars to contracts, (who are under Jewish agents) and the distribution of the film to Jewish owned theater chains like Odeon. You had better be in solid with the Jews if you want to make money.
November 16, 1989, the Japanese Sony Corp. bought Columbia Pictures and Tri-Star films. They immediately agreed to pay the all-time record sum of half-a-billion to two young Jews to run the studios. They are Jon Peters and Peter Guber to whom Sony paid $200 million for their production company and each received $50 million as a signing bonus plus $2.75 million each for five years!
Universal Pictures is 100% Jew controlled with Lew Wasserman as chairman of MCA (the parent company). Universal president is Sidney Sheinberg with Thomas Pollack as film head.
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is run by the half-Jew Alan Ladd, Jr. (his mother being the Jewess Sue Carroll). Paramount Pictures president is the Jew Mel Harris with Martin Davis chairman and Deborah Rosen as communications director.
Fox TV is owned by the Jew Barry Diller.
The Name Changers
The Jewish Hollywood moguls long ago decided that it would help them make more money if the general public viewed films as being "Christian." In fact, they personally wanted to blend in with the Gentile community. Thus Samuel Goldfish changed his name to Goldwyn and Cecil B. de Mille insisted that he was a Gentile until his death when a Rabbi officiated at his funeral. Every single one of the original Jewish developers of the movie industry divorced their Jewish wives and married beautiful Christian starlets.
This includes Louis B. Mayer, Samuel Goldwyn, Jack Warner, David O. Selznick and Harry Cohen. They gave orders to the numerous Jews they made "stars" to change their Jewish names to Christian sounding ones. This has also included a lot of "nosejobs" for both Jewish male and female stars. Here are but a few who followed this road to stardom.
Adopted Christian Name ..............Real Jewish Name
Joey Adams ....................................... Joseph Abramowitz
Eddie Albert ........................................Eddie Heimberger
Woody Allen....................................... Allen Konigsberg
Lauren Bacall .................................... Betty Joan Perske
Jack Benny ........................................ Benny Kubelsky
Milton Berle ...................................... Milton Berlinger
Ernest Borgnine ..................................Effron Borgnine
George Burns .................................... Nathan Birnbaum
Joan Blondell...................................... Rosebud Blustein
Joyce Brothers ...................................Joyce Bauer
Mel Brooks ....................................... Melvin Kaminsky
Joey Bishop ....................................... Joey Gottlieb
Charles Bronson ................................ Charles Buchinsky
Rona Barrett .......................................Rona Burnstein
Cyd Chrisse .......................................Tula Finklea
Tony Curtis (daughter is Jamie Lee Curtis).......... Bernhard Schwartz
Joan Crawford ................................... Lucille Le Sueur
Dyan Cannon ..................................... Samile Diane Friesen
Kirk Douglas (son is Michael Douglas) ............. Issur Danilovich Demsky
Bob Dylan ...........................................Robert Zimmerman
Rodney Dangerfield ............................Jacob Cohen
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. ........................ Douglas Ullman
Joel Grey (father of Jennifer Grey)................... Joel Katz
Zsa Zsa Gabor ....................................Sara Gabor
John Garfield ...................................... Julius Garfinkle
Judy Garland ....................................... Frances Gumm
Paulette Goddard ................................ Pauline Levee
Eydie Gorme........................................ Edith Gormezano
Elliott Gould ........................................Elliott Goldstein
Cary Grant ......................................... Larry Leach
Lorne Green ........................................Chaim Leibowiz
Judy Holliday ....................................... Judith Tuvim
Leslie Howard ...................................... Leslie Stainer
Buddy Hackett ..................................... Leonard Hacker
Jill St. John ........................................... Jill Oppenheim
Danny Kaye........................................... David Kaminsky
Alan King .............................................. Irwin Kniberg
Larry King...............................................Larry Zeiger
Tina Louise.............................................Tina Blacker
Ann Landers (Abigail Van Buren is her sister) ............Esther Friedman 1. Dorothy Lamour .................................... Dorothy Kaumeyer Miehael Landon .................................... Mike Orowitz
Steve Lawrence ..................................... Sidney Leibowitz
Hal Linden.............................................. Hal Lipshitz
Jerry Lewis ........................................... Joseph Levitch
Karl Maiden ..........................................Maiden Sekulovitch
Paul Muni ..............................................Muni Weisenfreund
Ethel Merman ....................................... Ethel Zimmerman
Jan Murray ........................................... Murray Janofsky
Walter Matthau .................................... Walter Matasschanskayasky
Lilly Palmer ........................................... Maria Peiser
Jan Peerce............................................. Jacob Pincus Perelmuth
Roberta Peters....................................... Roberta Peterman
Eleanor Parker...................................... Ellen Friedlob
Joan Rivers ...........................................Joan Molinsky
Tony Randall ....................................... Leonard Rosenberg
Edward G. Robinson ........................... Emmanuel Goldberg
Dinah Shore ......................................... Francis Rose Shore
Shelly Winters ..................................... Shirley Schrift
Gene Wilder......................................... Eugene Silverstein
Winona Ryder....................................... Laura Horowitz
More Jewish Stars Over Hollywood
There are hundreds of other Jews in Hollywood "stardom" - far too numerous to list them all here. However the following are Jews whom many think are Gentiles: Ed Asner, Bea Arthur, Gene Barry, Richard Benjamin, Kevin Costner, Lee J. Cobb, Richard Dreyfus, Ted Danson, Peter Falk (Columbo), Eddie Fisher, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Betty Grable, Sharon Gless, Jennifer Grey, David Duchowny, Alicia Silverstone, Natalie Portman, Mandy Patinkin Steven Segall, Dustin Hoffman, Monty Hall, Amy Irving, Jack Klugman, Leonard Nimoy, Ken Olin, Ron Perlman, George Segel, William Shatner, Peter Strauss, Rod Steiger, Jane Seymour, Barbara Walters, Debra Winger, and Bruce Willis. < /FONT>
The following are half-Jewish; Joan Collins, Goldie Hawn, Paul Newman, Robert DeNiro and Geraldo Rivera.
