    Mark Weber says: What is emerging is a new bi-polar world, with the
    United States and Israel on one side, and the rest of the world on the
    other.

    Alas, it is not exactly true: probably Mark did not know of Poland and a
    few other countries who support Judaeo-American Empire. Probably he did
    not hear of the nuclear submarines given to Israel by Germany. Maybe he
    did not tune in to watch Sharon's reception in Paris. And for sure he
    missed a new and dangerous initiative of Israel, as this country
    proclaimed its supreme sovereignty over the entire world and abrogated
    the right to judge Americans, Zulus and Russians for an offence given. I
    refer to the Global Holocaust-deniers bill that passed in Knesset. If
    other countries will not object, it means that Jewish supremacy is not a
    wet dream but frightful reality. Weber and his people demonstrated
    against Wiesenthal's Centre in LA - but it was before the new law.

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    The Challenge of Jewish-Zionist Power in an Era of Global Struggle

    http://www.ihr.org/other/thechallenge.html

    An address by Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical
    Review, delivered at an IHR meeting in New York City on July 16, 2005.

    During World War II, Henry Luce, the publisher of Time and Life
    magazines, coined the term "The American Century" to refer to the
    twentieth century. And in the years since then the term has been used
    many times. In the decades since the end of World War II, the United
    States has indeed been the world’s foremost military, economic and
    financial power, and the most important cultural factor.

    But that title is not the only one that’s been given to that century. A
    few months ago Princeton University Press issued a remarkable book by a
    Jewish scholar, Yuri Slezkine, that explains why the Twentieth Century
    is, or has been, the century of pre-eminent Jewish influence and power.
    In fact, the book is entitled The Jewish Century.

    In that spirit, the prominent French Jewish writer Alain Finkielkraut
    was moved to write in 1998, in an essay published in the prestigious
    Paris daily Le Monde: "Ah, how sweet it is to be Jewish at the end of
    this 20th century! We are no longer History’s accused, but its darlings.
    The spirit of the times loves, honors, and defends us, watches over our
    interests; it even needs our imprimatur. Journalists draw up ruthless
    indictments against all that Europe still has in the way of Nazi
    collaborators or those nostalgic for the Nazi era. Churches repent,
    states do penance..." / 1

    But that was then, and this is now. There are good reasons to believe
    that both American power and Jewish power have crested. The twentieth
    century – what has been called "the American Century" and "the Jewish
    century" – is passing, both literally and figuratively, into history.

    Although the US is still the world’s most important military and
    economic factor, its relative military and economic power in the world
    has been declining over the past 20-30 years, and will continue to
    decline in the years ahead. In the Middle East, Israel is still the
    foremost military power in the region. It is the only state in the area
    with a nuclear arsenal, for example. All the same, Israel's stature in
    the world, and – more generally – Jewish-Zionist power, are declining
    from the high point of the 1980s and 1990s.

    Tony Judt, another Jewish writer, put it well in an essay published last
    year in The Nation. He wrote: / 2

    "Following the invasion of Lebanon, and with gathering intensity since
    the first intifada of the late 1980s, the public impression of Israel
    has steadily darkened. Today it presents a ghastly image: a place where
    sneering 18-year-olds with M-16s taunt helpless old men ("security
    measures"); where bull-dozers regularly flatten whole apartment blocks
    ("rooting out terrorists"); where helicopters fire rockets into
    residential streets ("targeted killings"); where subsidized settlers
    frolic in grass-fringed swimming pools, oblivious of Arab children a few
    meters away who fester and rot in the worst slums on the planet; and
    where retired generals and Cabinet ministers speak openly of bottling up
    the Palestinians "like drugged roaches in a bottle" (former Israeli
    Chief of Staff Rafael Eytan) and cleansing the land of its Arab cancer
    (former Housing Minister Effi Eitam).

    " Israel is utterly dependent on the United States for money, arms and
    diplomatic support. One or two states share common enemies with Israel;
    a handful of countries buy its weapons; a few others are its de facto
    accomplices in ignoring international treaties and secretly
    manufacturing nuclear weapons. But outside Washington, Israel has no
    friends -- at the United Nations it cannot even count on the support of
    America's staunchest allies. Despite the political and diplomatic
    in-competence of the PLO [Palestine Liberation Organization]... ;
    despite the manifest shortcomings of the Arab world at large... ;
    despite Israel's own sophisticated efforts to publicize its case, the
    Jewish state today is widely regarded as a -- the -- leading threat to
    world peace. After thirty-seven years of military occupation, Israel has
    gained nothing in security. It has lost everything in domestic civility
    and international respectability, and it has forfeited the moral high
    ground forever."

