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		<title>Netanyahu’s Father Said the Holocaust Didn’t End</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2014 05:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And it continues all the time.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mideast-israel-palest_newb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-245949" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mideast-israel-palest_newb1-402x350.jpg" alt="Mideast Israel Palestinians" width="402" height="350" /></a>At the end of yet another brutal week where Israelis were killed while praying, the lessons of <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/04/01/ze%E2%80%99ev-jabotinskys-answer-to-hypocrisy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Zionist hero Ze’ev Jabotinsky</span></a> are relevant, as before there was a Jewish State he wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is very, very sad that Jews are compelled to learn to shoot. But we are compelled and it is useless to argue against the compulsion of historic reality. That compulsion says you may be well educated, you may learn to plow the land and to build houses, you may speak Hebrew… but if you do not at the same time know how to shoot there is no hope. That is the lesson of the reality of our time and that is the prospect for the lifetime of our children.</p></blockquote>
<p style="color: #353434;"><span style="color: #000000;">What Jabotinsky said in the 1930’s in Europe remains true today. So, too do the words of his former secretary, </span>Ben-Zion Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel’s father who said in 2009: &#8220;The Holocaust didn&#8217;t end. It continues all the time.&#8221; The brutal images of Jews being killed at prayer this week in Jerusalem could have come from any other tragedy in Jewish history.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ronn-torossian/zeev-jabotinsky-to-benjamin-netanyahu-on-hamas/">Ze’ev Jabotinsky</a></span> noted,</p>
<blockquote><p>Where it is a question of war you do not stand and ask questions as to what is &#8220;better,” whether to shoot or not to shoot.  The only permissible question in such circumstances is on the contrary “what is worse” to let yourself be killed or enslaved without any resistance or to undertake resistance with all its horrible questions. For there is no “better” at all. Everything connected with war is bad, and cannot be “good.” When you shoot at enemy soldiers do not lie to yourself or persuade yourself that you are shooting at “guilty” ones. If you start calculating with what is “better” the calculation is very simple; if you want to be good let yourself be killed and renounce everything you would like to defend: home, country, freedom, hope.  The blackest of all characteristics is the tradition of the cheapness of Jewish blood.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the legendary essay “Ethics of the Iron Wall,” Jabotinsky, the father of the Likud Party wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Human society is based on reciprocity. If you remove reciprocity, justice becomes a lie. A person walking somewhere on a street has the right to live only because and only to the extent that he acknowledges my right to live. But, if he wishes to kill me, to my mind he forfeits his right to exist – and this also applies to nations. Otherwise, the world would become a racing area for vicious predators, where not only the weakest would be devoured, but the best.</p></blockquote>
<p>Danny Danon, a Likud Knesset Member said recently that “Israel must flex muscle to crush terrorists,” and this <a href="http://www.5wpr.com/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">PR Agency</span></a> owner joins all decent people in mourning the deaths of innocents in Jerusalem, Israel. Terrorism must be fought and challenged.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Ehr Daw&#8217; &#8212;- They&#8217;re Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Shalom Lewis]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/muslim-nazi-youth.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242517" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/muslim-nazi-youth-450x335.png" alt="muslim-nazi-youth" width="316" height="235" /></a><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Below is the transcript to Rabbi Shalom Lewis&#8217;s sermon marking Rosh Hashanah at the Etz Chaim synagogue in Marietta, Georgia. </strong></p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">I thought that maybe I’d start with a rendition of Paul McCartney’s plaintive masterpiece “Yesterday”… “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay, oh I believe in yesterday” – but then I thought, too romantic. And then I thought, how about the favorite classic we all learned as children – “Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques, Dormez-vous, Dormez-vous, Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines, Ding Daing Dong, ding daing dong. Are you sleeping, are you sleeping, Brother John, Brother John” but then I said to myself…too French. Perhaps the story of Chicken Little – “The sky is falling. The sky is falling” and I thought, getting closer but too childish. What about Santayana’s “Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Maybe, but too philosophical. And then I remembered Joseph Conrad’s sadly, cynical observation – – “The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness,” and sadly it felt right.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">And so, here were are in a place of unimagined chaos and cowardice, paralysis and brutality. The beast roams the earth; we are stymied, stunned and continue to fiddle. My friends, “Ehr Kumpt Part 2, the Sequel.” This is not a time for delicacy. For tiptoeing. It is not a time to parse words nor worry about offending someone with unfiltered vocabulary. Time is no longer a luxury we possess. Distance no longer provides protection. We are being threatened like no time before, by an enemy obsessed with an apocalyptic endgame that will bring only disaster. An enemy that worships savagery. An enemy that celebrates depravity. An enemy that glorifies the death of the young. There has been a seismic shift in our world. We feel it. We see it. We know it. We dare not deny it. Pick up any newspaper on any day, the first page, the second page, the third page, the fourth page and beyond – – most of the articles are about radical Muslims, not just ISIS, immersed in a vicious culture of blood and slaughter. Skip to the sports page or the crossword puzzle if you wish, but that doesn’t make the uncomfortable news go away. In fact, it brings joy to the jihadists who hope for our indifference. If we deny evil then we need not fight it. It doesn’t exist – just a few lunatics, thousands of miles away, pounding sand, blowing each other up and occasionally beheading an unlucky journalist. Not so bad.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">For years, we have been mercifully spared the ugliness and intimacy of war. The Battle of the Bulge and Iwo Jima were a black and white MovieTone newsreel after Tom &amp; Jerry and before the Pride of the Yankees. We planted victory gardens, rolled up tin foil, bought Liberty Bonds, said goodbye to fathers, sons and brothers. But the trenches were on the other side of the Atlantic and Pacific. So too, every other subsequent conflict. The Yanks were coming but the shooting was “over there.” We suffered little. But today, war has been redefined and relocated. Geneva is finished. We are all combatants in the cross hairs. We are all on the front lines, like it or not. The battlefield has no boundaries and the war, no rules. The enemy targets deliberately, fiendishly, any place of innocence. All are vulnerable and so we must recalculate our strategy, re-examine our tolerance, re-energize our resolve and unequivocally identify the evil doers. Let us not be silenced by fear, by feckless goodwill, by reckless hope, by meaningless rhetoric.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">There are one billion Muslims in the world and authorities agree that 5% are committed Islamists who embrace terror and wish to see, by any means possible, the Muslim flag fly over every capital, on every continent. I was relieved when I heard only 5%. Thank God it’s only 5%. Now I could sleep soundly. But wait, let me figure this out, 5% of a billion is… 50 million Koran-waving, Allah Akbar-howling Muslim murderers out there planning to slit our throats, blow us up or forcibly convert us. It only took 19 of Osama bin Laden’s disciples to bring down the Twin Towers, plow into the Pentagon and crash a plane into Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Over 3,000 dead. Over $10 billion in damages on that sad day. 19 Al Qaeda. 50 million Islamists. Do the math.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">But what disturbs me is, where are the other 950 million Muslims who are not terrorists? Who are not bomb-blasting, acid-throwing zealots? Where are the other 950 million Muslims who tuck their children in at night with a lullaby, who are okay with Christians and Jews, crave a peaceful world and wish nothing more than a tasty bowl of hummus and a friendly game of Shesh Besh with a neighbor? I want to believe they are out there, for their sake and for ours. I want to believe they weep in pain over the desecration of their faith. I want to believe that we have partners who dream the dreams we do and wish upon the same star. I want to believe – – but where are they? A silent partnership is no partnership. Sin is not just in the act of commission – it is also in the act of omission. Most Germans were not Nazis – but it did not matter. Most Russians were not Stalinists – but it did not matter. Most Muslims are not terrorists – but it does not matter. Stand up righteously or get out of the way. Perhaps in every mosque, in every midrassah, in every Muslim neighborhood, Edmund Burke’s powerful warning should be chiseled on a wall in Arabic, in Farsi, in Pashto, in Urdu, for all to read and heed. “All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">A couple of months ago, 3 young Israelis were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and killed. And so began Operation Protective Edge. But the Gaza war was much more than shooting down rockets and blowing up tunnels – it was the preview, the soft opening, for a much more serious war – a genuine world war. It was a test of resolve, of fortitude. It was a test watched carefully by the indecent forces of a rising Islamist world. Israel is only the beginning. The first prize sought in what promises to be a protracted, multi-generational Kulterkampf. Israel made the headlines, but the front lines are all over the map – we just don’t know it yet. The whole world was watching and our performance was pathetic. We, the good guys, stumbled at the gate; tripped clumsily in an embarrassing display of moral confusion and ineptitude. It was amateur hour and the bad guys were licking their chops. I say the following unapologetically and with a heavy heart. When the war began, the President of the United States, the leader of the Free World, should have immediately, instinctively invited to the Oval Office, the leading Democrats and Republicans of the Senate and the House, his cabinet and all significant Washington political players. Every domestic and international news organization should have been notified and the following talk broadcast across the planet.</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Fellow Americans – a crisis has erupted once again in the Middle East and I have been told that the war between Israel and Hamas is complex and nuanced. I have been told that our great nation must be evenhanded- but I am here to say with no equivocation, with no hesitation, this war is not complex. This war is not nuanced and we will not be evenhanded in this confrontation of good and evil, of right and wrong, of civilization and savagery. We Democrats and Republicans, Liberals and Conservatives from sea to shining sea, stand together in unshakable support of Israel against foul, corrupt, murderers who sacrifice the lives of children in their pursuit of power. To Israel we say – do whatever you must. To Israel we say, take whatever time you need to crush this vile enemy and whatever you require, you can count on us. To the world we say, Israel is fighting for all of us – for our values, for our principles, for our civilization. Support her efforts, as we do, in every way possible. I will not tolerate any words of disparagement against our greatest ally and friend in the Middle East. God bless Israel and God bless the United States of America.</p>
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<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">But these words did not ring forth from the White House, the capital of the free world. What we did hear was “No victor, no vanquished.” This statement was our President’s strategic plan. No call for triumph over terrorism, but a weak kneed, stalemate with butchers – a tie between good and evil. Right and wrong. Civilization and savagery. This did not go unnoticed. Media coverage during the war was biased and shameful with a few notable exceptions. To permit Hamas spokesmen and Hamas sympathizers to speak and to defend their monstrous deeds to millions of viewers is morally shocking. To promote equivalency between Israel and Hamas is morally appalling. With my remote, I would channel surf, go from station to station and I could not believe what I was hearing on CNN, CBS, BBC, ABC, MSNBC, and all the rest. The grotesque propaganda, the repulsive distortions – the tolerance of the wicked. And this did not go unnoticed. As I sat through these numbing broadsides, I wondered if our mainstream media during WWII would have invited the Germans and the Japanese to share their perspectives on the hostilities in Europe and in the Pacific. As they moaned about Dresden and the Doolittle Raid, would the anchors have nodded in sympathy? When the Germans and Japanese explained the need for the V1 and V2 bombardment of London and the necessity for the Bataan Death March, would the anchors have expressed understanding? The obscenities and outright lies given airtime and legitimacy should be sickening to any person of conscience.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Words distinguish us from the beast. In a powerful Holocaust tale, Eli Wiesel painfully writes that when words lose their meaning, disaster follows. In today’s Middle East lexicon; restraint means suicide. Terrorists have become militants. Self-defense is a war crime. Democracy is apartheid. Israelis and Jews have become Nazis. Warning civilians to get out of harm’s way has become genocide. 38 Muslim countries – 22 Arab countries and Israel, the only Jewish nation, must constantly defend her right to exist. Russia invades. Nigeria enslaves. China oppresses. Pakistan rapes. Iraq slaughters. North Korea starves. Iran nuclearizes. Syria massacres. Venezuela plunders. Afghanistan tortures. Sudan annihilates. ISIS beheads and Israel is the pariah state, put under the microscope by the morally noxious. And this did not go unnoticed. Eric Hoffer, the longshoreman philosopher, wrote the following in 1968 – 46 years ago. His words have not grown stale with the passage of time. To the contrary, they are every bit as relevant and meaningful today, nearly 1/2 a century later. I quote: “The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out 1,000’s, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey drove out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But, in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations, when victorious on the battlefield, dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious on the battlefield, it must sue for peace. Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in the world…Other nations when they are defeated, survive and recover, but should Israel be defeated, it would be destroyed…” Hoffers’ final words are chilling and prophetic. “I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us.”</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">To those who are morally obtuse, I say shame on you– from university professors to the useful idiots of the media, from liberal churches to Hollywood, from the United Nations to the clueless left – let me remind all the ‘misguided do-gooders” – your deeds do not go unnoticed. The world does not like a righteous Goliath especially if Goliath speaks Hebrew.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Let’s leave the Middle East and head to Europe. For those who have not been recently, it has changed. It has changed dramatically. The sights. The sounds. The crowds. The streets are much different than when we backpacked with our Eurorail passes – strolling down the Champs-Elysees, chasing pigeons at Trafalgar Square, wandering the backstreets of Amsterdam after dark. The continent that gave birth to Western civilization, the continent that defined high culture is crumbling before our very eyes. Because of well-intentioned tolerance and an undisciplined pluralism, Europe is returning to the dark ages. By most estimates, Europe will be unrecognizable by the middle of this century – crushed by a demographic tsunami. The birthrate of the Brits, the French, the Dutch and the rest of the EU is well below ZPG. The Muslim community’s birthrate is prolific.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The danger, however, is that Europe has not been a melting pot, assimilating new Muslims. And these new Muslims, for the most part, are not interested in respecting the great democracies of Europe. They want Sharia law and Islamic culture to be ascendant, and with their birthrate, the ballot box and their disdain for the West, in time they will get it. The element that is surging and redefining Europe are not the democracy-respecting Muslims, but those who are rampaging in nearly every capital. They are preaching hate for Jews, for Christians, for Israel, for America, for the entire Western world. It is not our grandfather’s Europe and it will not be a Europe our grandchildren will recognize. For the record, Europe is being flooded not by freedom loving, tolerant, assimilating Muslims who wish to share in Western freedom, in Western tolerance, in Western culture but rather by violent Islamists, extremists who reject every value we treasure.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">We love ethnic communities – they are vibrant, exciting, magical faraway places only a walk away. Chinatown, Little Odessa, Greek town, Little Havana, Lower Eastside, Little Italy, but what is spreading across Europe are not charming, quaint neighborhoods enjoyed by locals and camera toting tourists in search of a charming restaurant. These are beachheads for invasion. Want to stare down a guard at Buckingham Palace? Do it soon. Want to see the Follies-Bergere dance the Can Can? Do it soon. Want to sip wine at the vineyards of Tuscany? Do it soon. Want to sunbathe on the beaches of San Tropez? Do it soon. The sun never set on the British Empire, but now there is a cold darkness settling on Europe. A nihilism. A corruption. A perversion in the name of Allah. A Kristallnacht of European and Western culture is coming that will destroy a millennia of creative genius. Don’t listen to me. Listen to what the Islamists preach.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Don’t listen to me. Look at what the Islamists do. It is not a leap into fantasy to perceive a dystopian future that is irretrievably ugly and inconceivably vile.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">• The Sistine Chapel demolished for portraying God’s image.<br />
