Why there's an IDF
On this Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers and terror victims, it's important to remember why an Israeli Defense Force remains necessary.
It's not your imagination when they really are out to get you.
Labels: 9/11, anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, IDF, Yom HaZikaron
The first thing we do: We blame the Jews
I suppose this was inevitable. The Daily Beast is reporting that Muslims interviewed in the Paris suburbs, and in the 19th arondissement where the Kouachi brothers live, are
blaming the Jews for last week's terror attacks.This is from the Daily Beast.
But even though the flags of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia were
flying at the rally in Place de la République and Muslims were well
represented among the marchers Sunday, Boular said the attacks in Paris
were part of a plot masterminded by Jewish conspirators.
“The Kalashnikovs, the identity cards the [killers] supposedly left
behind, it was all staged,” said Boular, as his friends nodded in
agreement. “It was a conspiracy designed by the Jews to make Muslims
look bad. We’d rather just stay where we are.”
No use arguing. No
use pointing out that one of the terrorists murdered four Jews.
Conspiracy theories have their own unassailable logic, and this is a
world apart from the displays of unity in Paris after the carnage of
last week. French newspapers reported that some students in these
neighborhoods—as well as other heavily Muslim areas near cities like
Lille—refused to participate
in Thursday’s national moment of silence for the victims of the terror
attacks. One teacher said up to 80 percent of his students didn’t want
to observe the silence, and some said they supported the attackers. “You
reap what you sow,” a student who refused the moment of silence told
his teacher in reference to the terrorists’ victims, according to Le Figaro.
...
Another young man of French-Algerian descent interviewed outside a
gas station in the Saint-Denis suburb reacted angrily to a reporter’s
presence and demanded to know her religion. “The worst thing is to be
atheist,” he said.
The man, who gave his named as “Mohamed,” also
said he was a devout Muslim but then changed his demeanor and added,
grinning, that he was also “a delinquent.” Then he said he was a drug
dealer and without prompting, invited the reporter into the (also very
clean) gas station to show an array of hashish for sale in broad
daylight on a shelf next to the ATM.
He also called the Paris terrorist attacks “un complot,”
or conspiracy, and launched into a lengthy explanation of the “magical
Jews” behind it. They were not ordinary Jews, he said, but a “hybrid
race of shape shifters” who have extraordinary abilities. “They know how
to get in everywhere,” he said. “They are master manipulators.”
What might be the scariest part about this story is the fact that most of those interviewed are second and third generation immigrants. Apparently, living in the West has had absolutely no influence on their thought processes. I know that there's a lot of anti-Semitism in France, but I find it hard to believe that most Frenchmen would even seriously consider the possibility that last week's events were brought about by a 'Jewish conspiracy.'
Labels: Charlie Hebdo, conspiracy theories, France, Islamic anti-Semitism, Islamic terrorism, Paris
Al-Jazeera starts US broadcasts with Jew-hating conspiracy theorist Stephen Walt
Al-Jazeera started broadcasting in the United States on Tuesday, and its first guest was Jew-hating conspiracy theorist
Stephen Walt.
Walt rose to prominence as co-author of a conspiracy book about Jewish manipulation of American foreign policy and has been referred to by prominent liberal journalist Jeffrey Goldberg as someone who “makes his living scapegoating Jews.”
It wasn't exactly a hard-hitting interview either.
Let's go to the videotape.
In the meantime, al-Jazeera has
sued AT&T for refusing to carry al-Jazeera on its network.
Al Jazeera America has filed a lawsuit against AT&T over its refusal to carry the new cable news network.
Late Monday, the cable provider dropped Current, which switched over
to Al Jazeera at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday, meaning U-verse subscribers had
no access to the new channel.
...
In a statement, AT&T told The Times that it had not yet seen the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Delaware Chancery court.
"As a result of our inability to come to terms on a new agreement and
due to certain breaches of the existing agreement, we have decided not
to carry Current TV on U-verse," AT&T said in its statement.
Al Jazeera America is part of the global Doha-based news organization
financed by the royal family of Qatar. In the United States, AJAM is
available in about 49 million of more than 100 million cable homes via
Comcast DISH Network, DirecTV and FiOS.
It is not available on Time Warner Cable, which dropped Current when it
was sold to Al Jazeera America's parent company. Al Jazeera executives
are currently in negotiations to regain carriage on Time Warner Cable
systems, but those negotiations are likely taking a backseat to the
operator's heated disagreement with CBS.
Current was sold to al-Jazeera by
former US Vice President Al Gore. Gore thinks they're a
great station.
Labels: Al Gore, al-Jazeera, conspiracy theories, Stephen Walt
New book claims Mossad killed JFK
With the 50th anniversary of his assassination approaching, a new book is claiming that
the Mossad killed JFK.
Another disappointment in the collected letters of JFK: Close to the
end of the book, which is only 352 pages long, the editor devotes eight
pages to an exchange between President Kennedy and Israeli leaders on
Israel’s nuclear-weapons program, which the U.S. president viewed as a
threat to world peace. Editor Martin W. Sandler introduces the section
as follows:
In March 1992, Representative Paul Findley of Illinois, wrote in the Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs,
“It is interesting. . . . to notice that in all the words written and
uttered about the Kennedy assassination, Israel’s intelligence agency,
the Mossad, has never been mentioned.” Two years later in his book Final Judgment,
author Michael Collins actually accused Israel of the crime. Of all the
conspiracy theories, it remains one of the most intriguing.
