Money Jews, Brain Jews, Politics

The Geography and Taxonomy of Political Manipulation

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

On January 4th, Philip Weiss posted Chris Matthews's Coyness About Jewish Money in Politics Is Downright Irresponsible and Irritating to his blog Mondoweiss.

 

Phil states the following.

I'm a devoted Chris Matthews watcher because he's so street-smart and so knowledgeable about political history (and also a former Peace Corps volunteer). Last night he was the one guy on his show to understand the ravishing power of Obama's victory speech. He compared Obama to Roosevelt in '32. He also said that Obama's victory could send a chill thru Hillary's "donor-base," which Matthews said is in Manhattan and the west side of Los Angeles. These people want to back a winner; they may feel misled by the Clinton team. He went on to talk about Hillary's support from New Yorkers who have moved to Florida.

Florida, Hollywood, Manhattan. This is coy and irresponsible. Matthews never talks about Jews in politics directly. He talks about blacks, about Irish-Americans, not Jews. He obviously believes Jews are important in our politics--I'd note his endless and great riffs on neocons and their supporters--but as a guy who anatomizes the id of American political life, he owes it to his viewers to take on the Israel lobby headon. As it is, he confines himself to hinting, as he did last night. Or as he did five years ago when he asked one of his guests, with a big-eyed and virginal air: Why are political attitudes toward Israel in Europe so different from American attitudes? This is a political question, he knows the answer.

Matthews's coyness is evidence of the great problem here. A fearless guy is afraid to even discuss the lobby. Why doesn't he have Walt and Mearsheimer on air to talk about their ideas? I believe that Matthews knows he would pay a significant price for doing so, let alone talking about Jewish money in the Democratic party.

John Mearsheimer tells me that Matthews is hardly the only informed person who privately expresses support for his ideas while refusing to do so publicly. He says, "Many people -- both inside and outside the Beltway -- have told me and Steve [Walt] privately that they agree with our views on the lobby and its harmful influence on US foreign policy, but that they are afraid to say so publicly because they fear that the lobby will come after them and damage their careers."

Pathetic.

(P.S. A couple readers have wondered whether Mearsheimer was speaking directly of Matthews. No. He was speaking of the general class of Matthews-like sheeple, I mean people)

The covert manipulation of political process by wealthy Jews is not new.

 

There are still many questions about the relationship between Lloyd George and the Cousinhood (of the UK's wealthiest Jews) and whether Jewish money paid for the Balfour Declaration.

 

In Wilhelmian Germany, the 1873 financial collapse provided a peak at the relationship between the Jewish moneyed elite and the political elite when Bismarck with the aid of his Jewish banker Bleichröder prevented the bankruptcy of Prinz Wilhelm zu Putbus and many others of Bismarck's aristocratic political partners. In return for his efforts the Kaiser ennobled Bleichröder. (This particular type of exchange continues today as the Lord Levy Tony Blair cash-for-honors controversy demonstrated.)

 

This 1873 example had little connection to domestic or foreign policy, but German Jewish political money over the next five decades seems to have kept German securities and business practices law in a relatively immature state that permitted many shady practices that the progressive British and American political movements either had already eliminated or were in the process of eliminating.

 

There is a real need for some historical research in the role of Jewish (and in particular German Jewish and ethnic Ashkenazi) money in manipulating politics in the USA, the UK and in the German Empire.

 

Haim Saban's investment in German television is effectively a reassertion of the historical role of Jewish money in German politics.

 

There is also evidence of coordination between the "Newton Jews" of Massachusetts and the Central Council of Jews in Germany in attacking Cardinal Meisner and in working with the Axis of Good (Die Achse des Guten), in which Henryk Broder of Der Spiegel plays more or less the same role as Bill Kristol will play at the NY Times.

 

This new Axis based in Germany seems to work from translations of David Project or Daniel Pipes's press releases in its efforts to incite Islamophobia. (In the new discourse of German racial incitement, Matthias Küntzel plays the role of a sort of Daniel Pipes Robert Spencer hybrid.)

 

See the following articles:

• Nazism, Zionism, and Nutty Hypersensitivity
• Followup: Nazism, Zionism, and Nutty Hypersensitivity
• From Anti-Semitism to Islamophobia

Newton Jews are probably more important than New York (Manhattan), LA (Hollywood), and Miami Jews in manipulating US politics because Jewish political power results from a collaboration of money Jews and brain Jews like Abigail Thernstrom.

 

Civil Rights for Some Americans  provides an example of the Newton Brain Jewish role. (I admit that Thernstrom lives in Lexington, but in mentality she is all Newton.) Abigail Thernstrom can expend oceans of ink in criticizing African American victimology but has no problem at all with Jewish victimologies or with Charles Jacobs and the David Project. Brain Jews like Abigail Thernstrom validate the prejudices of money Jews while they provide acceptable scholarly packaging for such ideas in order to indoctrinate non-Jews.

 

The elite Newton Jew combination of brains and money is strongly reminiscent of the pre-modern Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazi communal structure in which the mercantile class co-opted the rabbinical scholarly Jews by funding or by marriage in order to run the community with the qualification that now the main goals amount

• to maintaining Jewish elite status within the larger American society* and
• to controlling the American social political system or at least those parts needed to guarantee that the USA continues to maintain the existence of the State of Israel.

The taxonomy of elite Jews (sheyne yidn) in Eastern Europe identified four or five important groups.In the USA today, there are three important groupings:

• Money Jews (geltyidn) -- Bronfman, Adelson, Wexner, Spielberg et al., who are analogous to the balebotim (proprietors) and mercantile class Jews of traditional Jewish society
• Brain Jews (kolelyidn metaphorically) -- Dershowitz, Wisse, Abigail Thernstrom, Pipes, Kristol, Spielberg, Sarna, et al., who are analogous to the members of the rabbinical scholarly class of traditional Jewish society
• Professional or communal Jews (kahalyidn) -- Abraham Foxman, David Harris, Israel Singer, Nancy Kaufman, Joe Lieberman, et al., who are analogous to the members communal bureaucracy and functionaries of traditional Jewish society,

There is some overlap among the three classes of modern sheyne yidn, but all together they are extremely effective in controlling the organized Jewish community and in manipulating American society and politics.

 

Within this classification scheme ordinary Jews are proste yidn, and for the most part modern American proste yidn empower and hardly ever challenge the sheyne yidn in any significant way. (See How Anti-Iraq-War Jews Licensed Neoconservatism by Philip Weiss.)

