The Caricatures in Middle East Politics
Brian | 01.03.2006 01:34 | Analysis
Mossads role in the danish cartoon controversy. Notice how mossad regards Danish intelligence with contempt.
The Caricatures in Middle East Politics
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
The center piece of the current explosive confrontation between Islamic and Arab protestors, political leaders and governments and the US and Western European regimes and publishers is rooted in Israeli efforts to polarize the world in its favor and to promote isolation, economic sanctions and/or a military attack on Iran. There are several key questions, which almost all commentators and analysts have failed to address. These include: Why did the “cartoons” get published in Denmark?
What is the political background of “Flemming Rose” the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, who solicited, selected and published the cartoons?
What larger issues coincide with the timing of the cartoons publication and reproduction?
Who “benefits” from the publication of the cartoons and the ensuing confrontation between the Arabs/Islam and the West?
What is the contemporary political context of the Arab/Islam protests?
How is the Israeli secret service, Mossad, implicated in provoking the Western-Islamic/Arab conflict, and how do the consequences measure up to their expectations?
A starting point for analyzing the cartoon controversy, which has been a focus for attacking Muslims and Muslim countries as intolerant of Western ‘freedom of expression’ is the long-standing role of Denmark as a major operation point for Mossad activity in Europe. Re-phrased: How could a tiny Scandinavian country of 5.4 citizens and residents (200,000 or less than 3% of whom are Muslim), renowned for fairy tales, ham and cheese, have become a target for the fury of millions of practicing Muslims from Afghanistan to Palestine, from Indonesia to Libya and into the streets of cities all over the world with significant Muslim populations? Why, after the bombing of Baghdad, the tortures of Abu Ghariab, the massacres in Fallujah and the utter destitution of the entire Iraqi and Afghan people…would Moslems turn their anger at symbols of Denmark from its tinned cookies to its Embassies and overseas business offices?
The story, presented with straight faces, by television news-people, is of, Mr. ‘Flemming Rose’, a crusading cultural editor of a widely read Danish daily newspaper who wanted to counter the growing ‘political correctness’ of Europeans about criticizing Moslems and which he compared to the ‘self-censorship’ he had witnessed in his native Soviet Union. The oddly named Ukrainian-born editor of the culture page of the Jyllands-Posten commissioned Danish cartoonists to submit a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed as they (the Danish cartoonists) might imagine him. However four of the twelve cartoons selected for publication were illustrated by ‘Rose’s’ own staff including the most controversial ‘bomb in the turban’ one. Braving Denmark’s anti-blasphemy laws Mr. Rose published the cartoons on September 30, 2005 and the rest is history…
A huge world wide attack on the West’s “sacred right to free expression” erupted in the Moslem world with millions of shocked Europeans and North Americans rushing to defend their cherished freedoms in this ‘clash of civilizations’. Syria and Iran were prominently blamed for the stirring up of furious believers in the streets of Damascus and Teheran, Beirut and in the slums of Gaza. According to US Secretary Rice, "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it." The Pakistani and Libyan authorities allied to the US fired on demonstrators killing and wounding scores while numerous religious leaders were arrested. The Western governments urged their Arab and Moslem allies to prevent more attacks on Danish products and property and blamed those unable to quell the fury with complicity and instigation. All of this was over a series of cartoons, or so we are told.
The cultural editor, ‘Flemming Rose’, who soon tired of being surrounded by a team of Danish police and security to protect him from assassination and missing his daily jogs through his tranquil Copenhagen neighborhood, chose to seek safe haven in Miami, Florida (rather than his native Ukraine) among the Cuban exiles, Israeli sayanim*(see footnote) and Mah Jong-playing retirees as the drama plays on.
Denmark Center of Mossad Activity
Why Denmark? Could this crudely manufactured controversy have been generated on the pages of any major London or New York paper? Who would wish to put Denmark at the center of this ‘clash of civilization’ – appearing as a script from some grade B Islamophobic thriller?
An interesting chapter in former Israeli Mossad agent, Victor J. Ostrovsky’s book, By Way of Deception (1990 St. Martin’s Press), outlines the close relationship between the workings of the Danish intelligence services and the Israeli Mossad over decades:
“The relationship between the Mossad and Danish intelligence is so intimate as to be indecent. But it is not the Mossad’s virtue that is compromised by the arrangement; it’s Denmark’s. And that’s because the Danish are under the mistaken impression that because they saved a lot of Jews in World War II, the Israelis are grateful and they can trust the Mossad.”
The Mossad has the capacity to monitor the entire population of Arabs and especially Palestinians (presumably including those with Danish citizenship) through their special relations with the Danes:
“…a Mossad man monitors “all Arabic and Palestinian-related messages(among Denmarks Arab community) coming into their (the Danish Civil Security Service)headquarters…an extraordinary arrangement for a foreign intelligence service.”
