The Blathering and Blustering BBC

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Buried deep in a long open thread on the Biased-BBC website is the following exchange between BBC employee "John Reith" (a pseudonym for several BBC employees, as admitted further down in the thread) and commenter "Edna." Reith essentially uncritically presents an "interpretation doing the rounds" that rather than springing from innate British support for the Zionist cause, the (Balfour) Declaration was more or less extorted from the British as the price of access to war loans from Jewish-owned banks." Reith goes on to condemn the "Protocols" strain of anti-semitic writing this "fact," and the "fact" that there were "German Jewish bankers in New York...enthusiastically backing Germany", inspired, but nonetheless he presents the argument as though it were fact, and possibly the predominant reason for the adoption of the resolution. The implication is that somehow the realpolitik of "Jewish money" and "political power" in the US led to the declaration, rather than sympathy for the cause. Here is Edna's response, and Reith's rejoinder, where he pontificates on the positive aspects of what might have been had Germany WON World War 1:

Edna: So the 'Zionists' managed to bring America into the War, according to JR, because of the Balfour Declaration- a bribe in other words. And so? If true, it possibly prevented a German success in WWI. Was that a bad thing? And even according to your post JR, the 1916 agreement was made with the approval of the Arabs. Or have I misunderstood? Edna | 31.12.07 - 1:34 pm | #

John Reith: Edna | 31.12.07 - 1:34 pm If true, it possibly prevented a German success in WWI. Was that a bad thing? Hard to say, really. You could mount a pretty plausible 'what if'? case along the lines that a German victory would have meant: 1. No WWII 2. No Holocaust 3. Little impact on Britain or its Empire 4. Soviet Communism might have been quickly squashed 5. The brunt would be felt chiefly by the French and Belgians sounds almost attractive John Reith | 31.12.07 - 2:14 pm

The first entry by Reith was made on 31.12.07 at 1:21 pm. You can find it in the "General BBC-related thread" labeled "ed thomas" from Thursday December 20,2007