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Confronting Jerome Corsi on the Alex Jones Show Earlier today, I called the Alex Jones radio show. Alex’s guest was Jerome Corsi, described by the UK Financial Times as a “prominent backer” of the Alliance for Democracy in Iran, a “think-tank” that, according to Sourcewatch, admires the American Enterprise Institute, the neocon shop behind the invasion of Iraq. AEI boasts stalwart neocon members such as Lynne Cheney, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Newt Gingrich, and the Prince of Darkness, Richard Perle. The Alliance for Democracy in Iran, also according to Sourcewatch, is more than likely “strongly influenced by the most prominent democracy promoting organization, the National Endowment for Democracy,” an organization funded by Congress and, according to B. Rahman of the South Asia Analysis Group, “engages in … the same kinds of interference in the internal affairs of foreign countries, which were the hallmark of the CIA.” Mr. Corsi began his appearance on Jones’ show by stating that Iran is developing nukes (no evidence provided) and wants to nuke Israel in order to kick-start the return of the Mahdi, the 12th Imam devout Shias believe will appear to bring justice and peace to a corrupt world. Corsi declared Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will use the rapture (the Mahdaviat) associated with the putative return of the Mahdi in order to nuke Israel. Jerome Corsi did not bother to provide evidence of his claim, however, as the Christian Science Monitor and other corporate media sources have noted, Ahmadinejad allegedly “shared his views” with a cleric on the Mahdaviat and this event was supposedly captured on video, although an Iranian “spokesman … dismissed the video as fake (other sources confirm it is authentic), and denied that Ahmadinejad bases decisions on ‘heavenly affairs.’” Regardless if Ahmadinejad believes the Mahdaviat will determine Iran’s foreign policy or not, the idea that Iran will nuke Israel—and subsequently be on the receiving end of a horrific barrage of thermo-nukes—is hardly rational, even delusional, and most assuredly suicidal. But then such convoluted theories are strictly in the province of the Straussian neocons, who hate Muslims and want to kill more than the 200,000 they have slaughtered in Iraq to date. Listening to Corsi dispense his neocon drivel about Iran on Alex’s show, I felt compelled to call in and confront him. I was able to get through and Alex brought me up a few minutes before the top of the hour. I immediately asked Corsi about his comments, posted on FreeRepublic.com, a neocon back bench and cheering section for mass murder. Specifically, I asked him about the following comment: “Ragheads are Boy-Bumpers as clearly as they are Women-Haters—it all goes together” and his assertion Islam is “a worthless, dangerous Satanic religion.” Corsi immediately took issue with mention of these comments (see MMFA investigates: Who is Jerome Corsi, co-author of Swift Boat Vets attack book?) and described them as an “ad hominem” attack and said he had since recanted. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, defines “ad hominem” as “appealing to personal considerations rather than to logic or reason,” that is to say an off-topic attack. Regardless, Mr. Corsi continues to portray Shia Iranians as crazed religious zealots bent on nuking Israel, a completely unsubstantiated load of hogwash. I had no idea Corsi had taken back these hurtful and hateful comments. A bit of Google sleuthing revealed after appearing on Alex’s show Corsi “had apologized for making insulting remarks about Catholics and Muslims (and vulgar slurs against Bill and Hillary Clinton) on a conservative website,” although this apology was blunted somewhat by the talk show hatemonger Michael “Savage” Weiner, who defended Corsi (see Savage on Corsi’s bigotry: “Is that racist? … Is that offensive to you? … I don’t see a problem ….”). In fact, Corsi was more or less obliged to apologize—lest he be lumped in with the Mistress of Hate, Ann Coulter—after his anonymity was blown on the FreeRepublic forum. Unfortunately, Alex didn’t hold me over the top of the hour, and in the next segment he deemed my call “wild,” but if he had offered to hold me over I would have mentioned the fact Israel has consistently undermined its Arab and Muslim neighbors. Israel has not only used its nukes to blackmail its “friend,” the United States, but has threatened to use them preemptively on Muslim, Russian and even European targets. “Should war break out in the Middle East again and should the Syrians and the Egyptians break through again as they did in 1973 [Yom Kippur War], or should any Arab nation fire missiles again at Israel, as Iraq did [in the 1991 Gulf War], a nuclear escalation, once unthinkable except as a last resort, would now be a strong possibility,” writes Seymour Hersh, describing Israel’s Samson Option. “In his exposé of Israel’s clandestine nuclear arsenal, Hersh suggested that in the early days (late 1960s) of crude big-flash-and-bang nukes, one defensive option to counter an attack on Israel with weapons of mass destruction was for the beleaguered nation to mimic Samson and grimly trade holocaust for holocaust,” reports NewsMax. In other words, if Israel’s neighbors invaded, for whatever reason, Israel would use nukes (as for a reason to invade Israel, the illegal attack on Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981 comes to mind, or its invasion of Lebanon, or its long history of border provocation and outright theft of Arab land, for instance the Golan Heights and Shebba Farms). Moreover, I would have made mention of Israel’s plan to undermine and balkanize its neighbors, more than enough reason for the targeted countries to invade Israel as a threat to regional peace and stability. In order to “survive” (i.e., retain its hegemony in the region), “Israel must … effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation,” summarizes Khalil Nakhleh in Israel Shahak’s translation of Oded Yinon’s Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties. In short, regardless of Ahmadinejad’s comments on Israel (deliberately mistranslated by the pro-Likud Middle East Media Research Institute), Iran does not plan to “wipe Israel off the map,” as widely claimed, but rather “actually calls for the removal of the regimes that are in power in Israel and in the USA as a goal for the future. Nowhere does he demand the elimination or annihilation of Israel. He called for greater governance for Palestine. The word map does not even feature. And the president makes plain that the Holocaust happened, but, he argues western powers have exploited the memory of the Holocaust for their own imperialistic purposes. What the mainstream ran with is complete deception,” according to the PeacePalestine blog. Mr. Corsi is apparently not interested in the dissembling, lies, fabrication, and pretexts for mass murder contrived by the Likudites and the neocons, and he is obviously onboard with the up-coming shock and awe campaign planned for Iran. As a neocon, he is firmly focused on demonizing Iran as a nation of religious zealots determined to launch nuclear Armageddon in the name of the Mahdavia. Of course, this makes absolutely no sense and should be rejected out of hand—in fact, it is a disgusting pretext, no different than the pretexts employed in the lead-up to the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Finally, while it is unfortunate my confrontation broke the flow of Alex’s discussion of the North American Union—an equally important topic—it is imperative the neocons be confronted, no matter the venue. ---------------------------------------------------
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