    What is emerging is a new bi-polar world, with the United States and
    Israel on one side, and the rest of the world on the other. This new
    alignment of forces, this shift in power relationships in the world, is
    strikingly reflected in the United Nations, where, time and time again,
    votes on issues in both the General Assembly and the Security Council
    pit the United States and Israel on one side, and virtually the entire
    rest of the world on the other.

    On October 21, 2003, for example, there was a vote in the UN General
    Assembly on a resolution condemning Israel’s so-called "security
    barrier," a grotesque thing, parts of it larger and more formidable than
    the Berlin Wall, that Israel has built on occupied Palestinian
    territory. Supporting the resolution were 144 countries, representing
    nearly the entire world’s population. Twelve countries abstained. Just
    four countries opposed the resolution. They were: Israel, the United
    States, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia. The latter two member
    states, small island countries in the Pacific ocean with a combined
    population of 180,000, are utterly dependent on the US. And on December
    9, 2003, the members of the UN General Assembly considered a resolution
    re-affirming the principle of Palestinian sovereignty. It received the
    backing of 142 states, including all the nations of Europe and South
    America. In this case as well, just four countries voted against the
    resolution: Israel, the US, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.

    This reminds me of a story. A senior citizen whose brain didn’t work as
    well or as quickly as it once did, was driving on the freeway when his
    cell phone rang. He answered it, and heard his wife urgently warning
    him, "Charles, I just heard on the news that there's a car going the
    wrong way on the freeway. Please be careful!" Charles immediately
    replied: "Honey, it's not just one car. It's hundreds of them!"

    Well, like Charles, President Bush and Israeli premier Aerial Sharon
    insist that everyone else is recklessly going the wrong way. And as the
    United States and Israel increasingly regard the rest of the world as
    "out of step," most of humanity views the US and Israel with mounting
    distrust, hostility and fear.

    United States support for Israel did not come about because Americans
    are markedly more intelligent, humane or enlightened than, say,
    Norwegians, Japanese or Irish. No, the US-Israel alliance is, rather, a
    consequence, a result, of the Jewish-Zionist grip on American political
    and cultural life. Awareness of this fact is growing everyone. And along
    with that, ever more people understand the crucial factor behind the US
    invasion of Iraq was concern for Israel and its interests.

    Jewish-Zionist plans to overthrow the Iraqi regime by force were already
    in place well before George W. Bush became president. A group – a cabal
    -- of high-level, pro-Israel "neoconservative" Jews in the Bush
    administration -- including Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense;
    Richard Perle of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board; David Wurmser in
    the State Department; and Douglas Feith, the Pentagon’s Undersecretary
    for Policy – played a decisive role in prodding the United States into
    war in Iraq. / 3

    This is so widely understood by Washington insiders that US Senator
    Ernest Hollings was moved last year to declare that Iraq was invaded, as
    he put it, to "secure Israel," and that "everybody" – his word -- knows
    it. Referring to the cowardly reluctance of his Congressional colleagues
    to openly acknowledge this reality, Hollings said that "nobody is
    willing to stand up and say what is going on." With few exceptions,
    members of Congress uncritically support Israel and its policies due to
    what Hollings called, "the pressures that we get politically." / 4

    In Britain, a veteran member of the House of Commons candidly declared
    in May 2003 that pro-Israel Jews had taken control of America’s foreign
    policy, and had succeeded in pushing the US and Britain into war in
    Iraq. "A Jewish cabal have taken over the government in the United
    States and formed an unholy alliance with fundamentalist Christians,"
    said Tam Dalyell, a Labour party deputy known as "Father of the House"
    because he is the longest-serving Member of Parliament. "There is far
    too much Jewish influence in the United States," he added. / 5

    By supporting Israel and its policies, the United States betrays not
    only its own national interests, but the principles it claims to embody
    and defend. The truth is, that if the United States held Israel to the
    same standards that it has applied to Iraq, Serbia, and other countries,
    American bombers and missiles would be blasting Tel Aviv, and we’d be
    putting Israeli prime minister Sharon behind bars for war crimes and
    crimes against humanity.