 

Should proste yidn ever seriously challenge the sheyne yidn, the history of Hassidism indicates any such rebellion will not last long.

 

Hassidism was initially a reaction of proste yidn to the corrupt combination of economic and rabbinic (intellectual or scholarly) power, but the Hassidic dynasties were co-opted fairly quickly into the elite system by the mercantile class which eventually came to span the Hassidish Misnagdish (anti-Hassidic) divide.

 

Traditionally, people like Philip Weiss, Norman Finkelstein or Noam Chomsky are the mosrim or traitors, and they receive precisely the same treatment from the organized Jewish community that mosrim used to receive from the Kehillah (Jewish community) in the past.

 

Senator McCain, who slavishly intends to remake the ME according to Zionist plans, and his father, who covered up Israeli crimes in attacking the USS Liberty, are the modern shabbes goyim while any non-Jew that criticizes Israel or the organized Jewish community is an antisemit.

 

American Jews are trapped in false Manichaean world view that has become very dangerous to the world because of the power and influence that today's sheyne yidn wield in American politics.

 

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* The Jewish attack on Arab and Muslim American academics as well as the constant accusations of terror-financing against investment firms handling Gulf or Saudi money may result at least as much from the threat to Jewish dominance in ME studies, Jewish studies and the finance industry as from fear that American Jews might lose control of discourse about the ME and the conflict over Palestine.

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Attacking Will Smith, Tony Judt

Zionism Rots the Brain

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

On December 22, 2007, actor Will Smith made the perfectly reasonable statement about Hitler, "I think he woke up in the morning and, using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'"

 

Throughout the media and blogosphere reports turned the statement into something of the order "Will Smith believes Hitler was basically a good person," and Jewish groups demanded apologies.

 

ADL national director Abraham Foxman summarized the situation, "Unfortunately, in citing Hitler in what appears to be a positive context, Smith stirred up a hornet's nest on the Internet, where hate groups and anti-Semites latched on to the remark and praised it."

 

What positive context?

 

This stupidity of this controversy topped the recent nonsense in Bremen.

 

According to "Lob und Tadel" by Frank König in «Jüdische Zeitung», Dezember 2007:

Judt, the Hannah Arendt Prize Committee, the Heinrich Böll Institute and well the Bremen Senate were sharply criticized in an "open letter" from the Executive Committee of the Jewish Committee of Bremen. That Judt injected an outspoken "anti-Israel" tendency in his essays in the last year speaks according to the opinion of the said executive committee in no way in favor of conferring such a prize upon him. Expecially an article, that Judt published in 2003 in the New York Review of Books, as well as Judt's following opinion are "intolerable" for the Jewish Community of Bremen. Judt accuses Israel of propagating a form of state-nationalism, that is in fact not commensurate with bringing about a rational solution in the Middle East conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. Judt argues for a one-state and binational solution to the conflict. In conformance with this stance, Judt acts on behalf of "the official Palestinian, propaganda view of the history, along with invented and twisted facts as well as anti-Israel vocabulary" as it is described in the "open letter."

 

Kritisiert werden Judt, die Hannah-Arendt-Preis-Jury, die Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung sowie der Bremer Senat besonders scharf in einem «offenen Brief» vom Präsidium der Jüdischen Gemeinde Bremen. Dass Judt in Aufsätzen der letzten Jahre eine ausgesprochen «antisraelische Haltung» lanciere, spreche nach Auffassung besagten Präsidiums keinesfalls dafür, einen solchen Preis zu erhalten. Speziell ein Aufsatz, den Judt 2003 in der «New York Review of Books» publiziert hatte, sowie eine Auffassung Judts seien für die Jüdische Gemeinde Bremen «unerträglich». Judt werfe Israel vor, eine Art von staatlichem Nationalismus zu propagieren, der überhaupt nicht angemessen sei, um eine sinnvolle Lösung im Nahost-Konflikt zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern herbeizuführen. Judt spricht sich für eine einstaatliche und binationale Lösung dieses Konflikts aus. Damit vertrete Judt «die offizielle palästinensische, propagandistische Sicht auf die Geschichte, samt der erfundenen und verdrehten Fakten sowie des antiisraelischen Vokabulars», wie es in dem «offenen Brief» heißt.

In other words the Bremen Jewish community attacked Judt just the way the American Jewish community attacked Arendt for skepticism about Zionism and for proposing a one-state federated solution to the Middle East conflict. Finding a more appropriate recipient for the Hannah Arendt Prize would have been difficult.

 

I used to think the sort of Jewish behavior that characterized the Smith and Judt insanity resulted from Zionist/Holocaust brain-rot in combination with the arrogant belief that Jews are the moral arbitrators of everything, but the irrationalization of all discussion of Hitler, the Holocaust, Zionism and the State of Israel effectively prevents sensible debate over US and EU foreign policy in the Middle East.

 

I have even found evidence of the coordination between the Boston Jewish community and the German Jewish community over the last three years in ongoing projects to attack deviations from Zionist and Holocaust orthodoxy.

 

BTW, I am extremely skeptical of binationality as Zionists have historically used the term. In the Zionist völkisch organic nationalist conceptualization, the binational state does not belong to its citizens but to two separate nations (Völker). Political issues are not decided democratically but via negotiation between the two nations. Because binationalist Zionists never discuss the mechanism of arbitration between the nations, either they are dishonest in their commitment to binationalism or they always expect the stronger party (the Zionists) to make the final decision on all matters of state.
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Mike Huckabee, Christian Zionist

Because of Huckabee's win on the Republican side of the Iowa caucuses, reading the following article is worthwhile.

Huckabee's proposals amount to ethnic cleansing of Palestine

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by Rev. Stan Moody*, Christian Policy Institute, December 16, 2007

Orthodox Jews love him. The Christian Right loves him. The LaHayes (authors of the Left Behind series) love him. Tele-Zionist John Hagee loves him.

It is not because Gov. Huckabee is not a Mormon that they all love him. It is because his foreign policy as President will be to put the finishing touches on the Bush Doctrine in the Middle East.

In a nutshell, Huckabee is a Rapturist. I'll explain.

Belief in the Rapture is predominant within Evangelical circles. It has no biblical support except by inference. It finds no place in the early history of the Christian Church and is based primarily on a prophetic interpretation developed in England in the mid 19th Century. Its architect was John Nelson Darby, founder of the Plymouth Brethren movement, a fundamentalist Christian sect that came out of Dublin, Ireland in the 1820's. Darby published some 50 books on his unique interpretations of the New Testament.

