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Mel Gibson & Oliver Stone: The Jewish Holocaust

Oliver Stone: Jewish control of the media is preventing free Holocaust debate

By Haaretz Service

Oliver Stone, the famed Hollywood director of such films as Platoon and JFK, told the Sunday Times that Jewish control of the media is preventing an open discussion of the Holocaust. The prominent outspoken director added that the U.S. Jewish lobby has been controlling Washington's foreign policy for years. Oliver Stone's new film aims to put Adolf Hitler in his due historical context - an 'easy scapegoat'.

In the Sunday interview, Stone reportedly said U.S. public opinion was focused on the Holocaust as a result of the "Jewish domination of the media," adding that an upcoming film of his aims to put Adolf Hitler and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin "in context"..."There's a major lobby in the United States," Stone said, adding that "they are hard workers. They stay on top of every comment, the most powerful lobby in Washington."

Stone also said that while "Hitler was a Frankenstein," there was also a "Dr. Frankenstein" - "German industrialists, the Americans and the British. Hitler had a lot of support," Stone told the Sunday Times, adding that "Hitler did far more damage to the Russians than the Jewish people, 25 or 30 [million killed]."

Referring to the alleged influence of the powerful Jewish lobby on U.S. foreign policy, Stone said that Israel had distorted "United States foreign policy for years," adding he felt U.S. policy toward Iran was "horrible"... "Iran isn't necessarily the good guy," Stone said, insisting that Americans did not "know the full story."

Stone's comments to the Sunday times echo previous remarks by the Hollywood director, regarding what he perceives as the distorted view of figures such as Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin in U.S. media. Earlier this year, Stone, speaking at the at the Television Critics Association's semi-annual press tour in Pasadena said that "Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and it's been used cheaply."

"He's the product of a series of actions. It's cause and effect ... People in America don't know the connection between World War I and World War II, Stone said adding that through his documentary work he has been able to "walk in Stalin's shoes and Hitler's shoes to understand their point of view."

"We're going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them. We want to move beyond opinions ... Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated," Stone said.

Mel Gibson: "Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world"

Mel Gibson made a barrage of anti-Semitic slurs when arrested for drunk driving in 2006. According to the officer's report, Gibson said: ''F---ing Jews - Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.''

Gibson’s father has said that the Jews of Europe ''simply got up and left'' and were all over the Bronx and Brooklyn and Sydney; that the Holocaust was mostly fiction because the Nazis never had enough petrol to burn 6 million Jews; that the genocide was fabricated by ''financiers'' seeking to facilitate the movement of Jews to Palestine (renamed Israel), that Holocaust museums are a ‘‘gimmick to collect money’’ and that the concentration camps were just ''work camps''. He has further claimed that the Jews are taking over the Catholic Church, are after one world religion and one world government and that former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan should be lynched.

After stating that he had friends with numbers on their arms, Mel noted, ''Yes of course. Atrocities happened. War is horrible. The Second World War killed tens of millions of people. Some of them were Jews in concentration camps. Many people lost their lives.'' The killing of Jews was another aspect of the overall toll of WWII rather than an industrial, systematic extermination campaign.

Gibson told American broadcaster Diane Sawyer: ''My dad taught me faith and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.''