Uri Avnery being Promoted By Neo-Nazis

Herr Uri Avnery is Israel's longtime Lord Haw Haw. In recent days he was denounced by Avigdor Lieberman as a "kapo," to the bellowing and shrieks of all the Bleeding Hearts, upset by such rhetoric except when it is directed against Zionists. Recently stories have emerged about how Avnery published a nazi magazine in Germany in the 1930s.  Avnery is a regular columnist on the leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine "Counterpunch," as well as the web site of klansman David Duke.  Avnery's own mother disowned him and regarded him as a traitor.  Menachem Begin revealed that the chief of the secret service had asked in the late 50's for his support for putting Avnery in administrative detention.  Begin unfortunately refused.

Avnery with his Puppet Master (above)

Now it turns out that Avnery's Bash-Israel propaganda is being distributed by bona fide Neo-Nazi organizations and web sites. The following was sent out this week to a long list of Neo-Nazi groups (see the ending especially!):

Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:44:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [JihadNewsDesk] An Honest Jew Reviews "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy"

An Honest Jew Reviews "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy"

Uri Avnery (illustration) is a journalist, peace activist, former member of the Knesset, and leader of Gush Shalom, a peace movement in Israel . Two Knights and a Dragon -- by Uri Avnery (Wednesday, October 3, 2007) "The two professors take the bull by the horns. They deal with a subject which is absolutely taboo in the United States , a subject nobody in his right mind would even mention: the enormous influence of the pro-Israel lobby on American foreign policy...."

(Citing Avnery):

This wall cannot be torn down by reasoned argument. Nobody has tried, and nobody is going to. Instead, the authors are being smeared and accused of sinister motives. If the book could be ignored altogether, this would have been done - as has happened to other books which have been buried alive....

The two professors take the bull by the horns. They deal with a subject which is absolutely taboo in the United States , a subject nobody in his right mind would even mention: the enormous influence of the pro-Israel lobby on American foreign policy. In a remorselessly systematical way, the book analyzes the Lobby, takes it apart, describes its modus operandi, discloses its financial sources and lays bare its relations with the White House, the two houses of Congress, the leaders of the two major parties and leading media people.... In its second part, the book shows how the Lobby uses its tremendous power in practice: how it has prevented the exertion of any pressure on Israel to for peace with the Palestinians, how it pushed the US into the invasion of Iraq, how it is now pushing for wars with Iran and Syria, how it supported the Israeli leadership in the recent war in Lebanon and blocked calls for a ceasefire when it didn't want it.  Each of these assertions is backed up by so much undeniable evidence and quotations from written material (mainly from Israeli sources) that they cannot be ignored.  Most of these disclosures are nothing new for those in Israel who deal with these matters.

In 1968, a very respected American publishing house (Macmillan) brought out a book of mine' "Israel Without Zionists", which was later translated into eight other languages. The book described the Israeli-Arab conflict in a very different way and proposed the establishment of a Palestinian state next to Israel - a revolutionary idea at the time. Not a single review appeared in the American media. I checked in one of the most important book stores in New York and did not find the book. When I asked a salesman, he found it buried under a heap of volumes and put it on top. Half an hour later it was hidden again. The book dealt with the "Two States for Two peoples" solution long before it became a world-wide consensus, and with my proposal for Israel 's integration in "the Semitic Region".... The book by the two professors, who criticize the Israeli government from a different angle, cannot be buried anymore. This fact, by itself, speaks volumes. The book is based on an essay by the two that appeared last year in a British journal, after no American publication dared to touch it. Now a respected American publishing house has released it - an indication that something is moving. The situation has not changed, but it seems that it is now possible at least to talk about it.

The two professors are, of course, accused of anti-Semitism, racism and hatred of Israel . What Israel ? It is the Lobby itself that hates a large part of Israel . In recent years is has shifted even more to the Right. Some of its constituent groups - such as the neo-cons who pushed the US into the Iraq war - are openly connected with the right-wing Likud, and especially with Binyamin Netanyahu. The billionaires who finance the Lobby are the same people who finance the extreme Israeli Right, and most of all the settlers. The small, determined Jewish groups in the US who support the Israeli peace movements are remorselessly persecuted. Some of them fold after a
few years. Members of Israeli peace groups who are sent to America are boycotted and slandered as "self-hating- Jews"....

Most of the American public now opposes the Iraq war and considers it a disaster. This majority still does not connect the war with the actions of the pro-Israel lobby. No newspaper and no politician dares to hint at such a connection - yet. But if this taboo is broken, the result may be very dangerous for the Jews and for Israel . Beneath the surface, a lot of anger directed against the Lobby is accumulating. The presidential candidates, who are compelled to grovel at the feet of AIPAC, the senators and congressmen, who have become slaves of the Lobby, the media people, who are forbidden to write what they really think - all these secretly detest the Lobby. If this anger explodes, it may hurt us, too. This lobby has become a Golem. And like the Golem in legend, in the end it will bring disaster on its maker. If I may be permitted to voice some criticism of my own: When the original article by the two professors appeared, I argued that  "the tail is wagging the dog and the dog is wagging the tail". The tail, of course, is Israel . ...

