{"id":25603,"date":"2010-11-13T16:20:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T14:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=25603"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T20:06:40","slug":"is-rupert-murdoch-ignorant-or-an-agent-of-zionist-deception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2010\/11\/13\/is-rupert-murdoch-ignorant-or-an-agent-of-zionist-deception\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Rupert Murdoch ignorant or an agent of Zionist deception?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"In a recent speech at an ADL (Anti-Defamation League) dinner, Rupert Murdoch, arguably the most influential mainstream media chief on Planet Earth<\/em>, made some extraordinary statements which must be challenged. But first it\u2019s necessary for us all to be clear about what ADL\u2019s role is.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Its proclaimed objective is to \u201cfight anti-Semitism\u201d. In reality its main purpose under the leadership of Abe Foxman is to smear, harass, silence and preferably destroy those of all faiths and none who are critical of Zionism in action \u2013 critical of Israel\u2019s policies in general and its contempt for international law in particular; and critical of the awesome power of the Zionist lobby, in America especially.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In his speech Murdoch said his own perspective on the evil of anti-Semitism was \u201csimple\u201d. He put it this way (my emphasis added):<\/p>\n

\u201cWe live in a world where there is an ongoing war against the Jews. For the first decades after Israel\u2019s founding, this war was conventional in nature.The goal was straightforward \u2013 to use military force to overrun Israel<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was Murdoch\u2019s carefully understated way of endorsing Zionism\u2019s assertion that for the first decades of its life Israel lived in danger of annihilation, the \u201cdriving into the sea\u201d of its Jews. As I document in detail through the three volumes of the American edition of my book\u00a0Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews<\/em>, Israel\u2019s existence was never, ever, in danger from any combination of Arab force. Zionism\u2019s assertion to the contrary was the cover that allowed Israel to get away where it mattered most (in America and Western Europe) with presenting its aggression as self-defense and itself as the victim when, actually, it was and is the oppressor.<\/p>\n

The main event during the period in which Murdoch asserted that the Arabs were trying to \u201coverrun\u201d Israel was the 1967 war. Zionism\u2019s story of it, which the mainstream media still peddles to this day, is that Israel went to war either because the Arabs attacked first or were intending to attack. Both, the either and the or, are Zionist propaganda nonsense. It was a war of Israeli aggression.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t expect Murdoch to pay any attention to what the Gentile me has to say on the subject, but if he is not an agent of Zionist deception (i.e. if he is merely ignorant), he ought to consider what various Israeli leaders have said. I quote them in\u00a0America Takes Sides, War With Nasser Act II and the Creation of Greater Israel<\/em>, Chapter 1 of Volume Three the American edition of my book, which is sub-titled\u00a0Conflict Without End?<\/em><\/p>\n

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I preface the quotes of Israeli leaders with this observation.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf the statement that the Arabs were not intending to attack Israel and that the existence of the Jewish state was not in danger was only that of a\u00a0goy<\/em>, it could be dismissed by Zionists as anti-Semitic conjecture. In fact the truth the statement represents was admitted by some of the key Israeli players \u2013 after the war, of course. Before we look at what actually happened in 1967 and why, here is a short summary of some pertinent, post-war Israeli confessions.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview published in\u00a0Le Monde<\/em> on 28 February 1968, Israeli Chief of Staff Rabin said this: \u201cI do not believe that Nasser wanted war. The two divisions which he sent into Sinai on 14 May would not have been enough to unleash an offensive against Israel. He knew it and we knew it<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

On 14 April 1971, a report in the Israeli newspaper\u00a0Al-Hamishmar<\/em>contained the following statement by Mordecai Bentov, a member of the wartime national government. \u201cThe entire story of the danger of extermination was invented in every detail and exaggerated a posteriori to justify the annexation of new Arab territory<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

