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 The  following  was taken from the article "Holocaust Etc", an article
 published by Richard Kulics. There may be typos since the original was
 faxed to me and I then converted it using OCR software. Please forward
 this  message to all who you believe are seeking the truth or just may
 find the information interesting. Thanks.


 From  day  one,  that  is  the incident in Borovo Selo on May 1,1991,
 journalists  slapped  the  label "aggressors" on the Serbs. Since that
 time  other terminology has been added which would either detract from
 Serbian  legitimacy  ("Rebels"  ,  "Irregulars", "self-styled leaders,
 assemblies,  or  army  units"),  or  accused  them  of  iality (rapes,
 atrocities,  genocide, ethnic cleansing, fanatics drunk on rakija). On
 the  other  hand,  the Croats and Muslims have been identified as more
 legitimate  ("the government", government forces", the "Bosnian Army",
 "Croat Government Forces") or humane ("Multi-ethnic state", "fledgling
 democracy",  lovers of "Hair and other Western things, "just like us")
 or  as  victims  (the  " injured party", " refugees", " victims of the
 holocaust").  These  terms have repeated for three years now, in print
 and  over  the  airwaves,  in  the  most  respected  media, and by the
 President  of  the  United  States,  and even by Steven Spielberg, the
 current  holocaust  iconographer. In the book Les Verites Yougos laves
 Ne  Sont  Pas  Toutes  Bonnes A Dire, Jacques Merlino, Paris, Editions
 Albin  Michel  1993,  translated  as  The Truth From Yugoslavia is not
 Being  Reported  Hon  estly  (Unofficial translation by Raymond Kent),
 from pp. 125-132, Mr. Merlino describes a conversation he had on April
 23, 1993 with James Harff, whom he described as Director of Ruder Finn
 Global Public Affairs, who at the time of the interview had worked for
 the preceding eighteen months for the Republic of Croatia.


 'When asked what made him most proud, Harff answered:

 -To  have succeeded in moving the Jewish opinion to our side. The game
 was  extremely delicate and,on that side, the dossier involved a major
 danger.  Because  President  Tudjman  was  too  imprudent  in his hook
 Bespuca  Povjeane Zbijlnesti (Wastelands: Historical Truth). A reading
 of  his texts could find him guilty of anti-semitism. It was no bettor
 on  the  Bosnian  side  since  President  Izetbegovic,in  his Islamska
 Declaracija (Islamic Declaration), published in 1970, grounded himself
 too  firmly  in  the  quest  for  a  Muslim fundamentalists nation (in
 Bosnia)  parentheses in translation. Moreover, the past of Croatia and
 Bosnia were marked by a very real and cruel anti-Semitism.

 Several  tens  of  thousands of Jews perished in Croatian camps. There
 were   all   sorts   of  reasons  why  the  Jewish  Intellectuals  and
 organizations  were  hostile to the Croats and Bosnians. Our challenge
 was  to  obtain a reversal of this situation and we succeeded in doing
 it in a magisterial (sic) manner between 2 and 5 August 1992, when the
 New  York  Newsday came out with the lead story of (Serbian) camps. We
 jumped  on  it and convened three major jewish organizations: B'uci B'
 rth  Anti-Defamation  Leagues,  the  American Jewish Committee and the
 American-Jewish  Congress.  We suggested to them to print an insert in
 the  Now  York Times, and organize a protest demonstration in front of
 the  U.N.  building.  This  really  worked:  the  engagement of Jewish
 organizations on the side of Bosnians (Bosnian Muslims) parentheses in
 translation  was  a  super poker play. Immediately thereafter, we were
 able  to associate the Serbs with the Nazis in the public opinion. The
 dossier  was  a complex one. No one could understand what was going on
 in  (former)  Yugoslavia.  To  be  frank, I can tell you that the vast
 majority  of  Americans  wondered  in  which African country to locate
 Bosnia  itself. In a single shot we were able to offer a simple story,
 a  history  of  the good and the bad guys. We knew that this where the
 game  would  have  to  be  played  out. And we have won, targeting the
 Jewish  audience, the right target. It was not long before there was a
 clear  change  in  the  press  language as emotional terms like ethnic
 cleansing,  and concentration camps arrived, all evoking Nazi Germany,
 the  gas  chambers  at Auschwitz. The emotional charge was so powerful
 that  no one could go against it without being accused of revisionism.
 We really batted a thousand in full. . .

 Our  work  does  not  consist  of  verifying  information.  We are not
 equipped  for  that. As I've told you, it is our job to accelerate the
 circulation  of  information  items  which are favorable to us and aim
 (them) at carefully selected targets. Which is just what we have done.
 We  did  not claim that there were (Serbian) death camps in Bosnia. We
 made it (widely) known that Newsday made the claim itself. . .
 . . . We are professionals, We had a job to do and
 we  did  it.  We are not paid to moralize. And when the time "comes to
 start a debate on all of this we will have a clear conscience. For, if
 you  wish  to prove that Serbs are in fact poor victims, go ahead, you
 will be quite alone. . .

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