July 03
2004
Jenkins goes berserk
» Posted on July 3, 2004 07:18 AM » Category: Anti-semitism

An outstanding post by Melanie Phillips on a truly vile, warped piece by Simon Jenkins.

According to Jenkins:

[...A] small group of neoconservatives contrived to take the greatest nation on Earth to war and kill thousands of people.

They did that (but of course) because of their support for Israel. And the reason we Jews were so keen to hoodwink you lot into murdering your fellow non-believers was, Jenkins writes, outlined in a new book, 'America Alone' by Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke:

Their Iraq war is not about oil but about the agenda of a small group of Washington ideologues, whom they hold as traitors to the American conservative tradition. This group’s seizure of Washington (and London) after 9/11 makes a fascinating study in power. Known colloquially as the Vulcans, they embraced Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and the Pentagon architect of the Iraq occupation, Douglas Feith. Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld and Bush were their front men. Their first commitment was to the defence of Israel. The neocons were prominent advisers to the right-wing Israeli Binyamin Netanyahu, and opposed all Middle East “peace processes”. Having distrusted Nixon as soft on communism they distrusted Reagan as soft on Israel.

As regular readers of this blog will know, there are few commentators I consider to be more profoundly wrong than Jenkins (Yasmin A-B might be one, but then Jenkins - for all his bizarre views - is intelligent; I sometimes think it cruel to dissect Mrs A-B, given her clearly limited intellect). But in the pantheon of grotesque Jenkins pieces, this latest stands alone: an example of Judaeophobia so vile and caricatured that it takes the breath away. I had not realised, until reading his piece, that Jenkins was fully signed up to the idea the world is now run by a Jewish conspiracy.

As Melanie Phillips puts it:

The idea that such a fragment of the US administration could somehow have reprogrammed the minds of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice and all the rest belongs to the wilder shores of paranoid fantasyland. The idea that, almost overnight, these neocons vanquished the vast interests of big oil and that lobby's myriad connections with the US administration is jaw-droppingly asinine. The idea that they could have persuaded Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al to act in the interests of Israel and against the interests of America is simply bizarre.

It also ignores various contrary facts. Like the fact that Israel actually regarded the Iraq war as a diversion from what it sees as the number one threat, Iran. Or like the fact that Rumsfeld and Cheney themselves believed straight after 9/11 that Iraq had been involved in those attacks, and that whether they were right or wrong this and this alone is why Iraq was in their sights. No other explanation is necesary, certainly not a demented conspiracy theory which would do credit to the ravings of Saudi Arabia about the Zionist hand behind terrorism in that country.

But alas, actual facts are irrelevant here. For what we are seeing is a vicious prejudice which is simply impervious to reason. It is the resurrection of the vile and disgusting belief -- which we can now see has never gone away, however we in Britain and America may have deluded ourselves about our 'civilised' society -- that the Jews possess extraordinary and sinister power which they exercise in a covert way to advance their own interests and harm the rest of mankind. Thus, as in the passage above, the Jews have 'seized' Washington, are 'traitors' to the conservative tradition (hello, neocons have their roots in the liberal tradition) and by implication to America itself, 'disdain' law and diplomacy because they are crazed by power-lust and the desire to kill people, and so 'deftly' provided a new threat to terrify the world after communism -- a threat which doubtless is a figment of their war-crazed imagination and nothing whatever to do with the fact that an Islamist death-cult, financed, trained and supported by a network of rogue states and which has now fanned out across the globe, has declared war on the west and is busy pursuing that murderous objective.

Note also the sneer by Jenkins at the idea that there is antisemitism at work here. What else are we supposed to call an attitude which irrationally singles out a tiny group of Jews for exercising superhuman powers they patently do not possess, to influence people with real power who did not need to be influenced, to support a country which did not seek this kind of support but thought it might be a distraction from more urgent considerations, and in a way that makes them deeply disloyal and traitorous to their own country because they actually display a higher loyalty to another?

I assume Jenkins' next piece will recommend his readers have a look at The Protocols of the Elders of Zion for its insight into the way the world works.


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Did you like the bit where the Vulcans "deftly substituted the threat of Islam for the threat of communism"?
Bit like the way the Saudi terrorists deftly substituted a pile of rubble for the Twin Towers.

Stated by: Bob Doney on July 3, 2004 9:44 AM

How little these people have learned. How very little they have changed.

From an article by Julius Streicher in Der Stürmer, 1944:

' "The influence of the Jewish spirit" today dominates the United States of North America. "The influence of the Jewish spirit" is what drove the American people into the disaster of the First World War, and forced them also in this Second World War to sacrifice enormous amounts of its blood. "The influence of the Jewish spirit" will destroy the New World, unless a Savior appears to rescue it from the abyss before which it stands.'

