March 9, 2006
From BluWiki
March 9, 2006
Host: Daryl Bradford Smith
Guest: Mohammed Rafiq
The story from the Times that they are discussion can be found here: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2069967,00.html
The lies, disinformation, and mistakes:
(1) A minor point: Israel did not exist in 1946.
(2) Churchill was not in power in 1946. He was voted out of office in the summer of 1945.
(3) Bevin did not serve in Churchill's cabinet as foreign secretary. He served in that capacity in Clement Attlee's government formed after the 1945 election.
(4) The idea that Ben-Gurion would have intimidated Jews outside of Palestine to emigrate there by having the Mossad in Arab costume harassing them goes against what all educated people know about the birth of Israel.
(5) Daryl Bradford Smith speaks about the U.S.S. St. Louis, which was refused the ability to dock and release its refugees, and then remarks that it ultimately went to Palestine. It did not. It ultimately returned back to Germany, though its refugees were split up into different countries.
(6) In fact, though reluctant, several missions from Palestine were launched to bring Jews under persecution of the Nazis were entered into. The interested reader should consult Tom Segev's The Seventh Million (http://www.anybook4less.com/detail/0805066608.html).
(7) Daryl Bradford Smith refers, as he repeatedly does, to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Smith says that they are routinely denounced as a forgery, but a forgery is "a duplication of the original." No, it isn't. A forgery is "1. The act of forging, especially the illegal production of something counterfeit. 2. Something counterfeit, forged, or fraudulent" (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=forgery). There is no implication that there is anything legitimate about the original in a forgery. The "original" of the Protocols is Maurice Joly's Dialogue aux enfers entre Machiavel et Montesquieu (http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13187.
(8) Einstein was a "rabid Zionist," according to Daryl Bradford Smith. Actually, while Einstein was a Zionist, he was far from rabid. He turned down an offer to be the second president of Israel, and he was the principal signer of a letter denouncing a visit of Menachem Begin to the U.S. (http://www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/study_res/einstein/nyt_letter.html)
(9) Daryl Bradford Smith repeates the lie that the motto of the Mossad is "By way of deception, you shall do war." Actually, the motto of the Mossad is Proverbs 24:6, which anyone can look up: "For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety" (KJV).
