Report: Jehoash tablet is a fake,
Haaretz (Israel), June 10, 2003
"The inscription on the ancient stone Jehoash tablet that would have confirmed biblical narrative is a forgery, the daily Ma'ariv has reported. When first revealed two years ago, the shoebox-sized tablet inscribed with 15 lines of ancient Hebrew caused a stir in the archaeological world with some experts dating the stone to the ninth century B.C.E. An investigation by the Israel Antiquities Authority has found the inscription to be fake, the Ma'ariv daily said yesterday in an unattributed report. Osnat Guez, a spokeswoman for the authority, said the investigation was in its last stages and that no final conclusions had been reached. Guez said the authority would announce its findings at the end of the month. If authentic, the inscription on the small black tablet would validate passages of the Bible that detail renovations of the first Jewish Temple, ordered by King Jehoash in the Old Testament. The Antiquities Authority together with Jerusalem police launched an investigation into the authenticity of the stone after it was offered for sale by Israeli collector Oded Golan ... He has denied he owns it, but is suspected of trying to circumvent Israeli antiquities laws by waiting so long to report its existence."

Mel Gibson to sue religious groups? Actor reportedly threatened to file suit over criticism of Jesus film, World Net Daily, June 9, 2003
"Actor-director Mel Gibson is preparing to fight back against religious groups that have criticized his portrayal of Jews in his new film about the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, reports the Melbourne Herald Sun. According to the paper, Gibson has threatened lawsuits against both the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Anti-Defamation League. The groups have been critical of Gibson's film portrayal of Jewish complicity in the execution of Christ. The actor reportedly is part of a traditionalist Catholic movement that holds to the belief that Jews were collectively responsible for the death of Jesus. The movement rejects changes made in Catholic doctrine in the '60s that eliminated the emphasis on Jewish guilt, the Herald Sun reports. Gibson's film, 'The Passion,' finished shooting in Rom last month. The dialogue is in Latin and Aramaic, but no subtitles will be included. According to the paper, Sister Mary Boys, professor of practical theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York, said, 'The Anti-Defamation League and U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops reviewed the script and we wrote a report that was sent to Mr. Gibson's company. 'We have concerns about the role of Jews in the movie and we were hoping to get some changes. Mr. Gibson's company has retaliated by threatening a lawsuit.'As WorldNetDaily reported, Gibson has lashed out against those he says were planning to 'dig up dirt' on him and his family. "Whenever you take up a subject like [Christ's crucifixion] it does bring out a lot of enemies," he said."

Insiders' big stock sales may be omen. Experts disagree on whether flood of sales foretells trouble for market,
By Greg Zuckerman, Austin American-Statesman (from THE WALL STREET JOURNAL), June 8, 2003
"Here's some cold water for a red-hot stock market: Executives are rushing to sell their companies' shares at a pace not seen since 2001. More than $3.1 billion in shares was sold in May by corporate insiders, the most such selling in 24 months. By comparison, monthly stock sales by insiders failed to exceed $1.4 billion during each of the previous five months, and just $630 million of sales took place in January, according to research firm Thomson Financial. The moves are a concern because insider buying and selling -- by people who presumably are the most knowledgeable about their companies' prospects -- have been good predictors of the market's direction ... Still, the selling -- from such savvy executives as Microsoft Corp.'s chief executive, Steven Ballmer, and Dell Computer Corp. Chairman Michael Dell, among others -- could portend trouble for earnings. Because of changes in corporate disclosure rules, insider selling may be more important an indicator than ever. New regulations imposed in the past year or so mean executives are much less able to share information with analysts about early signs of how a quarter or year is shaping up. As such, trading by executives is one of the few ways left for investors to get an inside look at how companies feel about their prospects, some argue. How they vote with their feet is what is key, these people say. Dell sold almost $300 million in shares in late May, compared with more than $120 million of shares sold during all of last year. His wife, Susan Dell, sold another 1 million shares, for $31.1 million. Mike Maher, a Dell spokesman, said he couldn't comment on the sales and pointed out that Michael Dell remains the largest holder of the company's stock, with almost $9 billion in shares and options. His family owns an additional $1.2 billion of the stock ... As for Ballmer, who has sold almost $1 billion in shares recently, he issued a press release last month saying, 'I remain excited about the potential for our technology to change people's lives, and I remain as committed to Microsoft as ever.' A Microsoft spokeswoman added that Ballmer continues to hold significant holdings of the company's shares. He currently holds about $10 billion of Microsoft shares ... Health-related companies stand out because of a surge in recent insider selling. For example, six executives at Genentech, a stock that has almost doubled this year, have combined to sell 742,500 shares valued at $36 million in the past month, according to Thomson. Among them, Chief Financial Officer Louis Lavigne Jr. sold almost 210,000 shares."

[Jews, communism, and U.S. Imperialism:]
Trotsky's ghost wandering the White House. Influence on Bush aides: Bolshevik's writings supported the idea of pre-emptive war,
by Jeet Heer, National Post (posted here at majority.com) June 07, 2003
"Joseph Stalin, the Soviet dictator, was paranoid. Perhaps his deepest fears centred around his great rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik movement, Leon Trotsky. Stalin went to extraordinary lengths to obliterate not only Trotsky but also the ragtag international fellowship known as the Left Opposition, which supported Trotsky's political program. In the late 1920s, Stalin expelled Trotsky from the Communist Party and deported him from the Soviet Union. Almost instantly, other Communist parties moved to excommunicate Trotsky's followers, notably the Americans James P. Cannon and Max Shachtman. In 1933, while in exile in Turkey, Trotsky regrouped his supporters as the Fourth International. Never amounting to more than a few thousand individuals scattered across the globe, the Fourth International was constantly harassed by Stalin's secret police, as well as by capitalist governments ... Trotsky's movement, although never numerous, attracted many sharp minds. At one time or another, the Fourth International included among its followers the painter Frida Kahlo (who had an affair with Trotsky), the novelist Saul Bellow, the poet André Breton and the Trinidadian polymath C.L.R. James. As evidence of the continuing intellectual influence of Trotsky, consider the curious fact that some of the books about the Middle East crisis that are causing the greatest stir were written by thinkers deeply shaped by the tradition of the Fourth International. In seeking advice about Iraqi society, members of the Bush administration (notably Paul D. Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defence, and Dick Cheney, the Vice-President) frequently consulted Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi-American intellectual whose book The Republic of Fear is considered to be the definitive analysis of Saddam Hussein's tyrannical rule. As the journalist Christopher Hitchens notes, Makiya is 'known to veterans of the Trotskyist movement as a one-time leading Arab member of the Fourth International.' When speaking about Trotskyism, Hitchens has a voice of authority. Like Makiya, Hitchens is a former Trotskyist who is influential in Washington circles as an advocate for a militantly interventionist policy in the Middle East. Despite his leftism, Hitchens has been invited into the White House as an ad hoc consultant. Other supporters of the Iraq war also have a Trotsky-tinged past. On the left, the historian Paul Berman, author of a new book called Terror and Liberalism, has been a resonant voice among those who want a more muscular struggle against Islamic fundamentalism. Berman counts the Trotskyist C.L.R. James as a major influence. Among neo-conservatives, Berman's counterpart is Stephen Schwartz, a historian whose new book, The Two Faces of Islam, is a key text among those who want the United States to sever its ties with Saudi Arabia. Schwartz spent his formative years in a Spanish Trotskyist group. To this day, Schwartz speaks of Trotsky affectionately as "the old man" and "L.D." (initials from Trotsky's birth name, Lev Davidovich Bronstein). "To a great extent, I still consider myself to be [one of the] disciples of L.D," he admits, and he observes that in certain Washington circles, the ghost of Trotsky still hovers around. At a party in February celebrating a new book about Iraq, Schwartz exchanged banter with Wolfowitz about Trotsky, the Moscow Trials and Max Shachtman. 'I've talked to Wolfowitz about all of this,' Schwartz notes. 'We had this discussion about Shachtman. He knows all that stuff, but was never part of it. He's definitely aware.' The yoking together of Paul Wolfowitz and Leon Trotsky sounds odd, but a long and tortuous history explains the link between the Bolshevik left and the Republican right. To understand how some Trotskyists ended up as advocates of U.S. expansionism, it is important to know something about Max Shachtman, Trotsky's controversial American disciple. Shachtman's career provides the definitive template of the trajectory that carries people from the Left Opposition to support for the Pentagon ... By the early 1970s, Shachtman was a supporter of the Vietnam War and the strongly anti-Communist Democrats such as Senator Henry Jackson. Shachtman had a legion of young followers (known as Shachtmanites) active in labour unions and had an umbrella group known as the Social Democrats. When the Shachtmanites started working for Senator Jackson, they forged close ties with hard-nosed Cold War liberals who also advised Jackson, including Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz; these two had another tie to the Trotskyism; their mentor was Albert Wohlstetter, a defence intellectual who had been a Schachtmanite in the late 1940s. Shachtman died in 1972, but his followers rose in the ranks of the labour movement and government bureaucracy. Because of their long battles against Stalinism, Shachtmanites were perfect recruits for the renewed struggle against Soviet communism that started up again after the Vietnam War. Throughout the 1970s, intellectuals forged by the Shachtman tradition filled the pages of neo-conservative publications. Then in the 1980s, many Social Democrats found themselves working in the Reagan administration, notably Jeanne Kirkpatrick (who was ambassador to the United Nations) and Elliott Abrams (whose tenure as assistant secretary of state was marred by his involvement with the Iran-Contra scandal)."

[Hmmm. What "special interest group" in the Bush administration would have motivation in faking Iraq's threat? And who would have the influence and means to successfully see to fruition this heist?]
Ex-Official: Evidence Distorted for War,
Guardian (UK), June 7, 2003
"The Bush administration distorted intelligence and presented conjecture as evidence to justify a U.S. invasion of Iraq, according to a retired intelligence official who served during the months before the war. `What disturbs me deeply is what I think are the disingenuous statements made from the very top about what the intelligence did say,' said Greg Thielmann, who retired last September. `The area of distortion was greatest in the nuclear field.' Thielmann was director of the strategic, proliferation and military issues office in the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. His office was privy to classified intelligence gathered by the CIA and other agencies about Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear programs. In Thielmann's view, Iraq could have presented an immediate threat to U.S. security in two areas: Either it was about to make a nuclear weapon, or it was forming close operational ties with al-Qaida terrorists. Evidence was lacking for both, despite claims by President Bush and others, Thielmann said in an interview this week. Suspicions were presented as fact, contrary arguments ignored, he said. The administration's prewar portrayal of Iraq's weapons capabilities has not been validated despite weeks of searching by military experts. Alleged stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons have not turned up, nor has significant evidence of a nuclear weapons program or links to the al-Qaida network ... 'When the administration did talk about specific evidence - it was basically declassified, sensitive information - it did it in a way that was also not entirely honest,' Thielmann said."

