- On July 18, 2008 The New York Times published an article
by Israeli-Jewish historian, Professor Benny Morris, advocating an Israeli
nuclear-genocidal attack on Iran with the likelihood of killing 70 million
Iranians 12 times the number of Jewish victims in the Nazi holocaust:
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- " Iran 's leaders would do well to rethink their
gamble and suspend their nuclear program. Barring this, the best they could
hope for is that Israel 's conventional air assault will destroy their
nuclear facilities. To be sure, this would mean thousands of Iranian casualties
and international humiliation. But the alternative is an Iran turned into
a nuclear wasteland."
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- Morris is a frequent lecturer and consultant to the Israeli
political and military establishment and has unique access to Israeli strategic
military planners. Morris' advocacy and public support of the massive,
brutal expulsion of all Palestinians is on public record. Yet his genocidal
views have not precluded his receiving numerous academic awards. His writings
and views are published in Israel 's leading newspapers and journals. Morris'
views are not the idle ranting of a marginal psychopath, as witnessed by
the recent publication of his latest op-ed article in the New York Times.
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- What does the publication by the New York Times of an
article, which calls for the nuclear incineration of 70 million Iranians
and the contamination of the better part of a billion people in the Middle
East, Asia and Europe, tell us about US politics and culture? For it is
the NYT, which informs the 'educated classes' in the US, its Sunday supplements,
literary and editorial pages and which serves as the 'moral conscience'
of important sectors of the cultural, economic and political elite.
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- The New York Times provides a certain respectability
to mass murder, which Morris' views otherwise would not possess if say,
they were published in the neo-conservative weeklies or monthlies. The
fact that the NYT considers the prospect of an Israeli mass extermination
of millions of Iranians part of the policy debate in the Middle East reveals
the degree to which Zionofascism has infected the 'higher' cultural and
journalist circles of the United States. Truth to say, this is the logical
outgrowth of the Times public endorsement of Israel 's economic blockade
to starve 1.4 million Palestinians in Gaza ; the Times' cover-up of Israeli-Zionist-AIPAC
influence in launching the US invasion of Iraq leading to over one million
murdered Iraqi citizens.
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- The Times sets the tone for the entire New York cultural
scene, which privileges Israeli interests, to the point of assimilating
into the US political discourse not only its routine violations of international
law, but its threats, indeed promises, to scorch vast areas of the earth
in pursuit of its regional supremacy. The willingness of the NYT to publish
an Israeli genocide-ethnocide advocate tells us about the strength of the
ties between a purportedly 'liberal establishment' pro-Israel publication
and the totalitarian Israeli right: It is as if to say that for the liberal
pro-Israel establishment, the nonJewish Nazis are off limits, but the views
and policies of Judeo-fascists need careful consideration and possible
implementation.
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- Morris' New York Times 'nuclear-extermination' article
did not provoke any opposition from the 52 Presidents of the Major American
Jewish Organizations (PMAJO) because, in its daily information bulletin,
Daily Alert, it has frequently published articles by Israeli and US Zionists
advocating an Israeli and/or US nuclear attack on Iran . In other words,
Morris' totalitarian views are part of the cultural matrix deeply embedded
in the Zionist organizational networks and its extensive 'reach' in US
cultural and political circles. What the Times did in publishing Morris'
lunacy has taken genocidal discourse out of the limited circulation of
Zionist influentials and into the mainstream of millions of American readers.
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- Apart from a handful of writers (Gentile and Jewish)
publishing in marginal web sites, there was no political or moral condemnation
from the entire literary, political and journalistic world of this affront
to our humanity. No attempt was made to link Morris' totalitarian genocidal
policies to Israel 's public official threats and preparations for nuclear
war. There is no anti-nuclear campaign led by our most influential public
intellectuals to repudiate the state ( Israel ) and its public intellectuals
who prepare a nuclear war with the potential to exterminate more than ten
times the number of Jews slaughtered by the Nazis.
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- A nuclear incineration of the nation of Iran is the Israeli
counterpart of Hitler's gas chambers and ovens writ large. Extermination
is the last stage of Zionism: Informed by the doctrine of rule the Middle
East or ruin the air and land of the world. That is the explicit message
of Benny Morris (and his official Israeli sponsors), who like Hitler, issues
ultimatums to the Iranians, 'surrender or be destroyed' and who threatens
the US, join us in bombing Iran or face a world ecological and economic
catastrophe.
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- That Morris is utterly, starkly and clinically insane
is beyond question. That the New York Times in publishing his genocidal
ravings provides new signs of how power and wealth has contributed to the
degeneration of Jewish intellectual and cultural life in the US . To comprehend
the dimensions of this decay we need only compare the brilliant tragic-romantic
German-Jewish writer, Walter Benjamin, desperately fleeing the advance
of totalitarian Nazi terror to the Israeli-Jewish writer, Benny Morris'
criminal advocacy of Zionist nuclear terror published in the New York Times.
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- The question of Zionist power in America is not merely
a question of a 'lobby' influencing Congressional and White House decisions
concerning foreign aid to Israel . What is at stake today are the related
questions of the advocacy of a nuclear war in which 70 million Iranians
face extermination and the complicity of the US mass media in providing
a platform, nay a certain political respectability for mass murder and
global contamination. Unlike the Nazi past, we cannot claim, as the good
Germans did, that 'we did not know' or 'we weren't notified', because it
was written by an eminent Israeli academic and was published in the New
York Times.
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- James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of
Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. His latest book is "Zionism,
Militarism And the Decline of U.S Power" (Clarity Press Atlanta ),
August 2008
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- http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9711
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