I agree that the US is acting against its true interest (and the true interests of Israel ) - but the American leadership does not see it that way. Bush and his people believe - even without the input of the Lobby - that it would be advantageous for the US to establish a permanent American military presence in the middle of this region of huge oil reserves. In my view, this counter-productive act at was one of the main objectives of the war, side by side with the desire to eliminate one of Israel's most dangerous enemies. Unfortunately, the book deals only very briefly with this issue.

The email posting by the Neo-Nazis carried the following warning at the end of the message:

Confidentiality Notice: The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments is Racially and Religiously privileged and confidential. It is intended for specific Aryan recipients only and Brothers and Sisters of their choosing. If you are a jew, you can only be in possession through deceit, treachery, guile, cunning, dissimulation and chicanery, and such possession of this e-mail is contrary to law. You are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail through the error of someone else, you must notify the sender and permanently delete this e-mail and any attachments immediately. You should neither retain, nor copy nor use this e-mail or any attachment for any purpose. Disclosure of all or any part of the contents to any other jew is a punishable offense.

Avnery illegally enters Beirut to help the PLO in 1982:

The Dangers in Conspiracist Nonsense

“A Conspiracy!” cried the delighted lady, clapping her hands. “Of all things, I do like a Conspiracy! It’s so interesting!” - Lewis Carroll, My Lady, Sylvie and Bruno (1889)
Conspiracism is probably best characterized as a form of mental illness. Some researchers in psychiatry plainly agree. It is the attribution of control of world events to a hidden cabal of omnipotent conspirators. It is the claim that an organized "hidden hand" lies behind world developments. It is probably best treated in clinics with padded walls.

 

Perhaps the best example of conspiracism in recent years has been the attempt to dismiss the fact that thousands of eyewitnesses saw passenger planes full of civilians crashing into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9-11 and that the hijackers were all Arab al-Qaeda operatives. Crank conspiracists insist instead that the CIA, the Mossad, the Council on Foreign Relations (which publishes Foreign Affairs magazine), the Jews, the freemasons, the "Illuminati," the Vatican, or some other nefarious group were really behind the attacks.  (In the case of the fabricator of the "theory" of a SHABAK conspiracy behind the Rabin assassination, it seems to be ALL of the above!)

 

Many of us have a tendency to dismiss people making such conspiracist claims as harmless lunatics and amusing eccentrics. This is all the more true because quite a few conspiracy “theorists” also endorse crackpot claims about UFOs and abductions by space aliens. But conspiracism can be quite dangerous, and conspiracism in Israel has played a particularly harmful role in recent years. Moreover, Israeli conspiracists at times promote the very same “theories” as Holocaust Deniers and anti-Semites, and often on the very same web sites.

 

In the US conspiracism has emerged with special popularity in relation to the 1963 assassination of President Kennedy. Polls show that large numbers of Americans believe conspiracy "theories" about Kennedy's death. But there was no conspiracy there at all. The very best article debunking JFK conspiracism is still “Yes, Oswald Alone Killed Kennedy,” by Jacob Cohen in Commentary Magazine, June 1992.

 

Outside Israel, conspiracism is closely linked with anti-Semitism, and many of the "grand cabal" theories of the conspiracists involve supposed plots by Jews (or “Zionists") to "take over" the world, or at least American foreign policy. Conspiracism is common among the Neo-Nazi fringe Right, the far Left, and the "anarchists". There are tens of thousands of internet web sites devoted to their “theories”.

 

It would be a mistake to dismiss all such people as mere harmless buffoons. In North America a handful of university professors endorse conspiracy “theories” about the collapse of the World Trade Center, including Brigham Young University physics professor Steven E. Jones, and a professor of economics at the University of Ottawa Michel Chossudovsky (who is also a Holocaust Denier). It is all the more alarming to see the spread of conspiracism into Israel.

 

Perhaps the best analysis of the conspiracist mindset is that of Daniel Pipes in his seminal book “Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where it Comes From” (the Free Press, 1997). Pipes defines “conspiracism" as “fear of a nonexistent conspiracy.” Pipes shows that nonsensical theories of a single institution or cabal plotting to take over the world go back at least 250 years. “Conspiracism,” according to Pipes, is a form of paranoid delusion that tends to take over the entire lives and personalities of believers. Embracing conspiracism strongly resembles the totalitarian immersion of cult members into herd thinking.

Let's Make More Global Warming!

As P. J. O'Rourke said, everyone wants to save the planet but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.

