I keep missing a big campaign story that is on my beat: the efforts by a shadowy network that has Jerusalem connections to distribute DVDs of the movie "Obsession," which portrays Islam as the fount of jihad, to voters in swing states, by paying to have them included inside newspapers. The efforts are obviously aimed at raising the fear factor among voters, in John McCain's behalf. For being a strong leader is his only selling point. But the ultimate goal of the network behind the film would seem to be to stop Obama from becoming president and thereby reviving the "peace process" and the Clinton Parameters, which hinted at dividing Jerusalem.
Is this the September surprise we've all been waiting for? There are tons of developments on the story. Joachim Martillo has shown that the Clarion Fund, which is distributing the film, has connections to Aish haTorah, a Jewish revivalist outreach group that I've run into myself that is based in Jerusalem, with storefront centers around the U.S., and that has rightwing biblical views on the Land of Israel. Two big newspapers are refusing to distribute Obsession, though the New York Times did distribute it. Meantime, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, CAIR, is seeking a Federal Election Commission investigation of the free DVD distribution, saying that Clarion Fund/Aish is an Israel-based group that is seeking to "whip up anti-Muslim hysteria." Richard Silverstein says he's going to file a tax complaint against Clarion for violating 501c3 status and thinks there is a Sheldon Adelson connection, which makes sense because Adelson is against dividing Jerusalem. Even the JTA states that the film claims that Islam is "prone to hegemony." Well that sounds like a bad word. Prone to authoritarianism?
The issue is heating up in Florida, where the Palm Beach Post has slammed the distribution:
"The irony is that The Clarion Fund, whatever the group is and whoever runs it, is operating like the secret cells it warns about. Terrorists are cowards. In their own way, so are the people sending out this campaign ad."
This is the heart of the issue, that rightwing Zionists operate so often in this country with a hidden agenda. Like Sheldon Adelson, benefactor of One Jerusalem, the anti-Camp David group, propping up George Bush's campaign in 2000 and Bush hiring One Jerusalem's Doug Feith as an under secretary of Defense just as Adelson's third tranche of $300,000 in gifts to a Republican committee arrived. Yes I wonder about the conspiracy. Feith brought with him the Invade Iraq neoconservative virus. Of course other people had it, too. But again, where is the journalism? Where is the description of the neocons' agenda, network, and covert ops.
A friend writes, "This is a dirty secret that needs to be dealt with: American Muslims feel that right-wing American Jews create an environment of extreme hostility towards them. It poisons inter-community relations and unfortunately strengthens anti-Semitic attitudes (for instance: Jews are a powerful enemy who hate Muslims). The argument paraphrases an old article that Daniel Pipes, who's in the Obsession movie, wrote entitled: American Muslims against American Jews (Commentary 1999)."
There is obviously some truth to that Muslim fear, with respect to right wing Jews. You'd think Americans are better than this, or the Jewish community is. So far the best journalism on the matter is in the blogosphere.
Related posts:
- ‘Obsession Isn’t a Perfume’
- ‘NYT’ Distributes Movie That’s Harsh on Islam, Paid for by Rightwing Fearmongers
- ‘Jews on First’ Smite ‘Obsession’ Hip and Thigh
- Please Greenlight this Western: ‘Shootout With the Israel Lobby Over Dividing Jerusalem’
- Triangulation: Leading Islamic Group Links Jeffrey Goldberg
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I love the analogy of the beast from Jerusalem. The "Eternal Jew" put out by the Nazi's couldn't have done any better. Anyway, I defy anyone to watch the movie and tell me where it lies. Second. seems like you "progressives" are advocating censorship. Last but not least. I know that Phil and the rest of his kaffiyeh clad band of merry stormtroopers are right on top[ of the Jewish thing but I really think that the rest of the country is more interested in the fact that we're an inch away from a replay of the depression.
Palin's preacher: Jews control the economy, that's causing all the corruption, and we need to have Christians take over business and banking
Dedicated to Bill Pearlman
Anyway, I defy anyone to watch the movie and tell me where it lies.
I studied Nazi film, centrally the antisemitic propaganda in feature films, but obviously I know the pseudo-documentary Der Ewige Jude too.
To compare the two is telling. Although not in the way you intend.
Anybody actually see it?
I haven't. This is the first I heard about it.
these people have to be antisemitic, always blaming israel for all these misdeeds. none of it can surely be true.