Jews in the music field include, Billy Joel, Barry Manilow, Tony Martin, Bette Midler, Barbara Streisand and Ringo Starr.
Here are but a few in the field of "comedy" which is 90% Jewish dominated! Roseanne Barr, David Brenner, Jerry Seinfeld, Sid Caesar, Richard Dawson, Don Adams, Norm Crosby, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Fran "The Nanny" Drescher, Adam Sandler, Jason Alexander, George Jessel, Alan King, Carl Reiner, Don Rickles, Martha Reye, Garry Shandling, and Henry Winkler.
Propaganda Goals Outlined Our Film Folk, a column by Herbert Luft, appears only in Jewish publications. His description of the 1982 Academy Awards applies to all such events: "Jews award Jews for Jewish theme movies! Reds glorified the Soviet Revolution, Chariots of Fire instilled a guilt feeling in Gentiles for discrimination against Jews. Genocide was best documentary on the German Holocaust of Jews. " In the film "Holocaust" both Poles and Ukranians are described as "worse than Nazies." In "The Eye" the French betray the Jews during World War II.
In the famous Playboy Magazine interview of Jan. 1979, actor Marlon Brando explains this phenomenon: " You've seen every single race besmirched, but you never saw an unfavorable image of the Kike because the Jews were ever so watchful for that. They never allowed it to be shown on screen!"
No film maker dares to be critical of Jews, Israel or Zionism. A Jewish male must be referred to as "a nice Jewish boy", a young girl is an "American Jewish Princess". Jew musicians are always "talented", writers "gifted", painters "sensitive", doctors "brilliant". Jew millionares "philanthropic and visionary".
Hollywood Molds Minds. Millions of innocent non-Jews have been victimized by pro-Zionist film propaganda. They do not realize the Jew "name changers" have used subtle and very sophisticated stories to manipulate the minds of our people. No nation can long remain free while such a powerful medium is totally controlled by Jews whose loyalty is to Zionism first.
and more on that Subject,
http://www.jewwatch.com/index.html
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Neocon Redux: Blame Iran,
Neocon Redux: Blame Iran, Back Israel
Jim Lobe July 18, 2006
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Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon have reenergized the neoconservatives, who see an opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq. While insisting on unconditional U.S. support for Israel, the neoconservatives are also pushing for possible U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for its support of Hezbollah.
In a recent Weekly Standard column entitled “Our War,” editor William Kristol called Iran “the prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war, ” which, he argued, should be considered part of “the global struggle against radical Islamism” (July 24, 2006 issue).
He complained that Washington recently has done a “poor job of standing up and weakening Syria and Iran” and called on President George W. Bush to fly directly from the “silly [Group of Eight] summit in St. Petersburg ... to Jerusalem, the capital of a nation that stands with us, and is willing to fight with us, against our common enemies.”
“This is our war, too,” declared Kristol, who is also a founder and co-chairman of the recently lapsed Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
“All of us in the free world owe Israel an enormous thank-you for defending freedom, democracy, and security against the Iranian cat's-paw wholly-owned terrorist subsidiaries Hezbollah and Hamas,” echoed Larry Kudlow, a neoconservative commentator at the National Review, the Standard's right-wing competitor (“Israel's Moment: The Free World's Gain,” July 17, 2006).
“They are defending their own homeland and very existence, but they are also defending America's homeland as our frontline democratic ally in the Middle East,” said Kudlow about Israel. Like Kristol and other polemicists, Kudlow also named Syria (“which is also directed by Iran”) as a promising future target as the conflict expands.
The two columns are the latest examples of a slew of commentaries appearing in U.S. print and broadcast media since Israel began bombing targets in Lebanon in retaliation for Hezbollah's fatal cross-border attack on July 12, 2006. The opinions appear to be part of a deliberate campaign by neoconservatives and some of their right-wing supporters to depict the current conflict as part of global struggle pitting Israel, billed as the forward base of Western civilization, against Islamist extremism, purportedly organized and directed by Iran and its junior partner, Syria.
This view was perhaps most melodramatically expressed by former speaker of the House, Republican Newt Gingrich, in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press when he described the conflict as “the early stages of ... the third World War” (July 16, 2006).
The effort to frame the current round of violence as part of a much larger struggle—and the highlighting of Israel's recurring role as Washington's most loyal frontline ally—recalls the neoconservatives' early reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Just nine days after 9/11, Kristol and PNAC—whose charter members included Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and half a dozen other senior Bush administration officials—released an open letter to Bush that called for the United States to retaliate not only against al-Qaida and Afghanistan, but also against Israel's main regional foes, beginning with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat.
In addition, the letter advised, “Any war against terrorism must target Hezbollah. We believe that the administration should demand that Iran and Syria immediately cease all military, financial, and political support for Hezbollah and its operations. Should Iran and Syria refuse to comply, the administration should consider appropriate measures of retaliation against these state sponsors of terrorism.”
“Israel has been and remains America's staunchest ally against international terrorism, especially in the Middle East,” the letter asserted. “The United States should fully support our fellow democracy in its fight against terrorism.”
While the Iraqi and Palestinian components of PNAC's agenda were soon adopted as policy and essentially achieved, neoconservative hopes that Bush would move on Hezbollah—as well as Syria and Iran—eventually stalled as U.S. military forces became bogged down in an increasingly bloody and costly counterinsurgency war in Iraq.
As the situation in Iraq worsened, neoconservative influence in and on the administration also declined, to the benefit of “realists” based primarily in the State Department. These “realists” favored a less aggressive policy designed to secure Damascus and Tehran's cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and to strengthen the elected Lebanese government, of which Hezbollah is part.