For years most of us have believed that the Nobel Peace Prize could not possibly be debased any worse than it has been.  Shimon Peres and mass murderer Yassir Arafat were granted a Nobel "Peace Prize" for plunging the Middle East into an endless cycle of terrorist aggression against Israel and for putting Israel's very survival into jeopardy.  Arafat's share of the loot was used to buy weapons.  True, the decision to elect Peres as President of Israel is so much more absurd that the Nobel Committee looks lucid in comparison.  The only "peace" the Prize really celebrates is that where Arafat now Rests In.

And theirs wasn't even the only Orwellian award of the Peace Prize.  Bishop Desmond Tutu, who thinks the Israel Lobby is a manifestation of Nazism and supports anti-Jewish terror, also got the award.  For years Israel's Moonbatocracy has been trying to nominate Uri Avnery, Israel's Lord Haw-Haw, for one.  Israeli communists have been promoting terrorist accomplice Tali Fahima for one.  And let us not forget Goobers the Peanut Brain, the worst president in American history but a Nobel Prize holder!

But the decision to grant a Nobel Peace prize to Whacky Al Gore for his environmentalist hysterics and pseudo-scientific posturing must surely rival the earlier absurdities.  Gore, who was defeated in the Presidential election even though he tried to steal it by only recounting the ballots in his favor in Florida, is also the guy who claims to have invented the internet.  He has reinvented himself in recent years as a groupie of radical environmentalist nuttiness.

It seems that whenever countries get too rich and comfortable, their chattering classes start wringing their hands over the environment.  It is part of the price those countries pay for not having more serious national problems and challenges.

"Global Warming" has become the leading pseudo-cause of those practicing recreational compassion, people looking for a cheap way to impress their friends and neighbors about how caring they are.  Recycling bins on their lawns are their version of a PC creche.  As P. J. O'Rourke said, everyone wants to save the planet but no one wants to help Mom do the dishes.

Global warning is the cause celebre of the moral posturers, except when they are warning us about the dangers of global cooling (and there are many who still do THAT!).  They discover thinning ice shields in the polar regions except in the areas where it is getting thicker. They chant the mantra that George Bush and America's refusal to sign the Kyoto Protocol is behind the warming and the hurricanes.  Of course, if the earth is really getting a smidgen warmer it has nothing to do with humans.  Mars is getting warmer and its ice caps are melting a bit.  Gore will no doubt attribute that to selfish Republicans as well.

I have always thought that the idea that humans can change a planet's climate is a bit of megalomania.  A more believable take on planetary survivability is in this week's Torah portion, about Noah and the rainbow.  While there is doubt as to whether global warming is even taking place, there is no doubt at all that humans - if it is for real - have nothing to do with it.   

The global warming hysteria also ignores the many benefits and positive aspects of global warming.  Even those who are convinced beyond a doubt that it is occurring agree that its main manifestation is slightly warmer winter nights.  Since my heating system does not work very well, I for one would welcome warmer winter nights.  No one knows how warmer climate affects rainfall but it is likely to cause more of it, and that surely is good for Israel, and the British would deserve it!

Ever since the first shrieks about global warming were heard, I have been checking the beaches of Haifa, hoping to see a visible sign of some rise in ocean surface levels.  But alas, not even a bit.  On the other hand, all those tales about tropical orchids growing at the North Poll are actually reasons for celebration!

There are so many benefits from global warming, I think it behooves all of us to do our parts to create more of it!

First, if the ice pack over Greenland really does melt, this might be a nice place to create a "Palestinian state."   The terrorists could undergo career reorientation and take to cod fishing.  They could throw grenades at whales.  Ahmedinejad and his ayatollahs could be sent there, as a substitute for Alaska, where they want to send all the Jews.

Second, I can see numerous benefits for the world from any rise in ocean surface levels.  It would solve most of the problems of the Middle East!  

Flooding the Gaza Strip with ocean water due to rising sea levels would surely stop the Kassam rockets.  Now THAT is something worth buying an SUV over in order to achieve!  True, some other areas might be inundated.  But what is wrong with Ramat Aviv being under some nice sea water?  The leftist yuppies in the upper floors of their buildings would not be affected and would get capital gains on their oceanfront property.  The others could simply relocate and make aliya to Eretz Yisrael, getting new homes in Gush Etzion, Efrat and Ariel. 

Elsewhere, rising sea levels would erase Venice, California, and Santa Cruz.  The hills in Berkeley where the employed professionals live would be safe, but the Berkeley lowlands where the radicals posture and protest would be eliminated.  The more I think about it, the more I like the idea!

Israel is so small that it cannot be seen on most global maps.  But even so, we really should be doing more in order to hasten global warming.  Cutting taxes on imports of SUVs would be a good place to start and would also lower the traffic fatality rate.

So let's do our part to hasten global warming!  A Nobel Peace Prize may be in it for us!