[Is the following article about Sports and Media, or really about the Jewish power network? (Note again that all 4 major professional sports commissioners are also Jewish: Tagliabue -- football, Stern -- basketball, Selig -- baseball, and Bettmann -- hockey.]
ABC Hopes NBA Can Rebuild Momentum,
by Rudy Martzke, USA TODAY, June 6, 2003, p. 2C [paper version]
"The NBA Finals hardly seem to be capturing the public's imagination ... "Im sure ABC and ESPN are worried,' says Larry Novenstern, whose Deutsch Inc. ad agency represents NBA sponsors Mitsubishi and Expedia.com ... ESPN/ABC offered make-good ads starting in Game 1 of the Finals, Novenstern said. TNT, with playoff ratings up 28%, does not have to, President David Levy said ... NBA Commissioner David Stern told the Mike and the Mad Dog Show this week on New York's WFAN radio, "You are absolutely right. Fewer people will watch on a cable network than on a broadcast channel ..." ABC's vice president Mark Mandel and ESPN programming production chief Mark Shapiro are upbeat ... ESPN is close to signing former UCLA coach Steve Lavin as a basketball analyst."

Anti-Israel German Politician Did Not Kill Himself: Friends,
By Khaled Schmitt, June 6, 2003, IslamOnline.net
"Friends of Germany's former deputy chancellor Juergen Moellemann, who died Thursday, June 5, in a parachute jump, refuted media reports he committed suicide to escape state prosecution over his pro-Arabs and Muslims and anti-Israel stances. They asserted he intended to set up a new party and called on Arab and Muslim communities to join up. One of the prominent German politician's close associates added there was nothing that could have possibly pushed him to commit suicide. A former advertising executive and a vigorous self- promoter, Moellemann has enjoyed a high morale at recent days, he said. The same argument was supported by an eyewitness who told the NTV news channel the deceased handled his parachute easily and calmly before his skydiving, excluding any possible suicide attempt ... Reinicke put three possibilities for the death of Moellemann, a former economy minister and deputy chancellor from 1991 to 1993 when the Free Democratic Party (FDP) was junior partner in a coalition with the conservatives under Helmut Kohl. 'We are of course investigating all possibilities. The range of possibilities in such a case is very large. You can put them in three categories - an accident, a suicide or sabotage, for instance manipulation of the parachute by another person.' Vicious Campaign Moellemann recently came under a ferocious campaign from the FDP and media outlets for his anti-Israeli remarks and his sympathy with Arab causes. A lawmaker and leader of the German-Arab Friendship Society, he was a combative maverick known for his pro-Arab positions. Moellemann had complained of being victim of a witch hunt after his war of words with leading Jewish members of the party and his criticism of Michael Friedman, deputy head of Germany's Jewish community and Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon. Although he gained the largest number of votes in the last free elections, the prominent politician was ostracized from the FDP in March allegedly because his popularity slump on his anti-Israel stance. On Thursday, prosecutors searched Moellemann's home, office in Muenster, western Germany, over charges of violating elections laws by receiving Arab donations to finance a leaflet criticizing the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories during his election campaign. The leaflet dubbed Israel an 'occupation state' and reaffirmed support for Palestinian resistance attacks against Israeli targets. Moellemann had stressed he would do the same should any country occupy Germany, accusing Sharon of practicing state terrorism against armless Palestinians. He was the first German official in the 1970s to establish strong relations with the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and its chairman Yasser Arafat. Moellemann is also known for his close ties with other Arab leaders.".

[All bracketed material in the following article is in the original:]
Nathan Sharansky's View of Jesus "Crucifixion is a Privilege",
By ANTHONY GANCARSKI, CounterPunch, June 6, 2003
"Never let it be said that Israeli Cabinet Minister Natan Sharansky doesn't know how to cut a promo. On the June 2 edition of C-SPAN's Washington Journal Sharansky, who the National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel dubbed 'the long-imprisoned symbol of the Jewish struggle for freedom and human rights', was asked by a caller to reconcile Jewish support for the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth [apparently, said caller had access to the Zogby of the day] with the idea that 'Jews... are the Chosen People.' To me, the caller sounded like a garden-variety heckler, the kind a slick operator like Sharansky, recently lauded by the Jerusalem Post for having 'opened his traditionally Russian-based party to the Anglo community', should've been able to squash with just a smile and a reminder to C-Span viewers to support their local AIPAC representative. After all, the former Soviet Refusenik wasn't in Washington to enjoy the June balm; a cynic might suggest that it was Natan's 'turn' to bid for Congressional contributions. But I digress. How did Sharansky respond to this heckler? In a long-winded fashion, he explained that Israel [and by extension, all of those who keep the Jewish Sabbath] have special prerogatives, responsibilities to God and his creation due to their unique positioning in Yahweh's eyes. So long-winded was Sharansky's response, in fact, that one could've missed him saying that 'the crucifixion of Christ' was a 'privilege.' Mistakes happen, apparently, and Messiahs get offed. Sharansky, who thought Jonathan Pollard deserved to be freed, since he committed espionage not for an enemy but for one of America's many friends in the world, is entirely willing -- on a fund-raising trip to the US, no less! -- to write off the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth as a clerical error. Sharansky, who in 1997 denied that such an entity as the 'Russian mafia' existed, right around the time he threatened to bolt from the Israeli guvmint because his party didn't have final say on who the Israeli Ambassador to Moscow would be, cuts quite the figure. In a country where politicians have built careers around piddly crap like cutting funding to the NEA, leading the charge against flag-burning, and protecting our nation's youth from the menace of reefers, or blunts, or whatever the rappers call them on ClearChannel radio these days, Sharansky makes light of the crucifixion of Christ in the United States. May I remind Sharansky why that's a problem? The United States, nominally a Judeo-Christian nation, fortifies Israel in no small part because of the Christian Zionist assumption that such profligate aid buys certain Christians the best possible seats for the impending end times. A lucrative cottage industry, the US-Israel alliance, as everyone from Pat Robertson to Bill Kristol can attest. But loose talk like Sharansky's will undermine the foundation of that cottage, built on the illusory foundation that there is such a thing as a shared 'Judeo-Christian' interest to use Israel as a pivot point for US domination of what is called the Middle East. No skin off my nose, though. I know why Sharansky, an advocate of massive Russian immigration into the war-torn state of Israel, has come to America. To secure another billion, or two. To remind Congress that the last few dozen stragglers who refuse Israel unconditional support need to be purged. To observe the American scene. And it's just as well that his trip stateside coincided with the President's absence. If Bush had heard Sharansky, who accepted $85,000 in 'charities' from Israeli convict Grigory Lerner [international embezzler, with ties to the apparently mythical Russian Mafia], downplay the significance of Christ's crucifixion by claiming that it's just another 'privilege' due 'the Chosen People', he may have choked on a pretzel."

Prime-Time Porn Borrowing tactics from the old Hollywood studios, Vivid Entertainment has ditched the plain brown wrapper and is taking the multibillion-dollar sex-film industry mainstream,
By Paul Keegan, Business 2.0, June 2003 Issue
"On a sunny day in New York City, Steve Hirsch ... switches off CNN and goes right for the porn channel. "These are mostly video compilations," he says dismissively as he flips past the ads -- Extra Busty Beauties, Real Hard Sex, More Dripping Wet Sex, Lots of Filthy Sex, Filthy Sex Fantasies -- then stops. 'Here we go.' It's a glitzy head shot of Jenna Jameson, the reigning superstar of porn, appearing in her latest release, I Dream of Jenna, billed as 'a comical adventure with 10 of the nastiest sex scenes ever filmed!' Hirsch is 41 years old. He has a broad, handsome face and deep California tan, and he wears his collar open, revealing glimpses of a massive chest earned from pumping iron three days a week. Jameson's film is just what he was looking for -- not a compilation of steamy scenes but an actual movie with a story line, high production values, and a star-studded cast led by the vixen he calls 'by far the biggest star in the history of the adult business.' But Hirsch won't actually watch this movie -- he couldn't care less about Jameson's sexual escapades. What really turns him on is the business of porn. Nineteen years ago, he and a partner scraped together $20,000 to found Vivid Entertainment of Van Nuys, Calif. Today, Hirsch is a multimillionaire, Vivid is the biggest XXX film studio in the world, with revenue estimated at $100 million, and it has Jameson locked up in a seven-year deal. More important, Hirsch is the executive most responsible for transforming a disreputable underground industry into a mainstream, multibillion-dollar business. It now sends hard-core movies to TV screens across America through hotel chains like Marriott (MAR) and Hilton (HLT) and satellite and cable operators Comcast (CMCSK), DirecTV, and AOL Time Warner (AOL) (publisher of this magazine) and is turning unknown strippers and models into celebrities overnight. You've probably never heard of Steve Hirsch -- and that's how he likes it. He'd rather have you focus on his Vivid Girls, porn stars he began manufacturing in 1984 by bringing back the old Hollywood contract system ... Jenna Jameson, porn's top star, gets royal treatment -- and brings in an estimated $15 million a year. All of which makes this soft-spoken businessman a striking emblem of what's happened to the world of porn in recent years. As the industry has grown to proportions befitting its obsession with size -- altogether, magazines, movies, websites, sex toys, phone lines, and strip clubs account for somewhere between $4 billion and $10 billion annually -- it has become so complex and competitive that only the smartest, soberest business minds can prosper. And though the XXX film business was once considered the sleazy underbelly of Hollywood, today Hirsch lectures at the USC Business School and has a Dartmouth grad and MBA as co-chairman of his firm ... Bill Asher, Vivid's Ivy League chairman, remembers that when he left Playboy's cable division to run Hirsch's hard-core channels just four years ago, he felt like he had one foot in the gutter and one in the real business world. 'Now I look around,' he says, 'and I think to myself, 'What happened to the gutter?'"

Cantor's Brothers Can Testify Against Him,
Newsday, June 5, 2003
"Two brothers of a prominent New York City cantor accused of sexually assaulting his nephew can testify against him, a judge ruled Wednesday. Prosecutors said the two men are prepared to testify that as children they also were molested by their brother, Howard Nevison, who has led worshippers in prayer and song at New York's Temple Emanu-El since 1978. Nevison, 62, was charged last year with assaulting his nephew during family get-togethers between 1993 and 1998. One of Nevison's brothers, Lawrence, was convicted in 2000 of sexually assaulting the same boy and is serving a prison sentence. Lawrence Nevison and a second brother -- the boy's father, Henry -- both claim they were molested by Howard Nevison when they were young. Witnesses normally are barred from discussing a defendant's past crimes, but Judge Paul W. Tressler said their claims were distinctive enough to indicate a 'signature of the same perpetrator' and could be heard by jurors. Defense attorneys said the old allegations were maliciously motivated and would prejudice a jury against their client. The boy making the accusations, now 13, may also testify. Temple Emanu-El is New York's largest Reform synagogue. Howard Nevison, who in 1994 became the first cantor to sing at the Vatican, is on paid leave from the temple and is free on bail."

