    Dogs & Foxes

    (Letter to Lisandro Otero)

    by Israel Shamir

    I

    When the red-jacketed British gentlemen ride after fox upon green hills
    of Surrey, they call ‘yoicks’ to encourage their dogs; the Jews cry
    ‘anti-Semitism’ to encourage theirs. ‘Yoicks’ terrifies the fox;
    ‘anti-Semitism’ is the means to terrify opposition to the New World
    Order. It is their equivalent of a Papal bull proclaiming the crusade
    against heretics.

    Like a contagious disease, their hate spreads farther and farther a
    field. Iraqis supported Palestinians, and their country was invaded. The
    Zionists’ latest enemy is France, for the French dared to object to
    their plans of taking over Iraq. On the tree-lined street I live on, a
    big parked Chevrolet carries the sticker ‘After Iraq, Chirac’. Israeli
    newspapers are full to the brim with dozens of anti-French reports and
    features. And whenever the Jews do not get what they want, they raise
    the spectre of their adversaries’ ‘anti-Semitism’.

    Now the riders received an unexpected support from a noted Cuban
    intellectual Lisandro Otero. One would expect that a writer from the
    Island of Freedom will call for solidarity with the people of Palestine,
    Iraq, and France. He could understand that the talk about French
    anti-Semitism is orchestrated by the same forces that just a few months
    ago led their anti-Cuban campaign.

    But Otero preferred to pursue with the dogs, rather than run with the
    foxes. In an article disseminated by Cuban media, the ex-dissident
    writer repeats the standard accusations of Zionists against France.
    After paying standard left-Zionist lip service to ‘the policy of
    extermination of the Palestinians practiced by bloodthirsty Ariel
    Sharon’, he writes: “The attacks against the Jews have increased in an
    alarming way in France. Many of these acts of aggression are carried out
    by Muslims, of which there are in France between four and five million.”
    This is not very politically-correct, rather outright racist
    generalisation. Indeed, Noam Chomsky correctly stated that “Anti-Arab
    racism is so widespread as to be unnoticeable; it is perhaps the only
    remaining form of racism to be regarded as legitimate.” So legitimate
    that Otero uses it without noticing.

    Just in case the Cuban writer Otero is a sincere man who was misled by
    the Zionist media, we shall briefly refer to his charge. No Jew was
    killed or severely wounded in France over the past ten years, though in
    the same period of time Zionist paramilitary gangs of Beitar, established
    by Mussolini-worshipping Jewish-fascist Jabotinsky, attacked and wounded
    dozens of anti-Zionists and Muslims on the streets of Paris and
    Marseille. In France, hundreds of Muslims were wounded and killed in
    racist attacks often led by the Zionists’ fascist allies.

    In the Jewish state, Muslim Palestinians are prevented from worshipping
    in the holy site of al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem; Christian Palestinians
    were prevented from coming to the Holy Sepulchre this Easter by the
    Jewish army. But in France, not only Jewish worship is protected; the
    French Jews even celebrated the bloody ‘achievements’ of the Israeli
    army.

    The mosques in France and elsewhere in Europe are frequently raided by
    police and ‘anti-terrorist’ squads; it would be a bloody miracle if the
    synagogues would provide total immunity for the Zionists. It could
    happen if the synagogues would stick to their religious practice and
    avoid political involvement, but the Jewish community centres and
    synagogues in France are used by Zionists as their recruiting grounds.
    There they collect moneys to build the Wall, and there they mobilise the
    French Jews to fight for the Jewish state and to support the US
    intervention in Iraq.

    Lisandro Otero may read a revealing article A Happy Compromise[1] by the
    Jewish Canadian philosopher, Professor Michael Neumann, who compares
    media coverage of attacks on Jewish property and attacks on non-Jews:

    “When Jewish homes were spray-painted with slogans, the Globe and Mail
    (March 17th) put the story on about a third of page one, with a photo
    taking up over half the space above the fold. The story continued on
    page 8. As a Jew who has found that anti-Semitism is often manipulated
    for political purposes, I wondered why the story deserved such
    prominence. When a Pickering Islamic centre was spray-painted with
    slogans and set on fire - arson is a more serious crime than
    spray-painting - the story (March 26th) made the bottom of page 12. It
    got little more space than the page 8 continuation of the March 17th
    anti-Semitism story”.

