Judeosphere

It’s been awhile since I paid a visit to Dissident Voice, the moonbatty self-described “Radical Newsletter in the Struggle for Peace and Social Justice” that publishes apologia for Holocaust Denial.

The latest issue doesn’t disappoint, and features a fascinating and creepy diatribe by moonbat-in-chief James Petras, author of The Power of Israel in the United States and the forthcoming book Rulers and Ruled (Bankers, Zionists and Militants).

Not satisfied with the term “Israel Lobby,” Petras has coined the term “Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC)” to illustrate the vast Jewish conspiracy in the United States, which includes “dentists, lawyers, real estate brokers and landlords” (what? no money-lenders?)

The central theme of his diatribe is that many leftists, so-called “Zion-Libs,” are paving the way for a Zionist-led war against Iran by exonerating Israel for responsibility in pushing the U.S. into a war against Iraq.

Some highlights:

The American Left jumped on Alan Greenspan’s declaration that the Iraq war was about oil, as some kind of confirmation in the absence of any evidence….Parallel to overt war propaganda, a number of liberal critics of the Iraq war have published articles arguing that Israel “really opposed the Iraq war.” Writers as diverse as Gareth Porter, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern, Colonel Wilkerson (Colin Powell’s Aide), ultra Zion-Con Michael Ledeen and others claim that Israel opposed the war because they wanted the US to target Iran. Others argue that Israel had advised the US that an invasion of Iraq would have dire consequences for the Middle East, tipping the balance toward Iran and which they now claim to have predicted.

Exoneration of Israeli responsibility for the US invasion of Iraq allows the Jewish state and its US agents to escape any blame for the degradation of US forces in Iraq and provides them a ‘clean moral slate’ for launching a new bloody US attack against Iran…Taking advantage of their liberal (Zion-lib)-led exoneration for their role in the invasion of Iraq, the Zionist Power Configuration, through such loyal mouthpieces as Senator Joseph Lieberman, blame the Iranians for the deaths of US soldiers in Iraq.

The exonerators of Israel are not homogeneous in their political background or goals. Some liberals, fearful of arousing a powerful Zionist backlash, seek to whitewash Israel’s lobby operatives in the US as a way of gaining sympathy among pro-Israel Congressional Democrats and financial backing from wealthy Jewish liberals critical of the Iraq war. Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean, following the new Israeli script declared during a visit to Tel Aviv in 2006 that the ‘the US invaded the wrong country!’

The power base of the ZPC is found in the local activist doctors, dentists, lawyers, real estate brokers and landlords who preside over the local confederations and their several hundred thousand affiliates. It is they who harass, badger, browbeat, raise money and organize propaganda junkets for elected officials and ensure their support for Israeli wars and increases in the US multi-billion dollar aid packages to Israel….The Zionist octopus has extended its tentacles far beyond the traditional centers of big city power and national politics, reaching into remote towns and cultural spheres.