Mel Gibson is an important Catholic because as a successful actor-director-producer and as a very public Catholic he is in the cross-hairs of the liberals.

As an observant Jew, whose wife and children were born in the Holy Land, and as one who maintains a residence in Israel (in fact in the West Bank), I would be what the New York Times refers to as an ultra-orthodox Jewish settler. I am not a Zionist, although I certainly advocate a Jewish national existence in Israel. I reject the socialist-statist ideology of the secular Zionists and the messianic character of religious Zionists. The Messiah will arrive when he arrives; until then the Jews in the Holy Land must live as a People secure in their borders. No apologies. Thus, I know the Jewish claim to the Holy Land to be divine and absolute, and that the Jewish People are obligated to form a national existence and political order to ensure the survival of the Jewish People living there. If that hastens the Redemption, so be it. If not, so be it.

Having said that, let me also say that I was born, raised and educated in America, maintain my principal residence in America and I know, as an American, that America is the most divinely blessed nation-state on the planet and the reason for that is the fact that Christian America, with all of its warts and imperfections, has been the most righteous and productive people to have founded a country in the modern era. There isn’t even a close second.

I also know the West is in trouble, and that includes America. America in particular is in trouble because having effectively rejected its Christian roots, the Constitution and federalism, and having embraced democracy and the multi-cultural Open Society, it is incapable of adequately defending national existence, defeating Islam, and overcoming the World State ideology of the Liberal Elites.

I make these personal, autobiographical observations only to provide a full disclosure to what follows.

Mel Gibson is an important Catholic because as a successful actor-director-producer and as a very public Catholic he is in the cross-hairs of the liberals, and especially the liberal Jews such as the ones running the Anti-Defamation League. His film, The Passion, which I have not seen (only because movie-viewing is an inordinate waste of valuable time), was generally viewed by Jewish liberals as anti-Semitic. A few vocal Orthodox Jews, like Don Feder, came out in support of Gibson at the time. In the past few days, everyone has jumped on the anti-Gibson bandwagon. The list includes the typical cast of liberals and anti-Catholic conservatives, from the ADL’s Abraham Foxman to pundit Christopher Hitchens. It even includes former hardcore conservative Jewish supporters of Gibson like Feder. I, for one (quite possibly literally the only one – and certainly the only Jew), reject this Catholic bashing in the name of the anti-anti-Semites.

The reason is quite simple. Men like Gibson and Pat Buchanan, as conservative Catholics, have the potential to save the West from itself and from Islam. It will require other Christians of good faith, to be sure, and it will even require the oddball Jew (like Feder and yours truly). The fact that conservative Catholics have a deep distrust of Jews due to the undeniable Jewish liberal influence on western affairs in the direction of a World State is hardly surprising, irrational, or easily condemned as Jew hatred. But even if there is some dark side to what could be a very rational view of the Jewish liberal establishment, that in and of itself is no reason to condemn otherwise good American patriots, especially given the threat we in the West face.

Let’s take the Gibson case. Here is a man who has said publicly that he is not a Jew-hater. The evidence amassed against him amounts to very little: (a) his father is a Holocaust denier; (b) he won’t disavow his father’s views publicly although he has never publicly embraced them; (c) he refused to make substantive changes to his film The Passion to satisfy the liberal Jewish establishment; (d) in a drunken rage while being arrested he made strong anti-Jewish remarks: and (e) in his generic apology for the despicable things he said, he never specifically rejected the remarks about Jews or specifically apologized to Jews as a whole.

Much can be said on these points, but let’s assume that Gibson looks out into the world and sees liberal Jews taking the social and political lead in all forms of World State ideologies and moral abominations. This includes the “conservative secular Jews” leading the campaign for a worldwide secular “democracy-building” as a kind of liberal universal antidote to Islam — even though they refuse to name it Islam, but rather “terror” or “Islamism” or “extremist Islam” (or as Newt Gingrich, not a Jew but aligned theoretically with this crowd, terms it, “the irreconcilable wing of Islam,” as if there is a whole wing of reconciled Islam). That Gibson sees Jews in an unfavorable light is only irrational if one wishes to make the argument that secular liberal Jews are not in fact the leading proponents of all forms of anti-Western, anti-American, anti-Christian movements, campaigns, and ideologies. To effectively make this argument one would have to be literally divorced from reality.

But that is exactly where we are – divorced from reality and from the reality of national existence. In our current environment, PC rules because truth in speech and integrity of thought is now devoid of any moral content. Democracy demands a universal methodology that refuses to give any credence to the truth of existence.