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ds1.htm

Stated by: Holly on July 3, 2004 12:14 PM

From a recent article in NRO:

'Max Boot, Olin Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, published an excellent essay in the January/February 2004 edition of Foreign Policy in which he called the charge "a malicious myth" the argument that neoconservatives were "Jews who serve the interests of Israel." Boot explained, "With varying degrees of delicacy, everyone from fringe U.S. presidential candidates Lyndon LaRouche and Patrick Buchanan to European news outlets such as the BBC and Le Monde have used neocon as a synonym for Jew, focusing on Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Eliot Cohen, and others with obvious Jewish names." Boot continued, "In the 1980s, they were the leading proponents of democratization in places as disparate as Nicaragua, Poland, and South Korea. In the 1990s, they were the most ardent champions of interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo-missions designed to rescue Muslims, not Jews. Today neocons agitate for democracy in China (even as Israel has sold arms to Beijing!) and against the abuse of Christians in Sudan. Their advocacy of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan is entirely consistent with this long track record. If neocons were agents of Likud, they would have advocated an invasion not of Iraq or Afghanistan but of Iran, which Israel considers to be the biggest threat to its own security." '

Stated by: Holly on July 3, 2004 12:22 PM

"As regular readers of this blog will know, there are few commentators I consider to be more profoundly wrong than Jenkins (Yasmin A-B might be one, but then Jenkins - for all his bizarre views - is intelligent; I sometimes think it cruel to dissect Mrs A-B, given her clearly limited intellect)."

Oh, go on. Don't hold back on my account. The woman is everywhere, she needs all the taking down she can get.

Stated by: Fidelis on July 3, 2004 1:55 PM

However wrong in many respects, Jenkins has got one fundamental thing right: the group of people in the US labelled neo-cons did have alot of influence in the Bush administration.

Anyone who read Dick Clarke's book will know Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney controlled the direction of policy for terrorism and the war against it.

They pushed for the invasion of Iraq. I don't know exactly why they did (we'll have to wait for their memoirs for that...) but I would speculate it was for a couple of reasons:

1. They feared a collapse of the house of Saud. This would be very serious for the US not just because they are important allies in the region but also because it is an important source of oil. Therefore they wanted to get a secure foothold in the region in case the Saudi princes lost power to the Wahhabists (correct spelling?).

2. Second, as they have pretty much admitted they wanted to create an example of a democratic nation in the middle east to encourage other countries (such as Iran) to adopt democracy.

The reasons why this rationale was adopted by Bush, Rice etc. are different but that is for a different post...

Stated by: AK on July 3, 2004 2:33 PM

Then, of course, there was that deep split among America's Jewish neoconservative thinkers and public officials-- when so many of them demonstrated their ability to rise above thinking with the blood by bitterly opposing the Iraq Attaq and urging a reconsideration of the US government's enormous and unswerving support for Likud.

Or perhaps not.

Stated by: Gorblimey on July 3, 2004 2:43 PM

Jenkins proves he is not just an oaf but a spiteful reptile to boot.

Stated by: David Carr on July 3, 2004 5:13 PM

AK "group of people in the US labelled neo-cons did have alot of influence in the Bush administration...Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney controlled the direction of policy for terrorism and the war against it."

Is it odd that these 3 have a lot of influence in the administration? They do have high ranking posts!

Stated by: don on July 4, 2004 5:47 PM

Perhaps unwittingly, Melanie Phillips is arguing that, instead of a "neo-con zionist cabal", it is "the vast interests of big oil and that lobby's myriad connections with the US administration" that control US foreign policy.

Which is the central antiwar and anti-Bush point.

Stated by: doons on July 5, 2004 11:32 AM

Last year, Ha'aretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, trumpeted: "The war in Iraq was conceived by neo conservative intellectuals, most of them Jewish...'This is no longer an academic exercise,' one of them says. 'We are responsible for what is happening.' "

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=280279

I guess we can explain this away as just one more case of Jewish self-hatred, as usual.

Stated by: merrick on July 5, 2004 2:39 PM

"Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney"

Lovely trick. You take 2 VERY important people, both goyim, and add a less important Jewish name to the front.
Presto! A "cabal" which is both undeniably influential and partially Jewish!

Stated by: maor on July 5, 2004 4:20 PM

Hmmm. Whilst I agree that Mr Jenkins has a tendency to step into hyperbole (ie. the administration setting out to kill thousands, similar to a recent article that they would have would have attacked the apartheid govt of the 80s) I don't see him being anti-Jewish PER SE in this article.

Yes, he is critical of a lobby that has Jewish members, but moreover he is critical of Israel. My interpretation of his article was that the decisions of the US were in support of Israel - not Judaeism itself - as a way of maintaing US interests in the region.

Whether or not you agree with his views is not the point - but I think it's a bit black-and-white to take what is purely a political argument and accuse him of racism!

Stated by: Ian Stalvies on July 7, 2004 3:10 PM

ps. Couldn't agree more about Yasmin Alibhai-Brown - not sure if anyone read her comments on giving nuclear technology and plans to whosoever wanted them. Presumably they'll soon be on Amazon along with weapons-grade plutonium ...

Stated by: Ian Stalvies on July 7, 2004 3:13 PM

A "cabal" which is both undeniably influential and partially Jewish!

Lovely trick, you associate the word 'jewish' with a post that was solely about neo-conservatives influencing foreign policy and instantly the poster is anti-semitic.

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