"By Way of Deception...",
by Jeremy R. Hammond, Yirmeyahureview, June 4, 2003
"In the weeks following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center, a series of letters containing a powder form of the anthrax virus were mailed to various individuals. One such letter, postmarked on the 18th, was mailed to Tom Brokaw at NBC. Another was addressed to the editor of the New York Post. On October 9, similar letters were mailed to Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy. The anthrax in the letters was identified as being of the "Ames" strain. At least five labs were reported to have the Ames strain, all of which received their samples from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Maryland ... In response to Attorney General John Ashcroft labeling him as a 'person of interest', Hatfill stated, 'My lawyers can find no legal definition for a 'person of interest.' I, however, have a working definition: A 'person of interest' is someone who comes into being when the government is under intense political pressure to solve a crime, but can't do so." He mentioned Barbara Hatch Rosenberg and Nicholas Kristof as being the two most prominent individuals who had implicated his involvement, although Rosenberg made a statement, saying, I have never mentioned any names in connection with the anthrax investigation, not to the FBI, nor to media, nor to Senate Committees or staffs, not to anyone. I have never said or written anything publicly that pointed to one specific person. Anyone who sees parallels is expressing his own opinion' ... The other possible explanation, which Paul Moore fails to recognize, was pointed out distinctly by Delinda Curtiss Hanley, news editor of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, who wrote, 'Before the investigation of Dr. Hatfill captured national headlines, another insider scientist had come under FBI scrutiny without much media fanfare. It was easy to miss the few stories published in January 2002 about Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who, like Hatfill, also had access to a well-equipped laboratory with lax security. Zack, moreover, actually worked with military-grade anthrax at Fort Detrick. Dr. Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991 amid allegations of unprofessional conduct. The Jewish scientist and others were accused of harassing their co-worker, Dr. Ayaad Assaad, until the Egyptian-born American scientist quit, according to an article in Connecticut's The Hartford Courant, the country's oldest newspaper in continuous publication. Dr. Assaad sued the Army, claming discrimination after Zack's badgering. Inexplicably, the national press ignored these documented unauthorized visits to a top-secret government lab embroiled in the anthrax attacks. Did journalists fear being labeled anti-Semitic for casting suspicions on a Jewish scientist? Soon after the 9/11 attack, a long, typed anonymous letter was sent to Quantico Marine Base accusing the long-suffering Assaad, Zack's victim in 1991, of plotting terrorism. This letter was received before the anthrax letters or disease were reported. The timing of the note makes its author a serious suspect in the anthrax attacks. The sender also displayed considerable knowledge of Dr. Assaad, his work, his personal life and a remarkable premonition of the upcoming bioterrorism attack. After interviewing Assaad on Oct. 2, 2001, the FBI decided the letter was a hoax. While major newspapers noted that an anonymous letter had accused Dr. Assaad of bioterrorism, none followed up on it after his innocence was established. Zack's name never surfaced again as one of the 30 suspects. When the Washington Report asked Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Ph.D., a biological arms control expert at the State University of New York, if the allegations regarding Dr. David Hatfill now took the heat off Lt. Col. Philip Zack, she replied, 'Zack has NEVER been under suspicion as perpetrator of the anthrax attack.' It is hard to believe that, with his connection to Fort Detrick, Dr. Zack is not one of the 20 to 50 scientists under intense investigation. Another person not naming names is New York Times reporter Nicholas D. Kristof. In a series of articles published on July 2, 12, and 19, however, he called the anthrax perpetrator 'Mr. Z' (not "Mr. H"). Kristof's description of "Mr. Z" sounds very much more like Dr. Zack than Dr. Hatfill. Is the anthrax culprit, or "Mr. Z," actually Dr. Zack or Dr. Hatfill, or another undisclosed scientist? Is Dr. Hatfill being framed while Dr. Zack stays out of the spotlight? Will the investigation simply peter out without an arrest? Are the US government and the media engaging in a shameful cover-up?... Another too-hot-to-handle story published in the Oct. 31, 2001 Miami Herald described an FBI search for six "Middle-Eastern looking men with Israeli passports stopped in the Midwest the previous weekend." The six men stopped by police were traveling in groups of three in two white sedans. The article noted that, despite law enforcement agencies being on high alert after the Sept. 11 attacks, the men were released—even though they had in their possession photographs and descriptions of a nuclear power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. As a result of the scare, the Federal Aviation Administration imposed flight restrictions around nuclear plants nationwide, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission advised the nation’s 103 nuclear plants to fortify security.... An Oct. 26, 2001 article in The Jerusalem Post reported that five Israeli men with box-cutters, multiple passports and $4,000 cash detained in New Jersey on Sept. 11, the day of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, would be deported back to Israel for immigration violations. Those men were seen laughing and posing for photographs with the smoking Twin Towers in the background. The U.S. press also deemed that story not fit to print.' The online publication La Voz de Aztlan also picked up on the clear possibility of a government white-wash of the affair, noting that 'Jewish microbiologist Dr. Philip M. Zack may be behind the deadly anthrax contaminated letters' and quotes Dr. Assaad as saying, 'This person knew in advance what was going to happen and created a suitable, well-fitted scapegoat for this action. You do not need to be a Nobel laureate to put two and two together.'"

Marijuana Guru Freed After Day in Jail,
Earthlink (from Associated Press), June 4, 2003
"Ed Rosenthal, the self-proclaimed 'Guru of Ganja,' walked free Wednesday after a federal judge sentenced him to just one day in prison for growing marijuana Rosenthal said was for medical purposes. He could have gotten 60 years behind bars. U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer said Rosenthal genuinely believed that what he was doing was not against the law. 'He was unaware his conduct was not immunized from federal prosecution,' the judge said. Rosenthal's case represented the latest clash between state and federal authorities over the medical use of marijuana. The federal government does not recognize medical marijuana laws in California and the eight other states that have them. Wednesday's decision was met by cheers and applause in the courtroom. Federal prosecutors had asked for a 6 1/2-year prison term ... In January, a jury concluded Rosenthal was growing more than 100 plants, conspired to cultivate marijuana, and maintained an Oakland warehouse for a growing operation. Rosenthal, 58, had said he was acting as an agent for Oakland's medical marijuana program, an outgrowth of a 1996 measure approved by California's voters that allows sick people to obtain marijuana with a letter from a doctor ... Prosecutor George Bevan said Rosenthal was not simply helping the ill. 'This operation is a cash cow. He put out thousands and thousands of plants,' Bevan said. 'I don't think anyone disagrees with helping sick people, but as far as we're concerned, it was a business.'"

[Jewish in-house dialogue: Jews make a film about the radical "Weather Underground," who -- surprise!-- were mostly Jews:]
Molotov Memories Or, whitey on the moon,
New York Press
"Every documentary has a subject, but a good documentary also evinces a theme. The Weather Underground pursues those white student radicals of the 60s who split off from the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) to form a more desperate sect of bomb-planting revolutionaries. Their disgust with American policy during the Vietnam War was a particular expression of generational backlash. These former students were in a position to take issue with all the benefits of skin and caste they enjoyed. Acting upon their embarrassed self-awareness as fortunate whites, they felt, as one interviewee says, 'a duty and an obligation' to overthrow what they clearly perceived as a 'racist, genocidal, unjust' government. When the crazed dream disintegrated, and after years of hiding from the FBI, they came back to society as professors, local activists, virtually anonymous Americans. Filmmakers Sam Green and Bill Siegel cleverly pace the interviews with telephoto shots of crowds on streets and in corridors: Anywhere. Anyone. A totally successful re-integration. It’s a story that has gone back underground. Today, it’s an almost forgotten history carrying an archaic sense that being young meant devotion to an idea and a passion for issues. But The Weather Underground is most interesting when forcing those old radicals into self-examination. They’re brought close to realizing that though times have changed, youthful recklessness has not. Mark Rudd admits mixed feelings: "Knowledge of the U.S.’s position in the world was too big. I still don’t know what to do with it." Some, like Naomi Jaffe and David Gilbert, haven’t entirely let go. Others remain embittered, like Bernardine Dohrn, now married to Bill Ayers and with two children. Dohrn still wears that 'I have nothing to smile about' look on her face that she had when a young firebrand. Now chagrined, they have some small understanding that their dangerous folly ('like a Children’s crusade gone mad') was an excess of privilege and timeless naivete. Some of this realization comes post 9/11 ... Mark Rudd is quoted: 'I cherished my hate as moral superiority'—a confession of blistering honesty that conveys the heat of privileged activism. Something more was going on than kids acting on principle. And arrogance wasn’t just a trait of the dangerous ones. An SDS conservative, Todd Gitlin, is interviewed about the 1968 convention that saw the group splintered ... They dared to challenge: 'White youth must choose sides now. You’re either one of the oppressed or one of the oppressors.' That only sounds simple; it’s a complicated truism you’ll never hear from Eminem."

["Anti-semitism" is the greatest conspiracy theory in history: it is alleged to everywhere, anywhere, in every possible shape and form. All non-Jews are unstood to be contaminated by it, and they must purge themselves before the Jewish Tribunal:]
The Village Is Not Burning: A Realist`s Appraisal Of Anti-Semitism Today,
By Leon Wieseltier, The Jewish Press, June 4, 2003
"In recent years it has become increasingly acceptable, in our politics and in our philosophy, to proclaim the end of the Enlightenment, or to dream of it. The spectacle of contemporary anti-Semitism, the extraordinary durability of the antipathy toward the Jews, should embarrass this idea, even if the Enlightenment was itself shot through with the intolerance that it brilliantly denounced. If there is still any question that the human world, including the Western parts of it, does not yet suffer from a surfeit of reason and decency, the re- symbolization of the Jew in our time should answer it. 'Very few phenomena of human history have a history of approximately 2000 years,' Victor Tcherikover once remarked. 'Anti-Semitism is one of them.' And so we now have a whole array of Judeophobias to consider. The taxonomy of present-day anti-Semitism is ominously large. There are religious varieties and secular varieties; theological varieties and ideological varieties; political varieties and cultural varieties; old varieties and new varieties. There is the anti-Semitism of Christians, which comes in many forms, and the anti-Semitism of Muslims, which comes in many forms. There is the anti-Semitism of the Right, in Europe and in the United States, still stubbornly blaming the Jews for modernity and there is the anti-Semitism of the Left, most recently seeking shelter (and finding it) in the anti-globalization movement, which has presided over a revival of the New Left`s dogmas about capitalism and liberalism and Americanism. And there is the anti-Semitism that manifests itself as anti-Zionism. This is, I think, the most dangerous anti-Semitism of them all. It is not the case, of course, that every criticism of the Jewish state is an instance of anti-Semitism; but it is certainly the case that every instance of anti-Semitism is a criticism of the Jewish state, a fundamental criticism, since it denies the legitimacy of the ideal of a normal life for Jews, who are consigned by anti-Semites of one kind or another to an endless abnormality of one kind or another. If Israel cannot be above criticism, neither can Israel`s critics be above criticism; and the anxiety that many critics of Israeli policy are at bottom critics of Israeli reality -- that the opposition to Israeli actions in Jenin or Gaza is sometimes motivated by a prior historical or religious dogma -- is not an outlandish anxiety. Anti-Semitism should be the occasion for an international conference at a center for non-Jewish history. Let me explain. The hatred of the Jews is a matter of urgent concern to Jews because of the injury that they may suffer as a result of it. The Jewish investigation of anti-Semitism is plainly a requirement of self-interest, and also a requirement of dignity, because defending oneself against one`s enemy is an ethical duty of the most elementary sort. The search for security has a foundation in morality. Still, the solution to the problem of anti-Semitism is not to be sought in the Jewish struggle against it. It is indecent to ask the victims to make themselves responsible for an end to their victimization. After all, they are not doing this to themselves. This is being done to them. If anti-Semitism will ever vanish from the earth, it will be the consequence of a transformation not in the mentality of Jews, but in the mentality of non-Jews."