The Danish Intelligence officers’ high regard for their Israeli Mossad office mates is apparently not, according to Ostrovsky, reciprocated:
“The Mossad have such contempt for their Danish counterparts that they refer to them as ‘fertsalach’, the Hebrew term for a small burst of gas, a fart…they tell the Mossad everything they do.” Pp. 231-232
In return for their servility, the Danes get valuable ‘training’ from the Israelis:
Once every three years, Danish intelligence officials go to Israel for a seminar conducted by the Mossad”… which generates useful contacts for the Mossad “while perpetuating the notion that no organization deals with terrorism better than they (Mossad) do.”
In the wake of the US debacle in Iraq and the world’s resistance to a massive ‘preemptive military attack’ or economic and diplomatic embargo of Iran, which could send oil prices to over $100 a barrel, Israel needed to turn the war of ideas on its head. It would make sense that a campaign, aimed to further whip up justifications to attack countries like Iran and Syria (Israel’s current enemy du jour), would emanate from one of the US strongest European ally in the invasion and destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan and whose national intelligence apparatus (so fondly known as ‘fertsalach’) would be eager to serve Israel’s interest.
etc
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=27388
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya
The center piece of the current explosive confrontation between Islamic and Arab protestors, political leaders and governments and the US and Western European regimes and publishers is rooted in Israeli efforts to polarize the world in its favor and to promote isolation, economic sanctions and/or a military attack on Iran. There are several key questions, which almost all commentators and analysts have failed to address. These include: Why did the “cartoons” get published in Denmark?
What is the political background of “Flemming Rose” the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, who solicited, selected and published the cartoons?
What larger issues coincide with the timing of the cartoons publication and reproduction?
Who “benefits” from the publication of the cartoons and the ensuing confrontation between the Arabs/Islam and the West?
What is the contemporary political context of the Arab/Islam protests?
How is the Israeli secret service, Mossad, implicated in provoking the Western-Islamic/Arab conflict, and how do the consequences measure up to their expectations?
A starting point for analyzing the cartoon controversy, which has been a focus for attacking Muslims and Muslim countries as intolerant of Western ‘freedom of expression’ is the long-standing role of Denmark as a major operation point for Mossad activity in Europe. Re-phrased: How could a tiny Scandinavian country of 5.4 citizens and residents (200,000 or less than 3% of whom are Muslim), renowned for fairy tales, ham and cheese, have become a target for the fury of millions of practicing Muslims from Afghanistan to Palestine, from Indonesia to Libya and into the streets of cities all over the world with significant Muslim populations? Why, after the bombing of Baghdad, the tortures of Abu Ghariab, the massacres in Fallujah and the utter destitution of the entire Iraqi and Afghan people…would Moslems turn their anger at symbols of Denmark from its tinned cookies to its Embassies and overseas business offices?
The story, presented with straight faces, by television news-people, is of, Mr. ‘Flemming Rose’, a crusading cultural editor of a widely read Danish daily newspaper who wanted to counter the growing ‘political correctness’ of Europeans about criticizing Moslems and which he compared to the ‘self-censorship’ he had witnessed in his native Soviet Union. The oddly named Ukrainian-born editor of the culture page of the Jyllands-Posten commissioned Danish cartoonists to submit a series of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed as they (the Danish cartoonists) might imagine him. However four of the twelve cartoons selected for publication were illustrated by ‘Rose’s’ own staff including the most controversial ‘bomb in the turban’ one. Braving Denmark’s anti-blasphemy laws Mr. Rose published the cartoons on September 30, 2005 and the rest is history…
A huge world wide attack on the West’s “sacred right to free expression” erupted in the Moslem world with millions of shocked Europeans and North Americans rushing to defend their cherished freedoms in this ‘clash of civilizations’. Syria and Iran were prominently blamed for the stirring up of furious believers in the streets of Damascus and Teheran, Beirut and in the slums of Gaza. According to US Secretary Rice, "Iran and Syria have gone out of their way to inflame sentiments and to use this to their own purposes and the world ought to call them on it." The Pakistani and Libyan authorities allied to the US fired on demonstrators killing and wounding scores while numerous religious leaders were arrested. The Western governments urged their Arab and Moslem allies to prevent more attacks on Danish products and property and blamed those unable to quell the fury with complicity and instigation. All of this was over a series of cartoons, or so we are told.
