Posted on 12/29/2001 12:08:08 AM PST by H.R. Gross
December 28, 2001
As Israel prepares to expel its Arab helots from Palestine, its "amen corner" worldwide is also on the march, excoriating anyone who looks cross-eyed at Ariel Sharon as an "anti-Semite." The latest front in this campaign is England, where Barbara Amiel, wife of media magnate Conrad Black, went on a rampage in the Telegraph, claiming that, at a recent dinner party, the French ambassador referred to Israel as "that sh*tty little country," and wondered why the world had to be dragged to the edge of World War III on account of it. On the basis of evidence gleaned at ritzy cocktail parties, says Ms. Amiel, the world is experiencing a revival of anti-Semitism, which is now "respectable" again.
Oh, please! Does she really expect us to believe that Osama's infamous videos denouncing the "Jews and Crusaders" are the "in" thing with the hip cognoscenti? Lay off the crack pipe, lady, and get real: anti-Semitism is less respectable than pedophilia. After all, hordes of people aren't buying The Protocols of the Elder of Zion the way they're snatching up those Abercrombie & Fitch catalogs, now are they? Amiel's essay is just one breathtaking inversion of reality after another. Getta load-a this:
"For the past 25 years, I've watched sad-faced Israeli activists trudge around Western capitals with heavy hearts beating under ill-fitting suits. They carry folders of transcripts and videotapes to document the misrepresentations in the press and the moral hypocrisy of the world towards Israel. They want to win the war of ideas on its merits. Their attention to detail in translating the hate literature of the Middle East and the hate-filled speeches of its leaders is commendable."
One can only wonder what "Western capitals" she means: surely not Washington, D.C. Everyone acknowledges that the Israel lobby is among the most powerful in the Imperial City. How else have they managed to get their hands on a grand total of $90 billion-plus in American military and economic aid since Israel's inception?
Aside from US exporters, Israel is the single largest beneficiary of our "foreign aid" program: US tax dollars paid for a booby-trap bomb planted near an Arab elementary school, which blasted a group of Palestinian children – children! – to bits. American tax dollars also pay for Israeli "settlements" inhabited by violent, fanatical fundamentalists intent on provoking war no matter what. This image of sad bedraggled little underdogs making their rounds, desperately fighting an uphill battle against overwhelming odds, is nothing but a bad joke – either that, or it is meant to be ironic.
If the Israeli lobby is so powerless, then why this American largesse? We not only arm Israel, but we also prop up their sh*tty little socialist economy with constant infusions of cash. Whatever those Israeli "activists" are carrying around in their folders, whatever is on those videotapes, it must be some pretty powerful stuff. Given the Fox News revelations about the extent of Israeli spying in the US, I don't even want to hazard a guess as to what's in them.
They want to "win the war of ideas on its merits"? Tell that to Jean Ryan, former managing editor of the Oneida (NY) Daily Dispatch, and city editor Dale Seth (a 15-year veteran of the paper), who were both fired when a delegation of Israel Firsters approached the editor and then the owner demanding the paper retract an allegedly "anti-Semitic" post-9/11 editorial written by Seth. Seth's crime was to recall the terrorist origins of the Jewish state – as if no one had ever heard of the Irgun and the Stern Gang, both of which waged war on the Arab civilian population – and without which the state of Israel would never have come into existence. He also made the true but politically incorrect observation that the whole region is rife with religious fanaticism, and Israel is no exception to the rule:
"The United States, through its close association with Israel since its inception, has now been dragged kicking and screaming right into the middle of that centuries-old Middle Eastern conflict. From that position, it would behoove that party in the middle to consider the hearts of the warring parties. Neither can be simply beat into submission."
A local attorney, Randy Schaal, demanded a meeting with Ryan to protest the editorial: Ryan refused to meet with him, pointing out that that if the staff met with everyone who disagreed with an editorial, they would never get a paper out. She told him to write a letter to the editor, which he did. But Schaal also contacted local politicians, as well as the Anti-Defamation League, and it wasn't long before pressure was brought to bear on the paper's management, which then ordered its editors to come up with a "clarification." This was published alongside Schaal's letter, a letter from Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), and a missive from the mayor of Oneida. Still, Schaal and his fellow Ameners weren't satisfied. They went to the President of the Journal Register Co., and demanded a retraction and an apology: it was unconditional surrender, or nothing.
After a series of meetings with various self-appointed representatives of the Jewish community, the owners of the Daily Dispatch caved and published a groveling mea culpa: "We understand many felt [the editorial] expressed anti-Semitic sentiments," it said. "We will not further offend our readers by attempting in any way to justify what was written; we can only assure readers that The Dispatch is not anti-Semitic and that we acknowledge the editorial should not have been published."