    Americans have already paid a high price for the US alliance with
    Israel. This includes tens of billions of dollars in economic and
    military aid to the Jewish state, the cost of the Iraq war and
    occupation, now more than $200 billion, and the deaths of more than
    fifteen hundred Americans there. Directly and indirectly, America's
    "special relationship" with Israel has also generated unprecedented
    distrust, fear and loathing of the United States around the world.

    In the years to come, the cost of the US alliance with Israel is certain
    to rise much more. As some Jewish leaders have openly acknowledged, the
    Iraq war is merely part of a long-range effort to install
    Israel-friendly regimes across the Middle East. Norman Podhoretz, a
    prominent Jewish writer and an ardent supporter of Israel, has been for
    years editor of Commentary, the influential Zionist monthly. In the
    September 2002 issue he wrote: "The regimes that richly deserve to be
    overthrown and replaced are not confined to the three singled-out
    members of the axis of evil [Iraq, Iran, North Korea]. At a minimum, the
    axis should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya, as well as ‘friends’
    of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt ’s Hosni Mubarak, along
    with the Palestinian Authority, whether headed by Arafat or one of his
    henchmen." / 6

    Now the world watches anxiously as the danger grows of war with Iran.
    Israel has threatened to attack Iran if it builds a nuclear reactor, and
    Iran has vowed to retaliate forcefully against any such assault. The US
    could easily be drawn into such a conflict, which would be much more
    destructive than the Iraq war.

    There are some who object to the power of the "Jewish lobby" because it
    supports, or, rather, makes possible, Israel’s oppression of
    Palestinians. Others object because they are un-happy with this or that
    aspect of the lobby’s agenda. But to me this seems beside the point.
    Apart from the harmful consequences of this or that particular policy
    enforced by the Jewish lobby is the injustice and danger inherent in
    permitting any distinct minority group or interest to wield immense,
    disproportionate power and influence -- and especially in the country
    that is the world’s foremost military, economic and financial power, and
    most important cultural factor. Imagine the response, for example, if
    Mormons, or evangelical Christians, or African-Americans, or the tobacco
    companies, were to secure a grip on the American media and on America’s
    political life comparable to that held by Jews.

    In reality, the Jewish hold on American life is far more dangerous than
    one that, in theory, might be held by any of the other groups I’ve
    mentioned. There are two main reasons for this:

    First, Jews in America have, manifestly, a staunch loyalty to a foreign
    country, Israel, that since its founding in 1948 has been embroiled in
    seemingly endless crises and conflicts with its neighbors, and which is
    now an formidable military power with a large nuclear arsenal.

    Second, because of the distrustful and even adversarial way that Jews
    view the rest of us. This latter remark may seem overstated, so I’ll try
    to explain.

    It is not merely that such great power is wielded by a small minority
    group, it’s that it is wielded by a group that, more than any other, has
    a pronounced sense of separateness from the rest of humanity, and which,
    accordingly, views its interests as quite distinct from those of
    everyone else. This Us vs. Them attitude, this mindset that sees Jews as
    distinct from, and superior to, the rest of humanity, is deeply rooted
    in the Jewish psyche.

    It is laid out in the Hebrew scriptures, the Torah, or, as most
    Christians call it, the Old Testament. / 7 In the book of Deuteronomy,
    for example, we read: "For you are a people holy to the Lord your God.
    The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession,
    out of all the peoples that are on the face of the earth." Jews or
    Hebrews are also referred to as a People that Shall Dwell Alone, or, in
    another translation, as "a people dwelling alone, and not reckoning
    itself among the nations." In the book of Exodus, we read of the Jews as
    a people "distinct... from all other people that are upon the face of
    the earth." In another passage, we are told, God says to his chosen
    people: "This day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the
    peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of
    you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you."