Darby's doctrine, known as Premillennial Dispensationalism, was expanded in 1909 through the publication of the Scofield Desk Reference Bible, a Bible with extensive footnotes all screened through the lens of two future returns of Jesus to earth.

The first return will be in the form of the physical resurrection of all "true" Christians, who will disappear from the earth in a single moment to join Jesus in the skies. That is referred to as the Rapture. For seven years to follow, the earth will be in a period of Satanic upheaval, building to a final Apocalypse in the Valley of Meggido ("Armageddon"), whereupon Christ will descend onto the Mount of Olives with His raptured saints, defeat the armies of Satan (including the Roman Catholic Church) and set up a physical throne in Jerusalem to reign for 1,000 years.

There have been variations on that theme, but the physical return of Jesus to greater Israel has remained intact. In the US, the Dallas Theological Seminary, the flagship Southern Baptist pastoral training center, has been the breeding ground for the American Rapturist movement.

In this scenario, the Jews remain the apple of God's eye, the land promised to the patriarch Abraham being their inheritance. In the seven-year period of Satanic upheaval (referred to as the Great Tribulation), the land at least from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River must be secured for Israel. Solomon's Temple will be rebuilt, 144,000 Jews will be converted to Christ, there will be a bloodbath of monumental proportions, and peace will be restored.

Support of Israel's expanded borders, therefore, becomes non-negotiable for American Evangelicals who subscribe to this dogma. There is a long history of Evangelicals funding illegal settlements on the West Bank and in Gaza. Recently, Tele-Zionist, John Hagee, has consolidated these cultists into an organization called "Christians United for Israel" (CUFI), applauded not only by President George W. Bush but by such luminaries as Joe Lieberman, Tom DeLay and Presidential candidate John McCain.

Huckabee on Israel and Palestine

On October 15, 2007, Huckabee gave a stump speech at the home of New Hampshire State Representative Jason Bedrick, the first Orthodox Jew elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives.^[1] In that speech, he staked out the following:

1. He supports the creation of a Palestinian state
2. He believes that such a state should be formed outside "Israel."
3. He suggested Saudi Arabia and Egypt as prospects for such a state, noting that the Arabs have far more land than the Israelis and that it would only be fair for them to give land for a state rather than carving it out of the tiny Israeli state
4. He stands against the creation of a Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, thus tacitly supporting the seizing of the Temple Mount by Israel, the third most sacred Moslem site in the world
5. He has stood against any pullback of illegal settlements on the Golan Heights and the West Bank.^[2]

By re-defining the boundaries of Israel to be vastly outside those officially recognized by international law, Huckabee unmasks himself to be a Christian Zionist.

By offering a solution not unlike that envisioned by 19th century Americans to the slavery question and carried out against Native Americans, Huckabee essentially dehumanizes the Palestinians and proposes to transport them elsewhere.

I accuse him, therefore, of being an advocate for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Here is his long-range view: "If you are with Jesus Christ, we know how it turns out in the final moment. I've read the last chapter in the book, and we do end up winning."^[3]

As an evangelical pastor and theologian, I'll take the Mormon any day!

*Stan Moody, founder of the Christian Policy Institute, has served in the Maine House of Representatives. He is an Advisory Board member of JewsOnFirst.org and the "Institute for the Study of Christian Zionism." Dr. Moody is the author of several provocative books, including, "Crisis in Evangelical Scholarship" and "McChurched: 300 Million Served and Still Hungry." Pastor of a rural country church in Central Maine, Moody has enjoyed a long and productive career in small business development and management.

^[1] http://www.jrtelegraph.com/2007/10/gov-mike-huckab.html

^[2] http://www.ontheissues.org/2008/Mike_Huckabee_Foreign_Policy.htm

^[3] http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/messagetopic.asp?p=6343708&pg=1

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Ron Paul Discusses Issues!

I have to admit some reservations about Ron Paul.

 

The video below evinces xenophobic tendencies.

 

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The promise to eliminate student visas from terrorist nations is the sort of sloganeering that I expect from Neocons. In other contexts, Paul has rejected the concept of a terrorist nation and has shown good understanding of the hatred and blowback that US foreign policy has created over the last 60 years. 

 

Paul supports free market libertarian capitalism even though mathematical analysis can demonstrate that such economic systems lead to monopoly dominance and exploitation. Some of his supporters seem to argue from the standpoint that the power of big business is okay while the power of government is not. The belief is at best naive.

 

I doubt that a return to the gold standard and the elimination of the Federal Reserve will bring economic salvation.

 

I suspect Ron Paul was a segregationist in the 60s, but such was the nature of southern US culture back then, and he has probably changed. His intention to remove US troops from Iraq as quickly as possible is as pro-minority as it gets because of  the disproportionately large representation of African and Hispanic Americans in the military. 

 

I am less concerned about Roe vs. Wade and gay marriage than most of the progressive Boston Cambridge crowd, but making abortion and marriage matters of state legislation -- as Paul wishes -- probably means that freedom of choice and gay marriage might survive in various states in the USA while any attempt at national legislation or constitution change in these areas could easily backfire.

 

At this point, I would probably support a candidate that opposed women's suffrage and supported a new prohibition as long as he would end the Iraq occupation and work for the repeal of the Patriot Act. On these questions Ron Paul is the only game in town.

November 18, 2007

Muslims discover Ron Paul
by Karin Friedemann

After the Republican debate on Tuesday evening in Dearborn, Mich., a reporter from the Arab-American News asked Ron Paul what he thought of the term "Islamic fascism."

"It's a false term to make people think we're fighting Hitler," Paul responded. "It's war propaganda designed to generate fear so that the war has to be spread."

The call has gone out to all the Muslim Americans to hurry up and register to vote Republican so that they can vote in the Republican Primary to support Ron Paul, the anti-interventionist, non-isolationist candidate for President of the United States. Muslims are opening their wallets and joining teaparty07.com as well.

An anonymous Ron Paul supporter posted the following message on the internet: "Muslims and Americans have an unique window of opportunity for the 2008 election. There is a candidate running as a Republican that would work to completely cut off the funding to Israel, remove ALL US troops from Arab lands, and repeal the Patriot Act. He's a Republican with Libertarian views named Ron Paul. Ron Paul's policies ranging from monetary to foreign are top notch. Till now Muslims and Americans have not had an American Presidential candidate that really suited their best interests. This election is unique in that we have a man running as a Republican that speaks the truth…We know the current policies in the Middle East are failing, not only making it less safe in the world but hurting and killing innocent Muslims, which our media callously calls collateral damage. It is our duty as Muslims to follow the truth regardless of how futile it may seem. Ron Paul is the only candidate that does not seem to be swayed by the influential lobbies that the other candidates are catering to."

