Tomorrow is Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Commemoration Day. As usual, the Jewish Left will strive to commemorate the Holocaust by trying to promote a second one....
It has become fashionable in certain quarters, including among some self-hating Jews, to challenge the uniqueness of the Holocaust, to argue that it was just another in a long list of human savagery and mass barbarism, no different from the deaths of Armenians in WWI or of Cambodians or of Rwandans or of Gypsies. (It is worth noting that the Cambodian genocide was made possible in part by Noam Chomsky, serving as promoter and apologist for the Khmer Rouge and denying throughout that the Khmer Rouse was annihilating millions of Cambodians. Talk about "Holocaust Denial"!) According to this "approach", there was nothing unique about the Holocaust, no reason why it should be regarded as sui generis, and hence, Jews should stop all their "yapping" about it.
What is one to make of such people? It is certainly true that there have been other cases of large-scale mass murder. But the comparisons with the Holocaust are absurd.
There are many reasons why this is so. But I was struck by the fact that in today's Haaretz, one of the worst Oslo Leftists managed to put his finger smack accurately on what may be the most important of these reasons. The most important difference is very simple.
When Noam Chomsky's friends were murdering millions of Cambodians, the world (other than the doctrinaire Stalinists) was horrified, demanded that something be done, and denounced the atrocities. When the Rwandans were butchering one another, the civilized world was horrified, tried to stop the murders, tried to intervene, and denounced the atrocities.
When the Jews of Europe were being annihilated, the "civilized world" was indifferent, and much of it was downright supportive of the annihilation. Large segments of the "civilized world" collaborated with the genocide. Very few in the "civilized world" demanded serious military efforts to end it. The "civilized world" sat in silence in the decade leading up to the Shoah, while Hitler expounded his plans openly. Many in the anti-Semitic West sympathized with his program.
I mention all this, because I think that one of the best litmus tests of the extent of re-Nazification of the planet is to observe the reactions of the world to the assassination of the Gaza Nazi, Abd Al-Aziz Rantisi. All those denouncing Israel's hit on Rantisi as "state terrorism", as a crime, as a violation of "international law", as violating Palestinian "rights", as aggression, as itself "Nazism" - all such people are today's most visible illustration of global re-Nazification. All of these people are, in fact, in favor of the random mass murder of Jewish children. All of these people oppose every form of Jewish self-defense except capitulation to Nazism and passive Jewish marching into the gas chambers. All of these people would cheer if the Islamofascists ever succeeded in building concentration camps for Jews.
Thus, the Leftist Jews who will no doubt now denounce the assassination of Rantisi, with all the usual lame "reasons" (bad timing, it will just bring forth worse extremists, it's a violation of Palestinian "sovereignty", it creates more motivation for terrorists, etc. etc.), should be formally dubbed the Jews for a Second Holocaust.
Right on schedule, the British government and the British Israel-bashing press, especially the BBC, denounced Israel's verminating Rantisi as a "crime". Now let me see if I have this correct. It has been only days since the British, as part of the Allied anti-Islamofascist coalition in Iraq, participated in the killing of over a thousand Iraqis in Fallujah and elsewhere, many of them innocent civilians. Now, the British declare that when Israel recycles a Nazi mass-murdering Islamofascist - who has murdered hundreds of Israeli civilians, many of then children - this constitutes a crime and a violation of "international law".
As of now, it appears that it is only a matter of days before the chief Shi'ite terrorist in Najaf, Iraq, will be terminated by the good guys, including the Brits. Will the BBC also regard that as a crime? Probably, it will.
Don't get me wrong, by the way. I endorse the Allied actions in Iraq. But did you notice that the mowing down of a thousand Iraqis was the Allied response to the murder of four Americans and the hanging of their corpses on a bridge? And the greatest hush-hush secret the media are refusing to report this week is that the killing of the thousand resulted in near tranquility this week in most of Iraq. Perhaps there are military solutions to the problems of terrorism, after all?
It has become fashionable in certain quarters, including among some self-hating Jews, to challenge the uniqueness of the Holocaust, to argue that it was just another in a long list of human savagery and mass barbarism, no different from the deaths of Armenians in WWI or of Cambodians or of Rwandans or of Gypsies. (It is worth noting that the Cambodian genocide was made possible in part by Noam Chomsky, serving as promoter and apologist for the Khmer Rouge and denying throughout that the Khmer Rouse was annihilating millions of Cambodians. Talk about "Holocaust Denial"!) According to this "approach", there was nothing unique about the Holocaust, no reason why it should be regarded as sui generis, and hence, Jews should stop all their "yapping" about it.
What is one to make of such people? It is certainly true that there have been other cases of large-scale mass murder. But the comparisons with the Holocaust are absurd.
There are many reasons why this is so. But I was struck by the fact that in today's Haaretz, one of the worst Oslo Leftists managed to put his finger smack accurately on what may be the most important of these reasons. The most important difference is very simple.
When Noam Chomsky's friends were murdering millions of Cambodians, the world (other than the doctrinaire Stalinists) was horrified, demanded that something be done, and denounced the atrocities. When the Rwandans were butchering one another, the civilized world was horrified, tried to stop the murders, tried to intervene, and denounced the atrocities.
When the Jews of Europe were being annihilated, the "civilized world" was indifferent, and much of it was downright supportive of the annihilation. Large segments of the "civilized world" collaborated with the genocide. Very few in the "civilized world" demanded serious military efforts to end it. The "civilized world" sat in silence in the decade leading up to the Shoah, while Hitler expounded his plans openly. Many in the anti-Semitic West sympathized with his program.
I mention all this, because I think that one of the best litmus tests of the extent of re-Nazification of the planet is to observe the reactions of the world to the assassination of the Gaza Nazi, Abd Al-Aziz Rantisi. All those denouncing Israel's hit on Rantisi as "state terrorism", as a crime, as a violation of "international law", as violating Palestinian "rights", as aggression, as itself "Nazism" - all such people are today's most visible illustration of global re-Nazification. All of these people are, in fact, in favor of the random mass murder of Jewish children. All of these people oppose every form of Jewish self-defense except capitulation to Nazism and passive Jewish marching into the gas chambers. All of these people would cheer if the Islamofascists ever succeeded in building concentration camps for Jews.
Thus, the Leftist Jews who will no doubt now denounce the assassination of Rantisi, with all the usual lame "reasons" (bad timing, it will just bring forth worse extremists, it's a violation of Palestinian "sovereignty", it creates more motivation for terrorists, etc. etc.), should be formally dubbed the Jews for a Second Holocaust.
Right on schedule, the British government and the British Israel-bashing press, especially the BBC, denounced Israel's verminating Rantisi as a "crime". Now let me see if I have this correct. It has been only days since the British, as part of the Allied anti-Islamofascist coalition in Iraq, participated in the killing of over a thousand Iraqis in Fallujah and elsewhere, many of them innocent civilians. Now, the British declare that when Israel recycles a Nazi mass-murdering Islamofascist - who has murdered hundreds of Israeli civilians, many of then children - this constitutes a crime and a violation of "international law".
As of now, it appears that it is only a matter of days before the chief Shi'ite terrorist in Najaf, Iraq, will be terminated by the good guys, including the Brits. Will the BBC also regard that as a crime? Probably, it will.
Don't get me wrong, by the way. I endorse the Allied actions in Iraq. But did you notice that the mowing down of a thousand Iraqis was the Allied response to the murder of four Americans and the hanging of their corpses on a bridge? And the greatest hush-hush secret the media are refusing to report this week is that the killing of the thousand resulted in near tranquility this week in most of Iraq. Perhaps there are military solutions to the problems of terrorism, after all?