FTR#564—Interview with John Loftus—He Who Tells the Truth Gets Chased Out of
Nine Villages—(Two 30-minute segments) (Sources are noted in parentheses.)
(Recorded on 8/13/2006.)
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Summary of FTR#564—(Note: The massive
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listeners/readers a substantive grasp of this momentous event. It is
recommended that listeners use this description and e-mail it to others.) There is an old Turkish proverb that goes:
“He who tells the truth gets chased out of nine villages.” In this program, Mr.
Emory and John Loftus tackle the unenviable task of dispelling some of the
deliberate disinformation concerning the recent Lebanon war, as well as
analyzing the phenomenon of Islamic fascism. In addition to discussing the
history and economic ideology of the Islamofascist Muslim Brotherhood, John and
Mr. Emory highlight the Nazi characteristics of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite
guerilla organization backed by Iran. Hezbollah uses the Nazi salute, a gesture
otherwise unknown in the Islamic or Arab world. This description also
highlights Iran’s history of association with the Third Reich, as well as the
relationship of the Islamic government of that country with elements of the
Underground Reich. After reviewing the profound relationship between multinational
corporations and the development of international fascism, John and Mr. Emory
note that the free-market, globalized economic philosophy of the Muslim
Brotherhood make it a vehicle of choice for the multinational corporations. In
this respect, the current conflict between Western troops and Islamic militants
around the world is strongly analogous to the Second World War, in which Allied
soldiers were locked in mortal combat with the troops of the fascist powers,
while transnational corporations (including American ones) were supportive of
fascism. Much of the program covers the deliberate perversion of news about the
Lebanon war. In addition to the deliberate alteration of photographs to
maximize the appearance of damage to Lebanese civilian infrastructure, there is
evidence that some of the alleged Israeli atrocities were either significantly
exaggerated or fabricated altogether.
Program Highlights Include: John’s announcement of a fledgling program to provide Americans with
access to oil that does not come from nations that support terrorism; John’s
announcement of an up Intelligence Summit gathering that will feature the
“silent majority” of peaceful Muslims, opposed to the ravages of militants like
Hezbollah.
1.
Before delving
into the main body of the discussion, it may prove useful to present these
URL’s featuring photos of Hezbollah rallies. The organization uses the Nazi
salute—this gesture has no antecedents in the Arab and Muslim worlds. In order
to understand the viewpoints of both John Loftus and Dave Emory on the Lebanon
war, one should understand the implications of these pictures: http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2006/07/weapons-and-funding-boost-hezbollahs.html;
http://ftrsupplemental.blogspot.com/2006/07/hezbollah-photos.html. Hezbollah is an Islamic fascist organization.
In that regard, it is worth noting that the Ayatollah Khomeini’s exile in
France (before he became the head of the Islamic revolution that replaced the
Shah in 1979) was subsidized by Francois Genoud. The government of Iran is also
very close to Achmed Huber of the Bank Al Taqwa. Genoud was the heir to the
political last will and testament and collected literary works of: Adolph
Hitler, Martin Bormann and Joseph Goebbels. (For more about Genoud, see—among
other programs--FTR#’s 352 [documenting
his relationship with Khomeini], 453,
456. For more about Bank Al Taqwa’s
Huber, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 343, 354, 456.)
2.