Ron Paul stood up in Congress in 2006 and opposed a resolution that sided with Israel in the Lebanon-Israel conflict. He stated the following.

Ron Paul: "Mr. Speaker, I follow a policy in foreign affairs called non-interventionism. I do not believe we are making the United States more secure when we involve ourselves in conflicts overseas. The Constitution really doesn't authorize us to be the policemen of the world, much less to favor one side over another in foreign conflicts. It is very clear, reading this resolution objectively, that all the terrorists are on one side and all the victims and the innocents are on the other side. I find this unfair, particularly considering the significantly higher number of civilian casualties among Lebanese civilians. I would rather advocate neutrality rather than picking sides, which is what this resolution does."

Ron Paul has also sponsored a bill to overturn the Patriot Act. He is one of the few members of Congress from either of the major houses that is speaking rationally about these issues. How can we get everyone, and I mean everyone, to join the Ron Paul Republican voter sign-up campaign?

There is general frustration with politicians these days, and the unwillingness to believe that supporting a particular candidate will make a difference. But whether Ron Paul wins or loses, ronpaul.meetup.com is a great way to meet your neighbors who are against the war and organize the community on a grassroots level. If something like Katrina ever happened to us, knowing our neighbors could mean the difference between life and death to our families.

The common thread I've been reading lately about leftists and Jews is that they are having trouble getting more than a dozen people to come to their stuff (whether anti-Zionist or Zionist). The anti-Israel movement is not moving forward, because "protest Zionist imperialism" is just not a catchy slogan. By contrast, there are over 400 RP activists against war taxes in Boston alone. Every day the list of passionate anti-war activists grows. Very few of them agree with every single RP position, they just want to get the Lobby out of the way and pull the troops out of Iraq.

One reason it's working is because of the software. They made the ronpaul.meetup.com site almost like a dating site, where you can make friends with people in or near your zip code. They made it very easy to get together with new people to join the activism. You can't beat technology, may as well use it.

In the event that RP actually won the election and got the Hamas treatment, his supporters are fully in support of the Right to Bear Arms. It would be interesting to see what followed.

If anti-war protesters want to continue to focus on the genocidal machinations of the global zionist-imperialist military, industrial, financial, political, neoliberal, media complex, they have to be willing to meet with anyone any time to hear what ideas people have to address this, which is our primary responsibility - even if they are Republicans.

If you ever saw Ron Paul in an interview it cannot be said that he avoids discussing vital issues. He is someone who is willing to make a statement and stick by it even when no one agrees with him. I don't "believe" in electoral politics but it's not that much sweat off my brow to go and vote to end war.

I think the fact that NO pro-Israel group will let Ron Paul speak at their convention, not even peace Zionists, is evidence enough that he is the only person to put in charge as commander-in-chief. And, even if he loses, making all these contacts with local anti-interventionists is priceless. If you want to expand the peace movement so that it overlaps with the freedom movement like ripples in a pond, you just have to respect the fact that people might agree with you, but for different reasons.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/muslims_for_ronpaul/ 

 

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Ah, Así es Como Funcionan las Cosas . . .

Spanish Version of Picking American Pockets for Israel

(With a Spanish Introduction from Albert Persohn)

This article helps explain why an Israeli government that actually wanted to stop settlement construction probably could not. Non-Spanish readers can just click on the hyperlink above. Note that as of 2005 Russian and other Eastern European Jews were not able to profit from the system that Karin and I describe.

 

The English language version has a short introduction, which contains a pointer to online audio from a Marketplace radio program whose content supports our analysis.

 

Ah, Así es Como Funcionan las Cosas . . .
por Albert Persohn
traducido por Alexander Rodríguez

Digamos que tienes $60,000 USD en deudas, estás pagando $2000 de renta al mes y debes unos $1000 en varios pagos de préstamos y otros gastos. Tú puedes conseguir una hipoteca de $160,000 en Israel por menos de $400/mes. ¡Trata de conseguir eso a través de Fannie Mae (una institución hipotecaria de los EEUU)!

Exactamente, ¿cómo es que funciona la migración a Israel desde los EEUU? ¿De dónde provienen los fondos? ¿Cómo es que encuentran a los inmigrantes? Aquí hay una mirada interior a una de las "Señales de los Tiempos".

Recultando a Judíos Americanos para Israel
Escrito por: Karin Friedemann, Joachim Martillo

El gobierno de los EEUU provee fondos para sustentar el perpetuo programa de remover la población nativa de Palestina, primordialmente Musulmanes y Cristianos, y suplantarlos con colonistas Judíos Euro-Americanos. Nuestro dinero de impuestos facilitan la limpieza étnica y la colonización de la Palestina Ocupada. ¿Por qué es que los que aparentemente son familias Judías Americanas normales y de clase media tendrían interés en tomar parte en una limpieza étnica genocida?

Mientras que a algunos individuos enfermos les emocionaría la idea de mudarse a una propiedad robada de una familia evacuada de su casa a punta de pistola por la Fuerza de Defensa Israelía (FDI), nuestras observaciones indican que la diversión y la ganancia económica sirve como la motivación primaria para relocalizar la Palestina Ocupada.

El gobierno Israelí ofrece a los Judíos Americanos hipotecas subsidiadas por tazas de interés mucho más bajas que cualquier cosa disponible a los no-Judíos. Los subsidios usan fondos de los bonos Israelíes, y son avalados por garantes de los EEUU. Los nuevos receptores de tales hipotecas ahora pueden enterrar sus deudas de tarjetas de crédito en hipotecas Israelíes valoradas en shekels, los cuales están prácticamente garantizadas a depreciar relativo al dólar. (Ver http://www.tehilla.com/homes)

Mientras que estos Judíos Americanos "étnicamente retados" permanezcan en Israel, se les ofrecen clases gratuitas de Hebreo y gastos de vivienda por hasta un año, pagado por el gobierno Israelí. El costo de "hacer negocios" con Israel no sólo es financiero sino también moral.

El sistema crea una expansión sub-urbana desordenada en la Tierra Santa, devastación ambiental y masas de personas sin hogares, personas quienes eran los propietarios no-Judios originales. La mayoría de los Palestinos bajo el control del gobierno Israelí no son ciudadanos y no tienen derechos bajo la ley Israelí. Las tierras a las cuales la Agencia Judía posee los títulos sólo están bajo renta o dominio bajo condiciones que previenen su transferencia o uso por no-Judíos. Tal discriminación sería ilegal en los Estados Unidos.