In that context, the current conflict represents a golden opportunity for the neoconservatives to reassert their influence and to reactivate their Israel-centered agenda against Hezbollah and its two state sponsors.
The cover of the July 24, 2006 Standard blazes “Iran's Proxy War,” and the issue featured no fewer than four articles stressing Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah and Hamas and the belief that the United States must stand with Israel, if not take independent action against Tehran and/or Damascus, as Kristol recommended.
The new campaign's prime targets are the more conciliatory “realist” policies toward Syria and Iran pursued by the State Department, which the neoconservatives argue have backfired by making Washington look weak.
“They are now testing us more boldly than one would have thought possible a few years ago,” wrote Kristol. “Weakness is provocative. We have been too weak, and have allowed ourselves to be perceived as weak,” he went on, adding that, “The right response is renewed strength,” notably “in pursuing regime change in Syria and Iran [and] consider[ing] countering this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.”
The notion that U.S. Middle East policy has become far too flaccid and accommodating is echoed by a number of other neoconservatives, particularly Michael Rubin, a prolific analyst at the hardline American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Richard Perle, a Cheney protégé and former Defense Policy Board chairman. In another July 24 Standard article, Rubin qualified recent State Department policy as “all talk and no strategy” that had emboldened enemies, especially Iran, to challenge Washington and its allies.
In another article for the National Review, bluntly titled “Eradication First,” Rubin elaborated on that theme, arguing diplomacy in the current crisis will only be successful “if it commences both after the eradication of Hezbollah and Hamas, and after their paymasters pay a terrible cost for their support” (July 17, 2006).
“If ... peace is the aim, it is imperative to punish the Syrian and Iranian leadership,” he wrote.
Above all, according to the neoconservatives, the U.S. position in the region is now inextricably tied to the success or failure of Israel's military campaign.
In another Standard article, titled “The Rogues Strike Back: Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah vs. Israel,” Robert Satloff, executive director of the hawkish, pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argued that “defeat for Israel—either on the battlefield or via coerced compromises to achieve flawed ceasefires—is a defeat for U.S. interests; it will inspire radicals of every stripe, release Iran and Syria to spread more mayhem inside Iraq, and make more likely our own eventual confrontation with this emboldened alliance of extremists” (July 24, 2006).
Jim Lobe is the Washington bureau chief of the Inter Press Service and a Right Web contributing writer.
Jim Lobe July 18, 2006
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Israel's military offensives in Gaza and Lebanon have reenergized the neoconservatives, who see an opportunity to regain influence lost as a result of setbacks in Iraq. While insisting on unconditional U.S. support for Israel, the neoconservatives are also pushing for possible U.S. attacks on Tehran's nuclear facilities in retaliation for its support of Hezbollah.
In a recent Weekly Standard column entitled “Our War,” editor William Kristol called Iran “the prime mover behind the terrorist groups who have started this war, ” which, he argued, should be considered part of “the global struggle against radical Islamism” (July 24, 2006 issue).
He complained that Washington recently has done a “poor job of standing up and weakening Syria and Iran” and called on President George W. Bush to fly directly from the “silly [Group of Eight] summit in St. Petersburg ... to Jerusalem, the capital of a nation that stands with us, and is willing to fight with us, against our common enemies.”
“This is our war, too,” declared Kristol, who is also a founder and co-chairman of the recently lapsed Project for the New American Century (PNAC).
“All of us in the free world owe Israel an enormous thank-you for defending freedom, democracy, and security against the Iranian cat's-paw wholly-owned terrorist subsidiaries Hezbollah and Hamas,” echoed Larry Kudlow, a neoconservative commentator at the National Review, the Standard's right-wing competitor (“Israel's Moment: The Free World's Gain,” July 17, 2006).
“They are defending their own homeland and very existence, but they are also defending America's homeland as our frontline democratic ally in the Middle East,” said Kudlow about Israel. Like Kristol and other polemicists, Kudlow also named Syria (“which is also directed by Iran”) as a promising future target as the conflict expands.
The two columns are the latest examples of a slew of commentaries appearing in U.S. print and broadcast media since Israel began bombing targets in Lebanon in retaliation for Hezbollah's fatal cross-border attack on July 12, 2006. The opinions appear to be part of a deliberate campaign by neoconservatives and some of their right-wing supporters to depict the current conflict as part of global struggle pitting Israel, billed as the forward base of Western civilization, against Islamist extremism, purportedly organized and directed by Iran and its junior partner, Syria.
This view was perhaps most melodramatically expressed by former speaker of the House, Republican Newt Gingrich, in an appearance on NBC's Meet the Press when he described the conflict as “the early stages of ... the third World War” (July 16, 2006).
The effort to frame the current round of violence as part of a much larger struggle—and the highlighting of Israel's recurring role as Washington's most loyal frontline ally—recalls the neoconservatives' early reaction to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Just nine days after 9/11, Kristol and PNAC—whose charter members included Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and half a dozen other senior Bush administration officials—released an open letter to Bush that called for the United States to retaliate not only against al-Qaida and Afghanistan, but also against Israel's main regional foes, beginning with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat.
In addition, the letter advised, “Any war against terrorism must target Hezbollah. We believe that the administration should demand that Iran and Syria immediately cease all military, financial, and political support for Hezbollah and its operations. Should Iran and Syria refuse to comply, the administration should consider appropriate measures of retaliation against these state sponsors of terrorism.”
“Israel has been and remains America's staunchest ally against international terrorism, especially in the Middle East,” the letter asserted. “The United States should fully support our fellow democracy in its fight against terrorism.”
While the Iraqi and Palestinian components of PNAC's agenda were soon adopted as policy and essentially achieved, neoconservative hopes that Bush would move on Hezbollah—as well as Syria and Iran—eventually stalled as U.S. military forces became bogged down in an increasingly bloody and costly counterinsurgency war in Iraq.