So much for the Israeli lobby winning the war of ideas on the "merits" of their case. Clearly, another strategy is at work here: not debating their opponents but silencing them.
The rest of Amiel's essay is really a kind of paean to the efficacy of brute force. While those poor bedraggled Israeli "activists" may have been fighting an uphill battle, according to Amiel, in the post-9/11 era the tide seems to be turning, and she can hardly keep herself from gloating that now the Arabs are really going to get it:
"Powerful as the truth may be, it needs a nudge from 16,000lb daisy cutter bombs once in a while. The Arab/Muslim world's intransigence comes into sharper focus when we see the Americans liberate Afghanistan from the Taliban in six weeks and a cornered Arafat unable to go to the bathroom without the risk of being blown into the next world."
Here is the kind of Zionist who clearly enjoys the brutality and indignity of the Israeli occupation. Such people now feel free to publicly exhibit and even flaunt their perversity, which seems like something straight out of Kraft-Ebbing. What else can one call Amiel's odd interest in controlling Arafat's bowel movements other than a sh*tty little perversion?
"Nothing succeeds like powerful bombs," exults this war goddess, "as bin Laden explained in his latest video release. 'When people see a strong horse and a weak horse, by nature they will like the strong horse,' he said." How natural for her to approvingly cite bin Laden on the terroristic imperative: but then that is what tribal warfare is all about, no matter which side one fights on.
Yes, it is force, not reason or negotiation, that is decisive, avers Ms. Amiel, who gleefully predicts that "All those people badmouthing the Jews and Israel will quieten down." Or else be quieted down, involuntarily, like Jean Ryan, Dale Seth, and now perhaps Carl Cameron, of Fox News. "You are looking," Amiel continues, "at the tail end of the train but the engine has already turned a corner and is going in the opposite direction" – and anyone who shows up at one of those ritzy parties she's always attending had better get on board, or else.
No one would think to label denunciations of, say, Robert Mugabe, as the equivalent of anti-black racism: but we are expected to just accept that virtually all criticism of Israel and Ariel Sharon is due to "anti-Semitism." Amiel's blatantly dishonest and self-serving jihad is naturally bound to cause resentment among all thinking people – an emotion that could, easily, turn into genuine anti-Semitism. But that, I believe, is the point: anti-Semitism serves the interests of the most extreme wing of the Zionist movement, and always has.
Founded as it is on the permanence of Jewish victimology, and the idea that anti-Semitism is inevitable, Zionism thrives when Jewish persecution grows. It is a natural tendency of Zionist propaganda to exaggerate hostility to Jews. The founder of Zionism, Theodore Herzl, was confirmed in his opinion that it was "futile" to combat anti-Semitism when the infamous Dreyfuss case was at the center of a storm of controversy. Today, however, with the rapid decline and marginalization of anti-Semitism everywhere but in the Middle East, the pressing need for a Jewish state requires more justification.
Anti-Semitism in the West, as "hate crime" statistics and other research has shown in recent years, is practically nonexistent. This good news was hailed by Jewish organizations in the US when it was first announced, but the extreme Zionists were no doubt made uneasy. For if anti-Jewish prejudice is distinctly beyond the pale, at least in the civilized world, i.e., the West, then what do we need a Jewish state for? This is a question many Jews, when faced with an appeal to emigrate to Israel, must ask themselves, and, at least up until Ms. Amiel's outburst, the Zionists have had no good answer. Now they appear to have solved the problem by simply redefining "anti-Semitism" to mean any criticism of Israel's expansionist policies and its current radical right-wing government.
Anti-Semitism used to mean legal and cultural proscriptions directed against Jews. In medieval Europe, Jews were forced into ghettos, in Nazi Germany they were branded with the yellow star and exterminated, and, in America and Europe, it used to be that some establishments, both high and low, would not do business with Jews. Certain hotels and men's clubs would not admit them, and anti-Semitism was especially rife in the universities where an unofficial Jewish quota kept their numbers and influence limited. This is real anti-Semitism, and, today, it is not only illegal but socially and politically unacceptable: anyone deemed an anti-Semite in this, the original sense, is in effect a pariah, and rightly so.
Are any of Justin's essays NOT posted here? That's what I would like to know! LOLOLOL
Of course, I also want to end "foreign aid" (i.e. bribes) to Egypt, the second-largest recipient of US tax dollars.
You are nothing but a shill for a foreign country. Have you registered as a foreign agent yet? It's the law, you know....