El gobierno Israelí organiza la evacuacion (nishul) de Palestinos (usualmente sin compensación) a través de transferencias a la tierra de organizaciones especializadas como lo son la Agencia Judía o la Autoridad de Terrenos de Israel (ATI), o bien Israel descubre requerimientos militares o de seguridad que "obligan" la transferencia de propiedad de los Palestinos al Ejército.

Eventualmente, la ATI desarrolla la tierra robada para crear o expandir colonias de sólo-para-Judíos. Los contratistas empleados por la ATI y sus organizaciones de asistencia construyen las casas e infraestructuras necesarias. Están típicamente conectadas al gobierno y oficiales militares, y todos ganan de forma tremenda de el arrazo financiado por los EEUU y la limpieza étnica de la población Palestina.

Los agentes de viaje locales muchas veces tienen una doble función de reclutantes y agentes de bienes raíces para Israel. Los Judíos Americanos dispuestos a relocalizarse a propiedades robadas no están usualmente sujetos a revisiones de crédito cuando buscan una hipoteca Israelí porque el gobierno Israelí subordina su responsabilidad fiscal a la meta de sobrepasar a los palestinos demográficamente.

La mayoría de los olim (inmigrantes) Americanos no se quedan permanentemente en la Palestina Ocupada. Viven allí por un par de años, y luego venden su casa cuando sube de valor, y regresan a los EEUU libre de deudas. Disfrutan unas hermosas vacaciones y terminan ganando también. Esto es como funciona:

Las organizaciones aliyah (immigración a Israel) Judías se enfrascan en perpetuas campañas para reclutar a Judíos Americanos. Se publicitan en los medios Judíos, a través de agencias de viajes manejados por Judíos, y en los campus universitarios.

Supón que eres un Judío Americano con $60,000 en deudas educativas o de tarjetas de crédito. Quizás asistas a una clase en el Centro Comunitario Judío local, o tomes parte en alguna actividad pro-Israel. En algún punto conocerás un shaliah oficial o semi-oficial (reclutador/emisario) quien te explicará el asunto.

1. Puedes comprar una casa, sin pago incial, en una nueva colonia con una hipoteca subsidiada de hasta $300,000. Sólo pagarás interés (usualmente 3% o menos) sobre la mitad de la hipoteca. La otra mitad está libre de intereses. Puedes comprar una casa nueva por $100,000 - comparable a una casa de $750,000 en Brookline.

2. Digamos que tienes $60,000 USD en deudas, estás pagando $2000 de renta al mes y debes unos $1000 en varios pagos de préstamos y otros gastos. Tú puedes conseguir una hipoteca de $160,000 en Israel por menos de $400/mes. ¡Trata de conseguir eso a través de Fannie Mae (una institución hipotecaria de los EEUU)!

3. Tú y tu familia consiguen seguro de vida gratuita. ¡No puedes conseguir eso en los EEUU!

4. El gobierno Israelí te pagará tus gastos de viviendo por lo menos por 6 meses. ¡Qué ganga!

5. Consigues ciudadanía Israelí y todos los derecho que la población nativa no tiene.

6. Los colonistas en los Territorios Ocupados más recientemente limpiados étnicamente consiguen más bajas tasas de interés y otros beneficios especiales que aquellos quienes se establecen en la "Israel propia".

7. Los individuos calificados pueden recibir boletos de avión gratis a Israel por parte de organizaciones tales como Birthright Israel.

8. Puedes aplicar por dinero para gastos de entre $5,000 - $25,000 adicionales por organizaciones como Nefesh b'Nefesh (Alma a Alma - o sea, almas Judías). Con esto, pudieras vivir hasta un año completo sin trabajar, luego de lo cual tu casa ya ha aumentado en valor ya que la colonia se ha expandido y las situaciones se han mejorado. Podrías vender tu casa con ganancias, pagar tu deuda y volver a los EEUU libre de deudas. Una vez regreses a casa será fuertemente exhortado a que contribuyas generosamente a los Congresistas locales.

 

¿No suena como una buena retribución por las placenteras vacaciones y la buena fortuna hecho posible por el gobierno de los EEUU simplemente porque eres Judío?

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Heinrich Heine and EAAZI

Heine and the Ethnic Ashkenazim Against Zionist Israel Blog 

Princess Sabbath (Prinzessin Sabbath) vs. Schiller's Ode to Joy (An der Freude)

[Excerpts from both poems are found on the blog's left border]

 

Here is a quotation from a 2002 press release from the Vienna Jewish Museum (http://www.jmw.at/en/pr_princess_sabbath.html).

 

Heinrich Heine's poem Prinzessin Sabbath is the most outstanding commemoration of the Shabbat in German literature.

 

Once upon a time Jews actually understood parody and irony – probably before they began starving peasants in the Ukraine, terrorizing Palestinians, and plotting the incineration of Arab and Muslim countries.

 

Harvard Professor Jack Stein once told me that Heine was the most German and the most Jewish of poets, but neither German Christians nor Ostjuden (Eastern European Jews) ever understood him.

 

Heine wrote in Nachtgedanken (Thoughts at Night):

 

I think of Germany at night
The thought keeps me awake till light.

 

Denk ich an Deutschland in der Nacht,
Dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht,
Ich kann nicht mehr die Augen schließen,
Und meine heißen Tränen fließen.

 

He also described ancient Hebrews as "the Germans of the Orient."

 

In the quest to connect themselves with ancient Hebrews (as the German Nazis tried to connect themselves with ancient Germans), Zionists have surpassed the German Nazis of the 1930s and are working on the 1940s.

 

I often wonder what Heine would be writing if he were alive today. 