In the Gibson affair, we have it in spades. All one needs to do is look at two press releases issued by the ADL on July 28 and 30, respectively. Recall that the ADL’s main reason for existence is to root out and uncover anti-Semitism. So it is, when Mel Gibson gets drunk and decides to take a drive (that is what the ADL should have been angry about) and during the arrest angrily complains that Jews are involved in, or are the cause of, wars worldwide (even though there are no Jews in sight), and then issues a typical Hollywood-style apology to everyone but to no one for his bad behavior, the ADL is there to express the disgust of American Jewish liberalism. Whatever deep, dark secrets one wants to read into statements made in this drunken rage, especially if one is looking for anti-Semitism, the ADL knew when it had a real dangerous sort on the ropes when it released the following statement:

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said actor and director Mel Gibson's apology for hurling anti-Semitic invective at a police officer during his arrest for driving under the influence was "unremorseful and insufficient" and said his tirade "finally reveals his true self." According to reports, Gibson yelled epithets at the arresting officer, asked him if he was Jewish and stated that "the Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world."

In a statement yesterday, Gibson apologized for saying "despicable things" that he "does not believe to be true."

Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement: Mel Gibson's apology is unremorseful and insufficient. It's not a proper apology because it does not go to the essence of his bigotry and his anti-Semitism.

His tirade finally reveals his true self and shows that his protestations during the debate over his film The Passion of the Christ, that he is such a tolerant, loving person, were a sham. It may well be that the bigotry has been passed from the father to the son. It is unfortunate that it took an excess of booze and an encounter with a traffic cop to reveal what was really in his heart and mind.

We would hope that Hollywood now would realize the bigot in their midst and that they will distance themselves from this anti-Semite.

Wow! “[H]is true self.” Foxman is quite the Sigmund Freud. And, all of this for a Hollywood actor who has never raised a hand to a Jew, never publicly, at least not while sober, said anything negative about Jews, and never called for violence against Jews. But, truth be told, he is a conservative Catholic who dared stand up to the Jewish liberals of the ADL and make a movie that told a version of Catholic history central to its theology that was not watered down for public PC consumption. At worst, it put Jews of the time in a bad light if you are a believing Catholic. If you are a Jew, you could care less because you know we Jews have our own understanding of this Jewish son who either went astray or led others to do so. Whatever the outcome of these theological and historical differences, neither Gibson nor his movie called for the murder or injury of Jews, which you might have thought was the case had you heard the liberal Jewish establishment at the time, led by the ADL, when it came out in full force against the movie. All of this when the worldwide Islamic leadership likens Jews to Satan, pigs, and dogs and calls for their death and destruction every day.

And more to the point, when a Muslim from Pakistan shoots Jewish women, killing one, in a rampage he himself proclaims was directly related to his hate of Israel and the Jewish people and that he was aroused to murderous action by the war in Lebanon, the ADL issues a press release which reads as follows:

The shooting attack at the Seattle Jewish Federation was a terrible tragedy and points up the need for security awareness, especially at a time when there is a crisis in the Middle East, with Israel as a focal point. However, the Jewish community in Seattle was not advised of any specific threat from law enforcement. We applaud the Seattle Police Department for their quick response and apprehension of the alleged shooter.

According to this ADL statement, this murderous anti-Jewish attack was in fact not that but a terrible tragedy, akin to a car accident, with no assailant. And, certainly no Muslim one. I don’t know how you see it, but there seems to be a “proportionality” issue here. Completely sanitized of the Islamic animus that drove this Muslim to murder and injure innocent Jewish women, this press release, I suggest, illustrates Foxman’s “true self.” Foxman and the ADL have made it their life’s work to “represent US Jewry” by fiat and to call every conservative Christian who stands up for Christian values an anti-Semite. So it is that the ADL comes to the defense of abortionists and homosexuals (and the homosexual efforts to undermine the institution of marriage), all in the name of anti-anti-Semitism. It is amazing how much the ADL fits under that tent.

But in further juxtaposition to the sanitized ADL press release on the rampaging Jew-hating and Jew-murdering Muslim in Seattle, in which the ADL sees no Jew hatred only anonymous tragedy, we examine yet another of Foxman’s self-aggrandizing press releases. When it came time to praise the multi-life sentence of Eric Robert Rudolf, the convicted abortion clinic bomber, the ADL was clear how to connect the ideological dots:

Rudolph was a follower of Christian Identity, an anti-Semitic and racist religious ideology popular in extreme right-wing circles. Although he never joined the ranks of an extremist group, in the days following his arrest in May 2003 extremists praised Rudolph on the Internet as "a hero." At that time, some extremists even called for further acts of violence to be modeled after the bombings Rudolph has now acknowledged committing.