• The Pieta, Venus de Milo, David smashed. Idolatry.<br />
• Botticelli’s and Goya’s and Renoirs and Rubens torched – paintings of women not wearing a hijab and chador.<br />
• The Guttenberg Bible. The Magna Carta. Tossed into a bonfire. Profane literature.<br />
• Museums all across Europe vandalized by marauding Islamist fanatics.<br />
Even the Nazis saved the masterpieces.<br />
• Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart silenced.<br />
• The end of opera. Rossini, Verdi, Puccini gone.<br />
• For Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere. The Final curtain, a dark stage.<br />
Even the Nazis enjoyed the classics.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">I must assume there are skeptics out there – folks who disbelieve my warnings and might label me an alarmist – a Paul Revere wannabe – galloping across the Pyrenees through the European heartland in the shadow of the Alps crying out “The Muslims are coming. The Muslims are coming.” I weighed each and every word carefully. Repeatedly. Was I treading into bigotry? … Into melodrama? Speak with the ‘canaries in the mine’, the Jews of Europe, fleeing in record numbers. Synagogues fire bombed. Jewish businesses vandalized. Children threatened on their way to school. Kippot buried in their pockets. Mezuzot. Hamsas. Magen Davids dangling on chains tucked under shirts and under blouses to hide Jewish identity. Israeli products pulled off store shelves. This is not the 1930’s nor the 1940’s and yet it is. 68 years since the Nazis defeat but their descendants are making Hitler proud picking up where he left off. “I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us.” Slip in the word “Jew” for Israel and we see the future of Europe. This ever-growing tragedy doesn’t end neatly in Europe, in the Middle East, in Mumbai or the Philippines.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Most of us have never tasted the bitterness of war. Witnessed its horror. Clawed our way out from beneath tons of rubble. But we dare not be complacent and cry out confidently – “we have 2 oceans and the TSA to protect us.” We live in a shrunken world. In a porous country. In an open society. We have become perilously naïve. Recklessly evenhanded. Unacceptably tolerant. Dangerously comfortable. The greatest generation has spawned the clueless generation. I say it again loudly, slowly and clearly – we are at war, here in America as well, with radical Islamists. We have been attacked repeatedly and yet we continue to turn away. We euphemize the enemy. Disguising his identity and his intent. There will not be armadas chanting “Allah Akbar” landing on the beaches of Malibu and Boca. No vast battalions chanting “Allah Akbar” while crossing the Rio Grande or the 45th Parallel – but make no mistake – we are at war, right now, this very minute. The tactics have changed. The battlefield is different. The rules of engagement have been redefined but we dare not make the mistake that all is well and that Islamic terrorists are simply violent criminals. That Islamic terrorists are just a bunch of unemployed losers, not part of a vast network hell bent on destroying our country. Their disunity in numbers but their unity in purpose is their power. The Lone Wolf is deadly and we are the prey.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Ask the man or woman on the street when did this all start and most would reply: “On 9/11.” That was a catastrophic day, but not the start. For us here in America, the war began in Teheran in 1979 when our embassy was taken over. It has continued ruthlessly and without pause ever since. Lockerbie and Scotland, TWA Flight 840, the USS Cole, embassies and American interests bombed and Americans killed in Lebanon, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Spain, Kenya, Germany, Egypt, Kuwait, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia. Connect the dots. Here on American soil, before 9/11, the Twin Towers were attacked in 1993. The Times Square bomber. The Tsarnev brothers in the Boston Marathon bombing. The Fort Hood massacre was not work place violence but the calculated, cold blooded murder of 13 American soldiers by a Muslim Jihadist yelling “Allah Akbar.” The shooting up in Little Rock, Arkansas of an army recruiting station. The murder of 2 CIA agents outside Langley by a Pakistani whose final words before meeting his maker were “There is no God but Allah.” The indignant, impious, arrogant claim by CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic relations, that anyone who commits an act of violence is by definition, not a Muslim. Therefore, a Muslim terrorist, a Muslim killer, a Muslim suicide bomber, is a misleading term of bigotry and Islamophobia. The slick, masterful ISIS recruitment in Minneapolis. New York. Colorado. On Facebook. On Twitter and across the country. Connect the dots.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Let’s get Jewish-personal. A Zim Line cargo ship was prevented from offloading it’s cargo for 3 days because of pro-Palestinian mobs in Oakland, California. A young man from our shul on his 1st day of university was taught by his PhD, tenured professor that Israel committed ethnic cleansing in 1948… In Dade County a synagogue was defaced with swastikas and the words Hamas scrawled on its walls. A JCC in Seattle was attacked. A pro-Palestinian rally in Miami called for “the massacre of the Jews.” University campuses across the country, hot beds of anti-Israel, anti-Jewish hostility. A local merchant in Roswell told one of our members (not realizing she was Jewish and vocal) that she was fed up with Israel’s brutal treatment of the children of Gaza. We are not Europe, but connect the dots. I am concerned, as we all should be, of the alarming surge in Islamist rhetoric, violence and influence. I am equally concerned, as we all should be, of the alarming silence and inaction of mainstream Muslims. I fear political correctness run amuck. I fear the worship of multiculturalism. I fear progressive voices of repression. I fear a distorted media tolerant of intolerance. I fear politicians who prefer the easy, still of the night to the noble, necessary struggle of the day. I fear we are not so far away from where we thought we would never be.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Three thoughts to ponder. This past year, many of us saw the Book of Mormon at the Fox. An irreverent, vulgar, hysterically entertaining musical about the Mormons. We parked our car at the Georgian Terrace and crossed Peachtree Street. In front of the theater were a half dozen, well dressed, mannerly Mormons handing out literature. “Sir, if you would like to know more about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints,” a young woman said to me as I took her brochure, “Please go to our website.” I thanked her. She smiled, wished me a pleasant evening and turned to speak with another ticket holder. I thought, “God bless these folks. This is how we disagree in America.” At the same moment I had another thought. What if Trey Parker and Matt Stone came out with a tasteless, bawdy musical that was hysterically entertaining entitled “The Quran, Allah’s Holy Book.” What would happen? It doesn’t take much imagination to answer that question. Jeff Foxworthy correctly wrote, “Have you ever wondered why it’s okay to make jokes about Catholics, the Pope, Jews, Christians, the Irish, the Italians, the Polish, the Chinese, the French (including French Canadians)…but it’s insensitive to make jokes about Muslims?” A few years back, a Danish newspaper “Jyllanns-Posten” printed 12 cartoons of the prophet Muhammad to illustrate an article. If the photos published were of Moses or Buddha or of the Apostle Paul, the event would have been met with a yawn. But not so with our Islamist friends. The reaction? Not a letter to the editor. Not a request to submit an op-ed. Not a friendly visit to the publisher – – but worldwide rage. Riots. Boycotts. Embassies burned. Ambassadors recalled. Attacks on Christians and on churches. 200 killed. Soon after, a professor from Brandeis wrote a book on this outrageous event entitled, “12 Cartoons That Shook the World.” It was published by Yale University Press, located at 302 Temple Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States of America. But what was missing in the book? What Yale University refused to print were the 12 cartoons and images of Muhammad. This self-censorship was shameful, cowardly, un-American and a sniveling submission to Islamic narcissism and intimidation. Where is a great university’s courage? Where is Freedom of the Press? This happened in America. In the land of the free and in the home of, I hope, still the brave.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">I recall, as we all do, the good old days when air travel was a pleasure. When I flew here to Etz Chaim in my commuting, student days, I’d catch a cab outside my apartment on the upper West Side and be at LaGuardia in about 20 minutes. I’d check my bags in 2 minutes and be at the gate in 4 minutes, just in time to board my flight. I even got a meal. In those days, flying was an adventure, even in coach. Today it is irritating and exhausting. What happened? What changed? Who’s to blame? Who has created the need for a multibillion dollar security industry? Who has created a tedious need for us to remove our shoes and belts, empty our pockets, pack only 3-1/2 ounces of Listerine, go through metal detectors and x-ray machines, submit to frisks and wand searches? Arrive hours before departure? Who is responsible? Let’s see – – not the Italian Mob, not skin heads, not neo Nazis, not Columbian drug cartels, not the Russian mafia, not the Crips nor the Bloods nor the Aryan Brotherhood, not the Ku Klux Klan. So who is it that has irretrievably ruined worldwide air travel? So, think of a Muslim play on Broadway. Think of a scholarly text on Muhammad. Think of flying Delta or United or AirTran. Think about it and connect the dots. For us, WWII lasted 4 years. It has been 13 years since 9/11. 35 years since the invasion of our Iranian embassy and like it or not, we are still at war with radical Islam. Declaring we are not at war with radical Islam does not make it so. Roosevelt and Churchill got it and understood that the stakes were not just the Sudetenland and a few islands in the South Pacific. From the White House and 10 Downing Street, they understood it was planet earth. Today, the radical Islamists seek the same prize – not just Bagdad or Benghazi – but planet earth.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">This is not dramatic fiction, but the real thing. A handful of us here today, experienced the real thing about 11 weeks ago in Israel. We didn’t see the real thing on the nightly news nor read about it in the evening paper or hear about it in a long distance phone call from uncle Moshe in Tel Aviv. We were there as Kassam rockets rained down on Israel, on us, targeting, not military bases, not Merkava tanks, not IDF divisions, but children at play, families enjoying dinner, friends laughing over a beer, lovers strolling through a park, teenagers playing volleyball on the beach. The world watched and preached and judged and only now has begun to stir from their slumber of hypocrisy and inaction. Hamas is ISIS. ISIS is Hamas. They are all the same. Hezbollah. Islamic Jihad. Al Shabab. Muslim Brotherhood. Boko Haram. Al Qaeda. Taliban. Iran. The only difference is the length of the knife they use in their butchery. Israeli blood bleeds the same red as the blood of James Foley, of Steven Satloff, of David Hawthorne Haines, of Christians, and Yazidis. Let’s reason, some suggest. One last Hail Mary negotiation. Maybe we can figure out what’s bothering these troubled Muslims and perhaps they’ll tell us what we can do to resolve the friction. I am all for dialogue, but we are dealing with a moral species that eats its own, kills it’s young and celebrates innocent death as homage to God. Osama bin Laden eluded capture for 10 years. Ever wonder why? There was a $25 million bounty on his head. That’s a lot of money. $25 million can by a lot of plastic surgery. A new identity. Rosetta Stone tapes. Elocution lesson. A suburban home. A Brooks Brothers wardrobe. New partners. New friends. Surf and turf every night and a round of golf every day. In 10 years, there was not one betrayal of Osama bin Laden – – not one. And I asked myself, “why not?” – $25 million is a great amount of money and can easily facilitate a luxurious disappearance. The answer is simple. These Islamist criminals are unlike us in the most basic of ways and we have yet to accept and understand their total immersion in moral debauchery.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The enemy has eyes and ears. Fingers and toes. Speaks with lips. Runs with legs. Eats. Drinks. Has the face of a human being – but, has a much different heart and a much different soul. Three years ago on this bima, on this very same day, standing at this podium, I cried out, “Ehr Kumpt – they are coming.” 3 years later on this bima, on this very same day, standing at this podium, I cry out not “Ehr Kumpt – they are coming,” I cry out, “Ehr daw – they are here.” The fury of ultimate evil is upon us and we must act – not to contain it. Not to degrade it. Not to manage it. Not to tolerate it, but to exterminate it utterly and absolutely. If we fail in this holy crusade, we will live in a world bereft of color. Empty of music, of art, of romance, of laughter, of freedom, of invention. A world barren of all beauty. Depleted of all virtue. We are divided today not by faith nor holy book. We are divided today by decency and indecency. By right and wrong. By moral and corrupt. By courage and cowardice. By righteousness and evil. The good citizens of earth must rise up. Gather on the mountain top and proclaim in thundering unison the words of Isaiah: “Hoy ha’omrim lera tov v’la’tov rah – woe to them that call evil, good and good, evil. Who present darkness as light and light as darkness. Who call bitter, sweet and sweet, bitter. We must turn back the evil. We must turn back the darkness. We must turn back the bitter.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">My friends – Ehr daw – they are here.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book asks where the world was during the Holocaust.]]></description>
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<p>This special <em>Glazov Gang</em> episode was joined by <b> Dr. Ari Babaknia</b>, an Iranian-born doctor who wrote and published a 4-volume book in Farsi &#8220;The Holocaust&#8221; (which in English is &#8220;Humanity, NOT&#8221;).</p>
<p>He came on the show to discuss &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Ari-Babaknia/299409423544280"><em><strong>Humanity, NOT</strong></em></a><i>,&#8221; </i>which takes an in-depth look, in words and images, at the captured emotions of the victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and survivors of the Holocaust, told in their own words.</p>
<p>Dr. Babaknia focuses on the evil of genocide, the indifference of man in the face of evil, and when silence is not an option:</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss another special <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">episode of <em>The Glazov Gang </em>in which <a href="https://www.facebook.com/annmariemurrell" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1258545911">Ann-Marie Murrell</a> interviewed <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jamie.glazov.7?fref=photo" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=100007973340608">Jamie Glazov</a> about the Jihad Denial we are witnessing in our culture &#8212; and about his own battle on Hannity against the Unholy Alliance:</span></span></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2014 04:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the daughter of Holocaust survivors, all I can say is that it is déjà vu back to 1933.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Par7935171-e1405882687800.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-237606" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_Par7935171-e1405882687800-402x350.jpg" alt="000_Par7935171-e1405882687800" width="277" height="241" /></a>I am a daughter of Holocaust survivors, and I&#8217;m sad to say, I&#8217;m glad both my parents are no longer living. What they would see, to their horror, is<em> déjà vu</em> back to 1933 with an explosion of anti-Semitism, especially in Europe, the UK and even in the U.S. and Canada. Throughout Europe, where Muslim populations have grown substantially along with a left-leaning constituency, out-of-control violence against Jews and Israel has erupted, with the perpetrators using the Israeli-Gaza conflict as an excuse for the &#8220;old hatred.&#8221; This is, in part, a direct result of the media coverage of the conflict. The openly biased written and visual reporting has created a frenzy of anti-Semitism – even though much of this reporting has been, or will be, proven incorrect and to be simple disinformation propaganda.</p>