 

Heine's Original German from Prinzessin Sabbat	Schiller's Original German from An der Freude
Schalet, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium! Also klänge Schillers Hochlied, Hätt er Schalet je gekostet. Schalet ist die Himmelspeise, Die der liebe Herrgott selber Einst den Moses kochen lehrte Auf dem Berge Sinai, Wo der Allerhöchste gleichfalls All die guten Glaubenslehren Und die heil'gen Zehn Gebote Wetterleuchtend offenbarte.	Freude, schöner Götterfunken,   Tochter aus Elysium, Wir betreten feuertrunken,   Himmlische, dein Heiligthum. Deine Zauber binden wieder,   Was die Mode streng getheilt; Alle Menschen werden Brüder,   Wo dein sanfter Flügel weilt.   Seid umschlungen, Millionen!   Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt!   Brüder - überm Sternenzelt Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen.
Cholent, ray of light immortal, Cholent, daughter of Elysium! So had Schiller's song resounded, Had he ever tasted cholent.   For this cholent is the very Food of heaven, which on Sinai, God Himself instructed Moses In the secret of preparing,   At the time He also taught him And revealed in flames of lighting All the doctrines good and pious And holy Ten Commandments.	Joy, thou source of light immortal, Daughter of Elysium! Touched with fire, to the portal, Of thy radiant shrine, we come. Your sweet magic, frees all others, Held in custom's rigid rings, All men on earth become brothers, In the haven of your wings. Be embraced, you millions! This kiss for the entire world! Brothers, above the starry canopy Must a loving Father reside.

                               

 

 

 

 

 

 

                               

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Bring Back the Fairness Doctrine?

Is Murdoch Big Brother?

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

 

Fox News/New Hampshire Republican Party Forum has not invited Ron Paul to take part this Sunday.*  Paul's electability or significance as a candidate is not the issue.

 

On page 3 the December 31, 2007 edition of the hardcopy Wall Street Journal identified Paul as top contender on the Republican side. The WSJ is one of Rupert Murdoch's media holdings and investments, which also include Fox News Channel,  News Corporation (News Corp), Fox Network, MySpace.com, The Weekly Standard and numerous journals, broadcasters and cable companies throughout the world. 

 

Ron Paul's Revolution Problem by George Ajjan indicates that the WSJ probably underestimated Paul's electability.

 

Fox News has yet to explain itself.

 

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Story by Fox affiliate station KPTM in Omaha, NE. covering exclusion of Ron Paul from the Fox and New Hampshire GOP sponsored Republican Candidates Forum to be held on Jan. 6th in New Hampshire, and the onslaught of Ron Paul supporters expressing discontent for this blatant act of censorship.

 

Not only has Rupert Murdoch often put his investments in the service of his political agenda, but there is already evidence of Murdoch's violation of the laws governing media ownership (see The "Sale" of the Boston Herald ).** One may disagree with such laws, but until changed they should be enforced, and the conflict over the Roxbury Mosque demonstrated the value of laws that, if enforced, could make it difficult to misuse news reporting to persecute groups and individuals.

 

A core aspect of the conflict was the collusion between Fox Network and the Boston Herald in a probable criminal conspiracy to use fear-mongering defamation to deny the Boston Muslim community their federal First Amendment and state constitutional rights to unhindered religious worship and to free assembly. (See Singing HaTikvah while inciting a disastrous US invasion, The Boston Globe's Problem with Muslims, Open letter to the Boston Globe: A Lawsuit without Merit.)

 

Similar sorts of scare campaigns can be envisioned to deny American citizens their Second Amendment rights.

 

Unfortunately according to Wikipedia,

[in] August 1987, the FCC abolished the doctrine by a 4-0 vote, in the Syracuse Peace Council decision. The FCC stated, "the intrusion by government into the content of programming occasioned by the enforcement of [the Fairness Doctrine] restricts the journalistic freedom of broadcasters ... [and] actually inhibits the presentation of controversial issues of public importance to the detriment of the public and the degradation of the editorial prerogative of broadcast journalists," and suggested that, due to the many media voices in the marketplace, the doctrine be deemed unconstitutional.

The FCC eliminated the "personal attack" and "political editorial" rules in 2000.

 

The benefits of incorporation are not a natural or constitutional right, and in cases where the advantages of corporate organization are almost certainly being used in criminal conspiracy against rights and possibly in seditious conspiracy, the government has an obligation to intervene for the sake of the preservation of the American constitutional system.

 

I have been concerned about the issue of public access to information since 1984 when I first realized how Internet technology could change the newspaper industry for the worse if large content providers could effectively seize control of Internet bandwidth.

 

In 1991 I introduced VLAN Routing technology that made Quality of Service (QOS) charging infeasible and that has now become pervasive. In the current QOS free-for-all, the smallest Internet content providers can compete effectively with the largest, but the battle for control continues.

 

Despite the spread of such Internet technology, corporate consolidation in other media industries has provided unscrupulous operators like Murdoch with unprecedented opportunity to drown out critical or dissident voices like Ron Paul. The need to bring back the Fairness Doctrine is becoming ever more urgent, and the mere threat of its return might compel Murdoch and his many corporate organizations to behave.

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* See Concord Monitor - Some candidates won't make the cut and Winnowing the Debate Field - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog.
** Note that the FCC eliminated the ban on newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership in a partisan 3-2 vote on Dec. 18, 2007. A bipartisan congressional coalition is attempting to overturn the FCC decision. See Media Ownership Act of 2007 Introduced in the House.

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From Anti-Semitism to Islamophobia

It only took Germany 60 years

Are extremist Zionist American Jews enabling and empowering German Hate?

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Hagen Rether: Scheibenwischer Jahresrückblick 29.12.07

The video says it all (unfortunately in German).

Steinberg Recherche provides an excellent discussion of the response of Der Spiegel star-writer Henryk M. Broder to Rether's J'accuse (also unfortunately in German).

The congruence of the Islamophobic incitement of Der Spiegel with the vitriol of the most extreme racist ethnic Ashkenazi Americans like Daniel Pipes, Alan Dershowitz, Ruth Wisse, Charles Jacobs, and Martin Peretz is striking. Unlike anti-Semitic incitement, Muslim-baiting modeled on the anti-Semitism of the nineteenth century and of the Nazi period is not illegal in Germany. (See The Boston Globe's Problem with Muslims and Updating "The AJC attacks".)

Broder also regurgitates the standard Dhimmi-shtik of Zionist propaganda.

In point of fact, the Ottoman Empire, which was, until its vivisection at the end of World War I, the most advanced Sharia state, eliminated dhimmi status in the middle of the nineteenth century well before many European countries (including Germany) removed legal discrimination against religious and ethnic minorities from their law codes.

Hebrew University Professor Haim Gerber provides some of the results of his research into the Sharia-based legal system of the Ottoman Empire in State, Society and Law in Islam: Ottoman Law in Comparative Perspective.

Gerber's data and analysis indicates that in a comparison of the courts of the core Ottoman Bursa/Istanbul region with those of core English region of the UK, the Ottoman State was far closer to the ideal of a Rechtstaat and achieved far greater legal equality among members of different religious groups or economic classes than the contemporary UK at all periods that Gerber studied.

