The Phenomenal Cosmic Power--of Israel

"Phenomenal Cosmic Power in an itty bitty living space"
Disney's Aladdin

The Islamic Republic News Agency has an article on how World scholars support Ahmadinejad's stance on Holocaust. James Taranto takes a look at these world reknowned scholars:

• Robert Faurisson, "a former professor at Lyon University in France." The Anti-Defamation League notes that Faurisson was "removed from his academic post as a result of his anti-Semitic activities, and has been convicted on three occasions of violating French hate-crime laws."
  
  
• "A New York-based university professor, Abdullah Mohammad Sindi." Memri notes that Sindi's "articles have been published by notorious Holocaust-denial websites, including Radio Islam and the Institute for Historical Review."
  
  
• "The author of 'The Hoax of the Twentieth Century,' Professor Arthur Butz," who backed Ahmadinejad "in a letter written from the US state of Chicago" (Raquel Welch, where are you?). The ADL notes that Butz is a professor of electrical engineering who "has steadily promoted Holocaust denial on the Internet, in articles and in public speeches for almost thirty years."

Last month, I quoted the New Jersey Jewish News, "As Jewish majority lashes Bush on Iraq, a vocal minority insists on staying the course":

After staying largely in the shadows for several years, the organized American-Jewish community has jumped full throttle into the debate over the Iraq war.

... As the volume of pro- and anti-war debate continues to grow in the Jewish community, a poll of American Jews by the American Jewish Committee shows at least 70 percent of those polled oppose the conflict — a figure that has risen 4 percent since last year and 16 percent since 2003.

According to the article, back in 2003 about 46% of Jews were in favor of the US going into Iraq. With that in mind we can contrast what Yoffie is trying to accomplish with what Rep. Jim Moran thought--and apparently still thinks--Israel, and Jews, are capable of:

A Democratic congressman who opposes the liberation of Iraq is blaming the Jews for threatening Saddam Hussein's hold on power. "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this," the Connection newspapers of northern Virginia quoted Rep. Jim Moran as saying last week. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think they should."

Moran seems not to have changed his way of thinking much; and his has kept himself busy. On June 16, 2005 he joined some other democrats in playing house:

In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a
trip to the land of make-believe.

They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing
room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like
witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make
the whole thing look official.

...The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former
intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq
for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so
"the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He
said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing
the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern
said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central
Intelligence called me anti-Semitic."

Rep. James P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), who prompted the question by wondering
whether the true war motive was Iraq's threat to Israel, thanked McGovern
for his "candid answer."

At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on
television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that
an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there
was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to
suggest Israel was behind the attacks.