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		<title>The New York Times Hits Rock Bottom with Max Blumenthal</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247115" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/max-blumenthal.jpg" alt="max-blumenthal" width="255" height="255" /></a>The New York Times, the paper that earned the dubious distinction of being the recipient of the “<a href="http://honestreporting.com/a-year-of-biased-reporting-why-the-new-york-times-won/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Most Dishonest Reporting</span></a>” award for 2013 is at it again. This time, The Gray Lady <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2014/12/07/if-israel-turns-right-where-will-it-end-up-12/a-rightward-shift-in-israel-would-reflect-whats-always-been-true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> an op-ed piece by the notorious anti-Semite Max Blumenthal, providing this provocateur with a mainstream platform to express his odious views.</p>
<p>True to form, Blumenthal, the darling of radical extremists, conflates, distorts and simply makes things up. But I’m not here to analyze Blumenthal’s arrant nonsense. <a href="http://tabletmag.com/scroll/187518/rolling-stone-apologized-will-the-times"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Others</span></a> have already done a <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/08/new-york-times-attempts-to-resuscitate-reputation-of-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">good job</span></a> of that. What I wish to highlight is the depths to which the New York Times has sunk.</p>
<p>To be sure, the New York Times has in the past given a broad range of anti-Israel types a platform to express their opinions in the op-ed section, far more than those expressing positive views of Israel. But Blumenthal’s pernicious views veer uncomfortably close to old fashion anti-Semitism and this time, the New York Times exceeded the bounds of decency and fair play and has partnered with those who openly express Jew-hatred.</p>
<p>An analysis of Blumenthal’s history reveals the following disturbing facts;</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/06/german-opposition-party-cancels-event-featuring-american-anti-semite-max-blumenthal/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">disinvited</span></a> from a scheduled speaking engagement by the German “Die Linke” (The Left) party due to his <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/ari-lieberman/max-blumenthal-rejected-by-german-radicals/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">anti-Semitic</span></a> (not to mention anti-Israel) views.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s antics earned him a <a href="http://www.dw.de/israel-critics-visit-to-parliament-turns-ugly-for-gysi/a-18059221"><span style="color: #0433ff;">lifetime ban</span></a> from the German parliament.</p>
<p>•The Simon Wiesenthal Center has labeled Blumenthal an anti-Semite and his comments earned him a spot in the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “<a href="http://www.wiesenthal.com/atf/cf/%7B54d385e6-f1b9-4e9f-8e94-890c3e6dd277%7D/TOP-TEN-2013.PDF"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Top 10</span></a>” list of anti-Semitic slurs.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s “works” have been cited and praised by radical extremists and <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazis</span></a>  and have been <a href="http://www.brandeiscenter.com/images/uploads/articleuploads/marquardt-Bigman_research_paper.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">featured</span></a> on the anti-Semitic blog, <i>Electronic Intifada</i> as well as the neo-Nazi Internet forum, <i>Stormfront</i>.</p>
<p>•Blumenthal’s comments have been cited with approval by <a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2014/04/antisemite-max-blumenthal-incites-murder-of-three"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Frazier Glenn Miller</span></a>, the KKK murderer who massacred three people at two separate Jewish community centers in Overland Park, Kansas.</p>
<p>•The Left-leaning <i>Forward</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as so anti-Israel it, “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">makes even anti-Zionists blush</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Prominent liberal Eric Alterman of <i>The Nation</i> referred to Blumenthal’s book as a screed that belongs in the “<a href="http://forward.com/articles/186557/max-blumenthals-goliath-is-anti-israel-book-that-m/?p=all"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Hamas Book-of-the-Month Club</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal compared Israel with ISIS (the group that lops people’s heads off for eating dinner with the wrong fork) calling the Jewish state “JSIL” or the “Jewish State of Israel and the Levant.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal called Israelis “Judeo-Nazis.” (I wonder if he could say that to a Holocaust survivor and walk away with his head intact.)</p>
<p>•Writing for the Hezbollah paper <i>Al-Akhbar</i>, Blumenthal stated that American law enforcement is “<a href="http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/occupation-%E2%80%9Coccupy%E2%80%9D-israelification-american-domestic-security"><span style="color: #0433ff;">schooled in Israeli killing methods</span></a>.”</p>
<p>•Blumenthal was caught red-handed <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2011/12/did-israel-train-american-interrogators-in-torture-updated/249630/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conjuring up fictitious quotes</span></a> maligning Israel.</p>
<p>And that’s Max Blumenthal in a nutshell. One wonders whether Hillary Clinton’s senior advisor Sidney Blumenthal, Max’s father and <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/clinton-adviser-sid-blumenthals-new-cause-his-sons-anti-isra"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passionate defender</span></a> had anything to with the Times’ decision to host the notorious anti-Semite. Either way, the Times’ demonstrates that it has tossed journalistic standards and any semblance of decency out the window.</p>
<p>So what’s next for the New York Times? I hear former KKK “Grand Wizard” David Duke is in town. Perhaps the Times can enlighten its readership and provide the former Klan leader a forum on its op-ed pages to explain how the diabolical Zionists were responsible for the Holocaust or alternatively, how the Zionists propagated the Holocaust hoax to inflict suffering on the poor Palestinians. That should make for interesting reading.</p>
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		<title>The Ivory Tower’s Nazification of Israel</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245328" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52-450x299.jpg" alt="israeli-flag-turned-swastika-4453720158_3f639a1ea52" width="343" height="228" /></a>“What if the Jews themselves were Nazis?” mused French philosopher, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Jank%C3%A9l%C3%A9vitch"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Vladimir Jankélévitch</span></a> in 1986. “That would be great. We would no longer have to feel sorry for them; they would have deserved what they got.”</p>
<p>The recasting of Israelis, and, by extension, Jews as Nazis has, in fact, taken place, just as Jankélévitch envisioned. This summer’s Israeli incursion, Operation Protective Edge, provided anti-Semites and loathers of the Jewish state with resurgent justifications for assigning the epithet of Nazi on the Jews yet another time, together with oft-heard accusations of “crimes against humanity, “massacres,” genocide,” and, according to recent comments by Turkey’s prime minister <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recep_Tayyip_Erdo%C4%9Fan"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Tayyip Erdoğan</span></a>, in their treatment of the Palestinians, Israel has demonstrated that “. . . their barbarism has surpassed even Hitler’s.”</p>
<p>The Nazification of Israelis—and by extension Jews—is both breathtaking in its moral inversion and cruel in the way it makes the actual victims of the Third Reich’s horrors a modern-day reincarnation of that same barbarity. It is, in the words of Boston University’s Richard Landes, “moral sadism,” a salient example of Holocaust inversion that is at once ahistorical, disingenuous, and grotesque in its moral and factual inaccuracy.</p>
<p>In reflecting on the current trend he perceived in the burgeoning of anti-Israelism around the world, Canadian Member of Parliament, Irwin Cotler, once <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Making-the-world-Judenstaatrein"><span style="color: #ed2324;">observed</span></a> that conventional strains of anti-Semitism had been masked, so that those who directed enmity towards Jews were now able to transfer that opprobrium to the Jew of nations, Israel. How had they effected that? According to Cotler, they did so by redefining Israel as the most glaring example of those human predations, what he called “the embodiment of all evil” of the Twentieth Century: apartheid and Nazism. He defined the process of grafting this opprobrium on Israel as “ideological anti-Semitism,” one which “involves the characterization of Israel not only as an apartheid state—and one that must be dismantled as part of the struggle against racism—but as a Nazi one.”</p>
<p>Most important for the anti-Israel cause, Cotler contended, once Israel had been tarred with the libels of racism and Nazism, the Jewish state had been made an international outlaw, a pariah, losing its moral right to even exist—exactly, of course, what its foes have consistently sought. “These very labels of Zionism and Israel as ‘racist, apartheid and Nazi’ supply the criminal indictment,” said Cotler. “No further debate is required. The conviction that this triple racism warrants the dismantling of Israel as a moral obligation has been secured. For who would deny that a ‘racist, apartheid, Nazi’ state should not have any right to exist today?”</p>
<p>What is more troubling is that the characterization of the Israeli as Nazi is a trope now promulgated by Western elites and so-called intellectuals, including a broad contingent of academics who are complicit in, and in fact intellectual enablers of, the campaign to defame Israel by Nazifying its people and accusing Jews again as being the world’s moral and existential enemies as demonstrated by their oppression and brutality toward the long-suffering Palestinians. Thus, campus anti-Israel hate-fests sponsored by radical student groups have such repellant names as “Holocaust in the Holy Land,” “Israel: The Politics of Genocide,” or “Israel: The Fourth Reich,” creating a clear, though mendacious, linkage between Nazism and Zionism.</p>
<p>One of the early academic voices to have assigned the Nazi epithet to Israel was heard in a November 2000 speech by Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois and one of the principal promoters of the global Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. In that speech, Boyle made the exact linkage to which Cotler alluded, conflating Israel’s alleged racism with apartheid-like behavior and suggesting, even more ominously, that the ongoing “genocide” against the Palestinians had parallels with the Nazi’s own heinous offenses. “The paradigmatic example of a crime against humanity is what Hitler and the Nazis did to the Jewish People,” Boyle <a href="http://www.mediamonitors.net/francis7.html"><span style="color: #ed2324;">said</span></a>. “This is where the concept of crime against humanity was formulated and came from. And this is what the U.N. Human Rights Commission is now saying that Israel is doing to the Palestinian People. A crime against humanity.”</p>
<p>That same trope is repeated and reinforced by other academics, such as Richard Falk, professor emeritus of International Law and Policy at Princeton University and the UN’s former, preposterously-titled “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967,” who wondered aloud if it was “an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with this criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity?” on the part of Israel, and then quickly answered his own question by saying, “I think not.”</p>
<p>In the morally-defective pantheon of the academic defamers of Israel, perhaps no single individual has emerged as the paradigmatic libeler, the most vitriolic and widely-followed character in an inglorious retinue as <a href="http://normanfinkelstein.com/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Norman Finkelstein</span></a>, late of DePaul University. Finkelstein has loudly and notoriously pronounced his extreme views on the Middle East, not to mention his loathing of what he has called the Holocaust “industry,” something he has called an “outright extortion racket;” in fact, he blames Jews themselves for anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, has pure political intentions and passively yearns for truces and safe borders, according to Mr. Finkelstein, while the invidious state of Israel, fearing moderate Arab foes who will force it into peace, is obdurate, conniving, and bellicose. In fact, Finkelstein <a href="http://www.todayszaman.com/interviews_norman-finkelstein-israel-is-committing-a-holocaust-in-gaza_164483.html"><span style="color: #ed2324;">suggested</span></a>, Israel is collectively going mad, while everyone else in the rational world yearns for Middle Eastern peace:<b> “</b>I think Israel, as a number of commentators pointed out, is becoming an insane state. . . In the first week of the massacres, there were reports in the Israeli press that Israel did not want to put all its ground forces in Gaza because it was preparing attacks on Iran. Then there were reports it was planning attacks on Lebanon. It is a lunatic state.”</p>
<p>If Finkelstein lives in an academic netherworld of political fantasies, conspiracies, and intellectually-imbecilic distortions of history and fact, his spiritual mentor, MIT’s professor emeritus of linguistics <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">Noam Chomsky</span></a>, has inhabited a similar ideological sphere, but has become an even more widely-known, eagerly-followed creature of the Israel-hating, America-hating Left.</p>
<p>While he is happy to, and regularly does, ignore the murder of Jews by Palestinians, Chomsky never hesitates to point to the perfidy of Israel, and its barbarous assault on their Arab neighbors who, in his socialist fantasies, wish for nothing more than to live in peace. He draws the perverse parallel between Israelis and Nazis so frequently in his writings that, to paraphrase the wry Professor Edward Alexander, he would be rendered nearly speechless if he was unable to use the epithet of Nazi against Israel in every sentence he utters. The rogue state of “Israel has tried killing, beating, gassing, mass arrests, deportation, destruction of houses, curfews and other forms of harsh collective punishment,” Chomsky <a href="http://www.chomsky.info/articles/198807--.htm"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a>, and yet, even in the face of this hideous, Nazi-like behavior by Israel, “nothing has succeeded in enforcing obedience or eliciting a violent response.”</p>
<p>In January of 2009, a tenured sociology professor, William I. Robinson, of the University of California, Santa Barbara, sent an odious email to the 80 students in his “Sociology 130SG: The Sociology of Globalization” course with the explicit message that Israelis are the new Nazis.  Under the heading “Parallel images of Nazis and Israelis,” the email displayed a photo-collage of 42 side-by-side, grisly photographs meant to suggest an historical equivalence between Israel’s treatment of Palestinians in its occupation of Gaza and the Third Reich’s subjugation of the Warsaw Ghetto and its treatment of Jews during the Holocaust. Robinson sent the email without supplying any context for it, nor did it seemingly have any specific relevance to or connection with the course’s content.</p>