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!
words of yeshua ha messiach
luke 13:34
And it's a hard rain's a-gonna fall. bobby dylan.
http://www.antiwar.com/orig/ketcham.php?articleid=13506
Trojan Horse
How Israeli Backdoor Technology Penetrated the US Government's Telecom System and Compromised National Security
by Christopher Ketcham
Since the late 1990s, federal agents have reported systemic communications security breaches at the Department of Justice, FBI, DEA, the State Department, and the White House. Several of the alleged breaches, these agents say, can be traced to two hi-tech communications companies, Verint Inc. (formerly Comverse Infosys), and Amdocs Ltd., that respectively provide major wiretap and phone billing/record-keeping software contracts for the US government. Together, Verint and Amdocs form part of the backbone of the government's domestic intelligence surveillance technology. Both companies are based in Israel – having arisen to prominence from that country's cornering of the information technology market – and are heavily funded by the Israeli government, with connections to the Israeli military and Israeli intelligence (both companies have a long history of board memberships dominated by current and former Israeli military and intelligence officers). Verint is considered the world leader in "electronic interception" and hence an ideal private sector candidate for wiretap outsourcing. Amdocs is the world's largest billing service for telecommunications, with some $2.8 billion in revenues in 2007, offices worldwide, and clients that include the top 25 phone companies in the United States that together handle 90 percent of all call traffic among US residents. The companies' operations, sources suggest, have been infiltrated by freelance spies exploiting encrypted trapdoors in Verint/Amdocs technology and gathering data on Americans for transfer to Israeli intelligence and other willing customers (particularly organized crime). "The fact of the vulnerability of our telecom backbone is indisputable," says a high level US intelligence officer who has monitored the fears among federal agents.
Anybody actually see it?
I haven't. This is the first I heard about it.
Not much time, and I am gone after this.
The movies were controlled by two institutions one for documentary one for the feature film. I got my copies via the film studies department somewhere else and passed it on to the film department here.
The irony is that you could lend a copy for a sum for educational reasons. Now this can be churches, or educational institutions but this can also be the hard right.
The copies I worked with were semi-illegal. The film department had ordered copies for a course and made video-copies in this context. Strictly everybody can do that.
In the earlier literature–and I do not know recent studies–there were hints that the "evil" East Germans sold copies to Arab countries. I never looked closer into this allegations.
Now obviously the East and West federal archives which also hold copies are united.
I didn't take a look into the Wiki article, but if you read Goebbels diaries, you realize that Hitler was very involved in the film. It absolutely sickening
And yes, if I remember correctly, I came across a website that seemed to distribute the stuff.
Happy New Year, Richard.
The story of Aish is even more complex. I hypothesize a connection of Aish in spreading the hype about CDOs on Wall Street and throughout the finance industry during 2003. I remember the Jewish finance professionals networks abuzz about CDOs as a high yield low risk investment instrument and, if I recall correctly, Aish was sponsoring talks by "finance experts" that addressed the topic.
See Aish, Meltdown, Jewish Social Networking.
Verint Inc was also the security company for the London undergrounds during the extremely dodgy account of the 7/7 terrorist attacks in London…
i got my copy sent directly to me at home…of course this is probably because im registered as an independent and am on the mailing lists for both rabbi hagee and zionist pastor pat robertson.
pat used to play this dvd video on his program quite often.
I've noticed teams of young Israelis selling cosmetics in local malls lately. Maybe they are the new art school students?
On "Palin's preacher: Jews control the economy, that's causing all the corruption, and we need to have Christians take over business and banking"
Given what Zionists, Wall Street Judeofascists, atheistic money worshippers, and left-liberal dialectical materialists have done to the nation's economy, that's not a bad idea.
But Palin herself, as a Zionist, wouldn't pass the smell test. I doubt her preacher would, either. Here’s what he actually said:
“It's high time that we have top Christian businessmen, businesswomen, bankers, you know, who are men and women of integrity running the economics of our nations…if you look at the Israelites, that's how they work. And that's how they are, even today.”
(Obam supporters are spinning this as a sinister attempt to connect “Jews and banking,” — which is hardly a stretch, anyway.)
But there’s already been way too much Israelite-envy in this country. (Zionists as “men and women of integrity”?) That’s half our problem. The other half of the problem is Zionism’s left-liberal useful idiots. Why is it that both sides of the money-grubbing elitist establishment in this country are clamoring to gain favor with Judeofascists?
Ed, I really need to call the elders in Jerusalem and have something done about you. We've let this go on too long.
That’s funny, SOG. I was about to say the same about you. It’s way past time for the elders to give cowardly diaspora Zionists like yourself incentive to make aliya, don’t you think? You’re needed in Israel as cannon fodder.
In the mall at Crawley, South of UK there are young men and women selling Dead Sea Minerals cosmetics.
you may find the film on http://www.voltairenet.org/article149502.html
Still Images from Der ewige Jude
These stills from the film, along with the narration, may help give some idea of the character of this hate-propaganda film. The text of the narrator's comments is given for each shot from which each image is taken, in English and German.
These stills were chosen somewhat at random, so this list should not be taken as a thorough listing of all scenes in the film.
http://www.holocaust-history.org/der-ewige-jude/stills.shtml
Der Ewige Jude – The Eternal Jew – 1940 – (English subs)
This file may be available for direct download
http://www.btmon.com/Video/Movies/Der_Ewige_Jude_-_The_Eternal_Jew_-_1940_-_English_subs.torrent.html
"In the mall at Crawley, South of UK there are young men and women selling Dead Sea Minerals cosmetics."
Those are the ones. It may be completely innocent, but I still see no reason to allow them into the country. I've seen them is numerous malls in large and small cities. I just can't imagine that they make much money. What's the point?
One of the scariest movies that I've ever seen.
To be honest. I've been tired of being polictly incorrect for way too long.
http://www.TheMovieObsession.com
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