Abrabanel: Musings on the Jewish condition

As the always-topical Tom Gross points out, Iraqi media are now reporting that Israelis – yes, Israelis – are busily buying up Iraqi real estate with the goal of turning Kirkuk into “a new Jerusalem.”

Here it is in Farsi, Arabic or in a Google Translate version of the Arabic.

Of course, what paranoid report about Jews would be complete without the Mossad (the language is probably the fault of Google Translate and not the author):

If it is not surprising compared with the Jewish influx since the fall of Baghdad in April – in April 2003 manual entry of tens of elements of the Israeli intelligence service “Mossad”, under multiple names as Mesopotamia, and other companies with illusory.

What’s the motivation for this kind of talk? Welcome to paragraph 7:

She adds that Party sources said the Israeli intensified its efforts since the beginning of this year to buy land and homes and farms in Kirkuk and its environs, as well as continuing to carry out assassinations of political figures long Turkoman and Arab, Kurdish and bombed party headquarters of the Turkmen and Kurds in Kirkuk, with the aim of igniting ethnic discord.

Ethnic discord ripping our country apart? Kurds and Sunnis can’t get along? Clearly we’re all victims of secret Jewish agencies working hard to “ignite ethnic discord.”

We don’t speak Arabic, Farsi or any other language of the Muslim world, so take this with a grain of salt. Still, judging by the English-language editorials we’ve seen coming out of Muslim countries, the coverage of the US presidential election often has a fairly consistent narrative.

Here’s an example from today, in Pakistan’s influential English-language daily The Nation:

The Israeli lobby with its stranglehold over the US financial institutions, media, numerous think tanks and government agencies, not only dictates the US foreign policy but also determines who gets to rule America.

The article is titled “Obama and Jews,” and is written (poorly) by a certain Irfan Asghar, described only as a “public servant.” Asghar seems to wholeheartedly believe the “stranglehold” theory, and offers examples of Obama’s pandering to the Jews:

He has over-egged the pudding by heaping scorn on anti-Israel statements pronounced by Lovis Farrakhan, the anti-Israel Chairman of the Nation of Islam. As Israel dubs Iran’s nuclear programme as the monstrous threat to it, so Obama has articulated that he does not believe that diplomacy above can deter Iran from going nuclear and that there could be a need for stick to bring Iran to heels.

But, explains Asghar, Obama should know that he doesn’t have to listen to the Jews. Why? Because despite all his pandering, they won’t vote for him anyway:

But on having mature reflection, the writer is of the viewpoint that despite bending over backwards to curry favour with the Jewish lobby and pander to its wishes, many Jews would not vote for Obama as they cast doubts on his intentions and policies towards Israel’s security. The why and the wherefore for this is that Obama has fulminated against the war on Iraq and spelled out the strategy of withdrawing US troops from there and rolling out talks with Iran and Syria.

Obama’s campaign isn’t stupid, and includes among the cadre of its most ardent supporters and advisors many senior members of that all-powerful Jewish lobby. I don’t think they’ll be taking advice from these folks. The news here isn’t the content of the advice, but the authentic sincerity with which English-speaking Muslims in Pakistan are trying to wean Obama off the Jewish conspiracy.