Articles by Maidhc Ó Cathail

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How Humanitarian Imperialism Led to Europe’s Refugee Crisis
Jean Bricmont and Maidhc Ó Cathail – CounterPunch, 22 Feb 2016

What I call the moral left wants to force the population to be altruistic with respect to the refugees. But the population who is never consulted on the issue of refugees and who is constantly asked to make sacrifices because “there is no money” understandably does not accept this moral discourse.

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The Scofield Bible—The Book That Made Zionists of America’s Evangelical Christians
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, 9 Nov 2015

“For a nation to commit the sin of anti-Semitism brings inevitable judgement.” —The New Scofield Study Bible

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The Dublin-Doha Nexus: Ireland’s Key Role in the Muslim Brotherhood’s Global Jihad
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Aug 2015

A CNN study published in September 2014 surprisingly found that Ireland is second only to Finland among countries with the greatest percentage of Muslims who have gone to fight in Syria.

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The Tunisia Massacre and the Irish-ISIS Connection
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jul 2015

June 30, 2015 – “The murder of three Irish citizens at a tourist resort in north Africa has brought Islamic terrorism much closer to home,” [reporter] Cormac O’Keeffe observes in the Irish Examiner.

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Anti-Assad Warmongers Drag in the Holocaust
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Oct 2014

“The irony is that the Nazi holocaust has now become the main ideological weapon for launching wars of aggression,” Norman Finkelstein tells in “Defamation,” the award-winning 2009 documentary on how perceptions of anti-Semitism affect Israeli and U.S. politics.

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Henry Frowde, the Mysterious OUP Publisher of Zionist Scofield Bible, Was a Lifelong Darbyite Plymouth Brother
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Aug 2014

In a 2009 piece entitled “Zionism’s Un-Christian Bible,” I wrote that “it remains a mystery” why the reputable Oxford University Press had a century earlier published The Scofield Reference Bible, the highly influential but controversial work whose annotated Zionist commentary on the Authorized King James Version has “induced generations of American evangelicals to believe that God demands their uncritical support for the modern State of Israel.”

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Is America’s ‘Passionate Attachment’ to Israel Coming to an End?
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2013

In an analysis piece entitled “Israel’s New Strategic Position,” Stratfor’s George Friedman claims that Tel Aviv has already lost its stranglehold over the U.S. political system.

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The Incredible Tale of Gwenyth Todd and the Naïve Neocons
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2013

Given the proliferation of crimes, both foreign and domestic, known to have been committed by the U.S. government in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, there is an understandable willingness among large swathes of the public to believe almost anything told them by someone claiming to be blowing the whistle on an increasingly rogue “world’s policeman.”

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Israeli Kids Dressed As Burning Twin Towers for Purim
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2013

On the annual Jewish celebration of the Biblical slaying “of their foes seventy and five thousand,” at least one Israeli family seems to think it’s funny to reenact the murder of 3,000 in New York on September 11, 2001.

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How a Group of Christians Smearing Muslims Benefits the Jewish State
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2012

In the course of his much-ridiculed albeit deadly serious ACME bomb speech to the U.N. General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asserted that “the medieval forces of radical Islam” stand in the way of Israel’s desire for “a Middle East of progress and peace.” As evidence of these freedom-hating, anti-modern forces supposedly “bent on world conquest,” Netanyahu cited the Sept. 11 besieging of U.S. embassies throughout the region.

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Jeffrey Gedmin: The Democracy-Promoting, Iraq War-Supporting, Pro-Israel Neocon Who Influenced Merkel’s EU Austerity Program
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2012

In his latest New Europe column entitled “Merkel’s real agenda: mugging the poor,” David Cronin asks why the German Chancellor has cast herself as Europe’s “empress of austerity.” The answer, he believes, is to be found by looking at those who have shaped the German leader’s worldview.

