I wonder briefly if this is an example of the fourth estate or the fifth column, but it hardly matters. However you construe it, the Far Left (be it American, European or Israeli) is pouring rhetorical gasoline on the fire of jihad. Here's just one example.
Frank Scott is the editor of something called the Coastal Post ("Marin County's News Monthly - Free Press") out of Bolinas CA.
His opinions are also published at a disgusting website called CODOH dot com: The Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.
And at Al Jazeera:
Iran, Israel, The Big Lie, and The Real Threat
The atrocity in Iraq continues, with greater opposition within the American ruling party, but no end in sight. It was made possible by reducing public consciousness to that of children in a day care center. But the latest assault on understanding material reality threatens even greater and more bloody injustice. If the continuing barrage of frenzied propaganda succeeds in casting Iran as global menace, and Ahmadinejad as global monster, there is no possible outcome but dreadful global failure.
Why this wild focus on Iran and its president? While many insist that only control of oil is at stake , the zealous core of opposition to the Islamic and Arab world remains the state of Israel, and its rabid supporters in the USA. It is hardly an either/or question, but even as oil's importance is acknowledged, the enormous power of the Israeli lobby can continue to be denied only by those dense enough to deny global climate change.
Until recently, the existence and power of the lobby has gone unquestioned. This, in justified fear of its financial and political wrath , but also in guilty silence lest past tragedies befall the Jewish people again. How? The horrible experience of world war two has often distorted any sense of modern reality. In deference to memory of a terrible time for European Jews, we have allowed a longer lasting terrible time for those who had nothing to do with any part of that war.
Israel's pristine status in American consciousness has meant near obliteration of the Palestinian people, and most of the Arab and Islamic world as well. A great mass of humanity has been reduced to invisibility except as terrorists or religious fanatics, as they are depicted by Jewish Zionist organizations working to protect a colonial European state, and by the American political and media establishment.
The major rationale for Israel's existence is the holocaust, the rabid persecution of European Jews by the nazis in world war two. Perpetuation of the memory of this dreadful history has become the most powerful religious movement in the modern world, accorded the status of theocratic faith, not to be questioned by any, and to be ritually worshipped by all.
This has led to intellectual pogroms in Europe where those who dare to question any parts of the holocaust story are charged with heresy and imprisoned. Revenge is not only visited on the Palestinian people, who had nothing to do with any part of it, but on Europeans who audaciously use supposed democratic liberties in order to freely question history.
Treating a material event as a sanctified subject open to no investigation but that of true believers is a form of religious fanaticism. But when it becomes the root cause of moving toward potential nuclear war, it must be confronted before it leads to even more destruction than has already been created in its tsunami like waves of devastation....
Scott's conclusion - if not as rational or unmistakable as he claims - is indeed simple and straightforward:
... rational analysis of our world leads to an unmistakable conclusion: A Euro-Zionist and anti-democratic state in the middle east, and its extremist supporters in the USA, are a major threat to the global future. Israel, not Iran, is the problem.
Perhaps most disturbing is the fact that this same commentary is also published online at the more innocuously titled
I don't know if you'll have any use for it, but Scott freely publishes his contact information at the CODOH site.
email: frank@marin.cc.ca.us
225 laurel place, san rafael ca. 94901
(415) 457 2415 cell (415) 847 4105