As the situation in Iraq worsened, neoconservative influence in and on the administration also declined, to the benefit of “realists” based primarily in the State Department. These “realists” favored a less aggressive policy designed to secure Damascus and Tehran's cooperation in stabilizing Iraq and to strengthen the elected Lebanese government, of which Hezbollah is part.
In that context, the current conflict represents a golden opportunity for the neoconservatives to reassert their influence and to reactivate their Israel-centered agenda against Hezbollah and its two state sponsors.
The cover of the July 24, 2006 Standard blazes “Iran's Proxy War,” and the issue featured no fewer than four articles stressing Iran's sponsorship of Hezbollah and Hamas and the belief that the United States must stand with Israel, if not take independent action against Tehran and/or Damascus, as Kristol recommended.
The new campaign's prime targets are the more conciliatory “realist” policies toward Syria and Iran pursued by the State Department, which the neoconservatives argue have backfired by making Washington look weak.
“They are now testing us more boldly than one would have thought possible a few years ago,” wrote Kristol. “Weakness is provocative. We have been too weak, and have allowed ourselves to be perceived as weak,” he went on, adding that, “The right response is renewed strength,” notably “in pursuing regime change in Syria and Iran [and] consider[ing] countering this act of Iranian aggression with a military strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.”
The notion that U.S. Middle East policy has become far too flaccid and accommodating is echoed by a number of other neoconservatives, particularly Michael Rubin, a prolific analyst at the hardline American Enterprise Institute (AEI), and Richard Perle, a Cheney protégé and former Defense Policy Board chairman. In another July 24 Standard article, Rubin qualified recent State Department policy as “all talk and no strategy” that had emboldened enemies, especially Iran, to challenge Washington and its allies.
In another article for the National Review, bluntly titled “Eradication First,” Rubin elaborated on that theme, arguing diplomacy in the current crisis will only be successful “if it commences both after the eradication of Hezbollah and Hamas, and after their paymasters pay a terrible cost for their support” (July 17, 2006).
“If ... peace is the aim, it is imperative to punish the Syrian and Iranian leadership,” he wrote.
Above all, according to the neoconservatives, the U.S. position in the region is now inextricably tied to the success or failure of Israel's military campaign.
In another Standard article, titled “The Rogues Strike Back: Iran, Syria, Hamas, and Hezbollah vs. Israel,” Robert Satloff, executive director of the hawkish, pro-Israel Washington Institute for Near East Policy, argued that “defeat for Israel—either on the battlefield or via coerced compromises to achieve flawed ceasefires—is a defeat for U.S. interests; it will inspire radicals of every stripe, release Iran and Syria to spread more mayhem inside Iraq, and make more likely our own eventual confrontation with this emboldened alliance of extremists” (July 24, 2006).
Jim Lobe is the Washington bureau chief of the Inter Press Service and a Right Web contributing writer.
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam
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The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam
Transcript - Public Lecture - Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006
By Prof. Francis A Boyle
06/22/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Kuala Lumpur - Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America in seventeen eighty-nine. The fledgling United States opened the nineteenth century by stealing the continent of North America from the Indians, while in the process ethnically cleansing them and then finally deporting the pitiful few survivors by means of death marches (a la Bataan) to Bantustans, which in America we call reservations, as in instance of America's manifest destiny to rule the world. Then, the imperial government of the United States opened the twentieth century by stealing a colonial empire from Spain - in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, then inflicting a near-genocidal war against the Filipino people. While at the same time, purporting to annex, the kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the native Hawaiian people to near-genocidal conditions from which they still suffer today- all in the name of securing America's so-called place in the sun. And today at the dawn of the twenty first century, the world witnesses the effort by the imperial government of the United States of America to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Moslem states and peoples, surrounding central Asia and the Persian Gulf under the pretext of fighting a war against international terrorism or eliminating weapons of mass destruction or promoting democracy which is total nonsense. For the past two hundred and sixteen years, the imperialist foreign policy of the United States of America since its foundation, has been predicated upon racism, aggression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, war crimes and outright genocide. At the dawn of the third millennium of humankind's parlous existence, nothing has changed about the operational dynamics of American imperial policy. And we see this today in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and what appears to be an illegal attack upon Iran. Now the topic today is the Middle East Agenda : Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam. So, I'm only going to limit my comments to that subject. We have to begin the story with the Arab oil embargo in nineteen seventy-three. As you know in nineteen sixty-seven, Israel launched an illegal and preventive war against the surrounding Arab states, stole the land and ethnically cleansed the people. But eventually Egypt offered a Peace Treaty to Israel which Israel rejected and the Egyptians and the Arab states decided then to use force to recover their lands. Israel almost collapsed, the United States and Europe came to their support by providing weapons and in reaction the Arab states imposed an oil embargo on the United States and Europe, and brought their economies to their knees. Whereupon, the then U.S Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger threatened them and said, this will never happen again, and if you do, we will prevent it. And it was not just a threat. The United States government then at that time, planned, prepared and conspired, to steal the oil of the Persian Gulf. They did not have the military capability to do this at that time, to carry out the Kissinger threat, which was also then repeated by the Ford administration, and the Carter administration under Harold Brown and Brzezinski. So they put into planning an interventionary force, designed expressly for the purpose of stealing Arab