<p>At Columbia University’s department of Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies (MESAAS), an academic division with a long history of anti-Israel, anti-American bias and politicized scholarship, Joseph Massad, an associate professor of modern Arab politics, regularly espouses his loathing of Israel in fringe, anti-Semitic publications like <i>Counterpunch</i> and <i>The Electronic Intifada, </i>or in the Arab press, and never misses an opportunity to denigrate the Jewish state as a racist, colonial enterprise, a moral stain on the world without any semblance of legitimacy. In his perfervid imagination, Israelis, as he never tires as mentioning, have become the new Nazis and the Palestinians the Jews. “As Palestinians are murdered and injured in the thousands,” he <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/content/gaza-ghetto-uprising/7919"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a> after Operation Cast Lead in January of 2009 when Israel was defending itself against some 6000 rockets attacks from Gaza, “world powers are cheering on . . , and it even happened during World War II as the Nazi genocide was proceeding.” Perversely likening the barbaric aggression of Hamas from within Gaza to the efforts of Warsaw Jews to repel imminent extermination by the Nazis, Massad obscenely suggested that “The Gaza Ghetto Uprising will mark both the latest chapter in Palestinian resistance to colonialism and the latest Israeli colonial brutality in a region whose peoples will never accept the legitimacy of a racist European colonial settlement in their midst.”</p>
<p>It is Israel&#8217;s actions alone―that and the support of the United States―which are the root cause of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and the Jewish state’s behavior is murderous, unethical, and brutal, according to University of Wisconsin-Madison&#8217;s Jennifer Loewenstein, Associate Director of the Middle East Studies Program. Israel, she <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/08/31/a-legacy-of-two-martyrs/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">wrote</span></a>, “speaks with a viper’s tongue over the multiple amputee of Palestine whose head shall soon be severed from its body in the name of justice, peace and security,” and “Israel has made its view known again and again in the strongest possible language, the language of military might, of threats, intimidation, harassment, defamation and degradation.”<b> </b></p>
<p>This summer, while the Gaza incursion was raging, Dr. Julio Pino, associate professor of history at Kent State University, <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/ohio-professor-says-israel-spiritual-heir-to-nazism/"><span style="color: #ed2324;">published</span></a> a vitriolic open letter in which he chastised the “academic friends of Israel” who have “chosen to openly work for and brag about academic collaboration with a regime that is the spiritual heir to Nazism . . . I curse you more than the Israelis,” he told his academic colleagues, “for while The Chosen drain the blood of innocents without apologies you hide behind the mask of academic objectivity, nobility of research and the reward of teaching to foreign youth . . . Lest you think this is a personal attack I swear it applies equally to all who engage in collaboration with fascism, and we both know the fate of collaborators. In the same manner, only with more zeal, than you have sworn to the Jewish State I pledge to you, and every friend and stooge of Zionism.”</p>
<p>Occasionally, when an academic makes public his loathing of the Jewish state, and continues to demonize and libel Israel beyond the bounds of what would be considered acceptable scholarly discourse, there are consequences—though rarely. This summer, for instance, Steven Salaita, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Israels-Dead-Soul-Steven-Salaita/dp/1439906386"><span style="color: #ed2324;">author of <i>Israel’s Dead Soul</i></span></a> and perennial critic of Zionism, had an employment offer from the University of Illinois withdrawn once the school’s president was made aware of some of Salaita’s virulent Twitter posts about Israel.  During the widely-criticized Gaza incursion, Salaita <a href="https://twitter.com/stevesalaita/status/490683700116738048"><span style="color: #ed2324;">tweeted</span></a> that “At this point, if Netanyahu appeared on TV with a necklace made from the teeth of Palestinian children, would anybody be surprised?” He also blamed anti-Semitism on Jews themselves, as many anti-Semites do, by asserting that Israel’s behavior causes the hatred of Jews, that “By eagerly conflating Jewishness and Israel, Zionists are partly responsible when people say antisemitic shit in response to Israeli terror.”</p>
<p>As grotesque and distorted as these calumnies against Israel are, as perverse and inaccurate the comparisons drawn between Nazism and Zionism and between Nazis and Israelis are, and as wildly hateful these libels are to the point of being, as defined by the State Department’s own working definition, anti-Semitic in nature—the branding of Israel as the Nazi of nations by these academics serves to reinforce, and give credibility to, similar hatreds and biases expressed outside the university walls.</p>
<p>This is a lethal narrative because when it is believed the world naturally asks itself, as Cotler warned: if Israel is a Nazi-like, apartheid regime, standing in opposition to everything for which the civilized community of nations stands, who <i>cannot </i>hold Israel accountable and judge it harshly for its transgressions? That against all historical evidence and the force of reason the calumny against Israel that it is a murderous, sadistic, and genocidal regime has been successfully promoted and continues to gain traction indicates that Israel’s academic defamers have been successful in inverting history as part of the modern day incarnation of the world’s oldest hatred.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rabbi Shalom Lewis]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A dangerous enemy is on the march and closing in. ]]></description>
				<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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		<title>Letting the Anti-Semitism Genie Out of the Bottle</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ari Lieberman]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Gaza war, Jew hatred takes center stage. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_ARP3924221-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236280" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/000_ARP3924221-2-450x300.jpg" alt="-" width="278" height="185" /></a>Since the commencement of Operation Protective Edge, there has been a surge of anti-Semitic attacks in Western Europe. That should come as no surprise to anyone watching developments there. With rising Muslim populations and concomitant Islamic radicalism, anti-Semitism in Europe will continue to manifest itself in ever increasing lethality and numbers. The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9154350/Toulouse-shooting-little-girl-cornered-in-school-and-shot-in-head.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Toulouse</span></a> and <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182194"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Brussels Museum</span></a> shootings are not aberrations by crazed gunmen. These acts were calculated and are the product of a medieval society that encourages xenophobia taught within the context of religious indoctrination.</p>
<p>Mosques and Islamic parochial schools throughout Europe have become bastions of radicalism, where anti-Semitism and hatred of Western values are ingrained into impressionable young minds. Ironically, those who impart and perpetuate the hatred have been <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/welfare-jihad-islamist-calls-taxpayers-slaves-encourages-muslims-to-go-on-welfare/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">living off the fat</span></a> of those very institutions they claim to despise.</p>
<p>But this is old news. European anti-Semitism in both its traditional form and its current Islamofascist manifestation is nothing new.  Many who harbor anti-Israeli feelings are honest enough to make no distinction between their hatred of the Jewish State and Jews.  Then there are those intellectually dishonest types, like <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://observer.com/2013/12/the-anti-semitic-stench-of-pink-floyd/">Roger Waters</a>,</span> who claim that they only have a problem with the existence of Israel and that some of their best friends are Jewish. And then there’s the last category of naïve types, often uninformed radical leftists, who believe that animosity toward Israel and Judeophobia are mutually exclusive. For anyone ignorant enough to fall within the last category, Operation Protective Edge should dispel any lingering doubt about the true nature of anti-Israelism and its integral undercurrent of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Israel’s current counterinsurgency campaign and its efforts to protect its citizens from indiscriminate terrorist rocket attacks has inspired closet anti-Semites and other assorted judeophobes to come out of the woodwork. On Twitter, the hashtags <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/07/12/vile-stuff-out-there-jake-tapper-notes-pathetic-hitlerwasright-trend/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#HitlerWasRight</span></a> and <a href="http://twitchy.com/2014/07/12/vile-stuff-out-there-jake-tapper-notes-pathetic-hitlerwasright-trend/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">#HitlerDidNothingWrong</span></a> have gone viral prompting Jake Tapper of CNN to note that there’s “vile stuff out there via hashtags.”</p>
<p>In Morocco, the Rabbi of that nation’s tiny Jewish community was <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182824"><span style="color: #0433ff;">severely beaten</span></a> as he was walking to his synagogue while passersby ignored his pleas for assistance. His crime? He was a Jew, which seems to be the only prerequisite.</p>
<p>In France, an Islamist mob <a href="http://www.shalomlife.com/news/24581/palestinian-demonstrators-attempt-to-break-into-paris-synagogues/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">tried to storm</span></a> two Jewish synagogues trapping a group of worshipers for a period of time before the racist hooligans were dispersed by police. Two Jews and six policemen were hurt in the melee. The attack comes on the heels of a <a href="http://forward.com/articles/201997/paris-shul-firebombed-as-anti-semitism-flares-acro/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">firebombing of a synagogue</span></a> in a Paris suburb and an anti-Semitic assault on a 17-year old girl by an Arab who called her a “dirty Jewess” and threatened that, “inshallah [she] will die.” Demonstrators in another Paris suburb chanted “slaughter the Jews,” and “death to the Jews.”</p>
<p>In Germany, <a href="http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2014/7/14/anti-israel-protest-in-germany-turns-violent"><span style="color: #0433ff;">neo-Nazis and Islamists joined forces</span></a> in a demonstration against Israel that turned violent. To placate the hooligans, frightened German police allowed the Nazis and Islamists to commandeer a police vehicle and utilize the vehicle’s megaphone to broadcast anti-Israel and anti-Semitic slogans.</p>
<p>The vitriolic bigotry that we are witnessing today is not limited to Islamist hooligans running amok in Europe but has also found its place in the highest echelons of state government. Western governments have become so inured with Arab and Muslim anti-Semitism that official state sponsored anti-Semitism emanating from the Mideast’s Arab and Islamic nations are routinely ignored. Jews are commonly referred to as the <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/16/morsi-claims-descendents-of-apes-and-pigs-remark-is-out-of-context-as-new-vid-of-him-slamming-obama-surfaces/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">descendants of apes and pigs</span></a>, the Holocaust is dismissed as a <a href="http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335"><span style="color: #0433ff;">fabrication</span></a> and government papers habitually display <a href="http://blog.adl.org/international/arab-editorial-cartoons-say-obama-and-romney-controlled-by-jews"><span style="color: #0433ff;">grotesque cartoonish depictions of Jews</span></a> with exaggerated and contorted features and the West, with the exception of Canada and Australia, remains shamefully stoic in the face of such outrages.</p>
<p>But state sponsored anti-Semitism, masquerading as anti-Israelism has found comfort and haven outside the Mideast as well. In Turkey – a country governed by the narcissist thug, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan – a popular pop singer tweeted “<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/turkish-singer-tweets-may-god-bless.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">may God bless Hitler</span></a>” and &#8220;<a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/07/turkish-singer-tweets-may-god-bless.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">bring the end of those Jews</span></a>.&#8221; The tweet was greeted with support by government officials. Ankara’s mayor and senior member of the ruling Justice and Development Party, Melih Gökçek voiced support for the tweets calling them “full of intelligence,” though he had enough common sense not to retweet the reference to Hitler.</p>
<p>In a perverse and reviling distortion of reality, South Africa’s leading political party issued a statement that <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/south-africas-ruling-party-compares-gaza-op-to-nazi-crimes/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">compared</span></a> Israel’s efforts to combat terrorism to crimes perpetrated by the Nazis during World War II. The statement, riddled with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors and factual inaccuracies, was issued by the ANC’s deputy secretary-general, Jessie Duarte.</p>
<p>There is perhaps no greater form of anti-Semitism than that which denigrates the memory of the Holocaust and its six million victims while at the same time, absurdly accusing Jews of perpetrating a new Holocaust. Yet this abomination and anti-Semitic canard is routinely regurgitated among the bottom feeders and the ANC now has the dubious distinction of being added to that disgraceful club.</p>
<p>While Israel faces existential threats from its Arab neighbors and Judeophobia takes hold in Europe and elsewhere, the Obama administration and its cowering allies in Western Europe allow the disease of anti-Semitism to spread, fester and otherwise go unchallenged. We’ve witnessed this shameful apathetic behavior in the past and our inaction then led to the biggest calamity the world has ever known. The world looks to the United States for leadership and moral guidance but the administration’s shameful silence in the face of such evil is proof that it is pathetically devoid of both.</p>
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		<title>The Swastika Passport</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2014 04:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remembering one family's incredible story of survival in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ruth_Tirbauer_1938-12-Klein-r100.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224248" alt="Ruth_Tirbauer_1938-12-Klein-r100" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Ruth_Tirbauer_1938-12-Klein-r100.jpg" width="285" height="218" /></a>The story of Yaakov Frommer, his Swastika Passport, and the personal intervention by Winston Churchill is told in the weekly magazine &#8220;<i>Matzav Ruach</i>,&#8221; which is one of the pamphlets distributed in Israel through synagogues on the sabbath.  It is not available online.  I am about to summarize the story in my words, although nothing is original here and I am simply paraphrasing the story as it appears in the pamphlet.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the 1930s the Frommer family lived in Haifa.  The father was Dov Frommer, who &#8211; with his wife &#8211; had made aliyah to Eretz Israel in 1935 from Olkusz, a small town in southern Poland.  He lived with his wife Leah Rosa and their two small sons.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 1939, Leah Rosa felt an irresistible yearning to return for a visit to her home town in Poland to see her family there. She decided to take her two sons with her.  She was in the early stages of pregnancy.  They sailed from Mandatory Palestine, that is, the British-ruled colony in Eretz Israel, arriving in Danzig, the German port city on Poland&#8217;s Baltic coast.  It was after the Munich accord, and after the German aggression against Czechoslovakia.   It was also smack in the middle of the days of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, when Hitler and Stalin were plotting to conquer and divide Poland between themselves.   Leah Rosa felt safe, since she was traveling on British papers.  As residents of Mandatory Palestine, they were citizens of the British Empire, and Great Britain was not yet at war.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It was only four days after the mother and children reached Olkusz when the Nazis invaded Poland.  Hours later Britain declared war and the family was marooned in the heart of the territory in which the Holocaust would reach its most horrific dimensions.  There were no ways in or out. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The father of the family, Dov, began a feverish campaign of letter writing with the British authorities to try to win the release of his family in what was now German-annexed Polish territory, in essence part of the Third Reich.  The months dragged on. Leah Rosa gave birth there to her third son, naming him Yaakov.  But the situation was deteriorating and getting more desperate.  The Jews of Olkusz were ordered to wear yellow stars and move into a part of the town that would serve as a ghetto.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In 1940 a glimmer of hope appeared on the horizon.  There were numerous civilians from the British Empire that were stranded in the territories conquered by Germany, but there were also German civilians in the British Empire.  In particular, &#8220;Palestine&#8221; held a large population of German &#8220;Templers.&#8221;  These were German Protestant pietists who had migrated to &#8220;Palestine&#8221; in the 19th century and set up several colonies, including in Haifa, Jaffa, and Jerusalem.  In the 1930s many of these became devoted Nazis and, bizarre as it sounds, there were pro-Nazi marches complete with swastikas and Heil Hitlers on the streets of Israeli cities, organized by these Germans. </span></p>
