Posted on 12/04/2001 8:45:45 AM PST by Pericles
How the US government and the media have used and manipulated a small but critical American minority to support US /NATO intervention.
By Heather Cottin, Jewish Serbian Friendship Society
Why did the majority of American Jewish organizations and the Jewish press support so unquestioningly the US attack on Yugoslavia? Why have so many Jewish people accepted the analogy between the Holocaust and the Kosovo crisis? And what is the meaning of Jewish support for and NATO in the Balkans?
These questions are not just troubling to members of the Jewish Serbian Friendship Society, they demonstrate how the US government and the media have used and manipulated a small but critical American minority to support US /NATO intervention. Jews have become, because of the Holocaust, what Ed Herman and Noam Chomsky, in Manufacturing Consent, called, "worthy victims." Our suffering has been publicly acknowledged and hallowed as the defining oppression by which all other oppressed groups may be measured. This has placed Jews in a significant political position; Jewish public opinion has become a sort of arbiter of who is and who is not worthy of the sympathy of the American public. Jewish sympathy is not universal; there has been scant support for Turkish Kurds, for East Timorese, for any of the beleaguered groups whose misery has been the result of US foreign policy.
Jewish sympathy for the Bosnian Moslems earlier in the decade and the Kosovo Albanians since 1998 was key to US government and media efforts to win public support for US Balkan interventions. This sympathy was the product of an effective public relations campaign, engineered by James Harff, of the PR firm, Ruder Finn. The firm chose the Jews as targets of a public relations campaign to win support for Bosnian Moslems in 1993. "We won," Harff said, "by targeting the Jewish audience." He noted, "Our work is not to verify information, we are not paid to be moral."
Ruder Finn got the Bosnian Moslem account, the Croatia account and the Kosovo Albanian account, according to Justice Department documents. Harff said, "By a single move we were able to present a simple story of good guys and bad guys which would thereafter play itself out." What was this simple story? It was the holocaust analogy, the genocide ploy, the ethnic cleansing tale. The story did indeed "play itself out," as most Jews embraced the official US lies about Yugoslavia, accepting the demonization of Serbs in the process. NATO propaganda portrayed Serbs as "the new Nazis." April 12th’s Newsweek called the Serbs a "Race," who were "expert" and "seasoned haters."
As many know, this was a particularly appalling aspect of this campaign of deception. The Serbs were the main fighters in Yugoslavia against the Nazis in World War II. They protected and supported the Jews, who joined them in the partisan movement, and died with them at the Ustache’s concentration camp, Jasenovacs. Although there were Bosnian Moslems, Croatians, and Kosovo Albanians in the Resistance movements, the vast majority of the Partisans in Yugoslavia in World War II were Serbs. Croatian, Bosnian Moslem, and Kosovo Albanian forces supported fascism, joined SS divisions, and were murderously Anti Semitic. This history Ruder Finn covered up. And the US media is mum. One might think that the US Jewish press would discuss it, but the Forward, the leading US Jewish newspaper, was more concerned this spring with the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem than with remembering the shared history of Jews and Serbs during World War II.
In various "op ed" pieces of late the history of World War II has been rewritten; Serbs are now being called the Nazis of the Balkans. The Yugoslav Resistance fought a successful guerrilla war against Croatian, Bosnian, and Albanian fascists. Croatian Ustaches, Bosnian Fascists and Kosovo Albanian SS liquidated over one million Serbs, Jews and Roma people but this history is missing from the media today.
Because of the friendship of Serbs and Jews in World War II and because Jews were citizens in multiethnic Yugoslavia, and because they knew that Yugoslavia was being destabilized by outside forces, Jews in Yugoslavia and Yugoslav Jews in the US and especially Israel have protested the media disinformation campaign. The Yugoslav ambassador to the UN wrote a letter on April first of this year to major US Jewish organizations after NATO bombed the bridge and Memorial Park at Novi Sad. He wrote, "The bridge and park had special significance to Jews and Serbs (because) a few thousand Jews and Serbs were executed by the Nazis and thrown into the Danube under that bridge," on that date.