[The reason Wolfowitiz is so frank about oil is that this admission hides the more important reason:: ISRAEL and the Jewish Lobby:]
Wolfowitz: Iraq war was about oil,
by George Wright, Guardian (UK), June 4, 2003
"Oil was the main reason for military action against Iraq, a leading White House hawk has claimed, confirming the worst fears of those opposed to the US-led war. The US deputy defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz - who has already undermined Tony Blair's position over weapons of mass destruction (WMD) by describing them as a 'bureaucratic' excuse for war - has now gone further by claiming the real motive was that Iraq is 'swimming' in oil. The latest comments were made by Mr Wolfowitz in an address to delegates at an Asian security summit in Singapore at the weekend, and reported today by German newspapers Der Tagesspiegel and Die Welt. Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass destruction had been found, the deputy defence minister said: 'Let's look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil' ... His latest comments follow his widely reported statement from an interview in Vanity Fair last month, in which he said that 'for reasons that have a lot to do with the US government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on: weapons of mass destruction.' Prior to that, his boss, defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld, had already undermined the British government's position by saying Saddam Hussein may have destroyed his banned weapons before the war. Mr Wolfowitz's frank assessment of the importance of oil could not come at a worse time for the US and UK governments, which are both facing fierce criticism at home and abroad over allegations that they exaggerated the threat posed by Saddam Hussein in order to justify the war. Amid growing calls from all parties for a public inquiry, the foreign affairs select committee announced last night it would investigate claims that the UK government misled the country over its evidence of Iraq's WMD. The move is a major setback for Tony Blair, who had hoped to contain any inquiry within the intelligence and security committee, which meets in secret and reports to the prime minister. In the US, the failure to find solid proof of chemical, biological and nuclear arms in Iraq has raised similar concerns over Mr Bush's justification for the war and prompted calls for congressional investigations. Mr Wolfowitz is viewed as one of the most hawkish members of the Bush administration. The 57-year old expert in international relations was a strong advocate of military action against Afghanistan and Iraq."

[Thanks, Jewish Lobbyists. The Muslim world now perceives America as a land of colonial invaders, just like its Jewish puppet-master -- Israel:]
Poll: U.S. Image Abroad Worse Since Iraq War,
Newsday, June 4, 2003
"The United States' image abroad, bad before the war against Iraq, has plunged further in its aftermath, according to a survey released yesterday. The poll, conducted in 20 countries and the Palestinian Authority by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, found softening international support for the war on terrorism, growing fear in several countries that they will be attacked by the United States, and an expansion of deep distrust among Muslims of President George W. Bush and his policies. 'The war with Iraq has further divided the publics of the world,' said Andrew Kohut, director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. 'The rift between Americans and Western Europeans has widened and the bottom has fallen out in support of the U.S. in most of the Muslim world.' Most of the respondents named Bush as the main source of their mistrust of America. In a blow to the White House, U.S. residents questioned said that, on foreign affairs, they had more faith in British Prime Minister Tony Blair than in Bush. Eighty-three percent of U.S. residents said they have 'a lot' or "some" confidence in Blair to do the right things on international issues while 78 percent said the same about Bush. Only one country, Israel, picked Bush first as a world leader they trust. The most dramatic element of the survey, conducted between April 28 and May 15, was the continuing free-fall of America's image in Muslim countries. In Indonesia, favorable opinion of the United States nose-dived from 75 percent in 1999/2000 to 61 percent last summer to 15 percent last month. In Jordan, a U.S. ally, favorable opinion fell from 25 percent last summer to 1 percent last month. And Muslims' regard for Osama bin Laden was up in several countries. Seventy-one percent of Palestinian respondents and 58 percent of Indonesians said they have confidence in bin Laden to 'do the right thing regarding world affairs.' Following the U.S. war in Iraq, more than 71 percent of those polled in Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey said they are worried American forces could invade their lands. 'Something that I'd never thought I'd see and something that is of great concern to me is that people now fear American power,' said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who chairs the Pew Global Attitudes Project. 'The strong dislike of the United States is no longer concentrated in the regions of conflict, that is the Mideast and Pakistan,' Kohut said. 'It now extends into Africa ... and Indonesia.'"

[The horrible virus/contagion of JEWISH NEUROSIS, gone berserk:]
The new anti-Semitism?,
by Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, June 3, 2003
"Anti-Semitism, like some plague-inducing virus, is 'evolving' -- or so warns Holocaust scholar Daniel J. Goldhagen in the American Jewish weekly The Forward. According to the author, the lessons of the Holocaust are slowly being forgotten and a 'free-floating' globalised hatred of Jews is being spread via the Internet and television. Goldhagen's piece, 'The Globalisation of anti-Semitism,' is one of the latest contributions to a growing body of reports by American and Israeli journalists and research centres purporting to show that a powerful new strain of racism is sweeping the globe. None of the authors is as disinterested as he claims: each hopes to silence criticism of both Israel and the muscular Zionist lobby groups within Washington that support Israel. Goldhagen's trick is to turn traditional Christian anti-Semitism on its head. Where once the anti-Semites accused the Jews of being the contagion carriers -- harming their neighbours by spreading their uniquely 'diseased' financial, professional and moral ideas -- now it is the non-Jew who must be quarantined. We are all anti-Semites unless we can prove otherwise. 'Globalized anti-Semitism has become part of the substructure of prejudice in the world,' Goldhagen writes. 'It is relentlessly international in its focus on Israel at the center of the most conflict-ridden region today, and on the United States as the world's omnipresent power.' The rise of Arab anti-Semitism, which has no obvious connection to historic European hatred of Jews, is explained away: 'Essentially, Europe has exported its classical racist and Nazi anti-Semitism to Arab countries, which they then applied to Israel and Jews in general." The process, however, has not stopped there, according to Goldhagen. "Then the Arab countries re-exported the new hybrid demonology back to Europe and, using the United Nations and other international institutions, to other countries around the world. In Germany, France, Great Britain and elsewhere, today's intensive anti-Semitic expression and agitation uses old tropes once applied to local Jews -- charges of sowing disorder, wanting to subjugate others -- with new content overwhelmingly directed at Jews outside their countries." The only way to prove one is not infected, Goldhagen implies, is by abstaining from any criticism of Israel and Zionist influences -- Christian as well as Jewish -- currently dominating Washington's policy-making circles ... The diagnosis from Goldhagen and others is that we, the non-Jews, are doomed to our age-old racism. It's in our genes: we are born in thrall to our prejudice. Where does such a thesis lead? In another time and place, it may -- like other philosophies of uniqueness and disease that preceded it -- take us along a route that leads to the horrible gas chambers of a warped imagination."

[More Jewish Thought Police:]
Commentary: Chevron-Texaco Refuses Comment on Controversial Letter,
by John Berlau, Insight on the News, June 3, 2003
"A high-ranking employee at Chevron-Texaco made pejorative references about Jews in a strong antiwar letter sent to Insight, and the company refuses to say whether the letter writer's views represent those of Chevron-Texaco. Amy Wheeler, a technical editor who works in government and public affairs at Chevron-Texaco's corporate headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., blasted rock star Gene Simmons as a 'Jewish kibbutzer' in an e-mail sent to Insight over the company Web server, ChevronTexaco.com. The May 2 letter, the full text of which is reproduced below, criticized as 'slante'" a story Insight ran about the fates of entertainers who were for and against the war with Iraq [see 'Antiwar Singers Out of Tune With Public']. Simmons, cofounder of the heavy-metal band KISS, was a supporter of the war. He noted how his mother had been liberated from a Nazi concentration camp by American forces in World War II, and argued that once again the United States had saved people from oppression. But to Chevron-Texaco's Wheeler, the war simply meant that 'the U.S. can devastate a virtually defenseless enemy.' Wheeler concluded the letter with the phrase, 'Mazel tov," apparently a sarcastic use of the Hebrew expression for "Congratulations.' Cliff May, president of the Washington-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), was shocked by the sentiments expressed in the e-mail. 'This seems to me to be fairly obviously anti-Semitic and fairly obviously anti-American,' May tells Insight. 'It defends Saddam Hussein by characterizing him as a 'virtually defenseless enemy.' It bears a remarkable resemblance to the hate mail we have received here.' May says Chevron-Texaco should take action to dissociate itself from the viewpoints expressed in the letter by an editorial employee from its offices. But company spokeswoman Bonnie Chaikind refused to criticize the e-mail in response to Insight's queries. "We will not comment on whether this e-mail is acceptable under our policy," Chaikind replied. Stephen Schwartz, a senior policy analyst at May's FDD and author of the book The Two Faces of Islam, said he is not surprised that a top official at Chevron-Texaco would hold these views because, he alleges, the company has been at the forefront of defending Wahhabism, the extremist Islamic movement that is dominant in Saudi Arabia."