<p>Negotiations began for exchanges of the stranded civilians of the two sides.  The US, still a neutral power, aided the efforts. In particular, a deal was in the offing for an exchange of German Templer civilians, mainly women and children, for civilians from Mandatory Palestine in Poland.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There was a snag, however.  While Leah Rosa and her two older sons were citizens of the British Empire, having been born in &#8220;Palestine,&#8221; the youngest child, Yaakov, was not.  He had been born in German-annexed Poland and the Germans were unwilling to acknowledge him as a British national.  He was also not a Polish national, since Poland had ceased to exist.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The father back in Haifa was conducting frantic correspondence with the authorities in London.  Somewhat incredibly, Winston Churchill himself took a personal interest in the family&#8217;s plight and wrote to the father in his own handwriting.  (A photo of the letter appears in the </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Matzav Ruach</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> pamphlet upon which I am relying.)   Fearing the barbarism that was clearly approaching, relatives in Poland urged Leah Rosa to take the two older boys and escape for freedom, leaving the baby in their care, but the mother would hear nothing of it.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Eventually a deal was reached under which the baby Yaakov, officially a citizen of German-ruled Poland, would be allowed to leave with the rest of his family.   Relatives in the Olkusz ghetto still felt relatively safe in those days, as the mass exterminations had not yet begun, and suggested to Leah Rosa that perhaps she might be better off staying there with them rather than going off to the backwaters of &#8220;Palestine&#8221; with its many dangers and acts of barbarism about which they had heard.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It was shortly after Pearl Harbor when the family was allowed to escape as part of the exchange of the stranded populations.  They reached Vienna, and from there took a ship down the Danube to the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea, and from there reached home.  Baby Yaakov Frommer had been equipped with a special Nazi passport, issued by the Reich authorities in control of Poland.  It featured the Nazi eagle emblem and swastikas.  From its serial number, it was the very first passport issued by the Nazi authorities in Poland.   Yaakov made aliyah on a Nazi passport, complete with swastikas. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Once reunited in Haifa, the family resumed life as normal.  Yaakov grew up to be an electronics technician.  His oldest brother became a scientist at the Weizmann Institute, specializing in water treatment.  The middle brother became an air force navigator, headed an air force training school, and was captured during the Yom Kippur war when his plane fell in Lebanon.   A fourth younger son was born later and became a well-known psychologist.   The father of the family was one of the founders of the religious neighborhood Kiryat Shmuel near Haifa and was a principal at its religious high school.  Four years ago, Leah Rosa passed away at the age of 98.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Baby Yaakov, today 74 years old, allowed the magazine to photograph his swastika passport.   </span></p>
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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>Israel in 1968 &amp; 2014: The Jews Are Alone</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Revisiting a prescient article by philosopher Eric Hoffer published just after the Six-Day War.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ds-6day_war-41.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218536" alt="ds-6day_war-41" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/ds-6day_war-41.jpg" width="222" height="211" /></a>In 1968, a longshoreman named Eric Hoffer wrote an amazing op-ed in the <em>LA Times</em>, which is as relevant today as it was then. He was a non-Jewish American social philosopher who wrote newspaper columns, as well as books. He died in 1983, after writing nine books and winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom. His first book, The True Believer, published in 1951, is widely recognized as a classic.  Eric Hoffer was one of the most influential American philosophers and free thinkers of the 20th Century. </span></p>
<p>Acclaimed for his thoughts on fanaticism, Hoffer&#8217;s <em>LA</em> <em>Times</em> column from May 26, 1968 is worth rereading. Entitled “Israel’s peculiar position,” he said:</p>
<blockquote><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. 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></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, today in the year 2014 we hear about the Palestinian Arab claim for the right of return – yet no one discusses the one million Jews from Arab and Muslim states, who were forced to flee persecution, imprisonment and pogroms. While there is so much talk today about the need for refugees to be protected, Jewish refugees naturally are ignored.</p>
<p>Hoffer further states:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious, it must sue for peace. 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.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The facts are simply that in 1967, Israel tried desperately to avoid war, endlessly tried to avert it, and this young nation faced threats from the entire world. Israel won the defensive war, and indeed, to the victors go the spoils &#8212; even when they are Jewish.</p>
<p>In 1967, Hoffer said,<i> </i></p>
<blockquote><p><i>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 demonstrated against him.  The Swedes, who were ready to break off diplomatic relations with America because of what we did 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 troops in Norway. The Jews are alone in the world.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>Indeed, in February 2014, in Central Africa, 800,000 Muslims have fled their homes, and an entire nation’s Muslims are endangered.  It’s not news – yet every time the Jews lift a finger to protect themselves, the world goes nuts.  As it was in 1968 when Hoffer wrote this article it is in the year 2014, when the world endlessly condemns and criticizes Israel – the Jews are alone in the world.</p>
<p>As Hoffer concluded, “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.”<i> </i>Indeed, the enemies of Israel remain the enemies of America – there’s big Satan and little Satan for the Muslim fundamentalists.</p>
<p>And I, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ronn-torossian/">Ronn Torossian</a>, realize that history often repeats itself – and this article from 1968 is just as relevant in 2014 as it was then.</p>
<p>Hoffer said in a later interview that</p>
<blockquote><p>A world that did not lift a finger when Hitler was wiping out six million Jewish men, women, and children is now saying that the Jewish state of Israel will not survive if it does not come to terms with the Arabs. My feeling is that no one in this universe has the right and the competence to tell Israel what it has to do in order to survive. On the contrary, it is Israel that can tell us what to do. It can tell us that we shall not survive if we do not cultivate and celebrate courage, if we coddle traitors and deserters, bargain with terrorists, court enemies, and scorn friends.</p></blockquote>
<p>President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry should heed these words – and stop kowtowing to terrorists.  They’d also do well to leave Israel alone – Israel remains the only country in the world that suffers universal criticism and condemnation.</p>
<p>Just last year Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the international community of &#8220;deafening silence&#8221; in response to Hamas threatening to destroy Israel.  As Netanyahu said: “This weekend the leader of Hamas, sitting next to the Hamas leader of Gaza, a man who praised Osama Bin Laden, this weekend openly called for the destruction of Israel. Where was the outrage? Where were the U.N. resolutions? Where was President Abbas? Why weren&#8217;t Palestinian diplomats summoned to European and other capitals to explain why the PA president not only refused to condemn this but actually declared his intention to unite with Hamas? There was nothing. There was silence and it was deafening silence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Indeed, today as in 1968, Israel is very much alone.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2014 05:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the memorial day serves as cover for Europe's growing anti-Semitism.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anne-Frank.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217504" alt="Anne Frank" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Anne-Frank.png" width="315" height="230" /></a>Originally published by the <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Our-World-International-Holocaust-Remembrance-Days-fatal-flaw-339546">Jerusalem Post</a>. </em></p>
<p>On the surface, it is very moving to see half of the members of Knesset at Auschwitz marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.</p>
<p>But in a larger sense, it is not at all clear why this is necessary.</p>
<p>The Jewish people have Yom HaShoah V’Hagevura, our own national day of mourning for the genocide of our people in Europe.</p>
<p>More importantly, we carry the legacy of the Holocaust inside of us.</p>
<p>Every day, at some level, we experience the ulcerative loss of a third of the Jewish people in the hell of Europe, because we feel the hollow absence of the victims.</p>
<p>The six million murdered have become 10 million descendants who were never born. And we miss them.</p>
<p>We remember them too, every day, when we look at our children and thank God we can protect them.</p>
<p>Israel does not need this extra Holocaust memorial day. And before we send another delegation of elected officials to Auschwitz next January 27, we need to ask whether this extra day serves any positive purpose.</p>
<p>In November 2005, Israel was one of the co-sponsors of the UN General Assembly resolution that made January 27, the day Auschwitz was liberated, International Holocaust Remembrance Day. At the time, Israeli politicians and American Jewish leaders extolled the resolution as signaling a new era of UN relations with the Jewish state.</p>
<p>They also proclaimed that the educational materials that would be disseminated worldwide under the auspices of International Holocaust Remembrance Day would make a significant contribution to the combat of anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>But eight years later none of this has happened.</p>
<p>To the contrary, the UN has escalated even further its official anti-Semitism through its diplomatic, cultural and educational aggression against the Jewish state.</p>
<p>Consider for instance that a week before its duly mandated International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the UN ushered in 2014 as the Year of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The occasion was marked among other things, by the January 20 opening of a yearlong exhibit at the UN Headquarters in New York portraying Israelis as Nazis and Palestinians as Jews.</p>
<p>Since 2005, anti-Semitism has risen throughout Europe, as have levels of anti-Semitism among Europhilic Americans.</p>
<p>Jews throughout Europe feel under assault, and unprotected. The situation is so bad that Jews don’t even bother reporting most of the anti-Semitic attacks they suffer.</p>
<p>The more closely we consider events the more clearly we see that ironically and obscenely, Holocaust memorializing in Europe is enabling anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Europeans use the focus on the Holocaust to pretend that European anti-Semitism began with the Nazis’ rise to power in 1933 and ended with their defeat 12 years later. In truth, the Nazis’ rise to power was a natural consequence of 1,600 years of European Jew hatred.</p>
<p>From the time of Roman Emperor Constantine, persecution, expulsion and massacre of Jews was the norm, not the exception, in European life.</p>
<p>Hitler and his colleagues were adored not despite their hatred of Jews and their organization of German politics around the dehumanization of Jewish people. They were supported by the Germans, and by the majority of the people in the European lands they conquered because of their anti-Semitism and their dehumanization of Jews.</p>
<p>This Jew hatred did not die in Auschwitz.</p>
<p>As Ruth Wisse explained in August 2010, political anti-Semitism was resuscitated immediately after the war ended with the establishment of the Arab League. The League’s sole purpose was to reorganize anti-Semitic politics around denying the Jewish people their legal right to establish a sovereign state in their homeland.</p>
<p>In other words, with the establishment of the League in March 1945, the just-ended physical annihilation of European Jewry was replaced by the campaign to deny Jews political freedom and independence in our land.</p>
<p>Rather than combat this affront to international law and to the Charter of the United Nations, Europe, along with the rest of the world, sought to appease, and so facilitated and encouraged Arab anti-Jewish aggression.</p>
<p>When in 1948, in breach of the UN Charter the Arabs invaded the nascent State of Israel, they were not punished for their illegal action. And in the intervening 65 years, the Arabs’ refusal to recognize or live at peace with the UN member state similarly has gone unpunished.</p>
<p>Even worse, instead of censuring the Arabs for their immoral and illegal behavior, the UN has adopted their venomous anti-Jewish agenda as its own.</p>
<p>It bears noting that Wisse presented her position at a conference sponsored by Yale University’s Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism.</p>
<p>Hers was one of several hundred important papers presented there by academics from around the world.</p>
<p>YIISA ’s conference was so successful in highlighting the central position anti-Semitism plays in global politics today that many participants optimistically believed it would serve as the catalyst, finally, for a serious reckoning by American and European academia with the scourge of anti-Semitism that was not eradicated – or even seriously dealt with – after the Holocaust.</p>
<p>But alas, it was not to be. Angered by the conference’s success, Arab donors, PLO officials and Europhilic academics demanded that Yale close YIISA .</p>
<p>Ten months later, Yale closed YIISA .</p>
<p>YIISA ’s successor, the unaffiliated Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, just published a five-volume set of the papers presented at the conference.</p>
<p>YIISA ’s closure was one more indicator of anti-Semitism’s profound and enduring influence on our daily lives.</p>
<p>And it is vital that we understand how this is the case.</p>
<p>In Europe, and increasingly in Europhilic sectors of American society, anti-Semitism is not combated or even seriously studied because most Europeans and their American admirers don’t have a problem with anti-Semitism.</p>
<p>Whereas they enthusiastically condemn their colonialist past, which was far shorter and less violent than their Jew hatred, they shrug their shoulders, turn a blind eye, or condone continued assaults on Jews.</p>