oil fields, and that was called the rapid deployment force. And it took ten years of training, planning, positioning, and supply to build that interventionary force of that capability and eventually it was called the U.S. Central Command. The purpose of the U.S. Central Command is to steal and control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. And that's exactly what the U.S. Central Command proceeded to do in the Bush Sr. war against Iraq, their first military expedition. And as we know, that war exterminated probably two hundred thousand Iraqis. Half of them innocent civilians. Simply wiped out in a bombing campaign and a military expedition of unprecedented dimensions. But remember, it took fifteen years for the Pentagon and three different administrations both Republicans and Democrats to get the capability to do this. And then, when that genocide or conflict was over, what happened? The United States carved Iraq up into three pieces with their air force, the so-called no-fly zones, a zone for the Kurds in the North, a zone for the Shi'ah in the South, and the Sunni in the middle. Why? To destroy Iraq as an effectively viable state. In his book, Clash of Civilizations, Huntington from Harvard who advised the Pentagon and advised the state department pointed out that the only Arab state with the capability to lead the Arab world and challenge the United States and Israel was Iraq. And so Iraq had to be destroyed, to maintain the domination of the United States and its proxy, Israel. And remember after nineteen seventy-three, whatever it was before then, Israel is nothing more than a catspaw of the United States. They do what America tells them to do. Otherwise Israel is nothing more than a failed state. In addition then, to destroying Iraq as a state, carving it up into three pieces, was the decision to debilitate and destroy the Iraqi people. And so they continued the genocidal economic sanctions on the people of Iraq, that my colleagues, Denis Halliday, Hans Von Sponeck, so courageously resisted and finally resigned as a matter of principle, calling them by what they really were, genocide. The United States and Britain maliciously and criminally imposed genocidal sanctions on the people of Iraq, that killed approximately 1.5 million Iraqis, all of whom were innocent civilians. And when U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked about the five hundred thousand dead children, she said that she thought the price was worth it. Now, I could have taken that statement to the International Court of Justice, and filed it against the United States as evidence of genocidal intent against the people of Iraq in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. And indeed I offered to do so to the then President of Iraq, but for whatever reasons he decided not to take these claims to the International Court of Justice. And now, as you see, he is on trial in a total kangaroo court proceeding in Baghdad that is completely controlled and dominated by the United States government. So, 1.5 million Iraqis died as the result of these genocidal sanctions. And then came September 11. And we know for a fact that the Bush Jr. administration knew that a major terrorist attack was going to be launched on the United States. And they let it happen anyway deliberately and on purpose. Why? They wanted a pretext for war. And not just one war but for a long war which they are talking about today. Indeed, from my research the war plans drawn up by the Pentagon for the war against Afghanistan were formulated as early as 1997. Enormous military forces fielded by that same U.S. Central Command, were already in and around and surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean before September 11. This war had been planned against Afghanistan. And armed, equipped, supplied, trained and war-gamed and ready to go. They just needed the pretext and that was September 11. Why? The United States wanted access to the oil and natural gas of Central Asia. That had been a Pentagon objective since at least before the collapse of the Soviet Union in nineteen ninety-one. And the Nine Eleven attack gave them the pretext to make this major grab for the oil and gas of Central Asia. And they are there today with their bases, with their troops, in the surrounding countries in Central Asia. And of course in the process, obliterated, we don 't even have an estimate of the Muslims in Afghanistan who were killed in the air bombardment, twenty, twenty five thousand, maybe more, and tens of thousands of others starved to death and still suffering today. But that, as we know from all the records was only the first step in the process. They wanted to finish the job in Iraq. And so immediately after September 11, Bush ordered Rumsfeld to update and operationalize the plans for attacking and invading Iraq. It had nothing at all to do with weapons of mass destruction. We in the peace movement in America had been saying that all along. The United Nations had determined there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. These were lies designed to scaremonger the American people and Congress into supporting an illegal war of aggression, a Nuremberg crime against peace, against Iraq. And they told whatever lies and broke what international laws they had to break in order to attack Iraq. And today the estimate, again we don't know. Perhaps two hundred thousand people in Iraq had been killed outright by the United States, Britain, its allies, Australia in Iraq. And again, most of them civilians. Clearly if you add up what United States government has done to Iraq from August of 1990, when it imposed the genocidal economic embargo until today. The United States and Britain have inflicted outright genocide on the Muslim and Christian people of Iraq and they are predominately Muslim as we know. Now comes the third step in the Pentagon's pre-existing plan, to control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. It' s sounds a bit like the plan that Hitler and the Nazis had in the 1930"s. Does it not? First go into Austria, then go into Czechoslovakia, then go into Poland. So first Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now Iran. And so now Iran is going to be the next victim of these outright criminals unless you and I can stop them. Right now there are three aircraft carrier task forces in the Persian Gulf. And whenever they had put three aircraft carrier task forces over there, it' s always to prepare for an attack. And according to Seymour Hersch, the award winning journalist, it will probably be an aerial bombardment, along the lines of what they did to Yugoslavia in 1999. As you remember there, seventy eight days of aerial bombardment by the United States and NATO with no authorization from the Security Council. Clearly illegal. Killing again, we don't know the exact number outright, four to five thousand innocent civilians. And targeting civilian infrastructure, all up and down, from which the people still suffer today. The use of depleted uranium ammunitions, outbreaks of