On 4 April 1972, General Haim Bar-Lev, Rabin\u2019s predecessor as chief of staff, was quoted in\u00a0Ma\u2019ariv<\/em> as follows: \u201cWe were not threatened with genocide on the eve of the Six-Days war, and we had never thought of such a possibility<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same Israeli newspaper on the same day, General Ezer Weizman, Chief of Operations during the war and a nephew of Chaim Weizman, was quoted as saying: \u201cThere was never any danger of annihilation. This hypothesis has never been considered in any serious meeting<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the spring of 1972, General Matetiyahu Peled, Chief of Logistical Command during the war and one of 12 members of Israel\u2019s General Staff, addressed a political literary club in Tel Aviv. He said: \u201cThe thesis according to which the danger of genocide hung over us in June 1967, and according to which Israel was fighting for her very physical survival, was nothing but a bluff which was born and bred after the war<\/strong>.\u201d In a radio debate Peled said: \u201cIsrael was never in real danger and there was no evidence that Egypt had any intention of attacking Israel<\/strong>.\u201d He added that \u201cIsraeli intelligence knew that Egypt was not prepared for war<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the same program Chaim Herzog (former DMI, future Israeli Ambassador to the UN and President of his state) said: \u201cThere was no danger of annihilation. Neither Israeli headquarters nor the Pentagon \u2013 as the memoirs of President Johnson proved \u2013 believed in this danger<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

On 3 June 1972 Peled was even more explicit in an article of his own for\u00a0Le Monde<\/em>. He wrote: \u201cAll those stories about the huge danger we were facing because of our small territorial size, an argument expounded once the war was over, have never been considered in our calculations. While we proceeded towards the full mobilisation of our forces, no person in his right mind could believe that all this force was necessary to our \u2018defense\u2019 against the Egyptian threat. This force was to crush once and for all the Egyptians at the military level and their Soviet masters at the political level. To pretend that the Egyptian forces concentrated on our borders were capable of threatening Israel\u2019s existence does not only insult the intelligence of any person capable of analyzing this kind of situation, but is primarily an insult to the Israeli army<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The preference of some generals for truth-telling after the event provoked something of a debate in Israel, but it was short-lived. If some Israeli journalists had had their way, the generals would have kept their mouths shut. Weizman was one of those approached with the suggestion that he and others who wanted to speak out should \u201cnot exercise their inalienable right to free speech lest they prejudice world opinion and the Jewish diaspora against Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is not surprising that debate in Israel was shut down before it led to some serious soul-searching about the nature of the state and whether it should continue to live by the lie as well as the sword; but it is more than remarkable, I think, that\u00a0the mainstream Western media continues to prefer the convenience of the Zionist myth to the reality of what happened in 1967 and why<\/strong>.<\/em> When reporters and commentators have need today to make reference to the Six Days War, they still tell it like the Zionists said it was in 1967 rather than how it really was. Obviously there are still limits to how far the mainstream media is prepared to go in challenging the Zionist account of history, but it could also be that lazy journalism is a factor in the equation.<\/p>\n

For those journalists, lazy or not, who might still have doubts about who started the Six Days War, here\u2019s a quote from what Prime Minister Begin said in an unguarded, public moment in 1982. \u201cIn June 1967 we had a choice. The Egyptian army concentrations in the Sinai approaches did not prove that Nasser was really about to attack us, We must be honest with ourselves. We decided to attack him<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My own favourite Israeli quote is the one I use to draw the Prologue to Volume One of my book to a conclusion. In 1980 I had a number of conversations with the best and the brightest of Israel\u2019s Directors of Military Intelligence, Major General (then retired) Shlomo Gazit. Over coffee one morning I said to him: \u201cI\u2019ve come to the conclusion that it\u2019s all a myth. Israel\u2019s existence has never, ever, been in danger.\u201d He replied: \u201cThe trouble with us Israelis is that we\u2019ve become the victims of our own propaganda<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his speech to the ADL dinner, Murdoch said that phase two of the \u201congoing war against the Jews\u201d (after the failure to \u201coverrun\u201d Israel by force) was \u201cterrorism\u201d He seems to have no idea of reality on this front either.<\/p>\n

One of a number of summary truths about terrorism is this. In Palestine that became Israel,\u00a0it was the Zionists who turned to terrorism first \u2013 to drive out the occupying British and then the indigenous Arabs<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Murdoch spoke of the terrorists targeting Israelis at home and broad \u2013 \u201cfrom the massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich to the second intifada.\u201d Fact: All but two of the Israeli athletes in Munich were killed by German security forces after Israeli Defense Minister Dayan insisted, against Prime Minister Golda Meir\u2019s own best judgement, on a shoot-out to prevent a negotiated end to the hostage drama. Fact: The second intifada, which PLO Chairman Arafat was doing his best to prevent, was provoked by Ariel Sharon to improve his prospects of becoming prime minister by seeing off a challenge from Netanyahu.<\/p>\n