<p>In country after EU country, there have been violent anti-Israel demonstrations with signs reading such things as “death to Jews” and “no dogs or Jews allowed” (this was a sign seen by an elderly woman in Cologne, Germany who lived through the Holocaust). In France, Jewish businesses have been torched and synagogues attacked. The trend has also been visible in the US at demonstrations in Boston, Chicago and other locations. They have become violent where left-wing constituencies and large Muslim populations prevail. There is also the element of the universities, where anti-Israel sentiment is widespread and becoming a real danger in the United States. In addition, there is almost no outrage voiced by the U.S. administration or from the EU.</p>
<p>This whole situation is not a far cry from Kristallnacht.</p>
<p>Israel left Gaza in 2005 with agricultural and other infrastructure in place. Aid began to pour in from around the world. Hamas showed its gratitude by destroying  the infrastructure left behind and using the supplies meant for new houses (i.e. building materials and cement) to construct an incredible fully-equipped underground tunnel system for attacks on Israel. Shortly after Israel left, the slow pounding of rockets began in the south of Israel – forcing citizens to live in shelters and in a constant state of terror.</p>
<p>Hamas is a terrorist organization, an arm of Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood going back to the 3<sup>rd</sup> Reich, and its Charter calls for the destruction of Israel and all Jews. I won’t list all the worldwide media that have assisted in achieving this objective as that would run quite long. Suffice it to say, virtually no unbiased journalism abounds today where Israel is concerned.</p>
<p>Hundreds of rockets and missiles are shot daily directly at Israeli civilians. Hamas is using their own people as human shields, hiding and launching rockets and missiles from homes, hospitals, schools and playgrounds, knowing full well that Israel would have to strike back, increasing the amount of casualties and pressure on Israel.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Israel risks the lives of their young men to protect Palestinian civilians – warning them to leave areas, delivering aid and treating them in Israeli hospitals. No other country on earth would do this, yet the hate of Israel grows. And the media ignores these facts because they are inconvenient truths.</p>
<p>The use of words like “Holocaust” and “massacre” to describe Israeli actions underscores the anti-Semitism at play. Such word usage doesn’t seem to apply to the deaths of thousands of Muslims at the hands of allied forces and other Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, etc.</p>
<p>Where was the world when the rocket attacks on Israel started? Why is it only Israel that elicits this type of condemnation when it defends itself? Had outrage been voiced and the real situation on the ground noted, this may have already ended without the casualties on either side. Ceasefire after ceasefire has been broken by Hamas – yet who gets blamed?</p>
<p>This is the purest form of anti-Semitism and nothing else.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Ari Babaknia discusses his new book, “Humanity, NOT” -- and when silence is not an option.]]></description>
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<p>This Week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <b> Dr. Ari Babaknia</b>, an Iranian-born doctor who wrote and published a 4-volume book in Farsi &#8220;The Holocaust&#8221; (which in English is &#8220;Humanity, NOT&#8221;). He came on the show to discuss &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Ari-Babaknia/299409423544280"><em><strong>Humanity, NOT</strong></em></a><i>,&#8221; </i>which takes an in-depth look, in words and images, at the captured emotions of the victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and survivors of the Holocaust, told in their own words.</p>
<p>Dr. Babaknia focuses on the evil of genocide and when silence is not an option:</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2014 04:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new book asks where the world was during the Holocaust.]]></description>
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<p>This Week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <b> Dr. Ari Babaknia</b>, an Iranian-born doctor who wrote and published a 4-volume book in Farsi &#8220;The Holocaust&#8221; (which in English is &#8220;Humanity, NOT&#8221;).</p>
<p>He came on the show to discuss &#8220;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Ari-Babaknia/299409423544280"><em><strong>Humanity, NOT</strong></em></a><i>,&#8221; </i>which takes an in-depth look, in words and images, at the captured emotions of the victims, perpetrators, bystanders, and survivors of the Holocaust, told in their own words.</p>
<p>Dr. Babaknia focuses on the evil of genocide, the indifference of man in the face of evil, and when silence is not an option:</p>
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		<title>Bloodguilt Over Jews Leads to Blood Libels Against Jews</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What better way to relieve national guilt for the Holocaust than turning Jews into the villains? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zionazi2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236375" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zionazi2-450x331.jpg" alt="zionazi2" width="256" height="188" /></a>If there&#8217;s one place on Earth that should understand the danger of Jew hatred, it is Frankfurt, Germany. In 1933, boycotts targeted Jews; by 1938, Germans were burning synagogues down. Between 1933 and 1945, the Jewish population of the city was decimated, dropping from 30,000 to 602. Few Jews, most of them Soviet expatriates, live in the city now.</p>
<p>So Frankfurt seems an odd place for a new blood libel against the Jews. Nonetheless, this week, 2,500 protesters, including Muslims and neo-Nazis — allied once again — showed up downtown to scream about Israel&#8217;s defensive action against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Police reportedly helped out the protesters, allowing them to utilize a loudspeaker and a vehicle to shout anti-Israel diatribes. &#8220;You Jews Are Beasts,&#8221; read one sign.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, in Paris, Muslims attacked two Jewish synagogues, including one in which 150 Jews had gathered to mourn the deaths of three Jewish boys, who were murdered by Hamas operatives. Those Muslims, brandishing bats and chairs, attempted to break into the synagogue and ended up injuring several Jews. In recent years, thousands of Jews from France have emigrated to Israel, amid shocking reports of beatings, stabbings and an ax attack.</p>
<p>The Europeans, it seems, are becoming increasingly comfortable with old-fashioned Jew hatred in their midst, whether homegrown or imported.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a reason for that. In much of Europe, bloodguilt over the Holocaust still hangs over the heads of the population. According to a 2012 Anti-Defamation League survey of European countries, 45 percent of Austrians, 35 percent of French, 43 percent of Germans, 63 percent of Hungarians and 53 percent of Polish citizens felt that it was &#8220;probably true&#8221; that &#8220;Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust.&#8221; Many of those who wish to move beyond the Holocaust, therefore, look for a rationale to relieve national guilt — and what better way to relieve national guilt than to label the Jewish State an aggressor? After all, if the Jews have become the villains, then why spend too much time thinking about their victimization?</p>
<p>Of course, the labeling of Jews as bloodthirsty villains led to the Holocaust in the first place.</p>
<p>Adolf Hitler saw the Jews as bloodsuckers driven by greed and dual loyalty. So did much of the rest of Europe. In the minds of those who murdered Jews en masse, Jews had it coming, because, in the words of Hitler: &#8220;The struggle for world domination will be fought entirely between us — between Germans and Jews. All else is facade and illusion.&#8221;</p>
<p>Those who today label Israel the font of all evil use Hitler&#8217;s rationale to relieve guilt over Hitler. That&#8217;s why the same protesters in Frankfurt threatening Jews carried posters comparing Israel to the Nazis: If Jews are the new Nazis, fighting the Jews becomes an obligation.</p>
<p>Every Passover, Jews recite a paragraph: &#8220;in every generation they rise against us to destroy us; and the Holy One, blessed be He, saves us from their hand!&#8221; The names change, but the rationale does not. And the God of Israel is always watching, even if those who attack the Jews have convinced themselves that He will turn a blind eye.</p>
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		<title>The Power of Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2014 04:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A 2013 Polish masterpiece confronts the visible and invisible traumatic effects of the Holocaust.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ida.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-235847" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ida-262x350.jpg" alt="ida" width="262" height="350" /></a>&#8220;You are Jewish. And your real name is Ida.&#8221; These two trenchant sentences, uttered by Wanda, a Polish-Jewish communist, to her niece Anna, a twenty-year-old novitiate ready to become a nun, define the infinitely complex story captured in &#8220;Ida,&#8221; a 2013 Polish masterpiece. Historically, the film, situated in the grim atmosphere of socialist Poland in the early 1960s, deals with the visible and invisible traumatic effects of the Holocaust. Psychologically, it is a meditation on the many faces of human freedom, on what it means to be a woman, a Christian, a Jew, and a human being in a century marred by genocides and destructive ideological passions.</p>
<p>Before taking her celibacy oath, Anna follows the Mother Superior&#8217;s urge to visit her aunt, her only relative and, we find out, the only other survivor of a family that perished during the Holocaust. This encounter leads to a quest for a long-buried past, to appalling revelations, and to Anna&#8217;s final return to her monastic calling. But this is a different woman, one who has lost her original innocence by discovering, in a most concrete, material way, the existence of Evil. Anna the nun will remain forever indebted to her sinful aunt for having allowed her to recover a tragic family history, even if this confrontation with the past meant Wanda&#8217;s own breakdown. To say more about the plot in this article will spoil the experience of seeing one of the great movies of our times. Just one caveat: Do not expect simple questions in this film, and even less so simple answers.</p>
<p>Pawel Pawlikowski’s “Ida” is an entrancingly absorbing movie. A film of utmost purity, with frames that remain forever grafted in one’s mind. A film about memory, trauma, truth, and the pursuit of one’s inner self. It belongs in the same category with the great films of Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Andrzej Wajda, Jerzy Skolimowski, and Agnieszka Holland.</p>
<p>Wanda is an overwhelming character, right out of Jerzy Andrzejewski’s novel “Ashes and Diamonds.” Once the horrible, dreaded, “Iron Wanda,” “Red Wanda,” a fanatic communist prosecutor asking for death penalties against alleged &#8220;enemies of the people,&#8221; she is now merely pathetic. Her first name is reminiscent of the notorious Wanda Wasilewska, Stalin’s favorite amongst Polish communists, whom he otherwise detested (see Marci Shore’s book “Caviar and Ashes”). With the utopia shattered to pieces, all that was left were the cigarettes, the one-night stands, and the vodka. In the company of her niece, she rediscovers her lost humanity. Or, at least, she hopes to retrieve it, together with the long suppressed memories of her Jewish fate.</p>
<p>Most probably, Wanda’s character is somehow inspired by the famous, or rather the grisly Julia (Luna) Brystigyer and Helena Wolynska-Brus, both active members of the repressive apparatus in the 1950s (the former as an investigator and head of the Security’s anti-clerical department, the latter as a military prosecutor). In either case, these two avatars of Polish Stalinism at its harshest were what Agata Kulesza, the actress assigned to the role, had in mind when playing the part. Pawlikowski himself told her about the case of Helena Brus. Nonetheless, what the actress went for – and I believe she succeeded in – was an attempt to summon up the human in that which was, in fact, its very opposite: “It was a challenge for my character to carry around all this past and also remain someone whom people could like.” One year before her death, the sadistic Luna converted to Catholicism. But did she ever repent?</p>
<p>Anna (Ida), played by Agata Trzebuchowska, is seemingly glacial, seraphic, Antigone-like, in a tragic-discreet way. Her gaze is reminiscent of a Vermeer painting. Aunt and niece alike, marred by the curse of the totalitarian twins – as the great Polish writer Jerzy Giedroyc called them – Stalinism and Nazism. In sum, bloodlands, to use the title of Timothy Snyder&#8217;s great book. The psychological suspense is astonishing. Not to mention the use of shadows and silence (much like in Bergman’s films). And Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony is the ideal soundtrack for Wanda’s catharsis. Just look at the window.</p>
<p>Wanda and Anna’s conversation about the funeral of the boy who had been killed twenty years before is illuminating. Anna suggests bringing a priest, whilst Wanda – putting on a sarcastic, yet melancholy smile – responds: “A rabbi, perhaps.”</p>
<p>Politics is undetectable throughout the film. The political myth is, nevertheless, present. The story takes place in a dictatorship. An atheist tyranny born (enforced, actually) on the tormented soil of a martyred Poland. The same place where the catastrophe called Shoah had occurred. Where the Nazis had tried to obliterate all Christian compassion and human solidarity. The secret remains are discovered and put to rest where they really belong, in a Jewish cemetery with derelict, shattered tombstones. Wanda has fulfilled her destiny, but she could not have done it alone, without Anna. And Anna could not have done it without becoming who she once was, namely Ida.</p>
<p>The year is 1962, we are in a courtroom where Wanda is the judge. On the wall, just above her head, the picture of the party boss Wladislaw Gomulka. The restaurant is filled with Adriano Celentano’s music and a lot of jazz (John Coltrane). Tavern scenes play a key role in Polish cinema. In the films of young Andrzej Wajda, the song <em>Czerwone maki na Monte Cassino</em> – among others – is heard playing in restaurants. For us Eastern Europeans, “Ashes and Diamonds” was our very own “Casablanca.”</p>
<p>Someone asked Pawlikowski: why doesn’t Anna choose to remain Ida? In Poland back then, Jewish identity was dubious, negated publicly and denied privately. Just five years later, after the Six-Day War, overt anti-Semitism broke out afresh, as party and state policy. Then came March 1968, the students’ revolt, the arrests, the new and last exodus.</p>
<p>Historian Jan Gross wrote about post-Auschwitz anti-Semitism. Moreover, Anna’s way back to the monastery is related to her double orphan status. She had lost her family, she is now losing it once more. In a world of utter uprooting, Anna chooses to leave all that is worldly behind. She turns to Jesus, she absconds so that she may everlastingly mourn those “killed at dawn” (Zbigniew Herbert). She will wash the statue of Christ for all eternity, hoping to learn from the Son of Man how it was possible for humanity to descend into the horror of the Holocaust. A toil of memory and a toil of mourning, “Ida” is, above all, a harrowing confession about the damaged lives (to use Theodor W. Adorno’s words) of those who inhabited what was once Central Europe.</p>
<p><strong>[This article was translated from Romanian by Monica Got.]</strong></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Nakba Denial&#8217;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 04:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's latest invention to undermine the Jewish State. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nakba.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226299 alignleft" alt="nakba" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/nakba-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>The radical Left in Israel has invented a new nonsense word to capture the essence of its agenda and ideology. The term is &#8220;Nakba Denial.&#8221; It is not accidental that it strongly resembles the term &#8220;Holocaust Denial,&#8221; for the radical anti-Israel leftists seek to create a clear moral parallel between the Holocaust and the &#8220;Nakba.&#8221; The term, Nakba, of course means catastrophe in Arabic and is tossed around by the radical Left to refer to the &#8220;catastrophe&#8221; of the creation of Israel and its victory over the genocidal Arab fascists who attempted to destroy Israel in 1948-9.</p>