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NYPD Concern about ‘Iran Terror’ Should Put U.S. Security on Alert
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Oct 2012

On September 25 [2012], The Passionate Attachment broke the story of the Israel lobbyist who suggested that a Pearl Harbor-type attack might be necessary to get a recalcitrant Obama Administration to go to war with Iran. In light of Clawson’s thinly-veiled call for a false flag attack to trigger another Middle East war for Israel, a story in yesterday’s [10 Oct 2012] New York Post entitled “NYPD on alert for Iran terror” should be of major concern to those charged with protecting U.S. national security.

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Israel Lobbyist Hints That ‘Pearl Harbor’ May Be Needed To Get US into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Oct 2012

Intriguingly, he went on to recount a series of controversial incidents in American history — the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sinking of the Lusitania, the Gulf of Tonkin incident, and the blowing up of the USS Maine — that US presidents “had to wait for” before taking America to war.

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Peace Is War: How Israel Induces America into War with Iran
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Aug 2012

On August 17 [2012], America’s two leading newspapers featured strikingly similar opinion pieces, providing further evidence of a coordinated effort by Israel and its American partisans to induce the United States into waging another disastrous Middle East war. In the Washington Post… the New York Times…

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Quiet Planning For Post-Assad Syria Has Roots in 2008 Conference
Maidhc Ó Cathail, The Passionate Attachment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jul 2012

For the last six months, 40 senior representatives of various Syrian opposition groups have been meeting quietly in Germany under the tutelage of the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) to plan for how to set up a post-Assad Syrian government.

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Who Will Watch the Watchdog?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Dec 2011

The Pro-Israel NGO Behind NATO’s War on Libya Is Targeting Syria – As long as UN Watch’s motto of “Monitoring the United Nations, Promoting Human Rights” continues to obscure its real mission of “Manipulating the United Nations, Promoting Israel’s Interests,” the warning of a Roman poet becomes increasingly pertinent: “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”

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If Arab Spring Threatens Israel, Why Does Saban Support It?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 May 2011

“The test of a first-rate intelligence,” F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote, “is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” When it comes to what’s been dubbed the “Arab Spring,” most Middle East analysts pass Fitzgerald’s test with flying colours.

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MidEast Democracy: Israel’s Diamond in the Rough
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2011

“The toppling of Egypt’s modern-day pharaoh through peaceful mass protests, aided by Facebook and Twitter, marks a watershed for Egypt and the entire Arab world,” wrote Larry Diamond, in a noteworthy February 14 op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle. “Contrary to widespread anxieties in the U.S. foreign policy establishment,” the prominent advocate of American taxpayer-funded “democracy promotion” maintained, “it will also serve the long-term interests of the United States—and Israel.

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It’s the Occupation, Stupid
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jan 2011

It’s the Occupation, Stupid features, in order of appearance, Eliot Spitzer, Ben Stein, Irving Kristol, Ron Paul, Michael Scheuer, Richard Curtiss, Eric Margolis, Loretta Alper, Scott Horton, Alison Weir, Glenn Greenwald, Paul Findley, Ilan Pappé, Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush. The narrator’s words are from Maidhc Ó Cathail’s “Ben Stein: America is an underarmed country!” and “Kristol Clear: The Source of America’s Wars.”

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Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s Indispensable Alibi
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jan 2011

Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In fact, hostility toward Jews is indispensable to the cause of Jewish nationalism. If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it.

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Obama’s Israel Policy: Speak Softly and Carry a Very Big Carrot
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2010

Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu. In exchange for a paltry one-off 90 day freeze on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank (excluding East Jerusalem), Israel will get 20 F-35 stealth fighter jets worth $3 billion and a slew of other goodies. Yet Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly gave up to eight hours with Netanyahu trying to persuade him to accept “one of the most generous bribes ever bestowed by the United States on any foreign power.”

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The Chilcot Inquiry: Britain’s 9/11 Commission
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2010

All too often, official inquiries are conducted by the very people who should themselves be under investigation. In this respect, Britain’s Chilcot Inquiry on the Iraq war bears a distressing similarity to the 9/11 Commission. In a remarkable symmetry, both inquiries involve a Jewish Zionist historian, who not only advised his country’s leader to go to war against Iraq, but actually provided the ideological justification for that unnecessary war.

