Posted on 05/04/2003 10:19:07 AM PDT by Chipata
May. 4, 2003
British Legislator warns of 'Jewish Cabal'
By DOUGLAS DAVIS
London
One of the most senior and respected Labor Party legislators in Britain has caused a political sensation by accusing Prime Minister Tony Blair of being "unduly influenced by a cabal of Jewish advisers."
Interview by Vanity Fair, Dalyell named Lord Michael Levy, Blair's personal envoy to the Middle East, New Labor ideologue Peter Mandelson and Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as three leading figures who had influenced Blair on Middle East policy.
While Levy is an observant Jew (and more a messenger than an initiator), neither Mandelson (whose father was Jewish) nor Straw (who is said to have Jewish ancestry) considers himself Jewish.
Dalyell told the Sunday Telegraph: "I am fully aware that one is treading on cut glass on this issue and no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism, but if it is a question of launching an assault on Syria or Iran . . . then one has to be candid."
He insisted "I am not going to be labelled anti-Semitic," noting that "my children worked on a kibbutz." But, he said, "the time has come for candour." Dalyell claimed that Blair was also indirectly influenced by Jews in the Bush administration, including Pentagon advisor Richard Perle, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House spokesman Ari Fleischer.
Said Dalyell: "They very much have captured the ear of the president of the United States. I said [to Vanity Fair] I thought that Blair was very sympathetic to them. I cannot understand why."
In response, Mandelson noted that "apart from the fact that I am not actually Jewish, I wear my father's parentage with pride. As for Tam, he is as incorrigible as ever."
A spokesman for Straw said that "if these reports are accurate, the remarks are too unworthy to be worth a comment." Levy's spokesman said he was not available for comment.
Labor peer Lord Greville Janner, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said he found the comments "sad and unfounded. . . Tony Blair is his own man. He will follow advice if he considers it correct and not otherwise. He has been a good friend of the Jewish people and the Jewish state."
If Britain's Labor Party had an aristocracy, Tam Dalyell would have a place of special honor. To many, the long-serving legislator with a thoroughbred pedigree (Eton and Cambridge) is the conscience of the party, the voice of its ideological soul.
And as the longest-serving member of parliament, 70-year-old Dalyell (pronounced "Diyell") glories in the title "Father of the House," which not only acknowledges his seniority but also confers a measure of deference and respect.
It has not, however, inhibited him from speaking out, and, when he felt it necessary, from disagreeing with his leader, loudly and publicly.
With George Galloway, who is alleged to have received a small fortune from Saddam Hussein to champion the cause of his erstwhile regime, Dalyell was in the vanguard of those opposing the recent Iraq war.
In particular, he was a ferocious opponent of British involvement in the war and a prime mover in Labor's revolt against Prime Minister Tony Blair, which resulted in the largest rebellion against a sitting prime minister by his own party.
Unlike Galloway, however, Dalyell is no political street brawler. He is regarded, revered even, as a pillar of well-bred respectability. Unlike Galloway, too, he is not a figure of fun or fear.
Rather, his thoughts and utterances are the product of a mind that has received the finest British education that money can buy. And they are influential, not only within his party but also within the media and among large swathes of British society.
When he says Tony Blair is the victim of a "cabal of Jewish advisers," he is not expressing a lone view; he is giving voice to the darkest thoughts of many others, both within and without his own party.
No one who commands such mainstream authority has said publicly that America's "Axis of Evil" doctrine is a Jewish-inspired plot to dominate the world; no one has said publicly that the Iraq war was a Zionist conflict to protect Israel. Such sentiments, however, have been the unmistakable subtext of the anti-war movement.
Like many of his less-forthright colleagues, he sees Jewish conspiratorial forces manipulating the British prime minister (and the American president) into dark and dangerous alleys in pursuit of their own agenda.
For Dalyell, however, the moment has come to speak out. He is aware, he says, that he is treading on cut glass. And he acknowledges that no one wants to be accused of anti-Semitism. But, he says, "one has to be candid."
In doing so, he has given such private thoughts public respectability. He has moved the debate on from politically correct anti-Zionism to open anti-Semitism. He has broken the spell and he has removed the last taboo from a hatred that dared not speak its name.
Dalyell is no crude fascist of the left; he is a seasoned professional. He knows he is giving voice to a view that is widely held but until now, crazies apart, spoken only sotte voce on the British street and in smart British salons.
Why did he do it? And why now? Not for electoral reasons. Dalyell represents a strongly Labor Scottish constituency with a negligible Muslim vote. Nor for reasons of ambition. At this stage in his career, he can have no ambitions for succession.
The best guess is that he did it, and did it now, to embarrass Blair, undermine his leadership and stir up the movement that was gathering steam before the start of the war to unseat the Labor prime minister.
Daylell is among those who see Blair as a traitor to the Labor cause; an aberration who is destroying what generations of class-strugglers had built.
Nor is his loathing for Blair a recent phenomenon. Marking his 40th year as a legislator last June, Dalyell declared Blair to be the worst prime minister of the eight he had known since entering parliament.
He also rated Blair the worst of seven Labor Party leaders he had served.
That assessment has clearly, in Dalyell's view, been vindicated by Blair's apparent thrall to that malevolent transatlantic Jewish cabal which is intent on dragging Britain and America into war.
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Are you accusing him of trying to "Jew" you out of the money?
8-)
No one pulls that on us, without a black belt in jewjitsu.
;-)
Of course its Jewish. Think kaballah!
Main Entry: 1ca·bal
Pronunciation: k&-'bäl, -'bal
Function: noun
Etymology: French cabale cabala, intrigue, cabal, from Medieval Latin cabbala cabala, from Late Hebrew qabbAlAh, literally, received (lore)
Date: 1614
: the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united to bring about an overturn or usurpation especially in public affairs; also : a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
synonym see PLOT
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They don't call it a Zionist plot for nothing! ;-)
Quoting Chesterton doesn't make him my "hero." What on earth leads you to believe that I'm an anti-semite? You've been here a very short time, and you obviously don't know my posting history or inclinations. Ask around.
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