David Duke in Damascus to express solidarity with Syria

Although this happened a few weeks ago, I didn't see where anyone posted the story. I am snipping some of the Israel comments from two different dates (11/22 and 11/24/05) Mr. Dukes appeared in arabicnews

http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051122/2005112209.html

Former US Louisiana Representative David Duke on Monday expresses solidarity with Syria in face of the pressures and threats against the country.

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He added that the pro-Israel neoconservatives in the US have influence on their country's foreign policy and have been working behind the scenes through their mass media in the US to hide "the reality of Israeli terrorism against the Arabs."

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He added that Israel has been practicing state terrorism against the Arabs, and the American people know this reality which "Zionist-controlled mass media seek to distort."

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The news conference was attended by President of the World Charity Fund for Cooperation and Tolerance Among Religion and member of the Russian Union of Writers Valerie Borokhova, Professor of the Diplomatic Relations at the Academy of politics in Moscow, Director General of Islamic Furqan in Moscow Mohammad al-Rashid, several members of the Syrian Parliament and Arab and foreign correspondents.
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http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/051124/2005112417.html

Former US representative David Duke depicts Israel as a terrorist state
Syria-USA, Politics, 11/24/2005

"Israel is performing an organized terrorism of state in the region," former US Louisiana state representative David Duke said Wednesday in a joint meeting with Syria's Mufti. "It is the US administration, not the US people, who antagonizes Syria," the Mufti said, pointing out that all pressures on Syria are to made to force her to give up her national and pan-Arab resolute position.

During a joint meeting with the Duke, Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmed Hassoun underlined the necessity of adopting a constructive dialogue and cooperation between Muslims and Christians in order to face the "Zionist danger and its destructive ideas by which the Zionists aim at ending the moral values as well as getting at security and stability in the region."

http://www.champress.net/english/index.php?page=show_det&id=1350
2005-11-28

David Duke, visiting Syria, attacked 'Zionists occupying New York' and denounced Israel." The Zionists occupy most of the American media and now control much of American government."

The Louisiana-based politician, David Duke, on a visit to Syria last week, gave a rousing speech attacking 'Zionists occupying New York' and denouncing Israel as a war-monger.

The speech, carried by Syrian state television, shows Duke, addressed a crowd waving Syrian flags, saying: "I come from the peace-loving people in America to the peace-loving people of Syria." He also made sure to say the President Bashar was also a peace-lover.

"It is only in America and around the world, it is only the Zionists who want war rather than peace," Duke said. "It hurts my heart to tell you that part of my country is occupied by Zionists, just as part of your country, the Golan Heights, is occupied by Zionists. The Zionists occupy most of the American media and now control much of American government," he added.
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Comment: Duke...average American??? Bwahahahahah

The anti-war movement certainly doesn't need his kind as an ally. Ugh.

What rock? A slime-covered rock. What bothers me also is the warm welcome he received.

A lot of them are brown after all.

is he probably hates Jews more than Arabs and if he could get the groups to kill each other off, that would make him happy. I write this completely off the cuff with no evidence of an kind to support my comments. He's a nut white supremacist so it would seem logical he'd want to get rid of what he views as non-aryans

http://www.israelnn.com/article.php3?id=5815


Why Syria Welcomed David Duke
by Dr. Rafael Medoff
Nov 29, '05 / 27 Cheshvan 5766


David Duke, perhaps America's most notorious racist and Holocaust-denier, has finally found a country that welcomes him: Syria.

The Syrian government last week rolled out the red carpet for Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, one-time Louisiana State Representative, and author of a vicious screed called Jewish Supremacism: My Awakening to the Jewish Question.

Duke addressed a rally that was broadcast on Syrian government television (he told the crowd that New York and Washington, DC are "occupied by the Zionists"), held a press conference alongside members of the Syrian parliament, and basked in the lavish praise of the Grand Mufti of Syria, the country's top Islamic religious leader, who praised Duke's "courage" and his "message of peace.” A photo of a beaming Duke with two Syrian officials now headlines his web site.

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More than fifty years before Syria began sheltering Iraqi war criminals, it was sheltering Nazi war criminals. Israeli military intelligence reports during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war were filled with references to the presence of Nazis among the Syrian forces attacking northern Israel. Some of them served as commanding officers.
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I found this an extremely good analysis on the connections between Syria and the old and new nazis, Israel and Jew haters, etc.

note that it hasn't generated the interest in this forum that it should, considering the seriousness of the subject.

When I was a kid in the fifties, growing up in the sixties, naturally I assumed the Nazis and their evil had been defeated forever. But in fact they never really died out. Many went to South America, others, via the Odessa Network, filtered into the Middle East. Worst of all, neoNazis abound in the US.

It seems unthinkable that a public figure, an American, a former legistalor, should be visiting the Middle East to spread his poison. And it is doubly frightening that he is finding a receptive audience there.

Are people awake at all? Or would they prefer to ignore the implications of this article? Or what?

The nutcase got a nice big warm welcome there, national TV and press coverage, etc.. He certainly appears to be a real hero to them

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David Duke is an irrelevant moron. There is nothing interesting to say about him. If one assumes that the Syrians let him in and catered to his needs, than it indicates the Syrians are fools. It is true that under appropriate circumstances the sort of jingo-racist-xenophobe drivel that he sells can become a political force, but we are not there yet, and this time around it seems to be the Muslims that are on-deck to be the scapegoats. True, there are quite a lot of them, it may not have been such a good choice, but they definitely seem to the prime target these days, when someone is not bashing the French or the UN or somebody for being disobedient.

And normally I don't comment much on others of his stripe, Bibi for instance, LePen, that cockroach in Iran, the rich crop that we cultivate in the USA, Zhirinovski in Russia (he IS one to watch, by the way, but he doesn't seem quite smart enough) they are all pretty much the same in my book.

I suppose you could argue that it is a sign that Duke has fallen on hard times when he has to suck up to Muslims to get attention, and the Syrians must likewise be desperate to let him suck up to them.

In other words, I don't see any implications of the article. Same old stuff.

increasing visibility, and the fact that he continues find ANYBODY to talk to.

The M.E. in particular is volatile and people are all too easily swayed to violence. Incitement is common. This particular line of thinking - Duke's characterization of Jews and Israel - has had a long life with tragic consequences.

Yesterday several people died in Israel, in a suicide/homicide bombing. Today, there were two more in Iraq (so far). Tomorrow, who knows? Who knows what will happen when Iran gets missile systems and nuclear weapons? Could anybody in 1930 have predicted what Hitler would accomplish in just a few short years? When Jews complained about his threats, they were dismissed as being foolish and alarmist. Eventually they were trapped and destroyed.

People who preach hatred are greatly to be feared and detested, and pretending they're not important is foolish. Pretending we are safe from budding Hitlers, is foolish.

It is easy to feel comfortable, to assume that the President of Iran is just blowing smoke or that David Dukes represents only a fringe, but history has proven again and again that horrible catastrophes have emanated from the words of such "prophets".

As you point out, persons like Duke are common as dirt, they grow like weeds here in the USA, you can't run around in a state of panic about all of them. He is a feeble twit with no following, I'll stick by my lack of concern about him. Ahm-an-idjit in Iran, for example, is far more worth paying attention to, he has some real power, and clearly wants more. But even so, getting yourself worked up won't help, such people need to be outsmarted, not just out-yelled.

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