In order to help the listener to better
understand the historical relationship between Iran and Nazi Germany, Mr. Emory
presents the text of an article that he read into the record in FTR#565. “Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad has shot to the forefront of Holocaust denial with his
rabble-rousing remarks last month. But it's more like self-denial. The
president of Iran need only look to his country's Hitler-era past to discover
that Iran and Iranians were strongly connected to the Holocaust and the Hitler
regime, as was the entire Islamic world under the leadership of the mufti of
Jerusalem. Iran's axis with the Third Reich began during the prewar years, when
it welcomed Nazi Gestapo agents and other operatives to Tehran, allowing them
to use the city as a base for Middle East agitation against the British and the
region's Jews. Key among these German agents was Fritz Grobba, Berlin's envoy
to the Middle East, who was often called ‘the German Lawrence,’ because he
promised a Pan-Islamic state stretching from Casablanca to Tehran. Relations
between Berlin and Tehran were strong from the moment Hitler came to power in
1933. At that time, Reza Shah Pahlavi's nation was known as Persia. The shah
became a stalwart admirer of Hitler, Nazism and the concept of the Aryan master
race. He also sought the Reich's help in reducing British petro-political
domination.” (“Denial of Holocaust Nothing
New in Iran Ties to Hitler Led to Plots Against British and Jews” by Edwin
Black; San Francisco Chronicle; 1/8/2006; accessed at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/01/08/INGODGH99Q1.DTL.)
3.
“So intense was the shah's identification with the Third
Reich that in 1935 he renamed his ancient country ‘Iran,’ which in Farsi means
Aryan and refers to the Proto-Indo-European lineage that Nazi racial theorists
and Persian ethnologists cherished. The idea for the name change was suggested
by the Iranian ambassador to Germany, who came under the influence of Hitler's
trusted banker, Hjalmar Schacht. From that point, all Iranians were constantly
reminded that their country shared a common bond with the Nazi regime.” (Idem.)
4.
Note the presence in this sequence of events of Haj Amin al-Husseini, the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. The Grand
Mufti was the first leader of the Palestinian movement and an individual whose
presence figures prominently in the history of World War II, the Middle East,
international fascism and the events in and around 9/11. (For more about the
Grand Mufti, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 354, 414, 416, 456.) “Shortly after World War II broke out in 1939, the Mufti
of Jerusalem crafted a strategic alliance with Hitler to exchange Iraqi oil for
active Arab and Islamic participation in the murder of Jews in the Mideast and
Eastern Europe. This was predicated on support for a pan-Arab state and Arab
control over Palestine. During the war years, Iran became a haven for Gestapo
agents. It was from Iran that the seeds of the abortive 1941 pro-Nazi coup in
Baghdad were planted. After Churchill's forces booted the Nazis out of Iraq in
June 1941, German aircrews supporting Nazi bombers escaped across Iraq's
northern border back into Iran. Likewise, the mufti of Jerusalem was spirited
across the border to Tehran, where he continued to call for the destruction of
the Jews and the defeat of the British.” (Idem.)
5.
“His venomous rhetoric filled the newspapers and radio
broadcasts in Tehran. The mufti was a vocal opponent of allowing Jewish
refugees to be transported or ransomed into Jewish Palestine. Instead, he
wanted them shipped to the gas chambers of Poland. In the summer of 1941, the
mufti, with the support of key Iranian military and government leaders,
advocated implementing in Iran what had failed months earlier in Iraq. The plan
once again was for a total diversion of oil from the Allies to the Nazis, in
exchange for the accelerated destruction of the Jews in Eastern Europe and the
Nazis' support for an Arab state. Through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Iran had
already been supplying Hitler's forces in occupied Czechoslovakia and Austria.
Now, the mufti agitated to cut off the British and the Allies completely and
supply Germany in its push against Russia.” (Idem.)
6.
“In October 1941, British, USSR other allied forces invaded
Iran to break up the Iran-Nazi alliance. Pro-Nazi generals and ministers were
arrested, and the shah's son was installed in power. The mufti scampered into
the Italian embassy, where he shaved his beard and dyed his hair. In this
disguise, he was allowed to leave the country along with the rest of the
Italian delegation. Once the mufti relocated permanently to Berlin, where he
established his own Reich-supported ‘bureau,’ he was given airtime on Radio
Berlin. From Berlin and other fascist capitals in Europe, the mufti continued
to agitate for international Jewish destruction, as well as a pan-Islamic
alliance with the Nazi regime.” (Idem.)
7.