But American Jewish organizations and the Jewish press stuck to their belief in the "genocide" story; Kosovo Albanians were the victims, Yugoslav Serbs were murderers, the new Nazis, Milosovic was Hitler. This story was carefully managed; Diana Johnstone, in a recent article called it "Holocaust Relativism," and noted the successful efforts of Ruder Finn to cast Slobodan Milosovic as "the new Hitler," noting, "any journalist who might challenge such exaggeration could be accused of ‘revisionism" or ‘Auchwitz denial." "Faced with a ‘New Hitler" and alleged ‘genocide,’" Johnstone pointed out, ". . . the issue is reduced to identifying the ‘bad guy’ and standing up to him."
For Jews to accept this specious history is a crime in itself, not merely because story of the Kosovo Albanian uprising and the nature of the KLA in the American press was filled with lies. Any comparison between what happened in Yugoslavia and what happened to Jews in the Holocaust is outrageous. Six million innocent civilians were rounded up and killed. Was that in any way analogous to the civil war in Kosovo fomented and funded by Kosovo Albanian drug running terrorists, with extensive help from Iran, Mujahaddin, Germany and the US? Did US Jewish spokespeople read the stories of KLA terrorism and control of Europe’s heroin trade which have appeared in major newspapers prior to, during and since NATO’s bombing campaign? Without blinking an eye, most Jewish organizations fell into line in support of US/NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, and indeed many called for ground troops! Did American Jews know that Kosovo Albanians enthusiastically had joined the notorious Skanderbeg Division in World War II? Some of them did know, because the Jewish Serbian Friendship Committee sent out a great deal of information. But they turned a blind eye.
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Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, in Manufacturing Consent, told us that, the function of mass media was to, "inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society." (p.1) Once upon a time a significant segment of American Jews were once imperfectly integrated into the institutional structures of American society. They did anti-institutional things like forming labor unions, being "premature anti-fascists." They joined movements against such American institutional structures" as racism, militarism, and sexism. Today, most Jews seem to support the "values, beliefs and codes of behavior" and do not question American foreign policy. They have accepted the propaganda and bombing campaign that destroyed a sovereign nation.
This summer the American Jewish Congress expressed its appreciation for the German army’s actions in Kosovo. These are insane times, driven by dangerous and immoral people. Because of the Holocaust, Jews are seen to be wearing a mantle of moral authority. But they have shrugged it off. Supporting NATO and the US policy in the Balkans is not good for the Jews. Cynical and nefarious forces are manipulating Jews, as one ethnic group against another. We know where that leads.
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You made the claim, I'm calling you on it, so back it up.
From: Bosnia — base for terrorism
In several instances, terrorists with links to Bosnia have launched actions against Western targets:
• An Algerian with Bosnian citizenship, described by one U.S. official as "a junior Osama bin Laden," tried to help smuggle explosives in 1998 to an Egyptian terrorist group plotting to destroy U.S. military installations in Germany.
• Another North African with Bosnian citizenship belonged to a terrorist cell in Montreal that conspired in the failed millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport.
• One of bin Laden's top lieutenants — a Palestinian linked to major terrorist plots in Jordan, France and the United States — had operatives in Bosnia and was issued a Bosnian passport, according to U.S. officials.
After the foiled plot against U.S. bases in Germany, the United States suspended without public explanation a military-aid program to Bosnia in 1999 in an attempt to force the deportation of the Algerian leader of the group, Abdelkader Mokhtari, also known as Abu el Maali.
Two months ago, he was reported to be moving in and out of the country freely. He is thought to be in Afghanistan with the leadership of bin Laden's al Qaeda group, according to a senior official for the NATO-led peacekeeping force, SFOR, in Bosnia.
How about Reuters?
Spain Arrests 11 with Suspected 9/11 Bin Laden Links "had seen combat in Afghanistan, Bosnia"
From MSNBC: Bin Laden’s Invisible Network When Al Qaeda networks moved into the Bosnian civil war, the CIA argued against expelling the extremists, insisting that it was more important to watch them and monitor their communications.
gotta go home also, since Hoppie is a west coaster he'll be able to write all afternoon about how his Humanitarian Warrior buddies didn't really help Bosnian Mujhadeen, they were just arming the nice Bosnians.......ROTFLMAO
Try again.
Pericles, you are proving to be singularly incapable of addressing the issue at hand - baffling people with your B.S. is great for J.C., but it ain't working here - c'mon, dazzle me with your brilliance for once.