    The ancient Jewish sense of alienation from, and abiding distrust of,
    non-Jews is also manifest in a remarkable essay published in April 2002
    in the Forward, the prominent Jewish community weekly. Entitled "We’re
    Right, the Whole World’s Wrong," it is written by Rabbi Dov Fischer, an
    attorney and a member of the Jewish Community Relations Committee of the
    Jewish Federation of Los Angeles. Rabbi Fischer is also national vice
    president of the Zionist Organization of America. / 8 So this essay was
    not written by an obscure or semi-literate scribbler, but rather by a
    prominent Jewish community figure. And it did not appear in the some
    marginal periodical, but rather in what is perhaps the most literate and
    thoughtful Jewish weekly in America, and certainly one of the most
    influential.

    In his essay, Rabbi Fischer tells readers: "If we Jews are anything, we
    are a people of history. .... Our history provides the strength to know
    that we can be right and the whole world wrong." He goes on:

    "We were right, and the whole world was wrong. The Crusades. The blood
    libels and the Talmud burnings in England and France, leading those
    nations to expel Jews for centuries. The Spanish and Portuguese
    Inquisition. The ghettos and the Mortara case in Italy. Dreyfus in
    France. Beilis in Russia and a century’s persecution of Soviet Jewry.

    "The Holocaust. Kurt Waldheim in Austria. Each time, Europe stood by
    silently -- or actively participated in murdering us -- and we alone
    were right, and the whole world was wrong.

    "Today, once again, we alone are right and the whole world is wrong. The
    Arabs, the Russians, the Africans, the Vatican proffer their aggregated
    insights into and accumulated knowledge of the ethics of massacre. And
    the Europeans. Although we appreciate the half-century of West European
    democracy more than we appreciated the prior millennia of European
    brutality, we recognize who they are, what they have done -- and what’s
    what. ...

    "We remember that the food they [Europeans] eat is grown from soil
    fertilized by 2,000 years of Jewish blood they have sprinkled onto it.
    Atavistic Jew-hatred lingers in the air into which the ashes rose from
    the crematoria...

    "Yes, once again, we are right and the whole world is wrong. It doesn’t
    change a thing, but after 25 centuries it’s nice to know."

    I can’t resist mentioning that some of the Rabbi’s remarks here are
    stupefying distortions of history. To speak, as he does, for example, of
    "a century’s persecution of Soviet Jewry" is a breathtaking falsehood.
    For one thing, the entire Soviet period lasted 72 years, not 100. And
    during at least some of that period, above all during the first ten
    years of the Soviet era, Jews wielded tremendous, if not dominant power
    in the Bolshevik regime. Or did Rabbi Fischer forget such figures as
    Leon Trotsky, commander in chief of the young Soviet state’s Red Army,
    Grigori Zinoviev, head of the Communist International, or Yakov
    Sverdlov, the first Soviet president. / 9

    The Rabbi’s essay is noteworthy not so much for his distortions of fact,
    as it is for what it reveals of the mentality of the man who wrote it,
    and of the literate Jews who published and read it -- and for what it
    says about our times.

    For example, Fischer pins blame for "the Holocaust" -- that is, for the
    event that Jews routinely regard as the single most horrible crime in
    history, collectively on non-Jewish humanity. This view, which has
    gained wider acceptance in recent decades, represents a drastic
    re-writing of history. During World War II itself, of course, Jews did
    not dare say to non-Jewish Americans that they actually shared blame and
    guilt with "the Nazis" for murdering innocent Jews in Europe. During the
    war, Jews said just the opposite.

    During World War II, and for about some years after, the official story,
    the "party line," if you will, was that responsibility and blame for the
    horrors of the Nazi era lay with Hitler and his "Nazi henchmen." The
    official story in those days was that most Europeans -- French,
    Austrians, Poles, Hungarians, and so forth, and even most Germans – were
    victims of the evil Nazis. In recent decades the circle of guilt -- the
    list of perpetrators -- has grown steadily, so that not merely Hitler,
    or "the Nazis," or "the Germans," but now the French, the Hungarians,
    Poles, Ukrainians, the Vatican -- in short, all of Europe, indeed all
    non-Jewish humanity -- is held to be collectively responsible for this
    allegedly greatest of all human crimes.

    The most direct and obvious victims of Jewish-Zionist power are, of
    course, the Palestinians who live under Israel’s harsh rule. But we
    Americans are also victims. Through the Jewish-Zionist grip on the
    media, and the organized Jewish-Zionist corruption of our political
    system, we are pressured, seduced, cajoled, and deceived into propping
    up the Jewish state, providing it with billions of dollars yearly and
    state-of-the-art weaponry, and even sacrificing American lives.