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Pentagon Author Exposes Zelikow’s Key Role in 9/11 Cover-Up
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Oct 2010

In an interview on the Fox Business Network, a retired U.S. intelligence officer accused the official in charge of the 9/11 Commission of a cover-up of intelligence failures leading up to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

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Al-Qaeda’s Suspect Humanitarianism
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2010

AP’s sole source for the 11-minute tape, with the oddly contemplative title “Reflections on the Method of Relief Work,” is SITE Intelligence Group. The U.S.-based group, which purportedly “monitors jihadi forums,” provided AP with a copy of the message that it claims was posted on unnamed “Islamic militant websites.” There are questions, however, about whether SITE Intelligence is the most objective source of information about terrorism. SITE co-founder Rita Katz, an Israeli Defense Forces veteran, is an Iraqi-born Jew, whose father was publicly hanged in Iraq after the 1967 Six-Day War as an Israeli spy. Considering Tel Aviv’s obvious interest in having the world’s only superpower fight a “global war on terror” against the Jewish state’s Muslim neighbours, it somehow never occurred to Associated Press, or other mainstream media outlets, to ask the question, Like father, like daughter?

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Bin Laden is Dead; Long Live “Bin Laden”
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2010

Who’s keeping the terror myth alive?

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Guess Who Wants to Kill the Internet?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2010

On October 11, 2001, exactly one month after 9/11, Lieberman introduced S. 1534, a bill to establish a Department of Homeland Security. Since then, he has been the main mover behind such draconian legislation as the Protect America Act of 2007, the Enemy Belligerent, Interrogation, Detention, and Prosecution Act of 2010, and the proposed Terrorist Expatriation Act, which would revoke the citizenship of Americans suspected of terrorism. And now the senator from Connecticut wants to kill the Internet.

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Framing Pakistan: How the Pro-Israel Media Enables India’s Surrogate Warfare
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 May 2010

In its bitter rivalry with India, Pakistan is at a fatal disadvantage. Unlike its South Asian neighbour, Islamabad lacks an ally with considerable influence over American mainstream media.

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From Shas to Hamas: The Group Behind the South Park Controversy
Maidhc Ó Cathail - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 May 2010

Muslims just can’t seem to take a joke. Or at least that’s what some would have you believe. Like the contrived Danish cartoon controversy, the much-hyped Times Square car bomb incident provided an ideal opportunity for those who seek to make Islam look bad in the eyes of the world.

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The Next 9/11—Made in Israel?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 May 2010

Citing the possibility of a terrorist organization getting hold of a nuclear weapon as the greatest threat to U.S. security, Barack Obama persuaded 46 other countries at the recent Nuclear Security Summit to agree to secure the world’s loose nuclear material. Those leaders who came to Washington might have done more to avert a nuclear attack, however, if they had asked the U.S. President to account for America’s own loose nukes.

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WHO’S AFRAID OF 9/11 CONSPIRACY THEORIES?
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Dissident Voice, 12 Apr 2010

In the absence of a proper 9/11 investigation, there remains a broad range of opinion about the precise nature of Israeli complicity. In The Terror Enigma, Justin Raimondo tentatively concludes that the Israeli connection to 9/11 amounts to “foreknowledge and passive collaboration with Bin Laden’s jihad.” Other experts, such as Alan Sabrosky, are less circumspect. Dr. Sabrosky, former director of studies of the Strategic Studies Institute at the US Army War College, has recently stated that “it is 100 percent certain that 9/11 was a Mossad operation. Period.”

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ANTI-SEMITISM: ZIONISM’S INDISPENSABLE ALIBI
Maidhc Ó Cathail – Dissident Voice, 28 Mar 2010

Although Zionism typically represents itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, the truth is less flattering. In fact, hostility toward Jews is indispensable to the cause of Jewish nationalism. If anti-Semitism didn’t exist, Zionists would have to invent it. And in many cases that is precisely what they have done. Contrary to the widespread perception that […]

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