<p>The Arab transposition of political Jew hatred from Europe to Israel provided the Europeans with a new post-war political framework to attack Jews. And with it, they continue to blame Jews for everything from the price of oil to Islamic terrorism while slandering the descendants of their grandparents’ victims with blood libels against Israel.</p>
<p>In this rancid environment, rather than serving to combat Jew hatred, International Holocaust Remembrance Day inadvertently enables it. By bowing their heads in honor of dead Jews for five minutes every January 27, the Europeans get to pretend that the Holocaust was exogenous, as opposed to organic to, and still very much a part of European civilization.</p>
<p>Modern Zionism was conceived as having two objectives – to enable the Jews to protect ourselves from anti-Semites; and to end anti-Semitism by normalizing Jews as a nation among the nations. But as Wisse notes, like the Jews in exilic communities, the Jewish state cannot end other people’s hatred of Jews, because we didn’t cause it. Only the anti-Semites, through their own moral reckoning with their anti-Semitic past and present, can do that.</p>
<p>In light of the Europeans’ continued refusal to undertake such a moral reckoning, far from combating anti-Semitism, International Holocaust Remembrance Day serves as a cover for it. Israel and the Jewish people should not let the Holocaust serve as a fig leaf for their continuing, and growing, hatred.</p>
<p><em>Caroline Glick’s new book, </em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_0_14?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=the%20israeli%20solution&amp;sprefix=The+Israeli+So%2Caps%2C1130" target="_blank">The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East</a><em>, is due out on March 4.</em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/obama_1984.gif"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217092" alt="obama_1984" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/obama_1984.gif" width="280" height="252" /></a>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was hosted by <strong>Ann-Marie Murrell</strong> and joined by <strong>Beverly Zaslow</strong>, a documentary film producer,  <b>Michael Hausam, </b>a conservative writer and activist, and <b>Nonie Darwish, </b>the author of <em>The Devil We Don’t Know</em>.</p>
<p>The Gang gathered to discuss <em>Obama&#8217;s True Legacy: Not Healthcare </em>(the title of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/nonie-darwish/obamas-true-legacy-not-healthcare/">Nonie&#8217;s recent Frontpage article.</a>) The discussion occurred in <strong>Part II </strong>and shed a disturbing light on what Obama has truly succeeded in.<strong> </strong></p>
<p>In <strong>Part I </strong>the panel focused on <em>Americans&#8217; Stockholm Syndrome With Islam?, </em>analyzing<em> </em>how 9/11 traumatized the U.S. into Jihad-Denial. The dialogue occurred within the context of <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-spencer/english-language-media-ignores-breiviks-coming-out-as-a-nazi/"><em>English-Language Media Ignores Breivik’s Coming-Out As A Nazi</em></a>. (The title of  Robert Spencer&#8217;s <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-spencer/english-language-media-ignores-breiviks-coming-out-as-a-nazi/">recent piece</a>). The mass murderer has recently confessed of wanting to destroy the counter-jihad movement and yet the media is completely silent and no apologies are being made to individuals such as <a href="The mass murderer confesses of wanting to destroy the counter-jihad movement; Where is the media coverage? ">Robert Spencer</a> who were slandered in the whole ordeal. The panel examines the reasons why.</p>
<p>Watch both parts of the two-part series below:</p>
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		<title>What Churchill Would Make of Obama’s Iran Appeasement</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believing in Nazi Germany and Iran.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iran_missiles0904141-1024x682.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216643" alt="iran_missiles0904141-1024x682" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iran_missiles0904141-1024x682-450x340.jpg" width="324" height="245" /></a>In the fall of ’38, the motion was submitted to approve the government’s policy “by which war was averted in the recent crisis and supports their efforts to secure a lasting peace.&#8221;</p>
<p>The policy was the carving up of Czechoslovakia and the war being averted was World War II. Of that, Winston Churchill said, “Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.”</p>
<p>Echoing that old Munich motion, the pro-Iran left is calling the nuclear deal that lets Iran keep its nukes and its targets their Geiger counters, Obama’s “achievement”. Any Democrat who challenges it is accused of obstructing the only foreign affairs achievement Obama can claim.</p>
<p>“Cory Booker wants to torpedo a major Obama achievement,” the New Republic shrieked. On MSNBC, Chris Hayes accused sixteen Democratic senators who wanted tougher measures on Iran of seeking a war to sabotage “Obama’s greatest foreign policy achievement” out of “fear” of the Israeli lobby.</p>
<p>Hayes and MSNBC were only echoing another famous Democrat, Joseph P. Kennedy, who warned of opposition to Munich by “Jew media” making noises meant to “set a match to the fuse of the world.”</p>
<p>Samuel Hoare, the Home Secretary, of whom King George V said, &#8220;No more coals to Newcastle, no more Hoares to Paris&#8221;, warned against those who wanted a sterner tone to bring an end to Hitler’s program of conquest as today’s Hoares warn against those who want to bring an end to Iran’s nuclear program.</p>
<p>“If at the very time when we were attempting… to obtain a peaceful settlement, we had accepted the advice of those who said you must face Herr Hitler with a public ultimatum,” Hoare warned. “If we had made an ultimatum… Europe would to-day have been plunged into a world war.”</p>
<p>Today the Hoares warn that stiffening sanctions against Iran and demanding an end to its nuclear program will lead to war. For years, the Hoares of the Democratic Party insisted sanctions were the only way to prevent Iran from going nuclear. Now the Hoares say sanctions will alienate Iran and lead to war.</p>
<p>Obama spokesman Jay Carney said the alternative to the nuclear deal would be war. Bernadette Meehan, a spokeswoman for the National Security Council, warned that the failure of the deal will force Obama to, “choose between military options or allowing Iran’s nuclear program to continue.”</p>
<p>Since the deal allows Iran’s nuclear program to continue, it’s a buffet of three choices, all three of which lead to conflict of some kind. The only variations are in the date and in the capabilities of the enemy.</p>
<p>That was the problem with Munich.</p>
<p>Hitler had already been making plans for a war with Britain and France that would commence three or four years after finishing off Czechoslovakia. The only thing that the Munich Agreement accomplished was to speed up Hitler’s timetable from three years to one by letting him finish his business with the Czechs earlier than he had planned.</p>
<p>Winston Churchill spoke. &#8220;I will&#8230; begin by saying the most unpopular and most unwelcome thing&#8230; we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lady Astor, whose Nazi sympathies were infamous, interrupted him with a cry of “Nonsense”.  The Member for Berlin had written to Joseph P. Kennedy that Hitler would have to do more than “give a rough time” to “the killers of Christ” before she would launch &#8220;Armageddon to save them.”</p>
<p>“The wheel of history swings round,” she wrote. “Who are we to stand in the way of the future?”</p>
<p>Churchill, like William F. Buckley, believed however in standing athwart the history of totalitarians, their Reichs, their People’s Republics and their Caliphates and yelling stop.</p>
<p>“£1 was demanded at the pistol&#8217;s point. When it was given, £2 were demanded at the pistol&#8217;s point,” Churchill retorted. “Finally, the dictator consented to take £1 17s. 6d. and the rest in promises of good will for the future.”</p>
<p>That is the sum of all negotiations with totalitarians, whether it is with Nazi Germany, Communist Russia or Islamist Iran.</p>
<p>“Iran’s leaders should understand that I do not have a policy of containment; I have a policy to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Obama said in 2012. Now there isn’t even a policy of containment.</p>
<p>Obama’s foreign policy achievement consists of letting Iran do nearly everything nuclear it wants in the hopes that it won’t go all the way. Containment has given way to appeasement. Iran gets nine tenths of its nuclear ambitions at gunpoint in the deal and will take the rest when it pleases at nukepoint.</p>
<p>“We have been reduced in those five years from a position of security so overwhelming and so unchallengeable that we never cared to think about it,” Churchill said, “reduced in five years from a position safe and unchallenged to where we stand now.”</p>
<p>In five years of Obama, the United States has also been reduced, its security stripped away and sold to win the approval of its enemies. It’s locked into the same policy of offering worthless security guarantees to its allies and then selling those allies down the river to prevent them from calling on those guarantees and exposing their worthlessness.</p>
<p>That was the Chamberlain policy that Churchill was denouncing. That is the Obama policy with his chalkboard of worthless red lines whose bluffing powers he is determined to protect.</p>
<p>&#8220;Having secured resources which will greatly diminish, if not entirely remove, the deterrent of a naval blockade, the rulers of Nazi Germany will have a free choice open to them in what direction they will turn their eyes,&#8221; Churchill said.</p>
<p>Similarly the nuclear deal cuts off most options for America and its allies and endows Iran with a great many options. And once it does have nuclear weapons, its options will be nearly unlimited.</p>
<p>Chamberlain’s rejoinder to Churchill reduced a practical problem to a philosophical one.</p>
<p>&#8220;It seems to me that there are really only two possible alternatives. One of them is to base yourself upon the view that… friendly relation… with totalitarian States are impossible, that the assurances which have been given to me personally are worthless, that they have sinister designs and that they are bent upon the domination of Europe,” he said, reciting true facts with the air of a conspiracy theory.</p>
<p>If that were indeed the case, Chamberlain argued, “There is no future hope for civilisation or for any of the things that make life worth living.”</p>
<p>Peace stopped being a rational program and became a philosophical one. A world where dictators could not be successfully appeased was not a world worth living in. The appeasement of Iran follows that same self-pitying mysticism.</p>
<p>For Churchill negotiations were a practical policy with a practical end, but supporters of appeasement had made negotiations into a moral absolute so that practical issues could be ignored and the dismantling of Czechoslovakia could be rationalized for the greater good of peace.</p>
<p>Any contradictory information was drowned in enthusiasm for peace with Hitler, which became indistinguishable from enthusiasm for Hitler.</p>
<p>If peace depended on Hitler and the entire hope of civilization rested on Hitler’s willingness to live in peace, the Chamberlains and their Hoares had to believe in Hitler to believe that life was worth living.</p>
<p>Their modern counterparts substitute the Supreme Leader of Iran for the Fuehrer, or leader, of Nazi Germany, but otherwise they make the same mistake.</p>
<p>To believe in world peace, they must believe in Hitler, in Stalin and in Khamenei and believe that regimes which ceaselessly talk of war, build weapons of war and torture and murder their own people on a whim somehow share their hopes for peace.</p>
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		<title>English-Language Media Ignores Breivik’s Coming-Out As A Nazi</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And his confession of wanting to destroy the counter-jihad movement. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/breivik.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216468" alt="breivik" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/breivik-450x281.jpg" width="315" height="197" /></a>Last Friday, I published <a href="http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/01/norway-mass-murderer-breivik-reveals-himself-a-nazi-says-he-fabricated-his-manifesto-to-destroy-coun.html" target="_blank">a translation of a Swedish report</a> about a letter mass murderer Anders Breivik had sent to the media, in which he revealed that he was a Nazi, and that he had published his “counter-jihad manifesto” intending to destroy the counter-jihad movement. The Swedish news source Expo Idag (<a href="http://expo.se/2014/breivik-vill-deportera-illojala-judar_6336.html">Expo Today</a>) reported:</p>
<blockquote><p>Anders Behring Breivik has sent out a letter to the international media that Expo Today has reviewed. He describes the letter as a sort of first step in a “peace negotiation” with his political opponents. In the letter, Anders Behring Breivik to some extent changes the rhetoric from that which he used in his so-called manifesto. He says that he used “counter-jihadist” rhetoric in the manifesto to protect “ethno-nationalists” and instead provoke a media campaign against the anti-nationalist counter-jihad supporters. He calls this a strategy of “dual psychology.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Now Daniel Greenfield has <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/breivik-tried-to-undermine-counterjihad-admits-nazi-goals/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+fpm+%28FrontPage+Magazine+%C2%BB+All%29">picked up the story</a>, but he is the only one: the English-language media has completely ignored this story, not even bothering to publish stories designed to shore up their earlier demonization of the counter-jihad movement, and claiming that Breivik is cravenly trying to obscure his counter-jihadist tracks, or simply delusional and crazy, as Greenfield does. Instead, no one mentioned it at all. Nothing. The Wall Street Journal published <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303393804579312681258521234?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303393804579312681258521234.html" target="_blank">a piece</a> about his claims that he was tortured, but that was as close as any mainstream media outlet came to covering this story at all.</p>
<p>Contrast that to the huge media barrage when Breivik’s “manifesto” was first discovered: I was on NBC for the first time in ten years, I was on the front page of the New York Times, I was on the BBC, and in a hundred other places &#8212; everywhere being blamed for the murders. But now, when Breivik says he was a Nazi and was not only not influenced by the counter-jihad movement, but was trying to destroy it?</p>
<p>This isn’t the first time the media has distorted Breivik’s story, although this is the first time it has done it by omission. Although Leftists and Islamic supremacists, as well as hard-Left governing and media elites, will continue to insist that there is something wrong with opposing jihad terror and Islamic supremacism because of this mass murderer, and will continue to claim that I and others somehow “inspired” him, it has been clear for quite some time that Breivik was not a counter-jihadist at all, and could not have been and was not incited to violence by the counter-jihad movement.</p>
<p>In all his quotations of me, Breivik never quotes me calling for or justifying violence – because I never do. In fact, Breivik even criticized me for not doing so, saying of me, historian Bat Ye’or and other critics of jihad terror: “If these authors are to [sic] scared to propagate a conservative revolution and armed resistance then other authors will have to” (Breivik, <i>2083: A European Declaration of Independence</i>, p. 743). Breivik explains in his manifesto that he was “radicalized” by his experiences with Muslim immigrants in the early 1990s, before I had published anything about Islam (See Breivik, p. 1348).</p>