<p>The Left insists that Nakba Denial proves that non-leftists are living in denial and are heartlessly indifferent to the &#8220;sufferings&#8221; of Arabs when they were on the losing side of their war of genocidal aggression against the Jews in 1948-49.</p>
<p>So having coined this new nonsense term and converted it into their banner, we thought we would suggest to the Non-Left a number of new terms that should be introduced into political discourse, terms to be used by those who are NOT seeking the extermination of Israel or a second Holocaust of Jews, to describe the real agenda of the enemies of Israel.</p>
<p>The first of these is Treason Denial. This is the term that must be applied to many of those who insist that the radical Left inside Israel is seeking human rights and peace. It is also the term that must be used to describe those who characterize picayune overseas-funded anti-Israel propaganda NGOs as &#8220;human rights groups&#8221; and &#8220;peace groups.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then we should also encourage the use of the term Leftwing Fascism Denial. It is the term that describes those who refuse to recognize that the radical Left in Israel (and elsewhere) is fundamentally opposed to freedom of speech for non-Leftists and completely opposed to democracy. It is also the term that should be applied to all those justifying the people who accuse all critics of the Radical Left of being &#8220;McCarthyists&#8221; and &#8220;fascists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The term Stalinism Denial should be applied to all those people who pretend that they are not aware of the fact that some of the most prominent members of the Tenured Left in Israel are lifelong hard-core Stalinists. A number of faculty members posting on the Israeli Social Sciences chat list are card-carrying members of the Israeli (Stalinist) Communist Party, but any attempts to mention this fact are censored by the administrators of that list.</p>
<p>But of course the most important term of all that must be introduced is Anti-Semitism Denial. This is the term needed to refer to all those who insist that members of the BDS (boycott, divestment, sanctions) movement and of similar anti-Israel initiatives and movements are motivated by anything other than gutter anti-Semitism. This is the correct term that needs to be applied to all those proclaiming that they hate and oppose Israel but not Jews as such. And, come to think of it, this is also the term needed to describe anyone bandying about the term &#8220;Nakba Denial.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Unraveling the History of the Israeli Navy, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2014 04:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the Israeli Navy transitioned from obscurity to a missile pioneer.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/US_Navy_080621-N-8273J-115_Capt._Bill_Moran_left_and_Israeli_Navy_Capt._Azarel_Ram_render_honors_during_an_honors_ceremony_for_Chief_of_Naval_Operations_CNO_Adm._Gary_Roughead.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225922" alt="080621-N-8273J-115" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/US_Navy_080621-N-8273J-115_Capt._Bill_Moran_left_and_Israeli_Navy_Capt._Azarel_Ram_render_honors_during_an_honors_ceremony_for_Chief_of_Naval_Operations_CNO_Adm._Gary_Roughead-450x301.jpg" width="315" height="211" /></a>In the beginning, when Britain ruled Palestine, mere glimpses emerge: of twenty-three Jewish frogmen and their British commander disappearing without a trace on a seaborne mission against Vichy Lebanon (1941);</span><sup style="line-height: 1.5em;">1</sup><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of Jewish soldiers learning naval skills at the British naval base in Haifa (1943); and of Jewish workers posing proudly next to two minesweepers they have constructed for the Royal Navy in Tel Aviv harbor (1944).</span></p>
<p>The historian, however, begins his labors where he will, and our story commences not in British Palestine but at Fleet Landing in distant Newport, Rhode Island.  It was here in April 1946 that a motorized liberty launch put in carrying crewmembers of the USS <i>Massey</i> and their guests—a group of Annapolis midshipmen who had come aboard for two weeks of drills.  On reaching land, some of the midshipmen and crewmembers bounded ashore only to be summoned back to the launch, where they received an informative lecture from Lieutenant Paul Shulman, the <i>Massey’s</i> engineering officer.  The topic was standard disembarkation from a naval vessel, and the take home message was this:  If the sailors wanted to do things according to regulations, then officers were to debark first, followed by midshipmen (since they were destined to be officers) and finally crewmembers.  While highly enlightening, the lecture seems not to have been appreciated by men anxious to begin their liberty—although they did do a commendable job of applying their new knowledge when Shulman finally let them leave the launch.<sup>2</sup></p>
<p>Gruffness was nothing new to Paul Shulman. His biographer, J. Wandres, relates that five years earlier, while an Annapolis midshipman himself, he had had a terse exchange with a revered houseguest at his parents’ home.  The visitor had remarked that he was delighted that Jewish boys like Shulman were studying to be naval officers since an independent Jewish state, once it came into being, would require men with such skills.  Shulman snapped back that he intended to be a career officer in the U.S. Navy and wished the houseguest luck with recruitment elsewhere.<sup>3</sup>  The houseguest, David Ben-Gurion, found Shulman’s sense of commitment impressive and did not forget him.</p>
<p>Career plans enunciated by 18-year-olds are apt to change.  And so it was in the case of young Shulman.  The Holocaust—and Britain’s subsequent refusal to allow the survivors of that catastrophe to immigrate to the Jewish National Home in Mandatory Palestine—made a deep impression on the maturing officer.  Obtaining his release from active naval duty in 1946, he helped front an organization that purchased decommissioned U.S. and Canadian naval vessels for use in smuggling European Jews to Palestine in the teeth of Britain’s draconian blockade.  (Unfortunately, the Royal Navy intercepted most of these vessels, sending the passengers back to Europe or to internment on Cyprus.)<sup>4</sup></p>
<p>In April 1948, the 25-year-old Shulman accepted an offer to serve as Chief-of-Staff for naval training in the nascent Israeli Navy.<sup>5</sup>  Weeks later—on May 15<sup>th</sup>—five Arab armies crossed the frontier of the newborn Jewish state intent on annihilating it.  Within the navy, at this time, there existed two competing operational philosophies.  The <i>Palyam</i>—a frogman-based commando unit—believed that commando operations could meet all of Israel’s naval requirements, including staging attacks, keeping sea-lanes open, blockading enemy ports and transporting marines.<sup>6</sup>  Shulman adhered to the rival view, outlined by former Royal Navy officer, Robert Stephenson Miller, that a traditional navy would better serve Israel’s needs.</p>
<p>In the event, both operational schools were vindicated.  At the outset of the war, four decommissioned naval vessels intercepted by Britain during the illegal immigration campaign were at anchor in Haifa harbor.  Just prior to declaring independence, Israel took possession of these vessels, carried out repairs and formed them into the so-called “Big Flotilla” in accordance with Miller’s conception.<sup>7</sup>  In the meantime, an Israeli agent had purchased six “explosive” speedboats.  Formerly belonging to the “Decima Mas” special operations unit of the Italian Navy,<sup>8</sup> these became the chief strike weapon of the <i>Palyam</i> (now know as the “Marine Sabotage Unit”<sup>9</sup> and soon to be renamed “<i>Flotilla 13</i>”—a name that finally stuck<sup>10</sup>).</p>
<p>The stage was now set for the most stunning naval feat of the war—a combined operation, involving both the Big Flotilla and the <i>Palyam</i>.  Because the explosive boats could not travel long distances on the open sea, they were being transported in the lifeboat position aboard one of the Big Flotilla ships when the latter, commanded by Shulman, cornered the Egyptian flagship, <i>Al Emir Farouq</i>, off the Gaza coastline on October 21, 1948.  A ceasefire had just gone into effect, but when an Egyptian shore battery opened fire on the Israeli flotilla, Shulman obtained permission to attack directly from Ben-Gurion.<sup>11</sup>  The explosive boats were lowered into the water and sped toward their quarry—each carrying 650 pounds of explosive in the prow.  At a distance of 100 yards, the <i>Palyam</i> pilots, commanded by Yochai Bin-Nun,<sup>12</sup> locked their rudders in position and jumped overboard.  On impact, the explosives separated from the boats, sunk and exploded below the water line.<sup>13</sup>  Struck twice, the Egyptian flagship broke in half, carrying 500 men to the bottom, while a third torpedo boat crippled an Egyptian minesweeper.<sup>14</sup>  Five days later, Ben-Gurion promoted Shulman to command of the Israeli Navy with the rank of <i>Aluf</i> (i.e., Admiral). According to J. Wandres, Shulman would muse afterwards that he must be the first U.S. Naval lieutenant to achieve the rank of admiral in just three years.<sup>15</sup></p>
<p>Notwithstanding the success of the <i>Al Emir Farouq</i> operation, Israel’s War of Independence was decided on land.  The navy had neither to clash with an enemy fleet nor to forestall an attempt at amphibious invasion, nor even to protect seaborne commerce.  (Marine insurance rates actually fell by half during the war.<sup>16</sup>)  Mere shore bombardment proved beyond the fleet’s means.  Because the U.S. and Canadian navies had removed the original artillery from the ships comprising the Big Flotilla, the Israeli Navy employed field guns (secured to the decks by rope) for such bombardment attempts with most unsatisfactory results.<sup>17</sup>  In sum, says one historian, the Israeli Navy emerged from the war as “a disorganized collection of unsuitable ships, operated by inadequately trained crews,” which was manifestly unable “to come up with a useful role for their service…”<sup>18</sup> To square the circle, Shlomo Shamir, a distinguished army officer with no naval experience, was chosen to succeed Shulman in command.<sup>19</sup></p>
<p>Although the equipment improved with the purchase of some bona fide naval destroyers in 1955, finding a useful mission remained problematic.  Given little guidance from the rest of the military, the navy began training for the purpose of protecting Israel’s sea lines of communication in the event of another war.  But the IDF (Israel Defense Force) did not intend to ask the navy to fulfill this purpose in wartime.  Because Israel relied heavily on citizen reserves, a prolonged conflict was deemed impracticable.  The widespread requisitioning of manpower, trucks, planes and ships at a moment’s notice upon the outbreak of war would bring the economy to a standstill—a condition that could not be long maintained.  Consequently, all planning was geared toward rapid blitz-style military actions—the outcome of which would be determined before open or closed sea lines could come into play.<sup>20</sup>  The main reason that the navy was able to requisition the aforementioned destroyers<sup>21</sup> at all seems to have been a belief on the part of the IDF brass that it would force Israel’s enemies to overspend on their own navies in order to keep up, thereby diverting the enemies’ resources from military equipment needed for the decisive battle on land.<sup>22</sup></p>
<p>The navy’s new equipment saw its first action during <i>Operation Kadesh</i> (i.e., the 1956 Sinai Campaign), wherein Israel joined Britain and France in a war against Egypt—the Israelis responding to Egyptian-sponsored terrorist raids and the blockade of Eilat (her southern port); the British and French retaliating for Egyptian President Gamel Abdel Nasser’s nationalization of the British- and French-owned Suez Canal.  At the outset, Israel’s Anglo-French allies insisted that the Israeli Navy avoid the main area of operations so as not to become entangled with the large allied naval assault force.  Israeli landing craft (obtained during the early 1950s) did play a role in the Gulf of Aqaba by transporting four light tanks to southern Sinai for the IDF assault on Sharm-el-Sheikh, but it appeared that the destroyers would be consigned to the sidelines for the duration.  In the event, they were spared this disappointment by the Egyptian Navy, which dispatched the frigate, <i>Ibrahim El Awal</i>, to bombard Haifa.  As the ship withdrew, the destroyers gave chase supported by torpedo boats and IAF fighter-bombers.  Crippled in the water by Israeli fire, the <i>Ibrahim El Awal</i> was boarded by Israeli sailors and towed back to Haifa, where it was repaired and re-commissioned as an Israeli naval vessel.<sup>23</sup></p>
<p>This positive outcome did not negate the fact that the Israeli Navy had been taken by surprise at its own base of operations (Haifa) or that the Egyptian ship had fired off 160 shells and begun sailing for home before the Israelis were able to react.  It was a humbling reminder that the principal duty of a small state’s navy is to guard the coastline.<sup>24</sup>  This message was driven home with finality the following year when the Soviet Union sold a new weapon—the missile boat—to Syria and Egypt.  Capable of traveling at 38 knots and firing the ship-to-ship <i>Styx</i> missile at targets up to 40 kilometers distant, the new threat rendered Israel’s destroyer-based navy all but obsolete.  Although the missile boats could not detect specific land targets owing to the cacophony of shoreline radar echoes, were they to open fire on Israel’s target-rich coastal cities, there was nothing the lumbering destroyers could do about it.<sup>25</sup></p>
<p>While such weapons systems were in development in Western nations including the United States, they were not yet operational or available for sale.<sup>26</sup>  Hence, a new conception for Israel’s Navy was necessary—tilting the balance away from the “traditional navy” Miller plan and towards small ships for coastal defense.  Chosen to lead the drive was former <i>Palyam</i> commander, Yochai Bin-Nun, who served as Commander of the Israeli Navy from 1960 to 1966.  Under his leadership, the old <i>Palyam</i> commando concept became so preponderant that the effects still reverberate.  Says one historian, “Nearly every navy in the world has commando forces at its disposal.  But … in no other navy in the world do commando operations have such a predominant status.”<sup>27</sup></p>
<p>Directly countering the Syrian and Egyptian missile boat threat was a prime challenge for the new navy.  With no similar weapons systems existing in the West, Israel began work on its own—the <i>Gabriel</i> missile.<sup>28</sup>  Based on a blueprint developed by MIT-trained IDF Major General Amos Horev in 1953 and brought to fruition by the Drexel-trained engineer, Ori Even-Tov, in 1965, the new missile was smaller and of shorter range than the Soviet <i>Styx</i>, but had a more advanced guidance system and was virtually invisible to targeted vessels since it traveled just above the ocean plane.<sup>29</sup>  To carry the <i>Gabriel</i>, Israel chose German-designed patrol craft manufactured in France.<sup>30</sup></p>
<p>At the outbreak of the 1967 Six Day War, these weapons were still in production.  Consequently, commando operations formed the crux of the navy’s contribution.  The results were discouraging.  The day of explosive boats had passed with the widespread adoption of radar.<sup>31</sup>  Israel’s naval commandos now based their operations on a lone operational submarine—the 1930s-vintage, former Royal Navy S-Class <i>Tanin</i>—and a flotilla of underwater, Bond-like “Swimmer Delivery Vehicles (SDVs),” whose prototypes—known by the very un-kosher term <i>maiale</i> or “pigs” (a name which stuck with them ever after despite protests from the IDF’s chief rabbi<sup>32</sup>)—had been developed in Mussolini’s Italy.  On the first night of the war, frogmen deployed by the <i>Tanin</i> attempted to raid Alexandria harbor only to find the base empty of military targets.  Worse still, on their return they missed the rendezvous and were later captured in an attempt to hide on land.  The <i>Tanin</i>, meanwhile, went 0 for 8 in torpedo shots against an Egyptian frigate and then got pinned down for three hours by depth charges launched in retaliation.<sup>33</sup></p>
<p>On the same night the SDVs attempted a raid on Port Said at the entryway to the Suez Canal.  They, too, found no targets in port, and only narrowly withdrew after shore batteries and patrol boats spotted them and opened fire.  Operations off the Syrian coast—one of them commanded by Yochai Bin-Nun, who had been summoned from retirement<sup>34</sup>—fared no better, and in the end, the navy’s lone success in the war came accidentally with the capture of Sharm-el-Sheikh on June 7.  The site, from which Egypt had blockaded the Straits of Tiran making war inevitable, was to have been taken by Israeli paratroopers with the navy in support.  Owing to catastrophic losses in the Sinai, however, the Egyptians had already fled.  Consequently, when Israeli naval forces arrived ahead of the paratroopers, they were able to come ashore unmolested to secure the vital position.<sup>35</sup></p>
