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Mar. 28, 2005 A subterfuge or ploy that is commonly resorted to, when someone has accused Israel, or Jewry in general, or even a particular individual Jew of misdeeds, is to call the accuser anti-Semitic. An example would be the case of Richard Perle, a powerful American Jew who sat on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board and the board of newspaper chain Hollinger International. He was also a member of the think tank, American Enterprise Institute, and the Open Russia Foundation. When the president of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, arrested Jewish oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, CEO of Yukos Oil Company, Richard Perle began demanding that the US take confrontational action with Russia, seeking to expel Russia from G-8, the Group of Eight Industrial Nations. Multibillionaire Khodorkovsky, known as one the Russian oligarchs, a group of individuals, mostly Jewish, who looted Russia with the fall of the USSR, was a member of the Open Russia Foundation, along with Perle and one of the Rothschilds. Khodorkovsky was charged with fraud and tax evasion, charges which apparently would have to be investigated thoroughly in Russia. I don’t see how someone like Perle could possibly have enough insight into the workings of Yukos Oil Company and its dealings with the Russian government to pronounce from afar that Putin was “anti-Semitic”, but that’s what he did do. This is tantamount to saying that Putin was persecuting Khodorkovsky because Khodorkovsky is Jewish. One would suppose, if he believed Perle, that Putin disliked Jews personally, either because of private experiences or because he had fallen prey to centuries-old libels and superstitions, and that Putin was building an unfounded case against Khordorkovsky as a means of gratifying his personal antipathy. This is as much as to say, “Putin’s a bigot. Khodorkovsky didn’t do anything. He’s innocent.” Anyone who falls for that kind of reasoning is an intellectual laggard. The anti-Semitic card is often played in the US as well. Someone who criticizes Israel or Jewish control of the media is called simply called anti-Semitic. Then his arguments or charges don’t have to be answered at all. Usually, when someone becomes known as anti-Semitic, he falls into notoriety or oblivion, primarily because the media are dominated by Jews, who are thus able to color him whatever color they like. We have seen this in the cases of James Traficant, Paul Findlay, Spiro Agnew, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader, Charles Percy and Paul McCloskey. Stephen Walt, of Harvard's Kennedy School, has just been demoted from dean to mere professor, apparently because of his study of Jewish influence in the US, which I discussed in a recent article, http://www.nysun.com/article/29927 And there have been many others, However, this is all fallacious. When someone makes seemingly derogatory statements about Israel, Zionists or Jews, in general, or in a particular episode, our first question should be whether the disparagements are true or false, not whether the person who makes thems likes or dislikes Jews. If the allegations prove false, then and only then are we reasonably allowed to question the motives of the alleger. If the allegations prove true, it shouldn’t matter what the motives of the alleger were. As for the claim that Israel instigated the War in Iraq, the only legitimate question to ask is, “Did they instigate the war or did they not?” To say that anyone who claims that they did instigate it is doing so merely because he is anti-Semitic is merely blind, unreasoning stupidity, as if you can merely brush aside the considerable evidence tending to prove that they did. On the other hand, if Jewish Zionists did instigate the war for their own ends, by deceiving the American public into thinking that the interests of the US and Israel were synonymous, wouldn’t a small dose of anti-Semitism be in order? The architects of that monstrosity certainly deserve our censure. I personally take a very dim view of Jewish domination of the media and of the Jewish drive to take over the Middle East. If that makes me anti-Semitic, then I’m anti-Semitic. But this has nothing to do with my personal experiences or feelings about Jews. It’s been years since I’ve even known a Jew, and in the days when I did know a few Jews, my relations with them were no worse, and probably even a little better, than my relations with other people. Nor have I fallen prey to any old superstitions or libels. If I hear about how Jews sacrificed a Gentile girl in the seventeenth century, I couldn’t care less. I am more interested in such affairs as what Douglas Feith did in the twenty-first century in the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans to hijack US policy with respect to Iraq and precipitate the war. ------------ About the author Thomas Keyes: I have written two books: A SOJOURN IN ASIA (non-fiction) and A TALE OF UNG (fiction), neither published so far. I have studied languages for years and traveled extensively on five continents. Email: udikeyes@yahoo.com Comment on this article here! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. 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