Here, I'll list the hijackers and their aliases, and you can simply point at the one you think is the one that the unamed source in your linked article has a suspicion about, ok? Or you can just point at one at random like Vooch is doing and hope for the best. Whatever.
In any case, you will be required to prove your allegation. Are we having fun yet?
Hijackers:
AMERICAN AIRLINES #77
1) Khalid Almihdhar -Alias: Sannan Al-Makki; Khalid Bin Muhammad; 'Addallah Al-Mihdhar; Khalid Mohammad Al-Saqaf.
2) Majed Moqed -Alias: Majed M.GH Moqed; Majed Moqed, Majed Mashaan Moqed
3) Nawaf Alhazmi -Alias: Nawaf Al-Hazmi; Nawaf Al Hazmi; Nawaf M.S. Al Hazmi
4) Salem Alhazmi
5) Hani Hanjour -Alias: Hani Saleh Hanjour; Hani Saleh; Hani Hanjour, Hani Saleh H. Hanjour
AMERICAN AIRLINES #11
1) Satam M.A. Al Suqami
2) Waleed M. Alshehri
3) Wail M. Alshehri
4) Mohamed Atta -Alias: Mehan Atta; Mohammad El Amir; Muhammad Atta; Mohamed El Sayed; Mohamed Elsayed; Muhammad Muhammad Al Amir Awag Al Sayyid Atta; Muhammad Muhammad Al-Amir Awad Al Sayad
5) Abdulaziz Alomari - Possible Saudi national
UNITED AIRLINES #175
1) Marwan Al-Shehhi -Alias: Marwan Yusif Muhammad Rashid Al-Shehi; Marwan Yusif Muhammad Rashid Lakrab Al-Shihhi; Abu Abdullah
2) Fayez Rashid Ahmed Hassan Al Qadi Banihammad -Alias: Fayez Ahmad; Banihammad Fayez Abu Dhabi Banihammad; Fayez Rashid Ahmed; Banihammad Fayez; Rasid Ahmed Hassen Alqadi; Abu Dhabi Banihammad; Ahmed Fayez; Faez Ahmed
3) Ahmed Alghamdi -Alias: Ahmed Salah Alghamdi
4) Hamza Alghamdi -Alias: Hamza Al-Ghamdi; Hamza Ghamdi; Hamzah Alghamdi; Hamza Alghamdi Saleh
5) Mohand Alshehri -Alias: Mohammed Alshehhi; Mohamd Alshehri; Mohald Alshehri
UNITED AIRLINES #93
1) Saeed Alghamdi -Alias: Abdul Rahman Saed Alghamdi; Ali S Alghamdi; Al- Gamdi; Saad M.S. Al Ghamdi; Sadda Al Ghamdi; Saheed Al-Ghamdi; Seed Al Ghamdi
2) Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi -Alias: Ahmed Alhaznawi
3) Ahmed Alnami -Alias: Ali Ahmed Alnami; Ahmed A. Al-Nami; Ahmed Al- Nawi
4) Ziad Samir Jarrah -Alias: Zaid Jarrahi; Zaid Samr Jarrah; Ziad S. Jarrah; Ziad Jarrah Jarrat, Ziad Samir Jarrahi
Or are you reduced to merely admitting that you have nothing more than the fact that Al Quaeda has Bosnian citizens in it's ranks and vooch is lying again?
You forgot one point, those Bosnian Muslim citizes in al-Qaeda killed over 5,000+ Americans and plan to kill thousands more.
Mere Bosnian citizens indeed: NATO Says It Thwarted Terrorist Attack On Two U.S. Military Facilities in Bosnia.
Pericles posts a actual Bosnian Passport while
Hoplite posts a list of names
hmmm........as we all know the list of names is a priori suspect due to the numerous alias's these clowns all used
one can only guess as to the reasone why Hoplite continues to spend so much time and energy defending his Bosnian Mujhadeen buddies
This, then, is a lie.
And neither of you two jokers can scrape up enough integrity to admit it.
What a surprise.
Of course not, but you've reinforced your reputation as a congenital liar.
Pericles is working on his, so you're not alone.
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and of participating in the recent attacks, is named Amir. This is a suspicion of the intelligence agencies, which we still cannot confirm or deny. We cannot precisely establish which of the foreign citizens who came to BiH from various Arab and Islam states received BiH citizenship, because at that time, it was common that we did not know their real identities or where they were really coming from.”