cancer are documented today. So this is what, is being planned right now as we speak; an attack upon Iran. Using jet fighter aircraft, fighter bombers, on these three aircraft carrier task forces, using cruise missiles on submarines and of course Israel will be involved and have a role to play, doing exactly what the Americans tell them to do. In addition, it appears that if they attack Iran, they will also attack Syria. Yesterday, if you heard President Bush's press conference in Vienna, he threatened Syria, right? There's no other word for it. He threatened Syria. These Neo-Conservatives want to take out Syria as a favour to Israel. Remember, many of these Neo-Conservatives are affiliated personally and professionally with the Likhud Party in Israel and Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Beirut, the man who exterminated twenty thousand Arabs in Lebanon, most of them, not all of them were Muslims. And in addition, slaughtered two thousand completely innocent Palestinian women, children and old men at Sabra and Shatila. Ariel Sharon, the man who went to Haram Al-Sharif, the third holiest site in Islam, where Muhammad, (Peace Be Upon Him) ascended into heaven, and desecrated the Haram on September 28th, 2000, and deliberately provoked the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and has inflicted death and destruction on the Palestinian people since then. Close to thirty seven hundred Palestinians since then alone have been killed..most of them shot down like dogs in the street, and what has the Muslim world done about this? My Palestinian friends tell me that they are worried that the government of Malaysia might recognize Israel and establish diplomatic relations with Israel. I certainly hope this is not true. We must treat the criminal apartheid regime in Israel, the same way the world treated the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa. If the United States attacks Iran, they will probably attack Syria with the Israeli air force and they will attack Lebanon to take out the Islamic resistance movement in southern Lebanon - Hezbollah that defended the legitimate rights of Lebanon and the Lebanese people and expelled the invading longstanding occupying Israeli army that had the full support of the United States government for over twenty years. So they could attack Iran, Syria, Southern Lebanon and inflict yet another round of ethnic cleansing on the suffering Palestinian people. Remember Sharon and Likhud believe that Jordan is Palestine. And they want to drive as many Palestinians as possible out of their homes and into Jordan. So if the United States as reported by Hersh and other reliable sources, goes ahead and attacks Iran, we could see warfare erupt all the way from Egypt to the border with India. This whole area convulsed in warfare. And who will be the primary victims of this war? Muslims. The United States could not care less about Muslim life. Look at the demonisation and victimisation of Muslims that we have seen inflicted by the United States and its surrogate, Israel. Look at Guantanamo, where six hundred Muslim men have been treated like dogs in a kennel. Pretty much the way the Nazis treated the Jews. Look at Abu Ghraib and the sadism and sexual exploitation and perversion of Muslims by their American captors. And the same thing has been done in Baghram in Afghanistan. And when Professor Sharif Bassiouni, the UN special rapporteur filed the report with the Security Council against US practices in Afghanistan, the Americans had Kofi Annan fire him. Just as they had Kofi Annan fire Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, when she protested what was going on down in Guantanamo. The United States could not care less about Muslim life. And the same is true for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel. They would be happy to use nuclear weapons against Iran. They would be happy to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki against Muslims in Iran. It would create no problem at all for them. Indeed, I went to school with these Neo-Conservatives at the University of Chicago. Wolfowitz was there, Chalabi, Khalilzad, Shulsky, all the rest of them. I went through the exact same programme. Their mentor, Professor Leo Strauss. And who was his teacher in Germany and his sponsor? Professor Carl Schmitt who went on to become the most notorious Nazi law Professor of his day, justifying every atrocity that the Nazis inflicted on everyone. We must understand that these Neo-Conservatives are in fact Neo-Nazis. They have espoused the Nazi doctrine of Schmitt and Strauss and Machiavelli and Nietzsche, the 'superman'. They are the supermen, and the Muslims are the scum of the earth. Now, I do not believe the United States will initially start bombing Iran with nuclear weapons. But if things get out of control they are fully prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons. And here in our materials, you have the Pentagon's Joint Publication 3-12, which you can get on the internet.. just do a Google search and read it. And you will see there dated fifteenth March 2005; nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons have been fully integrated into United States conventional forces. So if Iran were to defend itself, human wave attacks, whatever, they will be happy to use nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Remember, these Neo-Nazis, Neo-Cons want to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They want to use tactical nuclear weapons, to be able to say to the rest of the world, you do what we tell you to do or else look what we did to the Iranians. It's a very serious situation. And this could even get further out of control. Remember that before Bush invaded Iraq, President Putin of Russia said that if he invades Iraq he could set off World War Three. Well, I interpreted that as an implicit threat. Even the famous American news broadcaster Walter Cronkite said that if Bush invaded Iraq he could set off World War Three. Two weeks ago we had the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; China, Russia and Iran. So again, if Bush were to attack Iran, he very well could set off a Third World War, a nuclear war. And that is where you come in. Dr. Mahathir has had the vision to call for this conference to alert the entire world to the existential dangers presented by a US attack on Iran that could readily become nuclear, regional and global. And I am calling upon you to do whatever you can in cooperation with Dr. Mahathir and the Perdana Global Peace Foundation to head this off. Allah has given each and everyone of you skills that can be used in this endeavour. I can't tell you what they are, but you yourself know what they are. And you must go to Dr. Mahathir. You must go to the Perdana Peace Foundation and say, "This is what I can do. These are my talents. These are my professional qualifications. These are my skills. This is my cheque book. Let me help. Let me prevent, let me help prevent a nuclear war, a possible final, cataclysmic Third World War."