<p>It remained for the navy to play a role in the one great blunder of the war:  In a dreadful mishap on June 8<sup>th</sup>, Israeli jets and torpedo boats attacked the American signals intelligence ship, <i>USS Liberty</i>, severely crippling the vessel and inflicting 205 casualties including 34 deaths.  The ship had been specifically identified as the <i>USS Liberty</i> earlier that morning after an Israeli <i>Noratlas</i> reconnaissance plane detected its hull number.<sup>36</sup>  But the vessel was then lost to follow up—in large measure because after the lapse of several hours, its position marker was taken off Naval Command’s situation map as being no longer accurate.  Worse still, word of the ship’s sighting was not passed on at the ensuing shift change.<sup>37</sup></p>
<p>In an unfortunate coincidence one hour later, a loud explosion at El Arish in Sinai (now held by Israeli forces) was mistaken for an Egyptian naval bombardment.  At the time, all other U.S. naval vessels had withdrawn from the coast, but the <i>Liberty</i> acting under separate orders from the National Security Agency and Joint Chiefs of Staff, had failed to receive its orders to do likewise.  Thus, it continued patrolling the coastal waters north of Sinai where Israeli torpedo boats, which had not been alerted to the possible presence of an American warship, now sighted it and mistook it for an Egyptian vessel.<sup>38</sup>  Acting in accordance with IDF Chief-of-Staff Yitzhak Rabin’s standing orders to sink all unidentified vessels in the war zone, the torpedo boats requested air force assistance.  After two initial flyovers failed to discern friendly markings,<sup>39</sup> the ship was attacked from the air.  Later, the Israeli torpedo boats arrived on the scene to inflict more damage.</p>
<p>The first clue that a tragic mistake had been made was the recovery, by one of the torpedo boats, of a life raft from the <i>Liberty </i>that possessed a U.S. Naval insignia.  Israel immediately offered apologies to the U.S. government and offered to pay compensation.  The episode has become the subject of conspiracy theories and cover-up charges, but ten subsequent U.S. government (and three Israeli) investigations have failed to expose any evidence or motive to support the notion that the attack was anything but a terrible and unintentional blunder.<sup>40</sup></p>
<p>Four months after the war, the navy suffered a humiliating setback.  During a routine patrol along the Sinai coastline on October 21<sup>st</sup>, the destroyer <i>Eilat</i>, Israel’s flagship, discerned a flash of light from Egypt’s Port Said at the outlet of the Suez Canal.  It was a Soviet-made <i>Styx</i> missile, and it found its mark in the <i>Eilat’s</i> stern.  Some 15 minutes later a second missile found its target.  The ship began to list.  For two hours, Israeli sailors attempted to salvage the destroyer, but when a third <i>Styx</i> struck the vessel’s magazine, her captain issued the order to abandon ship.  Within a quarter of an hour, the <i>Eilat</i> went to the bottom.  A fourth of the crew were killed and fully half wounded in this sea-to-sea missile strike—the first ever in naval history.<sup>41</sup></p>
<p>Three months later, disaster struck anew when the T-class submarine, <i>Dakar</i>, manned by a crew of 69, disappeared without a trace during its maiden voyage home after purchase in Great Britain.  Its fate remained a mystery for 30 years until its wreckage was discovered on the ocean bottom, 1.8 miles down, off the island of Crete in 1999.  The cause of the tragedy has never been determined.<sup>42</sup></p>
<p>Despite these devastating reverses, new vistas were opening for Israel’s navy.  Possession of the Sinai Peninsula with its extensive coastline promised a vast expansion in its scope of operations.  Hoping to capitalize on this fact, Israel’s new naval chief, Avraham “Cheetah” Botzer, sought to enhance the navy’s relevance by realigning its mission in accordance with the needs of the other branches.<sup>43</sup>  Henceforth, the navy was to regard itself not as a separate entity, but as an integral part of the IDF.  Reflective of the new outlook, it adopted IDF-style uniforms to replace its former navy attire and relocated “Naval Command” from Haifa to Tel Aviv where the rest of the IDF was headquartered.<sup>44</sup></p>
<p>In order to patrol Sinai’s Mediterranean and Red Sea coastlines effectively, the navy needed to press ahead with procurement of the French-built, German designed missile boats that were to carry the new <i>Gabriel</i> missile.  Known by the designation <i>SA’AR </i>(Hebrew for “Storm”<sup>45</sup>), the new boats were less than 1/10<sup>th</sup> the size of a destroyer.<sup>46</sup>  Hence, they were faster, more maneuverable and required far smaller crews (eliminating the risk of an <i>Eilat</i>-magnitude disaster should a single ship be lost).  At the same time, the compact new missile system allowed them to pack a stronger punch, all at a fraction of the cost of a new destroyer.<sup>47</sup></p>
<p>Unfortunately, there was a problem.  Just prior to the Six Day War, the French government had placed an embargo on military sales to Israel in order to appease Arab sentiment.  Two of the missile boats had already been delivered, and France allowed two more, which had been paid for while under construction, to sail for Israel after the war.  But when Israel used French-made helicopters in a raid on Beirut Airport in retaliation for Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israeli planes (1968), President de Gaulle ordered a halt to all further deliveries.  Alerted to the decision several days before the orders reached Cherbourg where the boats were under construction, Israel informed the port authorities that they would be running sea trials on two nearly complete boats on January 4, 1969.  Unaware of de Gaulle’s decision, the port approved.  Once out to sea, the boats simply kept going until they reached Haifa.<sup>48</sup></p>
<p>As these vessels, too, had been purchased in advance, the action didn’t exactly constitute theft, but de Gaulle angrily declared that five boats still being built at Cherbourg—for which contracts had been signed replete with a 30% down-payment<sup>49</sup>—were not to reach Israel.  Instead, they were resold to a Norwegian company involved in oil exploration off the coast of Alaska with Israel being reimbursed from the proceeds.  The boats set sail from Cherbourg on Christmas Eve 1969 in the teeth of 30-foot waves and 70-knot winds.  Two days later they were sighted off Gibraltar, where the British authorities effectively winked at them by signaling, “bon voyage” as they sailed past.<sup>50</sup>  On New Year’s Eve they arrived in Haifa.  Though headed by a well-known Norwegian shipping agent, the Norwegian “company,” was actually a front for Israeli buyers, and the crewmen were actually Israeli sailors participating in <i>Operation Noah</i> to recover Israel’s contractual property.<sup>51</sup></p>
<p>With the missile boats now on hand to fill the roles of attack and forward defense, the Israeli Navy rounded out its inventory upgrade by obtaining shallow-draught, U.S.-made <i>Dabur</i> (“hornet”) class patrol boats for coastal and rear defense and by incorporating landing craft (some of which were built domestically at Haifa’s “Israel Shipyards”) for amphibious operations carried out in cooperation with the IDF.<sup>52</sup> Equipped with its new arsenal, Israel’s Navy was poised to sail into a new era.</p>
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<p><b>Notes</b></p>
<p><sup>1 </sup>This was <i>Operation Boatswain</i>—an attempt to sabotage the oil refineries in Tripoli (Samuel M. Katz, <i>The Night Raiders: Israel’s Naval Commandos at War</i>.  New York:  Pocket Books, 1997, 27-28).</p>
<p><sup>2 </sup>J. Wandres, .  <i>The Ablest Navigator: Lieutenant Paul N. Shulman, USN, Israel’s Volunteer Admiral</i>.  Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 2010, 28.</p>
<p><sup>3 </sup>Wandres, 14.</p>
<p><sup>4 </sup>Wandres, 39.</p>
<p><sup>5 </sup>The course was taught in English since Hebrew lacked naval terminology (Wandres, 58).</p>
<p><sup>6 </sup>Mommsen, 22-23.</p>
<p><sup>7 </sup>Mommsen, 28, 30.</p>
<p><sup>8</sup> A former Italian naval officer (and ex-Fascist), Fiorenzo Capriotti, trained the <i>Palyam</i> in the boats’ operation. (Katz, 60-61).</p>
<p><sup>9</sup> Moshe Tzalel, <i>From Ice-Breaker to Missile Boat: The Evolution of Israel’s Naval Strategy</i>.  Contributions in Military Studies, Number 192. Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000, 10.<br />
<sup>10</sup> The name derived from the unit’s tradition of toasting its membership on the 13<sup>th</sup> of each month (Katz, 72-73).</p>
<p><sup>11</sup> Mommsen, 40.</p>
<p><sup>12</sup> After targeting the minesweeper and locking his rudder, Bin-Nun had trouble ejecting with his flotation device—finally exiting the boat under fire with only 40 meters to spare.  He received the Medal of Valor for his role in the raid (Katz, 68-69; Abraham Rabinovich, <i>The Boasts of Cherbourg</i>.  New York:  Seaver Books, 1988, 24-25).</p>
<p><sup>13</sup> Mommsen, 29.</p>
<p><sup>14</sup> Wandres, 1-3; Mommsen, 40; Tzalel, 90.  The reason the <i>Al Emir Farouq</i> had 500 men aboard was because it was transporting troops to the Gaza front (Katz, 69).</p>
<p><sup>15</sup> Wandres, 3.</p>
<p><sup>16</sup> Tzalel, 11.</p>
<p><sup>17</sup> Tzalel, 10.</p>
<p><sup>18</sup> Tzalel, 14.</p>
<p><sup>19</sup> After serving one year as naval Aluf, Shamir was given command of the air force.</p>
<p><sup>20</sup> Tzalel, 16-18; Mommsen, 44-46.</p>
<p><sup>21 </sup>Also obtained was a small flotilla of torpedo boats, several WWII-surplus infantry landing craft and three small wooden Italian boats, which were carried overland across the Negev to Eilat to serve as the Israeli Navy in the Gulf of Aqaba (Mommsen, 52).</p>
<p><sup>22</sup> Mommsen, 46.</p>
<p><sup>23</sup> Mommsen, 67-68; Moshe Dayan, <i>Diary of the Sinai Campaign</i>, New York: Harper &amp; Row, 1965, 110-14.  On November 3, the IAF accidentally attacked a British frigate in the Gulf of Aqaba, mistaking it for an Egyptian ship that had been sunk by the British two days earlier.  The Israelis lost a plane in the attack.  (Mommsen, 69; Tzalel, 27)</p>
<p><sup>24</sup> Tzalel, 2, 93.</p>
<p><sup>25</sup> Mommsen, 77-78.</p>
<p><sup>26</sup> Mommsen, 81.</p>
<p><sup>27</sup> Mommsen, 79.</p>
<p><sup>28</sup> The name was suggested by a Canadian engineer, whose firm codenamed its war materiel after angels and Catholic saints (Rabinovich, 48).</p>
<p><sup>29</sup> Mommsen, 80; Rabinovich 37.</p>
<p><sup>30</sup> There was domestic opposition in Germany to the sale of weapons to Israel, so the German manufacturer subcontracted production to a French shipyard.</p>
<p><sup>31</sup> Mommsen, 52-53.</p>
<p><sup>32</sup> Katz, 93.</p>
<p><sup>33</sup> Mommsen, 85, 105-07; see also Tzalel, 101.</p>
<p><sup>34</sup> Mommsen, 113.</p>
<p><sup>35</sup> Mommsen, 107-111; Tzalel, 100.</p>
<p><sup>36 </sup>Mommsen, 116; Tzalel, 144-45.</p>
<p><sup>37</sup> Tzalel, 145; Michael B. Oren, “The <i>USS Liberty</i>:  Case Closed.”  Originally published in <i>Azure</i>, Spring 5760 / 2000, No. 9.  Accessed <a href="http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/liberty1.html">here</a> November 19, 2013.</p>
<p><sup>38</sup> Oren, <i>op cit.</i></p>
<p><sup>39</sup> Admiral Thomas Moorer of the U.S.N., would later express astonishment that Israeli pilots could not identify ships accurately, but in a prior exercise, this had been shown to be a distinct shortcoming of Israeli fighter pilots.  (Tzalel, 147-48)</p>
<p><sup>40</sup> Mitchell Bard, <i>Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict</i>.  Chevy Chase:  The American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), 2002, 62-64; Oren, <i>op cit</i>.</p>
<p><sup>41</sup> Rabinovich, 5-9; Mommsen, 127-28; Tzalel, 108.</p>
<p><sup>42</sup> No distress call was ever received.  Examination of the wreckage, which was discovered by Nauticos—the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/The-mystery-of-the-Dakar">same company</a> that located the wreckage of the <i>Titanic</i>— showed that the periscope was extended (indicating that the submarine was near the surface when the problem occurred).  The hull, broken into two pieces, had imploded—evidence that the submarine broke apart under pressure (Mommsen, 144).</p>
<p><sup>43</sup> Tzalel, 43-44.</p>
<p><sup>44</sup> Mommsen, 152; Tzalel, 46-47.  Naval Command did not relocate until 1972.</p>
<p><sup>45</sup> Rabinovich, 65.</p>
<p><sup>46 </sup>The boats displaced 250 tons compared with 3,500 tons for the average destroyer (Rabinovich, 28).</p>
<p><sup>47</sup> Rabinovich, 28, 67.</p>
<p><sup>48</sup> Rabinovich, 13-20.</p>
<p><sup>49</sup> Rabinovich, 88.</p>
<p><sup>50</sup> Rabinovich, 151-52.</p>
<p><sup>51</sup> Mommsen, 137-42.  France had considered bombing the vessels after they were sighted off Gibraltar, but as this technically would have been an act of war, they dropped the idea.</p>
<p><sup>52</sup> Mommsen, 145-46.</p>
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		<title>Never Again, Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2014 04:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone had a good time at Spielberg’s Holocaust party.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ap-image-7ec3644151df412f85a1f64c46e3ff16.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225468" alt="ap-image-7ec3644151df412f85a1f64c46e3ff16" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ap-image-7ec3644151df412f85a1f64c46e3ff16.jpg" width="254" height="176" /></a>Steven Spielberg threw a Holocaust party and everyone, from Samuel L. Jackson to Kim Kardashian, was invited.</p>
<p>The gala evening for his Shoah Foundation began with a few jokes. Conan O&#8217;Brien&#8217;s, “I called all my Jewish writers into my office and asked them for some Shoah jokes” really killed. Bruce Springsteen played &#8220;Dancing in the Dark&#8221; whose lyrics &#8220;you can&#8217;t start a fire without a spark&#8221; couldn&#8217;t possibly have been more appropriate considering that the literal meaning of Holocaust is &#8220;Sacrifice by fire.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama slipped in after his DNC fundraiser with Barbara Streisand and Jeffrey Katzenberg to shake hands with a bunch of studio heads, Jewish and non-Jewish, and accept an award as Ambassador for Humanity. There was no explanation as to what an Ambassador for Humanity does. Maybe he reaches out to space aliens. Or tries to commune with fish.</p>
<p>Last summer, Obama had forced Israel to release the murderer of Isaac Rotenburg, an elderly Holocaust survivor who had escaped a death camp and reached Israel, only to be killed by a member of Palestinian Authority leader Abbas&#8217; Fatah party.</p>
<p>Flanked by Spielberg and Springsteen, Obama told an audience of notables such as Kim Kardashian, Tyler Perry, Tom Cruise, Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr. about the importance of Holocaust survivors and how he would like to help the Nigerian girls kidnapped by an Islamic terrorist group that his administration fought to keep off the terrorist list, but he just can&#8217;t.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to find the time to fight Nigerian Islamic terrorists when you&#8217;re so busy forcing Israel to free Islamic terrorists.</p>
<p>Cruise had delivered the introduction to the 2005 event at which Steven Spielberg appointed Bill Clinton as Ambassador for Humanity. Last year George Clooney, currently marrying a woman eager to defend every Muslim thug and terrorist, became Ambassador for Humanity. Before that it was the CEO of Walt Disney, the CEO of Comcast and Spielberg&#8217;s pal Jeffrey Katzenberg.</p>
<p>To be appointed Ambassador for Humanity you have to run a Hollywood studio or be a top Democrat. If Hillary Clinton isn&#8217;t named Ambassador for Humanity next year, it will only be because the world ended.</p>
<p>There was no word on whether Tony Kushner was in attendance. Kushner, Spielberg&#8217;s longtime collaborator, had called the rebirth of Israel a &#8220;mistake&#8221; and accused Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial and museum, of a &#8220;Zionist agenda&#8221;.</p>
<p>Spielberg had handed over the story of the PLO massacre of Israeli athletes to Kushner who turned it into an indictment of Israel and a defense of the terrorists. Munich was a work of historical revisionism justifying the murder of Jews and demonizing those Jews who fought back from a filmmaker who had built the “serious” phase of his career on exploiting the Holocaust.</p>
<p>Responding to the backlash, Spielberg called critics &#8220;right-wing fundamentalists&#8221; and said that, &#8220;people who are important to me&#8221; see the movie correctly, including, &#8220;Liberal American Jews.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now Spielberg is working on yet another Jewish themed project with Kushner.</p>
<p>The Israeli response to the Munich Massacre embodied a “Never Again” attitude to the Holocaust in the truest sense. It was this “Never Again” stance that Spielberg, like so many Jewish liberals, tried to tear down and replace with tolerance memorials and vulgar parties.</p>
<p>After the jokes and musical performances, the speeches by Spielberg and Obama implied that the Shoah Foundation was working to prevent a repetition of the Holocaust. If anything it&#8217;s the other way around. Spielberg and Obama have helped make another Holocaust possible.</p>
<p>Obama bears the blame for enabling Iran&#8217;s nuclear strategy, but Spielberg bears the guilt for celebrating him while he does it. Obama is married by family and ideology to two movements that have sought to exterminate the Jews. Spielberg&#8217;s party circuit echoes with the shallowness and liberal pieties that prevented American Jewish leaders from challenging FDR&#8217;s complicity in the Holocaust.</p>
