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Av 3, 5767, 7/18/2007
Shimon Peres' Shoah Showby Steven Plaut
But that is hardly the ONLY reason why his serving as President is a mockery. Peres gave a Presidential speech that ranged from screaming "They killed our Yitzhak Rabin" (guess whom he meant by THEY) to mouthing fatuous Al Goreisms about the environment. Naturally, he repeatedly called for Israel to just pick up and get out of all the "territories." We reprint here a column that appeared in the Jerusalem Post on June 7, 1994 - 13 years ago when Peres was Foreign Minister: The Holocaust According to Shimon Peres by Steven Plaut Recently Foreign Minister Shimon Peres expressed a "Two-Holocaust" theory of the events transpiring during World War Two. According to Peres, the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews and the American dropping of atomic bombs on Japan constituted twin Holocausts, and presumably this means they were morally parallel or equivalent to one another. Such a comparison has by now become fashionable in certain politically-correct circles in Western countries, and it would not represent the first instance in which the thinking of the current government was motivated by a passionate desire to conform with international political fashion. But going beyond political fad, it is intriguing to attempt to reconstruct the thinking of our Foreign Minister, leading up to this remark in his "Shoah Show". If the Holocaust of the Jews is analogous to the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Peres' "mind", then it follows that he views the Holocaust of the Jews as an event that must have occurred in the course of an all-out conflict deliberately launched by the Jews, in which they, like the Japanese, enslaved the better part of an entire continent, pillaging and tormenting the populations while systematically murdering millions. German actions must have also been taken to prevent much greater suffering and far larger numbers of victims, like the American actions. If the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews is analogous to the American bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Peres. "mind", then the former must have been a moral imperative and absolutely justifiable. The bombing of Hiroshima brought an end to the War in the Pacific without necessitating the ground invasion of Japan. In such an invasion, hundreds of thousands - perhaps millions - of Allied soldiers would have died. Millions of Japanese would also have died. Shortly before the atomic bombings, 7,000 US soldiers were killed and 18,000 wounded taking a desolate island called Iwo Jima. Then 12,000 US soldiers were killed and 35,000 wounded taking Okinawa, making that a battle on a par with Gettysburg. On Okinawa 100,000 Japanese were killed. (Okinawa was then held by the US as a militarily-governed "occupied territory" for four decades with never a hint of an intifada.) All this is indisputable proof of how severe the carnage would have been on the Japanese main islands from an Allied invasion and conquest. It is estimated that 55 million people died in World War Two. If the atomic bombs shortened that war by merely a week, the carnage they wrought was one of the greatest "bargains" of human history. The atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki rank as one of the most moral, high-minded, humane, and unambiguously justifiable acts in the history of mankind. It is true that tens of thousands of Japanese died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and that many of these were also "innocents". It is also true that the number killed in both cities dwarfs in comparison with those killed by the Allies with conventional weapons in the bombings of Tokyo and Dresden, to name only the two most notorious examples in World War Two. In Dresden alone tens of thousands of Germans were killed, doubtless many of these "innocents". If the 70-100 thousand killed in Hiroshima justify ranking that event as a "Holocaust", morally equivalent to the destruction of European Jewry in Peres. "thinking", then I suggest that Peres should have the courage of his convictions and speak out about the "Triplet-Holocausts", adding Dresden to the cohort. He would just be repeating what certain circles of Europeans have already been suggesting. Better yet, why not add the 200,000 Republican Guards of Saddam Hussein, mercilessly butchered by Allied weapons in the first Gulf War, many of whom were doubtless innocents, and raise the size of the cohort to quadruplets? Let us have some consistency here. What is much harder to explain is how it could be that the Number Two politician in the Israeli government could voice such a position, 50 years after the real Holocaust. (PS. Or someone serving as President of Israel 63 years after the Holocaust)
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Tammuz 26, 5767, 7/12/2007
Norman Finkelstein Defender Shilled for Naziby Steven Plaut
Peter Kirstein - academic cheerleader for David Irving. The leading defender of Hatemonger Norman Finkelstein in his battle to get tenure at DePaul University, a battle lost, has been one Peter Kirstein, an anti-Semitic leftist professor of history at St. Xavier University in Chicago. Not exactly a surpise, it seems that Kirstein has in the past lobbied, shilled for, and praised Neo-Nazi David Irving. See this. Note these quotes from Kirstein there: 'I accepted a speaking invitation from a historian who has been castigated as anti-Semitic.a charge that Mr. Irving has consistently denied.and denounced for a falsified revisionism of Nazi Germany and the destruction of European Jewry. My mission, since my egregious suspension on Veterans Day, November 11, 2002, for an act of conscience through a harshly worded antiwar e-mail, is to demand academic freedom for university historians and no censorship of any historian for antiwar or historiographical incorrectness 'As an outspoken peace activist, pacifist and war resister, which were the underlying reasons for my suspension in the twelfth week of a semester, I commend Mr. Irving's courageous and febrile opposition to the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. I was not unmindful of this when I agreed to speak at his conference. If antiwar advocates can build coalitions across the ideological divide, then future degradations of the Palestinians, future Holocausts, future illegal walls of separation, future attacks on Jewish interests and future neoconservative crusades against nonthreatening Islamic nations may be averted....' Want to tell the heads of St. Xavier University what you think of them having such a person on its faculty? The President of the university is: Judith A. Dwyer, Ph.D., President Phone: (773) 298-3309 Fax: (773) 779-4763 E-mail: jadwyer@sxu.edu The list of their other officers is here. |
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Tammuz 24, 5767, 7/10/2007
Read Eugene Narrett Before It's Too Lateby Jack Engelhard
Eugene Narrett is a professor (Ph.D from Columbia no less) so you'd expect a book of his to be so very academic, which this is, but at the same time it is written so skillfully that it reads like a thriller. This new one of his is a page-turner all right and from page to page, chapter to chapter, it shines and merits urgent attention.