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Who Killed Benazir Bhutto?

Justifying Intervention in Pakistan

Justifying Incineration of Pakistan

by Joachim Martillo (ThorsProvoni@aol.com)

Pakistan's government claimed that al-Qaeda killed Benazir Bhutto without providing any evidence, but compared to other players in Pakistani politics al-Qaeda received quite small strategic or tactical benefits from the act.

Nawaz Sharif now stands alone as the chief opposition leader and may receive many of Bhutto's votes.

Parvez Musharraf can use the ensuing chaos as an excuse to cling to power and possibly make at least part of the Bush administration very happy.

According to reports, Condi Rice pressured Benazir to return to Pakistan. Rice could even have threatened seizure of Benazir's wealth, for the USA has developed such capabilities, and outstanding corruption charges against Benazir and her husband would have made such action legal and possible under US law.

In post-return interviews Benazir had certainly shown a willingness to be a good US puppet and to permit direct US military intervention in Pakistan. (Of course, she could have been trying to pull a Chalabi on the Neocons in the Bush administration.)

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Sir David speaks to former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto about her controversial return to Pakistan, who she thinks is behind the deadly bombing of her convoy in Karachi last month, and whether she and Musharraf can forge a power-sharing agreement.

Factions within Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) might have considered Benazir's Nov. 2, 2007 interview with David Frost more than enough reason to kill her as would anyone that thought she might have fingered him in the October assassination attempt.

The CIA has had a longstanding working relationship with ISI. If Benazir represented a threat to that relationship, the CIA might have taken her out.

So far Neocons and the US Israel Lobby have orchestrated the incineration of Afghanistan and Iraq. They have increased the harshness of US policy toward Palestinians. They have provided political space for Israel to cluster-bomb Lebanon. They destroyed the best possibility for stability in Somalia in a decade. They are in the process of inciting attacks on Sudan and Iran on the model of the US invasion of Iraq. Adding Pakistan to the list of Arab and Muslim states to be destroyed would hardly be much of a stretch for politically influential ethnic Ashkenazi American extremists, fanatics, and racists.

I spoke with David Frum after the overthrow of the Taliban in Pakistan. He considered the alliance with Pakistan a strategic liability and argued that the USA should be attacking Pakistan and not working with that country.

I pointed out that good arguments identified Israel as an even greater strategic liability and that the USA should end its alliance with that state.

Frum replied that Americans had already decided on that issue. I asked when. We have had no genuine public debate on Israel and certainly no public vote. He had no answer, but I was more impressed that already in December 2001 a representative Neocon was already gunning for Pakistan. From the Neocon standpoint, a Pakistan under Benazir Bhutto working closely with the USA might diminish the importance of Israel to the USA. Neocons control US army intelligence and could have ordered a hit on Benazir.

By similar logic Israeli Mossad might have decided to knock her off.

From the Neoconservative and Israeli standpoint, however friendly toward Neoconservative policy and Israeli interests Benazir might have been, she may be more valuable as a victim with whom Americans might identify because of her physical attractiveness, her perfect English and her Harvard education. A dead Benazir would serve exceptionally well as the focus of a marketing campaign into manipulating the USA to intervene in Pakistan. (Is it surprising that Hillary Clinton, who along with Angela Merkel has been heavily funded and supported by Israeli-American billionaire and arch-Zionist manipulator Haim Saban, was among the first to call for an independent international investigation of the murder of Benazir?)

The early reports on the assassination indicated the possibility that there might have been two or even three independent simultaneous attempts to kill Benazir. One attempt might have involved close associates of Benazir.

Any police officer knows that a competent investigation must check out family and friends. Benazir's son Bilawal and her husband Asif Ali Zardari have benefited directly from the assassination by taking control of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), which she headed. Benazir also has many personal enemies including family members as the article Aunt Benazir's False Promises below indicates.

Benazir and her family do not fit the profile of idealistic democracy advocates as they have sometimes been portrayed in US media.

The French, Polish, Spanish, and Swiss governments have provided documents that indicate the involvement of Benazir and Zardari in corruption totalling more than $1 billion, and the couple was ordered to pay millions of dollars back to the Pakistani government. Benazir asserted that all the charges were politically motivated.

The Bhutto family were part of the old feudal elite in Sindh.

I overlapped with Benazir's younger sister Sunny (Sanam) when we were undergraduate students at Harvard.

One of my friends was a singer in a rock band and good friends with Sunny's boyfriend Joe Incagnoli. I became acquainted with Sunny. (I am astounded that there was actually serious discussion for a time about bringing Sunny back to Pakistan to run the PPP.)

From personal acquaintance and from reading about the Bhuttos, I simply do not have the impression of much genuine commitment of the Bhutto family to democratization, but I never had any acquaintance with Benazir's brothers Shahnawaz or Mir Murtaza. Mir Murtaza's daughter Fatima seems to be exceptional in her progressive politics.

While the problem of Zionist and extremist ethnic Ashkenazi American domination of academic discourse in important areas of politics and foreign policy constitutes a serious threat to the USA by imposing a sort of Gramscian hegemonic blocking on American political debate, in many regards the issue is less immediate and far more subtle than the dangers that Pakistan faces. Yet, Fatima, who is a Columbia alumna, was willing to take the time to investigate the conflict over Nadia Abu el Haj's tenure application at Columbia and to sign the web petition in support of Nadia Abu el Haj. (See Jacob Lassner and Nadia Abu el Haj, Nadia Abu el Haj and the Truth about the Wizard of Oz, and Long Version of Tenure Wars.)

I also have to give Sunny credit for hanging out with a Boston townie, who was accepted at Harvard and also was trying to make it on the Boston rock scene.

From http://www.rockinboston.com/jhfotos75-81.htm and written by Joe Incagnoli (?).

Tall Ships, 1980.

The bones play to a crowd of fifteen hundred on Pier One, East Boston. We launched a destroyer playing a psychadelic medley version of "Anchors Aweigh/Tarantella"! The picture is full of memory-inducing bits, like the Marc [Bolan] T-shirt, which I bought at Piccadilly Circus, my very first stop after arriving on my first trip to London. I put it on immediately, and it led me to a meeting with Terry Livingstone, who worked at my second stop: a cool guitar shop called Macari's Music Exchange. Terry introduced me to members of the T-Rex Fan Club, took me to the Jewish Cemetery where Bolan's ashed are buried, and bought a few of the guitars I brought over to pay my way on subsequent trips. Also, note my old 1957 Les Paul Standard goldtop, bought with cash I got to put a deposit on a hit man - when the hit was cancelled, I used the remaining funds to grab the goldtop. I took my 1st trip to New Jersey two months after this photo was taken, to sell the guitar in Red Bank, so I could buy a ticket to Pakistan. The white Capezio dance shoes tell you this was close to the seventies.