<p>Breivik also hesitantly but unmistakably recommended making common cause with jihadists, which neither I nor any other opponent of jihad would ever do: “An alliance with the Jihadists might prove beneficial to both parties but will simply be too dangerous (and might prove to be ideologically counter-productive). We both share one common goal” (Breivik, p. 948). He even called for making common cause with Hamas in plotting jihad terror: “Approach a representative from a Jihadi Salafi group. Get in contact with a Jihadi strawman. Present your terms and have him forward them to his superiors….Present your offer. They are asked to provide a biological compound manufactured by Muslim scientists in the Middle East. Hamas and several Jihadi groups have labs and they have the potential to provide such substances. Their problem is finding suitable martyrs who can pass ‘screenings’ in Western Europe. This is where we come in. We will smuggle it in to the EU and distribute it at a target of our choosing. We must give them assurances that we are not to harm any Muslims etc.” (Breivik, p. 949).</p>
<p>But from the media, there was absolute silence on all of this at the time of the murders and ever after, just as there is silence now about Breivik’s Nazi claims. And that, in a nutshell, manifests the sinister agenda of the mainstream media: the objective was never to uncover the facts surrounding Breivik’s heinous murders. It was just to discredit the counter-jihad movement. And for that, Anders Behring Breivik has already served his purpose. At this point, he is no longer useful.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2013 04:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ny-times-building.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-207572" alt="ny-times-building" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ny-times-building-450x299.jpg" width="270" height="179" /></a>This past Saturday, the New York Times published an article, &#8220;Behind Flurry of Killing, Potency of Hate,&#8221; on the roots of monstrous evil. The article largely concerned a former paramilitary member of the Irish Republican Army, and as such was informative.</p>
<p>But when it ventured into a larger discussion of evil, the moral confusion and contempt for America that characterize leftism were on display.</p>
<p>The article contains a breathtaking paragraph that exemplifies both qualities. After noting that atrocities against groups of people are often the result of the dehumanization of the victimized group, the writer gives four such examples:</p>
<p>&#8220;The Hutus in Rwanda called the Tutsis cockroaches, the Nazis depicted the Jews as rats. Japanese invaders referred to their Chinese victims during the Nanjing massacre as &#8216;chancorro,&#8217; or &#8216;subhuman.&#8217; American soldiers fought barbarian &#8216;Huns&#8217; in World War I and godless &#8216;gooks&#8217; in Vietnam.&#8221;</p>
<p>This paragraph is noteworthy for its use of false moral equivalence to justify its anti-Americanism.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s begin with the moral equivalence — equating how the Hutus viewed and treated the Tutsis, how the Nazis viewed and treated the Jews, and how the Japanese viewed and treated the Chinese with the Americans&#8217; views and treatment of the Germans in World War I and Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.</p>
<p>In 1994, over the course of about 100 days, Hutus slaughtered between half a million and a million Tutsis. This was not a war between armies, but against a civilian population marked for extinction.</p>
<p>The Nazis murdered about six million Jews, all of whom were civilians. Indeed more than a million were children. The Nazis had targeted the Jews for extinction.</p>
<p>The Japanese likewise slaughtered Chinese civilians en masse and regarded the Chinese as so subhuman as to be worthy of being systematically experimented upon in ghoulish medical experiments that paralleled those of the Nazis.</p>
<p>What do any of those examples have to do with Americans fighting in World War I or in Vietnam?</p>
<p>Nothing.</p>
<p>Absolutely nothing about these other three examples applied to America in World War I or in Vietnam.</p>
<p>Nicknames — even derogatory ones — for enemies have probably been used in every war by every nation&#8217;s soldiers. That is not at all the same as a serious view of another racial or national group as unworthy of life, as subhuman.</p>
<p>Unlike any of the other examples, Americans did not have a term that — by definition — meant that Germans or Vietnamese were not members of the human race, as are &#8220;cockroaches,&#8221; &#8220;rats&#8221; and &#8220;subhumans.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unlike any of the other examples, the killing by Americans in World War I and Vietnam was confined to war. No war, no killing. The Nazi and Hutu examples had nothing to do with waging war. The Tutsis and Jews were targeted for annihilation, period. And the Japanese committing of hundreds of thousands rapes, tortures, and medical experiments on Chinese civilians — such as cutting them open without anesthetic or freezing people&#8217;s limbs and then cutting them off, also without an anesthetic — had nothing to do with war aims.</p>
<p>Moreover, what does &#8220;godless&#8221; have to do with subhuman categories? Again, nothing. Why, then, was it included in this article — &#8220;godless &#8216;gooks&#8217;&#8221;? Because the Times writer wanted to render the term &#8220;godless&#8221; as offensive as the term &#8220;subhuman.&#8221; Being largely godless itself, and aiming for a godless West, the left detested the right&#8217;s calling Communism &#8220;godless&#8221; — even though Communists were vocal and proud of their godlessness.</p>
<p>Lumping America&#8217;s actions in those two wars with the other three examples is typical of the left&#8217;s defamation of America and of its facile use of false moral equivalence.</p>
<p>But that is how a generation of Americans who have attended college — including most likely the Times author herself — have been taught to think. And that is what is taught to your child today at the left&#8217;s seminaries, our universities:</p>
<p>Nazis, Hutu murderers, Japanese rapists, Americans at war: All pretty much the same.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2013 04:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Vladimir Tismaneanu]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new film brings to life the persona of the much-debated philosopher. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hannah_arendt.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-196724" alt="hannah_arendt" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/hannah_arendt-256x350.jpg" width="256" height="350" /></a><em>“If I can be said to ‘have come from anywhere’ it is from the tradition of German philosophy.”–</em><em> </em><em>Hannah Arendt</em></p>
<p align="left">How can one preserve his/her humanity in dark times?  How and why does one lose his/her humanity? My reaction to the film about Hannah Arendt, directed by Margarethe von Trotta, with Barbara Sukowa in the leading role, is that the director successfully translated the drama of ideas into a cinematographic narrative, despite daunting difficulties of such a task. The movie captures the stakes of the great polemics in which Hannah Arendt was involved. It renders persuasively the way in which she perceived thinking (<i>das Denken</i>) as the essence of human identity. Thought for Arendt could not be separated from morality, that is the specific capacity and the particular obligation that, as Romanian writer Mihail Sebastian put it, elevate us a step above zoology. According to Arendt, when thought is separated from action, or  vice-versa, when human action takes place in the absence of thinking the realm of liberty is endangered. She argued in her volume <i>The Human Condition</i> that “[t]he chief characteristic of this specifically human life, whose appearance and disappearance constitute worldly events, is that it is always full of events which can ultimately be told as a story, establish a biography[.]” The promise of politics was for her the promise and imperative of living in truth.</p>
<p align="left">The script of the film is, to a large extent, faithful to the facts, as it encompasses extensive excerpts from her lectures and from Hannah’s correspondence (with Mary McCarthy, Heinrich Blucher, Karl Jaspers, or with Kurt Blumenfeld, a dear friend who brought her close, in her youth, to Zionism). We witness how she became the target of a veritable symbolic lynching because the thinker broke with certain taboos and dared to publicly wash such dirty linen, so to speak. This was not about legitimate and honest criticism. Influent people accused her of self-hatred, of reneging on her identity, of loathing the state of Israel, etc. In this context, she was even labeled an &#8220;enemy of the state of Israel.&#8221; Even her own colleagues indulged in what one calls<br />
&#8220;character assassination.&#8221; This woman (and I emphasize the word <i>woman</i>) was denied the right to publicly state her opinions. Or, even the right to hold such opinions. Arendt may have been wrong on many factual issues, yet her questions were invitations to uninhibited coming to terms with the past.</p>
<p align="left">What is missing from the movie, and I believe it should have been mentioned, is the fact that Hannah Arendt believed that radical Evil can be equally incarnated in Auschwitz and the Gulag. She did not use the concept of the Gulag, but she extensively wrote on the role of ideology in the Stalinist genocidal terror. Moreover, when <i>The New Yorker</i> decided to send her as correspondent for the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem, Arendt had already written her masterpiece about the catastrophes of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, <i>The Origins of Totalitarianism</i>. In this volume, she developed an analysis of radical Evil based on a Kantian intuition. My former PhD student, Benli Shechter, wrote a superb dissertation on how the discussion about totalitarianism unfolded in the pages of the famous magazine <i>Partisan Review</i> under the influence of Arendt’s writings. This was also the place where Mary McCarthy published an anthological pamphlet against Hannah’s detractors, in the aftermath of the publication of <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i>. I would add about Mary McCarthy, an important character in the movie and Arendt’s dear friend, that she was one of the most significant voices of the American, liberal, anticommunist Left and that she took part in the creation of the Committee for Cultural Freedom in the US, an anti-Stalinist initiative whose purpose was to challenge communist and fellow travelers’ propaganda offensives.</p>
<p align="left">Central to Arendt’ vision is the focus on the unique phenomenon of moral anesthesia, on the elimination of the difference between Good and Evil. The bureaucratic person carries out orders automatically. Thoughtlessness is the reason why radical Evil becomes banal Evil. When I use “becoming,” I mean it as the routinization of Evil. By no means do I think that the cold-blooded, morally emasculated planning of genocide is less of a manifestation of radical Evil. Those who read Himmler’s 1943 speech before SS cadres in Posen (Poznan) realize that Evil was justified on ideological bases without which the absolute crime that is the Final Solution could not be envisaged as the achievement of the Nazi’s historical mandate. In <i>The Origins</i>, Hannah Arendt quoted a Nazi ideologue, who defined the national-socialist state as a <i>Weltanschauungsstaat</i> (a state founded on a specific world-view), just as Lenin’s state was an ideocratic one. I discussed recently with a friend this topic. I believe that his standpoint ideally epitomizes my own views here: “What happens is that evil is no longer conceived of as evil, so, through <i>thoughtlessness</i>, it descends into everyday banality, when one is not required to take reasoned decisions, only administrative ones.” Writing about Arendt’s work, Romanian intellectual Monica Lovinescu remarked that the elimination of the moral and juridical person, of individuality, transforms totalitarianism into machinery manufacturing the absurd. Russian dissident Yuri Glazov wrote luminously about the moral abyss of the Soviet world.</p>
<p align="left">The eradication of moral perception via ideology – this is the greatest problem addressed with unwavering courage by Hannah Arendt. She died in 1975, so she did not have the possibility to write about <i>Gulag Archipelago</i>. I am certain that she would have published an essay on Solzhenitsyn, which she would have included in a new edition of her volume  <i>Men in Dark Times</i>. In 1967, fifty years since the Bolshevik coup d’état generally known in history as the October Revolution, Arendt participated, along with Isaiah Berlin, Shlomo Avineri, George Kennan, Leonard Schapiro, Marc Ferro, Adam Ulam, and Bertam Wolfe, at a seminar at Harvard, organized by Richard Pipes. This was the moment when one of the most important books on revolutionary Russia came about.</p>
<p align="left">I think it is worth emphasizing that the revisionist school of Sovietology, along with its present manifestations, attacked the very idea of the comparative study of communism and fascism as branches of the same totalitarian genealogical tree (the two totalitarian twins, as French historian François Furet put it). Another target was obviously the concept of totalitarianism proposed by Arendt during the fifties. The latter was disparaged for allegedly being an ideological legitimation of the Cold War.</p>
<p align="left">It seems that what Jean-François Revel called the totalitarian temptation has yet to disappear. Presently, we witness the panegyrics of “the communist hypothesis” or of “the communist horizon.” Elena Bonner rightly put it in her speech upon receiving the “Hannah Arendt” Award from the city of Bremen, the “Henrich Boll” Foundation and the “Hannah Arendt” Association:</p>
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<p align="left"><em>Reading Arendt is frightening even today. Her account of the general resemblance of the Nazi and Communist regimes has been confirmed by many others. On Hitler: “He was phenomenally false…lack of a sense of reality …indifference to facts” (Konrad Heiden). On Stalin: “revulsion for the truth of life,” “indifference to the real situation” (Nikita Khrushchev). In Germany: “The Führer is always right.” In the USSR: “The Party is never wrong.” Hitler: “The nation will be victorious or it must perish totally.” In the USSR, as a song put it, “Bravely we’ll go to war for the power of the Soviets and we will die as one in the fight.” Death camps and the Gulag. Gas was used in the former. The latter didn’t need to waste money on it—hunger and cold did the job.</em></p>
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<p align="left">The perpetrator of radical Evil never troubles oneself with ethics because he is completely estranged from morality. Appearances are banal, the essence is radical. This type of individual does not act only from a blind sense of discipline, but also because it shares the totalitarian ideology. We now know enough historical facts to argue so. Adolf Eichmann was not a detached, cold, indifferent bureaucrat. He was obsessed by the role of the Jews. He considered them harmful vermin. Ideology therefore sets up the pattern for the de-humanization of the Other, of the alleged enemy. The bureaucratic system allows these “exterminators” to act with the conviction of their historical mission, of a providential command and of impunity…</p>
<p align="left">The scene of Arendt&#8217;s final lecture is truly poignant. Especially if one takes into account that there have been people of great intelligence (e.g., Hans Jonas, one of Martin Heidegger’s favorite students, an expert in Gnosticism) who reacted, as the movie shows, with great sadness to what they perceived as Hannah’s “arrogance.” As I already mentioned, Mary McCarthy defended her in Partisan Review and wrote scathingly  about those who called Arendt “Hannah Arrogance”:<em>  &#8220;</em>These people get worse as they get older, and in this case it is just a matter of envy. Envy is a monster.” No one was spared in this context, neither Saul Bellow nor Alfred Kazin, themselves harsh critics of Arendt.</p>
<p align="left">Hannah’s mentor, philosopher Karl Jaspers, showed understanding for her standpoint, but he was probably saddened by the fact that she accepted reconciliation with Martin Heidegger, whom he never forgave for his infatuation with Nazism. She would also be labeled Heidegger’s “literary agent.” But Karl and Gertrude Jaspers cared too much about Hannah to rebuke her for such things. They formally accepted her argument concerning Martin’s &#8220;naiveté.&#8221; I doubt though that they considered it valid.</p>
