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To Hell With Auschwitz, Give Me Israel
© 2005/5765 Ariel Natan Pasko
To hell with Auschwitz, and damn those people who invoke its memory, but
ignore the injustices being done to the Jewish People today. A certain
radical rabbi used to say, "I'd rather be a live Jew that everyone
hates, then a dead Jew that everyone mourns over." Today, they mourn
over Auschwitz, but are working hard to take away from the Jewish People its
most basic national right, its homeland, Israel.
Though most countries (about 150 out of 191 member nations) voted in favor
of holding the 60th anniversary commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz
(Jan. 27th) at the UN, the General Assembly was less than half full, and
Jordan was the only Arab country that remained during Holocaust memorial
speeches by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Israeli Foreign Minister
Sylvan Shalom.
The UN Secretary-General spoke first, saying, "The evil which murdered
6,000,000 Jews in the death camps still threatens us today." He
referred to more recent genocides, but then explained the "tragedy of
the Jewish people was unique. Two thirds of all Europe's Jews, including one
and a half million children, were murdered. An entire civilization, which
had contributed far beyond its numbers to the cultural and intellectual
riches of Europe and the world, was uprooted, destroyed, laid waste."
The only representative of an Arab country to speak, was Jordan's UN
ambassador, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein. Yet, he took advantage of the
occasion to attack Israel's alleged mistreatment of the
"Palestinians," rather than to express solidarity with the
sufferings of the Jewish People at the Holocaust commemoration. Referring to
"one people dominat[ing] another, deny[ing] the latter many of its most
basic rights, and so, with the passage of time, also degrade[ing] it as a
people."
Where was Israel's peace partner, Egypt?
About the UN commemoration, the Egyptian government-owned newspaper,
Al-Ahram Al-Messa'i, commented on what it called Israel's
"investment" in "the so-called Holocaust." The newspaper
criticized the UN for holding the event, writing in its editorial, "The
UN adopted the Israeli standpoint, paying no heed to the sufferings of the
Palestinians under the Israeli occupation." On the contrary,
"commemorating the Holocaust requires opening the issue of the daily
Israeli violations against the Palestinians...." There you have it; the
Egyptians (and the rest of the Arab/Islamic world) compare the Holocaust to
the "Palestinian" situation.
But what took the UN 60 years to discuss the Holocaust?
Why did a major UN anti-racism conference a couple years ago in Durban,
South Africa, ignore Anti-Semitism?
Why did the UN declare, "Zionism is Racism" between 1975 and 1991,
when the UN itself approved the creation of the State of Israel? Which was
the culmination of the Zionist movement's efforts to liberate the Jewish
People's homeland from foreign occupation.
Who cares what the UN, the Quartet (US, EU, UN, and Russia) and the rest of
the world thinks...they're a bunch of liars, hypocrites, and accomplices to
murder.
Has the past memorialization of the Holocaust prevented any mass murder in
the last 60 years?
The same hypocrites, who cry today about Auschwitz, watched as Cambodia and
Rwanda happened, and now stand on the sidelines, while Arabs in Darfur,
Sudan, slaughter black Africans (see my article "There They Go Again,
Those Arab Racists"). That includes Kofi Annan.
Jews too can get caught up in this duplicity. Recently, some Jewish Gazans
adopted an orange Star of David, as a symbol of protest against Ariel
Sharon's planned expulsion of Jews from Gaza. Well, you can't imagine how
fast they got jumped on. It was a true media frenzy, leftists of all colors,
Yad V'Shem (Israel's National Holocaust Museum), a few survivors of the
Holocaust (although other survivors in Gaza put on the orange star), and
even some assorted "right-wing" supporters of the
"settlers" all complained that such a symbol (mimicking the Nazi's
use of yellow stars to identify Jews) was too sacrosanct to be used for
"political" purposes.
Before that, a "right-wing" activist got into trouble writing a
public letter comparing the head of the Transfer Authority, Yonaton Bassi,
who is in charge of organizing the "settlers" that the Israeli
government wants to throw out of their communities, to the
"Judenrat" (the Holocaust-era Jewish committees that helped the
Nazis organize Jews). People across the Israeli political spectrum
criticized her for the comparison, with the usual assortment of leftists
calling for a police investigation, with which they obliged.
But an important point must be made here. The Holocaust, i.e. the mass
murder of about six million Jewish men, women and children during World War
II by the Nazis and their helpers, didn't happen overnight. It began by the
demonization of Jews (for centuries throughout Europe) and in Nazi Germany
in particular. It moved on to the deligitimization of fellow German citizens
just because they were Jews, depriving them of home, study, occupation, and
business. When the Nazis occupied other countries, mass expulsion of Jews
from their homes began. They were moved to "Ghettos," then later
deported to labor camps and murder camps. In other words, it was implemented
in phases.