<p>That battle was fought between Jewish studio heads who pledged their allegiance and silence to FDR and rebels like Ben Hecht. On one side was a cult worshiping a liberal leader and on the other were desperate advertisements such as &#8220;For Sale to Humanity 70,000 Jews Guaranteed Human Beings at $50 A Piece&#8221; and &#8220;Help Prevent 4,000,000 People from Becoming Ghosts&#8221;.</p>
<p>None of the Ambassadors for Humanity of the time were interested. Instead they denounced the advertisements, pageants and protests for being too shrill, too abrasive and too hostile to FDR.</p>
<p>The leaders of liberal American Jewry have not changed. They continue handing out awards to their friends and providing cover for anti-Semitic liberal politicians. They clink their glasses and toast each other while their brothers burn. And they do it while exploiting the Holocaust.</p>
<p>Never again means nothing to them. Their apathy and empty internationalist pieties about the peoples of the world are the very &#8220;Again&#8221; that Never Again was meant to avert.</p>
<p>Genocide is not a threat when it comes from obvious villains. Serial killers aren&#8217;t the monsters that everyone fears. They are the friendly next door neighbor with a basement full of bodies.</p>
<p>The Nazis have become omnipresent villains, but before the war they were the personable serial killers next door. The political and economic programs of Germany and Italy were influential in Washington D.C. Hitler’s columns ran in American newspapers and the excuses made for Nazism by the media sound familiar when contrasted with the modern excuses for Islamic terror.</p>
<p>The <i>New York Times</i> wrote that that the “men around Hitler hold diverse views.” The AP assured readers that “Nazi Drive on Jews Under Control Now: US Investigation Shows No Cause for Protest.”  INS, a forerunner of UPI, conveyed that the “Hitler regime was doing its best to curb further persecution” of Jews.</p>
<p>The State Department said that physical mistreatment of Jews &#8220;may be considered virtually terminated.&#8221;</p>
<p>Now the serial killer next door is a friendly Muslim immigrant. No one is allowed to suspect him of anything, profile him or spy on his mosque until the bomb goes off at a synagogue or until the plane flies into a New York skyscraper. He is the moderate PLO leader whose followers call for blood. He is the newly moderate President of Iran, smiling and shaking hands, while the technicians move the radioactive work of genocide forward.</p>
<p>If Never Again is to stand for anything, it must challenge the official reassurances that nothing is wrong even while the fire begins to burn. If the foundations, organizations and assorted rubber chicken party circuit stops that exploit the memory of the Holocaust are to justify their seven-figure fundraisers and six-figure salaries, when a mass movement threatens to kill all the Jews and then kills some Jews, they should at the very least pay attention, instead of making excuses for them and for their politicians.</p>
<p>Spielberg&#8217;s Shoah Foundation with its empty awards and vulgar gaiety, its Holocaust jokes and humanitarian trophies isn&#8217;t the cure, it&#8217;s the disease. It&#8217;s not what we ought to be supporting, it&#8217;s what we need to be fighting.</p>
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		<title>Checking My Privilege</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2014 04:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tal Fortgang]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have checked it -- and I apologize for nothing.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/feb9e01dbe785d17fe46e8cfd73f881e.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-225140" alt="feb9e01dbe785d17fe46e8cfd73f881e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/feb9e01dbe785d17fe46e8cfd73f881e.jpg" width="305" height="190" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://theprincetontory.com/main/checking-my-privilege-character-as-the-basis-of-privilege/">The Princeton Tory</a>.</em></p>
<p>There is a phrase that floats around college campuses, Princeton being no exception, that threatens to strike down opinions without regard for their merits, but rather solely on the basis of the person that voiced them. “Check your privilege,” the saying goes, and I have been reprimanded by it several times this year. The phrase, handed down by my moral superiors, descends recklessly, like an Obama-sanctioned drone, and aims laser-like at my pinkish-peach complexion, my maleness, and the nerve I displayed in offering an opinion rooted in a personal Weltanschauung. “Check your privilege,” they tell me in a command that teeters between an imposition to actually explore how I got where I am, and a reminder that I ought to feel personally apologetic because white males seem to pull most of the strings in the world.</p>
<p>I do not accuse those who “check” me and my perspective of overt racism, although the phrase, which assumes that simply because I belong to a certain ethnic group I should be judged collectively with it, toes that line. But I do condemn them for diminishing everything I have personally accomplished, all the hard work I have done in my life, and for ascribing all the fruit I reap not to the seeds I sow but to some invisible patron saint of white maleness who places it out for me before I even arrive. Furthermore, I condemn them for casting the equal protection clause, indeed the very idea of a meritocracy, as a myth, and for declaring that we are all governed by invisible forces (some would call them “stigmas” or “societal norms”), that our nation runs on racist and sexist conspiracies. Forget “you didn’t build that;” check your privilege and realize that nothing you have accomplished is real.</p>
<p>But they can’t be telling me that everything I’ve done with my life can be credited to the racist patriarchy holding my hand throughout my years of education and eventually guiding me into Princeton. Even that is too extreme. So to find out what they are saying, I decided to take their advice. I actually went and checked the origins of my privileged existence, to empathize with those whose underdog stories I can’t possibly comprehend. I have unearthed some examples of the privilege with which my family was blessed, and now I think I better understand those who assure me that skin color allowed my family and I to flourish today.</p>
<p>Perhaps it’s the privilege my grandfather and his brother had to flee their home as teenagers when the Nazis invaded Poland, leaving their mother and five younger siblings behind, running and running until they reached a Displaced Persons camp in Siberia, where they would do years of hard labor in the bitter cold until World War II ended. Maybe it was the privilege my grandfather had of taking on the local Rabbi’s work in that DP camp, telling him that the spiritual leader shouldn’t do hard work, but should save his energy to pass Jewish tradition along to those who might survive. Perhaps it was the privilege my great-grandmother and those five great-aunts and uncles I never knew had of being shot into an open grave outside their hometown. Maybe that’s my privilege.</p>
<p>Or maybe it’s the privilege my grandmother had of spending weeks upon weeks on a death march through Polish forests in subzero temperatures, one of just a handful to survive, only to be put in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp where she would have died but for the Allied forces who liberated her and helped her regain her health when her weight dwindled to barely 80 pounds.</p>
<p>Perhaps my privilege is that those two resilient individuals came to America with no money and no English, obtained citizenship, learned the language and met each other; that my grandfather started a humble wicker basket business with nothing but long hours, an idea, and an iron will—to paraphrase the man I never met: “I escaped Hitler. Some business troubles are going to ruin me?” Maybe my privilege is that they worked hard enough to raise four children, and to send them to Jewish day school and eventually City College.</p>
<p>Perhaps it was my privilege that my own father worked hard enough in City College to earn a spot at a top graduate school, got a good job, and for 25 years got up well before the crack of dawn, sacrificing precious time he wanted to spend with those he valued most—his wife and kids—to earn that living. I can say with certainty there was no legacy involved in any of his accomplishments. The wicker business just isn’t that influential.Now would you say that we’ve been really privileged? That our success has been gift-wrapped?</p>
<p>That’s the problem with calling someone out for the “privilege” which you assume has defined their narrative. You don’t know what their struggles have been, what they may have gone through to be where they are. Assuming they’ve benefitted from “power systems” or other conspiratorial imaginary institutions denies them credit for all they’ve done, things of which you may not even conceive. You don’t know whose father died defending your freedom. You don’t know whose mother escaped oppression. You don’t know who conquered their demons, or may still conquering them now.</p>
<p>The truth is, though, that I have been exceptionally privileged in my life, albeit not in the way any detractors would have it.<br />
It has been my distinct privilege that my grandparents came to America. First, that there was a place at all that would take them from the ruins of Europe. And second, that such a place was one where they could legally enter, learn the language, and acclimate to a society that ultimately allowed them to flourish.</p>
<p>It was their privilege to come to a country that grants equal protection under the law to its citizens, that cares not about religion or race, but the content of your character.</p>
<p>It was my privilege that my grandfather was blessed with resolve and an entrepreneurial spirit, and that he was lucky enough to come to the place where he could realize the dream of giving his children a better life than he had.</p>
<p>But far more important for me than his attributes was the legacy he sought to pass along, which forms the basis of what detractors call my “privilege,” but which actually should be praised as one of altruism and self-sacrifice. Those who came before us suffered for the sake of giving us a better life. When we similarly sacrifice for our descendents by caring for the planet, it’s called “environmentalism,” and is applauded. But when we do it by passing along property and a set of values, it’s called “privilege.” (And when we do it by raising questions about our crippling national debt, we’re called Tea Party radicals.) Such sacrifice of any form shouldn’t be scorned, but admired.</p>
<p>My exploration did yield some results. I recognize that it was my parents’ privilege and now my own that there is such a thing as an American dream which is attainable even for a penniless Jewish immigrant.</p>
<p>I am privileged that values like faith and education were passed along to me. My grandparents played an active role in my parents’ education, and some of my earliest memories included learning the Hebrew alphabet with my Dad. It’s been made clear to me that education begins in the home, and the importance of parents’ involvement with their kids’ education—from mathematics to morality—cannot be overstated. It’s not a matter of white or black, male or female or any other division which we seek, but a matter of the values we pass along, the legacy we leave, that perpetuates “privilege.” And there’s nothing wrong with that.</p>
<p>Behind every success, large or small, there is a story, and it isn’t always told by sex or skin color. My appearance certainly doesn’t tell the whole story, and to assume that it does and that I should apologize for it is insulting. While I haven’t done everything for myself up to this point in my life, someone sacrificed themselves so that I can lead a better life. But that is a legacy I am proud of.</p>
<p>I have checked my privilege. And I apologize for nothing.</p>
<p><em>Tal Fortgang is a freshman from New Rochelle, NY. He plans to major in either History or Politics. He can be reached at talf@princeton.edu.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2014 04:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Puder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does one truly recognize Jewish suffering when equating it with the Palestinian experience?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Abbas67.jpeg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224991" alt="Abbas67" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Abbas67-450x253.jpeg" width="315" height="177" /></a>Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) issued an unprecedented statement on the eve of the Holocaust Memorial Day (Yom Ha’Shoah). Abbas’ remarks were published by the official Palestinian news agency, WAFA, just hours before the start of Israel’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Commemoration.</p>
<p>In the English version of Abbas’ remarks, he called the Holocaust “the most heinous crime” of modern history and expressed his sympathy for the victims. The significance of his remarks rests in the fact that such an acknowledgement by an Arab leader about Jewish suffering during the Holocaust is rare. In an earlier statement in Arabic, Abbas used the term “<a href="http://www.arabnews.com/print/561986">ugliest crime</a>.”</p>
<p>Abbas recently met with Rabbi Marc Schneier.  In response to Rabbi Schneier’s request, Abbas announced that this year he will publicly <a href="http://matzav.com/rabbi-marc-schneier-meets-with-mahmoud-abbas">speak</a> out on behalf of Holocaust remembrance efforts around the world.</p>
<p>Abbas’ Holocaust remarks, albeit unprecedented, were clearly politically motivated. After breaking the negotiations with Israel and entering into unity talks with Hamas, (a terrorist organization whose declared goal is the destruction of the Jewish state) Abbas aimed to win over Israeli public opinion, particularly the Israeli leftist opposition, led by Yitzhak “Buji” Herzog, leader of the Labor party, who visited him last December in Ramallah.  Herzog accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being responsible for the rapprochement between Abbas and Hamas.</p>
<p>Abu Mazen’s reputation as a Holocaust denier required him to make a goodwill gesture. Mahmoud Abbas wrote his 1982 PhD dissertation, and later used it in his 1984 published book entitled <i>“The Other Side: </i><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/143752#.U1_kjKHD_3g"><i>The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism</i></a><i>.”</i> By all accounts, it amounted to Holocaust denial. In the book, Abbas argues that the number of Jews murdered by the Nazis had been exaggerated. He further claimed that those Jews who were killed by the Nazis were actually the victims of a Zionist-Nazi plot aimed to fuel vengeance against Jews and to expand their mass extermination. Today, his book dominates the PA educational curriculum and forms the essence of Holocaust studies taught throughout the PA schools.</p>
<p>Abu Mazen’s primary use of the occasion (Holocaust Remembrance Day) was to equate the Holocaust with the Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe), the exodus of Palestinians in 1948 and the resultant refugee problem, which is observed during Israel’s Independence Day. Abbas drew a parallel between the Holocaust and its ethnic discrimination and racism of the Nazi regime, and alleged Palestinian suffering today.</p>
<p>Such a comparison is not only false, it is disgraceful. The Holocaust is a story of genocide, the attempted liquidation of the entire Jewish people from the face of the earth, based on fanatical racism, and a result of two millennium of anti-Semitism. The Nakba, on the other hand, was not a story of genocide; on the contrary, it was the attempt by the Arabs in Palestine in cahoots with the Arab states to exterminate its Jewish people and the nascent Jewish state at its birth. Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Hitler’s ally during WWII, and the instigator and leader of the Arab Revolt in Palestine, sought to administer the “final solution” to the Jews of Palestine had the Arabs been successful in the 1948 war.</p>
<p>A professor of Nursing at Haifa University named Maayan Agmon, in a lecture to her students in March, 2014, actually compared the Nakba to the Holocaust, albeit, she later apologized for her remark and claimed to have been misunderstood. The University responded by issuing the following statement. “The Holocaust was a deliberate and systematic genocide the like of which has never been seen in history. Any comparison between the Holocaust and other events (like the Nakba) is distorted and <a href="http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=8471">baseless</a>.”</p>
<p>Anti-Israel groups such as Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP) are among those who compared the Nakba to the Holocaust.  In May, 2008, JVP protested the celebration of Israel’s Independence Day. JVP’s board members wrote a letter titled “We Will Not Be Celebrating” in which they compared the Palestinian Nakba to the Holocaust, stating “As Edward Said emphasized, what the Holocaust is to the Jews, the <a href="http://www.adl.org/israel-international/anti-israel-activity/c/backgrounder-jewish-voice.html">Nakba</a> is to the Palestinians.”</p>