<p align="left">The main scandal concerned her evaluation of the role of the <i>Judenrats</i> that was rooted in Arendt’s attempt to shed light on some of the darkest and most unsettling pages of what she defined as “dark times.” For Hannah, the interrogation of the thorniest topics, telling the truth about things which others preferred to gloss over with suspect zeal, was a Socratic duty before humanity. She refused to fall back on what she considered “tribal” attachments. In a letter to Karl Jaspers, from 20 July 1963, discussing the ceaseless historical campaigns against her, Hannah confessed that, without realizing it, she enraged people highly influential in Israeli politics among whom were former members of the Jewish Councils during the Nazi era. Even so, she wrote, there was no reason to give in: “If I knew what would happened, I would probably still have done it.” (Hannah Arendt, Karl Jaspers, “Correspondence, 1926-1969,″ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992, p. 511.) In a wise response, Jaspers urged Hannah not to indulge in conspiratorial fantasies.</p>
<p align="left">When he broke with Hannah, thus ending their lifelong friendship, Kurt Blumenfeld spoke also for Gerschom Scholem, the  prominent Kabala expert, who had reproached her lack of love for the Jewish people. Her reply does not suggest coldness, but a different perspective on empathy. She loved her friends, she responded, but she did not feel love for a collectivity, ethnic or social. Did this mean that she was “arrogant”? I doubt it. Arendt and Scholem had been good friends with Walter Benjamin. She wrote the preface to <i>Illuminations</i>, published by  Schocken Books. In 1968, Scholem lambasted Hannah for her putative haughty detachment in relation with the cause that she once defended: “I knew Hannah Arendt when she was a socialist or half-communist and I knew her when she was a Zionist. I am astounded by her ability to pronounce upon movements in which she was once so deeply engaged, in terms of a distance measured in light years and from such sovereign heights.” Hans Jonas, in his turn, wrote in his memoirs that he was shocked by the anti-Zionist tone and especially by what he called “Hannah Arendt’s ignorance of Jewish matters.” Beyond their disagreements, on which, in later years, they ceased dwelling, Jonas was delivered a moving eulogy in honor of his old friend, in 1975, at the Riverside Memorial Chapel. The text was published in <i>Social Research</i>, the journal of the university where both of them taught (Hans Jonas, “Memoirs,” edited and annotated by Christian Wiese, translated form the German by Krishna Winston, Brandeis University Press, 2008). After she read a chapter of Jonas’s volume <i>The Imperative of Responsibility</i>, Arendt wrote to him: “One thing is certain. This is the book that the Good Lord had in mind when he gave life to you.”</p>
<p align="left">The wound of the <i>Judenrats</i>’ collaboration remains open. In fact, can we talk of collaboration in those circumstances? What were the alternatives? Were there any alternatives? Maybe yes, if one is to think of the insurrection at the Warsaw Ghetto or the Vilna partisans. <i>Bury Me Standing</i> is the title of a volume by Isabel Fonseca about the conditions of the Roma in contemporary Europe. In 1961 though, the Israeli audience, and not only them, were not willing to explore such an issue. Taboos functioned in an intensively prohibitive manner. For the young state of Israel, the Holocaust was a foundational collective narrative. Those were times of emergency when one could hardly take into consideration metaphysical debates on the phenomenology of Evil. Eichmann’s trial had a nationally pedagogical value. Arendt’s questioning of prosecutor Gideon Hausner&#8217;s rhetoric only made murky waters ever more troubled.</p>
<p align="left">At the time, historian Walter Laqueur wrote about the lack of empathy for victims in <i>Eichmann in Jerusalem</i>. I think he was mistaken. There is empathy in the book, but it is mixed with immense suffering for what Arendt saw as the great error of the communities doomed to extermination. I cannot imagine how Arendt would have reacted if she had seen the recent Israeli documentary <i>A Film Unfinished</i> on Nazi propaganda, the Warsaw Ghetto, and memory’s labyrinth. She did not wonder what she would have done if she had been caught in the deadlock of an impossible choice similar to the one of Adam Czerniakow’s, the leader of the Warsaw <i>Judenrat</i>, who killed himself just before the departure of one of the last trains transporting Jews to their death.</p>
<p align="left">The film presents Arendt&#8217;s relationship with Martin Heidegger as a sort of hermeneutical key for understanding Hannah’s spiritual biography. I find this excessive. Equally important were, from a philosophical point of view, her relationship with Jaspers or with Blucher. Arendt was not “a left Heideggerian,” as one author once wrote. She created her own original work and she did not take an apologetic approach toward the writings of her first great teacher of metaphysics. Dana Villa correctly underlines the fact that Hannah never contested the role of Reason in politics, but she defended a deliberative vision of the political space  that excluded monopolistic ambitions, regardless of their coloring: “She shares with liberals like Isaiah Berlin and conservatives like Michael Oakseshott a deep suspicion of rationalism in politics and the pretenses of theory to guide a transformative practice. From Plato’s ‘tyranny of reason,’ to the French revolutionary terror, to Marxism’s catastrophic fulfillment in Stalinist totalitarianism, political rationalism has shown itself every bit as capable of generating moral horror as either religion or Romantic nationalism.” (v. Dana R. Villa, “Apologist or Critic? On Arendt’s Relation to Heidegger,” in Steven E. Aschheim, “Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem,” University of California Press, 2001, pp. 331-332).</p>
<p>Arendt learnt from Jaspers to be philosophical while loving humanity (<i>amor mundi</i>). She took from Heinrich Blucher a great admiration for Rosa Luxemburg and for workers’ councils as a form of direct democracy. Blucher’s ideas undeniably influenced her vision about what she called “the lost treasures of revolutionary tradition.” The sovereign heights, of which Scholem wrote so harshly, were actually that imaginary banister without which we descend into the abyss of self-destructive relativism and moral blindness.</p>
<p><em>Author&#8217;s note: For illuminating insights into the topics explored in this article, I recommend  Jamie Glazov&#8217;s symposium:<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/symposium-is-hannah-arendt-still-relevant/"> Is Hannah Arendt Still Relevant?</a></em></p>
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<h5><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">I used to know a man whose family were German aristocracy prior to World War II. They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.</span></h5>
<p>“Very few people were true Nazis,” he said, “but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”</p>
<p>We are told again and again by experts and talking heads that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unquantified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam.</p>
<p>The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars world wide. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or execute honor killings. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. The hard, quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority,” and it is cowed and extraneous.</p>
<p>Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people. The average Japanese individual prior to World War II was not a war-mongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians &#8211; most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet. And who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery? Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”?</p>
<p>History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt; yet, for all our powers of reason, we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by the fanatics. Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence. Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because, like my friend from Germany, they will awaken one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.</p>
<p>Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Bosnians, Afghanis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians and many others, have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late. As for us, watching it all unfold, we must pay attention to the only group that counts: the fanatics who threaten our way of life.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hymns honoring the architect of a criminal system that exterminated millions continue. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lenin147.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-188501" alt="lenin147" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/lenin147.jpg" width="245" height="350" /></a>It has become fashionable among leftist circles to invoke a return to Lenin, to radicalism, to utopia. Among those who advocate such imperative to “retest the communist hypothesis” one can count French philosopher Alain Badiou, a former admirer of the Khmer Rouges, and Slovene thinker, Slavoj Zizek, the new idol of Western university campuses, subject of documentary hagiographic movies, and prophet of a new phantasmagoric world revolution. Did the partisans of such positions ever stop to think how it would sound a call for “retesting the Nazi hypothesis”? One must be totally oblivious to history, an incurable cynic, in order to ignore the fact that Leninism, just like National-Socialism, means political terrorism, the apotheosis of fanatical partisanship, the boundless cult of violence and nihilism, etc. In short, Leninism presupposes all of what Polish poet Aleksander Wat called the destruction of the inner man. <i>Leninism is theoretical and practical anti-humanism.</i></p>
<p>There have been conferences and symposia where Lenin is presented, in an academic context and without any trace of compassion for the millions of victims of “the great experiment,” as the philosopher of the break with an order putatively condemned by history. All in all, it is unsurprising that the prophets of violence worship Lenin. What is surprising is that intellectuals, who should have learnt from the catastrophes of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, are engaged in an endeavor driven by n programmatic irresponsibility. It is simply shocking that in countries where the Leninist model was implemented, one can still read and hear hymns honoring the architect of a criminal system.</p>
<p>Should we be amazed by all this? What could one expect from the epigones of Georg Lukacs, the Marxist philosopher who declared, in a 1970 dialogue with Italian sociologist Franco Ferraroti, that he preferred the worst form of socialisms to the best incarnation of capitalism. A perplexing statement, which was parodied by Leszek Kolakowski as follows: “This is why one can see endless crowds of people seeking asylum lining up in front of the embassies of Albania and not of those of Sweden.” Real history does not matter for such sectarians. What does matter is the dogma to which they are faithful in total disregard of reality. If facts stand in the way, they adopt a position mirroring the statement of one famous German philosopher: “Too bad for the facts!”  It is quite telltale that one of Hugo Chavez&#8217;s intellectual heroes was Istvan Meszaros, one of Lukacs&#8217;s former students who, unlike other Hungarian former neo-Marxists converted to liberalism (e.g. Agnes Heller and Janos Kis), has remained a  flaming Marxist, faithful to the dialectical sophistries of his mentor.</p>
<p>An excellent example of such world-view is a recent memoir by a Romanian Marxist intellectual, Ion Ianosi, who happened to be deeply involved for long stretches of time in the ideologization of the country’s culture during communism. The volume’s title is <i>My International</i>. Some critics glorify the book as testimony of heartfelt sincerity. What is missing in those more than 800 pages is an honest analysis of Bolshevism as justification of social genocide. Ion Ianosi seemingly excels on topics such as “Marx and Art”, “Lenin and Art”, pretty much the same fields for which his expertise was called upon during his activity within the Romanian communist party’s Agitprop. But Ianosi shies away from trying his expert pen on topics such as the crimes against humanity inspired by the Marxist-Leninist ideology.</p>
<p>Even before the Bolsheviks’ coming into power, it was clear that Lenin was a fanatical propagandist, a utopian ideologue fixated on social purity and purification, an heir to Robespierre and St. Just, but no philosopher. Philosophy implies doubt and Lenin was the man without doubts. This does not mean that there were no honorable individuals who fell in the trap of Lenin’s and his followers’ metaphysical verbiage. The dean of Russian social-democracy, Georgi Plekhanov was right. Lenin was never a philosopher. What did he want, though? Maybe we should remember Louis Althusser’s (a French philosopher who exerted great influence over Badiou) idea: “Lenin did not found a new philosophy of praxis, but a new praxis of philosophy.” A praxis that resulted in mass murder.</p>
<p>Lenin was the practitioner of a simplistic, partisan, and exclusivist philosophy. He rejected emphatically any possibility for a middle path, of a <i>tertium datur</i> between what he called “bourgeois ideology” and the “proletarian” one. Lenin’s Manichaeism was inexorable. For Lenin and his followers, ideas were (are) always the manifestation of class interests. Greatly valued by many people of the Left, Nikolai Bukharin, Lenin’s favorite executed by Stalin, did not adopt a different approach, thus drawing Gramsci’s harsh critique. The latter, author of a Gnostic version of  revolutionary theory, was one of the very few Marxists able to take seriously the autonomy of superstructures and the role of historical will. This is the meaning of a notion essential for the Leninist conception about ideas, ideologies and philosophical consciousness: <i>partiinost</i> &#8211; partisanship, class position, militant commitment, total and abject subordination to the party line.</p>
<p>Leninism is a revolutionary doctrine that sanctifies political violence and condemns entire social categories to state-engineered extinction. It is a secular demonology constructing a cosmogony of exclusion rooted in the visceral contempt for the rule of law, legality, and the universality of human rights. <i>“Back to Lenin” means a return to barbarism, blindness, and murder.</i><i>    </i></p>
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		<title>The Radical Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 04:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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<p>Somewhere in Argentina, old Nazis still gather in cozy restaurants with black-and-white photos on the wall to reminisce over old times. The types of movies made about them, &#8216;The Boys of Brazil&#8217; and &#8216;Notorious,&#8217; tend not to be very flattering at all.</p>
<p>The old Nazis may sip their stale beer and mourn the wonderful world that could have been if all their dedicated young men willing to kill millions had not gone down in defeat, but their counterparts in Hollywood have largely the same obsession.</p>
<p>The entertainment industry helped turn the young radical into an exciting figure, and it still cannot let go of his old worn self. The old leftist radical who still struggles to retain his passion is as common a figure in movies and television shows as the old Nazi; but while one is a despised villain, the other is a reluctant hero.</p>
<p>The difference between them was never a matter of means. The American left has a long history of treating radical killers like heroes. From the Haymarket bombers to the Weathermen, the willingness to kill has long served as a mark of revolutionary sincerity. Much of the American left closed its eyes to Communist atrocities in Russia and China; not only ignoring the minor details of their means because it agreed with their ends, but even using the murderous scale of the means to validate the revolutionary sincerity of the ends.</p>
<p>The central myth for the modern left is that the Sixties was a decade of enlightenment that then sold out to the grim corporatism of the Eighties. This delusion of a period when real change was possible through committed activism before it was swallowed up by greed and consumerism finds its avatar in the old radical who goes underground and still somehow holds on to his principles.</p>
<p>The old radical, unlike all his contemporaries who moved from their idealistic digs in Greenwich Village lofts (now running to $2,000 per square foot) to the suburbs while working at marketing firms and college campuses, emerges as a principled “voice of conscience” to remind them of what their youth was really about.</p>