[Jews are 2.5% of the American population. Many of the 60 Minutes staff below are probably Jewish. The ones bold-typed are definitely Jewish or have common Jewish surnames. Others like Scheffler, Howard, Gordon, Gavshon, Hartman, Kramer, Messick et al are likely bets. Then there is Esther and Ruth:]
WHO WE ARE. Program Facts,
60 Minutes (CBS)
Co-editors and Correspondents: Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Ed Bradley, Steve Kroft, Lesley Stahl, Andy Rooney. Contributing Correspondents: Bob Simon, Christiane Amanpour. Creator and Executive Producer: Don Hewitt. Executive Editor: Philip Scheffler. Senior Producers: Josh Howard, Esther Kartiganer, Merri Lieberthal. Executive Story Editor: Victoria Gordon. Producers: Robert Anderson, Richard Bonin, Alden Bourne, Leslie Cockburn, Amy Cunningham, L. Franklin Devine, Shari Finkelstein, Paul Gallagher, Michael Gavshon, David Gelber Rome Hartman Peter Klein Nancy Krame, Graham Messick, Deirdre Naphin, Trevor Nelson, Catherine Olian, Harry A. Radliffe II, Michael Radutzky, Steven Reiner, Jeanne Solomon-Langley, Ruth Streeter, John Tiffin, Andrew Tkach. Director: Arthur Bloom

A-G decides to indict Rabbi Ginzburg for incitement,
By Gideon Alon, Haaretz (Israel), June 3, 2003
"Attorney General Elyakim Rubinstein decided Monday to indict rabbi Yitzhak Ginzburg for incitement to racism. Rubinstein's decision came after a police investigation that was launched following a complaint filed against the rabbi by attorney David Shonberg from Jerusalem, who said that Ginzburg's book Tipul Shoresh ("Root Treatment") contains inciteful comments, such as comparing the Arabs to a cancer. Rubinstein decided to hold a hearing for Ginzburg's attorney Naftaly Varzburger before submitting the indictment to a court. Army Radio quoted Ginzburg's lawyer as saying that the timing of the decision was puzzling, because the book was distributed two years ago, and that Ginzburg was being persecuted for expressing religious and philosophical beliefs. Rubinstein has previously rejected several demands to indict Ginzburg. In 2001 the State Prosecutor closed a sedition case against the rabbi, launched following a petition submitted by attorneys Shonberg and Moshe Frankfurter. In their petition, they said that Ginzburg made inciteful comments to the Jerusalem weekly newspaper Kol Hazman and the daily newspaper Ma'ariv. In both, he reiterated his support for Baruch Goldstein's 1994 massacre of Palestinians at prayer in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. In Ginzburg's book, he claims that the land of Israel belongs only to the Children of Israel and that no 'goy' (non-Jew) has the right to live in the area unless he is a convert or a righteous Gentile. The book contains calls for the Arabs to be expelled from Israel and for the land to be 'cleansed' of foreigners. Ginzburg, one of the heads of the Od Yosef Chai Yeshiva (which was located in Nablus before it was evacuated during the Intifada and subsequently destroyed by Palestinians), also calls on readers not to employ or trade with Arabs. A similar police investigation against Ginzburg was launched following the 1998 publication of his book Baruch Hagever ("Baruch the Man"), which praised Baruch Goldstein's deeds in Hebron, but in the end, the state prosecutor decided not to indict Ginzburg."

The Strategist and the Philosopher: Leo Strauss and Albert Wohlstetter, By ALAIN FRACHON and DANIEL VERNET, Counterpunch, June 2, 2003 (Translated from an April 16, 2003 Le Monde article).
"Who are the neoconservatives playing a vital role in the US president's choices by the side of Christian fundamentalists? And who were their master thinkers, Albert Wohlstetter and Leo Strauss? It was said in the tone of sincere praise: 'You are some of our country's best brains'. So good, added George W. Bush, 'that my government employs around twenty of you.' The president was addressing the American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC on February 23 (quote from an article published in Le Monde, March 20, 2003). He was paying homage to a think tank that is one of the bastions of the American neoconservative movement. He was saluting a school of thought that has marked his presidency, avowing everything he owes to an intellectual stream whose influence is now predominant. He was also acknowledging the fact of being surrounded by neoconservatives, and giving them credit for the vital role they play in his political choices ... Where do the intellectual origins of Bushian neoconservatism lie? The neoconservatives must not be confused with Christian fundamentalists who are also found in George W. Bush's entourage. They have nothing to do with the renaissance of protestant fundamentalism begun in the southern Bible Belt states, which is one of the rising powers in today's Republican Party. Neoconservatism is from the East Coast, and a little Californian as well. Those who have inspired them have an 'intellectual' profile. Often they are New Yorkers, often Jewish, having their beginnings 'on the Left'. Some still call themselves Democrats. They have their hands on literary or political reviews, not the Bible ... George W. Bush has brought the neoconservatives and Christian fundamentalists to co-exist. ... [Paul] Wolfowitz is for his part a brilliant product of East Coast universities. He has studied with two of the most eminent professors of the 1960s. Allan Bloom, the discipline of the German-Jewish philosopher, Leo Strauss, and Albert Wohlstetter, professor of mathematics and a specialist in military strategy. These two names would end up counting. The neoconservatives have placed themselves under the tutelary shadow of the strategist and the philosopher. 'Neoconservative' is a misnomer. They have nothing in common with those striving to guarantee the established order. They reject just about all the attributes of political conservatism as it is understood in Europe ... As idealist-optimists convinced of the universal value of the American democratic model, they want to bring the status quo and soft consensus to an end. They believe in the power of politics to change things ... As critics of the Sixties' balance sheet who are opposed to Henry Kissinger's diplomatic realism, they are anti-establishment. Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz, the founders of Commentary and two of neoconservatism's New-York godfathers, come from the Left. ... In the 1970s, the Democratic Senator from Washington State, Henry Jackson (d. 1983) criticized the major treaties on nuclear disarmament. He helped shape a generation of young lions keenly interested in strategy, in which one comes across Richard Perle and William Kristol. The latter had attended Allan Bloom's lectures. From within the administration and from without, Richard Perle would meet up with Paul Wolfowitz when they both worked for Kenneth Adelman, another contrarian of Détente policies, or Charles Fairbanks, Under-Secretary of State. In strategic matters, their guru was Albert Wohlstetter. A researcher at the RAND Corporation, Pentagon advisor and a gastronomy connoisseur nevertheless, Wohlstetter (d. 1997) was one of the fathers of the American nuclear doctrine. More precisely, he engaged in the early attempts to reformulate the traditional doctrine that had been the basis for nuclear deterrence: the so-called MAD or "Mutual-Assured Destruction". According to that theory, as both blocs had the capacity to inflict irreparable damage onto each other, their leaders would think twice before unleashing a nuclear attack. For Wohlstetter and his students, MAD was both immoral--due to the destruction it would inflict on civilian populations--and ineffective: it would end up in a mutual neutralization of nuclear arsenals ... In Perle and Wolfowitz's tracks, one meets Elliott Abrams, these days in charge of the Middle-East at the National Security Council, and Douglas Feith, an Under-Secretary of Defense. They all share unconditional support for the policies of the State of Israel, whatever government sits in Jerusalem. This unwavering support explains how they have stoically sided with Ariel Sharon. President Ronald Reagan's two mandates (1981 and 1985) gave many of them the opportunity to exercise their first responsibilities in government. In Washington DC, the neoconservatives have woven their web. Creativity is on their side. Throughout the years, they have marginalized intellectuals from the Democratic center and centre-left to hold a preponderant place where the ideas that dominate the political scene are forged. Among their fora are reviews such as the National Review, Commentary, the New Republic, headed for a time by the young 'Straussian' Andrew Sullivan; the Weekly Standard, once under the ownership of the Murdoch group, whose Fox News television network takes care of broadcasting the vulgarized version of neoconservative thought. Under Robert Bartley's charge, the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal have also fallen into neoconservatist activism without qualms. Their hunting grounds are also the research institutes and think tanks such as the Hudson Institute, the Heritage Foundation or the American Enterprise Institute. Families play a role as well: Irving Kristol's son, the very urbane William Kristol runs the Weekly Standard; one of Norman Podhoretz's sons worked for the Reagan administration; the son of Richard Pipes--a Polish Jew who emigrated to the US in 1939 to become a Harvard University professor and one of the major critics of Soviet communism--Daniel Pipes has denounced Islamism as a new totalitarianism threatening the West. These men are not isolationists, on the contrary. They are usually very well-educated, having vast knowledge of foreign countries whose languages they have often mastered. They share nothing with Patrick Buchanan's reactionary populism, which espouses a US retreat to deal with its domestic problems. The neoconservatives are internationalists, partisans of a resolute US activism in the world ... Either by filiation or capillary action (Allan Bloom, Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol and so on), Strauss's philosophy has served as neoconservatism's theoretical substratum. Strauss hardly ever wrote on current political affairs or international relations. He was read and recognized for his immense erudition of the classical Greek texts and Christian, Jewish and Islamic scriptures. He was feted for the power of his interpretive method. "He grafted classical philosophy to German profundity in a country lacking a great philosophical tradition", explains Jean-Claude Casanova who was sent to study in the US by his mentor, Raymond Aron. Aron admired Strauss greatly, whom he had met in Berlin before the war."

[The Jewish Lobby's censorial coordinated Complaint Bureau wins again:]
When a cartoon offends readers,
by Don Wycliff, Chicago Tribune (here at Focal Point Publications), June 1, 2003
"In my nine years as the Tribune's editorial page editor, the moments of greatest controversy and personal anguish all were the result of editorial cartoons ... On Friday, our editorial page ran a cartoon that crossed all the lines. Drawn by former Tribune cartoonist Dick Locher, the cartoon depicted President George W. Bush on one knee on a bridge over what was labeled 'Mideast Gulch.' The president is laying down a carpet of bills -- U.S. currency, presumably -- in front of a portly male figure with a large, aquiline nose and clad in a black suit marked with the Star of David. As a Yasser Arafat-like figure looks on with arms crossed, the black-suited man -- is he Ariel Sharon? a generic Israeli? a generic Jew? -- remains riveted on the money, and says, 'On second thought, the pathway to peace is looking a bit brighter.' Locher could not be reached for comment Friday evening. But editorial page editor Bruce Dold said, 'I think Dick Locher intended to comment on the influence the U.S. can exert through the foreign aid it provides to Israel. I think that's all Locher intended. But the cartoon carried several other messages that could be seen as drawing on anti-Semitic symbols and stereotypes. It also implied that the U.S. is bribing Israel to support the road map to peace, but there is simply no evidence to support that. On those levels, the cartoon failed.' Did it ever. The telephones began ringing early and continued to ring late. E-mail inboxes started to show that telltale subject line: 'cartoon.' Some callers identified themselves as Jewish; some did not. But all identified themselves as offended ... Since the Tribune does not currently have a staff editorial cartoonist, each day's cartoon is selected from a batch bought from various syndicates. Locher's cartoons come through Tribune Media Services. Dold was out of town on Thursday, so the selection of Friday's cartoon fell to his deputy, John McCormick, with help from Voice of the people editor Dodie Hofstetter. McCormick said he settled on the Locher cartoon because the policy issue it depicted -- the use of U.S. aid to influence the Israeli government -- was one that had often been discussed in editorial board debates. There is no question in my mind that McCormick and Hofstetter, two of the most honorable people I have ever worked with, did not knowingly try to smuggle an anti-Semitic cartoon into the newspaper. But that this cartoon did indeed give grievous offense to many good people is beyond question."