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The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam
Transcript - Public Lecture - Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006
By Prof. Francis A Boyle
06/22/06 "Information Clearing House" -- -- Kuala Lumpur - Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America in seventeen eighty-nine. The fledgling United States opened the nineteenth century by stealing the continent of North America from the Indians, while in the process ethnically cleansing them and then finally deporting the pitiful few survivors by means of death marches (a la Bataan) to Bantustans, which in America we call reservations, as in instance of America's manifest destiny to rule the world. Then, the imperial government of the United States opened the twentieth century by stealing a colonial empire from Spain - in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, then inflicting a near-genocidal war against the Filipino people. While at the same time, purporting to annex, the kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the native Hawaiian people to near-genocidal conditions from which they still suffer today- all in the name of securing America's so-called place in the sun. And today at the dawn of the twenty first century, the world witnesses the effort by the imperial government of the United States of America to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Moslem states and peoples, surrounding central Asia and the Persian Gulf under the pretext of fighting a war against international terrorism or eliminating weapons of mass destruction or promoting democracy which is total nonsense. For the past two hundred and sixteen years, the imperialist foreign policy of the United States of America since its foundation, has been predicated upon racism, aggression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, war crimes and outright genocide. At the dawn of the third millennium of humankind's parlous existence, nothing has changed about the operational dynamics of American imperial policy. And we see this today in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and what appears to be an illegal attack upon Iran. Now the topic today is the Middle East Agenda : Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam. So, I'm only going to limit my comments to that subject. We have to begin the story with the Arab oil embargo in nineteen seventy-three. As you know in nineteen sixty-seven, Israel launched an illegal and preventive war against the surrounding Arab states, stole the land and ethnically cleansed the people. But eventually Egypt offered a Peace Treaty to Israel which Israel rejected and the Egyptians and the Arab states decided then to use force to recover their lands. Israel almost collapsed, the United States and Europe came to their support by providing weapons and in reaction the Arab states imposed an oil embargo on the United States and Europe, and brought their economies to their knees. Whereupon, the then U.S Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger threatened them and said, this will never happen again, and if you do, we will prevent it. And it was not just a threat. The United States government then at that time, planned, prepared and conspired, to steal the oil of the Persian Gulf. They did not have the military capability to do this at that time, to carry out the Kissinger threat, which was also then repeated by the Ford administration, and the Carter administration under Harold Brown and Brzezinski. So they put into planning an interventionary force, designed expressly for the purpose of stealing Arab oil fields, and that was called the rapid deployment force. And it took ten years of training, planning, positioning, and supply to build that interventionary force of that capability and eventually it was called the U.S. Central Command. The purpose of the U.S. Central Command is to steal and control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. And that's exactly what the U.S. Central Command proceeded to do in the Bush Sr. war against Iraq, their first military expedition. And as we know, that war exterminated probably two hundred thousand Iraqis. Half of them innocent civilians. Simply wiped out in a bombing campaign and a military expedition of unprecedented dimensions. But remember, it took fifteen years for the Pentagon and three different administrations both Republicans and Democrats to get the capability to do this. And then, when that genocide or conflict was over, what happened? The United States carved Iraq up into three pieces with their air force, the so-called no-fly zones, a zone for the Kurds in the North, a zone for the Shi'ah in the South, and the Sunni in the middle. Why? To destroy Iraq as an effectively viable state. In his book, Clash of Civilizations, Huntington from Harvard who advised the Pentagon and advised the state department pointed out that the only Arab state with the capability to lead the Arab world and challenge the United States and Israel was Iraq. And so Iraq had to be destroyed, to maintain the domination of the United States and its proxy, Israel. And remember after nineteen seventy-three, whatever it was before then, Israel is nothing more than a catspaw of the United States. They do what America tells them to do. Otherwise Israel is nothing more than a failed state. In addition then, to destroying Iraq as a state, carving it up into three pieces, was the decision to debilitate and destroy the Iraqi people. And so they continued the genocidal economic sanctions on the people of Iraq, that my colleagues, Denis Halliday, Hans Von Sponeck, so courageously resisted and finally resigned as a matter of principle, calling them by what they really were, genocide. The United States and Britain maliciously and criminally imposed genocidal sanctions on the people of Iraq, that killed approximately 1.5 million Iraqis, all of whom were innocent civilians. And when U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked about the five hundred thousand dead children, she said that she thought the price was worth it. Now, I could have taken that statement to the International Court of Justice, and filed it against the United States as evidence of genocidal intent against the people of Iraq in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. And indeed I offered to do so to the then President of Iraq, but for whatever reasons he decided not to take these claims to the International Court of Justice. And now, as you see, he is on trial in a total kangaroo court proceeding in Baghdad that is completely controlled and dominated by the United States government. So, 1.5 million Iraqis died as the result of these genocidal sanctions. And then came September 11. And we know for a fact that the Bush Jr. administration knew that a major terrorist attack was going to be launched on the United States. And they let it happen anyway deliberately and on purpose. Why? They wanted a pretext for war. And not just one war but for a long war which they are talking about today. Indeed, from my research the war plans drawn up by the Pentagon for the war against Afghanistan were formulated as early as 1997. Enormous military forces fielded by that same U.S. Central Command, were already in and around and surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean before September 11. This war had been planned against Afghanistan. And armed, equipped, supplied, trained and war-gamed and ready to go. They just needed the pretext and that was September 11. Why? The United States wanted access to the oil and natural gas of Central Asia. That had been a Pentagon objective since at least before the collapse of the Soviet Union in nineteen ninety-one. And the Nine Eleven attack gave them the pretext to make this major grab for the oil and gas of Central Asia. And they are there today with their bases, with their troops, in the surrounding countries in Central Asia. And of course in the process, obliterated, we don 't even have an estimate of the Muslims in Afghanistan who were killed in the air bombardment, twenty, twenty five thousand, maybe more, and tens of thousands of others starved to death and still suffering today. But that, as we know from all the records was only the first step in the process. They wanted to finish the job in Iraq. And so immediately after September 11, Bush ordered Rumsfeld to update and operationalize the plans for attacking and invading Iraq. It had nothing at all to do with weapons of mass destruction. We in the peace movement in America had been saying that all along. The United Nations had determined there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. These were lies designed to scaremonger the American people and Congress into supporting an illegal war of aggression, a Nuremberg crime against peace, against Iraq. And they told whatever lies and broke