No
it doesn’t. It’s not one of the most intriguing theories about the JFK
assassination; it’s one of the crankiest, craziest, and nuttiest.
(Though I reserve final judgment on the question of whether it is the crankiest, craziest, and nuttiest until I read GOP political consultant Roger Stone’s forthcoming book alleging that LBJ was responsible for the assassination.)
Let me lay my cards on the table: Owing to an accident of my biography,
I developed a passionate interest in the Kennedy assassination when I
was a boy, and have been reading books — conspiracy books, and
Oswald-was-the-lone-gunman books — about this event all my life. It
would not be too much of an exaggeration to say that, even today, I know
more about this subject than any sane person I have ever met. (Which
conveniently excludes the sort of people who go to conspiracy
conventions.) And I can tell you that just about every other conspiracy
theory on JFK I’ve ever heard has more evidence lending it plausibility
than that one does.
The name Paul Findley ought to be enough to shoot down this theory. He was one of the most
anti-Semitic Congressmen ever to prowl the corridors of Capitol Hill.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: anti-Semitism, conspiracy theories, John F. Kennedy, Mossad
Still in love with Assad
Like the beaten wife who goes back to her abusive husband, former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri continues to
adopt the positions of Bashar al-Assad, the man who
murdered Hariri's father. This time, Hariri is
accusing Israel of being behind a
bomb blast that went off in Hezbullah's stronghold in the Dahiye section of southern Beirut earlier this week.
This is from the third link.
Hariri, who heads the
predominantly Sunni Future Movement (Tiyyar al-Mustaqbal) party in
Lebanon, accused Israel of organizing the "terrorist attack" to "push
Lebanon to strife" and destabilize the country, according to Lebanese
English-language newspaper The Daily Star.
"The blast requires the highest-level awareness," Hariri cautioned.
The statements of the former prime minister,
whose government collapsed in 2011 when the opposition parties including
Hezbollah withdrew, echoed comments by Hezbollah MP Ali Ammar on
Tuesday, who said shortly after the bombing that the "act clearly bears
the fingerprint of the Israeli enemy and its tools."
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon on Tuesday did
not comment on Lebanese accusations directed at Israel, but said, "This
fight is between the Sunnis and the Shiites and Israel will not
intervene in it."
If they actually believe this, they are totally off the wall. And if they don't believe it, they don't see the civil war that's just around the corner as a result of Hezbullah's support of Assad.
Labels: Bashar al-Assad, Beirut, conspiracy theories, Hezbullah, Saad Hariri
Just in time for the UN General Assembly... the Intergalactic Zionist Conspiracy
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Intergalactic Zionist Conspiracy members only merchandise.
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members with this proof of being an Intergalactic Zionist Conspiracy
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who's really in charge!
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You can buy them in two online stores - follow the link above for more details. And if anyone wants to buy me a present, size large or a coffee mug please.
Labels: conspiracy theories, humor, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, United Nations General Assembly
Olmert seeking revenge against those who 'conspired' to bring him down
At one time, former Prime Minister
Ehud K. Olmert and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson were good friends. That changed when Olmert acceded to
his family's wishes and became a '
peace processor.'
Adelson and Olmert had been friends for many years, but Olmert, a longtime hard-liner on the Palestinian issue, had as prime minister come to embrace the idea of a two-state solution as the only way of preserving Israel as a democratic state with a Jewish majority. Adelson was apoplectic. His answer to the Jewish-Arab demographic trend-line was simple: “I think Jews should have lots of sex. That is the solution to our demographic problem.” Adelson spent nearly two hundred million dollars to launch a free daily newspaper, Israel Hayom, and set out to use it to help make Netanyahu prime minister; the daily, widely viewed as a Netanyahu mouthpiece, became known as Bibi-ton, and it attacked Olmert fiercely. Adelson could not take credit for the prime minister’s eventual demise—Olmert resigned after being indicted on charges of corruption—but he did play a crucial role in electing Netanyahu.
But now, Olmert wants revenge for his loss of power. And
Sheldon Adelson is a prime target.
"We are not looking for conspiracy theories but we want answers to facts," a source close to Olmert said. "Certain people became part of the political game and brought about investigations, which led to his resignation. You have to ask yourself whether these things should be investigated."
The source noted that in October 2007, an American Jew testified to the police about alleged bribes given to Olmert by New York financier Moshe Talansky and that the Talansky investigation led to others. He complained that a woman testified against Olmert from the US, and it was later found that her husband ran a right-wing, anti-Olmert blog. He also cited the founding of the newspaper Israel Hayom by right-wing American Jew Sheldon Adelson and its role in bringing down Olmert.
"People intoxicated by power toppled a prime minister,” former minister Haim Ramon told Israel Radio. “American right-wing Jews who filed countless complaints against Olmert have to be investigated. They saw Olmert as the man who could deliver an agreement with the Palestinians. Consider what Olmert could have done had he remained prime minister for two more years instead of Netanyahu.”