“He called upon all Muslims to ‘kill the Jews wherever you
see them.’ In Tehran's marketplace, it was common to see placards that
declared, ‘In heaven, Allah is your master. On Earth, it is Adolf Hitler.’ When
the mufti raised three divisions of Islamic Waffen SS to undertake cruel
operations in Bosnia, among the 30,000 killers were some volunteer contingents
from Iran. Iranian Nazis, along with the other Muslim Waffen SS, operated under
the direct supervision of Heinrich Himmler and were responsible for barbarous
actions against Jews and others in Bosnia. Recruitment for the murderous
‘Handschar Divisions’ was done openly in Iran. Iran and its leaders were not
only aware of the Holocaust, they played both sides. The country offered
overland escape routes for refugee Jews fleeing Nazi persecution to Israel --
and later fleeing postwar Iraqi fascist persecution -- but only in exchange for
extortionate passage fees.” (Idem.)
8.
Since the rise of the Islamist government in Iran, that country has
become an epicenter of the Holocaust denial movement. “Thousands of Jews journeyed to Israel via Iran both
during the Holocaust and during the years after the fall of Hitler, when Arab
leaders, especially in Iraq, tried to continue Germany's anti-Jewish program.
Iran profited handsomely. Since the shah's downfall, Iran has become a center
for organized international Holocaust denial and has helped elevate the
endeavor from fringe hate speech to a state-approved pseudo-intellectual
debate. In international forums and on state-controlled radio, Iranian
university experts and journalists help validate the revisionist views that
Jews were never gassed or murdered in great numbers during the Holocaust.
Indeed, Iran has become a refuge for the biggest names in European Holocaust
denial. When in 2000, revisionist author Jürgen Graf was sentenced in
Switzerland to 15 months in prison for Holocaust falsification, Graf fled to
Tehran ‘at the invitation of a group of Iranian scholars and university
professors who are sympathetic to Holocaust revisionism,’ according to the
Institute for Historical Review, a denial clearinghouse.” (Idem.)
9.
“What's more, in May 2000, Iran's embassy in Vienna granted
asylum to Austrian Holocaust denier Wolfgang Fröhlich, who testified as a
so-called expert witness during Graf's 1998 trial. This saved Fröhlich from
Austria's severe anti-Holocaust denial statutes. Fröhlich argued that evidence
proved no Jews were killed by Zyklon B gassing. Earlier, about 600 journalists
and 160 members of the Iranian parliament signed petitions supporting French
revisionist Roger Garaudy, who was fined $40,000 by French authorities for his
book claiming the Holocaust was a myth. When Garaudy landed in Iran, the
country's supreme spiritual leader, Ayatollah Sayyad Khamenei, granted him an
audience and lauded his work. Iran has played a leading role in the Holocaust
drama and now tries to deny it. That should be very hard in a nation that was
named for Hitler's master race.” (Idem.)
10.
In the main body of the broadcast, John began by highlighting an
upcoming Intelligence Summit in St. Petersburg, Florida, at which the “silent
majority” of peaceful, tolerant, non-violent Muslims will be the primary focus
of the event. For more about this event, visit: http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/JohnLoftus/JL010606.php.
11.
A fascinating topic of discussion was introduced in public for the
first time—“Terror-Free Oil.” The operant concept is the marketing of gasoline
to the American public that is NOT produced by countries that sponsor
terrorism. Some companies, such as Sinclair, do not buy oil from countries that
support terrorism. For more information about the subject, visit: http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/.
12.
Next, the discussion turned to the subject
of the Hidden or Twelfth Imam. This is a mystical belief held by some Shiite
Muslims that maintains that a child who died a long time ago will come to life
after certain signs manifest themselves, including apocalyptic and catastrophic
events. The coming of the Hidden Imam will herald judgment day in the Muslim
faith. Mr. Emory noted Iranian president Amadinejad is a subscriber to this
belief. That mystical, apocalyptic belief system along with his denial of the
Holocaust and vow to destroy Israel should prove very frightening to people, in
light of the fact that he is seeking nuclear weapons. With many fundamentalist
Christians seeing the events in the Middle East as the fulfillment of prophecy,
Mr. Emory expressed great anxiety for the future of the world. John Loftus
added that the Christians were not actively seeking the annihilation of the
Jews, unlike the Muslims.