Israel's America,
By B.A. Jeddy, Dawn (Pakistan), June 1, 2002
"With the help of a strong Jewish lobby within the corridors of power in the US, Israel is well in control of the biggest and the baddest bully in the world. Most people wonder why the United States of America treats Israel like a spoilt child? Every year it gives Israel tremendous financial aid in excess of three to five billion dollars, in the process supporting it unreservedly in its policy of inhuman atrocities against the Palestinians. America also uses its veto to block any adverse Security Council resolution that might be against the interests of Israel. It also completely ignores the fact that Israel reportedly has a deadly arsenal of over 300 nuclear bombs. It is a well-known fact that most of the print and audio-visual media that has an impact on the minds of the American public is controlled by Jews. Just how tight this control is consider the following examples. A few weeks ago an American free-lancer wrote in an English paper that after he had published an anti-Israeli feature in a paper, which had previously accepted all his work, he was told his writing would no longer be required. Then there is the story narrated by a British General, Sir John Glubb, popularly known as Glubb Pasha. He had commanded the Arab Legion in Jordan from 1939 to 1956 and defended that country's borders against Israeli incursions during the Arab-Israeli conflict. Some well-acclaimed books of his experiences had already been published in England. After his retirement in the sixties he wrote down the eventful story of his life and took it to the US, hoping to find a bigger market. But the first question he was asked by American literary agents was, 'Does it contain any material derogatory to Israel?' On his affirmation it was rejected outright. On the 16th of March a 23 year old American peace activist' Rachel Corrie, was killed in cold blood as she courageously tried to stop an Israeli bulldozer from destroying a Palestinian family home. But the cruel murder of even an American citizen received only muted publicity in the American press. Jews manage to control the media by becoming the owners of most public impact papers and magazines. They also acquire a hold on many politicians and legislators. Politics in America is a game of big money. There is hardly a congressman or woman who has not been financed by the American Israeli Public Action Committee, AIPC for short. Even after being elected if anyone does not toe the line of the AIPC, they are quickly surfed out by having buckets of sewage of past misdeeds thrown at them in the papers."

TakeBacktheMedia.com Gets the Savage Treatment: Wife of Web site Co-Founder Slapped with Lawsuit, Buzzflash, June 3, 2003
"A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW In an exclusive first interview with BuzzFlash.Com and BartCop.Com, Mike Stinson, co-founder of the watchdog web site, TakeBacktheMedia.com, reveals why his wife and other websites are being sued by Michael Savage. BUZZFLASH/BARTCOP: Who is Michael Savage suing and why? TAKE BACK THE MEDIA: My wife, Julie Sigwart, was named in a lawsuit by Talk Radio Network (TRN) which was served to her on May 20th in person at our home. Talk Radio Network (regarding the Michael Savage radio show) makes allegations in the lawsuit which are not attributed to her but to our popular website called Take Back the Media -- which has garnered 32 million hits since its inception in January of 2003 ... You can read the legal suit papers at Take Back the Media.com. We've linked them there from another site being sued, Savagestupidity.com. Also named in the suit is michaelsavagesucks.com. They're good folks there and need help on this as well -- this is an attack against free speech on the Web and we need to fight this TOGETHER folks! TRN is making a lot of claims between all the sites and they've lumped us all in together. Basically they are claiming these three websites have cost them an advertising contract (Culligan Co). It's nonsense and obvious harassment to intimidate and chill free speech on the web. It's utterly without merit ... BUZZFLASH/BARTCOP: Michael Savage is the kind of right wing "shock celebrity pundit" who only survives because of publicity. Is this a publicity stunt on his part? After all, he changed his last name to "savage," one can hypothesize, to help sell his demented brand of right wing ranting? TAKE BACK THE MEDIA: Oh yeah, he changed his name to "savage" from WEINER -- now I'm not sure how that's pronounced. It's either WEENER or WHINER, anyone know? The question you pose here is the answer (as usual BuzzFlash is ON the money). We do believe this is a publicity stunt because his ratings are in the crapper."

Shadow of Shame,
CBS (60 Minutes), June 1, 2003
"The Holocaust. It’s constantly on television, at the movies, on stage, in countless relics and monuments, in the country's museums and in its schools. It is recalled every year on Nov. 9, the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the 1938 assault on Germany's Jews. Even Germany's tiny Jewish community is a living emblem of what happened in that country. Half a million strong before the war, it’s a fraction of that now. As Morley Safer reports, most of Germany's Jews live quietly and see that country as one of the safest places in the world to raise their children. But one of the leaders of that community is anything but quiet. Michel Friedman, a television star with his own talk show and a Jew who gets on the nerves of a lot of Germans, never lets them forget that they must be careful about what they say. Friedman is the subject of a lot of German hate mail, a focal point for anti-Semitism. He acknowledges that Germans have tried to make up for their past, but adds 'I am not responsible that Germany invented the Holocaust. They are responsible, and that's a part of their life.' Most Germans would not argue the point. Even young Germans, born decades after the war, bear the burden. 'It's not always that we think about it. It's, we know it, we have this responsibility and we think about it when we make any decisions,' says Carsten Schneider who, at 27, is the youngest member of the German parliament. Young Germans live in a society devoted mostly to life, liberty and the pursuit of a good time, but psychologically they still carry the sins of their grandparents. In most German public schools, reckoning with the past is an academic requirement ... Is there a danger in raising generation after generation with this shame as the central characteristic of their society? 'No, not at all,' says Friedman ... More and more Germans are fed up with all this self-flagellation, and no one more fed up than 75-year-old Martin Walser, one of the country's most revered authors and a man who has been writing about the legacy of the Holocaust for 40 years. Like most everyone of a certain age in Germany, Walser has to grapple with his own personal history. His mother was an ardent member of the Nazi party, and at the age of 17, in 1944, Walser joined the German army. Walser is in no way a Holocaust denier, but he says that the constant dredging up of German history, on television, for instance, has become absurd. 'Hitler's doctors, Hitler's dogs, Hitler's fools, Hitler's generals,' he says. 'You know, and I said that's an abuse.' And another abuse, says Walser, is the way that other countries help to keep alive the image of Germany as a recovering Nazi. 'They treated a whole nation as a criminal on probation,’ he says.'And you have to keep alive this state of mind that you are not yet accepted, and that you are not yet a normal man or a normal nation.' A lot of Germans feel they've done everything in their power to face up to that past -- paying reparations, apologizing. What more, they ask, can they do? ... Last year, Walser published a novel that many considered to be a blatant anti-Semitic tract. It set off an agonizing debate about just how far a German writer, even an eminent literary figure, can go. Walser's detractors say that he crossed the line. His novel is a thinly disguised and very ugly portrait of the most powerful literary critic in Germany - Marcel Reich-Ranitzky - a Jew and a Holocaust survivor, and a television star with a brutal way of reviewing books. He trashed Walser's work, so Walser trashed him. In Walser's novel, the critic is portrayed as an all-powerful, lecherous, and abusive Jew - a figure that recalled for many the brutal anti-Semitic caricature of Jews in the years leading up to the Nazi period. The leading German newspaper refused to serialize the novel, calling it a document of hatred against Jews. Walser is outraged at the accusation and its repercussions. 'You just state it's anti-Semitic, and basta - that's like a death sentence,' he says. For Walser’s reputation, perhaps, but not for the book. The scandal turned the novel into a number one bestseller."

9-11 -- What Really Happened,
Cosmic Penguin [compilation of links to web sites about 9-11]

The Gold Coast Tarnished. ‘Capturing the Friedmans’ captures one Jewish family’s fall, and says something about Great Neck along the way. An interview with filmmaker Andrew Jarecki,
Jewish Week, May 30, 2003
"The Friedmans of Great Neck are a Philip Roth family from hell. That is why Andrew Jarecki’s new film, 'Capturing the Friedmans,' is such a compulsively watchable yet appalling experience. Arnold Friedman was an award-winning high school teacher, a proverbial pillar of the community. His wife Elaine and his three sons, the oldest David, now a popular children’s clown known as Silly Billy, Seth and Jesse, the youngest, seemed to be happy and well adjusted. They lived the good life on the Gold Coast in Great Neck. Until Arnold and Jesse were arrested in the late 1980s, and later imprisoned, for multiple accounts of alleged sexual assault on the adolescent boys who came to their house for computer classes. Then everything fell apart. The neighbors turned on the Friedmans and they were pilloried in the press. Finally, the family itself imploded in a harrowing round of bitter name-calling and harsh feuding. How do we know this? Because the Friedmans recorded it all. 'The Friedmans kept the cameras running all the time,' Jarecki says with a mixture of disbelief and fascination. The home movies of happier times, the videotapes of corrosive battling, even a perversely self-flagellating video diary kept by David Friedman, all turn up in 'Capturing the Friedmans,' making it, as Jarecki himself says, 'the most intimate film I’ve seen in terms of being so close to a family.' Of course, that begs the question of whether you’d want to be close to this family. Still, as Jarecki himself says, the Friedmans are a quintessential Long Island Jewish-American family and, although the film is relatively circumspect about their Jewishness — we see a disastrous Passover seder and photos of the boys lighting a menorah — the family’s Jewish identity is a sort of subterranean theme running under the surface of the film. 'A lot of what makes this family seem odd are a lot of those traits are classic Jewish traits,' Jarecki, himself a Jewish resident of New York, insists in a telephone interview from Rome. 'They’re like all of us, only more so. There’s a certain Jewish quality about the showmanship of this family and the capacity for self-dramatization. There’s a certain quality about their arguments; these are very Jewish arguments' ... Great Neck itself is another Jewish character in the film. At key points in 'Capturing the Friedmans,' which won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Jarecki cuts to a helicopter shot over the affluent town, revealing it as a peninsula isolated from the nearby communities. The isolation is both metaphorical and literal, he says. 'Great Neck is such a Jewish community, it’s almost a shtetl,' Jarecki says. “I began to look at Great Neck as a sort of giant pulsating Jewish amoeba, an organism, surrounded by the soupy mass of Long Island Sound. We see Jewish people on trains and cars, the LIE as an artery bringing supplies to the organism. That’s what feeds the organism — everything that comes in is either a Jewish person or food and sustenance for the organism.'"

'The Producers' Premieres in L.A.,
Earthlink (from Associated PRess), May 30, 2003
"Mel Brooks brought his singing Broadway bandits West as a new production of his show-business satire 'The Producers' premiered with Jason Alexander and Martin Short starring as the conniving theater impresarios. Alexander took over Thursday night as Max Bialystock, a lowlife theater producer who convinces the meek accountant Leo Bloom, played by Short, to help him cheat elderly investors by creating a surefire flop called 'Springtime for Hitler.' 'We had a great time tonight, we really did,' Alexander said after the show. 'Sometimes it's like climbing a mountain but tonight it was walking on air.' The story started as a 1968 movie with Zero Mostel as Bialystock and Gene Wilder as Bloom, but is perhaps best known as the Broadway stage show that won a record 12 Tony Awards in 2001 with former stars Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. ... The story, Brooks has said, was inspired by a real-life experience he had working for a producer who would sleep with elderly women as a pretext for talking them out of their wealth."

