DAVID
IRVING responds: FUNNY that
you should think I have termed the handful of
Russian "oligarchs" -- and, how extraordinary,
how many cowardly journalistic euphemisms the
Jews have brought down upon themselves --
fraudsters and embezzlers. Unlike the press, I
have not used those phrases, but that may well
be the general impression that their now widely
publicized activities in Russia have left.
As Vladimir
Potanin,
one of their number, disingenuously remarked,
ordinary Russians may find it hard to understand
how any single Russian, no matter how
hard-working, can have honestly amassed billions
of dollars in the few years since the collapse
of the Soviet Union, given that the Russians all
had the same starting position: which was,
roughly, on the Zero line.
The harsh fact remains:
Not only does the rest of the civilised world
nurture the strong suspicion that these
oligarchs gained the money by ill means at
worst, or by networking amongst fellow-Jews at
best; but these villains themselves believe in
their own criminality, having remained true to
the stereotype of getting away with it as long
as they can, then flinging their loot out of the
window into any other country willing to gather
them (and their wealth) up into its arms, with
the intention of residing there as long as they
can get away with it before that host country
too becomes too "hot" for them to remain.
[See Arrested
oil tycoon had passed shares to banker Lord
Rothschild].
IS THAT too harsh a
verdict, perhaps even undiluted anti-Semitism? I
think not. Anti- Semitism is the mindless,
visceral criticism of Jews for being Jews; what
is written above is targeted criticism of
certain Russian Jews for what they have done to
their fellow countrymen, namely for having
swindled them out of billions of dollars which
were the communal property of the entire former
Soviet people, and were not the pork-barrel --
if the use of that phrase is not in itself
"anti-Semitism" in the circumstances -- of a
chosen and privileged few.
As
Sunday's The Miami Herald put it -- it is
only today, Monday, that I have had time to pick
it up and read it in the "bathroom" as the
Americans still so quaintly call it -- the
murdered Moscow journalist Paul Klebnikov
had made the mistake of writing an "expose of
one of these oligarchs, Boris Berezovsky,
left, an aide to former President
Boris Yeltsin, alleging that the tycoon
was involved in murder, extortion, and
high-level corruption." Berezovsky, the
respected Knight Ridder newspaper adds, is
"wanted by the Russian government and now lives
in London."
And there is the
difference between us: I am not jealous of the
filthy-rich for their wealth; but I have always
believed in working for every penny, which I
have done for a seven-day week, including every
Christian festival, for the last forty years or
more, apart from seven days with pneumonia in
1996.
I own no companies,
bogus or otherwise. I am not "wanted" by any
government, quite the contrary. Though I too
cannot return to a score of countries around the
world, it is not because I am afraid of being
arrested for embezzlement on a global scale if I
do, as are these Russian gentlemen, but because
these selfsame people and their worldwide
accomplices have purchased from those
governments promises to impose a ban on any
effort I might make to revisit those countries
and lecture there. 
FRIGHTENED of the fresh
light of day and of the illumination that free
speech brings, these creatures burrow deep into
the rotting cabbage-mound of their wealth to
hide; they buy foreign football teams and luxury
mansions in their new hostlands, and hope
eventually to pass themselves off as English,
Greeks, or Israelis; and they ween themselves
fortunate to have got out of the great
motherland that gave them birth and so much,
much more, just in time.
Is it any wonder that
Berezovsky, photographed recently
(above), has the same hand-gesture, the
Grasp, as Abraham "The Claw" Foxman,
(right) the easily corruptible (current
price: $100K)
director of the
body created a century
ago to preserve the Jewish community from
"defamation" -- alias the censure that some of
their members so often deserve?
The Downward Grab,
on
the other hand, is a gesture that wealthy
Holocaust survivor Elie
Wiesel (left;
lecture fee: $40K + limousine) has made
uniquely his own.
As for Sunday's The
Miami Herald, I was careful not to put it to
any untoward use it in the bathroom, in case by
accidentally smudging the names of Mr Berezovsky
or his cronies I might be further accused of
anti-Semitism, or some other thought-crime or
misdemeanour.
And, for that matter,
in case my rear end complained.
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David Irving