A second summary truth about Palestinian terrorism is this. The Palestinians were not and are not \u201cat war with the Jews\u201d. Black September\u2019s Munich operation, for example, was\u00a0terrorism for a public relations purpose<\/strong> \u2013 to draw the attention of the world to the fact that the Palestinians existed, were occupied and oppressed and in need of some justice.<\/p>\n

A summary truth about general Arab and wider Muslim terrorism is this. It is primarily a\u00a0response<\/strong> of the weak and oppressed to Israel\u2019s arrogance of power and insufferable self-righteousness; to the impotence, corruption and repression of Arab and other Muslim regimes which are correctly regarded by their masses as little more than puppets of America-and-Zionism; and to the deadly double-standard of Western foreign policy \u2013 in particular its unconditional support for Israel right or wrong. (In at least one respect the Arab and other Muslim masses have much more wisdom than Western leaders. They, Arab and Muslims masses, know that unconditional support for Israel right or wrong is not in anybody\u2019s best interests, not even those of Israel\u2019s Jews).<\/p>\n

According to Murdoch \u201cthe war against the Jews\u201d has now entered a new phase. \u201cThis,\u201d he said, \u201cis the soft war that seeks to isolate Israel by delegitimizing it. The battleground is everywhere \u2013 the media\u2026 multinational organizations \u2026 NGOs. In this war, the aim is to make Israel a pariah.\u201d<\/p>\n

It is true that in the eyes of many if not most peoples of the world (and probably many of their governments behind closed doors) Israel is increasingly being seen as a pariah state.\u00a0But that\u2019s a consequence of Israel\u2019s policies and actions, war crimes and all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What Murdoch sees as the rise of anti-Semitism is, in fact, the rise of\u00a0anti-Israelism<\/strong>. The danger for the Jews of the world is that it will be transformed into violent anti-Semitism at a foreseeable point in the future if the Zionist state is not called and held to account for its past crimes and is allowed by the major powers to go on committing new ones.<\/p>\n

It is a fact that prior to the obscenity of the Nazi holocaust, most Jews were opposed to Zionism\u2019s colonial enterprise. One of their fears was that\u00a0Zionism would one day provoke anti-Semitism if it was allowed by the big powers to have its way<\/strong>. As I never tire of writing and saying, this fear was given a fresh airing by Yehoshafat Harkabi, Israel\u2019s longest serving Director of Military Intelligence. In 1986 he published a remarkable book,\u00a0Israel\u2019s Fateful Hour<\/em>. It contains this warning (my emphasis added):<\/p>\n

Israel is the criterion according to which all Jews will tend to be judged. Israel as a Jewish state is an example of the Jewish character, which finds free and concentrated expression within it. Anti-Semitism has deep and historical roots. Nevertheless, any flaw in Israeli conduct, which initially is cited as anti-Israelism, is likely to be transformed into empirical proof of the validity of anti-Semitism.\u00a0It would be a tragic irony if the Jewish state, which was intended to solve the problem of anti-Semitism, was to become a factor in the rise of anti-Semitism. Israelis must be aware that the price of their misconduct is paid not only by them but also Jews throughout the world.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nearly a quarter of a century on I think it can and should be said that Israel\u2019s \u201cmisconduct\u201d has become\u00a0the prime factor<\/strong> in the equation that could transform anti-Israelism into anti-Semitism.<\/p>\n

If I had the opportunity to address Mr. Murdoch directly, I would say to him the following. If you really care about the Jews (I mean the Jews as people as opposed to their money), you would put your media empire at the service of the truth of history.<\/p>\n

I would also tell him that when I joined ITN (Independent Television News) as a very young reporter many years ago, its great editor-in-chief, Geoffrey Cox, gave me the mission statement in one short sentence. \u201cOur job is to help keep democracy alive.\u201d<\/p>\n

I would then say to Murdoch that my charge today is (generally speaking) that the mainstream media has betrayed democracy. And I would add, \u201cYou, sir, are the greatest betrayer, traitor, of them all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.alanhart.net\/is-rupert-murdoch-ignorant-or-an-agent-of-zionist-deception\/#more-1309, October 30, 2010<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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