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Comrade Raimondo Seeks a Scapegoat
By Israel Shamir
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/shamireaders/messages
July 2005
A man accused of witchcraft at the Inquisition Court had two ways to defend
oneself. One, he could laugh it off, and declare: there is no such thing as
witchcraft. The problem is, the inquisition won't approve of such a defence,
and the daring Witchcraft Denier may yet end at the stake, if not for his black
magic, then for his Denial. The second way was to finger a 'real sorcerer' and
thus to demonstrate one's obedience to the Inquisition.
This easier way out was chosen by an internet columnist Justin Raimondo of
www.Antiwar.com who was accused of variety
of sins (1) by a junior London-based
inquisitor called David Aaronovitch in the Times (London). He decided to
scapegoat me. (2) I find myself in a familiar predicament: much as I sympathize
with
the victim of inquisition, I am not ready to serve as his fall guy.
In brief, Raimondo says: I am not an anti-Semite, but Shamir "of indeterminate
ethnicity" is.
This is the path many good but frail guys tread before him and it made them
no good at all. The Columbia University professor Joseph Massad comes to my
mind: he accused late Prof Israel Shahak of being anti-Semite. It did not help
him a jota: he was accused of the same dreadful offence by the same inquisition
he tried to placate and almost lost his job. Now Raimondo goes the same path,
and not the first time. (3) He even took up the line of "doubtful ethnicity":
Jews use this disclaimer to imply that a pureblood Jew would never stray that
far. After repeating this small slur, Raimondo may begin to check kosher
certificates on his bacon and eggs.
Pity, for a long time, I have kept a warm spot in my heart for Comrade
Raimondo. Much as I do not like the US right-wingers, this flamboyant
Republican-against-the-war appeared to me a man who fulfils a positive function
in the US body politic. He is not the man I would like "to be in bed with", as
he claims,
for I do not like to be in bed with men. But he is doing a good job, opposes
Zionism and the US expansion to the Middle East.
He writes, correctly: "The War Party greatly fears unity among the antiwar
forces. If they can succeed in demonizing antiwar conservatives, and play on
the Left's own caricaturized conception of the Right - a caricature based on
ignorance and loyalty to an outmoded "left-right" paradigm - they can split
opponents of America's imperial ambitions and even set them against each
other."
After this, perfectly correct line, he explodes in indignation: "what I have
to
do with the likes of David Duke, Nick Griffin, and the founder of the
Baader-Meinhoff Gang, is a mystery to me".
A hint: all these people - as well as the Paleo-Conservatives, Nationalists,
Communists and some Christian and Islamic Fundamentalists - are against the
US-led war on the Third World. Strange, he does not want to see this common
denominator. He has these qualities in common with other people whom I
mentioned - from Duke to Mahler. I disagree with them on many positions, but
approve of
their anti-Zionism and anti-imperialism. Likewise, Winston Churchill was not
overtly fond of Communism, but supported Stalin in his struggle against Hitler's
Germany. Another more up-to-date example: fervent Zionist and warmonger
Aaronovitch supports the 'anti-Zionist Jews for Peace' in their attacks on Gilad
Atzmon and myself.
The world-view difference between me and Raimondo (and Buchanan, and others)
is a normal Left vs. Right difference. Raimondo's main accusation that
"Aaronovitch is formerly a Communist Party youth leader" is in my eyes the sole
redeeming feature of the named Aaronovitch. Raimondo calls him 'a Stalinist', I
reply with "alas, he is not". But I agree wholeheartedly with Raimondo that
"Aaronovitch is a worm with slime trail". If the "left-right paradigm is
outmoded" as Raimondo claims, we should look beyond differences, to the mutual
convergence of interests.
Raimondo proclaims that "he is not against Jews". Well, this is not the
Jewish view of him. Google "Raimondo Jews", and you will find that an important
Jewish publication describes him as "American neo-fascist", (4) while the Chief
of Staff of the Jewish Action Alliance writes: "what makes Justin Raimondo an
especially dangerous anti-Semite is that he is too much of a coward to come out
as an anti-Semite directly; instead, he uses the ruse of being anti-Israel."
Raimondo tries to sell us his PC version of the events: "support for that war
within the administration had nothing to do with putting Jews in an "exalted
position," but everything to do with putting the nation-state of Israel in
such a position." "Most American Jews opposed the Iraq war, and they continue
to oppose it. Israel is not "the Jews" - it is a nation, with interests unique
to
itself and policies that are all too often directly counterpoised to the
interests and beliefs of Jews worldwide."
Very, very convincing. What, I pray, makes "the nation-state of Israel" so
influential in the US? Why this small and far-away "nation-state" gets 90%
support in the Congress and Senate and receives over 50% of all American
foreign aid? Raimondo offers no answer of his own. For obvious reasons he can't
agree
neither with Chomsky's thesis that support of Israel is a real American
Imperial interest nor with our view. Thus it remains a mystery in Raimondian
universe.
In our view ("Shamir's thesis"), the main reason of Israel's prominence in
the US is the Jewish prominence in the US discourse. Israel indeed is not 'the
Jews', but a part and parcel of the Jewish setup. If Raimondo were slapped by
Aaronovitch, he would probably claim that he was slapped by Aaronovitch's hand
"which has nothing to do with Comrade Aaronovitch". In my view, if
Aaronovitch's hand slaps Raimondo, probably his body and head are not too far
behind.
I wonder what makes Comrade Raimondo a leading expert on "the interests and
beliefs of Jews worldwide"? Jews say they support Israel (with miniscule
exclusions) but he knows better. He says that "the American antiwar movement
consists of a large number of Jews". Very true, and that is why the US antiwar
movement was very hesitant of ever tying the war in Iraq with the cause of
Palestine. They preferred to blame the war on 'oil interests'.
Raimondo says that "most American Jews opposed the Iraq war". Even if it were
true (and it is not) what difference would it make? He notes that "60 percent
of Americans say we ought to start withdrawing from Iraq" but "the War Party
is still in the driver's seat". Isn't it the same story? Opposition of
ordinary Americans of Jewish descent to the War does not influence the policy
of 'the Jews' (i.e. of Jewish elites) like the opposition of the ordinary
Americans
makes no impact of Bush's policies.
In order to present me as "an addled brain of a nutbar", Raimondo distorts my
words. I write: "AIPAC and ADL should be registered as foreign-interests
lobbyist if not banned altogether". He writes: "Shamir's idea that the
U.S.
government should ban Jewish organizations is grotesque, not only by
libertarian standards but by any measure of human decency." I am not aware of
the measure
of 'human decency' which forbids banning of these two monsters for they run a
(surely illegal) private political police force in the US. This is certainly
not 'grotesque' for the country which routinely bans even philanthropic Islamic
bodies. And who but Raimondo wrote in 2001: "when such groups [as AIPAC] put
the interests of a country other than the US at the very top of their agenda,
when nary a sliver of daylight can be found between their stance and that of a
foreign power - then Americans have a right to call them on it".
He writes: "Shamir caters to his deranged constituency of Jew-haters". Far
from it: our community of shamireaders (5) has many professors and priests,
people of Left and Right, of Jewish and Gentile origin, and is probably one of
the most diverse and exciting groups in cyberspace. We are still ready to listen
and swap views with all anti-War people, even with Raimondo.
(1)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22369-1671715,00.html
(2)
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6472
(3)http://www.the7thfire.com/new_world_order/zionism/justin_raimondo_does_not_go_far_enough.htm
(4)
http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=17310