13.
Next, John revealed that some of the major
oil companies, especially Exxon/Mobil—were supportive of the insurgency in
Iraq, because the turmoil minimizes the amount of Iraqi oil entering the world
markets, keeping the price high. (For more about the effects of Middle East
violence on the global economy, see FTR#’s 560 and 561.) John notes that the multinational corporations are not supportive of
the United States!
14.
Next, John reviews the Webb-Pomerene Act,
the onset and growth of fascism and globalization. For a good overview of this
discussion, see—among other programs—FTR#532.)
15.
John reviews the genesis of the Muslim
Brotherhood, the prototype of Islamofascist groups such as Hezbollah. (For more
about the Brotherhood, see—among other programs—FTR#’s 455, 456, 473.)
16.
Mr. Emory then
reviews an article about the laissez-faire commercial philosophy of the Muslim
Brotherhood. The broadcast notes that that organization’s economic ideology is
altogether consistent with the fundamental goals of multinational corporations
and the practice of globalization. (For more about the corporatist/fascist
economic philosophy of the Brotherhood, see—among other programs—FTR#537.) It is said that
a picture is worth a thousand words. This picture
of an Islamic Jihad campaign rally from April of 2005 speaks volumes about the
Muslim Brotherhood. (Palestinian Islamic Jihad is a subgroup of the
Brotherhood.) The Brotherhood’s populist pretensions and actual charitable
accomplishments should not blind one to the true nature of the organization. As
discussed in FTR#540,
the head of the Egyptian branch of the Brotherhood has denied the Holocaust.
Keep this in mind when reading discussion of the Egyptian Brotherhood in the
article below. “Judeo-Christian scripture offers
little economic instruction. The Book of Deuteronomy, for example, is loaded
with edicts on how the faithful should pray, eat, bequeath, keep the holy
festivals and treat slaves and spouses, but it is silent on trade and commerce.
In Matthew, when Christ admonishes his followers to ‘give to the emperor the
things that are the emperor's,’ he is effectively conceding fiscal and monetary
authority to pagan Rome. Islam is different. The prophet Muhammad—himself a
trader—preached merchant honor, the only regulation that the borderless
Levantine market knew. In Muslim liturgy, the deals cut in the souk become a
metaphor for the contract between God and the faithful. And the business model Muhammad
prescribed, according to Muslim scholars and economists, is very much in the
laissez-faire tradition later embraced by the West. Prices were to be set by
God alone—anticipating by more than a millennium Adam Smith's reference to the
‘invisible hand’ of market-based pricing. Merchants were not to cut deals
outside the souk, an early attempt to thwart insider trading.” (“Islam
in Office” by Stephen Glain; Newsweek; 7/3-10/2006; accessed at: http://msnbc.com/id/13529579/site/newsweek/.)
17.
Note that the
Islamist government of Iraq has preserved the free-market, laissez-faire
economic model crafted by Grover Norquist. “Today,
with a spiritual revival sweeping much of the Muslim world and with the Bush
administration still keen on democratizing the region, it is worth asking how
an Islamist movement would manage the economy. Since 2001, Islamist parties
have made strong showings or won elections in 10 Arab countries (Morocco,
Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait and Pakistan) and
the Palestinian Authority. And none are clashing with the West on free-market
economics. In Iraq, the supply-side economic-reform plan submitted in 2003
by former U.S. administrator Paul Bremer has survived with only minor revisions
under Baghdad's new Shia-dominated government. [Italics are Mr. Emory’s.]