The cultural editor, ‘Flemming Rose’, who soon tired of being surrounded by a team of Danish police and security to protect him from assassination and missing his daily jogs through his tranquil Copenhagen neighborhood, chose to seek safe haven in Miami, Florida (rather than his native Ukraine) among the Cuban exiles, Israeli sayanim*(see footnote) and Mah Jong-playing retirees as the drama plays on.
Denmark Center of Mossad Activity
Why Denmark? Could this crudely manufactured controversy have been generated on the pages of any major London or New York paper? Who would wish to put Denmark at the center of this ‘clash of civilization’ – appearing as a script from some grade B Islamophobic thriller?
An interesting chapter in former Israeli Mossad agent, Victor J. Ostrovsky’s book, By Way of Deception (1990 St. Martin’s Press), outlines the close relationship between the workings of the Danish intelligence services and the Israeli Mossad over decades:
“The relationship between the Mossad and Danish intelligence is so intimate as to be indecent. But it is not the Mossad’s virtue that is compromised by the arrangement; it’s Denmark’s. And that’s because the Danish are under the mistaken impression that because they saved a lot of Jews in World War II, the Israelis are grateful and they can trust the Mossad.”
The Mossad has the capacity to monitor the entire population of Arabs and especially Palestinians (presumably including those with Danish citizenship) through their special relations with the Danes:
“…a Mossad man monitors “all Arabic and Palestinian-related messages(among Denmarks Arab community) coming into their (the Danish Civil Security Service)headquarters…an extraordinary arrangement for a foreign intelligence service.”
The Danish Intelligence officers’ high regard for their Israeli Mossad office mates is apparently not, according to Ostrovsky, reciprocated:
“The Mossad have such contempt for their Danish counterparts that they refer to them as ‘fertsalach’, the Hebrew term for a small burst of gas, a fart…they tell the Mossad everything they do.” Pp. 231-232
In return for their servility, the Danes get valuable ‘training’ from the Israelis:
Once every three years, Danish intelligence officials go to Israel for a seminar conducted by the Mossad”… which generates useful contacts for the Mossad “while perpetuating the notion that no organization deals with terrorism better than they (Mossad) do.”
In the wake of the US debacle in Iraq and the world’s resistance to a massive ‘preemptive military attack’ or economic and diplomatic embargo of Iran, which could send oil prices to over $100 a barrel, Israel needed to turn the war of ideas on its head. It would make sense that a campaign, aimed to further whip up justifications to attack countries like Iran and Syria (Israel’s current enemy du jour), would emanate from one of the US strongest European ally in the invasion and destruction of Iraq and Afghanistan and whose national intelligence apparatus (so fondly known as ‘fertsalach’) would be eager to serve Israel’s interest.
etc
http://www.rebelion.org/noticia.php?id=27388
Brian
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Cartoon Crazies Expose Islam's Violent Core!
01.03.2006 07:42
Islam's Position on the Gay Question!
The Zionists are guilty of repressing the Palestinians and perhaps lots of other things but I don't think they are quite so diabolical and effective as to be behind everything from the 9-11 bombings to the Bombing of the Shia Mosque to the above discussed Cartoon controversy. When Shia and Sunni slaughter one another and destroy each other's Mosques it is because these two sects have been warring for centuries and Iraq is their latest battleground. Likewise, the Cartoon Controversy is very enlightening as it highlights how incredibly backward and reactionary Islam is as a World force and that the rest of humanity needs to quarantine and stem the expansion of this cult-like religion, a religion born in the blood of thousands of innocents. The disgusting rampage of tens of thousands of Islamic thugs demanding blood over the Cartoons has served to rip the Veil (pun) off of their bullshit claims that Islam is a religion of Peace.
Islamo-fascists have hung and beheaded Marxists like most IMC Contributors by the thousands and they are a Right Wing Reactionary Fascist World Trend that needs to be smashed.
Sucker phony Marxists and naive liberals formerly lent their support to the Iranian Mullahs during the struggle against the Shah, only to be imprisoned by the thousands, and then tortured, put on television to confess their "sins" against Islam, and then hung by the thousands. Both Revisionists like the Tudeh party and Maoists and Mujahadeen alike all were butchered by the same Crowds who today are leading the "Cartoon Crazies" in various cities around the globe.
These Islamist Crowds need to be machine-gunned, not admired. They are being led by the most reactionary elements in the Moslem World. Many are led by the Moslem Brotherhood, a Right Wing Outfit that want to take the Middle East back to the Middle Ages.
In Syria, from which I just returned, former President Hafez Assad knew how to deal with these types after they carried out a series of assassinations of Baath Party officials and Alawite Army officers. He had his brother massacre these fascists by the thousands and that's what his son, Bashar needs to do if Syria is to remain a Semi-Secular nation.