New Year's Eve, 1980.

With Sunny Bhutto at the Intercontinental Hotel, Karachi Pakistan.

New Year's Eve, 1980.

Sunny and I in Pakistan at the Prime Minister's residence, 70 Clifton. We're sporting matching zipper trousers from a trip to the original Boy shop on London's King's Road. All those zippers and still there were no pockets!

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Fatima Bhutto's LA Times Article

[In the article below, Fatima worries that Benazir would tie Pakistan to a Neocon agenda. Her fears are probably correct. Benazir's advisor Hussain Haqqani works at the Neocon Zionist Hudson Institute. See Poverty Fuels Extremism by Husain Haqqani (War on Terror in Pakistan). Her other prominent advisor, friend and lobbyist Mark Siegel is more of a Ziolib, which puts him in the same category as Alan Dershowitz and Martin Peretz. Peter Galbraith, who was a Clinton ambassador, introduced Benazir to Mark Siegel. Galbraith is currently pursuing the longstanding Zionist agenda in Iraq by working for the dissolution of the Iraqi state into separate ethnoreligious enclaves. Galbraith is a longtime associate of Harvard Kennedy School Carr Center Professor Samantha Power, who is an academic prostitute serving extremist Zionists in their program to destroy Sudan. Power's book, A Problem from Hell, provides a specious analysis of genocide and almost certainly won the Pulitzer Prize because it supports and conforms to Zionist genocide discourse.]

Aunt Benazir's false promises
Bhutto's return bodes poorly for Pakistan -- and for democracy there.
By Fatima Bhutto

November 14, 2007

KARACHI -- We Pakistanis live in uncertain times. Emergency rule has been imposed for the 13th time in our short 60-year history. Thousands of lawyers have been arrested, some charged with sedition and treason; the chief justice has been deposed; and a draconian media law -- shutting down all private news channels -- has been drafted.

Perhaps the most bizarre part of this circus has been the hijacking of the democratic cause by my aunt, the twice-disgraced former prime minister, Benazir Bhutto. While she was hashing out a deal to share power with Gen. Pervez Musharraf last month, she repeatedly insisted that without her, democracy in Pakistan would be a lost cause. Now that the situation has changed, she's saying that she wants Musharraf to step down and that she'd like to make a deal with his opponents -- but still, she says, she's the savior of democracy.

The reality, however, is that there is no one better placed to benefit from emergency rule than she is. Along with the leaders of prominent Islamic parties, she has been spared the violent retributions of emergency law. Yes, she now appears to be facing seven days of house arrest, but what does that really mean? While she was supposedly under house arrest at her Islamabad residence last week, 50 or so of her party members were comfortably allowed to join her. She addressed the media twice from her garden, protected by police given to her by the state, and was not reprimanded for holding a news conference. (By contrast, the very suggestion that they might hold a news conference has placed hundreds of other political activists under real arrest, in real jails.)

Ms. Bhutto's political posturing is sheer pantomime. Her negotiations with the military and her unseemly willingness until just a few days ago to take part in Musharraf's regime have signaled once and for all to the growing legions of fundamentalists across South Asia that democracy is just a guise for dictatorship.

It is widely believed that Ms. Bhutto lost both her governments on grounds of massive corruption. She and her husband, a man who came to be known in Pakistan as "Mr. 10%," have been accused of stealing more than $1 billion from Pakistan's treasury. She is appealing a money-laundering conviction by the Swiss courts involving about $11 million. Corruption cases in Britain and Spain are ongoing.

It was particularly unappealing of Ms. Bhutto to ask Musharraf to bypass the courts and drop the many corruption cases that still face her in Pakistan. He agreed, creating the odiously titled National Reconciliation Ordinance in order to do so. Her collaboration with him was so unsubtle that people on the streets are now calling her party, the Pakistan People's Party, the Pervez People's Party. Now she might like to distance herself, but it's too late.

Why did Ms. Bhutto and her party cronies demand that her corruption cases be dropped, but not demand that the cases of activists jailed during the brutal regime of dictator Zia ul-Haq (from 1977 to 1988) not be quashed? What about the sanctity of the law? When her brother Mir Murtaza Bhutto -- my father -- returned to Pakistan in 1993, he faced 99 cases against him that had been brought by Zia's military government. The cases all carried the death penalty. Yet even though his sister was serving as prime minister, he did not ask her to drop the cases. He returned, was arrested at the airport and spent the remaining years of his life clearing his name, legally and with confidence, in the courts of Pakistan.

Ms. Bhutto's repeated promises to end fundamentalism and terrorism in Pakistan strain credulity because, after all, the Taliban government that ran Afghanistan was recognized by Pakistan under her last government -- making Pakistan one of only three governments in the world to do so.

And I am suspicious of her talk of ensuring peace. My father was a member of Parliament and a vocal critic of his sister's politics. He was killed outside our home in 1996 in a carefully planned police assassination while she was prime minister. There were 70 to 100 policemen at the scene, all the streetlights had been shut off and the roads were cordoned off. Six men were killed with my father. They were shot at point-blank range, suffered multiple bullet wounds and were left to bleed on the streets.

My father was Benazir's younger brother. To this day, her role in his assassination has never been adequately answered, although the tribunal convened after his death under the leadership of three respected judges concluded that it could not have taken place without approval from a "much higher" political authority.

I have personal reasons to fear the danger that Ms. Bhutto's presence in Pakistan brings, but I am not alone. The Islamists are waiting at the gate. They have been waiting for confirmation that the reforms for which the Pakistani people have been struggling have been a farce, propped up by the White House. Since Musharraf seized power in 1999, there has been an earnest grass-roots movement for democratic reform. The last thing we need is to be tied to a neocon agenda through a puppet "democrat" like Ms. Bhutto.

By supporting Ms. Bhutto, who talks of democracy while asking to be brought to power by a military dictator, the only thing that will be accomplished is the death of the nascent secular democratic movement in my country. Democratization will forever be de-legitimized, and our progress in enacting true reforms will be quashed. We Pakistanis are certain of this.

Fatima Bhutto is a Pakistani poet and writer. She is the daughter of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, who was killed in 1996 in Karachi when his sister, Benazir, was prime minister.

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