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Titolo: Una botta al cerchio e una alla botte.

Giorni fa ho postato questa lettera aperta di un'allievo ebreo al suo
docente ebreo:
"An Open Letter to Paul Wolfowitz"
Credo che la notizia della cattura di Saddam Hussein ha fatto passare il mio
post inosservato perche`questa sarebbe la prima volta che ho scritto la
parola ebreo senza che il barometro del NG ne fosse alterato .
Se invece il silenzio generale rappresenta una accettazione delle parole di
quello studente > PACIFISTA EBREO < grazie lo stesso del vostro silenzio ,
si vede che quello scritto ha fatto centro.
Giano
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http://www.counterpunch.org/ruebner03142003.html
To My Former Dean and Other "Court Jews"
by JOSH RUEBNER
Dear Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz,
(Taglio la prima parte iniziale che sono frasi di circostanza tra uno
studente e l'insegnante perche` la lettera e` lunga)
[CUT]
..............as Jews, we do share that intimate connection and shared sense
of destiny even if we do not really know each other. Perhaps in Hebrew
school you learned the dictum kol yisrael arevim zeh la'zeh-that all Jews
are responsible for and to each other. It is in this spirit of mutual
responsibility that I write to you.
Brother, I am concerned about you. I am concerned that you are being
exploited and that you do not realize it. Before you discard my pro-peace,
anti-imperialism views about the war in Iraq as the ranting of an aberrant
SAIS student who somehow escaped from the school's neo-conservative
straitjacket, I plead with you to engage in chesbon nefesh-that powerful,
beautiful Jewish tradition of "soul accounting" in which we engage during
the High Holidays. Before the bombs start falling on the long-suffering,
innocent civilians of Baghdad, please look into your heart and ask yourself
honestly whose interests you are serving by being such a visible symbol of
this policy.
Lately I have come to the disturbing conclusion that the Bush Administration
is using you as its "court Jew" par excellence. Rest assured, this is not a
term that I learned during my studies at SAIS. Rather I picked it up in the
course of my involvement with the Jewish peace movement which is calling
simultaneously for an end to Israel's self-destructive military occupation
of Palestine and is helping to mobilize the millions of good-hearted
Americans who have taken to the streets to protest the war of aggression
that the Bush Administration is pedaling.
"Court Jew" is a term that originates in the context of anti-Semitism in
"enlightened" Europe. On that blood-soaked continent, the reigning monarchs
and other despotic rulers thought up an ingenious system to perpetuate their
oppressive systems of government. These shrewd, Machiavellian rulers made a
psychologically brilliant pact with an elite, assimilationist group of
Jewish subjects who craved nothing more than acceptance by the power
structure of society. Often, these ambitious Jews were so eager to serve the
interests of the rulers so that they could ease their feelings of
internalized self-hatred. They viewed serving the power structure as a way
to overcome the marginality and stigmas associated with being Jewish which
were built into the very fabric of society by the power structure to begin
with. The rulers understood this yearning to enter the halls of power and
took advantage of it by dangling a carrot of illusional power before the
hungry eyes of this wayward Jewish elite. These "court Jews" were given
politically unimportant, yet highly visible positions within the regime.
Why? So that when the subjected masses rose up from time to time in
justified outrage at the oppressive nature of the regime under which they
lived, there was a convenient, ready-made scapegoat in place. The "court
Jew," as a highly visible symbol of the regime, served as the lighting rod
to bear the brunt of the blame and deflect criticism from where it belonged
rightfully. Brother, need I remind you how disastrous it was for our people
to be the target of this rage? I think that you would agree that, in
retrospect, it would have been better not to have played the fool for those
European monarchs.
But, alas, the tragic mistakes of history do tend to repeat themselves.
(Brother, it makes we wonder sometimes if the global community of human
beings is making "progress" toward anything worth progressing to.) Maybe you
don't see it coming, but I do. Your job is to interact in the high-brow
world of intelligence briefings and diplomacy. My job is to interact with
the people and mobilize them against the very steps that you're taking. With
all due respect, I think that I am in a better position to hear what the
people are saying. Do you know what they're saying already? That the war in
Iraq is being planned by a cabal of extremist Jews. That it is the first
part of a Zionist conspiracy to redraw the map of the Middle East. That
Israel stands to be the prime beneficiary of this war. And it's not just the
marginalized skinheads who are saying this either. It's also mainstream