    But it is also the truth that we Americans share some responsibility for
    all this. We have allowed immense power, affecting every aspect of our
    lives and our future, to be wielded by members of an ethnic-religious
    minority group who view the American people as future enemies and
    potential murderers. Put another way, Americans have permitted people
    who regard them with profound distrust to play a major role in
    determining how we live our lives, and in determining our future both as
    individuals and as a nation. To permit such power to pass into the hands
    of people who clearly do not have our best interests at heart -- indeed,
    do not even trust us -- is, to put it mildly, irresponsible.

    I want to emphasize here that to deal candidly with the reality of
    Jewish-Zionist power is not, as some may claim, "anti-Semitism" or
    "hate." We do not wish harm to any individual, Jewish or not, because of
    his or her ancestry, religion or background. At the same time, we should
    not let smears or malicious accusations, no matter how vehemently
    expressed, keep us from saying the truth, or doing what is right.

    One of the most important centers of Jewish-Zionist power is the Simon
    Wiesenthal Center. Headquartered in Los Angeles, it reports a membership
    of more than 300,000 and an annual income of $27 million, including $10
    million in taxpayer funds. The Center and its head, Rabbi Marvin Hier,
    wield considerable political power. According to the Los Angeles Times
    Magazine, "Hier has accrued unprecedented clout in the Legislature, on
    Capitol Hill, in the city's boardrooms and even in Hollywood." / 10 The
    Center’s imposing "Museum of Tolerance" in West Los Angeles, which
    presents a relentlessly Jewish-Zionist version of history, reportedly
    draws 350,000 visitors yearly, including tens of thousands of school
    children.

    Although it claims to promote "tolerance," the Center’s real agenda is a
    narrowly Jewish-Zionist one. It is a staunch supporter of Israel and its
    Jewish supremacist regime. It fervently defends Israel’s policies of
    oppression, occupation, dispossession, and institutionalized
    discrimination against non-Jews. The Center supports Israeli policies
    that violate United Nations Security Council resolutions. It applauds
    Israel’s "security fence," a hideous barrier that is part of a long-term
    Zionist effort to seize land of non-Jews, and which the International
    Court of Justice says is illegal.

    While the Center denounces violence and terrorism against Jews, it
    sanctions Zionist terrorism. It has publicly honored two Israeli leaders
    – Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir – each of whom has a well-documented
    record as a terrorist.

    The Center has a long record of reckless propaganda for war. For years
    it had been pressing for an American attack against Iraq, backing its
    warmongering with alarmist claims about the supposed danger posed by the
    Baghdad regime. As long ago as November 1990, Rabbi Hier was telling
    readers of a piece he wrote that appeared in Newsweek magazine: "I think
    the United States should go in. Maybe not tomorrow, but very soon… Three
    years from now, Iraq will have nuclear weapons." / 11

    In the Spring 1991 issue of its glossy magazine, Response, the Center
    was claiming that Iraq was killing Iranian prisoners in German-built gas
    chambers. The Center’s magazine went on to claim that German firms were
    producing Zyklon B gas in Iraq, "the chemical used by the Germans to
    murder millions of Jews during the Nazi Holocaust." Iranian prisoners of
    war, the Center’s magazine said, were being killed with Zyklon B "in gas
    chambers specially designed for the Iraqis by the German company Rhema
    Labortechnik… An eyewitness reported the [Iraqi] gas chambers were tiled
    to look like operating rooms, with a separated observation room for each
    gas chamber with reinforced glass visibility." / 12

    Of course, these fantastic claims had no basis in reality.

    In a statement issued in October 2002, several months before the US
    invasion of Iraq, the Wiesenthal Center insisted that war was necessary
    because the Saddam Hussein regime had been "continuing to stockpile
    weapons of mass destruction." Moreover, the Center went on to assert:
    "For while there are other tyrants, Saddam alone stands as a menace to
    world order and stability. While there are others who possess chemical
    and biological weapons of mass destruction, only Saddam has shown an
    eagerness to use them." / 13

    As the world now knows, these claims were not true.