Published by Lightcatcher Books, the title goes like this: "World War III: The War on the Jews and the Rise of the World Security State."
I'd add this to the subtitle: "How The West Was Lost."
It's rare that a work of non-fiction should be so quotable. I could pick virtually any passage and give it here as a sample of the gems that exist in Narrett's deeply researched documentation of the past and present (he sure is up to the minute) along with his prophetic insights and warnings.
In this age of scholarly leftism, ambiguity and moral relativism, here we come upon an author who is stouthearted and direct in his love of Zion. He refuses to compromise. Let others dither in their tents; Narrett picks up where Nachmanides and Judah HaLevi left off, and let's remember that in "The Kuzari", written a thousand years ago, HaLevi says, "Whenever they fight their fight [Rome with Mecca], it is we who fall, and thus it has been in former times in Israel."
Thus it is to this very day.
As the title of Narrett's book suggests, the world is at war against Israel (meaning all Jews). That sounds clear enough and others have written on this topic as well, but Narrett's approach is absolutely unique in that he spares no one (certainly not Britain and America) and really - rather incredibly - gives scant notice to Islam. He writes about it, yes, of course. He gives the facts about Islam but to go on endlessly about Islam's baseless grudge against Israel would only be stating the obvious.
Narrett's focus is on the Big Powers (today's "Quartet") that have collaborated, through the ages, toward a single goal - re-creating a world deleted of God's Image, in other words, a world without Jews. As "civilized" nations doom the Jews, warns Narrett, they doom themselves.
There is no equivocating in Narrett's prose. He is firmly in step with HaLevi who insisted that the Revelation at Sinai is central to Judaism and the World. Plainly, without Torah there is no Israel and without Israel there is no World. To depart from Torah is to invite chaos, as we can see all around us today. "If Americans cannot get their politicians to detach from the treacherous plans of the elites in Britain, the UN and its assorted NGO's, we will experience the complete destruction of the America the founders bequeathed."
Narrett continues: "America will follow Israel, whose Scripture was the model for its polity, laws and ethics, into ruins and we will be living like the Jews in Nahariya and Sderot; we will inherit the chronic apocalypse described by Orwell and visible now in the Gaza strip."
Are we there yet? Pretty close.
Narrett brilliantly encompasses the past to the present to prove that nothing has changed. The imperative to "get the Jews out" is as new as today's headline in the New York Times and as old as the pages of Jacob and Esau. The worldwide rush to "push relentlessly for the creation of a Jihadist state from the center of the Land of Israel" only proves that it's a different day but the same agenda.
The effort to "detach" the Jews can be traced back to Pharaoh when, in order to turn the Egyptians against the Hebrews, he declared, "Come, let is deal craftily with this people." So it was and so it is. The nations continue to deal with Israel by means of outright warfare but also through stealth.
To achieve a Judenrein Israel, the nations will stop at nothing. Jews will be "beaten and dragged" from their homes all for the sake of a world without ethics. (See Gush Katif.)
Narrett's masterpiece may well have been inspired by King David's sublime complaint: "Why are the nations in an uproar? And why do the peoples mutter in vain? The kings of the earth stand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His anointed."
Narrett takes on, or rather takes apart, a Western culture that "enhances" (male performance) as it simultaneously castrates righteous and valiant leadership. Corruption rules. This leads to Solomon's vexation of the spirit and leaves us vulnerable for the jackals. In defying God, in denying Torah, in the dash to destroy His Children, the nations will have only themselves to blame for what comes next - and it's already around the corner, at a mosque near you.
Israel, Narrett reminds us, is indeed a light unto the nations, if only the nations would open their eyes; if only the nations would remove the blinders of hatred and bigotry.
This book is huge in scope - historical, Biblical, topical, and always with a view upon a world gone mad through a perversion of politics, religion, geography and culture. This book is beautifully written. This book is important. Yes, attention must be paid! Yet this is not a work of pessimism. We can all chip in and DO SOMETHING. Narrett has answers. For that, READ THE BOOK.
Meanwhile, there is this prescription and prophecy from Eugene Narrett;
"Help Israel settle in its historical place in the entire Promised Land. Do this or a great darkness will come."
Jack Engelhard's latest novel, "The Bathsheba Deadline," is running as an online serial on Amazon.com. Engelhard wrote the international bestselling novel "Indecent Proposal" that was translated into more than 22 languages and turned into a motion picture starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore. His other published works include "Escape From Mount Moriah" and "The Days of the Bitter End."
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