ELIE WIESEL. Professional "Holocaust survivor." Wiesel was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. He is primarily known as a commentator on the "Holocaust," and is one of the most celebrated "eyewitnesses" to that event. Yet, in his supposedly autobiographical book "Night," he makes no mention of gas chambers. When Wiesel and his father, as Auschwitz prisoners, had the choice of either leaving with their retreating German "executioners" or remaining behind in the camp to await the Soviet "liberators," the two decided to leave with their German captors. Wiesel became an active member of Menachem Begin's Irgun terrorist organisation after his release from captivity. Wiesel gives many lectures on Holocaust related subjects. He charges $25,000 per lecture plus the use of a chauffeur-driven car.

"We have a moral obligation to intervene where evil is in control. Today, that place is Iraq." (March, 2003. Quoted in George Bush’s radio address to the nation. March 15^th 2003.)

Prior quotations by Wiesel:

"There is a time to love and a time to hate; whoever does not hate when he should does not deserve to love when he should… Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate, healthy, virile hate, for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the dead." ("Legends of Our Time." 1968.)

"A Jew is closer to humanity than anybody else." ("Celebration Talmudique." 1990.)

"The holocaust is a sacred mystery, whose secrets were confined to a priesthood of survivors." ("The Holocaust in American Life," p. 211-212, by Peter Novick, 1999.)

** I hope you realise precisely what Wiesel means in this last quotation. He means that the non-Jew, or even the doubting Jew, must not dare to investigate what he and people like him have told us about the "Holocaust." Their testimony must be taken as gospel. That "mystery" which is "sacred" must be received as a matter of faith, and, as with all other holy mysteries, must forever remain mysterious if it is to retain its sacredness. No matter what the evidence, no matter what the conflicting testimony or history.

Anyone who breaches this faith will be deemed a "holocaust denier," and punished accordingly.


RABBI DAVID GOLDBERG. "The Independent." August 31^st 2000.

Reviewing Wiesel’s, "And the Sea is Never Full," Goldberg writes:

"It is a long list of self-congratulatory pages from Wiesel's engagements diary. How I saved Abba Eban's career; how Golda Meir confided in me; why Kissinger was grateful to me; if only Gorbachev had listened to me; how mine was the only voice of sweet reason in the controversy surrounding the Washington Holocaust Museum… the conceit is breathtaking… Wiesel reveals himself as vain, arrogant, gullible and naïve about international affairs."


CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS. British journalist "Wiesel Words." "Focal Point," 2001. The International Campaign for Real History. February 19, 2001.

"Is there a more contemptible poseur and windbag than Elie Wiesel?… he was a member of Menachem Begin's Irgun in the 1940s, when that force employed extreme violence against Arab civilians and was more than ready to use it against Jews…

… for Wiesel all Arabs are Muslims, and even if they happen to live in Jerusalem… he asserts that in 1948:

‘… incited by their leaders, 600,000 Palestinians left the country convinced that, once Israel was vanquished, they would be able to return home.’

This claim is a cheap lie and is known by Wiesel to be a lie. It is furthermore an utterly discredited lie, and one that Israeli officialdom no longer cares to repeat. Israeli and Jewish historians have exposed it time and again.

Every Arab broadcasting station in the region, in 1947 as well as 1948, was monitored and recorded and transcribed by the BBC, and every Arab newspaper has been scoured, and not one instance of such ‘incitement,’ in direct speech or reported speech, has ever come to light. The late historian and diplomat Erskine Childers issued an open challenge on the point as far back as the 1950s that was never taken up and never will be. And of course the lie is a Big Lie, because Expulsion-Denial lies at the root of the entire problem and helps poison the situation to this day.

In a brilliant reply to Wiesel published in ‘Vesti,’ Israel's largest Russian-language paper, Israel Shamir compares him rather leniently not to Jabotinsky but to the Knight of the Doleful Countenance and his mad quest for purity:

‘Be reasonable, old man. Stay within the frame of the story and within the bounds of common decency. Don Quixote did not drive his jeep into Toboso to rape his old flame. OK, you loved her, and thought about her, but it does not give you the right to kill her children, bulldoze her rose garden and put your boots on her dining-room table.’

