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Bush's Holy War and Hanukkah |
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by Enemy of the State News Service
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13 Dec 2001
Modified: 14 Dec 2001 |
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On 11 December in DC, Dubya said " I couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." Can Bush, a Christian fundamentalist with deep Nazi roots who believes that Jews will go to hell, understand it either? |
During an awkwardly staged menorah-lighting ceremony meant to show solidarity with Israel, court-appointed President George Bush quipped that he "couldn't imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukkah." We here at the EOTS News Service wonder if a Christian fundamentalist and anti-Semite like Bush understands it either.
Bush, a self-described "evangelical," claimed during the presidential debates that Jesus Christ "changed my heart." He claims to have been born-again and made Jesus "the center of my life" in 1985 with the help of Billy Graham in order to win the battle over alcohol.
While preparing to run for governor in 1993, Bush told a reporter for the _Austin American-Statesman_ that, according to his renewed faith, he believed that the souls of Jews go to hell upon death. Campaigners for his opponent, Ann Richards, took out ads in Jewish newspapers in Texas like the Houston _Herald Voice_ (2 November 1994) to remind voters of his opinion.
In 1998, Bush was preparing for a trip to Israel, and was asked by the _Austin American-Statesman_ what he planned to say to Israelis upon his arrival. "Go to hell!" Bush joked. Bush later apologized by sending a letter to the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Bush held a news conference soon thereafter, where he said that "my faith tells me that acceptance of Jesus Christ as my savior is my salvation, and I believe I made it clear that it is not the governor's role to decide who goes to heaven." It is a good thing that God, not the governor, makes those decisions, apparently.
The Bush family, it seems, has more than a passing acquaintance with some of the more vile aspects of anti-Semitism. Shrub's grandpappy, Prescott Bush, would not stop his financial backing of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s until ordered to do so by a new Federal law in 1942.
Shub's daddy, George H. Bush, was the running mate and chief executive officer of the White House during the Reagan years. During his disgraceful visit to the SS cemetery in Bitburg, Germany, Reagan remarked that the Nazis buried there were "victims, just as surely as the victims in the concentration camps."
In the fall of 1988, then-Vice President George H. Bush had to fire several neo-Nazis and anti-Semites from his Presidential campaign, including Holocaust revisionist Jerome Brentar and Akselis Mangulis, who was involved in the SS-collaborationist Latvian Legion. Other rabid anti-Semites who worked for the Daddy Bush/Quayle ticket include Florian Galdau, a close associate of the Romanian Archbishop Valerian Trifa (ex-Iron Guard accused by the US Justice Department of inciting pogroms in Bucharest, January 1941); Laszlo Pasztor, a convicted Nazi collaborator who had worked for Hungary's notorious Arrow Cross paramilitary force; Radi Slavoff, Holocaust denier, head of the Bulgarian National Front (an organization formed by members of the Nazi-aligned Bulgarian Legion) and former executive director of the National Republican Heritage Groups Council; former priest Philip Guarino of the Republican National Committee, the one-time chairman of the Italian-American National Republican Federation and a member of the Italian fascist P2 Lodge; Nicholas Nazarenko, a Cossack ex-Waffen SS officer; Walter Melianovich, a well-known supporter of racist Bylorussian groups; and Bohdan Fedorak, who is linked to a Nazi-collaborationist organization investigated for anti-Polish and anti-Jewish wartime pogroms and who has worked to dismantle the Office of Special Investigations, US Justice Department's Nazi-hunting task force.
*Further Reading, Links & Citations*
John Loftus and Mark Aarons, _ The Secret War Against The Jews_ (New York: St. Martins Press, 1994.)
The Ramones "Bonzo Goes To Bitburg":
http://venus.spaceports.com/~ivo/songs/Bonzo.html
David Lee Preston, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links," _The Philadelphia Inquirer_ (10 Sept 1988)
Russ Bellant, _Old Nazis, the New Right, and the Republican Party: Domestic Fascist Networks and Their Effect on US Cold War Politics_ (Boston: South End Press, 1991)
Martin A. Lee _The Beast Reawakens_ (Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1997)
J.H. Hatfield, _Fortunate Son: George W. Bush and the Making of an American President_
( originally St. Martin's Press; reissued by Soft Skull Press, 2001)
Bush Campaigns with Jesus
http://www.nytimes.com/library/opinion/dowd/121599dowd.html
The Guy Who Helped Bush Be Born Again
http://www.billygraham.org
Bush's Church in Austin
http://www.tarrytownumc.org/
Transcript of Bush's Festival of Lights:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/12/20011210-7.html
Bush's Attempt to Explain His "Jews Go to Hell" Remark:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/991206/bushint.htm
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I think that he just doesn't understand. |
by Michael Feltes
mfeltes (nospam) gmx.net (unverified) |
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14 Dec 2001
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Whatever George W. Bush may be, I don't believe that he's actively anti-Semitic or that he hates Jews. He just doesn't understand the ramifications of accepting these Christian tenets unquestioningly. |
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Re: Bush's Holy War And Hanukkah |
by Nick
dissenta4 (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified) |
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23 Dec 2003
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Bush Sr and his ties to neo-Nazi drug Lord |