<p>Some on the Israeli far-left, like the late Shulamit Aloni, while serving as Minister of Education in the Rabin Government, strongly criticized organized tours by Israeli high school students to Holocaust era concentration camps, alleging that it is turning Israeli youth into rabid nationalists and haters of gentiles. Yet, Israeli Jews have not become suicide bombers killing Germans or Arabs, nor denied them the right to exist.  Conversely, the Palestinians, in preserving their memory of displacement (largely due to exhortations by their leaders to leave their homes) sought revenge through terror against Jewish civilians. The Jews, instead of hate, dependency, and poverty, turned to construction, economic growth and prosperity. Jewish refugees were absorbed into Israel, housed, and made into proud citizens.</p>
<p>The commemoration of the Nakba fostered incitement against Jews and the justification of violence, terror, and revenge.  None of that is a part of the Jewish remembrance of the Holocaust. While it is true that Palestinians displaced in the 1948 war became refugees and suffered in the intervening years, it is also true that millions of other refugees were dislocated by war, ethnic and religious strife. The Jews of the Arab world, almost a million strong, also became refugees. Unlike the Palestinians however, they did not seek war, or the extermination of their Arab neighbors. If there is to be any comparison between Arab Palestinian suffering and that of Jews, it would be between the Arab Palestinian refugees and the Jewish refugees from the Arab world. There is a clear dichotomy. Jewish refugees were not abandoned in camps and made into victims.</p>
<p>Mahmoud Abbas set an Arab precedent in recognizing Jewish suffering during the Holocaust. However, his remarks were gratuitous. In stating that the Holocaust was “the “most heinous,” or “ugliest” crime of modern history, he also added that, “The <a href="http://www.arabnews.com/print/561986">Palestinian people</a>, who suffer from injustice, oppression, and are denied freedom and peace, are the first to demand to lift the injustice and racism that befell other subjected peoples subjected to such crimes.” The cynicism here is transparent. Palestinians were not thrown into cattle cars like animals and led to gas chambers to be burned, nor has Israel erected labor camps for Palestinian terrorists, let alone civilians.</p>
<p>The implication stemming from Abbas’ follow-up statement is that Nazis did to the Jews what Israel is now doing to the Palestinians. That comparison is shameful, particularly since a Palestinian icon &#8211; Haj Amin el-Husseini, was actively involved in the Holocaust, a fact that Abbas refrained from mentioning, or apologized for.</p>
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		<title>Trivializing the Shoah and Fabricating an African &#8216;Holocaust&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2014 04:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/907014-holocaust-survivor.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224410" alt="907014-holocaust-survivor" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/907014-holocaust-survivor-450x316.jpg" width="315" height="221" /></a>In recent decades a new trend of Holocaust trivialization has developed.  While not quite as obscene as Holocaust Deniers claiming that the Holocaust was all some sort of hoax, these fabricators are morally the next best thing.  They claim that the Holocaust of Jews by the Nazis may have been quite horrific but it pales in magnitude when compared with the &#8220;other Holocausts&#8221; of even greater dimensions.  And increasingly the &#8220;other Holocaust&#8221; to which they point is the &#8220;genocide&#8221; of Africans in the slave trade. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After all, argue the &#8220;other Holocaust&#8221; propagandists, in World War II there were &#8220;only&#8221; six million Jews murdered, but a far larger number of Africans were murdered as part and parcel of the slave trade.  Such pseudo-historic nonsense has been repeated so often that it is finding its way into mainstream textbooks and media.  Even Israeli leftist columnists are citing the &#8220;African Holocaust,&#8221; illustrated by one column I cited earlier this week by a radical hater of his own country.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The &#8220;African Holocaust Lobby&#8221; likes to toss out numbers purportedly estimating the population killed during the African slave trade, starting at around 10 million and often going as high as 60 million.  This allows the Holocaust trivializers to dismiss demands that the Jewish Shoah be commemorated, since it was &#8220;only one sixth&#8221; the magnitude of the &#8220;African genocide.&#8221;    </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The &#8220;60 million&#8221; number appears to have been originally invented by American Afrofascists, militant black racists and race hucksters.  The number however has been repeated so often that it is showing up in books and media.  Consider </span>&#8220;Critical Pedagogy and Cognition: An Introduction to a Postformal Educational Psychology,&#8221; <span style="line-height: 1.5em;">written by a psychologist</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">, </b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Curry Malott, Springer Publishers, 2011.  Malott is no historian and certainly no demographer, yet he speaks about 60 million Africans killed in the &#8220;slave trade genocide.&#8221;  A more widely cited book referring to the &#8220;60 million&#8221; is one by a pseudo-historian at the University of Hawaii, one David Stannard, Professor of American Studies,  in his book </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">American Holocaust</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (published 1992 by Oxford University Press).  He estimates a 75-80% mortality rate in slave trade transit to come up with his number.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So what are we to make of all this?  Let us begin by pointing out how absurd the claims about a 60 million victim African genocide are.  The number not only exceeds the total number of Africans enslaved (not just those sold in the American colonies and then the US) by a factor of six.  Indeed, the 60 million number exceeds the entire population of sub-Sahara Africa in the 18th century, when the slave trade was at its height.  In </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Concise Economic History of the World</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by R. Cameron, it is estimated that the entire population of the African continent in 1800 was about 90 million people, but a large portion of those were non-black people living in the Arab areas of North Africa.  That leaves the entire sub-Saharan population at less than the fictional 60 million &#8220;genocide victims&#8221; supposedly murdered in the slave trade.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So while it is simple poppycock to toss around numbers like 60 million as estimates of the human cost of the slave trade, just how many Africans were </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">really </i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">intentionally murdered as part of the slave trade?   The answer is &#8211; almost none.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Now nothing here is meant to diminish the suffering and human tragedy of slavery in the era of slave trading.   I have no desire to excuse or minimize the horrors of trafficking in and ownership of slaves, nor of the commodification of humans as chattel and property.    </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All I am demanding is the use of common sense.  Once a human has been turned into property, then all of the incentives and economic behavior associated with all forms of property ownership kick in.  The simple fact of the matter is that once an African was enslaved, and no doubt some violence was involved in the capture of those slaves in Africa, then that African became property, an asset, something of pecuniary value, something worth preserving.  The owners of that property, and this includes the slave traders and shippers, had enormous motivation to preserve and protect the value of that property!  Ironically, this is what saved the lives of those slaves.  A live slave could be worth a fortune, while a dead slave was worth nothing.  While slave owners hardly had reason to treat their slaves with respect and dignity, neither did they have any reason to see their slaves maimed or killed.  Such injury and death represented a tremendous capital loss!  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Slave ship owners had as much motive to preserve intact their cargoes of human property as they would for any other cargo.  No ship owner would intentionally allow cargoes of gold, silver, whale oil, molasses, or tobacco to be damaged or harmed, and the same selfish property preservation motivation operated for slaves.  Once purchased in slave auctions, the slave represented a capital investment, one whose loss would impose financial losses on its owners. </span></p>
<p>This is not to say that no slaves at all died during the transit from Africa to the Americas.  Cross-oceanic voyages were dangerous during the era of the slave trade, and deaths during those voyages were a clear and present danger for all, and not just the slaves.  Free persons immigrating to the Americans from Europe were also at risk during the voyages.  If anything, ship owners had <i>more</i> motivation to protect the bodies and health of the slave cargo than they did for simple ticket-holding passengers.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The life of a slave was one of misery and suffering.  But once in slavery in the Americas, the property value of the slave continued to protect him from death and serious injury.   In the books by Thomas Sowell, it is described how plantation owners and other owners of slaves would employ Irish day laborers to do the really dangerous tasks, preferring not to risk their &#8220;property&#8221; in the form of African slaves. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">From the perspective of the 21th century, none of this takes away any of our sense of horror at the sufferings of slaves during the era of the slave trade.   Some Africans were no doubt murdered in the process of capturing slaves, controlling slaves, and others died as a result of the hazards of oceanic shipment.  Medical knowledge and technology were of the most primitive form, and on-ship conditions were quite miserable.  Death was common for all aboard ships, and I have seen estimates that in some of the more famous exploration trips, over a third of the crews died of disease and starvation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But genocide?  An African &#8220;Holocaust&#8221;?   There was no such thing.    </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The fabricators of the fictional &#8220;African slave-trade Holocaust&#8221; may be driven by an urge to exaggerate the sufferings of the slave era in order to make a moral or political point.   A bit like the myriad forms of &#8220;advocacy statistics&#8221; that plague the modern world regarding so many other &#8220;causes&#8221; and issues.  But the truly malignant effect of the fabricators is to serve to trivialize the only real Holocaust.</span></p>
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		<title>Holocaust Heroine Motivated by Islam?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2014 04:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Deborah Weiss]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Noor-Inayat-Khan.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-221408 alignleft" alt="Noor Inayat Khan" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Noor-Inayat-Khan-450x321.jpg" width="315" height="225" /></a>In a recently released film titled “Noor Inayat Khan:  Enemy of the Reich,” the heroine was touted as a devout Muslim, motivated by her Islamic faith to save Jews during the Holocaust.  But the truth is that Khan was not a practicing Muslim at all.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 1940, Khan joined the WAAF (Women’s Auxiliary Air Force) and became a wireless operator.  Subsequently, she attended bomber training school and eventually became Assistant Section Officer.  Finally, she was recruited to join the SOE (Special Operations Executive) in France, where she was posted to the Air Ministry and adopted the code name “Nora Baker.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During the course of her service as a wireless operator in Nazi-occupied France, Khan assumed numerous identities, among which were “Madeline” and “Jeanne-Marie Renier.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The work of wireless operators was critical in assisting the Allied cause.  The possibility of detection and capture by the SS was always lurking in the background.  Khan knew the dangers prior to accepting her mission, but went forward anyway. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">After all the other operators in her unit were arrested by the SD (Sicherheistdienst; i.e. the Nazi intelligence agency), Khan was offered, but declined an opportunity to return to Britain.  As the sole remaining French operator, she was sought after by the SD which tried to track her down in common everyday places like subway stations.  However, she moved from place to place under various assumed identities, thus avoiding arrest and furthering the cause of freedom.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Eventually, someone who knew Khan betrayed her and turned her in to the SD.  She was arrested by the Gestapo on September 13, 1943 and was interrogated for over a month.  She refused to provide the SS with any information.  Unfortunately, she had kept notebooks with records regarding her wireless messages to Britain.  The SD eventually seized the notebooks and continued sending messages to Britain under Khan’s code name.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On November 25, 1943, Khan made what constituted a second attempt to escape SD headquarters.  She was captured nearby.  The SD requested that she sign a declaration of refusal to make future escape attempts.  She declined and was therefore classified as “highly dangerous.” She was sent to Germany on November 27, 1943 where she was imprisoned at Pforzheim.  She was labelled as a “Nacht und Nebel” (Night and Fog), a designation for those who would disappear into the night. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For ten months she sat in solitary confinement, with her hands and feet shackled.  A wire ran between her hands and feet, tying them together so she was curled up, unable to feed herself, clean herself or properly lie down.  Other prisoners were able to hear her cries at night, but in the presence of Nazis she remained stoic and refused to cooperate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On September 11, 1944, Khan and three other SOE agents were taken to Dachau concentration camp. There is some contention about whether or not Khan was singled out for overnight torture or beating.  Two days later, the SOE agents were fatally shot in the back of their heads and subsequently cremated.  Khan’s last recorded word was “[L]iberté!&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">She was 30 years old when she was executed at the hands of the Nazis.  She was posthumously given numerous awards including the British George Cross and the French Croix de Guerre.  She was commemorated on a British stamp themed “remarkable lives.” And, on November 8, 2012, a bust of Khan was unveiled in London’s Garden Square.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So what motivated Khan’s acts of bravery and courage? </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to Unity Production Foundation’s (UPF) Alex Kronemer, a Muslim convert and the co-founder of UPF, Khan’s courage, integrity, and zeal in her quest against Nazism was motivated by her Muslim faith.  Though “Enemy of the Reich” does not expressly make this assertion, the film, which consists primarily of interviews, is replete with this insinuation.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Additionally, in his opening statements at the film’s Washington, DC screening in February, 2014 at the Warner Theatre, Kronemer asks why Khan would risk her life and what would compel her to put herself in potential danger to save the Jews.  His answer was her faith.  “What compelled her was her great sense of humanity for other people, religions, other races, and Nazi ideology was opposed to her beliefs.”   Kronemer explained that in recent years, some stories had come to his attention of Muslims hiding Jews to save them during the Holocaust.  He wondered why he had never heard of any stories about the role of Muslims in World War II.  He claims that he produced this film, as well as other pro-Muslim and pro-Islam films to “tell the full story” of Muslims.  Enemy of the Reich is the tenth such film.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Many interviewed in the film asserted that Khan’s motivation was “idealism” and “her ideology.”  She believed that all life has value and she had a tolerant view of all religions.  Her nephew, who is Sufi, assumed “it must have been her faith.  Only that faith could have carried her….. Her message is that the human soul is of Divine Source, all humans must be free, and every human is sacrosanct.”  Indeed, prior to becoming a British spy, Khan built a career writing children’s stories, which taught that all conflict should be resolved through love and non-violence.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">However, there are numerous flaws with the film’s assertions.  While it is true that Khan appeared to be motivated by her belief system, as many people are, it is inaccurate to assume that only people of “faith” have virtue and courage.  And, research reveals that Khan was not a devout Muslim.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Khan grew up in a home with an Indian Sufi father and an American mother.  Her father’s brand of Islam was a far cry from traditional or authoritative Islam and indeed, it would be considered heretical by traditional Islamic standards. </span></p>
