December 5, 2005

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December 5, 2005

Host: Daryl Bradford Smith

Guest: Michael Collins Piper [1]

Here are today's lies, misstatements, disinformation, and stupidity:

(1) Daryl Bradford Smith claims that the suicide bombing carried out in Netanya, Israel, on this day was carried out by the Israeli government against its own people. Responsibility was claimed by both Islamic Holy War and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, but Islamic Holy War was able to identify the bomber as Lotfi Abu Saada. [2]

(2) Michael Collins Piper overstates things a bit to say that "the Zionist movement" collaborated with the Nazis. While it's true that the extreme right of the Zionist movement did attempt to collaborate, and Piper cites the canonical text here, Lenni Brenner's 51 Documents. The book does not indicate the collusion of the mainstream labor Zionism movement.

(3) Piper states that the Nazis wanted the Jews to settle in Palestine. However, it has just come to light that they formed an SS-Einsatzgruppe in Greece to be deployed against the yishuv should Palestine be invaded by the Afrika Korps.

(4) Piper further ignores that the yishuv was not terribly interested in having German Jews come to Palestine during the Third Reich before the war began. Tom Segev deals with this at length in Part I of his book The Seventh Million.

(5) When Daryl Bradford Smith and Piper discuss the attack on the U.S.S. Liberty, they say LBJ was going to launch a nuclear strike on Egypt as retaliation. Nothing could be further from the truth. Doing such would have caused an immediate Soviet response, not just on Israel but perhaps on the United States itself. Piper says LBJ also called back the planes on the way to the site of the Liberty attack, but he didn't. It was an admiral that called off the F4s. This is covered in a later broadcast.

(6) When "Mike" calls in, he says that the Israeli jets and planes that attacked the Liberty were not marked. If that's true, then how would the crew on the Liberty know they were Israelis attacking them? He goes on to claim that one Israeli soldier saw the flag and asked for clarification on attacking an American ship and was told to go ahead and attack an American ship. There is not a shred of evidence to suggest this is true.

(7) Michael Collins Piper says that a bunch of Israeli art students celebrating the 9/11 attacks and claims that a "Jewish newspaper out of New York" affirmed that they were Mossad agents. But he doesn't give the name of the newspaper. Why not? Could it be because he's making it up?