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Snitch or interviewer?
This interview was a ground-breaking event, for the
interviewer had acted as an agent-provocateur and proceeded after the interview
to the police station to denounce his interviewee. It was not the first time
that an agent-provocateur pretended to be a journalist – this is a standard
technique of the Israeli security services. The interviewer, ex-spokesman of the
German Jewish community Michel Friedman, is a notorious person. After preaching
morals to the Germans, he was caught sniffing coke in the company of illegally
imported Ukrainian prostitutes. (Now, with the hindsight of his denunciation of
Mahler, I would not be amazed if he ratted on those whores in order to escape
criminal penalties.) For anyone else, that would be the end of his career, but
Friedman recovered in no time and he was picked up by Jewish-owned
Vanity Fair to set up Mahler.
Friedman entrapped Mahler like the
Pharisees entrapped Christ (Palestinian Talmud, Sanhedrin 7, 25 - 4, Babylonian
Sanhedrin 67a) – by creating an illusion that this was a conversation while it
was actually a set up. Probably he was trained to act as a stooge during his
short sojourn in jail for drug-related offences. But Michel Friedman
improved on the Pharisees: he did not wait until his witnesses (to wit,
Vanity Fair readers) denounced Mahler, instead he went to the police
personally and brought charges against Horst Mahler as a
private individual. The obliging German justice sent Mahler to ten months of
jail for speaking approvingly of Hitler.
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