<p>The spectacle of it is every bit as cheap and repulsive as the old Nazis getting drunk together and singing the Horst Wessel Lied. It’s the amoral nostalgia of people with no conscience who confuse murder with idealism and youthful anger with principles.</p>
<p>But the artistic idealization of the old radical is even worse. It’s not a spectacle of old Nazis getting drunk together, but people who wish they had stayed Nazis waxing nostalgic at the smell of stale beer and the Horst Wessel Lied.</p>
<p>When Neil Gordon wrote “The Company You Keep” in 2003, the time was perfect for another revival of radical nostalgia. The Iraq War and Bush’s popularity, like the triumph of Reaganomics, sent the left into a fit of longing for the bad old bomber days when instead of winning elections, the left set off explosives.</p>
<p>Back then the LA Times review gushed that the book was grounded in “the passionate conviction that the radical opposition in the &#8217;60s to the Vietnam War represented the high point of American idealism, the best dream America ever had.”</p>
<p>Ten years later the reemergence of “The Company You Keep” as a Robert Redford movie is not unexpected. As the Sixties left ages, those who approved of the deeds of the Weathermen, who appear thinly disguised as the heroes of the book representing the titular “Company,” grow only more nostalgic for the killing fields that might have been. For the change that might have happened if only the left had never compromised.</p>
<p>Even Obama isn’t enough for them. The true reds long for the red blood to flow.</p>
<p>“There is something undeniably compelling, perhaps even romantic, about America’s ’60s radicals and the compromises they did or didn’t make,” Variety writes. And that is indeed the point. What the left truly mourns for is the lack of total ruthlessness. Its conflation of the willingness to kill with principles exposes the dark rotten heart of the left and of its liberal fellow travelers.</p>
<p>The anti-war movement was not against war. The crowds chanting, &#8220;Ho! Ho! Ho Chi Minh/ NLF is going to win&#8221; were not against war. They were against America winning.</p>
<p>In the mythology of the left, the Weathermen and the Black Panthers were a reaction. The truth is that they were not a reaction. They were an action.</p>
<p>“&#8217;The Company You Keep&#8217; is streaked with melancholy: a disappointment that the second American Revolution never came,” Time Magazine writes. The nostalgia is for that leftist Third Reich that never came about. The melancholy mourning is not for those murdered, but that the violence of their murderers fizzled out without accomplishing anything that its perpetrators wanted to see done.</p>
<p>In the leftist mythology the many deaths, those of Americans murdered by Weathermen terrorism and the millions dead in Cambodia, represent a lost idealism. The Sixties nostalgia industry cloaks all these bodies with a soft haze of idealism, but underneath that haze lie miles of corpses.</p>
<p>As chronicled by David Horowitz and Peter Collier in “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Destructive-Generation-Second-Thoughts-Sixties/dp/1594030820">Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties</a>,” the period was not a lost radical Eden, but a national implosion overseen by activists and gangsters bent on tearing the country apart. The lie has been sustained by a revisionist history which glosses over the casualties and replaces real events with imaginary tales.</p>
<p>“The Company You Keep” is another contribution to that imaginary history of the Sixties in which the Weathermen were misunderstood heroes and the only thing wrong with the radical decade was that it somehow failed to go on forever.</p>
<p>The reason why the left and its fellow travelers prefer the imaginary history of “The Company You Keep” to the real history of David Horowitz and Peter Collier&#8217;s &#8220;Destructive Generation” is that the real history exposes the old radicals, not as passionate and committed intellectuals, but as liars, idiots and murderers. The radical agendas of those days didn’t implode because not enough people believed, but because of the inherently self-destructive nature of the radicals and their cause.</p>
<p>The left’s goal is to set up the Sixties as the model of activism and terrorism for every future generation to emulate.</p>
<p>Every decade is to be measured against that “great period.” The 1960s have become to the left what 1776 once was to the old America. Each protest, down to Occupy Wall Street, is mythologized as a rekindling of the spirit of the Sixties.</p>
<p>Each act of national destruction is celebrated as a return of the revolution that nearly brought down the country and that the radical myth-makers wish would finally come back to finish the job.</p>
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		<title>The Nazi Roots of the Boycott-Israel Movement</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Steven Plaut]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/steven-plaut/the-nazi-roots-of-the-boycott-israel-movement/kgrhqjlwefkubnkjbp313dsojg60_35/" rel="attachment wp-att-178156"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-178156" title="$(KGrHqJ,!lwE+FKuBNkjBP313DsoJg~~60_35" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/KGrHqJlwE+FKuBNkjBP313DsoJg60_35.jpg" alt="" width="268" height="204" /></a>The so-called &#8220;BDS&#8221; movement is nothing less than a poorly-disguised campaign of bigotry and aggression against Jews by anti-Semites and jihadists.</p>
<p>While its roots go back far earlier, ever since the 1930s the first manifestation of Nazi-like anti-Semitism has been to organize economic boycotts against Jews.   On the day Hitler came to power in 1933 he ordered a <a href="http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/boycott.htm">nationwide campaign of BDS</a> or &#8220;boycotts, divestment and sanctions&#8221; against Germany&#8217;s Jews.   It was of course only the opening round in economic warfare and aggression directed against Jews.  The Germans claimed that they were actually the victims of the Jews, who were occupying German territory.  Sound familiar?</p>
<p>The Arab countries quickly took note of the lessons from Germany.  As soon as Israel&#8217;s existence and independence were proclaimed, the Islamofascist world announced <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33961.pdf">a total BDS campaign</a>, including a trade embargo, against Israel.  This boycott was generally also implemented against non-Israeli Jews, removing any doubt as to the <em>real</em> agenda of the boycotters.  That boycott is still by and large in effect, although here and there one can see cracks in it.  Syrian Arabs injured by the Assad junta feel no hesitation to flee to the Israeli border and ask for medical assistance, which they get for free, and Arabs from the Gulf states quietly fly to Israel to get medical treatments.</p>
<p>The latest manifestation of Boycott-the-Jews anti-Semitism is in the campus &#8220;BDS&#8221; movement.  Like the previous boycotts, the newer &#8220;BDS&#8221; is nothing more than a <a href="http://blogs.jta.org/telegraph/article/2012/01/05/3091046/upenn-bds-conference-act-of-warfare-or-free-expression">campaign of economic warfare</a> and aggression against Jews.  The main aggressors these days are small groups of campus anti-Semites and brownshirts from the Far Left and the Far Right, joined by Islamofascists.   The recent campus Day of Anti-Semitic <a href="http://spme.net/articles/9000/4/19/Brooklyn-College-BDS-Event-Just-One-Example-of-%E2%80%98Hostile-Environment.html">Hatred at Brooklyn College was</a> just the tip of the swastika, and was thoroughly denounced by <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/did-brooklyn-colleges-pol_b_2671123.html">Alan Dershowitz</a> and <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/01/30/adl-slams-brooklyn-college-for-allowing-political-science-department-to-sponsor-bds-event/">others</a>.   The same university administrators who would order in the state troopers to prevent any &#8220;conference&#8221; on the genetic inferiority of black folks or on the mental deficiencies of homosexuals are the <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2013/02/abuse_of_academic_freedom_at_b.html">first to defend academic pogroms against Jews</a> in the name of freedom of speech.  Can campus Holocaust Denial Rallies be far behind?  You can see a <a href="http://palestinesolidaritycampaign.com/posing-with-the-swastika/">leading British BDS advocate</a> posing in front of an Arab swastika, used by the Syrian neo-Nazi group, the SSNP, <a href="http://palestinesolidaritycampaign.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Pippa-PSC-Syria-neo-Nazi2-300x199.jpg">here</a>.   The resemblance to <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/steven-plaut/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-judith-butler/">Judith Butler</a> and <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/172752/judith-butlers-remarks-brooklyn-college-bds">her recent appearance at the Brooklyn</a> College Hatefest is, in the immortal words of Yoggi Berra, too coincidental to be a coincidence.</p>
<p>It is more than a bit ironic that the anti-Semites who are running the so-called BDS campaign choose to adopt for themselves a term that has an older meaning of pathological aggression in those suffering from dementia.  In psychiatry, BDS stands for <a href="http://www.researchgate.net/publication/12512272_The_Behavioral_Dyscontrol_Scale_as_a_predictor_of_aggression_against_self_or_others_in_psychogeriatric_inpatients">Behavioral Dyscontrol Scale</a>.   But the psychiatrists got only part of the picture right.   Probably a better definition of BDS is Bigots, Dingbats and Scoundrels.  An entire web site that mocks PACBI.org, the main BDS organization, is a must-see at <a href="http://pacbi.com/">Pacbi.com</a>.  The original anti-Semitic PACBI name stands for the &#8220;Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel.&#8221;  The mock site defines &#8220;Pacbi&#8221; as<strong> </strong>Pathetic Assholes Conspiring to Boycott Israel.</p>
<p>Its front page message is worth citing:</p>
<blockquote><p>BDS-ers come from the goosestepping Neo-Nazi Right, from the bedwetting radical Left, from the &#8220;anarchist&#8221; anarcho-fascist movements, from the various front groups for the <a href="http://www.omdurman.org/ISM/">&#8220;International Solidarity Movement&#8221;</a> or ISM (which stands for &#8220;I Support Murderers&#8221;).   BDS is the official mantra of the anti-Semitic vermin and their genocidal fellow travelers, who are attempting to get the world to boycott Israel. The BDS scum consist of anti-Jewish racists seeking the annihilation of Israel and strive for a second Holocaust of the Jewish people. They work to achieve this while pretending that they think Israel mistreats Arabs. If they had been alive in the 1930s and 1940s, they would all have been participating in the German movement to boycott and divest from Jews.</p></blockquote>
<p>Omar Barghouti is the Arab graduate student in Israel who set up the original BDS organization, PACBI.org.   He was a bit foolishly admitted as a MA student (in philosophy) into Israel&#8217;s Tel Aviv University and then decided to show his gratitude for that by organizing a one-jihadist pogrom against the existence of the country that was educating him.   (The <a href="http://www.isracampus.org.il/Extra%20Files/IsraCampus.Org.il%20-%20Seth%20Frantzman%20-%20TAU%20Ivory%20Towers%20of%20Critique.pdf">philosophy department at TAU</a> is itself a <a href="http://www.isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/Editorial%20-%20Lee%20Kaplan%20-%20Anat%20Biletzki.htm">den of anti-Israel radical leftist</a> agitprop.)  So the leading advocate of world boycotts of Israeli academic institutions is unwilling to boycott them himself and drop out of his own degree program.  He stayed registered in the &#8220;Zionist&#8221; institution, collecting his cushy fellowship handouts.</p>
<p>But the irony does not end there.  Barghouti is not a Palestinian at all.  He was born in Qatar and was raised in Egypt, making him a sort of <a href="http://jcpa.org/jl/vp422.htm">Edward Said &#8220;Palestinian</a>,&#8221;  meaning a non-Palestinian.</p>
<p>Barghouti not only hates Jews.  He <a href="http://www.deliberation.info/omar-barghouti-on-white-people/">also hates white people and proclaims</a> them to be an inferior race!  Really!  He is quoted thus: &#8220;For some peculiar reason Omar Barghouti, BDS’s leading activist makes some biologically determinist remarks. He for instance declares that he won’t take a lecture from a &#8216;white person&#8217;. But Barghouti doesn’t stop there, he clearly makes a connection between ‘skin colour’, political stand and violence. It seems as if Barghouti is also aware of himself making a racist statement when he suggests that &#8216;the white race is the most violent in history of mankind.&#8217;”  So says the Egyptian.</p>
<p>In his exposeé of Barghouti in Frontpage Magazine, writer Daniel Greenfield reveals:  &#8220;Omar Barghouti is <a href="http://www.divestthis.com/2010/05/barghouti.html">a distant cousin</a> of Marwan Barghouti and Mustafa Barghouti. Marwan Barghouti is a major terrorist leader serving five life sentences for numerous murders. Mustafa Barghouti was a Soviet-educated Communist leader and a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority.&#8221;  He adds: &#8220;Omar Barghouti tried to latch on to Occupy Wall Street by claiming to represent &#8216;the global 99 percent.&#8217; Considering how much money and power the Barghoutis have, they are the 1 percent, both locally and globally. Anyone who has seen the mansions of the ruling elite in the West Bank can only laugh at <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11174#.Ty79zE4gc04">Omar’s assertion</a> that Israel is part of the 1 percent exploiting the rest of humanity, while the influential clans like the Barghoutis are the 99 percent.&#8221;</p>
<p>Writing on the Huffington Post, the left-of-center French philosopher <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bernardhenri-levy/why-the-call-to-boycott-i_b_813856.html">Bernard Henry Levi called the BDS</a> &#8220;movement&#8221; a lot of &#8220;crap.&#8221;   He explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>Why?   First of all, because one boycotts totalitarian regimes, not democracies. One can boycott Sudan, guilty of the extermination of part of the population of Darfur. One can boycott China, guilty of massive violations of human rights in Tibet and elsewhere. One can and should boycott the Iran of Sakineh and Jafar Panahi, whose leaders have become deaf to the language of common sense and compromise. One can even imagine, as we once did with regard to the fascist generals&#8217; Argentina or Brezhnev&#8217;s USSR, boycotting those Arab regimes whose citizens&#8217; freedom of expression is forbidden and punished, if necessary, in blood. One does not boycott the only society in the Middle East where Arabs read a free press, demonstrate when they wish to do so, send freely elected representatives to parliament, and enjoy their rights as citizens. Regardless of what one thinks of the policies of its government, one does not boycott the only country in the region and, beyond the region, one of the unfortunately limited number of countries in the world where voters have the power to sanction, modify, and reverse the position of said government.</p></blockquote>
<p>The racism of the boycotters is not even hidden from view.  The BDS gang are not boycotting any Israeli Arabs and not even <a href="http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/HebrewU%20-%20Dan%20Avnon%20-%20gets%20Boycotted.htm">Israeli leftist Jews</a>, at least not usually.   In fact they do not even <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/steven-plaut/the-truth-behind-the-lefts-boycott-against-settlements/">boycott Israeli Arabs who own property</a> and assets in the &#8220;occupied&#8221; West Bank.  After all, if you thought that no Israelis have the right to own property there because it is &#8220;occupied&#8221; territory, almost like Corsica, how come the Israeli Arabs who do so get a free pass from the <a href="http://divestthis.com/2011/09/bds-holes.html">BDSholes</a>, the term a growing number of commentators are calling them?</p>