    In the view of Dr. Frank Knopfelmacher, a prominent Australian Jewish
    scholar, the Wiesenthal Center foments "ethnic hatred." Australia
    government officials, he says, should have "banned the members of the
    Simon Wiesenthal Center from entering Australia and should have deported
    those who were here." / 14

    Through its Museum, its glossy magazine, Response, and other propaganda
    materials, the Center relentlessly exploits painful memories of the
    Holocaust and Jewish suffering during World War II to raise millions of
    dollars annually. In a book entitled One, by One, by One, author Judith
    Miller, the New York Times journalist who has been in the news a lot
    lately, wrote: "The enormous success of the Simon Wiesenthal Center has
    given new meaning to what was once a macabre in-house joke ... 'There is
    no business like Shoah business'." / 15 ("Shoah" is the Hebrew term for
    Holocaust.)

    A few years ago, the director of Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaust center
    said: "Rabbi Hier and the Wiesenthal Center are, in my opinion, the most
    extreme of those who utilize the Holocaust. The Jewish people does many
    vulgar things, but the Wiesenthal Center [has] raised it to a complete
    level: The optimum use of sensitive issues in order to raise money…" /
    16

    The Wiesenthal Center has been a major player in what American Jewish
    scholar Norman Finkelstein calls the "shakedown" campaign by Israel and
    organized Jewry to extort billions of dollars from European countries
    and corporations. Finkelstein, author of the bestselling study, The
    Holocaust Industry, calls the Center "a gang of heartless and immoral
    crooks, whose hallmark is that they will do anything for a dollar." / 17

    At a time of belt-tightening by California and other states, with money
    short for schools and highways, it is all the more outrageous that
    millions of dollars in taxpayer funds go to support this wealthy bastion
    of Jewish-Zionist power, and its bigoted, self-serving agenda. The
    Wiesenthal Center deserves the scorn and contempt of every decent
    person.

    And that’s why, on Friday, July 29, we’ll be rallying at the Wiesenthal
    Center’s offices in Los Angeles to focus attention on the Center’s
    record of lies in support of war, Zionist oppression and Jewish
    supremacism, and to protest the giveaway of millions of dollars in
    taxpayer funds to this bulwark of Jewish-Zionist power.

    * * * *

    A few of those who are here this evening have come, perhaps, out of
    simple curiosity, or to meet others who are attending. But for most of
    us, we are here this evening because we care. We care about what is
    right and wrong. We care about what is true and not true. We care about
    the past and, more importantly, we care about the future. We care about
    the world we live in. We feel a sense of responsibility for the world
    we’ve inherited, and for the world of the future. We want to make a
    difference – to make this a better world – a world that, even beyond our
    own lifetimes, is more just and right.

    Some of us may feel a special concern for the cause of peace, mindful of
    the destruction, suffering, and death of war. Some may feel a special
    concern for justice, perhaps especially for the people who have lived
    for decades under Zionist occupation. Some of us may feel a special
    concern for the welfare and future of his or her own culture, race or
    nation, while others may feel a responsibility for the future of all
    mankind.

    Regardless of the particular causes or principles that most move us,
    that are closest to our hearts, no issue is of greater urgency than
    breaking the Jewish-Zionist grip on American political, social and
    cultural life. As long as this power remains entrenched, there will be
    no end to the systematic Jewish distortion of history and current
    affairs, the Jewish-Zionist domination of the US political system,
    Zionist oppression of Palestinians, the bloody conflict between Jews and
    non-Jews in the Middle East, and the Israeli threat to peace.

    Throughout history Jews have time and again wielded great power to
    further group interests that are separate from, and often contrary to,
    those of the non-Jewish populations among whom they live. This creates
    an inherently unjust and unstable situation that, as history shows,
    never endures.

    Now we are engaged in a great, global struggle -- in which two distinct
    and irreconcilable sides confront each other. A struggle that pits a
    self-assured and diabolical power that feels ordained to rule over
    others, on one side, and all other nations and societies -- indeed,
    humanity itself -- on the other.

    This struggle is not a new one. It is the latest enactment of a great
    drama that has played itself out again and again, over centuries, and in
    many different societies, cultures and historical eras. In the past this
    drama has played itself out on a local, national, regional, or,
    sometimes, continental stage. Today this is a global drama, and a global
    clash.