David Lee Roth, Hoping to Take Classic Rock to Promised Land,
By David Segal, Washington Post, May 28, 2003
"Since the dawn of distortion, men have fronted metal bands for simple reasons, like sex, drugs and the joy of wrecking hotel rooms. David Lee Roth has partaken of his share of groupies, consumed his share of drugs and trashed a whole Holiday Inn's worth of suites. But throughout his career as lead singer of Van Halen, and now as a solo artist, he's had another ambition, one a bit more esoteric and a lot less sordid. He's on a mission from God. The God of Moses, to be specific. The God -- let's just spell this out here, shall we? -- of the Jews. 'There's not a lot of Jewish action figures,' says Roth. 'Heroes for little Jewish kids are very few and far between when it comes to belligerent enthusiasm, a confrontational red-meat approach. I'm a highly literate slut. I dig only intellectual smut' ... As he explained in his autobiography, 'Crazy From the Heat,' Roth relished every decadent minute of band life, but much of his style and energy came from fury over anti-Semitism and an urge to crush Jewish stereotypes. That might surprise longtime Van Halen fans who missed the Talmudic side of Roth's tequila-Tarzan persona. But as Roth explained on the bus Tuesday night, he's never stopped celebrating the idea of Jewish identity ... 'Viva la différence, as they say in Israel,' he says, lifting his Bud toward the ceiling and cackling again. There's some madness in that laugh, and at various moments in this 15-minute interview, it's easier to figure out when the punch lines have arrived than the logical links between the setup and the joke ... Onstage, Roth is a few parts Bruce Lee, a little bit of Neil Diamond and a whole lot of porn star. He kick-spins like a cornered martial artist, leaps occasionally off the drum riser and suggestively wedges his microphone down his pants. He keeps a bottle of Jack Daniel's nearby, which he sips in dramatic gestures designed to look like heavy swigs. Most of the booze actually ends up sprinkled on fans near the lip of the stage. 'You do more for brunettes than anyone since Snow White,' Roth leers midway through the show, pointing at a woman a few rows back. She's invited to come forward, close her eyes and place her hand on Roth's fly, which she gamely does. Roth clasps her hand in place, grinds his hips a little and mentions 'little Elvis' ... Roth appreciates the gaudiness of the show, its dated crudeness, its nostalgia for teased locks and tight trousers. It's a caricature now, of course, but it's not a Jewish caricature, which for him saves it from cliche. Maybe it's not a lesson that the graybeards in the faith want to teach in Hebrew school, but if his career proves anything it's that a bar mitzvah boy can do lewd and loud as well as anyone else."

Accused Queens Rabbi Resigns,
Newsday, May 29, 2003
"A Queens rabbi who had been dogged by old sexual abuse allegations from Canada this week resigned his membership in a prestigious rabbinical organization and agreed to leave Jewish education, officials of the group said last night. The Rabbinical Council of America, an organization of Orthodox rabbis, was believed to be considering ousting Rabbi Ephraim Bryks of Kew Gardens Hills as a result of the lingering abuse allegations, which arose when he was the pulpit rabbi and yeshiva administrator in a Winnipeg congregation during the 1980s. Bryks has always denied those claims and continued the denial in submitting his resignation ... Bryks' resignation from the council came as the 1,100-member organization, meeting in Rye, was considering a resolution on sexual abuse."

JEWISH GAY AGNOSTIC HERO MADE A SAINT,
Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, May 29, 2003
"Beginning June 6, San Francisco’s Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History will feature an exhibit on Harvey Milk, the deceased gay San Francisco supervisor. Milk was killed 25 years ago and was the first openly gay elected official in a major American city. This is the inaugural exhibit of the Museum of GLBT History. Included in the exhibit is a portrait of Milk by Robert Lentz called 'Saint Harvey.' It pictures Milk with a halo behind his head holding a lit candle. Catholic League president William Donohue commented today on the portrait: 'It is a tribute, however backhanded, to Roman Catholicism that gay activists in San Francisco would choose to honor their slain Jewish, homosexual, agnostic martyr by cribbing from Catholic iconography. Bereft of sacred imagery in the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, it was only logical to turn to Catholicism for help. Hopefully, those involved in this tribute will now look more closely at what Catholicism has to offer in other areas as well.'”

The Jewish Century,
By Henry Makow, Save the Males, May 27, 2003
"Kevin MacDonald book 'The Culture of Critique' (2002) portrays the 20th century as a Jewish century. A hundred years ago, Jews were an impoverished people living mostly in Eastern Europe surrounded by hostile populations. Today Israel is firmly established in the Middle East and Jews have become the wealthiest and most powerful elite in the United States and other Western countries. More significantly, according to MacDonald, the Western intellectual world has become Judaized. Jewish values and attitudes now constitute the culture of the West. Because of deep-seated Jewish hostility toward traditional Western (i.e. Christian) culture, the founding peoples 'have been made to feel deeply ashamed of their own history, surely the prelude to their demise as a culture and a people.' (lxix) Specifically, Jewish organizations promote policies and ideologies aimed at undermining cultural cohesion while practising the opposite policies themselves. While they promote multiculturalism and internationalism in the West, they insist that Israel remain a racially pure national enclave for Jews. 'The present immigration policy essentially places the United States and other Western societies 'in play' in an evolutionary sense which does not apply to other nations of the world,' MacDonald writes. 'Notice that American Jews have no interest in proposing that immigration to Israel should be similarly multiethnic, or ... threaten the hegemony of the Jews.' (323) THE PARTY OF NATIONAL DECOMPOSITION MacDonald says anti Semitism in Weimar Germany was based on a perception that 'that Jewish critical analysis of gentile society was aimed at dissolving the bonds of cohesiveness within the society.' One academic referred to the Jews as "the classic party of national decomposition." (163) MacDonald speculates that Jews feel more comfortable in societies without a distinctive national character. I think there is more to this. The break-up of society into isolated individuals is also the agenda of the new world order, which wishes to remove any united resistance. The new world order is essentially the transfer of all power to international finance. The question then arises: is the new world order a Jewish phenomenon? Or are Jewish intellectuals the pawns of financiers, both Jewish and non-Jewish? MacDonald focuses on how Jewish intellectual movements led by authoritarian figures took over modern intellectual life. He discusses Boas in Anthropology, Adorno in Sociology, Freud in Psychiatry and Derrida in Philosophy. The 'Frankfurt School,' for example, was a "Marxist Jewish cult" financed by Jewish millionaire Felix Weil. Theodore Adorno's influential book 'The Authoritarian Personality' (1950) was actually sponsored by the American Jewish Committee. It attributed prejudice to Christian sexual repression and portrayed gentile group affiliations (including Christian religion, patriotism, and family) as indications of psychiatric disorder. (162) Social disintegration leads to psychological confusion. Society has accepted Adorno's view that there is no objective standard of truth, no common reality. Everyone is isolated and different. Adorno resisted attempts to 'endow the world with any universality, objectivity or totality, with any single organizing principle that would homogenize society...' (164) This kind of post-modernist philosophy has paralysed modern Western culture. Western civilization is built on the foundation that truth is spiritual, universal and knowable. Ultimately truth is God. Universities today have given up the pursuit of truth and are devoted to Bolshevik-like social engineering and indoctrination. A liberal arts education today is not only a waste of time but toxic. Far from bearers of the Western tradition, universities are its executioners with the tacit blessing of the government. A RARE EXCEPTION Kevin MacDonald, a professor of Psychology at California State University is a rare exception. His courageous indispensable book unveils the subversive character of our time. A soft-spoken man who approaches his subject with scientific detachment, MacDonald has amassed a wealth of remarkable detail. For instance, did you know that white gentiles are the most underrepresented group at Harvard? They account for approximately 25% of the student body. While Asians and Jews make up only 5% of the US population, they account for at least 50% of Harvard enrolment. 'The United States is well on the road to being dominated by an Asian technocratic elite and a Jewish business, professional and media elite,' MacDonald says. He details the Jewish role in sponsoring Communism, non-European immigration and the NAACP. He documents the stranglehold Jews have on US cultural life and shows how it is used to shape American attitudes ... 'There is never any rational explanation for anti Semitism...[it] is portrayed as an absolute irrational evil that must be fought at every turn.' (lviii) On the other hand, Christianity is typically portrayed as evil in the movies, and Christians are even depicted as psychopaths. MacDonald cites conservative Jewish critic Michael Medved who complains that he couldn't find one film made since 1975 where Christianity was portrayed positively. (lix) JEWISH-CHRISTIAN RIVALRY MacDonald sees anti Semitism as the result of legitimate conflicts-of-interest. Yet Jewish organizations demonize anyone with the temerity to address Jewish power. They suppress the fact that Jewish-Christian rivalry has very deep roots in Western society. In my view, this rivalry boils down to the fact that Jewish Pharisees rejected Christ's gospel of universal love and human brotherhood. Ever since, Jews have been social and metaphysical outcasts, albeit ones with amazing powers of self-justification. We have been used as pawns by worldly powerbrokers bent on destroying Christian civilization. The 'modernist' trend of the 20th Century can be seen in these terms. As I have suggested elsewhere, Judaism is more a racial creed than a religion. Jews are told we have a mission to create equality and social justice. In fact, we are being used by financiers to build a totalitarian world order. The financiers hold out socialist ideals as bait to transfer more and more power to government, which they control. Of course, not all Jews are pawns of the new world order. Most pawns are not Jews. Racism has no place in this debate. But generally I believe Jews have played a prominent role in modernism. A beacon for humanity, we have not been. Deceived ourselves, we have deceived others and purveyed personal dysfunction and societal oppression. Our role in Communism is a disgrace. Israel is a source of shame. Jews need to discover who we really are and rededicate ourselves. We can begin by reading 'The Culture of Critique' and the other books in MacDonald's trilogy about Judaism as an evolutionary stategy, 'A People that Shall Dwell Alone' (1994) and 'Separation and its Discontents' (1998). MacDonald's publisher sent 'The Culture of Critique' to 40 Jewish publications and didn't get one review. Nor has there been any mainstream coverage, a confirmation of his thesis and measure of our captivity."

