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# Nichols is full of it
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/nichols-is-full-of-it-editor/
- Published: 2006-05-08T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T17:42:44.000Z
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- Tags: Opinion, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daniel F. Stevens Santa Monica*

We have a gag order on reality in this country on many levels. Much of it has to do with our blind support of Israel and their right wing’s hidden agenda to spin truth in the U.S. media.

In my family, when my father, mother or grandparents were raging about supposed Palestinian “terrorism,” somehow the Holocaust was brought into the outrage almost always. I always sensed they were covering something up or attempting to justify something, yet they just could not come to tell me exactly what that was. I am now in my early 40s and I now know what that was now. My parents always used the Jewish experience of the Holocaust to justify the “terror” Israel has been imposing upon Palestinians, especially since they knew the Israeli position was plain wrong.

Today, I cannot “justify” that terror against the trampled Palestinians as my parents and grandparents did when they were alive. Fortunately, I feel that I have become enlightened. There are nearly seven Palestinians killed for every Israeli that is killed in the ongoing Israeli/Arabconflict, and those killings of Palestinians are no less terroristic just because conventional weapons of destruction, paid for with U.S. tax dollars by the way, are used by Israel militia in what Israeli’s conveniently call “targeted killings.” I call such targeted killings assassinations and hence, terror.

When Cliff Nichols broke out with the word Holocaust in the beginning of his diatribe against Iran in his column (SMDP, May 3, page 4), I felt like I was in the living room of my father who thought he was, as a Jew, morally superior and intellectually above all. My father, the brilliant lawyer. Cliff Nichols likes to write “down” to us all as if we have no intellect. I suggest he should take a trip to IfAmericaKnew.Com for some balance in his life.

Well, Mr. Nichols, your references to religious dogma as a reason for restoring the captivity of Israel just plain stinks. Jews and Palestinians co-existed in peace prior to 1948 before U.S. and British tax dollars were given to radical Jews to overtake Palestinian territories militarily, literally attempting to expel Palestinians ever since. Let’s not get religious about that to cover up for the killing of thousands and thousands of Palestinians.

One reason I write today is to make a point that I am near certain that Mr. Nichols does not speak Farsi or Arabic. I asked his receptionist and she said she did not think so. So where/how are you hearing Iran’s president? A good friend of mine does speak Farsi and Arabic, fluently, and he interpreted President Ahmadinejad’s speeches literally and found he challenges not all of the Holocaust, but some of the so-called facts surrounding the Holocaust. Quite a stretch from outright denial that it happened, Mr. Nichols. Mr. Nichols claims, as most of U.S. media which is extremely Israeli-Centric with little, if any Arab points of view, are skewed in favor of Israel’s view, only. And that view is that President Ahmadinejad was first to threaten Israel and not the other way around. The truth is the opposite. Also, the truth is Israel has amassed WMD illegally and never signed on to any nuclear watchdog committees as Iran has. Israel is more of a threat to the region than Iran and they prove it every day with the theft of Palestinian territory and oppression against the Palestinians. And all Arabs know this. Too bad most taxpaying Americans have no clue. And Israel has been threatening Iran long before Fox News pounded it in the minds of U.S. viewers that Iran’s president is a madman. I visit AIPAC’s Web site daily and saw the evidence this time last year for months. For anyone who wants a clear view of AIAPC and their evils should read, “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.” It’s available at: http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011/$File/rwp\_06\_011\_walt.pdf Cliff Nichols, you are so full of it, I am assuming your eyes are brown. We must leave Iran alone, unless of course Israel is willing to give up their nuclear weapons as to no longer pose a threat to others in the region.

Iranians seem to be happy with their president and his hard line against those who threaten the security of their country. I have a feeling he will be their longer than George W. Bush is in office in this country.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on May 8, 2006.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/050806.pdf?ref=smdp.com)