I would like any of my readers, especially the Muslim ones, who think that "the Jews" are behind the impending war on Iraq to read An Open Letter to Paul Wolfowitz by Josh Reubner. Reubner is the co-founder of Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel. He writes about what he calls "court Jews", a small number of Jewish individuals who are appointed to very prominent positions in government so that they can later serve as scapegoats and so that people will blame Jews in general for wrongs committed by the government.
Here are some excerpts:
"Court Jew" is a term that originates in the context of anti-Semitism in "enlightened" Europe. On that blood-soaked continent, the reigning monarchs and other despotic rulers thought up an ingenious system to perpetuate their oppressive systems of government. These shrewd, Machiavellian rulers made a psychologically brilliant pact with an elite, assimilationist group of Jewish subjects who craved nothing more than acceptance by the power structure of society... ...Take a few "court Jews" and give them unimpeded access to the mainstream media and, voila, you create the impression among the masses that "the Jews" are spoiling for a war. Do you see brother how you are misrepresenting us? I wish that we in the Jewish peace movement could have as much access as you do to the mainstream media so that we could shatter the monolithic view of the Jewish community which the "court Jew" by definition is set up to propagate. Of course, we are denied that access by the same power structure which has an interest in making sure that yours is the only "Jewish" voice heard... ...Please, before it is too late, tell the world that it is not the powerless Jews who are pushing for this war, but the greedy, venal barons of corporate America who stand to profit while cowering behind the myth of the all-powerful Jew. Tell everybody what you and I both know. That the real interests hawking for this war are the defense contractors and the oil industry who will make billions of dollars to first destroy Iraq and then "rebuild" it under the protective wing of American "democracy."Muslims, don't let yourselves be blinded by hatred and played for a fool. Don't fall into this trap.