    Neumann concluded: the reports on hate crimes against Jews and other
    ethnic groups imply that the Jews are important, the rest are not.

    In other words, the hullabaloo of ‘French anti-Semitism’ is made with
    mirrors, with the magnifying and distorting mirrors of the heavily
    Jewish media. Nothing new about that: a hundred years ago, amidst a
    storm of ‘Russian anti-Semitism’ reports, a Russian writer Alexander
    Kuprin, a friend of Jews, wrote in a letter[2] to his fellow-writer:

    “A ten-thousand-strong native tribe in the Far North cut their own
    throats, for their deer died. Peasants of Samara eat earth out of
    starvation. Poland has been devoured, charming Crimea turned into a
    whorehouse, the ancient agriculture of Central Asia ruthlessly
    devastated, but amid this ocean of evil, injustice, violence and sorrow
    we, the Russian writers, scream about limitations imposed on Jewish
    dentists”.

    Lisandro Otero ventures to sum up two thousand years of Jewish-Christian
    relations according to the Zionist gospel:

    “With accent of Christianity, Emperor Constantine prohibited Judaic
    practices under penalty of death. Justinian prohibited the construction
    of synagogues. The triumph of Christianity in Europe institutionalised
    the racial segregation of the Jews”.

    Be reasonable, Lisandro! The Church squashed in blood Albigensian and
    Arian heresies, destroyed Druids and other non-Christian cults in
    Europe, baptised Slavs and Balts by fire and sword; do you think it
    wouldn’t have been able to eliminate the Jews if it would wish so? The
    concept of ‘racial segregation’ was totally foreign to Christianity, and
    many Jewish converts became bishops and saints of the Church, from
    Torquemada to St John of God. On the other hand, racial segregation is a
    precept of Jewish faith, which forbids its adepts to mingle with
    non-Jews. We see it in the Jewish state, where non-Jews are walled up
    beyond Sharon’s Wall and intermarriage is not permitted.

    The Zionist idea of ‘endless persecutions of Jews’ was invented in order
    to subdue the descendents of the medieval Jewish caste and to mobilise
    them for the goals of the Jewish elites. It caused paranoid tendencies
    among Jews. If you are a friend of Jews, do not encourage this paranoia.
    Anti-Semitism does not exist, Lisandro. The Jews are safe everywhere, as
    safe as anybody else on this unsafe planet; as safe as you are in
    blockaded Cuba, much more safe than Palestinians in Palestine, Iraqis in
    Iraq and Arabs in the US or France.

    The Jewish fate does not worry me, for it is safe. Cuba’s future worries
    me much more. Your letter is a scary sign of the Cuban intelligentsia’s
    readiness to submit to the New World Order. I saw this in Gorbachov’s
    USSR, where the dismantling of socialism began with talk about
    ‘anti-Semitism’. Promoters of this paradigm had built relations with
    Israel, with the Jewish establishment in the US, and eventually brought
    Yeltsin to power. Western journalists based in Moscow had barraged their
    readers with reports of ‘growing anti-Semitism’ and of forthcoming
    pogroms. The Soviets could not even understand the accusation, for the
    USSR never knew racism of any sort. But the Soviet Jews were scared by
    the baseless but constantly repeated reports. Over a million of them
    formed beeline in front of the Israeli embassy; now they build the wall
    to imprison the children of Bethany. Their flight facilitated the
    collapse of the Soviet Union, and gave the national wealth of the Soviet
    people to the gang of predominantly Jewish Mafiosi in full liaison with
    their American kin and kith.

    The same phenomenon was observed in other East European socialist
    countries. A Mossad agent of influence, media lord Robert Maxwell,
    supported their cultural elites. At first, they talked about
    anti-Semitism, then about the holocaust; in the end their privatised
    national assets were bought by George Soros, Marc Rich and Vladimir
    Gusinsky, while their soldiers were sent to kill Iraqis in Faluja.

    Anti-Semitism talk is not about Jews at all: it is the dominant ideology
    of Pax Americana. A Cuban who speaks about anti-Semitism paves the road
    for the triumphal return of Meyer Lansky’s heirs to his island. You,
    Lisandro, left Cuba for a while as a political émigré and later came
    back, for you understood the misleading sophistry of Western media
    campaigns and said: “from afar, one sees better how things really are:
    the small things are small, and the big ones are big”.