Back in Political Forefront. Iran-Contra Figure Plays Key Role on Mideast,
By Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, May 27, 2003; Page A01
"A cycle of disgrace and redemption has brought one of Washington's most accomplished -- and controversial -- bureaucratic infighters back to the center of U.S. foreign policy decision-making. When Elliott Abrams stood in front of a federal judge in October 1991 and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of withholding information from Congress, few imagined he would ever return to government. At age 43, he had become one of the casualties of the Iran-contra scandal, detested by Democrats for his combative political style and mistrusted by human rights activists for playing down the crimes of right-wing dictatorships in Central America. Twelve years later, Abrams is helping to shape White House policies toward many of the world's trouble spots. Appointed in December as President Bush's senior adviser on the Middle East, his responsibilities extend from Algeria to Iran. But nowhere is his influence more evident than on the Arab-Israeli peace process. A self-described 'neo-conservative and neo-Reaganite' with strong ties to Jews and evangelical Christians, Abrams has become a flash point for the debate on how much pressure the Bush administration is prepared to apply to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to reach an agreement with the Palestinians ... Abrams's supporters emphasize his formidable bureaucratic skills, and say his pro-Sharon views will provide political cover for the administration in extracting concessions from a reluctant Israeli government. His enemies depict him as a partisan, ideological figure who pays a lot of attention to the pro-Israel lobby, but has yet to reach out to Arab Americans. Abrams's appointment raised a 'red flag for me and my community,' said Khalil Jahshan, director of government affairs for the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee. 'If the president is serious about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he picked the wrong person to manage the policy for him' ... 'He is relentless in pursuit of his agenda,' said someone who has clashed with him in internal administration debates. 'If that means pushing people out of the way who disagree with him, then that is what he will do.' The White House declined requests for an interview with Abrams ... Administration rivals say Abrams worked behind the scenes to rewrite the road map on the basis of critiques drawn up by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, a leading Jewish American lobby group ... Much of Abrams's adult life, beginning with his days as a Harvard Law School student during the tumultuous 1960s, has been preparation for an important role in government. In conventional political terms, he was a liberal, criticizing the Vietnam War and the Cambridge police for using force to end a 1969 student strike. ... Abrams joined the neo-conservative aristocracy in March 1980 through his marriage to Rachel Decter, daughter of conservative pundits Norman Podhoretz and Midge Decter. By the time Ronald Reagan was elected president later that year, Abrams had become a Republican ... Abrams also had problems with Congress over the Iran-contra scandal. In 1991, he was forced to admit in court that he had not disclosed his knowledge of a secret contra supply network and his solicitation of a $10 million contribution for the contras from the sultan of Brunei. He received a pardon from President George H.W. Bush in December 1992 ... As president of the Center for Ethics and Public Policy, a Washington-based religious think tank, Abrams called for reconciliation between Jews and conservative Christians. He also wrote about the threats to the Jewish identity in the United States because of assimilation and intermarriage, arguing that it is important for Jews to understand that 'tomorrow's lobby for Israel has got to be conservative Christians because there aren't going to be enough Jews to do it.' Under the Bush administration, evangelical Christians have emerged as an important source of political support for Israel."

Rabbis and Sex Abuse Accusations: Jewish Leaders Begin Struggle to Combat Problem, Newsday, May 26, 2003
"After more than a year of charges and disclosures concerning sexual abuse of young people by Catholic priests, the story may sound familiar. But the camp, Mogen Avraham, is a popular summer retreat in Bethel for Orthodox Jewish children. And the accused was not a priest, but a teaching rabbi from Forest Hills. The alleged 1998 incident at Camp Mogen Avraham is just one in a growing dossier of allegations that rabbis, cantors and other Jewish religious leaders have abused children and teenagers in their care, a Newsday investigation has found. In sheer numbers, the problem is unlikely to rival the Catholic Church's, since priests outnumber rabbis by roughly nine to one. While there is no data on the number of clergy with sexual disorders, experts say that, anecdotally, the problem does not seem as severe in the rabbinate as in the priesthood, even in relative terms. Even so, some rabbis call the sexual abuse allegations a 'crisis,' and religious organizations are grappling with ways to handle it. 'We have a huge problem on our hands, a problem that is just beginning to be addressed in religious circles,' Vicki Polin, a psychotherapist, said in recent testimony to the Maryland legislature. Polin, who is Jewish and calls herself a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, runs The Awareness Center, a Baltimore-based clearinghouse that tracks sexual abuse allegations against Jewish religious leaders. The center's Web site lists about 40 alleged cases of abuse involving rabbis and cantors. As with the Catholic scandals, Jewish victims say they still struggle years, even decades, later with this betrayal of trust. 'I can honestly say that he ruined not only my Bas-Mitzvah, but my faith in Judaism,' wrote one woman, now 30, referring to Rabbi Sidney Goldenberg ... Religious authorities fail to report abuse charges to the police. Among strictly observant Orthodox Jews, this tendency is bolstered by the ancient doctrine of mesira, which prohibits Jews from informing on other Jews to secular authorities, a legacy of centuries of oppression of Jews in many countries. When religious leaders try to investigate cases and prevent abusers from having contact with children, their efforts often fai ... Alleged abusers continue to operate freely by moving among congregations, states, even countries. Avrohom Mondrowitz, a self-styled rabbi who once had a popular radio show in Brooklyn, is living openly and teaching in a Jerusalem college although he is wanted on charges of sexually abusing four Brooklyn boys, aged 10 to 16. If he ever returns to the United States, he will be arrested, according to the office of Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes. Many of the alleged abusers were popular, even charismatic leaders, who were thought to be particularly good in relating to young people. Rabbi Baruch Lanner, convicted last year of endangering the welfare of two girls at a New Jersey yeshiva, sidestepped abuse allegations for years, in part because of his reputation as a dynamic figure in an Orthodox youth program ... The rabbinical council is expected to discuss ways to adjudicate abuse allegations against its members, with penalties that include ouster. Sources within the organization say that the impetus for the panel's work includes old abuse allegations against Rabbi Ephraim Bryks of Kew Gardens Hills, which he has repeatedly denied, and the recent arrest of Rabbi Israel Kestenbaum of Highland Park, N.J. Kestenbaum, a chaplaincy leader for the New York Board of Rabbis, was charged in February with endangering the welfare of a minor after allegedly discussing sex with an undercover police officer posing as a teenage girl in a chat room called 'I Love Older Men.' Kestenbaum has pleaded not guilty. Rabbis concerned about sex abuse say accusations against a rabbi are often handled quietly, or not at all. Accused rabbis go on hiatus briefly, then revive their ministries in other congregations, even other countries in the far-flung Diaspora. One of those was Rabbi Matis Weinberg. Accused of sexually abusing students at his California yeshiva two decades ago, he is said to have agreed to leave teaching. But Weinberg resurrected his teaching career in Israel."

[Lobbyist Organization for Special Treatment for Jewish Criminals:]
The Aleph Institute, Alternative Sentencing Proposals Consulting Services for Attorneys Counseling to Offenders and their Families
"Since 1981, The Aleph Institute has grown to become the nation’s foremost non-profit agency working with and on behalf of Jewish men and women affected by the criminal justice system, and addresses significant issues relating to families in crisis and ancillary effects of prison policies. Over the past twenty years, Aleph has created and implemented programs that counsel offenders and their families, and assist lawyers in eliminating or reducing excessive periods of incarceration. Aleph is the only Jewish organization providing such a wide range of specialized professional services nationwide. Pre-sentencing, Aleph prepares proposals for courts across the United States, presenting judges with alternative means to provide punishment while eliminating or minimizing periods of incarceration – and the accompanying separation from family and productive living. In providing these specialized professional services, Aleph has worked with many of the foremost attorneys and criminal justice specialists in the country, and makes available a nationwide network of sentencing specialists, former parole and probation officers, forensic psychologists, social workers, immigration specialists and other professionals in this area. In addition to formal court presentations, Aleph’s staff provides invaluable consulting services to attorneys and counseling to offenders and their families at every stage of the proceedings, including attorney referrals, plea agreement strategies, retention of experts, sentencing guidelines analysis, pre-sentencing investigations and court appearances ... Aleph’s rabbis, staff and volunteers regularly visit over 350 state and federal prisons each year and interact with wardens, chaplains and institutional staff on a daily basis. Aleph also receives approximately 600 collect telephone calls and 1,000 letters each month from inmates around the country and their families. As a result, Aleph’s staff can provide unique insights and counseling as to what may be expected in the prison setting, which particular institutions may best meet the particular needs of prospective inmates and their families, and what actions should be taken at each step of the process to secure religious and other needs."

TED TURNER.Gone With the Wind Ted Turner is a worried man,
by Patricia Sellers, Fortune, May 26, 2003
"No matter how immersed he gets in the Turnerverse, he cannot completely escape the debacle of AOL Time Warner. One reason is legal: He is named in several lawsuits, along with other senior executives, as a party to alleged accounting violations. Another is psychological: Turner is obsessed with Jerry Levin, AOL Time Warner's former CEO. As Turner's friends note, he'll be conversing on any subject--restaurants, bison, ex-wives, whatever--and find a way to lash out at Levin. 'The biggest mistake I made was trusting Jerry too much,' Turner says. Turner and Levin had a long association, dating back to the late '80s. At that time Turner, overleveraged from his MGM acquisition, brought in a consortium of cable investors, including Time Inc., where Levin was a top executive. Turner says that Levin tried 'to keep me small' by twice denying him the chance to buy NBC. The worst affront, the one that makes him bilious to this day, occurred in 2000, a few months after Time Warner agreed to merge with AOL. Levin told Turner he'd have to give up running CNN and his other beloved cable properties. Turner could stay as vice chairman, but he'd have no operating role. 'I should have left the company,' says Turner, 'but I loved everybody. I was a hero.' (Levin declines to comment.) Pushed aside, Turner took on the role of the angriest AOL Time Warner shareholder ... The dumbest deal of all, in Turner's view, was the AOL/Time Warner merger. "A total disaster!" he says. But Turner did nothing to stop it. He says now that he didn't really understand the Internet."

[Jews hold patent on a depcition of the "Holocaust."]
Exhibit comparing Holocaust, animals decried,
By Donovan Slack, Boston Globe, May 25, 2003
"Jewish groups yesterday angrily denounced a controversial animal rights campaign that compares the slaughter of animals for food to the Holocaust, calling an exhibit with photographs of emaciated Nazi death camp prisoners a 'horrific' publicity stunt. Gathered at the New England Holocaust Memorial -- less than a block from City Hall Plaza, where People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals erected a display of billboard photographs -- Jewish leaders took turns at a lectern, some of them recounting images of friends or family in camps. 'This outrageous campaign trivializes the memory of millions of innocent victims of the Holocaust and insults those who survived,' said Geoffrey H. Lewis, president of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston. PETA's exhibit, which made its way to Boston yesterday after evoking similar reactions in 22 other cities, consists of several 6-by-10-foot billboards depicting pictures of Holocaust victims next to photos of masses of chickens and turkeys in warehouses. Known for radical stances and shock campaigns, PETA leaders yesterday were unapologetic. The images may be 'uncomfortable,' said 21-year-old PETA organizer and campaign creator Matt Prescott, but ''we need to get past our grief and begin to use it to teach lessons.' 'We need to use it as a context for teaching lessons of compassion and kindness,' he said. On the plaza, Prescott and two other PETA em