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Schadenfreude fan that I am, I watched
this week as “Taki”, a columnist in
Britain’s Spectator magazine, owned by
Conrad Black, in effect told the media
mogul to go to hell after Black had used
his flamethrower on “the poor little
Greek boy,” as Taki often calls
himself.
My name came into the argument in a
minor way, a nincompoop on the National
Post having written that I am dead and
presumably writhing in Dante's inferno.
On which more later. Here we have a
media imbroglio involving the Spectator,
the Internet and the ranks of the
British media, Black having blasted the
latter, along with Taki, as “anti-Israel”,
meaning anti-Semitic. Which is news to
me. Taki’s sin was to criticize the
Israelis .You know, those persecuted,
noble folk who have wiped out a lot of
Arabs young and old. He also said that
Bill Clinton and certain Israelis had
allowed the now-pardoned Marc Rich to
suborn American justice, that Rich’s
Mossad bodyguards in Europe had tipped
him off about a Pentagon plan to down
his plane and take the crook back to the
U.S. to stand trial, that Israeli
intelligence knew more about US Air
Force activities than the Pentagon did,
and that the U.S. was not yet territory
occupied “by those nice guys who
attack rock-throwing youths with armour-piercing
missiles”.
What’s wrong with that? When I read
the offending item (I read Taki first
when I get the Spectator because he is
amusing and mordant) I thought nothing
much about it. Hadn’t a candidate for
the presidency of the United States, Pat
Buchanan, called Washington, Israel’s
“amen corner”? Haven’t the Jews
themselves boasted about the enormous
Jewish contingency there? But Black went
berserk. He invaded the pages of the
magazine to tear Taki to bits for being
an anti-Semite. “It is hard to
imagine,” he frothed,“that a person
with whom you are friendly...is a racist
who incites violence against innocent
people because of their ethnicity or
religion.”
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When
Taki did that is not clear. Not in the
column in question, certainly, but Black
had only just got going. He went on to
say that Taki’s “farrago of lies is
almost worthy of Goebbels or the authors
of the Protocols of Zion; that he, Taki,
had suggested that the Jews glory in the
murder of innocent or mischievous
children and that he “presents the
universal Jewish ethos as brutish”.
Zionists, whether Jewish or
Presbyterian, can go over the top when a
word is said against God’s Chosen.
But the Chosen, like the Unchosen,
are not without faults. Menachem Begin
organized mass killings of Arabs
designed to terrify them into leaving
the country. Yitzhak Shamir was another
top terrorist.Terrorism and
Jewish-influenced American politics led
to the British quitting Palestine.
There were so many Jews in the
Clinton administration that the Israeli
embassy would know about American
policies before most members of the
administration. Jonathan Pollard, a
Jewish spy, fed “a devastating
hemorrhage” of U.S. secrets to Israel.
Even in Canada, Eric Margolis of the
Toronto Sun has referred to “the
Israeli tail wagging the American dog”.
Compared with all that, Taki’s stuff
seems tame.
The National Post, owned jointly by
Black and Izzy Asper, has much to
commend it. But the retired academic in
B.C. who referred to it as “Canada’s
leading Jewish newspaper” was right.
It is stuffed with news and articles
about Israel, and if any of them were
critical I must have been snoozing or
boozing. Barbara Amiel, Black’s wife
and a Jewish journalist for whom I once
had a lot of respect in the days when
she stood four-square for freedom of
speech, which she does no longer, wrote
a 6,000 word piece in the paper in which
she stated that Jews need have no shame
for what is going on there.
Enter John Fraser, a Post writer and
wimp. On March 7 he mentioned the Taki/Black
bust-up, grovelled to his dear friend
Conrad Black, and stated: “Since the
death several years ago of the West
Coast columnist, Doug Collins, Taki has
been the most conspicuously enfranchised
bigot in Western journalism.”
I am an even better bigot than Taki?
When does our Governor Generaless invite
me to Ottawa to collect my prize? My
note to Fraser read, “My dear
politically correct, blithering idiot. I
am still here and punching away like mad
at the world of nincompoopery, of which
you are a senior member. Kindly stop
kissing Conrad Black’s ass long enough
to do a bit of checking.” |