Shamir speaks of the beautiful city that Palestinians centuries ago:

‘… adorned with a magnificent piece of jewelry, the Golden Dome of Haram al-Sharif, built their houses with pointed arches and wide porches, and planted cypresses and palm trees.’ He's wasting his time on Wiesel, who says that Palestine was a desert before he arrived there as one of Begin's thugs, and who slanders the people he helped dispossess, first by falsely saying that they ran away from their beloved ancestral hometown and second by disputing their right even to feel nostalgia for it.

In 1982, after Gen. Ariel Sharon had treated the inhabitants of the Sabra and Shatila camps as target practice for his paid proxies, Wiesel favored us with another of his exercises in neutrality. Asked by the ‘New York Times’ to comment on the pogrom, he was one of the few American Jews approached on the matter to express zero remorse. ‘I don't think we should even comment,’ he said, proceeding to comment bleatingly that he felt, ‘sadness – with Israel, and not against Israel.’ For the victims, not even a perfunctory word.

As I write, it looks as if the same Sharon will become Israel's prime minister. If you recall, he occupied West Beirut in September 1982, after the assassination of the Maronite Prime Minister Bashir Gemayel, on the announced and highly believable pretext that Palestinian civilians would need protection from Phalangist reprisal. He then sent into their undefended camps the most extreme faction of the Phalangist militia and backed up the dirty work of these notorious fascists with flares during the night, and rear-guard cover during the day, for thirty-six hours before having them escorted out in triumph and thanked for their work. In other words, the bulk of US overseas military aid is about to be lavished on a man who stood with hands on hip, in belt and boots and steel helmet and binoculars, and saw a mound of human corpses rise, and who thought it good. For this outcome, the soil has been manured by the beautiful thoughts of Elie Wiesel."

** Christopher Hitchens is part Jewish.

The inclusion of the Wiesel quotations and critiques may seem out of place. They are included to highlight the difference between the reverence that the US establishment, in the shape of George W. Bush, accords to the likes of Wiesel, and what the shabby reality is. The fact that Bush minor would refer to him in such an important speech says a lot. It says even more about his speechwriters.


JOHN R. BOLTON. Under Secretary of State for Arms Control in the Bush minor administration. Member of JINSA.

Senior Vice President,

American Enterprise Institute; Former Assistant Secretary of State. Draft dodger during the Vietnam War. Heritage Foundation Lecture. 6th May, 2002.

"The international security environment has changed, and our greatest threat comes not from the specter of nuclear war between two superpowers, as it did during the Cold War, but from transnational terrorist cells that will strike without warning using weapons of mass destruction. Every nation, not just the United States, has had to reassess its security situation and to decide where it stands on the war on terrorism.

In the past, the United States relied principally on passive measures to stem proliferation. Arms control and nonproliferation regimes, export controls, and diplomatic overtures were the primary tools used in this fight. But September 11, the subsequent anthrax attacks, and our discoveries regarding al-Qaeda and its WMD aspirations have required the U.S to complement these more traditional strategies with a new approach.

States that renounce terror and abandon WMD can become part of our effort. But those that do not can expect to become our targets.

The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort. Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states. We are concerned that such technology could support BW programs in those states."


DAN QUAYLE. Vice President of the US in George Bush major’s administration. Draft dodger during the Vietnam War. Chose to serve in the Indiana National Guard instead.

"Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand… from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time." (2^nd October, 1992. "Esquire." 9^th August, 1992.)

"The US should have an international coalition that believes we should pre-empt, and not wait to be attacked." (August 30^th 2002. "Louisville Courier-Journal." August 31^st 2002.)


JOHN D. NEGROPONTE. US Ambassador to the UN. 5^th August, 2002. Former chairman of the French-American Foundation. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/nea/summit/text/0805ngpt.htm

Negroponte served as Ambassador to Honduras from 1981 to 1985, during the time that the Nicaraguan Contras were receiving US aid through that country in defiance of a law barring such aid.