An interesting test came in the January election in Egypt, when the Muslim
Brotherhood—the fountainhead of modern Islamism—took a fifth of the seats in Parliament.
Now the largest opposition party, much of the brotherhood's appeal rests on its
network of hospitals, schools and charities, which are often superior to state
services (and help explain why the secular regime cracks down harder on the
secular opposition than on the religious one). Fortunately for the
reform-minded prime minister, Ahmed Nazif, the brotherhood's economic agenda is
largely consistent with his own, albeit with a more populist twist.” (Idem.)
18.
“The
brotherhood embraces free-trade deals in general, but criticizes the government
for failing to negotiate better terms for Egyptians. Though Islam tends to
frown on tax collection, the brotherhood supports tax reform (not abolition)
and opposes a proposed flat tax as regressive. It even endorsed the recent
decision to lift budget-busting food and fuel subsidies, but wants to use
Egypt's ample natural-gas reserves to finance a less painful transition to
market prices. ‘It must be done gently,’ says Mohammad Habib, the brotherhood's
first deputy chairman, ‘with the objective of reducing the gap between rich and
poor.’ In the 1950s, as the brotherhood gained political momentum, it opposed
President Gamal Abdel Nasser as much for his decision to nationalize the
Egyptian economy as for his fierce secularism. Muhammad, says Yasser Abdo, a
Muslim Brotherhood member and a former economist at the International Islamic
Bank for Investment and Development in Cairo, ‘believed in the private sector
as the basis of productive activity,’ with a ‘limited’ state role.” (Idem.)
19.
Note that although
the Brotherhood officially disclaims monopolist economics, it does not
question the OPEC cartel. “Today, brotherhood
parliamentarians remain anti-statist and staunchly antitrust, citing a verse in
the Qur'an: ‘He who brings commodities to the market is good, but he who
practices monopolies is evil.’ Not that any member goes as far as questioning
the OPEC cartel. As Cairo University economist Abdel Hamid Abuzaid puts it,
Islam promotes ‘competition of a cooperative’ nature, not the ‘cutthroat’
Western kind. Politically, at least, the objective of fundamentalist Islam is
to restore the Islamic caliphate, the unified Muslim kingdom of the 7th to the
early 20th centuries that stretched from the Hindu Kush to the Strait of Gibraltar.
This rhetoric turns more practical on the subject of trade. ‘If the ancient
caliphate can revive itself,’ says Habib, who has a U.S. doctorate in geology,
‘it will happen through regional commerce.’ A brotherhood in power, says Habib,
would respect Cairo's free-trade agreements—though the group appears to be
divided over whether it would honor one with Israel.” (Idem.)
20.
Note that no less an
authority than the World Bank views Ibn Khaldun—revered by the Brotherhood—as
“the first advocate of privatization”! “In the days
of the caliphate, Islam developed the most sophisticated monetary system the world had yet known. Today, some
economists cite Islamic banking as further evidence of an intrinsic Islamic pragmatism. Though still guided
by a Qur'anic ban on riba, or interest, Islamic banking has adapted to
the needs of a booming oil region for liquidity. In recent years, some 500
Islamic banks and investment firms holding $2 trillion in assets have emerged
in the Gulf States, with more in Islamic communities of the West. British
Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown wants to make London a global center
for Islamic finance—and elicits no howl of protest from fundamentalists. How
Islamists might run a central bank is more problematic: scholars say they would
manipulate currency reserves, not interest rates. The Muslim Brotherhood hails
14th century philosopher Ibn Khaldun as its economic guide. Anticipating
supply-side economics, Khaldun argued that cutting taxes raises production and
tax revenues, and that state control should be limited to providing water, fire
and free grazing land, the utilities of the ancient world. The World Bank
has called Ibn Khaldun the first advocate of privatization. [Italics are
Mr. Emory’s.] His founding influence is a sign of moderation. If Islamists in
power ever do clash with the West, it won't be over commerce.” (Idem.)