<p>Contrary to the film’s proclamation that “Sufis are first and foremost Muslim,” Khan’s father’s version of Sufism expressly disavows belonging to any particular religion including Islam.  He belonged to the Christi Order within the mystic tradition, which emphasizes love, tolerance and openness.  It is known for welcoming seekers of all faiths, and confines itself to no particular doctrine or ideology.  It emphasizes the universality of all faith traditions, not favoring one over another.  It seeks to spread the message of unity and the divinity in all living beings.  Her father believed that there is really only one universal religion and there are many paths to God and he was primarily concerned with inner soul.  So even if Khan were “religious” in the same sense that her father was, it would be inaccurate to conclude that her faith was “Islamic” in any true meaning of the word.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The producer of the film could only conclude that Khan was Muslim by assuming that all Sufis are Muslim and then extrapolating that Khan’s father was Sufi and thus Muslim, so Khan must have been also.  However, according to Sharabani Basu, author of Khan’s biography titled “Spy Princess: the life of Noor Inayat Khan,” Khan was not a “practicing Muslim” despite the fact that she was influenced by her liberal Sufi upbringing. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Additionally, the film conspicuously omits the fact that Khan was engaged to a Jew prior to the outbreak of World War II.  It’s hard to believe that this was an accidental oversight on the part of UPF, rather than the intentional omission of information that would tip off the audience to the fact that Khan could not have been the devout Muslim that UPF claims she was.  Islamic doctrine dictates that while Muslim men are permitted to marry Jewish or Christian women, Muslim women are confined to marry Muslim men only.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That Khan’s marriage to her fiancé never came to fruition is of no consequence.  What is important is the fact that Khan, while certainly motivated by a loving, virtuous ideology, was not motivated by Islam as UPF producers would have you think.  The film holds itself out as honoring this courageous Holocaust heroine.  But on some level, it stains her memory by attributing to her false motives, in a narrative that constitutes nothing more than an Islamist propaganda lie.</span></p>
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		<title>A Warning From 1968</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering Eric Hoffer's profound words about Israel and the Jews.]]></description>
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<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Remembering Eric Hoffer&#8217;s prophetic words from 1968:</em></p>
<p>The Jews are a peculiar people; things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman.</p>
<p>Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese and no one says a word about refugees. But in the case of Israel , the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single one.</p>
<p>Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace.</p>
<p>Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world. Other nations, when they are defeated, survive and recover but should Israel be defeated it would be destroyed. Had Nasser triumphed last June [1967], he would have wiped Israel off the map, and no one would have lifted a finger to save the Jews.</p>
<p>No commitment to the Jews by any government, including our own, is worth the paper it is written on. There is a cry of outrage all over the world when people die in Vietnam or when two Blacks are executed in Rhodesia. But, when Hitler slaughtered Jews no one remonstrated with him.</p>
<p>The Swedes, who are ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we do in Vietnam, did not let out a peep when Hitler was slaughtering Jews. They sent Hitler choice iron ore, and ball bearings, and serviced his troop trains to Norway.</p>
<p>The Jews are alone in the world. If Israel survives, it will be solely because of Jewish efforts. And Jewish resources. Yet at this moment, Israel is our only reliable and unconditional ally. We can rely more on Israel than Israel can rely on us. And one has only to imagine what would have happened last summer [1967] had the Arabs and their Russian backers won the war, to realize how vital the survival of Israel is to America and the West in general.</p>
<p>I have a premonition that will not leave me; as it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish, the Holocaust will be upon us all.</p>
<p><i>By Eric Hoffer, 1968.</i></p>
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		<title>Abbas the &#8216;Moderate&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 05:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite his polished appearance, the Palestinian leader’s words betray his true intentions.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/abbas-resistance-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218206" alt="abbas-resistance-2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/abbas-resistance-2.jpg" width="300" height="237" /></a>Holocaust denial is not the sort of thing one normally associates with moderation. It is associated with unbridled hatred, ignorance, irrationality and xenophobia. Deniers usually fall into two groupings. There are the crass boors who spew forth whatever refuse enters their vapid minds without even the slightest attempt to provide empirical data to substantiate their odious views. And then there are the more sophisticated types whose denials are generally accompanied by fabricated evidence and couched in terms of scholarly pursuit and historical review.</span></p>
<p>The <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mLKzzW-t4g&amp;feature=c4-overview-vl&amp;list=PLD94E630BF1C97436">rantings</a> of “Dr.” Issam Sissalem, a Palestinian academic who claimed on Palestinian Authority TV that Auschwitz and other death camps merely served as “disinfection” facilities, provides a clear example of the former grouping. The unelected, autocratic “president” of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas provides a good example of the latter.</p>
<p>In the 1980s Abbas <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335">authored</a> a Ph.D. thesis in which he referred to the systematic murder of 6 million Jews as a “fantastic lie” and claimed that the actual death toll was barely a sixth of that amount and that in any event, their murder was provoked by the “Zionist movement.” He further alleged that gas chambers were never utilized to murder Jews.</p>
<p>So there you have it. The leader of the Palestinian Authority shares the same beliefs and values as the likes of former Islamic Republic president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and former grand wizard, David Duke. This is the man that Israel is expected to trust with signed treaties. This is the man that Israel is expected to cede its ancestral land to. And this is the man entrusted by John Kerry to end Palestinian incitement.</p>
<p>It is beyond astonishing that neither the EU’s Catherine Ashton nor John Kerry have addressed the disconcerting issue of Holocaust denial with Abbas. The matter is even more pressing when one considers that Holocaust denial is pervasive among Palestinians due to systematic efforts by Palestinian Authority officials (often facilitated by Western financing) to promote incitement and hatred. Even more disturbing is the fact that Abbas, who is hailed as a “moderate” by Ashton and Kerry, continues to spew forth repugnant and highly revisionist views that are incongruent with peace-making and coexistence.</p>
<p>In a telling <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/opinion/17abbas.html?ref=opinion&amp;_r=2&amp;">op-ed piece</a> for the New York Times, Abbas bemoans the loss of his purported homeland but forgets to mention the inconvenient truth that it was the Palestinian Arabs who rejected partition and who fired the first shots of aggression. He also reaches the zenith of mendacity when he claims that “Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened.”</p>
<p>The vast majority of Palestinian Arabs left on their own volition with the belief that they would return once Arab forces were triumphant. That of course never materialized because despite all odds, it was the Jews who were the victors. It is also noteworthy that among the first of the Palestinians to flee were the leaders and more affluent, who had the means to do so. This flight further demoralized the Palestinian Arab peasantry and middleclass and adversely affected the Palestinian economy, leading to further flight by the masses.</p>
<p>Abbas’ stubborn adherence to a false and misleading narrative and continued refusal to accept responsibility and to acknowledge even the slightest culpability for the current Palestinian predicament is indicative of one who will never relinquish his claims to the whole. Abbas is intent on using the peace process as a tactic with the overall strategic goal of eliminating Israel. Should Israel ever decide to succumb to John Kerry’s pressure and relinquish Judea &amp; Samaria, Abbas would be one step closer in attaining this pernicious objective.</p>
<p>Abbas has in the past expressed <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjEO_eoX594">deep admiration</a> for Haj Amin el-Husseini, an evil and deeply anti-Semitic character whose <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbP2EyF8d34">past Nazi connections</a> are well documented. He has <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/palestinian-authority-gives-freed-prisoners-50000-each/">provided cash</a> and cushy government jobs to murderers convicted of the most barbaric crimes, courtesy of the American and EU taxpayer. But most telling of all was an incident which occurred last year and represents one of the clearest examples yet of why Abbas cannot be trusted.</p>
<p>Abbas was present and seated in the front row during a sermon given by PA Religious Endowments Minister, Mahmoud al-Habbash. Habbash <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=Q86jQX6GJKA">compared</a> the current negotiations with Israel to a medieval pact signed between Muhammad and his rivals, the Quraysh, which Muhammad subsequently violated once achieving military parity. Abbas offered no rebuke or condemnation of his minister. On the contrary, the views expressed by Habbash are consistent with those of his boss.</p>
<p>John Kerry and many of his allies on the hard left are placing enormous pressures on Israel to engage in mammoth concessions and vacate strategic areas vital to Israel’s security. Moreover, they are asking Israel to surrender land to those sworn to her destruction. Abbas has proven to be a duplicitous, forked-tongue leader, slightly more polished than his predecessor but sharing the same ideology and genocidal aims. The cause of peace is noble and just but should not come at the cost of national suicide.</p>
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		<title>Iran Foreign Minister Denies Opposition to Second Holocaust</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2014 16:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a problem that can only be solved with more diplomacy... ]]></description>
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<p>This is a problem that<a href="http://freebeacon.com/iran-foreign-minister-denies-he-is-opposed-to-second-holocaust/"> can only be solved with more diplomacy</a>&#8230; until Iran finally goes nuclear and begins trying to carry out mass murder on a whole other scale.</p>
<blockquote><p>Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif vehemently denied on Monday reports that he is opposed to a second Holocaust of Jewish people, according to Iranian media reports.</p>
<p>Some media outlets reported over the weekend that Zarif had stated, the “Holocaust should not happen again” and that “the extermination of Jews by the Nazi regime was tragically cruel and should not happen again.”</p>
<p>However, Zarif maintains that this is not the case, according to top Iranian lawmakers who have spoken to the foreign minister about his remarks.</p>
<p>“In a phone conversation that I had with Mr. Zarif, he completely rejected the remarks attributed to him and declared that the Islamic Republic’s stance about the (Zionist) regime is what has been repeatedly announced by the country’s diplomacy apparatus and this stance has not changed,” Fars quoted Qashqavi as saying.</p></blockquote>
<p>Well that&#8217;s good. Especially now that Obama is opening up the money flow to Iran while allowing them to go nuclear.</p>
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		<title>Abetting the Holocaust: Arthur Hays Sulzberger and the New York Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2013 05:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[David Horowitz]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abetting the coming Holocaust: the Times merely repeats itself.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sulzberger.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-212717" alt="sulzberger" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/sulzberger.jpg" width="240" height="240" /></a>As the <em>New York Times</em> enables the anti-Jewish axis created by Islamic Nazis in the Middle East who are preparing a new Holocaust of the Jews, it is important to remember that this is nothing new and has happened before. Take ten minutes to view this talk, posted below, by Anna Blech: &#8220;Downplaying the Holocaust: Arthur Hays Sulzberger and the New York Times.&#8221;</p>
<p>Anna Blech won first prize at the New York City History Day competition for her research paper, &#8220;Downplaying the Holocaust: Arthur Hays Sulzberger and The New York Times.&#8221; For this paper, she also was awarded The Eleanor Light Prize from the Hunter College High School Social Studies Department and membership in the Society of Student Historians. Anna&#8217;s paper on anti-slavery sentiment in pre-Civil War children&#8217;s literature was published in <em>The Concord Review</em>. Anna was a finalist at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, where she won third place in microbiology for her project, &#8220;Reinventing Antibiotics.&#8221; She has received national and regional Scholastic Writing awards, mostly for her one-act musical comedies, and she is an active member of the Hunter theater community.</p>
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		<title>Iran Denies Iranian Leader&#8217;s Holocaust Non-Denial</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>I&#8217;m not sure what this technically is. Holocaust Denial Denial or maybe Holocaust Denial Denial Denial. But since this actually appears to be a case of the liberal media manipulating a translation,<a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/09/25/iran-state-media-says-cnn-fabricated-translation-of-rouhani-holocaust-remarks/"> it&#8217;s actually a lot more meta than that</a>.</p>
<p>The media has a crush on Iran&#8217;s new leader and a raging case of hatred for Israel so it&#8217;s naturally trying to skew media coverage that way.</p>
<blockquote><p>It was reported that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had delivered what his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, never could — recognition that the Holocaust took place — but according to the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency significant parts of the report are inaccurate.</p>
<p>On CNN.com’s home page Wednesday morning, the main headline asserted that Rouhani, in an interview with network reporter Christiane Amanpour, said that the Holocaust happened: “Iran’s New President: Yes, the Holocaust Happened.”</p>
<p>Fars however, categorically denied the claim that Rouhani addressed the Holocaust by name, saying the network “fabricated” the story, adding the word ‘Holocaust,’ among other conciliatory phrases, to its translation.</p></blockquote>
<p>In this case I&#8217;m going to believe Iran&#8217;s official propaganda network over our own unofficial propaganda network, which has played fast and loose with the translations of Iranian leaders before.</p>
<p>Furthermore I recall an Amanpour broadcast from Israel in which she falsely claimed that a Muslim cursing Israel in Arabic was actually calling for peace.</p>
<p>The Fars translation is far more plausible. It&#8217;s a generic, &#8220;Yes the Nazis probably killed some Jews, but that&#8217;s not really our department and I won&#8217;t actually state that the Holocaust happened&#8221; statement that you would expect.</p>
<p>Ahmadinejad&#8217;s job was to stomp around and act mean. Rouhani&#8217;s job is to show a more pleasant face. Both men are just there at the whim of Iran&#8217;s Supreme Leader and their views don&#8217;t matter all that much.</p>
<p>The problem with Iran is not that it denies the Holocaust. That sort of thing is routine in a region and religion where most people don&#8217;t believe 9/11 happened. The problem is that it wants to create another one.</p>
<p>The Iranian Amanpour is rather clearly biased on any Middle Eastern issues. But that makes her not too different from most of her profession. Their goal is to sell Rouhani as a reasonable leader we can do business with while forgetting that they repeatedly insisted that Ahmadinejad had no real power when he was holding that same office.</p>
<p>So they&#8217;re shameless liars. And this is just another lie in their great wall of lies.</p>
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