Hans Rustad Det sier noe om hvor «på jordet» regimet i Syria er at det lar den sterkt antisemittiske David Duke komme på besøk og spre sin gift.
Duke fikk utbre sine paranoide, hatefulle meninger på TV, og på et folkemøte. Det gir en målestokk på hva slags regime som styrer Syria: Her er ingen moderasjon eller pragmatisme, som faren Hafez al-Assad likte å projisere, men reinspikka jødehat.
Intervjueren og David Duke faller hverandre om halsen: Jødene styrer Amerika og sikler etter verdensmakt.
Interview With Syrian TV, November 21, 2005
Interviewer: «How do you read the ongoing U.S.-led escalation against Syria within the context of re-mapping the Middle East?»
David Duke: «Well, you must understand that the chief architects of the war were Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearl, Daniel Feith, Mr. Wurmser, Elliot Abrams, in the United States. They were the architects of this war. Mr. Pearl, as well as Mr. Wurmser and Feith, wrote a paper called ‘A Clean Break: Securing the Realm,’ a paper for Israel, for Benjamin Netanyahu. That paper said that the way to Damascus was through Baghdad. I believe that this is part of the ongoing Zionist effort, in their control of American foreign policy, to dominate the entire Middle East, and I believe, dominate the world. I think America is occupied in many ways the way the Golan Heights is occupied, the way the West Bank of Palestine is occupied.»
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«The people who are pushing Jewish supremacism, Zionism – they are absolute evil and they are crazy. All they know is more power, and so there is a real danger, I should say, for Syria, and a danger for Iran at this point.»
Intervjuet har også innslag av ufrivillig humor:
«It’s interesting. This is something the Arab community also is not aware of. The neo-cons, the people who founded this were actually Trotskyite communists originally. This is not well known …»
Interviewer: «Trotskyites?»
Duke: «Trotskyites. Yes, exactly. Russia has worked to free itself from the Jewish supremacist Bolshevists.»
Intervjueren letter på lokket og avslører hvordan antisemittismen er inngrodd og akseptert. Man trenger bare bekreftelse fra utlendinger på at det er normalt:
Interviewer: «On last week’s talk show, a senior Anglican Syro-Lebanese clergyman cited on this show that there is a biblical background to what the world in general, and the Middle East in particular, is witnessing nowadays. What is your input on that? He was talking about the Old Testament and the process through which Jesus Christ was tried by the Jews and the way now they are treating [figures] like the Syrian leaders.»
Duke: «I may not be the most popular person for saying what I think needs to be said, but many people in the Middle East distinguish between Zionism and Judaism. As you know from reading my book, the evidence is overwhelming: Judaism at its core – not all Jews, but Judaism at its core – is a racist religion, a supremacist religion, and non-Jews are considered not even of human caliber. It’s not all of the Jews, but it is certainly something that is strong in it.»
I rettferdighetens navn: Jean-Marie Le Pen ble av BBC konfrontert med at han sendte en av sine «løytnanter» til USA for å møte David Duke. – Hvordan kan du omgås en KKK-mann som Duke, spurte Stephen Sacker.
– KKK, hvit overhøyhet, hvor kom dette inn? Jeg har aldri hørt om at Duke skulle være KKK, svarte Le Pen.