21.
Noting that the
trans-national corporations favored fascism (or “corporatism” as they preferred
to call it), Mr. Emory and Loftus concurred that, in many ways, the
multinational corporate community’s support for the Islamofascist Muslim
Brotherhood is analogous to their support for the fascism of the World War II
era. While U.S. and other Western nations’ troops are indeed fighting a real
war against Islamists, at the same time, the oil companies and other
transnationals are supporting Islamism as a vehicle for privatization and
globalization. Both John and Mr. Emory agreed that this was not unlike the
situation in the Second World War, in which Allied troops were fighting against
the fascists, while many corporations and their most important personnel were
collaborating with them. Previously in the broadcast, John Loftus reviewed the
development of the Muslim Brotherhood, as outlined in FTR#473.
22.
Next, the discussion
turned to the war in Lebanon, in particular some of the falsification and
exaggeration of civilian casualties. Among the incidents outlined are the
alleged Israeli attacks on ambulances, a readily verifiable fabrication. The
ambulances that were supposedly attacked by the Israelis clearly were NOT
struck by airborne munitions, neither
missiles nor cannon fire. This should have been evident to even the most casual
and unsophisticated observer. A conservative website presented a detailed,
thoughtful analysis of the ambulance fraud: http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/. Note in particular the ambulance that
supposedly was hit by a missile in the roof. First, no aerial missile could
have entered at this angle. Beyond that, a round big enough to have caused such
a hole would have disintegrated the ambulance and left a significant crater in
the ground. This isn’t just disinformation, it isn’t even very well done.
Take a careful look at the ambulances in this footage. http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=6377. Once again, they clearly have not been struck by
missiles or cannon fire. It is worth noting that the Australian Foreign
Minister has echoed the fraud charges concerning the ambulances. Visit this
website: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20291873-601,00.html.
23.
What John Loftus
referred to as the “Non-massacre at Qana” also was greatly exaggerated, perhaps
even fabricated. There was a period of several hours between the time Israeli
munitions struck a building in that city and the time it collapsed. The corpses
of children allegedly killed in that building exhibited advanced rigor mortis
and were remarkably free of the blood, feces and urine that might be expected
on the corpses of children who had been killed in an air raid. Check out this
website and the analysis on it: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2006/08/qana-directors-cut.html.
Again, it should be noted that virtually all of the coverage of this
important phenomenon comes from the conservative sector. The so-called
alternative media haven’t touched the issue of the fraudulent “atrocities.”
24.
It is worth noting
that these obvious frauds had an enormous effect on world opinion. Indeed, the
Qana non-massacre appears to have been a major factor in blunting the Bush
administration’s support for Israel. Mr. Emory considers Hezbollah’s
manipulation of events to be one of the most skilled and decisive uses of psychological
warfare and propaganda in the history of warfare. The subject of media
manipulation and the massive disinformation in the Lebanon war will be the
focal point of future broadcasts. After the program had been recorded, another
bogus incident surfaced, the supposed Israeli attack on a Reuters vehicle. View
this website: http://powerlineblog.com/archives/015118.php.
Once again, this is NOT a vehicle that has been hit by an aerial missile.
Once again, this isn’t even a good fake. In the program, John alluded to a
Reuters photographer who deliberately faked photographs of Israeli air raid
damage to Beirut: http://www.zombietime.com/reuters_photo_fraud/.
25.
The discussion concluded with John’s overly optimistic view that the
Arab countries had given their tacit blessing to the Israelis to destroy
Hezbollah. This does not appear to have been borne out by circumstances. On the
contrary, the available evidence suggests that the U.N., the Lebanese
government (of which Hezbollah is part), and the European countries that are
contributing to the peace-keeping force are quietly colluding with Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has already said it won’t disarm and the Lebanese army has said they
will not attempt to force them to do so. The Europeans appear to be quietly
acquiescing, as well.