Democracy is a great thing Justin. Try it on for size some time. Sure beats your ostrich isolationism which never solved one damn problem. It's the stop the world I want to get off syndrome for those who can't handle the real world of global power and global politics.
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1998 Furchgott, Robert F. "for their discoveries concerning nitric oxide as a signaling molecule in the cardiovascular system" USA
1997 Prusiner, Stanley B. "for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection" USA
1994 Gilman, Alfred G. "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells" USA
1994 Rodbell, Martin "for their discovery of G-proteins and the role of these proteins in signal transduction in cells" USA
1989 Varmus, Harold E. "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes" USA
1988 Elion, Gertrude B. "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment" USA
1986 Cohen, Stanley "for their discoveries of growth factors" USA
1986 Levi-Montalcini, Rita "for their discoveries of growth factors" Italy
1985 Goldstein, Joseph L. "for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism" USA
1984 Milstein, Cesar "for theories concerning the specificity in development and control of the immune system and the discovery of the principle for production of monoclonal antibodies" Argentina
1980 Benacerraf, Baruj "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" Venezuela
1978 Nathans, Daniel "for the discovery of restriction enzymes and their application to problems of molecular genetics" USA
1977 Schally, Andrew V. "for their discoveries concerning the peptide hormone production of the brain" Poland
1977 Yalow, Rosalyn "for the development of radioimmunoassays of peptide hormones" USA
1976 Blumberg, Baruch S. "for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases" USA
1975 Baltimore, David "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell" USA
1975 Temin, Howard Martin "for their discoveries concerning the interaction between tumor viruses and the genetic material of the cell" USA
1972 Edelman, Gerald M. "for their discoveries concerning the chemical structure of antibodies" USA
1970 Axelrod, Julius "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" USA
1970 Katz, Sir Bernard "for their discoveries concerning the humoral transmitters in the nerve terminals and the mechanism for their storage, release and inactivation" Germany
1969 Luria, Salvador E. "for their discoveries concerning the replication mechanism and the genetic structure of viruses" Italy
1968 Nirenberg, Marshall W. "for their interpretation of the genetic code and its function in protein synthesis" USA
1967 Wald, George "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye" USA
1965 Jacob, Francois "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" France
1965 Lwoff, Andre "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis" France
1964 Bloch, Konrad "for their discoveries concerning the mechanism and regulation of the cholesterol and fatty acid metabolism" Germany
1959 Kornberg, Arthur "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid" USA
1958 Lederberg, Joshua "for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria" USA
1953 Krebs, Sir Hans Adolf "for his discovery of the citric acid cycle" Germany
1953 Lipmann, Fritz Albert "for his discovery of co-enzyme A and its importance for intermediary metabolism" Germany
1952 Waksman, Selman Abraham "for his discovery of streptomycin, the first antibiotic effective against tuberculosis" Russia
1950 Reichstein, Tadeus "for their discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects" Poland
1946 Muller, Hermann Joseph "for the discovery of the production of mutations by means of X-ray irradiation" USA
1945 Chain, Sir Ernst Boris "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases" UK
1944 Erlanger, Joseph "for their discoveries relating to the highly differentiated functions of single nerve fibers" USA
1936 Loewi, Otto "for their discoveries relating to chemical transmission of nerve impulses" Austria
1931 Warburg, Otto Heinrich "for his discovery of the nature and mode of action of the respiratory enzyme" Germany
1930 Landsteiner, Karl "for his discovery of human blood groups" Austria
1922 Meyerhof, Otto Fritz "for his discovery of the fixed relationship between the consumption of oxygen and the metabolism of lactic acid in the muscle" Germany
1914 Barany, Robert "for his work on the physiology and pathology of the vestibular apparatus" Austria
1908 Ehrlich, Paul "for their work on immunity" Germany
1908 Mechnikov, Elie "for their work on immunity" Russia
1998 Kohn, Walter "for his development of the density-functional theory" Austria
1992 Marcus, Rudolph A. "for his contributions to the theory of electron transfer reactions in chemical systems" Canada
1989 Altman, Sidney "for their discovery of catalytic properties of RNA" Canada
1985 Hauptman, Herbert A. "for their development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures" USA
1985 Karle, Jerome "for their development of direct methods for the determination of crystal structures" USA
1982 Klug, Sir Aaron "for his development of crystallographic electron microscopy and his structural elucidation of biologically important nuclei acid-protein complexes" Lithuania
1981 Hoffmann, Roald "for their theories, developed independently, concerning the course of chemical reactions" Poland
1980 Berg, Paul "for his fundamental studies of the biochemistry of nucleic acids, with particular regard to recombinant-DNA" USA
1980 Gilbert, Walter "for their contributions concerning the determination of base sequences in nucleic acids" USA
