Clive hamilton is a fraud who should be stripped of his titles (if he has any).

Unfortunately the filters on my work’s ISP responded with a message that “Racism and Hate” are filtered so I must assume that the injured man must be a purveyor of hate and racist literature.

Following down the article I find links adjacent discussion of the basis of the US invasion of Iraq was the result “of orchestrations by Zionist pro-Israeli interests”, so I follow the link and read the articles. From this I can only justifiiably conclude that pro-Israeli zionists are good anti-racists without hate.

I am so thankful that the Government of this fine land has subscribed to a US Government provision of internet filtering so that I can make up my own mind about the world in an intelectual, researched and reasoned manner.

How then am I to consider the same “racism and hate” filters blocking access to a four wheel drive vehicle site directed towards vehicles with 36″ tyres. (On the site there are no images or discussion of genecide or any other racist material, just 4X4s with big wheels.)

I see that you take the blue pill. It may seem hard at first to contemplate that particular elements inside the United States and Israel are behind 9/11, but when one is confronted with images of world leaders engaged in mock human sacrifice then perceived reality flies quickly out the window. It is you who is the weak-minded fool. It is you who is like a sheep being led blindly to the slaughter. It is you who believe governments tell the truth.

“Much of the right-leaning commercial media, particularly in the US, has a pro-Israel bias. These are uncontroversial.”

Who says it’s ”uncontroversial”? Certainly not the Palestinians, who have been steadily dispossessed and murdered for sixty years. I guess for people like you the Palestinians don’t count.

The pro-Israel bias of western media and Governments is definitely controversial and disgraceful. Just like you, Vealmice.

But from there it’s a huge stretch to say pro-Israel interests ORCHESTRATED the invasion. Or that Jewish/Zionist groups CONTROL what politicians do or what the media reports. Or that Jews invented or exaggerated the Holocaust to guilt the world into establishing Israel. Or that the 9/11 attacks were a Zionist-Israeli-Neoconservative plot to bolster the case for invading Iraq. (If they’re as powerful as you claim, why would they need to? And why didn’t they plant any evidence that directly implicated Iraq instead of the Afghanistan/Al Qa’ida red herring? Clearly my thinking is not convoluted enough.)

You don’t strike me as the sort of weak-minded fool who falls for conspiracy theories – which are so appealing because they explain EVERYTHING. But to explain the absence of evidence for these claims – save in a tiny circle of like-minded websites, blogs and publications – you always seem to fall back on a vast, all-powerful, worldwide Jewish conspiracy to hide the truth, of which Australia’s proposed internet censorship is just the latest chapter.

A much less incredible hypothesis is that there is no proof because these things are not true.

These neanderthal defenders of the utterly indefensible are just so old, boring and at odds with reality.

In this reply, I’ll focus only on the causes of the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Here are a few links that support the case – which I find compelling – that the primary interest group behind the attack on Iraq was the pro-Israel lobby, both within in the USA and in other countries such as Britain and Australia.

‘The Lobby’, of course, works not only through politicians. It also enjoys overwhelmingly favourable treatment in the western mainstream media, espeically at critical moments such as the months preceding the Iraq invasion.

- The Men From JINSA and CSP by Jason Vest in The Nation (2002)

- The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt in the London Review of Books, 2006

- Scott Ritter speaks on On Israel and AIPAC

- The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel by Stephen Sniegoski, 2008

Hi again. Yes I agree that the wealthy elites in the US are pro ‘war on terror’. For one thing, it helps justify America’s massive military spending (which is actually nothing more than a massive wealth transfer from the US taxpayer to arms manufacturers and their shareholders) at a time when there is no actual military threat to the US.

Problem is, many of those wealthy elites are very pro-Israel. Take our friend Mr. Murdoch for example. I have read that at the time of the Iraq invasion, all 200 odd publications in his global newspaper empire were baying for war—so much for editorial independence. You’ll never find a serious criticism of Israel in any of his newspapers, despite the dreadful plight of the Palestinians. (if you can, please point me to it—I would love to see it). Rupert Murdoch, like all the owners of the major US media conglomerates, is a fierce and proud Zionist. Some observers suggest that the US based Zionists are even more fanatical than the ones in Israel. AIPAC is the most powerful lobby in Washington and it controls the US Congress lock, stock and barrel. Look how Obama and McCain constantly genuflected to Israel throughout the recent campaign. Israel owns US foreign policy, no question.

Maintaining the bogus war on terror is a major component of Israel’s strategy of balkanising the region, imo. To hardliners in the Likud, the Iraq war has been a major success. The US military industrial complex and the Zionist lobby are as one on the war on terror. They’re partners.

That’s my understanding of the issue even if the wider public with their constant diet of western media, don’t agree.