Regarding the state of Islam today, this is how I, as an Atheist and Anarchist, view it:
All religion is shit but radical Islam is the worst of all Organized Shit Religions on the Planet. IMC Readers would probably be beheaded if we lived in Iran if we tried to criticize that Regime the way we criticize our own ruling class. In fact, when fundamentalist crazy Islamo-fascists take power they immediately begin to crack down on Socialists, Feminists, Communists, Trade Unionists, Anarchists, Gays, and Intellectuals of all types, beheading and hanging many of them, the way they tortured and slaughtered the Tudeh Party and Maoists of Iran and others after the fall of the Shah.
Islam is the most sexist religion and violent religion on the planet, which is why ALL Islam nations, (except for Turkey, which is trying to join the EU), both outlaw Abortion and have Capital Punishment, (especially for Gay prisoners).
As for Islam's founder Mohammed, lets tell the truth. He indeed was a double-dealing trader and violent head-chopping and child-molesting blood-thirsty pedophile who would have sex with 6 and 9 year old girls on the same day he would slaughter their parents.
Mohammed was also a "CarJacker" of his time, who would attack peaceful Caravans going through the desert, murdering the travellers and robbing their goods. In fact, Islam literature is full of discussions as to why he didn't even stop murdering and looting on Holy Days and the Koran has rules on how to split stolen property.
Read any serious history of Islam and you will understand why this is a religion that can easily condone the beheading of Indonesian Catholic School-girls, the wholesale slaughter of a whole schoolhouse full of children in Russia, the recent hanging of young gay men in Iran, the cutting off of women's clitoris' in Egypt, the selling of young girls to smelly old men by their pimp parents, a practice widespread throughout the Moslem World and the wanton desecration and destruction of historic monuments and cultural relics such as the Buddha statues of Afghanistan.
I could go on and on, the recent murder of Theodore Van Gogh, death threats against Salman Rushdie, -the skinning and beheading of Communist teachers by the Taliban for teaching girls how to read, "honor-killings" of their own daughters, the slaughter of a Million Armenians in Turkey and that "liberated" country's arrest of anyone who dares to publically mention that first Holocaust of the 20th Century, to the official condoning of rape of young women in Pakistan by whole gangs of Moslem Men as official atonement for supposed offenses committed by male members of the girls family, to the gangrapes of Filipino maids in Saudi Arabia and to the fact that the last people on Earth to capture and own Slaves are the Moslems of the Sudan and neighboring countries.
I think you get the point. Just because the U.S and Europeans are Imperialist Marauding powers doesn't mean you should glamourize this backward relic religion of the Middle Ages. In the Struggle between Feudalism and Capitalism I'll take the Capitalists while I then struggle on for a better world than both.
freefromreligion
I Agree with Free From Religion - but what about the Christians?
01.03.2006 09:20
other organised religions e.g. Christrianity. I'm sure the above is not meant to be Islamaphobic so for balance here's some Christian atrocities.
According to the historian Arthur Findlay (see The Curse of Ignorance) an estimated 25,000,000 people have been killed by Christians over the last 1700 years when they have tried to spread their religious word. The Inqusition killed hundreds of thousands of people, some of whom were Christians - and the last person to fall victim to the Inquisition was in 1852. In the Holy Bible (the Good Book) Christians are urged to smash the skulls of babies of people who were non-believers.
In Numbers (the Bible) Moses instructed his captains to slay all the men and women
of a city he'd conquered, but not the women and girls that had not "laid with a man"
they were to be given to the troops to rape. Over 30,000 women and girls were raped.
When the Crusaders had defeated the Muslims in the Middle East they would not take prisoners and sometimes would kill tens of thousands of civilians - sometimes the troops carrying out the slaughter would complain of aching limbs because the slaughter would sometimes take days.
Organised religion and many forms of politics have been responsible for mass murder for thousands of years (e.g. Soviet pogroms that eliminated tens of millions of people).
One other unforgivable crime of the Christian clergy is the brainwashing of people for 1700 years, when they convinced an ignorant population that when they died they would go to Hell.
Nowadays, we can't understand just how frightening that was to the ordinary uneducated people of the world, therefore people lived in constant fear of the retribution of a vengeful (non-existent) God. For me I can never forgive the Christian church for it was/ is a crime against humanity and total mind-fuck!
A NON-GOVERNMENT WARNING!
Organised religion and politics are unhealthy for humans - please try to avoid them - You know it makes sense!
The Rottenness of Religion
Blah blah blame somebody else..
01.03.2006 11:05
So if Mossad is behind this - then the Egyptians and Saudis are behind the Mossad as well for spreading the cartoons. And the Imans from DK - must be hardcore Mossaf operatives.
Nice try - but not really good enough!
nico
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