1979 Brown, Herbert C. "for their development of the use of boron- and phosphorus-containing compounds, respectively, into important reagents in organic synthesis" Ukraine
1972 Stein, William Howard "for their contribution to the understanding of the connection between chemical structure and catalytic activity of the active center of the ribonuclease molecule" USA
1962 Perutz, Max Ferdinand "for their studies of the structures of globular proteins" Austria
1961 Calvin, Melvin "for his research on the carbon dioxide assimilation in plants" USA
1943 de Hevesy, George "for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes" Hungary
1918 Haber, Fritz "for the synthesis of ammonia from its elements" Germany
1915 Willstatter, Richard Martin "for his researches on plant pigments, especially chlorophyll" Germany
1910 Wallach, Otto "for his pioneer work in the field of alicyclic compounds" Germany
1906 Moissan, Henri "for his investigation and isolation of the element fluorine, and for the adoption in the service of science of the electric furnace called after him" France
1905 von Baeyer, Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf "for his services in the advancement of organic chemistry and the chemical industry, through his work on organic dyes and hydroaromatic compounds" Germany
1997 Cohen-Tannoudji, Claude "for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light" Algeria
1996 Lee, David M. "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" USA
1996 Osheroff, Douglas D. "for their discovery of superfluidity in helium-3" USA
1995 Perl, Martin L. "for the discovery of the tau lepton " Russia
1995 Reines, Frederick "for the detection of the neutrino" USA
1992 Charpak, Georges "for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber" Poland
1990 Friedman, Jerome I. "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons and bound neutrons, which have been of essential importance for the development of the quark model in particle physics" USA
1988 Lederman, Leon M. "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" USA
1988 Schwartz, Melvin "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" USA
1988 Steinberger, Jack "for the neutrino beam method and the demonstration of the doublet structure of the leptons through the discovery of the muon neutrino" Germany
1979 Glashow, Sheldon L. "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current" USA
1979 Weinberg, Steven "for their contributions to the theory of the unified weak and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles, including inter alia the prediction of the weak neutral current" USA
1978 Kapitsa, Pyotr Leonidovich "for his basic inventions and discoveries in the area of low-temperature physics" Russia
1978 Penzias, Arno A. "for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation" Germany
1976 Richter, Burton "for their pioneering work in the discovery of a heavy elementary particle of a new kind" USA
1975 Mottelson, Ben Roy "for the discovery of the connection between collective motion and particle motion in atomic nuclei and the development of the theory of the structure of the atomic nucleus based on this connection" USA
1973 Josephson, Brian D. "for his theoretical predictions of the properties of a supercurrent through a tunnel barrier, in particular those phenomena which are generally known as the Josephson effects" UK
1971 Gabor, Dennis "for his invention and development of the holographic method" Hungary
1969 Gell-Mann, Murray "for his contributions and discoveries concerning the classification of elementary particles and their interactions" USA
1967 Bethe, Hans Albrecht "for his contributions to the theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning the energy production in stars" USA
1965 Feynman, Richard P. "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" USA
1965 Schwinger, Julian "for their fundamental work in quantum electrodynamics, with deep-ploughing consequences for the physics of elementary particles" USA
1962 Landau, Lev Davidovich "for his pioneering theories for condensed matter, especially liquid helium" Uzbekistan
1961 Hofstadter, Robert "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his thereby achieved discoveries concerning the structure of the nucleons" USA
1960 Glaser, Donald A. "for the invention of the bubble chamber" USA
1959 Segre, Emilio Gino "for their discovery of the antiproton" Italy
1954 Born, Max "for his fundamental research in quantum mechanics, especially for his statistical interpretation of the wavefunction"
1952 Bloch, Felix "for their development of new methods for nuclear magnetic precision measurements and discoveries in connection therewith" Switzerland
1944 Rabi, Isidor Isaac "for his resonance method for recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei" Austria
1943 Stern, Otto "for his contribution to the development of the molecular ray method and his discovery of the magnetic moment of the proton" Germany
1925 Franck, James "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom" Germany
1925 Hertz, Gustav "for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom" Germany
1922 Bohr, Niels "for his services in the investigation of the structure of atoms and of the radiation emanating from them" Denmark
1921 Einstein, Albert "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect" Germany
1908 Lippmann, Gabriel "for his method of reproducing colors photographically based on the phenomenon of interference" Luxembourg
1907 Michelson, Albert Abraham "for his optical precision instruments and the spectroscopic and meteorological investigations carried out with their aid"
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