• Official finding on influence-buying in Australia: Both political parties depend on Jews for major cash | Jewish members of Australia Parliament support Israel first, Australia second
• The Observer (London) detects: One US rule for Israel, another for Saddam
• War on terror: Belgian security service exposes country’s Eurovision singer as extremist: her parents “run Far Right cafe” 

Israel

• Anti-Defamation League outrage at American Library Association (ALA) anti-Israel resolution
• ADL was outraged at doughboy massacre spoof
• How The Mossad planted electronic devices in Libya to dupe the NSA into blaming Ghaddhafi for Berlin disco bombing
• London Evening Standard’s leading columnist prints article: “Israel’s record speaks for itself” | prints abject apology for criticising Israel
• Washington Post investigates 1967 Israeli attack on USS Liberty
• Why are there Israeli-, but not Mexican-American Dual Nationals?
• Pro-war prime minister of Australia (John Howard) lauded as a hero in Israel 

David Irving on tour

• An account of Mr Irving’s talk in snow-choked Arlington, Virginia

Bush war against Iraq

• George Bush: William Pfaff, in the International Herald Tribune: Winning a War and Losing the World”
• Robert Fisk: How the news will be censored in this war: A new CNN system of ‘script approval’ suggests the Pentagon will have nothing to worry about 
• Bush, Blair next? Shin Bet chief cancels trip to Belgium, fearing arrest 
• Unmasked: Arab sources tie US General Garner, future US Governor of Iraq, to ruling Likud party in Israel | General Jay Garner is linked to hardline Israelis| Lawsuit provides glimpse of military procurement process 
  “When the retired general charged with rebuilding Iraq was questioned about the tens of millions of dollars in Pentagon contracts his company won since leaving the Army, he answered with a touch of bravado…”
• Quick facts on Richard Perle (click image, right): a known security risk >>
• Justin Raimondo on the Coalition of the Bribed: “The War Party Stumbles” 
• Tony Blair scheming to head off Parliamentary revolt on Iraq 
• Bush has painted himself into a corner, White House hints he’s seeking way out (but what about all those troops he has sent?) 
• New York Times deletes from late editions reference to police snipers watching over NY anti-war demonstration
• Powerful Daily Mirror (UK) editorial slates Tony Blair as warmonger
• The Age, Melbourne, offers tongue-in-cheek proof against Iraq 
• Robert Fisk: The case against war: A conflict driven by the self-interest of America 
• Belgian court refuses to try Ariel Sharon for war crimes (until he leaves office) 
• Blair admits major Iraq blunder: “Intelligence” report was lifted from “Middle East Review of International Affairs”. a camouflaged Israeli institute 
• David Irving’s Radical’s Diary: on Tony Blair, Geoff Hoon, and Jack Straw; and on Colin Powell at the UN
  “We once had a parrot in our apartment in Madrid that could even imitate the ring of the telephone that its cage stood next to. Jack Straw’s cage must be within squawking distance of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”
• UN Security Council forced to hide Picasso horrors-of-air-war painting “Guernica”  | more  [painting] | Official Iraq responses to allegations by Powell and Blair [not accessible with older browsers]
• Noam Chomsky on BBC: “War would be Insane” 
• Arab press: US tells Middle East: Clear the skies four days after Hajj — Feb. 17
• Prediction: Colin Powell would base his UN speech on alleged Iraqi voice “intercepts” | related story: How The Mossad planted electronic devices in Libya to dupe the NSA into blaming Ghaddhafi for Berlin disco bombing
• New York Times asks: Did Saddam really gas his own citizens, the Kurds? There is room for doubt: and Mr Irving recalls a visit to CIA director Bill Casey after the US raid on Tripoli

Hitler

• British schools inspector says: “Hitlerisation” is damaging pupils’ historical knowledge 

Lipstadt Trial and Auschwitz

• Michael Coren (Toronto) on The Animal Liberation Bigots. Thou shalt have no other Holocaust than ours 
• Flashback 1883: Germans torched own synagogue to claim arson insurance
• The Great Shakedown continues: Survivors demand Veterans’ benefits… | … and a note by Mr Irving on Menachem Rosensaft’s mother Ada Bimko

Ernst Zündel’s deportation from USA to Canada

• The Observer (London): Condoleeza has ordered wiretap agency NSA to bug Security Council members’ phones
• Zündel asylum hearing in Niagara Falls court; Ottawa assigns top Nazi prosecutor to case to assuage CJC outrage
• Globe & Mail: Bernie Farber’s outrage as Zündel applies for refugee status| Outrage of Canadian Jewish leader: Zündel back in Canada | Zündel seeks refugee status (CTV) | B’nai Brith Outrage: “Now he’s our problem”
• Ernst Zündel moved to New York state jail near Canada border: banished from USA for twenty years | Toronto Sun: Wife fears key could be thrown away — or worse | Globe & Mail: Zündel headed back to Canada | Bush’s gift to Canadian prime minister Chrétien: Outrage of Canadian Jewish leader (right): Ernst Zündel back on Canadian soil
• Andrew Mitrovica and Ingrid Rimland on the CSIS investigation of Ernst Zündel

Free Speech

• Traditional enemy gags Irving speech at Cambridge Union. Hint: Greville Janner is patron
• London Evening Standard’s leading columnist prints article: “Israel’s record speaks for itself” | prints abject apology for criticising Israel
• Michael Hoffmann answers his critics
• Sex.com case “heralds end of Internet”: Michael Cohen was ordered to pay $65m damages, but fled 

World War II History

• BBC on The mystery of Stalin’s death 
• The Spectator has a theory about how Göring committed suicide; refuted by David Irving

Miscellaneous

• Hungary’s leftwing government slashes budget to Budapest’s museum to pre-1956 terror era

 AR-Dossier: casebook on the origins of modern antisemitism

• David Hebden expresses doubts about the evidence of Pery Broad in the Auschwitz case
• Ralph Johnson asks how many Israelis did die on 9/11: is that an “urban myth”?
• Thomas Dunkus spots three more irregularities in the writings of Auschwitz architect Kurt Bischoff
• That NASA space man’s helmet: a macabre P.R. touch? asks Matthew Cheek
• Cary Fukunaga asks Mr Irving how Stalin’s son Yakov died