Actually, I shudder at the thought of two more years with Olmert as Prime Minister. But I doubt that things would be very different with the 'Palestinians.' Just a lot more talking and a 'settlement freeze.'
Olmert himself told CNN's Christian Amanpour when he came to New York for The Jerusalem Post Conference in April that he had been the victim of a right-wing conspiracy involving American millionaires. Like Ramon, he refused to name names.
“[Trying to make peace] was a killer for me,” he said. “I had to fight against superior powers, including millions and millions of dollars that were transferred from this country by figures in the extreme right-wing who tried to topple me. There is no question about it. I know the names of people who spent millions of dollars who tried to stop me. They wanted to prevent a government led by me from achieving peace.”
But was the problem a government led by Olmert, or was the problem 'peace'? I believe that the problem was 'peace.' Quite simply, it's impossible at any price that would not result in - God forbid - the extirpation of the State of Israel.
Something tells me that Sheldon Adelson is not losing sleep at night worrying about Ehud Olmert. Keep this in mind: Yisrael HaYom has become extraordinarily popular because of its marketing plan (it's handed out for free and lives on ad revenues), and because there was no other newspaper in Israel that was expressing the points of view that it expresses. Apparently, no Israelis were willing to bankroll such a venture. There is nothing wrong with Adelson doing so. Ask Rupert Murdoch.
And not to say that the decision to do so was illegitimate - it was certainly within her rights - but might the results of the Rishontours and Talansky cases have been different if Olmert's office administrator, Shula Zaken, had testified against him instead of taking the fall for him?
Read the whole thing.
Labels: conspiracy theories, corruption, Ehud K. Olmert, Sheldon Adelson
Yet another conspiracy theory
Many Islamist websites have concluded that Jews and/or Israel must be behind the Wikileaks document leak because Israel has emerged
almost unscathed from the documents released so far.
Why did the documents exposed by WikiLeaks contain so much material about Arab regimes asking the United States to contain Iran’s nuclear program? Why was there little material that was embarrassing to Israel? JTA reports that Hizbullah and other jihadi groups see an Israeli conspiracy at work.
The Jewish news agency said that Hizbullah's Al Manar news outlet, and Al Haqiqa, which is affiliated with a Syrian opposition group, have been writing that WikiLeaks director Julian Assange "struck a deal with Israel and the 'Israel lobby' to withhold documents that might embarrass the Jewish state." From the jihadis, the theory is "percolating" to far-left and far-right websites as well.
A December 8 story on leftist Indymedia UK asked: “Why [did] the hundreds of thousands of American classified documents leaked … not contain anything that may embarrass the Israeli government? The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between Wikileaks … [and] Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were ‘removed’ before the rest were made public.”
While Israeli officials shrugged off the claims as unworthy of comment, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement last week comparing them to the rumors that Israel was behind the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. ADL National Director Abraham Foxman called the theories “yet another manifestation of the Big Lie against Jews and Israel.”
...
The story has surfaced in the United States, at the Arab Times and the Arab Voice, Arab-American community papers in Texas and New Jersey, JTA found.
Sharif Nashashibi, chairman of Arab Media Watch, a London-based nonprofit that monitors the British media's coverage of the Arab world, said the claim "certainly isn't prevalent in the Arab and Muslim worlds, and that's most likely because it has no solid basis.”
I would not be so complacent about this. It's the kind of libel that tends to snowball.
Labels: conspiracy theories, Islamist, Wikileaks
Of course, let's blame the Jews
It was only a matter of time before this would happen: Conspiracy theorists are
blaming the Jews for the Wikileaks document dump.
"Where is the real dirt on Israel?" these conspiracy theorists - messaging back and forth in the blogosphere - are asking one another.
"The answer appears to be a secret deal struck between WikiLeaks' ... Assange ... with Israeli officials, which ensured that all such documents were 'removed' before the rest were made public," wrote Gordon Duff, an editor of the anti-war website Veterans Today, who frequently opines about what he believes is Israeli's secret influence over world events.
Speaking to Haaretz, Duff added that "it sticks out like a sore thumb that WikiLeaks is obviously concocted by an intelligence agency. It's a ham-handed action by Israel to do its public relations."
Meanwhile, Al Haqiqa, an Arabic language webzine, citing disgruntled WikiLeaks volunteers, adds more details to the conspiracy, suggesting that this "secret agreement" between Assange and "the Mossad," which allegedly took place in Geneva, involved Assange's promise not to publish any document that "may harm Israeli security or diplomatic interests."
"The Israel government, it seems, had somehow found out or expected that the documents to be leaked contained a large number of documents about the Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Gaza in 2006 and 2008-9 respectively," adds an anonymous blogger on IndyMedia. "These documents, which are said to have originated mainly from the American embassies in Tel Aviv and Beirut, were removed and possibly destroyed by Assange, who is the only person who knows the password that can open these documents, the sources added."
Read the whole thing. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion are alive and well in the West today.
Labels: conspiracy theories, Wikileaks