what international laws they had to break in order to attack Iraq. And today the estimate, again we don't know. Perhaps two hundred thousand people in Iraq had been killed outright by the United States, Britain, its allies, Australia in Iraq. And again, most of them civilians. Clearly if you add up what United States government has done to Iraq from August of 1990, when it imposed the genocidal economic embargo until today. The United States and Britain have inflicted outright genocide on the Muslim and Christian people of Iraq and they are predominately Muslim as we know. Now comes the third step in the Pentagon's pre-existing plan, to control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. It' s sounds a bit like the plan that Hitler and the Nazis had in the 1930"s. Does it not? First go into Austria, then go into Czechoslovakia, then go into Poland. So first Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now Iran. And so now Iran is going to be the next victim of these outright criminals unless you and I can stop them. Right now there are three aircraft carrier task forces in the Persian Gulf. And whenever they had put three aircraft carrier task forces over there, it' s always to prepare for an attack. And according to Seymour Hersch, the award winning journalist, it will probably be an aerial bombardment, along the lines of what they did to Yugoslavia in 1999. As you remember there, seventy eight days of aerial bombardment by the United States and NATO with no authorization from the Security Council. Clearly illegal. Killing again, we don't know the exact number outright, four to five thousand innocent civilians. And targeting civilian infrastructure, all up and down, from which the people still suffer today. The use of depleted uranium ammunitions, outbreaks of cancer are documented today. So this is what, is being planned right now as we speak; an attack upon Iran. Using jet fighter aircraft, fighter bombers, on these three aircraft carrier task forces, using cruise missiles on submarines and of course Israel will be involved and have a role to play, doing exactly what the Americans tell them to do. In addition, it appears that if they attack Iran, they will also attack Syria. Yesterday, if you heard President Bush's press conference in Vienna, he threatened Syria, right? There's no other word for it. He threatened Syria. These Neo-Conservatives want to take out Syria as a favour to Israel. Remember, many of these Neo-Conservatives are affiliated personally and professionally with the Likhud Party in Israel and Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Beirut, the man who exterminated twenty thousand Arabs in Lebanon, most of them, not all of them were Muslims. And in addition, slaughtered two thousand completely innocent Palestinian women, children and old men at Sabra and Shatila. Ariel Sharon, the man who went to Haram Al-Sharif, the third holiest site in Islam, where Muhammad, (Peace Be Upon Him) ascended into heaven, and desecrated the Haram on September 28th, 2000, and deliberately provoked the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and has inflicted death and destruction on the Palestinian people since then. Close to thirty seven hundred Palestinians since then alone have been killed..most of them shot down like dogs in the street, and what has the Muslim world done about this? My Palestinian friends tell me that they are worried that the government of Malaysia might recognize Israel and establish diplomatic relations with Israel. I certainly hope this is not true. We must treat the criminal apartheid regime in Israel, the same way the world treated the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa. If the United States attacks Iran, they will probably attack Syria with the Israeli air force and they will attack Lebanon to take out the Islamic resistance movement in southern Lebanon - Hezbollah that defended the legitimate rights of Lebanon and the Lebanese people and expelled the invading longstanding occupying Israeli army that had the full support of the United States government for over twenty years. So they could attack Iran, Syria, Southern Lebanon and inflict yet another round of ethnic cleansing on the suffering Palestinian people. Remember Sharon and Likhud believe that Jordan is Palestine. And they want to drive as many Palestinians as possible out of their homes and into Jordan. So if the United States as reported by Hersh and other reliable sources, goes ahead and attacks Iran, we could see warfare erupt all the way from Egypt to the border with India. This whole area convulsed in warfare. And who will be the primary victims of this war? Muslims. The United States could not care less about Muslim life. Look at the demonisation and victimisation of Muslims that we have seen inflicted by the United States and its surrogate, Israel. Look at Guantanamo, where six hundred Muslim men have been treated like dogs in a kennel. Pretty much the way the Nazis treated the Jews. Look at Abu Ghraib and the sadism and sexual exploitation and perversion of Muslims by their American captors. And the same thing has been done in Baghram in Afghanistan. And when Professor Sharif Bassiouni, the UN special rapporteur filed the report with the Security Council against US practices in Afghanistan, the Americans had Kofi Annan fire him. Just as they had Kofi Annan fire Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, when she protested what was going on down in Guantanamo. The United States could not care less about Muslim life. And the same is true for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel. They would be happy to use nuclear weapons against Iran. They would be happy to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki against Muslims in Iran. It would create no problem at all for them. Indeed, I went to school with these Neo-Conservatives at the University of Chicago. Wolfowitz was there, Chalabi, Khalilzad, Shulsky, all the rest of them. I went through the exact same programme. Their mentor, Professor Leo Strauss. And who was his teacher in Germany and his sponsor? Professor Carl Schmitt who went on to become the most notorious Nazi law Professor of his day, justifying every atrocity that the Nazis inflicted on everyone. We must understand that these Neo-Conservatives are in fact Neo-Nazis. They have espoused the Nazi doctrine of Schmitt and Strauss and Machiavelli and Nietzsche, the 'superman'. They are the supermen, and the Muslims are the scum of the earth. Now, I do not believe the United States will initially start bombing Iran with nuclear weapons. But if things get out of control they are fully prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons. And here in our materials, you have the Pentagon's Joint Publication 3-12, which you can get on the internet.. just do a Google search and read it. And you will see there dated fifteenth March 2005; nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons have been fully integrated into United States conventional forces. So if Iran were to defend itself, human wave attacks, whatever, they will be happy to use nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Remember, these Neo-Nazis, Neo-Cons want to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They want to use tactical nuclear weapons, to be able to say to the rest of the world, you do what we tell you to do or else look what we did to the Iranians. It's a very serious situation. And this could even get further out of control. Remember that before Bush invaded Iraq, President Putin of Russia said that if he invades Iraq he could set off World War Three. Well, I interpreted that as an implicit threat. Even the famous American news broadcaster Walter Cronkite said that if Bush invaded Iraq he could set off World War Three. Two weeks ago we had the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; China, Russia and Iran. So again, if Bush were to attack Iran, he very well could set off a Third World War, a nuclear war. And that is where you come in. Dr. Mahathir has had the vision to call for this conference to alert the entire world to the existential dangers presented by a US attack on Iran that could readily become nuclear, regional and global. And I am calling upon you to do whatever you can in cooperation with Dr. Mahathir and the Perdana Global Peace Foundation to head this off. Allah has given each and everyone of you skills that can be used in this endeavour. I can't tell you what they are, but you yourself know what they are. And you must go to Dr. Mahathir. You must go to the Perdana Peace Foundation and say, "This is what I can do. These are my talents. These are my professional qualifications. These are my skills. This is my cheque book. Let me help. Let me prevent, let me help prevent a nuclear war, a possible final, cataclysmic Third World War."
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