Those in Israel, who don't like the comparisons to the Holocaust or use of
Holocaust-era symbols or language, should act very carefully not to
encourage the comparison. Stop the late night surprise expulsions of
"illegal" outposts. Stop the brutalizing of Jews by the police,
who protest expulsion policies. Stop the demonizing of "settlers".
Stop acting like that NOW!
The demonization of Jews has been taking place in the Ara/Islamic world for
some time now, and the deligitimization of the Jewish People's national
political rights (the State of Israel) has followed. Anti-Semitism (or
better called Judeo-pathic behavior), masquerading as anti-Zionism is rife
again today in Europe and among international leftist circles globally. I
guess the "political capital" of the Holocaust has run out, even
in Europe, today they barely mourn over dead Jews (except for our newly
found friends at the UN). Some even plan the next massacre.
While much of the world supports the enemies of Israel (the
"Palestinians" for example), "for the sake of peace" no
less, Ariel Sharon and his helpers have demonized the "settlers,"
deligitimizing them and their communities in the process. The democratic
exercise of free speech, to voice opposition to Sharon's expulsion plans,
has been labeled "extreme right-wing" behavior, and gone beyond
some imaginary "red line".
Plans to expel over 8,000 Jews from their homes are underway, and numerous
"leaks" from high-ranking government officials (like Olmert and
Peres) have stated that this is just phase one. Even the discredited former
Prime Minister, Ehud Barak (who is planning his political comeback), is
still bandying about the Clinton plan, that the late mass murderer Yasser
Arafat rejected. That plan, would require the expulsion of about another
50,000 to 80,000 Jews from Judea and Samaria. So, expulsion of Jews from
their homes and communities is high on the Israeli political agenda, as they
maneuver to make nice with the "Palestinians".
How could this be? How could Israel's right to exist be being questioned
internationally, while Jew-hatred is flourishing in all quarters, yet Jews
are being persecuted in their own homeland?
The words of Shimon Peres, just after losing to Binyamin Netanyahu in 1996
(during an interview in the left-leaning Israeli newspaper Haaretz) reveals
a lot. When asked,
"What happened in these elections?" Peres answered, "We
lost." The interviewer then asked, "Who is we?" Peres
replied, "We, that is the Israelis." The interviewer clarified,
"And who won?" Peres said, "All those who do not have an
Israeli mentality." Then, the interviewer asked, "And who are
they?" Peres answered, "Call it the Jews."
So, back in 1996, Shimon Peres already differentiated between, the
"religious," the "settlers," and the
"nationalists," as "The Jews" who rejected his
"Oslo Dreams," and those cosmopolitans willing to compromise on
their identity and homeland, "The Israelis". Sharon is just taking
it one step further. Peres could only dream his Oslo dreams of peace with
the enemies of the Jewish People, and the forced expulsions of the Jews from
their homes. But now, Sharon, through his Gaza Expulsion Plan, is working to
implement Peres' dream.
While Jews as a whole and Israel in particular are under fierce attack
globally (both politically and through terrorism), many Jews are also under
attack locally in Israel (not only from Kassam rockets and
suicidal-genocidal terrorists), but by "The Israelis". "The
Israelis" (like Peres and Sharon) prefer to die and be memorialized by
the world, rather than confront the world's ire while defending themselves
against "Palestinian" terror. "The Israelis" are working
hard to destroy "The Jews" lives in Gaza, Samaria and Judea,
trying to please the world, rather than sticking to the eternal G-D given
truth (that the Land of Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish People).
"The Israelis" are trying to uproot the Jewish People's
millennia-old love for its homeland.
It seems not only has the rest of the world not learned the lessons of the
Holocaust, but also "The Israelis" haven't either. "Never
Again" as used by international do-gooders has become an empty slogan.
It hasn't prevented new genocides, and it hasn't prevented the rise of
virulent Judeopathy either. "The Israelis" are just a couple steps
behind, hardly preventing attacks against Jews by "Palestinians,"
always worried what the world will say, and now, planning their own
expulsion program.
To hell with Auschwitz...and the past, give me life, strength, the glorious
future of the Jewish People, and my homeland, the Land of Israel.
Ariel Natan Pasko
is an independent analyst & consultant. He has a
Master's Degree in International Relations & Policy Analysis.
His articles appear regularly on numerous news/views and think-tank
websites, in newspapers, and can be read at: www.geocities.com/ariel_natan_pasko