Victor Davis Hanson takes note of it:
Who recently said: "These Jews started 19 Crusades. The 19th was World War (1). Why? Only to build Israel."Some holdover Nazi?
Hardly. It was former Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews -- whom he refers to as "bacteria" -- controlled China, India and Japan, and ran the United States.
Who alleged: "The Arabs who were involved in 9/11 cooperated with the Zionists, actually. It was a cooperation. They gave them the perfect excuse to denounce all Arabs."
A conspiracy nut?
Actually, it was former Democratic U.S. Sen. James Abourezk of South Dakota. He denounced Israel on a Hezbollah-owned television station, adding: "I marveled at the Hezbollah resistance to Israel. . . . It was a marvel of organization, of courage and bravery."
And finally, who claimed at a United Nations-sponsored conference that democratic Israel was "much worse" than the former apartheid South Africa, and that it "undermines the international community's reaction to global warming"? A radical environmentalist wacko?
Again, no. It was Clare Short, a member of the British parliament. She was a secretary for international development under Prime Minister Tony Blair.
I have no reason to doubt Hanson, but the bit about Abourezk floored me - that a former United States Senator could be that anti-Semitic along the lines of the Protocols is something outside my normal frame of reference. But a check of the web shows that, indeed, Abourezk did say that - and has carried out several actions since the start of the War on Terrorism (visiting pre-liberation Iraq, eg) which at least skirt treason.
What are we to do about this rise of anti-Semitism? The vileness of the attacks is falling to a level not seen since Striecher baited Jews in Nazi Germany's Der Sturmer. I can only say this: it is becoming clear to me that we are embattled - the target today of vitriol might be Jewish people, but the ultimate target is Judeo-Christian civilization, and its leading defender, the United States of America. If you check that link about Der Sturmer, you'll note that the anti-Semites of that rag also spared a bit of time to attack Christianity, too...in the odd world of the anti-Semite, the Jews were responsible for everything - communism, capitalism, Christianity...all the things felt to hold humanity back from rising to the heights.
The people who say the "Jewish lobby" controls American policy; the people who say that Mossad worked with President Bush to carry out 9/11; the people who say that if only we'd force Israel to "make peace" with the Palestinians; the people who say we deserve terrorist attacks because of our past policies; the people who blow up shopping centers in Tel Aviv; the people who set IED's in Anbar; the people who rule Iran and Syria...they are all, in the end, of a piece. There is some difference in degree and some difference in emphasis, but the bottom line is that they are all at war with all we hold dear - all of them hate us, all of them want us destroyed, all of them will never compromise with us.
I've often spoken of a civil war here in the United States - a, thank God, non-violent civil war for control of America...but to put it into a global context, we are engaged in a quite violent civil war; humanity is divided against itself and the competing world views have resorted to armed struggle to determine which will prevail. We are not out numbered in this battle - indeed, at least half the world's population is on our side - but we are over-powered with the exception of the fact that the United States, with its still vibrant Jewish and Christian communities, stands bulwark against the destruction of all Jewish and Christian communities around the world. The plain fact of the matter is that our brothers and sisters in places like South America and central Africa cannot survive without the United States. Without us, they would quickly be subdued, depending on what part of the globe they live in, by Islamists, or secularists, or socialist tyrants.
The United States is the key to the global struggle - as long as the United States stands tall, the balance of power is on the side of our Judeo-Christian civilization. On the other hand, if America falters - if it turns itself over to its domestic secularlists and socialist tyrants - then all is lost. Only America has the power to defend it all, and America can only do this as long as defenders of our civilization hold the balance of power here. What this means is that we must set to work with a will from now on to ensure that our side wins the political battle - there is just too much at stake for anyone to sit it out or to "punish" someone for lack of conservative perfection. We can argue over details later - right now we've got to save our civilization.
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