    Have you changed your mind again? Do you wish your country to become
    another Haiti or Guatemala, a floating bordello off the shores of Miami?
    Visit the former Soviet republics, and you will find the end of the road
    that begins with talk of anti-Semitism. Even if you do not care much for
    the fate of workers and peasants and care only about intellectuals, you
    will learn that in these impoverished countries, writers and filmmakers
    can’t survive unless they obtain a grant from the Soros Corporation.

    Life of intellectuals in the socialist states is much better than that
    of their brethren in the ‘privatised’ Third World. A good hairdresser,
    masseur, car repair mechanic or indeed a whore may look forward with
    hope towards post-Castro Cuba. For a writer, scientist, thinker there is
    no hope – in the Pax Americana, you will queue for American visa or sell
    bootlegged cigars. Instead of being called a dissident you will be
    called ‘a terrorist’. Your misplaced concern for the Meyer Lansky and
    Mort Zuckerman, Bernard-Henri Levy and the Cuban Zionist Jacobo
    Machover, for friends of Ariel Sharon and Shimon Peres will bring a new
    Batista to your island, unless stopped by some latter-day Barbudos.

    The time will come, rather sooner than later, when the American Empire
    will be defeated and dismantled, and with it, the paranoid talk of
    anti-Semitism will be gone for good. Then the descendents of Jews will
    live in peace and harmony with descendents of Spanish hidalgo, American
    rednecks and Palestinian fellahin. Your task, and the task of the Cuban
    intelligentsia is to bring the good ship of independent socialist Cuba
    into the safe harbour of future. For this purpose steer clear of Zionist
    rocks.

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    Old prejudices reappear

    THE ANTI-SEMITISM GROWS

    Lisandro Otero

    One of the worse consequences of the exterminating and criminal policy
    of Ariel Sharon against the Palestinians resides in the increase of
    anti-Semitism.

    The attacks against the Jews have increased in an alarming way in
    France. The Minister of Education of the existing government announced
    it must fight this racism. A manual on republican ideas is being sent to
    all the schools and French institutions. 300 thousand copies of the
    pamphlet have been printed. In that guide it is recommended to read the
    Diary of Anna Frank, the Declaration of Rights of Man and to see a
    documentary on the Holocaust. The French authorities consider that this
    increase of attacks on Jews and synagogues and the profanation of
    cemeteries is due to the policy of Israel in the Middle East. TOP

    Last week they burned the Jewish Centre in Toulon in the south of France
    as an answer to the murder of sheik Ahmed Yassin. Many of these
    aggressions are carried out by Muslims, of which there are in France
    between four and five million. In surveys teachers affirm that it is
    frequent that the adolescents show their rejection of the Jews. In
    several schools it is advised not to wear Jewish skull caps.

    Anti-Semitism is not a new phenomenon. It is based on authors like Renan
    and Gobineau. Powerful industrialists, like Henry Ford, professed a dark
    anti-Judaism. Using Christianity as justification, Emperor Constantine
    prohibited Judaic practices under penalty of death. Justinian prohibited
    the construction of synagogues. The triumph of Christianity in Europe
    institutionalised the racial segregation of the Jews. Justinian
    prohibited the construction of synagogues. In the Council of Laterano of
    1215 Jews were required to wear a yellow cloth to distinguish
    themselves. Luther proposed measures against the Hebrews. The triumph of
    Christianity in Europe led to the institutionalisation of the racial
    segregation of the Jews. German anti-Semitism intensified with the
    financial crisis of 1873, when Jewish bankers and moneylenders were
    accused of causing economic problems. Apocryphal texts like the
    protocols of the elders of Zion were spread and gave root to Hitler’s
    anti-Semitism. That prejudice had its root in the social visibility of
    the Jews, their leading position in finance, their politics and culture,
    their customary separation, their strong identity. These were factors in
    the isolation and separation of the communities where they resided.

    The policy of extermination of the Palestinians practiced by Ariel
    Sharon has contributed to reactivation of anti-Semitism that was crushed
    after the Holocaust.