folks who would swear up and down that they don't have an anti-Semitic bone
in their bodies. I'm sure that you, like me, recoiled in horror when you
heard Congressman Jim Moran assert that it is the Jews who are advocatingfor
this war and that only the Jews have the power to stop it.
It pains me that so many of my fellow citizens are falling into this age-old
trap of blaming the powerless Jews who seem so powerful because of the
existence of a handful of "court Jews" who front for the power structure.
This doesn't mean that the "court Jews" of the unelected Jewish
Establishment haven't been hawking for this war. They have been. There is no
denying that Israel sent Benjamin Netanyahu to Capitol Hill to testify for
the war in Iraq and "convince" Members of Congress that it was in the
interests of the United States to let loose the dogs of war (as if they
needed much convincing anyway). All of this is true. This is the beauty of
how the system works. Take a few "court Jews" and give them unimpeded access
to the mainstream media and, voila, you create the impression among the
masses that "the Jews" are spoiling for a war. Do you see brother how you
are misrepresenting us? I wish that we in the Jewish peace movement could
have as much access as you do to the mainstream media so that we could
shatter the monolithic view of the Jewish community which the "court Jew" by
definition is set up to propagate. Of course, we are denied that access by
the same power structure which has an interest in making sure that yours
isthe only "Jewish" voice heard.
I'm really afraid that we are heading for a calamity. If the people are this
incensed now my brother, how do you think they will feel when American men
and women start returning from the sands of Kuwait in body bags? Who is
going to be blamed if, God forbid, we are subjected to another terrorist
attack? Do these thoughts keep you awake at night? Are you scared like I am
that this imperialistic war in Iraq threatens the existence of the Jewish
people?
My brother, I don't blame you for accepting the starring role of "court
Jew." It must be a pretty amazing feeling to convince yourself that you have
as much power as everybody says that you do. I hope that I never get close
enough to the power structure of this crumbling, decrepit empire to get a
taste of it. In my humble opinion, there is only one honorable thing that
you can do to undo the shameful damage that you have caused already: resign.
For the sake of your own dignity, you must refuse to be exploited as the
"court Jew." Step down and deprive the power structure of its "court Jew"
and you will expose to the world the actors who really motivate the Bush
Administration. Please, before it is too late, tell the world that it is not
the powerless Jews who are pushing for this war, but the greedy, venal
barons of corporate America who stand to profit while cowering behind the
myth of the all-powerful Jew. Tell everybody what you and I both know. That
the real interests hawking for this war are the defense contractors and the
oil industry who will make billions of dollars to first destroy Iraq and
then "rebuild" it under the protective wing of American "democracy." And,
while you're at it, please tell the world that the $100 billion the Bush
Administration will require to pay the military-industrial complex to
finance this war of aggression will be sucked from the wallets of the
impoverished American working class which is systematically being stripped
of government services by this rapacious regime.
I am not the type of Jew who generally bases his opinions on whether a
particular action "is good for the Jews." I would like to believe that I
have a more embracing, holistic view of humanity. Maybe it even seems
self-centered to worry about what will happen to the Jews because of this
war when thousands of innocent Iraqis stand to die in order for the United
States to "liberate" their country. I confess though that I'm worried and I
don't know what else to do with my fear except express it. Brother, it seems
to me to be so painfully obvious that this war will benefit no one but the
corporate interests I mentioned above. Not Jews, not Americans, not
Israelis, not Iraqis, and not Palestinians.
If I've sparked even a sliver of doubt in your mind as to the wisdom of the
course you are pursuing, please call me and we can get together for a cup of
coffee over breakfast. It will be just like the good old days at SAIS.
With love,
Josh Ruebner

Wolfowiz č ebreo quanto Rudolf Hess era cattolico...


Non conosco "le tendenze" religiose di Hess , ma , per favore , se vuoi
rispondere fallo con cognizione di causa e dopo aver letto lo scritto .
Grazie.
Giano

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Sto dicendo che è sbagliato definire un criminale come Wolfowitz ebreo
perchè la religione è sicuramente la cosa che lo caratterizza meno. Hess era
cattolico, ma nessuno si sofferma sul dettaglio della sua religione e gli
scrive lettere da cattolico a cattolico... Wolfowitz è solo un criminale
contro l'umanità e come tale sarà ricordato non, almeno lo spero per gli
ebrei, in quanto ebreo....