The Enterprising Dr. Plaut Takes Another Swipe

Steven “Pinocchio” Plaut:
A Zionist in Need of Serious Therapy

Kurt Nimmo
March 27, 2005


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It is comforting to read articles by Juan Cole and Justin Raimondo taking the Zionist economics professor and vicious crank Steven Plaut to task for his lies and hateful fabrications. Plaut has attempted to roast me on several occasions, basing his observations of my articles and blog entries on lies and the most fantastic of fabrications crossing over from honest criticism into character assassination, libel, and defamation. For some reason—probably because he is also vicious and unethical—David Horowitz has found it appropriate to post Plaut’s lies about me on at least two occasions (here and here).

As an example of Plaut’s complete lack of regard for truth and fair play, he wrote the following (see the previous link):

Bashar Assad and his Ba’athists can at least count on some devoted friends, namely the columnists at Counterpunch magazine. One of the regular columnists at Counterpunch, Kurt Nimmo, an unemployed photographer-wannabe who used to work as a film developer for Walmart (and blames the neocons for his being unemployed), seems to be leading the campaign for the anti-American Left to promote the Ba’athist colonization of Lebanon. He is now a columnist for the Web site of the Iraqi pro-Saddam Ba’athists, by the way.

I informed Plaut that I have never worked for Walmart and yet he continues to repeat this lie. It is interesting, however, that Plaut considers working for Walmart an insult—thousands of Americans work there at deplorable wages and under less than ideal working conditions because they have no other choice—revealing how much of a snob and elitist (not an uncommon quality for a Zionist) he is.

Incidentally, I am no longer unemployed, as I stated here earlier, but because I understand well the mentality of Plaut and the followers of David Horowitz I would be a fool to mention where I now work. Of course, I am a low flying target on the right-wing hit squad radar screen, if a target at all, but there is no sense taking chances with vicious right-wingers who take certain joy in destroying the careers and lives of those they disagree with.

Indeed, I blame my six month stretch of unemployment on Bush and the neocons. Before Bush was elected—or I should say appointed by a right-wing Supreme Court—the economy was in far better shape than it is now, thanks to Bush’s tax-cuts for the rich and his money-burning war machine. As a so-called economist, one who likes the idea of living on stolen land, Plaut should realize this. No doubt his students are really getting screwed out of their tuition when they enroll in his class.

It sincerely transcends absurdity that Plaut would think I am leading a campaign in support or opposition to anything, least of all supporting Bashar Assad and the Ba’athists of Syria. I have never expressed support for the Ba’athists, although I have pointed out that Zionists such as Plaut and right-wingers such as Horowitz have repeatedly overstated any threat posed to the United States or for that matter Israel by the Syrian government. In fact, the Syrians have a well-founded fear of both Israel and the United States, the former having bombed the sovereign nation of Syria not long ago and continue to hold land stolen from the Arab nation. It should also be noted that the CIA and Britain’s MI6 security forces planned to assassinate Syrian leaders in 1957, according to recently released report authored by Matthew Jones, a specialist in British and US postwar foreign policy at the University of London, who cited the private papers of Duncan Sandys, British prime minister Harold Macmillan’s defense secretary.

In fact, the United States and Britain have posed a serious threat to governments in the Middle East for decades. “The US and Britain had organized the overthrow of the nationalist Iranian government of Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953,” notes Jean Shaoul. “Britain had attempted several times to assassinate President Nasser of Egypt, who had ejected the British military base, nationalized the Suez Canal, and secured aid from the Soviet Union to build the Aswan High Dam. Britain, France and Israel had invaded Egypt in 1956 in an attempt to seize the Canal, overthrow Nasser, and install a more pliant regime.”

Zionists such as Plaut never mention the historical record in regard to Syrian-Israeli relations, going back to the Syrian-Israeli Armistice Accord signed on July 20, 1949. In 1950, Israel drained Alhouleh Lake, a natural barrier in the buffer zone agreed to in the accord, and when Syria complained about this Israel bombed the Syrian city of Alhimmeh. In standard Zionist fashion, the diversion of water from Alhouleh was in keeping with Israel’s plans to steal as much land and water from neighboring Arabs as possible. In fact, Israel grabbed the Golan in 1967 primarily to control its water resources.

Plaut also does not mention the crucial fact that Israel was in favor of Syrian forces inside Lebanon. “Until the last year or so, Israeli officials say, the consensus was different—that Syria, with its reputation for keeping its treaties, was an agent for stability in Lebanon and especially in southern Lebanon, which Hezbollah, not the Lebanese Army, controls,” reports Steven Erlanger for the New York Times. “Another Israeli official acknowledged that there is ’some apprehension about Syria leaving Lebanon, but it’s a calculated risk one has to take to weaken Hezbollah’… As recently as December, the Israeli national security council warned about the destabilizing effect of a Syrian exit from Lebanon, which could give Hezbollah ‘greater freedom of operation to escalate the conflict on Israel’s northern border.’”

In other words, it has nothing to do with Bashar Assad and the Ba’athists and everything to do with Hezbollah, the popular Shia militia that kicked Israel out of Lebanon in 2000. Plaut knows that his own government has supported in varying degrees Syria’s “occupation” in Lebanon for decades but he does not mention this. But then this is precisely the sort of disingenuous behavior we should expect from a rabid, pro-Kahane Zionist (see this remarkable commentary) who thinks Ariel Sharon is a lightweight when it comes to kicking around Palestinians. Steven “Pinocchio” Plaut cannot help but tell historical lies and engage in demeaning character assassination, most recently against Juan Cole, a professor of History at the University of Michigan.

Of course, the Zionists and right-wingers consistently lose any rational discussion that takes the history of the Middle East into account—so instead they engage in telling lies, easily debunked, and go after people like Cole who understands the situation in the Middle East (read his Lebanon: Background and Forecast). But then Steven Plaut is an Israeli Zionist settler with a vested interest in telling lies and distorting the historical record and that is why he attacks Cole and Justin Raimondo, delving into all manner of irrelevant personal speculation about Raimondo’s personal life. It is the only way Plaut can get across his point—and that point is hammered on the fires of Zionism and its long and sordid history of violence, deception, and betrayal.