But all of this duplicity and hypocrisy only goes to say that liberal, secular Jews, represented in large part by the likes of the ADL, do indeed deserve Gibson’s opprobrium. That he incorrectly holds Judaism and all Jews accountable for Jewish Liberalism illustrates that he suffers from the same deficiency, only its flip side, as the conservatives who refuse to hold Islam accountable. While Judaism as a religion has no inclination to occupy more than Biblical Israel, resists conversions, and has no desire to rule the non-Jewish world in the here and now, Islam stands for precisely the opposite set of propositions. Islam as a matter of religious creed, theology, and law, has from its inception (at least from the second phase of its inception in what is often referred to as the Islam of Medina, and the one that has dominated theologically ever since) viewed the world state Islamic Caliphate as central to the fulfillment of its prophet’s message. And this world state is not merely eschatological but brought to completion in the here and now through persuasion, submission, or death of the infidels. While individual Muslims might reject this dogma and religious jurisprudence, all that means is that they are not “observant” or “faithful” Muslims. That also explains why among the 1.3 billion Muslims worldwide, including those who live and prosper in the West, there is no institutional or even grassroots movement to reject the religious leadership of the Arab and Persian Islamic centers which promote jihad. While there are individuals and specific organizations that speak of an Islam of Peace as a rejection of Islam proper, these voices are peeps in the wilderness.

Thus, on the one hand, we have liberals and secular conservatives who refuse to hold Islam, as an ideology, responsible for the murder and mayhem Islam preaches and which its adherents carry out daily, and on the other hand we have some conservative Catholics who perceive something uniquely Jewish in the fact that Jewish liberals are so prominent in the liberal forces seeking the destruction of national existence and the West. If I had to choose, I’d much rather align myself with American patriots, even if they had a bad and incorrect understanding of Judaism from what they correctly understand to be the prominent spokesmen of Judaism in the West – the liberal Jewish leaders.

But, the real problem with many of these same conservative Catholics is that they are just as blind to the threat of Islam (i.e., Buchanan) as the liberals. Statements from the lay and religious leadership call for diplomacy, international solutions, “dialogue,” and a search for the root causes of generic terror as if Islam and its terrorists are victims of an exploitive West, imperialism, capitalism, and decadence. Aside from the fact that this view of Islamic terror ignores Mohammed’s teachings and war-like ways long before the West was guilty of its purportedly exploitive ways, these Catholics have joined hands with the radical Leftist elites — led by the liberal Jews like Kenneth Roth of the Human Rights Watch — in a kind of blinded perverse syncretism all in an effort to ignore, or worse, to whitewash, the real threat from Islam.

When American patriots of all stripes come to the understanding that our common foes are Islam and the multi-cultural Open Society of the ACLU and the ADL, we will stand a fighting chance to preserve this nation, national existence, and the West. Let’s agree to disagree on the historical and eschatological matters that separate us and win the real war against Islam and Liberalism, including the secularized Jewish, Catholic and Christian versions.

NB: And, if all of this wasn’t enough, just in is the fact that Gibson issued a specific apology for his “anti-Semitic” remarks, denouncing anti-Semitism and bigotry. But instead of recognizing that Gibson has acted quite responsibly, appropriately, and very much the mentch (Yiddish for decent man) since his drunken tirade, Foxman has decided to exact his Shakespearean pound of flesh in a despicable, condescending statement moments later:

This is the apology we had sought and requested.  We are glad that Mel Gibson has finally owned up to the fact that he made anti-Semitic remarks, and his apology sounds sincere.  We welcome his efforts to repair the damage he has caused, to reach out to the Jewish community, and to seek help.

Once he completes his rehabilitation for alcohol abuse, we will be ready and willing to help him with his second rehabilitation to combat this disease of prejudice.

Abe Foxman, your behavior, and your speech amounts to no more than that, is transparent! As far as I am concerned, you don’t represent Jews or Judaism. Your quest to combat anti-Semitism is just a way for another liberal Jew to grab the national spotlight as a spokesman for Jews to effect the Liberal Elite agenda wrapped in a pseudo-moral context. If anyone suffers from a prejudice and bigotry, you most certainly do. You so thoroughly hate seriously religious Christians, you will ignore the Jew hatred of Muslims who murder Jews and attempt to tear down a man who dares express his Christian faith with conviction.