    It is a struggle for the welfare and future not merely of the Middle
    East, or of America, but a great historical battle for the soul and
    future of humanity itself. A struggle that calls all of us here this
    evening – and many more across the country and around the world – who
    share a sense of responsibility for the future of humankind.

    Some of those here this evening have already done much. But so much more
    still needs to be done. To expose and stand against this insidious power
    is often difficult and disheartening work, but it is absolutely
    necessary. During this momentous historical era, we pledge to carry on
    in this struggle, for the sake not only of our own nation and heritage,
    but for all humanity.
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    Notes

    1. A. Finkielkraut, "Mgr Stepinac et les deux douleurs de l'Europe," Le
    Monde , Oct. 7, 1998, p. 14. Quoted in: R. Faurisson, "Paying Tribute to
    Jewish Power: `Ah, How Sweet It Is To Be Jewish…’," The Journal of
    Historical Review, Nov.-Dec. 1998, pp. 11-12. Posted at:
    http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v17/v17n6p11_Faurisson.html

    2. Tony Judt, "Rootless Cosmopolitan," The Nation, July 19-26, 2004, p.
    34.

    http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040719&c=6&s=judt

    3. M. Weber, " Iraq : A War for Israel." Posted at:
    http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/iraqwar.shtml

    4. M. Weber, "'Iraq was Invaded to Secure Israel,' Says Senator
    Hollings, and 'Everybody Knows It'," July 16, 2004.
    http://www.ihr.org/news/040716_hollings.shtml

    5. F. Nelson, "Anger Over Dalyell's 'Jewish Cabal' Slur," The Scotsman
    (Edinburgh), May 5, 2003; M. White, "Dalyell Steps Up Attack On Levy,"
    The Guardian (London), May 6, 2003. Quoted in: M. Weber, " Iraq : A War
    for Israel." (cited above).

    6. N. Podhoretz, "In Praise of the Bush Doctrine," Commentary, Sept.
    2002. Posted, for example, at:
    http://www.ourjerusalem.com/opinion/story/opinion20020904a.html

    7. The four biblical quotations here are from Deuteronomy 7: 6, Numbers
    23: 9, Exodus 33: 16, and Deuteronomy 2: 25. See also: Deuteronomy 6:
    10-11, 14: 2, 23: 10-20, 33: 29, Genesis 27: 28-29, Isaiah 60: 10-14,
    61: 5-6, Joshua 24: 13, Psalms 2: 8.

    8. Dov Fischer, "We’re Right, the Whole World’s Wrong," Forward (New
    York), April 19, 2002, p 11.
    http://www.forward.com/issues/2002/02.04.19/oped3.html

    9. See: M. Weber, "The Jewish Role in the Bolshevik Revolution and
    Russia's Early Soviet Regime," The Journal of Historical Review,
    Jan.-Feb. 1994. Posted at:
    http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v14/v14n1p-4_Weber.html

    10. "The Unorthodox Rabbi," Los Angeles Times Magazine, July 15, 1990,
    p. 9.

    11. Marvin Hier, "Crisis in the Gulf," Newsweek, Nov. 26. 1990.
    Facsimile in Christian News, Nov. 26, 1990, p. 4.

    12. "German Firms Produce Zyklon B in Iraq," Response: The Wiesenthal
    Center World Report, Spring 1991, pp. 2, 4.

    13. Simon Wiesenthal Center news release of Oct. 7, 2002. " Wiesenthal
    Center Supports Congressional Resolution on Iraq." Posted at:
    http://www.wiesenthal.com/site/apps/s/content.asp?c=fwLYKnN8LzH&b=
    253162&ct=286230

    14. The Australian, July 31, 1990. Cited in "Influential Australian
    Jewish Figure Condemns `Nazi Hunters’ and Simon Wiesenthal Center," IHR
    Newsletter, April 1991, p. 5.

    15. Judith Miller, One by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust (New York:
    Simon and Schuster/ Touchstone, 1990), p. 237.

    16. Ha'aretz (Israel), Dec. 16, 1988. Reported in: David Sinai, "News We
    Doubt You've Seen," The Jewish Press (Brooklyn, New York), Dec. 23,
    1988.

    17. "A Conversation with Professor Norman Finkelstein." Conducted by Don
    Atapattu, Dec. 13, 2001. Posted at
    http://www.counterpunch.org/finkelstein1.html