<p>The other irony of course is that BDS aggression and warfare harms Israeli Arabs and other non-Jews, as well as Jews.  To the extent that Israeli exports are harmed, those working in export industries lose out, and there are plenty of Arab workers and entrepreneurs affected.  Not just in Israel but also in the &#8220;West Bank.&#8221;  The BDSholes recently decided to target &#8220;Sodastream,&#8221; an Israeli company that makes fashionable environmentally-friendly nifty devices for dispensing carbonated water for mixing drinks.  The boycott of it by the BDS <a href="http://forward.com/articles/170873/boycott-israel-push-against-sodastream-could-hurt/">gang is harming Palestinian employees</a> of the company.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;ve got to hand it to the boycotters.  They hate Jews so much that they want Jews harmed even if the campaign also harms Arabs.  After all, Arabs are nothing more than an instance in collateral damage in the holy war of aggression and jihad against the Jews.  In the view of the BDSholes, Arabs never are entitled to any human rights protection in Arab countries.  Arabs need protection only when this serves to undermine, endanger, and demonize the Jews.   In all other cases, let them eat stale pita!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/muslim-brotherhood-tyrants-show-their-true-faces/egyptian-protesters-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-167779"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-167779" title="Egyptian protesters" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Egyptian-protesters-010.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="200" /></a>On February 10, 2011, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared before the House Select Committee on Intelligence to testify on threats to the United States. Mubarak was one day away from resigning, under pressure from Washington, paving the way for a Muslim Brotherhood takeover, and the situation in Egypt was on everyone’s mind.</p>
<p>Clapper, who would later be accused of altering the CIA talking points on Benghazi to remove any reference to Al Qaeda, assured the members of the Committee that they had nothing to worry about from the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>“The term ‘Muslim Brotherhood,’” he said, “is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.” Congress and the American people need not fear a Muslim Brotherhood takeover of Egypt. Not when, as Clapper said, “They have pursued social ends, a betterment of the political order in Egypt.”</p>
<p>It was not the first time that the establishment had badly misjudged events and personalities. State Department officials described Hitler’s first Reichstag speech as moderate.  The New York Times wrote that that the “men around Hitler hold diverse views.” Reporting on the Nazi boycott of German Jews, the Associated Press wrote that the “left wing of the Nazis had temporarily triumphed over the more moderate wing of Chancellor Hitler.”</p>
<p>Still even by these standards, Clapper was presenting a report from another planet. The one thing that the Muslim Brotherhood was not and could never be was secular. The Brotherhood’s motto, “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur&#8217;an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope&#8221; could be described in a number of ways. Secular would not be one of them.</p>
<p>Nor was the Muslim Brotherhood a mere umbrella group. Its control over its members was tight and absolute. The Brotherhood had purged members and entire subgroups before and would do so again. And while the Muslim Brotherhood found it convenient, at one point, to distance itself from Al Qaeda, every one of Al Qaeda’s leaders, including Bin Laden, had been members of the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>Three months after Clapper’s testimony, the Muslim Brotherhood responded to the death of Osama bin Laden with a virtual endorsement of Al Qaeda, condemning “the assassination of Sheikh Osama bin Laden” and endorsing “the legitimate resistance against foreign occupation of any country” and describing the United States&#8217; presence in Afghanistan as an occupation.</p>
<p>After Mubarak’s resignation, Obama did his best to turn the focus to himself by delivering remarks in which he praised the protests of Tahrir Square as a universal cry for freedom that the world could not ignore. But after Morsi’s power grab led to 200,000 protesters assembling again in Tahrir Square, there was no comment from the White House. The State Department made vague noises that fell far short of an actual condemnation.</p>
<p>As the Iranian protesters had discovered to their chagrin, Obama’s ears could only hear some cries for freedom. While the ears of Obama were highly attuned to any Islamist protests against non-Islamist regimes, they had a built in filter that tuned out any outcries against Islamist governments. This time around the Tahrir Square protesters could not count on any support from Obama. Nor was Obama likely to tell Morsi that he had to go now, as he had told Mubarak.</p>
<p>During the Gaza fighting, Obama Inc. had chosen to ignore Morsi’s threats of war against Israel and his support for Hamas. Instead Obama had lavished praise on Morsi, and the Muslim Brotherhood leader had leveraged the shiny new image that Obama had bestowed on him to become a new pharaoh.  And the mainstream media columnists wondering what went wrong had bought a line of spin that depicted a genocidal group funded and inspired by Nazi Germany as a “moderate” movement.</p>
<p>At the end of June 2011, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told reporters at a news conference that the State Department would be resuming contacts with the Muslim Brotherhood in order to “engage with all parties that are peaceful, and committed to non-violence.” The Muslim Brotherhood was neither peaceful nor non-violent, but Clinton’s certification of it as such helped set the precedent.</p>
<p>Obama’s people had insisted that ten Muslim Brotherhood members be allowed to attend his Cairo speech. They had forced Mubarak and the military to make way for the Muslim Brotherhood. And the only way to avoid criticism for these actions was to portray the Brotherhood as a moderate movement committed to democracy, human rights and all the rest of the trimmings.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood’s homicidal political language, its constant application of martyrdom to the political process, was a warning sign that it had no intention of participating in the democratic process that Secretary of State Clinton and other State Department officials spoke of. The Muslim Brotherhood viewed elections in the same way that its Hamas cousins viewed suicide bombings: as instruments of a crusade to take power and establish an Islamic state. There was no innate commitment to the tool, only to what it could be used for.</p>
<p>There were those in the media, like Eric Trager at <em>The Atlantic</em> and Richard Engel at <em>NBC News</em>, who warned from the start that the Muslim Brotherhood was neither moderate nor democratic. “In Tahrir Square Muslim Brotherhood members were celebrating their victory, calling it not a win for democracy, but divine intervention,” Richard Engel wrote, and went on to describe the badges featuring Morsi’s photo, the crossed swords of the Muslim Brotherhood, and the quote, “And Prepare.” “And Prepare” means to &#8220;prepare for battle against Allah’s enemies.”</p>
<p>Now the battle is being joined. It was joined in Gaza and in Tahrir Square. The Muslim Brotherhood, like the Nazis, views any society, Egyptian or Gazan, as only the raw material for a militarized culture bent on establishing a global Islamist state.</p>
<p>Like the American diplomats and European leaders who put their faith in Hitler’s moderation, their modern successors are having to face the fact that Egypt’s new rulers are as moderate as Germany’s old rulers were. The lie is coming undone in Tahrir Square, but the foreign policy of Obama Inc. has been a stream of lies flowing from Iraq to Libya to Afghanistan and over to Egypt. Egyptians, Israelis and Americans have died because of that foreign policy. And the dying isn’t over yet.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Caroline Glick]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/caroline-glick/a-few-notable-anniversaries-on-the-palestinians-big-day/mufti-and-hitler/" rel="attachment wp-att-167369"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-167369" title="Mufti-and-Hitler" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Mufti-and-Hitler-423x350.jpg" alt="" width="254" height="210" /></a>With the nations of Europe and the rest of the world lining up to support the PLO bid to receive non-member state status at the UN General Assembly, it is worth noting two anniversaries of related but forgotten events.</p>
<p>Of course, everyone knows the obvious anniversary &#8211; Nov. 29, 1947 was the day the UN General Assembly passed the plan to recommend the partition the British Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted the plan. The Arabs &#8212; both local and regional &#8211; rejected it. The local Arabs who 25 years later became known as &#8220;Palestinians,&#8221; responded to the passage of UNGA resolution 181 by launching a terror war against the Jews. Their war was commanded by Iraqi and Lebanese terror masters and supported by the British military and its Arab Legion from Transjordan.</p>
<p>On May 15, 1948 five foreign Arab armies invaded the just-declared Jewish state with the declared aim of annihilating all the Jews.</p>
<p>Now for a couple less known anniversaries.</p>
<p>On November 28, 1941 the religious and political leader of the Palestinian Arabs and one of the most influential leaders of the Arab world Haj Amin el Husseini met with Adolf Hitler in Berlin. Husseini had courted the Nazis since just after the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Husseini was forced to flee the British Mandate in 1937 when he expanded his fourth terror war against the Jews, that he began in 1936 to include the British as well.</p>
<p>He fled to Lebanon, and then in October 1939 he fled to Iraq. In April 1941 he fomented a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq. As the British &#8212; with massive unheralded assistance from the Jews from the land of Israel &#8212; were poised to enter Baghdad and restore the pro-British government, Husseini incited the <em>Farhud</em>, a 3-day pogrom against the Jews of Baghdad that took place over the festival of Shavuot. 150 Jews were murdered. A thousand were wounded and 900 Jewish homes were destroyed.</p>
<p>With the coup defeated and the Jews murdered, Husseini escaped to then pro-Nazi Iran and then in October to Germany by way of Italy. (He was flown out of Iran on an Italian Air Force plane, and feted by Mussolini when he landed in Rome).</p>
<p>He arrived in Berlin and two and a half weeks later he had a prolonged private meeting with Hitler. There, on November 28, 1941, two months before the Wannssee Conference, where the German high command received its first orders to annihilate European Jewry, Hitler told Husseini that he intended to eradicate the Jewish people from the face of Europe.</p>
<p>Husseini remained in Berlin through the end of the war and served as a Nazi agent. In Berlin he broadcast daily diatribes to the Arab world on German shortwave radio in Arabic. Specifically Husseini exhorted them to kill the Jews in the name of Allah and make common cause with the Nazis who would deliver them from the Jews, the British and the Americans.</p>
<p>In 1943 Husseini organized the Hazhar SS Division of Bosnian Muslims. His division carried out the massacre of 90 percent of the Bosnian Jewish community of 12,000.</p>
<p>In 1920 Husseini personally invented what later became known as the Palestinian national movement. He shaped its identity around the sole cause of destroying the Jewish presence in the land of Israel.</p>
<p>During the war Husseini used his broadcasts to shape the political and religious  consciousness of the Muslim world by fusing Islamic Jew hatred with annihilationist Nazi anti-Semitism. Whereas much of the Nazi anti-Semitic ideology was discredited in postwar Europe, it has remained the single most resonant theme of Arab politics since World War II.</p>
<p>In 1946, as his fellow Nazi war criminals were being tried in Nuremberg, Husseini made a triumphant return to Egypt where he was welcomed as a war hero by King Farouk, the Muslim Brotherhood and the young officers in the Egyptian army who fused Nazi national socialism with the Islamism of the Muslim Brotherhood and took over Egypt after deposing Farouk in 1951.</p>
<p>The founder of Palestinian nationalism&#8217;s singleminded dedication to the genocide of Jewry brings us to the second notable but forgotten anniversary we passed over this month.</p>
<p>On Nov. 12 1942 the British led forces  &#8211; with the massive and unreported support of Jewish commando and engineering units from the land of Israel &#8212; defeated Germany&#8217;s Afrika Corps led by Gen. Rommel in the second Battle of Alamein. With the German defeat, the specter of a German occupation of the Middle East was removed. Husseini and Himmler had planned that under German occupation, the Arabs would expand the Holocaust to the 800,000 Jews of the Arab world and the 450,000 Jews in the land of Israel. To this end, the Germans had organized the Einzatzgruppen Afrika unit attached to Rommel&#8217;s army. Under the command of SS LTC Walter Rauff, it was tasked with murdering Jews located in the areas that were to come under German occupation.</p>
<p>It is fitting that yesterday, on the anniversary of Hitler&#8217;s meeting with Husseini, Germany announced that it would not oppose Husseini&#8217;s heirs&#8217; bid to receive UN recognition of a Palestinian state that seeks Israel&#8217;s destruction.</p>
<p><em>Plus ça change, plus c&#8217;est la même chose.</em></p>
<p>The more things change, the more they remain the same.</p>
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		<title>Comparing Republicans to Nazis &#8212; Who Started it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Elder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/5451822649_4a8fbb414e.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143920" title="5451822649_4a8fbb414e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/5451822649_4a8fbb414e.gif" alt="" width="375" height="241" /></a>Maybe comparing Republicans to Nazis started with the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson presidential race.</p>
<p>Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater accepted an invitation to visit an American military installation located in Bavaria, Germany. On &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; hosted by Walter Cronkite, correspondent Daniel Schorr said: &#8220;It is now clear that Sen. Goldwater&#8217;s interview with Der Spiegel, with its hard line appealing to right-wing elements in Germany, was only the start of a move to link up with his opposite numbers in Germany.&#8221; The reaction shot — when the cameras returned to Cronkite — showed the &#8220;most trusted man in America&#8221; gravely shaking his head.</p>
<p>Or maybe it began when Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination, and Democratic California Gov. Pat Brown said the &#8220;stench of fascism is in the air.&#8221;</p>
<p>Or maybe the Republicans-as-fascists narrative really jump-started during the 1968 presidential campaign. For commentary at the political conventions that year, ABC hired left-wing pundit Gore Vidal and matched him with conservative pundit William F. Buckley. If the network was looking for fireworks, they were not disappointed. Quarreling with Buckley over the impact of anti-Vietnam War dissidents, Gore called Buckley a &#8220;crypto-Nazi.&#8221; Incensed, Buckley fired back: &#8220;Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I&#8217;ll sock you in your goddamn face and you&#8217;ll stay plastered.&#8221;</p>
<p>More recently, former Vice President Al Gore said: &#8220;(George W. Bush&#8217;s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. &#8230; And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the president.&#8221;</p>
<p>Entertainer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte, when asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a <em>lack </em>of racism, said, &#8220;Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then-NAACP Chairman Julian Bond pulled out the Nazi card in 2004 while criticizing congressional Republicans and the White House: &#8220;They preach racial equality but practice racial division. &#8230; Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bond later clarified whom he meant by &#8220;they.&#8221; Speaking at historically black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina in 2006, Bond said, &#8220;The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who dared to rein in excessive public employee compensation packages, received the full Nazi treatment.</p>
<p>The hard-left blog Libcom.org wrote: &#8220;Scott Walker is a fascist, perhaps not in the classical sense since he doesn&#8217;t operate in the streets, but a fascist nonetheless. &#8230; He is a fascist, for his program takes immediate and direct aim at (a sector of) the working class &#8230;&#8221;</p>
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