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Unrepentant Mahathir Says Jews Control the World
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By Ed Cropley

BANGKOK (Reuters) - An unrepentant Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad repeated Tuesday his belief that Jews rule the world, denied President Bush (news - web sites) had rebuked him for it and hit out at Australian leader John Howard.

Mahathir, who steps down at the end of the month after 22 years in power, told the Bangkok Post in an interview that widespread criticism of his recent remark that "Jews rule the world by proxy" proved he was right.

"The reaction of the world shows that they control the world," he told the newspaper.

"Israel is a small country. There are not so many Jews in the world. But they are so arrogant, they defy the whole world. Even if the United Nations (news - web sites) says no, they go ahead. Why? Because they have the backing of all these people," Mahathir said.

Bush called the initial comments -- which the outspoken leader of largely Muslim Malaysia said were taken out of context -- "wrong and divisive," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

"It stands squarely against what I believe," he quoted Bush as telling Mahathir during the annual summit of the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (news - web sites) forum in Bangkok.

But Mahathir said reports Bush had rebuked him were wrong.

"Certainly, he did not rebuke me," Mahathir told a news conference after the two-day summit ended. "All he said was that 'I regret today to have to use strong words against you'," Mahathir said.

"After that we were walking practically hand-in-hand."

The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center said Mahathir's speech could spur violence against Jews.

"This is incitement against Jews and it provides a rationale and motivation for terror against Jews," Ephraim Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Israel, told Reuters.

The World Union for Progressive Judaism, an umbrella body grouping liberal and reform Jewish communities around the world, urged acting U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Bertrand Ramcharan to speak out against Mahathir's "racist remarks."

FROSTY POLITENESS AHEAD

Australian Prime Minister John Howard, speaking after the interview was published, promised frosty politeness when he met Mahathir on the final day of the summit.

"I will maintain cordiality and no more with Dr. Mahathir," he said.

Mahathir, who has always had a prickly relationship with his counterparts from Canberra whom he accuses of trying to be the U.S. 'deputy sheriff' in Asia, said Howard was merely performing to type.

"There's a fondness among leaders in Australia, prime ministers of Australia, to make nasty comments like calling me recalcitrant, et cetera," he said.



"John Howard did the same thing, repeatedly, even casting aspersions on our judicial system, as if we do not understand law, we don't understand fair deal and justice."

"In fact, we do. We had a very good history of treating our aborigines, for example. We didn't shoot them dead. We didn't commit genocide. So when making criticism of other people, please look at your own background and temper it with some humility."

In the Bangkok Post interview, Mahathir complained that reports of his remarks on Jews last week to an Islamic summit in Malaysia, which the United States, the European Union (news - web sites), Australia and others denounced as anti-Semitic, "just picked up one sentence in my speech."

News accounts had ignored his condemnation of all violence, including suicide bombings, and his call on Muslims to heed the teachings of the Koran and talk peace with Israel, he said.

Asked why he thought this was the case, Mahathir replied: "Well, many newspapers are owned by Jews. They only see that angle and they have a powerful influence over the thinking of many people. Only their side of the picture is given now."

New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark disputed that.

"Having seen the item on television myself, it's hard to see how you could have misinterpreted it. It was a most unfortunate message," she said

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farid wrote:
>This is such nonsense. If any group in history has had LESS control over their lives it's been the Jews. It's just part of the same old blood-libel to claim they're the ones driving US policy...sort of like saying "God made me do it". They're being used as scapegoats again...like they were by so many Christians...like Hitler for instance who blamed them for losing the First World War for Germany.
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>Jews have nothing...nada...zip, except their dismal plight at the end of World War Two...also brought to us by Christians...and their handy usefulness as drudges and whipping boys for Western policies. To top it off they're being presented to the world as the ones responsible for and behind all of the crimes committed at the command of their financial backers and protectors, the United States. Their leaders are just too greedy and bent on power politics and swept away by the heady opportuinity to kill innocent people who never harmed them...kind of like Himmler got hard-ons killing them.
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>Christians used Jews for centuries and found another use for them...after nearly wiping them out finally. Why lose a good thing? Just give them a "home"...build a new ghetto wall around it... and give them every good reason in the world to leave Europe and Russia and Latin America to go lock themselves in their new ghetto...away from you...which is what Christians wanted in the first place.
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>And when the day comes...and it will, that the United States needs another policy...they'll be oh-so-glad to step back and say, "well those Jews owned everything in the United States and we had to do as they told us or else no politician could get into office...THEY made me do it". And guess who'll catch hell for it...and guess who will smile secretly where no one see.
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>Nothing has changed...Christians have a "mission" for Jews, that's all. Like our own dumb ass Christians who point proudly to the bible, that Jew history book, to where it says Yahwe had a good use for the Assyrians...chastise his Hebrew darlings.
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>Some people use toilet paper...some people ARE toilet paper and glad of it.



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